Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Beta Testing

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#112

Every time I go to update, I this is what I get. It appears that one source is not working, even after the stated time that it will be available to update. Can someone please tell me how I can get updates?

tim@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for tim: 
Hit:1 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease                                                                          
Hit:3 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release                                                                            
Hit:5 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com disco InRelease                                                               
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease [255 kB]                                                               
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates InRelease                                          
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports InRelease                  
Ign:7 https://dl.bintray.com/etcher/debian stable InRelease                         
Get:10 https://dl.bintray.com/etcher/debian stable Release [3,674 B]
Hit:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security InRelease                                                                   
Reading package lists... Done                                                                                                      
E: Release file for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 3h 25min 20s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
tim@ubuntu:~$

Additionally, when I try to use the "Software Updater", I get the following error:

Screenshot

#114

Apologies if this is already posted.

Steam did not work from the Boutique install - I had to manually install

sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-435:i386

Now steam loads up fine. Here is the terminal output from running steam and then installing additional software

https://pastebin.com/X9BdPwKk

System Specs below
zebedee@mate-2950x:~$ inxi -Fz
System: Host: mate-2950x Kernel: 5.3.0-13-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.22.2 Distro: Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: PC Specialist product: Amd X399 Overclocked v: N/A serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X399-A v: Rev 1.xx serial: UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1002 date: 02/15/2019
CPU: Topology: 16-Core (2-Die) model: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP MCM L2 cache: 8192 KiB
Speed: 2198 MHz min/max: 2200/3750 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1996 2: 1925 3: 2196 4: 2196 5: 2131 6: 2130 7: 2216
8: 2128 9: 1969 10: 1934 11: 1936 12: 2103 13: 1925 14: 1925 15: 1925 16: 1925 17: 2245 18: 2196 19: 2196 20: 2196
21: 2196 22: 2110 23: 2195 24: 2232 25: 2196 26: 2113 27: 1925 28: 1925 29: 1925 30: 2245 31: 2196 32: 2196
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 435.21
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: nvidia resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz, 3840x2160~60Hz, 3440x1440~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Elgato Systems Cam Link 4K type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo
Device-4: Logitech USB3.0 Hub type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo
Device-5: C-Media Gaming Keyboard G910 type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-13-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 11.11 TiB used: 6.60 TiB (59.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Mushkin model: MKNSSDRE1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Backup+ Hub BK size: 7.28 TiB
ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra II 960GB size: 894.25 GiB
ID-6: /dev/sde vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 97.93 GiB used: 12.54 GiB (12.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 36.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 35%
Info: Processes: 516 Uptime: 18m Memory: 62.73 GiB used: 3.62 GiB (5.8%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36
zebedee@mate-2950x:~$

Regards Zeb...

#115

Yesterday my brightness was remembered after every reboot, but today after rebooting my brightness is always reset to maximum, did anything changed ?
I received some upgrades yesterday and today morning which caused this bug.

#118

How is the screen tearing fix in Marco working out for folks with NVidia GPUs?
According to https://youtu.be/iVzGZo5kS8c?t=903 the ForceFullCompositionPipeline setting was still needed to prevent tearing in 19.10 beta.

#119

Check out this page - 19.10 - fix screen tearing after upgrade on Nvidia systems by removing the proprietary driver

#120

Due to of some changes in bash-completion and/or maybe mawk our LiveCD and installed system are affected by the following bug:

auto-completion of umount /dev/ with Tab does not work and gives error instead of completion:

$ umount /dev/awk: line 18: function gensub never defined
awk: line 18: function gensub never defined

I have already reported it as bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845529

but the reaction on launchpad is very disappointing, no one wants to take responsibility and recognize a bug in some package.

Please do the following:

  1. open terminal on live or installed UM 19.10
  2. type umount /dev/ and then press Tab to confirm the error
  3. visit corresponding bug page on LaunchPad to indicate that you are affected by this bug: click Does this bug affect you? and then Yes, it affects me.

Note: installation of gawk package fixes the issue, but it is not installed by default.

#121

Going back to noveau is not an option for many, unfortunately. The performance gap (especially on non-Kepler GPUs, which can't even be re-clocked manually) is just way too large.
I would recommend adding this to the 19.10 release notes, though, just so people are aware of this limitation.

#122

Unfortunately right now you have to opt between a nice screen tearing free desktop experience or high performance games/ professional 3D modeling with tearing.
As I do not run games, and professional 3D can be used on Microsoft Windos if necessarily, I don't need Nvidia proprietary driver, and I enjoy Tear Free Mate Desktop/Firefox Browser on it entirely. And desktop /Browser run fast like on Proprietary Nvidia.

#123

You can fix the screen tearing on the proprietary NVidia drivers as well, but it requires extra steps:

  • open nvidia-settings
  • select X Server Display Configuration
  • click "Advanced..."
  • check "Force Full Composition Pipeline"
  • click "Save to X Configuration File"
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#124

@maximuscore thanks for the tip, I will give it a try, as proprietary driver keeps my video card at low power use than nouveau at common desktop use (as I see a small difference in fan speed).
I tested in the past different guides from internet, none of them work with Marco, the only thing that work it was called "Compiz", but it has small glitches on Mate, while Marco run absolutely perfect.

#125

Hi from first-time poster

I've just installed 19.10 beta on my Asus Transformer and the screen is in portrait mode and does not make use of the accelerometer to rotate the screen and touchpad. This is not a regression it also happens with other older versions of Ubuntu main and flavours.

But I'd like to try to see if we can get it fixed.

Thanks to this post: https://linuxappfinder.com/blog/auto_screen_rotation_in_ubuntu

I found that by installing iio-sensor-proxy inotify-tools and running this script (slightly modified from the example) it both switches to the correct orientation and adjusts to future changes.

#!/bin/sh
# Auto rotate screen based on device orientation

# Clear sensor.log so it doesn't get too long over time
> sensor.log

# Launch monitor-sensor and store the output in a variable that can be parsed by the rest of the   
# script
monitor-sensor >> sensor.log 2>&1 &

# Parse output or monitor sensor to get the new orientation whenever the log file is updated
# Possibles are: normal, bottom-up, right-up, left-up
# Light data will be ignored
while inotifywait -e modify sensor.log; do
 # Read the last line that was added to the file and get the orientation
 ORIENTATION=$(tail -n 1 sensor.log | grep 'orientation' | grep -oE '[^ ]+$')

 # Set the actions to be taken for each possible orientation
 case "$ORIENTATION" in
 normal)
 xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate normal ;;
 bottom-up)
 xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate inverted ;;
 right-up)
 xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate right ;;
 left-up)
 xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate left ;;
 esac
 done

Is it possible to include something of this kind into the image? I realise that DSI-1 is specific to my Asus setup so some detection would be required for this to apply to all units with an accelerometer.

Thanks in advance
Tim

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#126

No, you don't.

I know you're thrilled that the new compositor in marco fixes YOUR tearing, and that's great, but (a) it doesn't work for at a minimum some Intel IGPs; and (b) there's nothing stopping people from using Compton (or even Compiz, if they want that) just the same as before, and if that means not losing half the performance of their very expensive video cards it's a more than valid reason for them to do so.

#127

I noticed that the icon of the "Advanced Mate menu" can no longer be changed and is now set to the icon provided by the theme as "start-here".

The change was asked here as "an option":

https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/issues/45

start-here

The problem I have is that I want to use "Numix circle" as my theme, but I don't want to have a red circle with an "n" in the panel (the left part of the image is my current setup and the right one is UM19.10 running in a VM).

Numix is a theme that can be applied to many distributions. They provide a generic "start-here", a version for Arch ("start-here-arch"), a version for KDE ("start-here-kde" and a symbolic version "start-here-symbolic".

If they decide to make a version for mate, it will not be used unless they called it "start-here" or I overwrite the icon.

I think this option is fine only for themes made specific for Mate.

see also:

MATE Menu icon fixed to theme?
#128

You know @arQon maybe you are not so thrilled about this Marco tearing free experience in 19.10 but I really am. I am not a programmer, just an engineer, but I own two workstations one desktop one laptop and a netbook that I run quite often of course I own another desktop use by my mother, and another laptop and netbook that I use really rarely, plus another 3 32bit laptops that are almost no more used, plus two home servers and 3 raspberry pi. All of them have Ubuntu Mate.
From My main PC's use, all of them except the netbook (not counting pi and servers) have screen tearing fixed with Marco. My old laptop have an ATI video card, on that one is not fixed, I don't care as I can use Compiz on it, and is also very rarely used.

The workstation for my use are quite kick as both have some old nvidia quadro GPU's and 6 core xeon processors but if scrolling in firefox is shi... (using a logitech free scroll wheel) video run like garbage with screen tearing on Nvidia Quadro what the fu..., I don't give a... on video performance as the all desktop experience it was junk.... so use Compiz witch solve those issues but bring others, (Compton was worse )... so in the end every time I found myself switching between Marco and Compiz, and in the end for my workflow remain most of time with Marco as it work perfect except screen tearing.

I don't know how you see this but right now my main system desktop run marvelous with Marco and I don't give a shi.. that my Quadros run almost on idle, I just enjoy the smooth desktop experience in 19.10. Quadros was intended for Windows professional apps, some run also under wine, but not as good and also without "space mouse" devices.

You wont both, there is another option, is called KDE, that is not a Linux desktop (neither Windows), you can install it on Linux but is not intended for Linux users as is hard to do basic Linux staffs like running scripts, ssh automatic key authentication does not work without extra manual configuration,.....
I don't say that maybe in the future Mate will use video acceleration by using OpenGL ore something else but is not the case now, and I am really happy that it works very good now, this desktop is almost perfect.

#129

Regarding the start-here button, we could submit one for start-here-mate to the numix project. We can change the icon to load that one with fallbacks. GTK allows you to load icon fallbacks by removing hyphen parts: start-here-mate -> start-here -> start -> missing-image, so this should satisfy pretty much all themes.

As to why we changed it, the old icon didn't adapt to theme changes, and so we had to include an icon for light and one for dark themes. Plus a bunch of code to support this option. Using this new icon removed like 500 lines of code, if I remember correctly, and now it correctly matches most themes (numix being an exception here, thanks for pointing this out).

Would you mind filing an issue about the numix icon, so that we can track it?

#130

Like I say, it's great that you're so happy with it. You seem to have missed that part. I'm just pointing out that you saying his ONLY options are "Switch to Nouveau and take a massive performance hit, or put up with the tearing" is flat out incorrect. The improvement to Marco does not in any way invalidate the options that existed before that change and still work better for many cases, including his.

YOU may not care about the performance, but you are not him. Different people have different priorities, and while your evangelism of the new compositor is helpful to some of them, it's not helpful to people who have already explicitly stated that the prerequisites for getting it to work are not acceptable to them, or that it doesn't work on their hardware. I'm just asking you to keep that in mind, instead of advocating that Marco's compositor is the One True Way no matter what. Okay? :slight_smile:

#131

OK. I wasn't sure where to put this. Thanks.

Numix has an icon called "desktop-environment-mate" with the mate logo they can link to "start-here-mate" I think ...

#132

Hi There!
I have a problem with mesa-opencl-icd
I used Mate 19.04 and earlier without a problem, but with 19.10 Beta, it fails.

Details:
I use mesa-opencl-icd and the Einstein@home project (app) within BOINC to process data on my Radeon/ATI 7750 Card.

The process starts up OK - but I get an error in less than a minute.
The error is reported on https://einsteinathome.org/task/888883349,
I will try to copy and summarize here...

# Task 888883349
Name: LATeah1062L07_332.0_0_0.0_15029665_1
Workunit ID: [422265218](https://einsteinathome.org/workunit/422265218)
Created: 11 Oct 2019 5:53:25 UTC
Sent: 11 Oct 2019 6:09:52 UTC
Report deadline: 25 Oct 2019 6:09:52 UTC
Received: 11 Oct 2019 6:13:27 UTC
Server state: Over
Outcome: Computation error
Client state: Compute error
Exit status: 11 (0x0000000B) Unknown error code
Computer: [12201025](https://einsteinathome.org/host/12201025)
Run time (sec): 14.36
CPU time (sec): 12.53
Peak working set size (MB): 117.97
Peak swap size (MB): 1430.13
Peak disk usage (MB): 0.02
Validation state: Invalid
Granted credit: 0
Application: Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs v1.18 (FGRPopencl1K-ati)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
||--------------------------------------------||
### Stderr output
||--------------------------------------------||
......skipping......
ac_rtld error: shdr->sh_size & 3
ELF error: invalid section index

-- signal handler called: signal 1
4 stack frames obtained for this thread:
Frame 14:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x48b101)
	Source file: hs_boinc_extras.c (Function: sighandler / Line: 291)
Frame 13:
	Binary file: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gallium-pipe/pipe_radeonsi.so (0x7f1affad4e21)
	Offset info: +0x14ce21
Frame 12:
	Binary file: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gallium-pipe/pipe_radeonsi.so (0x7f1affad4e21)
	Offset info: +0x14ce21
Frame 11:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMesaOpenCL.so.1 (0x7f1b049b319b)
	Offset info: +0x37319b
Frame 10:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMesaOpenCL.so.1 (0x7f1b049b3bbf)
	Offset info: +0x373bbf
Frame 9:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMesaOpenCL.so.1 (0x7f1b049b0815)
	Offset info: +0x370815
Frame 8:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMesaOpenCL.so.1 (0x7f1b049b0fa3)
	Offset info: +0x370fa3
Frame 7:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMesaOpenCL.so.1 (0x7f1b0499f39d)
	Offset info: +0x35f39d
Frame 6:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x48fe01)
	Offset info: opencl_setup_photon_pairs_array+0x4c1
	Source file: unknown (Function: opencl_setup_photon_pairs_array / Line: 0)
Frame 5:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x47480d)
	Offset info: setup_photon_pairs_array+0x36d
	Source file: HSgammaPulsar.c (Function: setup_photon_pairs_array / Line: 2107)
Frame 4:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x47e28e)
	Offset info: MAIN+0x4dee
	Source file: HSgammaPulsar.c (Function: MAIN / Line: 4866)
Frame 3:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x46c06f)
	Offset info: main+0x5ff
	Source file: hs_boinc_extras.c (Function: worker / Line: 833)
	Source file: hs_boinc_extras.c (Function: main / Line: 1039)
Frame 2:
	Binary file: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f1b05d871e3)
	Offset info: __libc_start_main+0xf3
Frame 1:
	Binary file: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati (0x46e569)
	Source file: unknown (Function: _start / Line: 0)

End of stacktrace
02:10:13 (5107): called boinc_finish
Warning:  Program terminating, but clFFT resources not freed.
Please consider explicitly calling clfftTeardown( ).

</stderr_txt>

=================================================================
About the hardware....
Boinc lists harware and drivers in its log.. Here is the start....

    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:37 PM EDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.16.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:37 PM EDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:37 PM EDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.65.3 OpenSSL/1.1.1c zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.9.0/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.39.2 librtmp/2.3
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:37 PM EDT |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:37 PM EDT |  | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD VERDE (DRM 2.50.0, 5.3.0-18-generic, LLVM 9.0.0) (driver version 19.2.1, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 19.2.1, 2048MB, 2048MB available, 512 GFLOPS peak)
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | [libc detection] gathered: 2.30, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.30-0ubuntu2
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Host name: pc-14
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt fma4 nodeid_msr topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate ssbd ibpb vmmcall arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch) [5.3.0-18-generic|libc 2.30 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.30-0ubuntu2)]
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Memory: 11.61 GB physical, 48.83 GB virtual
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Disk: 133.57 GB total, 124.69 GB free
    Sun 13 Oct 2019 01:14:38 PM EDT |  | Local time is UTC -4 hours

================================================================
Question: Any ideas?
Go back to 19.04 or 18.04?

T H A N KS in advance,
Jay

#133

Looks like one of the libs has bad alignment. And, jep, Phoronix mentions one of the Mesa devs implementing a new scheme for shader loading in May - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Mesa-Real-Runtime-Linker - so the timescale fits.

Blow away the shader cache - I suspect it's stale, and old ones are definitely not going to be compatible (though it's hard to believe Mesa didn't version things properly and handle that case, so I'm not too confident in that guess). Worth a shot though. Or if you're using pre-compiled shaders that you DL'd from somewhere, get new ones.

#134

2 posts were merged into an existing topic: 19.10 - Loading / Saving custom panel layouts is utterly broken