Well, automatic security updates is a hard requirement of the CRA (which gave this topic here its name), so you will (have to) see it happening on all commercially used linux distros within the next year or so, so this will be a common thing everywhere soon…
If you want a note about this in the installer, by all means file a bug against the installer ubuntu-bug subiquity are the correct runes here to get it into the server installer (and the backend for the desktop installer) … if you want to do it manually you can use a direct link too: OpenID transaction in progress …
The account used for this is the very same account you use to write on this forum, managed via login.ubuntu.com
Oliver - CRA is an EU thing, does not affect us here in the UK. If the Europeans want that, fine, just leave the rest of the world out of it. That was not the original topic heading, that heading was written by @wgarcia when he moved it. The original heading was written by @psychotux“Any idea how my Ubuntu 24.04.02 LTS Server installation polymorphed into something"Kubuntu”
The trouble with the bug reports whenever I attempted them, require a working system, so information can be extrapolated from it. This is always required, and fair enough but when you have a borked system created by an update that has gone wrong, how do you get the information? I just use my backup and block that update, but it doesn’t help creating the needed information for the developers. They always want information that is inacessible to me.
LOL, so you think distro suppliers coming from the UK will simply not turn that feature on and happily lose their EU customers ?
That is like saying trumps tariffs wont affect me (not thinking about imports from china flooding your local economy, prices rising in general etc), your country isn’t a singleton in the world (even the brexiteers might have believed it is when they were voting)
Well, that was clearly answered that it was caused by an out of tree driver from a third party that is known to cause exactly such breakage when a kernel, mesa or libdrm get updated on your machine with that driver installed, even upstream discourages the use of this driver over the one shipped in the linux kernel by default (unless you have certain commercial certification requirements) …
That’s a pretty lame excuse when you attempt to file a whishlist bug like “please add a note about $foo to the installer”.
You clearly won’t need any logs or other system info to go to the website with a browser and file it … (heck, you can even do it from your phone if you desire)
Oliver - the EU isn’t the whole world, just a tiny part of it, although Ursula and her cronies would have it’s the be all and end all. There’s a whole world out there beyond those few 27.
@wgarcia, I had a look at that legislation, there is nothing in there in relation to unattended upgrades. Just about ensuring all internet connected products have some sort of security system. Mainly directed at modems and routers. That’s all.
Oliver - I wasn’t referring to a “wishlist”. Be sensible my friend, that really is drawing a long bow. I was referring to my previous attempts to send a reportable bug and how I had never actually managed to achieve it for the reasons stated.
In case you think Canonical is not obliged to distribute their products with this feature, you should write to their legal department telling them so, here we are just voluntary contributors, and at least I do not know much about legal issues.
But I doubt cybersecurity and products that do not ensure security updates are not a concern everywhere. Let’s see how the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill being worked out in the UK will end up looking.
@wgarcia Hey legislators love to legislate! It will probably happen as our traitorous MP’s love to fawn over the EU, they have not forgiven the populace for removing their prospects of getting on the EU gravy train when their term finishes.