I had a bunch of errors in the output of sudo apt-get update: duplicate entries and 404 not found errors.
Figured those out, I hope: I removed PPAs that didn't have any packages associated with them, then I removed out a duplicate entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.
It seems I have royally buggere...
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From what I can see in the apt source code, "Ign" means there was an error retrieving the file, but the error is being ignored. When I run apt-get update, I see 3 Ign messages, all of which are for Translation-en files. A packet dump shows that the requests for those files got HTTP 404 responses....
While here on AskUbuntu, they think it is somehow option 2...
When you use apt-get update it verifies if the same update indexes need downloading, if not it does not download the same updated indexes again.
Hit means apt checked the timestamps on package list, those match and there are no changes.
Ign means there are no changes in the pdiff index file, it...
Btw should we eventually get a room for this discussion (and move old posts over there) and link it to the Q later? Just a suggestion...
@ByteCommander It's a religious reference: "Do not take the name of the lord in vain". It's one of the 10 commandments in the Judeo/Christian tradition.
By the way, the source code does suggest that Ign is an error.
Btw what is a"pdiff index file" as in "Ign means there are no changes in the pdiff index file, it wont bother downloading it again." (quoted from the AU answer)
Presumably, it generates a hash of the file (using something like md5sum) and it's that index file that is compared to the hash generated on the current file.
But where is then the difference to "Hit means apt checked the timestamps on package list, those match and there are no changes."? Hit=matching timestamps / Ign=matching hashes??? Huh? No!
Why is nobody knowing what the command is outputting that everybody uses (hopefully) on a daily base? A shame.
And why would I check timestamps AND hashes of a file I want to decide whether it is worth downloading it or not? And then handle both results in a different way? That is cr*p!
@ByteCommander Not at all! Timestamps are much faster. If they have changed, you immediately know something's different about the file. Presumably, you only check the hash if the timestamps are different.
Ignoring is not the same as failing. The ignored attributes are not available in the repository. If there's really something wrong you get lines starting with 'W failed to fetch' which is a warning and finally a last warning message starting with 'Some index files failed to download'. — wie5Ooma4 mins ago
A comment on my Q. He seems to also have a point there.
My new DVI cable arrived and I shutdown, powered down, & attached the second monitor to the second plug on my 6570 adapter. Booted up, and immediately, dual screens! Seamless!
Thanks!
A brilliant thought came to me. I was going to do two builds of Qt - one for Win32 and one for Win64. And I was going to do both on the same machine. But now that I have the Mac Mini, there's no reason I can't have both building on separate VMs at the same time.
One will be faster since (a) it has a faster CPU (b) the host has more memory (c) the disk is an SSD.
But it will be interesting to see how much faster.
Just installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a second machine, and it doesn't always respond to mouse clicks. Using a KVM, and everything works fine on my Windows machine. Any thoughts?
I want to install something on my private network cloud that works like Google keep or wunderlist . It's a fairly large company . We need to manage tasks passing them between people.
I don't see why it'd be such a big difference between Windows and Ubuntu though. If anything Ubuntu should have it easier, since the keyboard and mouse would just be plain old HIDs at that point.
Oh. I may soon have a cat. A neighbor has a "hang-about stray" they feed daily. It likes a little attention in the evening/morning when entering or leaving their house, so not really feral. Might be good to have a free to get, pay for its food, pet.
I think you're looking for a unicorn. I want these features that are independent applications etc etc. I don't want the complexity of CRM. It has to be stupid simple. All the stupid simple things don't have enough features. So... basically, you're whipsawing between "Everything with the features I want is too hard" and "Everything simple enough doesn't have the features I want"
@JoshuaRobison: at this point, might I suggest making a list of what you want and don't want and asking on software recs (full disclosure? I'm a mod there ;p)
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@Seth When my primary home machine is Windows, my primary work machine is Windows, and the servers at work are some combination of gnome and KDE, using Unity just feels weird.
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No Ubuntu servers at work, and I'm not really sure why.
Wait, does the default install no longer put /home on its own partition?
On a headless Ubuntu 14.04 vanilla machine I setup dnsmasq as a DNS proxy with the following configuration in /etc/dnsmasq.conf
no-resolv
nameserver=<some working custom dns ip>
port=5555 #to circumvent my ISP's DNS hijacking
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@KasiyA I'm not at all sure that's off topic. What if the host is a recent version? Especially since it has been solved. People are really a little too eager to close anything mentioning an older version.
I need to perform multithreading on postfix mail server.
I read about POSIX multithreading but could it be linked to postfix smtp server and if yes then how?
System Specification: ubuntu 14.04 LTS and intel core i3.
Is there any other way for multithreading Postfix?
On my installation of Ubuntu 14.04 in VirtualBox, the only screen resolution available is 640 x 480. I have tried the solutions suggested in this answer, but none of them helped. All of the answers there are about installing the Guest additions, virtualbox-guest-dkms, but that doesn't make any di...
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