Hmm, interesting so there was something fixed in os-prober that could classify as a vulnerability. The question is if this also is the issue because of which os-prober got disabled in the first place.
@Frog I don’t think all vulnerabilities in grub are solely used to bypass secure boot. There might be other attack vectors here aswell (although I do not know enough about grub to tell you what could be a possible one). Of course a patch to boothole does not make a difference if your system is not using secure boot. That’s one of the reasons I’d like to know what the vulnerability was in the first place.
There were links to all the information on the grub issues in the 2021-03-08 stable update thread however, here is a link again to a posting from ubuntu on the 8 security issues that are now fixed.
Pretty sure you dont need this anymore. None of my XFCE installations have it and my volume keys are working as expected. My guess is that this package is interfering with the way XFCE now handles things. Remove and reboot, see if that helps.
EDIT:
Multimedia keys are now handled by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (which sits in the notification area).
If you right click on the notification area icon and select “properties”, you will find an option to toggle this behavior.
After this updated I’m facing random issue related to the OS. Suddenly the system lock the mouse, make log off, to black screen and reload the screen in a kind of pixeled image e starts to blink the screen not completing the load bar so it requires me to to push reset bottom.
It was needed to use the my cellphone camera to get an image.
Is there any log I should get information to post here in order to better understand what is happening?
I made the update at 25/mar and this issue happen only two times, been surfing in the internet and playing games with any issue, it’s really happen random and more when like the system is not in issue maybe maybe some issue related to energy management, don’t know.
After the update of the 8th March and once again after this update, the shortcut Alt + Shift for switching from one keyboard layout to another, does not work any more. To make it working again, I have found a workaround: I have to put the laptop to sleep, and make it wake up from the sleep: after that, it works again from one keyboard to a second one but not to the third and fourth one configured. So I have to put it to sleep two more times, in order to be able to switch between my four different keyboard layouts. Would it be possible to change this small problem, if it would appear after a next update?
even before the update, I had problems with assigning rights on the hhd disk, but after the update, the same problems appeared already in the home partition, only a reboot helps
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If someone has a similar problem, I have seen in the meantime that my above posted problem was linked by the deletion of one variant of the keyboard layout that I was using. This deletion was done during an update but the keyboard was broadly functional so that I have noticed later that some keys were not functional as they should be.
So I have choised now an other variant of a keyboard layout and I should not encounter this problem any more.
It seems that some of us have problems to connect to password protected samba shares with nautilus, thunar and pcmanfm since samba client upgrade to 4.14 :
The error I mentioned previously looks like a driver error, maybe due to the last 5.10 kernel update I think it was from 5.10.18 to 5.10.23. I just turned my desktop on but after logon I was working on the laptop so the the desktop was basically in idle and the GPU driver present error, maybe when KDE tried to turn the screen off, I can’t precisely confirm for a while because it is the first time I was able to use log file properly. If it’s the driver i’m going to wait the next kernel update to see if it will be fixed.
Looks like today (April 9) should be another one stable update (size of download is 1.3GB), but I don’t see any announcement. Maybe that is a mistake so I will just wait while it is announced officially.
I updated 3 non-essential machines already and everything went fine 2 x Intel video laptop with kernel 5.10 and Cinnamon DE, 1 x Nvidia video desktop with kernel 5.10 and Cinnamon DE.
I am holding off on the essential machines until the announcement has been published.