And lastly I installed Elm on Zorin which only had ncurses but it’s ncurses worked.

     Ubuntu is restored to service.

     Elm core dumping is fixed.  I was able to chase this down to a broken curses library.  By using termlib instead it is happy.

     I’ve installed all shells and all Window systems that are supported by x2go.  The default configuration of both Gnome and KDE does not include a logout icon, but you can add one in either desktops.  If you have an existing KDE or Gnome configuration, you should be fine.  Also working are Mate, XFCE, LXDE, and LXQt Window Managers.

     You will notice the long delays at login are gone.

     You may also notice some software you are accustomed to using is missing.  If this is the case please contact me (nanook@eskimo.com or support@eskimo.com) and let me know what you are missing.

     People often ask why I don’t set up control panels like other hosting providers do rather than doing setup manually.  This is why.  It’s also why I use most current Ubuntu 18.04 in our hosting platform instead of Centos 5, also why every customers website runs with it’s own USER ID instead of the Apache user ID like most others.

GoDaddy’s Data Breach – The Largest Domain Registrar Exposed!

     The ubuntu.eskimo.com shell server is back alive and all desktops are working however there is not much software installed yet.

     Some software I am installing is breaking networking and I have not determined which yet.

     Reboots of all the servers are completed.

     All the critical infrastructure is up, all NFS servers, all NIS servers, all mail servers, all DNS servers, and the main web server (social needs work).

     It will be another couple of hours until I can finish checking all the shell servers for correct mounting and NIS binding.

Ubuntu networking died.  It will talk to local machines on LAN but will not talk outside.  It was working then it just quit.  ArrrrggghhH!

For some reason logout / quit is not working in Gnome or KDE, otherwise all the desktops are operational.  With Gnome, alt right-click is not working to add widgets, I do not know why.

     In the process of trying to restore some missing software Ubuntu crashed and now it seems it doesn’t want to boot up all the way.  I’m trying to diagnose and fix but if it ends up being too bad I may do a fresh install rather than restore from backups because it has had numerous problems since the last OS upgrade and I fear something did not go well.

     Other machines with Ubuntu like operating systems that you can use in the meantime are:

• mxlinux.eskimo.com
• zorin.eskimo.com
• debian.eskimo.com
• mint.eskimo.com

     Golang is currently broken on Ubuntu because some dependency issues required that I uninstall large portions of it to unsnarl a dependency issue that prevented installations or updates.  I am working on re-installing now.

     This weekend starting early Saturday morning on August 11th, 2018, (shortly after Midnight) I will be rebooting most of the servers for kernel updates.  The 4.15.0 kernel seems to be particularly problematic although for us it’s not been problematic in ways that cause crashes, just occasional data delay when the Ethernet driver barfs.

     And then depending upon how long that takes, I will also be taking machines down to image them that morning and if I don’t finish all of them also on Sunday morning.