Questions tagged [ubuntu-15.10]

Ubuntu 15.10, code-named "Wily Werewolf," is as of July 28, 2016 an **unsupported** old release of the Ubuntu operating system. WARNING: Questions pertaining to uses of unsupported hardware or software configurations are generally off-topic on ServerFault. The http://askubuntu.com forum, specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions, however, may be appropriate.

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Ubuntu 15.10 Server; W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ast_dp501_fw.bin for module ast

I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 server on a Asrock E3C226D2I board. When I get a kernel update or run update-initramfs -u I get a warning about missing firmware: root@fileserver:~# update-initramfs -u ...
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nginx fails to start on boot with systemd on Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10

nginx will not start on boot, but starts fine manually. The logs say something like nginx: [emerg] host not found in upstream "{some hostname}" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/some_site.conf nginx: ...
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How to install nginx 1.9x with HTTP 2 support (1.95 or higher) on Ubuntu 15.10

I tried to install the latest nginx version (1.99) on my ubuntu 15.10. I want a nginx version >= 1.95 because I like to have http 2 support. I followed the instructions I found on the internet for ...
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How do I specify multiple logfiles for a jail in fail2ban?

Heyo, I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 and fail2ban 0.9.3. Apache is set up with a bunch of Apache virtualhosts. I have my Apache2 logfiles located in subdirectories, one per localhost, e.g. '/var/log/apache2/...
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Ubuntu Server 15.10, process not being allowed to use all physical memory, kswapd0 using 100% CPU

I have a 24-core server with 64G of DRAM, and it's running Ubuntu Server 15.10. I am getting some strange behavior with respect to swapping and physical memory use. I never had this trouble until I ...
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stunnel TIMEOUTconnect on Ubuntu 15.10

We use stunnel extensively for LDAP proxying. We recently set up a Ubuntu 15.10 server to migrate some of the tunnels to and are unable to get it to work. We've scraped through the logs, configs, ...
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ceph - can't start osd on rebooted cluster host

I've rebooted the server (one of ceph's hosts). Started the cluster, but the osd, that's on the host, which was rebooted is down. The osd's # is 2, so when I try: sudo /etc/init.d/ceph start osd.2 ...
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After Upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10 from 15.04, EC2 Webservers are Crashing

I have a variety of Ubuntu machines on EC2 running in production, with about 30 that were upgraded from 15.04 to 15.10. With most of the machines, the upgrade went flawlessly and experienced no issues ...
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Route all network traffic through an openvpn connection and also accepting incoming requests on the hosts' real IP-address

I am searching for a solution to route all traffic from a server through OpenVPN but keep it possible to host applications on the server which can be accessed outside of the local area network. To ...
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convert plain text passwords to sha512-crypt in dovecot + postfix's mysql mailbox table

I have an old postfix + dovecot + Roundcube mailserver (mail.domain.Tld). Server clock is loosing time and adjusting it causes dovecot to kill itself, we cannot install more memory, bigger hard-drives,...
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Proper way to install Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10 after compiling myself

I just compiled the latest version of Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10 and installed it using dpkg -i nginx_1.9.15-1_amd64.deb However, the systemd service script was not created so nginx is not running. How ...
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Installation problems with CouchDB 1.6 on Ubuntu 15.10

After using CouchDB 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, I recently tried to start fresh with 15.10 and the main couchdb package. It installed couchdb 1.6 which was a welcome change, but the ubuntu installation ...
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Ubuntu "service" command

I type in the following command on two separate machines both running Ubuntu: service ssh status Output of machine 1: ssh start/running, process 25369 Output of machine 2: ● ssh.service - OpenBSD ...
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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory for Ubuntu 15.10

I'm running the latest Windows 10 Pro Fall Update, and setup a guest OS of Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit 15.10 in Hyper-V. I'm trying to use the dynamic memory feature, but Hyper-V wants to assign far more ...
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Recovery action for reserved kernel page: Failed

In a fresh install of 15.10 server, kernel 4.2.0-16-generic, I'm seeing the following entries in my kern.log file: Feb 1 11:49:30 Client-5 kernel: [ 117.847487] MCE 0x1182: reserved kernel page ...
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UFW Blocking opbeat

I am using opbeat for error reporting on a Django app. My app is running on a server with Ubuntu 15.10 and is using UFW for firewall security. Unfortunately, the firewall is also blocking opbeat ...
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Package apache2-mpm-itk in Ubuntu 15.10

I'd love to use apache2-mpm-itk module as mode for Apache2 servers. I used it without trouble on 14.10. However, upgrading to 15.10 i see that package is not available anymore, so i cannot find a way ...
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Citadel outputting 'Broadcase message from systemd-journald@hostname' continuously

I installed citadel-suite using apt-get on Ubuntu 15.10. I then uninstalled it using 'sudo apt-get remove citadel-suite; sudo apt-get purge citadel-suite', manually deleted the directory '/etc/...
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Failed to start HTTP/2 Proxy

I have a serious problem here. After messing up with my server (I installed ntop and ntopng which had a port error because port 3000 was binded by nghttpx) I uninstalled ntop and ntopng and then at ...
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How to ProxyPass to a '/path/' instead of root '/'?

I am using Ubuntu-15.10 wily, Apache-2.4.12 I've been trying to use ProxyPass in an SSL enabled VirtualHost like so: ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On <Proxy *> Require all granted &...
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Postfix/Dovecot Mail: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

I'm getting this issue when trying to setup Postfix/Dovecot to work on my Ubuntu server, 15.10. Followed this guide to try to setup the server, worked in the past. However, trying to upgrade to 15.10 ...
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How do I install a virtual package?

I'm trying to install postgis with aptitude on Ubuntu 15.10 and is having problems with virtual packages that prevent the installation. me@laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install postgis The following NEW ...
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dnsmasq failed to restart

Whenever I want to restart dnsmasq service, I receive this error root@ipm:/tftpboot# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart [....] Restarting dnsmasq (via systemctl): dnsmasq.serviceJob for dnsmasq.service ...
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