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I upgraded my Ubuntu distribution last week and my old Xerox Phaser laser printer stopped working over the network. Something like this should never happen. I

I upgraded my Ubuntu distribution last week and my old Xerox Phaser laser printer stopped working over the network. Something like this should never happen. I hate spending my weekends troubleshooting the Samba configuration. Maybe I will connect the printer to a Windows VM.

johnisgood 5y ago
This sort of thing makes me want to give GNU Guix or NixOS a try. Not sure which yet though. Last time I checked both, they were limited with regarding to disk encryption and partitioning and such. I came up with a possible solution for GNU Guix, but I never put it to a test.
onionisafruit 5y ago
I ran “brew upgrade coreutils” on Wednesday and my dog has had diarrhea ever since. This definitely should not happen.
ReactiveJelly 5y ago
This is why I badly want all updates and rollbacks to be as declarative and simple as Git commands. "Be on this version. Now."
- Brian_K_White 5y ago
  Heaven!
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  For workstation use I most definitely don't. Linux 5.13 has several regressions that make it unbootable on my system. Sure, i can btrfs/nix/ehatever rollback to 5.12 pretty easily.... and then what? Stuck in 5.12 for thr rest of my life? Hope that someone fixes it by chance? What i mean is that I value decent changelogs, ability to diff changes between package versions, etc. much more. When a package regresses on my desktop, my next task is sadly to try to debug it.
  - ReactiveJelly 5y ago
    ? Well if you wanna debug it, go back to 5.13. I just mean I want Nix or Guix style declarative systems.
xet7 5y ago
Sorry, newest Windows also has printing broken. No luck there.
sokoloff 5y ago
I have had much better luck exposing printers over smb from Linux than from Windows. My in-laws were visiting and couldn’t print to our network printers directly from Windows, so I had to add them to CUPS and smb, which was painless.
sbierwagen 5y ago
I noticed my wifi router had an "update firmware" option. Hmm, I said, that sounds cool. Go to the trouble of looking up the manufacturer's support page for my model, download the file, poke it into the update box, click go. Now all my IOT devices on the 2.4ghz now fall off the network after ten minutes and have to be manually restarted. I'm sure if I spend the time to look into it I'll find some fascinating difference of opinion regarding a detail of the 802.11b spec between the manufacturer of my very cheap wifi router and the manufacturer of the very very cheap wifi radios in my internet-connected thermometer. Instead of doing that, I factory reset the router, and spent fifteen minutes restoring various configuration details from memory.
icedchai 5y ago
Ubuntu upgrades are often a mess, even with LTS versions. Some issues I've encountered: 1) system lost its default route after an upgrade 2) network interface names changed, all connectivity was lost 3) system became unbootable (UEFI boot order changed.) This was all on a physical machine, and loss of connectivity meant having to to go the console.

johnisgood 5y ago

This sort of thing makes me want to give GNU Guix or NixOS a try. Not sure which yet though. Last time I checked both, they were limited with regarding to disk encryption and partitioning and such. I came up with a possible solution for GNU Guix, but I never put it to a test.

onionisafruit 5y ago

I ran “brew upgrade coreutils” on Wednesday and my dog has had diarrhea ever since. This definitely should not happen.

ReactiveJelly 5y ago

This is why I badly want all updates and rollbacks to be as declarative and simple as Git commands. "Be on this version. Now."

Brian_K_White 5y ago
Heaven!
AshamedCaptain 5y ago
For workstation use I most definitely don't. Linux 5.13 has several regressions that make it unbootable on my system. Sure, i can btrfs/nix/ehatever rollback to 5.12 pretty easily.... and then what? Stuck in 5.12 for thr rest of my life? Hope that someone fixes it by chance? What i mean is that I value decent changelogs, ability to diff changes between package versions, etc. much more. When a package regresses on my desktop, my next task is sadly to try to debug it.
- ReactiveJelly 5y ago
  ? Well if you wanna debug it, go back to 5.13. I just mean I want Nix or Guix style declarative systems.

xet7 5y ago

Sorry, newest Windows also has printing broken. No luck there.

sokoloff 5y ago

I have had much better luck exposing printers over smb from Linux than from Windows. My in-laws were visiting and couldn’t print to our network printers directly from Windows, so I had to add them to CUPS and smb, which was painless.

sbierwagen 5y ago

I noticed my wifi router had an "update firmware" option. Hmm, I said, that sounds cool. Go to the trouble of looking up the manufacturer's support page for my model, download the file, poke it into the update box, click go. Now all my IOT devices on the 2.4ghz now fall off the network after ten minutes and have to be manually restarted. I'm sure if I spend the time to look into it I'll find some fascinating difference of opinion regarding a detail of the 802.11b spec between the manufacturer of my very cheap wifi router and the manufacturer of the very very cheap wifi radios in my internet-connected thermometer. Instead of doing that, I factory reset the router, and spent fifteen minutes restoring various configuration details from memory.

icedchai 5y ago

Ubuntu upgrades are often a mess, even with LTS versions. Some issues I've encountered: 1) system lost its default route after an upgrade 2) network interface names changed, all connectivity was lost 3) system became unbootable (UEFI boot order changed.) This was all on a physical machine, and loss of connectivity meant having to to go the console.