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phasedupdates phased <reply> Since Ubuntu 21.04, APT may hold back some updates on some systems while they are being phased in. This is called "phased updates". See https://ubottu.com/y/phased and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PhasedUpdates for more info. Added by krytarik
Date: 2022-10-05 17:23:03
Last edited by tomreyn
Date: 2023-03-15 17:21:28
Requested 68 times
coffee-#ubuntu-meeting <reply> Here's a topped up mug of delicious coffee at the perfect temperature for sipping, enjoy! Added by genii
Date: 2022-05-05 21:13:56
Last edited by genii
Date: 2022-05-05 21:31:37
Requested 6 times
morehelp-#ubuntustudio <reply> #ubuntustudio sometimes cannot answer your questions in a timely matter, or simply lacks the capacity. For additional sources of help, try #ubuntu if your issue is of a technical nature, or #lau (Linux Audio Users) or #opensourcemusicians if it has to do with the audio stack. Added by Unit193
Date: 2022-04-01 21:59:01
Requested 35 times
op-#kubuntu-offtopic Help! Channel emergency! (ONLY use this trigger in emergencies) - Pici, Myrtti, jrib, Amaranth, tonyyarusso, Nalioth, lamont, CarlK, elky, mneptok, Tm_T, jpds, ikonia, Flannel, wgrant, stdin, h00k, IdleOne, Jordan_U, popey, Corey, ocean, cprofitt, djones, Madpilot, gnomefreak, lhavelund, phunyguy, chu, genii Added by genii
Date: 2021-08-05 15:01:59
Requested 0 times
next ubuntu+1 <reply> $curDevelLong is the codename for Ubuntu $curDevelNum. For technical support, see #ubuntu-next. For testing and QA feedback and help, see #ubuntu-quality. Added by krytarik
Date: 2021-07-22 01:54:03
Requested 171 times
fr-#lubuntu-offtopic <reply> Dans cette chaîne lubuntu, seul l'anglais est parlé. Si vous cherchez de l'aide en français, entrez le canal #lubuntu-fr; tapez "/join #lubuntu-fr" (sans les guillemets) et appuyez sur Entrée. Added by wxl
Date: 2020-12-14 20:23:28
Requested 0 times
fr-#lubuntu-devel <reply> Dans cette chaîne lubuntu, seul l'anglais est parlé. Si vous cherchez de l'aide en français, entrez le canal #lubuntu-fr; tapez "/join #lubuntu-fr" (sans les guillemets) et appuyez sur Entrée. Added by wxl
Date: 2020-12-14 20:23:18
Requested 0 times
fr-#lubuntu <reply> Dans cette chaîne lubuntu, seul l'anglais est parlé. Si vous cherchez de l'aide en français, entrez le canal #lubuntu-fr; tapez "/join #lubuntu-fr" (sans les guillemets) et appuyez sur Entrée. Added by wxl
Date: 2020-12-14 02:26:23
Requested 4 times
ubuntustudio-focal-upgrade <reply> Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS was the last release with the Xfce desktop environment. Future versions use the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment. Due to this major change, upgrading from Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS to a newer version is not supported; clean install is the only upgrade path. Added by Eickmeyer
Date: 2020-09-27 22:42:37
Requested 2 times
studio-controls <reply> Studio Controls is the application through which audio is configured in Ubuntu Studio. It configures Jack, sets the CPU governor, and ensures the user has realtime audio permissions. For more info, see !jack and https://ovenwerks.github.io/studio-controls/ Added by Eickmeyer
Date: 2020-07-22 19:49:54
Last edited by Eickmeyer
Date: 2020-12-16 17:32:35
Requested 14 times
mtrr <reply> Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR) is how an operating system learns which ranges of physical memory to cache, and how. If your log says "mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value", read https://github.com/tomreyn/linux_mtrr_size_fix Added by hggdh
Date: 2020-07-04 15:36:04
Last edited by genii
Date: 2020-07-09 00:10:55
Requested 7 times
mtrr !mtrr <deleted>Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR) is a way for a CPU to inform the operating system which ranges of physical memory should be cached by it, and how. If your log says "mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value": http://web.archive.org/web/20190904223631/http://my-fuzzy-logic.de/blog/index.php?/archives/41-Solving-linux-MTRR-problems.html Added by hggdh
Date: 2020-07-04 15:35:34
Last edited by genii
Date: 2020-07-09 00:31:34
Requested 2 times
acpi_osi <reply> If your system is unstable or power management does not work well and logs show ACPI issues, you can try to make the Linux kernel pretend it was Windows during boot (which can help on hardware which was only tested with Windows): http://iam.tj/prototype/enhancements/Windows-acpi_osi.html Added by hggdh
Date: 2020-01-14 00:58:00
Last edited by hggdh
Date: 2020-01-14 00:58:28
Requested 36 times
printk <reply> If your !tty is flooded with error messages, you can limit the kernel logging daemons' log level below the default of 4 (KERN_WARNING), e.g. by running "echo 3 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/kernel/printk". More info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelDebuggingTricks#printk_is_your_friend and syslog(2) Added by Unit193
Date: 2019-09-23 00:41:31
Last edited by dax
Date: 2019-10-03 18:21:48
Requested 5 times
pudding-#ubuntu-offtopic <reply> Here's some pudding just for you! WOOHOO Added by genii
Date: 2019-08-29 01:02:39
Requested 2 times
bootlog <reply> To show errors during boot and shutdown, edit the kernel command line: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters and replace "quiet splash" by "debug systemd.log_level=info". Disable "Full screen logo" and "Fastboot" options in your BIOS setup, or hit 'Esc' when the logo shows on power up. Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-07-29 16:30:49
Last edited by tomreyn
Date: 2023-10-26 12:36:26
Requested 59 times
tomb <reply> 'tomb' is a user-friendly wrapper for !LUKS encryption. It allows making encrypted volumes as portable files, and panic-button functionality - 'tomb slam' Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-07-16 16:43:37
Requested 0 times
journalctl <reply> journalctl is a command for viewing logs collected by systemd-journald. E.g. "journalctl -f" reports system messages as they are logged until you press Ctrl+C. See the journalctl !man page for other options. Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-07-16 16:39:11
Requested 15 times
32bit i386 <reply> For information about the future of support for i386 packages in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine and onward, please read the following official statement: https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts . Note this applies only to i386 (Intel/AMD) builds, not other 32-bit architectures like arm. Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-06-20 15:43:42
Last edited by hggdh
Date: 2019-07-16 15:03:07
Requested 23 times
realtime <alias> rt Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-06-17 19:14:51
Requested 0 times
mds <reply> Microarchitectural Data Sampling is a security issue with Intel processors. Update your system to receive the kernel and microcode patches. Visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/MDS for more info and recommendations. Added by dax
Date: 2019-05-15 16:56:23
Requested 7 times
devel-#lubuntu-offtopic <reply> For discussion about Lubuntu Development, please join the #lubuntu-devel channel on IRC or https://telegram.lubuntu.me/development for Telegram. Added by wxl
Date: 2019-05-03 18:53:51
Requested 0 times
devel-#lubuntu <reply> For discussion about Lubuntu Development, please join the #lubuntu-devel channel on IRC or https://telegram.lubuntu.me/development for Telegram. Added by wxl
Date: 2019-05-03 18:53:44
Requested 1 times
support-#lubuntu-offtopic <reply> For Lubuntu support, please join the #lubuntu channel on IRC or https://telegram.lubuntu.me/support for Telegram. Also, at https://forum.lubuntu.me you can find our Discourse forum. Added by wxl
Date: 2019-05-03 18:52:40
Last edited by wxl
Date: 2020-12-24 22:32:20
Requested 0 times
support-#lubuntu-devel <reply> For Lubuntu support, please join the #lubuntu channel on IRC or https://telegram.lubuntu.me/support for Telegram. Also, at https://forum.lubuntu.me you can find our Discourse forum. Added by wxl
Date: 2019-05-03 18:52:19
Last edited by wxl
Date: 2020-12-24 22:32:11
Requested 2 times
standup-#lubuntu-devel <reply> @tsimonq2 @lynorian @HMollerCl @aptghetto @teward001 @kc2bez @The_LoudSpeaker wxl[m] guiverc @N0um3n0 @leokolb @KGIII — It's 2100 UTC Thursday which means it's time for the Lubuntu Development standup meeting. Please announce yourself for roll call! Then, in order of announcement, post your items, and be sure to mention when you're done. Added by wxl
Date: 2019-05-02 21:36:34
Last edited by wxl
Date: 2020-12-03 22:36:12
Requested 7 times
xauthority <reply> If the .Xauthority file in your home directory has the wrong permissions (usually due to misuse of sudo), you may be unable to log in. To fix, change to a virtual terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F3, log in with your normal username and password, run rm ~/.Xauthority* and then reboot. Added by dax
Date: 2019-04-22 05:03:12
Requested 21 times
ubuntustudio-controls <reply> Ubuntu Studio Controls is the application through which audio is configured in Ubuntu Studio. It configures Jack, sets the CPU governor, and ensures the user has realtime audio permissions. For more info, see !jack and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/UbuntuStudioControls Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-03-24 15:53:34
Requested 50 times
borg <reply> borg is a fast backup tool with incremental backups: https://www.borgbackup.org/ (Ubuntu packages: borgbackup, borgbackup-doc, and borgmatic) Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-03-12 22:41:29
Requested 23 times
lowlatency <reply> The lowlatency kernel is a special Ubuntu kernel build with modifications, such as realtime preemption, for systems which require low latency when communicating with some hardware, such as some audio devices. Included with Ubuntu Studio by default. Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-02-10 16:12:33
Last edited by genii
Date: 2020-02-27 00:30:27
Requested 22 times
biosupdate <reply> To see how to update your bios on Ubuntu visit the community collected methods here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-01-28 14:36:02
Last edited by hggdh
Date: 2019-01-28 14:36:39
Requested 39 times
kernelparm kernelparam cmdline <reply> To add a one-time or permanent kernel boot parameter see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters Added by hggdh
Date: 2019-01-08 19:23:03
Last edited by hggdh
Date: 2019-01-08 20:06:45
Requested 97 times
lenovobug intel-spi intelspi 17.10.1 <reply> The original release of Ubuntu 17.10 contained a bug that makes firmware memory read-only. See https://pad.lv/1734147 for more info. This bug has been fixed in 17.10's repositories (so upgrades are safe) and new ISOs have been released (look for 17.10.1 in the filename). Added by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 02:40:55
Last edited by dax
Date: 2018-01-12 20:50:38
Requested 17 times
nopti <reply> KPTI is a mitigation for the !Meltdown security issue. With some workloads on some processors, KPTI has a significant performance impact. KPTI can be disabled by adding "nopti" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub. This should only be done if absolutely necessary because it will disable protections against Meltdown and thus allow any malicious user process to read memory and probably escalate to root. Added by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 01:34:24
Last edited by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 02:07:38
Requested 18 times
meltdown kpti <reply> Meltdown is a security issue with (primarily) Intel processors. It's mitigated by kernel patches named KPTI. Ubuntu released them in security updates for 14.04, 16.04, and 17.10. 17.04 will not receive this update. 18.04 will ship with kernel 4.15, which is patched already. 16.04 has updates for Linux 4.4 (release) and 4.13 (HWE), installs with 4.10 should upgrade to 4.13. See also !spectre, !nopti Added by dax
Date: 2018-01-03 22:56:33
Last edited by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 01:35:19
Requested 54 times
spectre <reply> Spectre is a security issue in almost all modern processors, which was released along with !Meltdown (but is not the same thing). While there are several initiatives underway to mitigate it, there is no "magic bullet" software fix. Ubuntu is monitoring ongoing efforts and will provide security updates as they become available. See !usn for security update notifications. Added by dax
Date: 2018-01-03 22:56:29
Last edited by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 01:30:57
Requested 18 times
kpti <alias> meltdown Added by dax
Date: 2018-01-03 21:09:51
Last edited by dax
Date: 2018-01-10 01:28:01
Requested 61 times
krack <reply> KRACK is a group of attacks against the wireless WPA2 protocol and related software. Ubuntu clients are protected against it if they are updated; see https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3455-1/ for details. Networking equipment needs updating if using 802.11r, repeater mode, or other AP-as-client configurations, which most are not. See https://www.krackattacks.com/ for technical details. Added by dax
Date: 2017-10-21 20:53:27
Requested 5 times
wol <reply> Wake-On-LAN is a feature of a computer's network card allowing it to be remotely turned on. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WakeOnLan for details on implementation. Added by genii
Date: 2017-06-09 17:31:12
Requested 1 times
testers-#kubuntu-offtopic <reply> Help is needed in #kubuntu-devel. Please ping Riddell, yofel, soee, Tm_T, BluesKaj, James147, Quintasan, lordievader, shrini, tester56, parad1se, mamarley, alket, SourBlues, sgclark, neo31, vip, mparillo, wxl, DarinMiller, tsimonq2 for information Added by genii
Date: 2017-03-22 20:38:05
Requested 2 times
jack <reply> The JACK Audio Connection Kit is a sound server meant for professional applications, allowing different audio protocols and applications to interconnect in nearly unlimited ways. This is the core of Ubuntu Studio's audio workflow. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/What%20is%20JACK for more information on JACK in general. Added by wxl
Date: 2017-03-16 23:23:12
Requested 14 times
rollinghwe <reply> Since the release of 16.04.2, the setup for the !HWE kernel has changed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/RollingLTSEnablementStack Added by dax
Date: 2017-03-03 16:56:31
Requested 2 times
clink-#ubuntu-offtopic <reply> Past the lips, and over the gums... Look out stomach! Here it comes... Added by genii
Date: 2017-02-24 20:46:37
Requested 4 times
distrowatch <reply> "[Distrowatch stats] correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more." ~ https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity Added by dax
Date: 2017-01-14 07:55:24
Requested 14 times
budgie <reply> Ubuntu Budgie is a community !flavour of Ubuntu featuring the Budgie desktop. Its first official release is 17.04. As with all development versions, for questions involving Ubuntu Budgie $curDevelNum support, visit #ubuntu+1. Ubuntu Budgie 16.04 and 16.10 are not supported by the Ubuntu project. https://ubuntubudgie.org/ Added by SonikkuAmerica
Date: 2016-12-14 19:28:19
Last edited by dax
Date: 2017-05-25 14:41:50
Requested 45 times
sonikkuamerica <deleted><reply> No, his name is not Jessica. Added by SonikkuAmerica
Date: 2016-08-31 16:55:35
Last edited by dax
Date: 2017-05-29 03:03:24
Requested 4 times
psychology-#ubuntu-offtopic <reply> #ubuntu-offtopic is not a counseling/psychological advice channel. If you need to talk to someone about a problem that is affecting you, you would be better served by talking to a qualified person offline. While this is a social chat channel, there are serious limits to our ability and willingness to give social and psychological advice. Added by dax
Date: 2016-08-02 21:50:56
Requested 1 times
ops-#lubuntu-offtopic <reply> Help! Channel emergency! (ONLY use this trigger in emergencies) - bioterror, genii, hyperair, IAmNotThatGuy, jared, Myrtti, stlsaint, Unit193, wxl. Added by Unit193
Date: 2016-05-21 04:31:49
Last edited by Unit193
Date: 2016-10-09 17:08:42
Requested 0 times
qateam-#xubuntu-devel <reply> akxwi-dave, slickymaster, flocculant, knome Added by knome
Date: 2016-05-01 20:26:54
Requested 1 times
newfglrx <deleted><reply> Ubuntu 16.04 and above do not contain AMD's proprietary "fglrx" video driver. Please use radeon or amdgpu instead (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver ). We do not recommend or support downloading fglrx from other sources; please do not ask for help with it here. Added by dax
Date: 2016-04-16 05:12:35
Last edited by tomreyn
Date: 2022-06-17 18:27:55
Requested 14 times

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