Questions tagged [canonical-livepatch]
Apply critical kernel patches without rebooting.
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Ubuntu 22.04 Livepatch + HWE generic kernels
According to a blog post, Canonical is supporting livepatching of the Linux 6.2 hardware enablement (HWE) kernels. However, according to the list of supported kernels for livepatching, only the cloud ...
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Can't attach canonical-livepatch with my token
I just successfully installed and configured an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Intel Dawson Canyon and June Canyon NUC by following this official guide to run (mainly) my Nextcloud instance.
The choice of ...
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Issue Enabling Kernel Livepatch on Ubuntu 22.04
I am currently facing an issue with enabling Kernel Livepatch on Ubuntu 22.04. I have attempted to disable and re-enable Livepatch multiple times, but each time I receive the error message "Could ...
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livepatch status
I had problems installing Livepatch. Now the Livepatch status icon shows that it is on, but in the livepatch settings it is not. which one to believe?
illustrative image
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Linux.BtcMine.717 in canonical-livepatchd
today Dr.Web for Linux (antivirus) is detecting virus in
Menace : Linux.BtcMine.717
Détecté par le module : Scanner
Heure de détection : 17/6/23 2:42 Μ.Μ.
Nom de l’objet : canonical-livepatchd
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How to turn on Kernel livepatch
I can't turn on the kernel livepatch option, despite trying many times. Is there anything that I am doing wrong? Thanks
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How to have LTS+Livepatch at the OS installation step?
In relation to my previous post.
I would like to know how I can have LTS + Livepatch enabled at the OS installation step?
Thanks,
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How can I omit permanenty logged snap livepatch messages?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with Ubuntu Pro.
Running the following command:
canonical-livepatch disable
results in the error:
error executing disable: livepatchd error: daemon shutting down
I permanently ...
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Automatic reboot after Ubuntu Livepatch
When Ubuntu Livepatch has patched the kernel but recommends restarting to boot into the new version, a message appears in the motd like this:
*** Livepatch has fixed kernel vulnerabilities. System ...
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Errors reported from livepatch
Today livepatch got updated automatically and right after the update, the following errors started appearing in the journal log.
4/5/23 7:12 PM canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd Client ...
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Livepatch Will Not Enable for Ubuntu 18.04 with "Could not retreive client information" error
I have installed and set up Ubuntu Pro on my primary server and my backup server. However, I cannot get livepatch to enable on the backup server. I get the following error:
# sudo pro enable livepatch
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System randomly freezes; unable to access terminal; restart fixes for a couple days
I'm having this weird issue where after a while, my system just locks up. None of the CTRL+ALT+F* keys bring up the terminal or login, and only after a restart do things work again. During the time ...
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Ubuntu Pro License for VMs
I'm a little bit at a loss understanding how Ubuntu Pro license works for Vms. It says "all the VMs running on these hosts", then listing a lot of hosts (from qemu/KVM to EXSi to Hyper-V to ...
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Ubuntu Livepatch dials wrong IP10.50.246.8
Lately I checked my logs, and what stand up to me was error from Livepatch containing: Failed to refresh patches: livepatch check failed: failed to connect to 'host=10.50.246.8 user=juju_livepatch-...
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Problem enabling Livepatch
I tried enabling Canonical Livepatch, according to the tutorial here: https://ubuntu.com/security/livepatch/docs/client/enabling .
But, I repeatedly encountered the following error:
Stderr: Could not ...
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canonical-live patch status error executing status: live patch error: snappy kernel-module-control interface not connected
Stderr: error executing config: livepatchd error: snappy kernel-module-control interface not connected
how do I correct this?
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How can I get to my desktop on Linux Ubuntu 22.10
After work today I couldn't type my password to log back into my computer, I restarted it and it said something along the lines of "can't update because packages have not been updated" so in ...
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Livepatch shutting down the entire User runtime, just to check for patches
After enabling Ubuntu Pro,
I have been noticing my services were going down randomly.
after investigating, it turns out the Docker rootless service is being shutdown by Livepatch.
it looks like ...
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Why is LivePatch on Ubuntu 22.04 asking me update the same packages every reboot?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 from 20.4 a few weeks back, I see this screen every reboot.
LivePatch update popup
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
This did not happen on Ubuntu 20.04.
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Livepatch not working in Ubuntu
Signed in yesterday for Ubuntu pro.
The livepatch staus in the top bar shows a orange explanation mark on it.
When i click on it it says:
An error occured when checking for livepatch updates.
I am ...
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livepatchd Cannot get current kernel version fork/exec /uname no such file or directory
While debugging a separate issue I found a lot of lines like this in /var/log/syslog:
canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[1157]: Cannot get current kernel version: fork/exec /uname: no such file ...
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Livepatch fails on 2nd personal machine
I have a personal token for livepatch on my laptop and it works fine. I added livepatch using my token to my wife's laptop, but she still gets updater even though the livepatch icon shows in the tray....
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Livepatch Behaviour and restart in
I have installed livepatch on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Livepatch status indicates that patches have been applied (✓ all applicable livepatch modules inserted) but it asks me to reboot when I login via SSH :
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Liveptach services can't get authorized
I can't login into my Ubuntu accounts through gnome-control-center's "Online Accounts" Tab since it is raising error with "Error Connecting Ubuntu Single Sign-On server: \n Something ...
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How to select a different user to authenticate Livepatch with?
I am an IT Admin and recently set up an Ubuntu 18.04 laptop for one of my users. As apart of the process, I create a local admin account to set things up and join the computer to our Active Directory ...
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Livepatch not working in ubuntu 22.04
sudo ua enable livepatch gets the following answer
One moment, checking your subscription first
Stderr: internal error, please report: running "canonical-livepatch" failed: cannot find ...
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Livepatch in 22.04 LTS not working
Ever since i upgraded to 22.04 in March I was not able to attach my Machine to Livepatch. Back then I (probably rightfully so) assumed it was because 22.04 was still in beta.
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How to fix <urlopen error ……. unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)> in Ubuntu?
I can't report a bug due to the above mentioned reason. I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. How can I fix this issue. May be because of this issue I can't attach my system to Canonical Livepatch.
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Why Ubuntu fails to attach machine to https://ubuntu.com/advantage for enabling livepatch
My newly upgraded Jammy 22.04 lts failed to attach machine to https://ubuntu.com/advantage
attaching and detaching are not possible.
Failed to connect to authentication server
Check your Internet ...
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Why Livepatch is not available for ARM based CPU? [closed]
I recently discovered Canonical Livepatch service, I want to install it on my Raspberry Pi, but it said Livepatch is not available for platform arm64. Supported platforms are: amd64, x86_64.
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Can not enable Livepatch service on 22.04
I just did a clean install of 22.04 today. When trying to enable live patch I see I see the following message. I tried uninstall and reinstalling the livepatch app/snap but that didn't resolve the ...
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Error enabling canonical livepatch [duplicate]
I would like to enable Canonical Livepatch on my personal computer. After installing it, bash tells me that Livepatch isn't available for Ubuntu 21.10, which is the version I'm using.
How do I enable ...
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Livepatch -- plans to support official HWE kernels?
According to an answer to this question, livepatch supports only the release kernels for a given LTS release. This is understandable, in order to make development and support a possible task, but I'...
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Using a proxy with Canonical Livepatch Service
Have been regularly experienced problems to update Ubuntu 20.04 using Livepatch in environment with internet access via proxy.
Livepatch service issues errors with words like "cannot connect"...
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WSL - Livepatch error executing enable: failed to register client: unauthorized
Running Ubuntu 20.04 in wls 2 from Windows 11. X-window blacked out when I run Livepatch from desktop GUI and tried CLI "sudo canonical-livepatch enable " and received "error executing ...
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How to complete remove Livepatch from Ubuntu 20.04.3?
How can i permanently and completely remove Livepatch from Ubuntu?
I tried these steps but Livepatch was still present and i could run it!
First of all i run the following command:
sudo snap remove ...
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What is "Preview: Ubuntu Pro for Desktop" under Livepatch in Software & Updates?
I opened the Software & Updates app and under Livepatch, I saw this new message:
(The "new message" is in the big blue box)
I want to know what this is. I clicked on the link, logged ...
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livepatch not livepatching very much
I have been running canonical-livepatch for a year or so but constantly find that I have to reboot my server due to kernel patching. Now recently I have been running Linux kernel 5.11.0-1021-aws.
Then ...
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canonical-Livepath error which I can not find it
I received an error by following
Canonical Livepatch has experienced an internal error. Please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Livepatch#CommonIssues for further information.
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Ubuntu 20.04.03 Livepatch issue
I am experiencing issues with Livepatch and I am getting this error:
Canonical Livepatch has experienced an internal error. Please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Livepatch#CommonIssues for ...
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Canonical Livepatch has experienced an internal error, on start up
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.11.0-40 and I am now experiencing a persistent error with Livepatch when starting my machine (the shield icon shows red). I have had this temporarily before, ...
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Canonical-livepatch issue
Need help in enabiling livepatch:
Message: 2021/10/11 02:34:15 error executing config: Livepatchd error: Couldn't setup system logger: Unix syslog delivery error
Getting above error while enabling ...
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Boot screen shows [FAILED]Failed to start Service fo•ivepatch.canonical-livepatchd [Solved]
I use an old Gateway computer that has Ubuntu on it. I had to remove some packages to relieve some space in my computer.
So I used stacer to delete all the packages with name libre (I tried to delete ...
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Stuck on Ubuntu Single Sign-On Account
I made a fresh Ubuntu Installation and got stuck on the Ubuntu Single Sign-On Account. It's not able to SignIn neither it's getting cancelled, It's very much irritating. What can be done in this case? ...
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canonical livepatch error: certificate signed by unknown authority
I'm using livepatch on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for quite some time. A few days ago I noticed a red exclamation mark.
Then I signed out and tried to reapply the live patch.
However the following comand throws ...
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Extended Security Maintenance settings for Ubuntu 18.04
Οut of curiosity Ι tried researching what options I have if I still use my Ubuntu 18.04 after April 2023. So I came across Extended Security Maintenance, which is free for 3 devices for personal use, ...
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How to enable/disable Canonical Livepatch in software_properties_gtk via command line?
The above picture shows Canonical livepatch setting in software_properties_gtk. How do I enable/disable the Canonical Livepatch via command line?
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18.04 Xubuntu Not Waking
I have a recent issue with Xubuntu 18.04 not always waking. It seems to be just the in the morning. I pulled the syslog and see some failures like "Failed to start snap.canonical-livepatch&...
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Is Livepatch supported in 21.04 [duplicate]
Is Livepatch supported in 21.04?
I only want to install versions that support livepatch. I currently have 20.04 installed and will update to 21.04 if livepatch is available.
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Why does my livepatch never get any patches?
This may be a duplicate of
Livepatch - Does This Even Do Anything?
I have livepatch supposedly running on two machines, one with 18.04.5 LTS 4.15.0-147-generic and one with 20.04.2 LTS 5.8.0-55-...
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