Everything is stable for me in the last hour. Looks like the attack stopped or Ubuntu was able to block them.
Due to an Iranian DDOS attack on Ubuntu, over UK support for the US. Just more humans being humans like always. Our kind still lives in the dark ages, its just dark ages evolved.
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Hello all,
Are these attacks the reason why I can't change screen resolution? I had no internet yesterday but that has returned now, but I'm stock on the lowest resolution setting with no option to change it.
Thanks.
No, if you are stuck at a low resolution, thats a local problem, which usually indicates, lack of GPU driver installed. Now, if that is indeed the case, and you tried to download/install your driver during the outage, then yes, that would indeed apply.
If you have an AMD card, your driver is already in the Linux kernel, and should be working. If its an Nvidia card, you have to select it in Software & Updates, Additional Drivers.
If you do have a Nvidia GPU, and your driver is selected and installedd, you can change your resolution in Nvidia X Server Settings app.
If its AMD or Intel GPU, you can change resolution in Displays.
If you have an integrated Intel GPU, again, it should be usable under the Linux kernel, without anything proprietary installed.
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Thanks. Fortunately the issue fixed itself without me having to follow those steps.
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For now, it looks good to me with the Update Servers. I don't have any Errors and all runs well.
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Not for me in the UK. I've tried local and main servers and I get nothing in Software, Software Updater and Terminal.
The Ubunto repos seem ok, but launchpad is still broken (for me).
I run a different distro that uses ubuntu sources like zorin does, and I had to update the mirror I was using. There are scripts that do this for you. I'm definitely not an expert, so I hope someone else chimes in.
This is one such script. I used one on the page for anduin os but I'm not posting it here in case it is anduin-specific. Anyway, after I reran that script and found a functioning mirror again, my system finally completed updating.
I tried it again and it runs fine for me now. Maybe they enable it partly - I mean region- or countrywide.
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Well here it is May 6th and it seems the servers are still having issues so it would seem. Anyone else still having launchpad update issues? Any work around?
Can anyone say "Debian" based ZorinOS?
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Thx to Zorin for the tranparency and for your effort!
unlikely reaching out the updateservers has become like a lottery, always different, this is not on zorin
i do not have a prob with the incident, communication is the main prob, trust eaten up slowly... and again, this is not on zorin
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For me (in Germany) it runs fine again. No Errors or slow Speed.
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I have tried diferent VPN locations etc, different download servers and mirrors, and nothing whatsoever works for me yet.
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Oh this is ridiculous! Can anyone point me to a specific server that actually works? I've tried Main, UK, Italy, Germany - all of them useless.
Do You have a VPN active? If yes disable it. Then set up Main Server and use sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Do You have made any Changes on the Sources? In which Country You are?
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Wow the turn off VPN thing sorted it...eek. They must be putting restrictions on what they think might be block/network traffic.
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Thank you. I disabled my firewall and things sprang back into action. I've never seen this in the six months I've used Zorin, and I've always been on a permanent VPN, either Proton or Nord. I guess I'll have to find a workaround - I don't want to spend ten minutes disabling the VPN every time I want to install an app. I wonder why this is suddenly happening now? Changes at Canonical's end?
I noticed and it happens very rarely, the ProtonVPN icon turns off and comes back on. Not sure if the VPN connection drops when that happens, I haven't really looked much into it since I don't use VPN quite very often. I also have kill-switch activated. I wonder if ProtonVPN really works as it should on Ubuntu. 