[01:53] <mybalzitch> https://gist.github.com/thisisnotmyrealname/6cf0cc0227466b34d60a10409e1b82e4 anyone want to field a guess as to why my partitions keep getting announced?
[01:59] <sarnold> are there any processes in ps auxw that look kinda guilty?
[03:22] <HexicPyth> Hi, I run an ubuntu server on an old laptop running minecraft and apache and some other random useful things. I set a static IP with netplan. The computer has a wireless interface which I disable, because I use ethernet. Occasionally(once every few weeks) I try to ssh into my server and I find that it doesnt work because the IP address sporadically changes to some dynamic address other than the netplan one, and I have to go
[03:22] <HexicPyth> to the computer and manually run netplan apply. Does anyone know what could cause this?
[03:24] <sarnold> what ip address does it use? is it a dhcp address on your network or is it a 169.... link-local address
[03:24] <sarnold> ?
[03:24] <HexicPyth> Its a local address in the subnet of my home network, like 192.168.1.111
[03:25] <sarnold> do you have any running dhcp clients?
[03:25] <HexicPyth> How do I check?
[03:26] <HexicPyth> do you mean on my server or inside of my home network?
[03:26] <sarnold> ps auxw | grep -i dhc  would be my first check
[03:26] <sarnold> on the server
[03:27] <HexicPyth> No searching for processes with "dhc" or "dhcp" didnt come up with anything
[03:29] <sarnold> dang :/ I don't have ny other great ideas .. afaik there's no easy way to get notified *which* process changes IP addresses :/
[12:32] <uzee> Hi, I cloned a Ubuntu 18.04.4 VM in VMware but all the clones have the hostname as the source VM. We register hostnames with mac addresses and the VM picks up the IP and hostname from DNS/DHCP, but for this cloning case, it does not seem to work
[12:33] <uzee> I've tried seting 'localhost' in /etc/hostname and commenting out the 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts but now the hostname says 'localhost'
[12:33] <uzee> I don't have any cloud stuff as mentioned in a number of posts online
[12:34] <Ussat> 1) How did you "clone" it. 2) Look up online how to change the hostname on Ubuntu
[12:34] <Ussat> Hint: its not editing those files
[12:35] <Ussat> and which "VMware" they have several products
[12:35] <uzee> Ussat: thanks, I do know how to change it manually, I'm trying to figure out how to prevent it from happening. With 20-30 clones, the manual process becomes painful
[12:35] <uzee> Ussat: I think you mean hostnamectl -set-hostname
[12:35] <Ussat> How did you "clone" it ?
[12:35] <Ussat> yes
[12:36] <Ussat> that is cortrect
[12:36] <uzee> Ussat: vmware ESXi 6.5
[12:36] <Ussat> ISo, did you make a template of it THEN clone it ?
[12:36] <uzee> No, just cloned the VM
[12:37] <Ussat> So, when you "clone" something it has the same IP
[12:37] <Ussat> of course that wont work. What you want to do is template it, so it doesnt have an IP
[12:37] <uzee> no, it gets the correct IP from our DHCP, its just the hostname thats messed up
[12:37] <Ussat> THEN you need to set the IP
[12:37] <Ussat> NM
[12:38] <Ussat> youre not listening and I dont have the time
[12:38] <uzee> Ussat: We had a similar issue on centos but that was addressed by removing a file in /etc/udev/ somewhere
[12:39] <uzee> Ussat: I appreciate your willingness to help and respect your time too, but I don't understand how you felt that I'm not listening
[12:39] <uzee> When we clone a VM and before booting it up, we register the new VM with its MAC address in our dns/dhcp provider, the IP assignment happens correctly
[12:40] <uzee> So in our case, cloning does NOT have the same IP, hence my comment
[13:00] <patstoms> what could be a reason that i add ppa and i can see a hit when doing apt update, but i apt install is not getting packages from it. I can't see that it is used in apt-cache policy too
[13:24] <smoser> patstoms: are you sure you have a build in the ppa for the given release ?
[13:28] <patstoms> is there any way to list all packages available from ppa?
[13:29] <patstoms> from launchpad.net it looks like there is a package
[13:31] <ahasenack> you can click o "view package details" on the right, that will list you the binary builds too
[13:31] <Ussat> click ? on a server ?
[13:32] <Ussat> people use GUI's on servers ?
[13:36] <frickler> "click" is just an alias for "press enter in your lynx client"
[13:39] <ahasenack> Ussat: if you reached that conclusion, then you must also conclude he is using an irc client on a server
[13:39] <Ussat> ahasenack, not realkly, could be useing a cli client, or chatting from a diff comp
[13:39] <ahasenack> and that he is sitting in front of a server, keyboard on his lap, maybe a KVM
[13:39] <ahasenack> maybe in a freezing dc
[13:41] <patstoms> ok, seems like this was a good hint, i was able to troubleshoot problem from package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists
[14:42] <geodb27> People : hi !
[14:51] <geodb27> I face a problem I can't solve concerning a preseed file for automated partitioning on my newly-created servers. Here is a more specific description of my problem : https://dpaste.com/7RFP58DBZ
[14:51] <geodb27> In short, I want only two primary partitions and not one plus an extended one. Would someone be kind to help me on this ?
[14:58] <Paddy_NI> Hi I just installed Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 64-bit on my Raspberry Pi 3b and I have configured it to login automatically using the top answer here https://askubuntu.com/questions/819117/how-can-i-get-autologin-at-startup-working-on-ubuntu-server-16-04-1
[14:59] <Paddy_NI> My goal is to have this thing automatically start a tmux session with irssi running, what would be the best way to autorun this process?
[14:59] <Paddy_NI> I imagine this command would need to be invoked "tmux -s irssi irssi"
[15:03] <Paddy_NI> brb
[15:18] <Paddy_NI> I had to do some testing so I logged out. Sorry to anyone that might have tried to answer me.
[17:15] <ahasenack> Paddy_NI: I would investigate a systemd --user service
[19:46] <Paddy_NI> ahasenack, I will do that, thank you.