[21:04] <haigaiz> Dmole: Buffering problem as in my internet might be too slow? That shouldn't be the case because 1) videos play fine on other machines and 2) even if I let it load the whole video (using YouTube), it still stutters. Thank you for your help thus far... do you have any other suggestions?
[21:05] <MeQuerSat> Hello, is there a way to reset Ubuntu One?
[21:05] <varkala>  guys how can i ping a range of IPs to check live systems? for eg from <IP_ADDRESS> to <IP_ADDRESS>
[21:05] <Roasted> Anybody know how to install GNome Shell themes? I found a guide but things aren't working the way I expected.
[21:05] <ph0x09> ping -b <IP_ADDRESS>
[21:05] <zykotick9> MeQuerSat, you might want to ask in the #ubuntuone channel
[21:06] <ThatGuy123> okay I'll ask my question one more time
[21:06] <ThatGuy123> I just switched to Ubuntu and i noticed since switching that within my form fields there are hashes
[21:06] <ThatGuy123> So on a website where the formfield might remember the username I previously entered and suggest it to me
[21:06] <htmlinprogress> so in this format  tell me your problem , problem hardware  and software ,os being used     exsample   mine is ubuntu  32. bit amd 32bit dual core  2 gb drr2    and  "Problem "  and software used
[21:06] <ThatGuy123> It instead suggests a bunch of hashes in addition to my username
[21:07] <Roasted> am I stupid, or can I not report a bug on the launchpad site? It keeps saying I must do it through the OS... yet I don't have the laptop in front of me...
[21:07] <blsh0p> hey you guys i want to totally reset my ubuntu 11.10, but i want to keep important files and programs
[21:07] <ThatGuy123> so when I type in "o" in a form field it suggests a very long hash or what looks like  a hash
[21:07] <ThatGuy123> Does anyone have any idea whats going on?
[21:07] <blsh0p> can i run a custom backup on a harddrive and then totally redeownload it?
[21:07] <ThatGuy123> I can post one of the strings that look like a hash
[21:07] <mdsilva> blsh0p, back up the files you want to keep
[21:07] <blsh0p> how do i back up programs and program files?
[21:07] <htmlinprogress> huh?
[21:08] <ThatGuy123> htmlinprogress, am I not making any sense?
[21:08] <htmlinprogress> no
[21:08] <ViaNocturna85> blsh0p, depends, do you mean programs downloaded through Software Center (apt-get)?
[21:08] <mdsilva> blsh0p, no you'd reinstall the programs
[21:08] <zykotick9> Roasted, it would probably be easier for everyone involved if you wait until you are at the computer then use ubuntu-bug to report it.
[21:08] <blsh0p> can i keep the program settings and program files?
[21:08] <ThatGuy123> htmlinprogress, You know when you go to a website and when you type your username in the username form field it remembers what username you used last time and suggest it to you?
[21:08] <Roasted> zykotick9, if thats the case, if I'm trying to report a wireless bug, what would I use in the entry? I never understood that process. I always found it easier to just post, like a forum
[21:09] <s0nee> blsh0p, if you mean copy the whole disk, use dd
[21:09] <zseller> blsh0p: yes you can backup your home directory
[21:09] <blsh0p> dd?
[21:09] <varkala> blsh0p : try computer janitor
[21:09] <t4s> Hi. I tried to copy a folder containing a file with a |. There was an error, so I removed the | from the file name. However I still can't copy the file. When I search for the file it is still listed with the |. Do I need to update a index or something?
[21:09] <ViaNocturna85> blsh0p, not really but you can create a file with the programs installed listed in it, then back that up, and running a command with that will download and install the list again
[21:09] <zykotick9> Roasted, sorry I'm not sure - it's "ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME" but I'm not sure where a wireless bug would go, sorry.
[21:09] <s0nee> blsh0p: man dd. it copies byte by byte
[21:10] <Roasted> zykotick9, is there even a way to just POST on launchpad? I find it a little odd that I have to fight to post a bug and help out...
[21:10] <blsh0p> sonee what is dd?
[21:10] <htmlinprogress> ThatGuy123,  yes  think its about auto complete , so what about it ?
[21:10] <s0nee> blsh0p: run "man dd". basically it copies every byte on the hark disk or partition
[21:10] <varkala>  guys how can i ping a range of IPs to check live systems? for eg from <IP_ADDRESS> to <IP_ADDRESS>
[21:11] <zykotick9> Roasted, i think it is possible, but bugs require a lot of info, that ubuntu-bug will automatically take care of.  Using the website will just require the maintainer to ask you to manually use ubuntu-bug after you finish reporting - to get the required information
[21:11] <blsh0p> sonee where will it then be located?
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> yes htmlinprogress. So when the autocomplete suggests my username it also suggests a hash.
[21:11] <s0nee> blsh0p, what is located ?
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> So on my yahoo account my email has a n in it
[21:11] <blsh0p> where will it copy to?
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> The autocomplete suggests my name and then it suggets a couple of hashes like this:
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> "NTUwZTg2NTg1YTk2ODVkZTA"
[21:11] <s0nee> blsh0p: you can specify the file where it copies to
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> even though I never entered that
[21:11] <ThatGuy123> into the form field
[21:11] <blsh0p> ok
[21:12] <s0nee> blsh0p: just like "save as"
[21:12] <blsh0p> cool thanks guys
[21:12] <Roasted> zykotick9, the "bug" I'm reporting I'm not even sure if it would qualify as a bug. Basically I had to run modprobe on startup to get my broadcom card to work. The fix? add "b43" to /etc/modules. I think it would be easier to report this so someone can add it to the actual distro so someone doesnt have to fight for 2 days over it like I did.
[21:12] <ThatGuy123> where  are these strings of numbers coming from in my autocomplete?
[21:12] <MeQuerSat> Is there a way to reset Ubuntu One?
[21:12] <blsh0p> thanks, a ton, im going to start it.
[21:12] <blsh0p> see ya guys
[21:12] <ThatGuy123> I delete my cookies and they come back after a while
[21:13] <ThatGuy123> If I type "m" into the username field the autocomplete suggests "MDkxNTBjYjA2MzYzMTkwMTh"
[21:13] <ThatGuy123> as if i typed that hash into the field before
[21:13] <ThatGuy123> I am not sure if it is a hash though, but it looks like one
[21:13] <klync> ThatGuy123: hey! that's my password!
[21:13] <Zaelyx> ThatGuy123: What browser?
[21:13] <htmlinprogress> ThatGuy123,  yeah
[21:13] <ThatGuy123> Zaelyx, Chrome
[21:14] <Zaelyx> have you apt-get purged it? then reinstalled? I don't use Chrome, so sorry...
[21:14] <domedagen> ohh f*** I think I lost one. The world just got a new MS-slave
[21:15] <htmlinprogress> ohhh   ,,chrome is a "cloud "  base browser   so put it in once and it remembers it
[21:15] <htmlinprogress> ohhh   ,,chrome is a "cloud "  base browser   so put it in once and it remembers it  ThatGuy123
[21:15] <auronandace> htmlinprogress: cloud based?
[21:15] <ThatGuy123> htmlinprogress, but how does that explain the strange hashes appearing in my autocomplete
[21:16] <auronandace> htmlinprogress: cloud is a buzzword for internet based storage
[21:17] <MeQuerSat> hmm
[21:17] <MeQuerSat> Ubuntu One keeps forcing me to add folders to a directory that cannot possibly exist
[21:17] <intgr> So I upgraded my remote Ubuntu Server to Oneiric over SSH, but it failed to come up after reboot. Any tips, short of reinstalling?
[21:17] <BluesKaj> varkala, an example ,  nmap -sP <IP_ADDRESS>/24 or ping -b <IP_ADDRESS>
[21:17] <intgr> I can still access a recovery console for the server and chroot into it
[21:17] <ViaNocturna85> BluesKaj, I don't think that user is here anymore
[21:18] <htmlinprogress> yeah its the bowser that i use for crossplatform  book marks and all kinds of goodies,   and its not just for cloud storage , google uses it for all kinds of things, thats why you got one acount for all their severices
[21:18] <Star_Light> hello. Do you have some support room for octave programm on this server????
[21:19] <Pici> !alis | Star_Light
[21:19] <mdhafen> hello channel.  quick but tough question: is it possible to open Dash in the application lens with the Games category filter active?
[21:19] <BluesKaj> ViaNocturna85, i just tab completed his nick
[21:19] <Star_Light> join #octave
[21:19] <rtyuio> hello
[21:19] <ViaNocturna85> BluesKaj, how odd, I had an answer and tried tab complete but nothing...sorry, ignore my ramblings lol
[21:19] <t4s> Hi. I can't copy a file that used to contain a |. When I search for the file it is still listed with the |. Do I need to update a index or something? Thanks
[21:19] <rtyuio> how to get live TV URL from ubuntu ?
[21:20] <rtyuio> to able to play from vlc
[21:20] <mdsilva> t4s, put quotes around it
[21:20] <BluesKaj> ViaNocturna85, care to share your answer, im curious
[21:20] <htmlinprogress> yeah its the bowser that i use for crossplatform  book marks and all kinds of goodies,   and its not just for cloud storage , google uses it for all kinds of things, thats why you got one acount for all their severices  auronandace,  ThatGuy123 ,
[21:20] <okellos> hi, anyone knows how to stream udp using vlc, plays from windows machine but l have trouble setting it up in linux
[21:21] <ace_n_joker> #test
[21:21] <s0nee> t4s, what do you mean by "contain a |"
[21:21] <ViaNocturna85> BluesKaj, sure instead of ping use fping, then use the command 'fping -s -g <FIRST IP> <LAST IP> -r 1'
[21:21] <rtyuio> how to get live TV URL from ubuntu ?
[21:21] <rtyuio> to able to play from vlc
[21:21] <hexacode_> hey you guys this command wont work for me because the right half where i write to file wants me to do it with sudo...how the hell do i do that?  sudo ls -laR / > /home/ibmx37/tester
[21:21] <jc> how to configure a skype? i cannot see the video for the other person
[21:21] <t4s> mdsilve: I renamed the file, so it doesn't contain the | anymore, but when i run "locate -i ..." it still shows up with the |.
[21:22] <ktosiek> hexacode1: sudo ls -laR / | sudo tee /home/ibmx37/tester
[21:22] <t4s> s0nee: the filename included a the character.
[21:22] <ktosiek> hexacode_: sudo ls -laR / | sudo tee /home/ibmx37/tester
[21:22] <hexacode_> ktosiek:  thanks
[21:23] <pnorman> The locatedb updates automatically  - not sure with what frequency, I think it's weekly
[21:23] <foolove> vishnu im pretty sure your wrong on the cron job thing i just test
[21:23] <foolove> and it overwrites
[21:23] <foolove> the old file
[21:23] <s0nee> t4s, so you try to copy the file with a "|" in its name? try wrapping the name in ""
[21:23] <robin0800> t4s, perhaps you need to be root to rename so its not taking
[21:24] <wolfmitchell> Just got home from schoo, how do I switch to XFCE
[21:24] <okellos> hello, assist in setting up live network stream in vlc using udp
[21:24] <rtyuio> how to get live TV URL from ubuntu ?
[21:24] <htmlinprogress> okellos,  rtyuio  if you find out then please make a video cause im been trying that for  a year with not getting to work
[21:24] <t4s> s0nee: But the filename no longer has the | in it. (to be presice it's a link I drag+drop'en from firefox)
[21:25] <wolfmitchell> **school
[21:25] <mdsilva> t4s, try "periodic weekly", that might force it to recalculate it's database
[21:25] <okellos> rtyuio: which content did u want to stream
[21:25] <ChosenOne> hi I have some toubles from upgrading to oneiric :/ it refuses to finish installing rsyslog and consequently all depending pacakges, because ucfr(see man ucfr) complaisn about the taking-away of config files. any ideas?
[21:25] <rtyuio> i don't want to stream
[21:25] <s0nee> t4s, then what is the error you are getting? i don't really get it
[21:25] <rtyuio> simply want to get the URL ?
[21:26] <intgr> So I upgraded my remote Ubuntu Server to Oneiric over SSH, but it failed to come up after reboot. Any tips on figuring out what the problem is? I can still access a recovery console for the server and chroot into it.
[21:26] <rtyuio> catch the correct URL .swf to able to play from VLC
[21:26] <intgr> I tried reinstalling grub, but that didn't help
[21:26] <BluesKaj> ViaNocturna85, cool ,thanks :)
[21:27] <ViaNocturna85> BluesKaj, Your welcome, knowledge is power
[21:27] <okellos> rtyuio: got the correct one infact, created from a windows vlc machine that was able to stream dstv but when l tried it failed
[21:27] <t4s> mdsilva: Is it a command? In that case, it's not installed... gperiodic is suggested?
[21:28] <okellos> rtyuio: so u searching for a url thats broadcasting tv stuff
[21:28] <rtyuio> yes
[21:29] <mdsilva> t4s, periodic is a command. but gperiodic is something different, it calculates a periodic table of the elements
[21:30] <spartan2276> Need some serious help. I have an external backup drive which has all of my backups from a previous UBUNTU version but now it says its empty because 11.10 can't see it
[21:30] <spartan2276> Can anyone help me with this
[21:30] <spartan2276> all of my data was there
[21:30] <t4s> s0nee: I drag+drop'ed a link from firefox some time ago. Now I'm copying all files to an external drive before an upgrade. This specific file (link) couldn't be copied because it read the | as a pipe instead of a part of the file name. Then I updated the link (right click->open with gedit-> remove | ->save), but I stille get the error.
[21:30] <mdsilva> spartan2276, can any OS see the drive from that machine?
[21:30] <spartan2276> sbackup wont even see it
[21:31] <spartan2276> oh I can see the drive but I can't see what is in it
[21:31] <mdsilva> spartan2276, what happens when you try to mount the drive?
[21:31] <spartan2276> I had the drive configured so that it mounted automatically in 10.04
[21:31] <t4s> mdsilva: How do I install the command then?
[21:31] <spartan2276> it mounts just fine
[21:32] <s0nee> t4s: wrapping the name in "" like cp "na|me" does not work ? are you copying using nautilus or the command line ?
[21:32] <mdsilva> spartan2276, if it mounts just fine, then it should be see by ubuntu
[21:32] <spartan2276> And I know that I did not erase anything on there because I disconected and power off the drive before installing the new version
[21:32] <King_John> What video drivers does Ubuntu include? I have a cap. card that worked on ubuntu that doesn't on debian, and I need to install the correct drivers
[21:33] <spartan2276> oh no I lost everything, how could this happen
[21:34] <t4s> s0nee: I'm copying using nautilus. when I try with command line it says: cp: cannot create regular file `/media/5476-F1AA/Backup/Ubuntu/Friday Fun - Useful Linux Terminal Commands for New Users. | Ubuntu Linux Help.desktop': Invalid argument.
[21:34] <mdsilva> t4s, try to find a script somewhere on your system called "locate.updatedb" if it's there, run it
[21:35] <spartan2276> damn this sucks, how in the world could this happen
[21:36] <s0nee> t4s, wrap "" like /media/54..../Ubuntu/"Friday ... .desktop"
[21:36] <mdsilva> spartan2276, maybe 11.10 removed the files?
[21:36] <bekor> hi, i do not know if anyone has any ideas, i got a cheap mp3 player on ebay.works great can hold up to 16gb of space on a micro sd card ,but it has no shuffle option.anyone know of a good program that would shuffle songs without me having to rename songs?
[21:37] <spartan2276> mdsilva no because I disconnected the drive from the PC
[21:37] <Menthane> Where's the notification area in 11.10? When I close pidgin I can't see it's icon anywhere on the top bar?
[21:37] <bobweaver> hi there anyone having any trouble  with lubuntu and older dell's I installed lubuntu 10.10 and after install got busy box. I then tried to install lubuntu 11.10 and now the VGA is blown out (I think ) anyone seen or had any troubles like this ?
[21:37] <s0nee> Menthane: try the right bottom
[21:37] <Menthane> s0nee I'm using unity2d btw
[21:37] <Menthane> also that didn't work
[21:38] <s0nee> Menthane, sorry i thought gnome shell. unity no clue ...
[21:38] <ViaNocturna85> Menthane, is it not under the little envelope?
[21:38] <varkala> guys how can i ping a range of IPs to check live systems? for eg from <IP_ADDRESS> to <IP_ADDRESS>
[21:38] <bobweaver> I tryed to install other vga that I have  laying around and still nothing no bios nothing
[21:38] <mdhafen> Menthane: you might be able to get to it under the envelope in the systray area.
[21:38] <mdsilva> spartan2276, did you "umount" the external drive or shutdown the system before you powered it off and disconnected it?
[21:38] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, first open a terminal and type 'sudo apt-get install fping'
[21:38] <Menthane> Ow yeah I see it now. Lol why does everything have to hide away in 11.10?
[21:38] <mdhafen> Menthane:  So it's 'cleaner'
[21:39] <spartan2276> the drive was setup on fstab so that it mounts on its own and unmounts when power off
[21:39] <spartan2276> because automatic backups where made on a daily basis
[21:39] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, then type 'fsping -s -g <IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS> -r 1'
[21:39] <bobweaver> I have 7 more of these computers that i need to put os's on
[21:39] <bobweaver> md5sum is all good
[21:39] <spartan2276> but now none of those .targz files are not there
[21:40] <mdsilva> spartan2276, if you powered it off, then ubuntu wouldn't be able to transfer the cached/buffered files in memory to the external drive. those files don't get saved unless you at least umount the drive before it loses power
[21:40] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, fping i mean, not fsping
[21:40] <t4s> s0nee: That did the trick... Thanks for your help
[21:41] <s0nee> t4s, no problem. youre welcome
[21:41] <t4s> mdsilva: Thanks for your help. I managed to copy the filed by wrapping it in "" (suggested by s0nee).
[21:42] <mdsilva> the quotes were the first thing I suggested before s0nee even responded, and you said that wasn't it
[21:42] <foolove> can someone validate that if you scp a tar.gz file to another server with the same name it should overwrite the old one correct???
[21:43] <mdsilva> yes
[21:43] <ViaNocturna85> foolove, yes
[21:43] <foolove> i just tested this theory with a text file and it seems to be the file will overwrite
[21:43] <foolove> good
[21:43] <foolove> someone earlier had swayed me from my original thinking
[21:43] <foolove> lol wasted some time on it no biggie
[21:43] <varkala> hanks VianNocturna85 it works
[21:43] <varkala> thanks VianNocturna85 it works
[21:43] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, you're welcome
[21:44] <douglas-web-deve> hello all
[21:44] <ViaNocturna85> douglas-web-deve, hello
[21:44] <helo> anyone know why "aptitude update" returns a non-successful status (255)?
[21:45] <douglas-web-dev> ViaNocturna85, :)
[21:45] <varkala> VianNocturna85 : u know how to scan for open ports in a range of IPs?
[21:45] <soreau> helo: Does apt-get update work?
[21:45] <helo> i've been missing updates because my normal process is sudo bash -c "aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade -y"
[21:45] <douglas-web-dev> Considering usability and acessibility, what's the advantage of not having a standard taskbar on Ubuntu?
[21:46] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, im not entirely sure but I think nmap would be the best tool for that
[21:46] <lapion> My xserver is freezing my screen quite often with : [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[21:46] <helo> soreau: ahh, "E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead."
[21:47] <helo> soreau: so i guess the issue is that "aptitude update" isn't giving an error at all
[21:47] <soreau> helo: Does the internet work on that box?
[21:47] <MeQuerSat> .
[21:47] <lapion> how can I raise the verbosity of the xserver to get more useful information
[21:47] <helo> soreau: yes
[21:48] <soreau> helo: Check your sources.list then
[21:48] <helo> soreau: i can see it update from a lot of IPs... looks like removing the deb-src entry for virtualbox's package server causes it to return 0
[21:48] <ViaNocturna85> helo, do you have any PPA's that aren't working? thats usually what happens to me
[21:48] <digitalfiz> so i messed up bad i did "rm -rf /var/log" is there a way to recover from this?
[21:49] <helo> when i added the virtualbox.org's entry, it automatically added a deb-src, which was failing silently in aptitude
[21:49] <digitalfiz> i lost connection the the VM so i asked for a reboot, what are the chance it will reboot?
[21:49] <helo> aptitude needs to show an error message...
[21:49] <mdhafen> since I haven't seen any responses to my question I'll ask again with somemore detail.  I've setup a quicklist launcher for some games I like, and I was thinking it would be cool if left clicking on the launcher would open dash.  Is it possible?
[21:49] <intgr> After upgrading my server to oneiric, my network interfaces aren't starting up anymore. This is in /var/log/syslog:
[21:49] <intgr> Oct 27 00:25:24 zed kernel: [   13.033305] init: network-interface (lo) pre-start process (546) terminated with status 1
[21:49] <ViaNocturna85> digitalfiz, golden rule is to refrain from using rm -rf...thats removed ya logs i take it?
[21:49] <intgr> Any ideas?
[21:49] <klync> digitalfiz: probably not worth it ... just let the new logs start up
[21:49] <helo> hah, after removing that apt-get update returns 0, but still says "E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
[21:50] <digitalfiz> klync, ViaNocturna85  i don't want to recover the logs just the install hehe
[21:50] <intgr> Also the same line for eth0
[21:50] <mdhafen> intgr: could it be related to dbus not starting properly?  I had something like that because /var/run didn't get moved to /run during the upgrade.
[21:50] <helo> my golden rule is to do ls -la {stuff} before doing rm -rf {stuff}
[21:50] <ViaNocturna85> digitalfiz, install of what?
[21:50] <klync> digitalfiz: is this your desktop computer?
[21:50] <UnderDragon> hi
[21:50] <helo> because rm -rf is handy
[21:51] <intgr> mdhafen: Oh, does it have to be present in /etc/fstab?
[21:51] <digitalfiz> klync no it was a development server on a esxi vm
[21:51] <ViaNocturna85> helo, yeah i use it all the time...in my home directory ;-)
[21:51] <UnderDragon> anyone has issues with the printscreen only showing the background ?
[21:51] <intgr> Oct 27 00:42:19 zed kernel: [   13.628148] init: dbus main process (654) terminated with status 1
[21:51] <intgr> mdhafen: Sounds like same here
[21:51] <klync> digitalfiz: oh - got a snapshot to revert to, then?
[21:51] <mdhafen> intgr: /run isn't in /etc/fstab, but there is supposed to be a sym-link to it at /var/run, which is where I ran into problems with dbus
[21:52] <intgr> mdhafen: Oh, /var/run is a directory. Should I rename it and symlink it to /run?
[21:52] <intgr> Should I move /var/run to /run?
[21:53] <mdhafen> intgr: yeah, something like that.  I'd recommend `mv -i /var/run/* /run/` first to make sure nothing gets lost.  and probably a reboot after makeing the sym-link.
[21:53] <spartan2276> mdsilva, can't be because those files where backup yesterday and then I did another one today so it should read it, I think what is happening is that since it was setup through fstab the drive is not being pickup as it should or at least is not showing the files
[21:53] <intgr> mdhafen: Ok, thanks
[21:54] <mdhafen> intgr: the -i option of mv is so you can not over-write anything that's already in /run, just in case :)
[21:54] <intgr> Right
[21:54] <digitalfiz> klync we do nightly backups was hoping to not have to do that
[21:54] <varkala> how can i mount all my drives(partitions)  while booting/startup ?
[21:54] <mshadle_> can someone point me to the best place to create my own http:// based ubuntu network installation? i am behind a firewall, and XenServer requires it
[21:55] <Carri0n> Varazir, add to fstab
[21:55] <jmark> quick question: what is the command for deleteing a directory in the terminal?
[21:55] <Carri0n> rm -rf
[21:55] <iceroot> jmark: rm -r
[21:55] <iceroot> jmark: without -f
[21:55] <Carri0n> doesnt matter either way
[21:55] <jmark> will that delete all contained files also?
[21:55] <iceroot> jmark: yes
[21:55] <Carri0n> -rf
[21:55] <iceroot> Carri0n: no
[21:55] <Carri0n> yes
[21:56] <jmark> wait is it yes or no?
[21:56] <varkala> carrion : add what?
[21:56] <iceroot> Carri0n: -f is not needed and should not be used as default so dont suggest that here
[21:56] <Carri0n> rm -rf
[21:56] <Carri0n> works just fine
[21:56] <Polah> Carri0n, apart from the fact that -rf will not prompt for anything and if it's prompting for whether or not you want to delete it then you should probably be rethinking whether to delete it or not
[21:56] <digitalfiz> klync it booted back up but mysql didn't start so ill try and figure out wht
[21:56] <lapion> mdhafen / is not official location to have a running process info directory
[21:56] <lapion> mdhafen,  better to do ln -s /var/run /run
[21:56] <klync> digitalfiz: digitalfiz well, if you don't want to just let the log files regenerate themselves (or send email to root@localhost if the dir was missing), you could restore the backup to a temp location and copy /var/log from there. But getting your data back would require forensic-level work - i.e. finding the blocks on disk that were unlinked before they get overwritten. which is why i say prob not worth the effort
[21:56] <theacolyte> Hi there, 11.10 support SSD TRIM?
[21:56] <Polah> jmark, just use rm -r, ignore Carri0n's suggestion.
[21:56] <intgr> mdhafen: Awesome! Thanks a lot, that fixed it
[21:56] <klync> digitalfiz: yeah, probably missing /var/log/mysql
[21:56] <theacolyte> Seem to find some conflicting info
[21:56] <Carri0n> rm -rf works fine.
[21:56] <iceroot> Carri0n: i said stop it
[21:57] <Carri0n> rm -rf works fine.
[21:57] <digitalfiz> klync thats what i thought but its there
[21:57] <klync> digitalfiz: a bit of a pain to manually recreate, but probably your best bet if you can't recover it from backup
[21:57] <mdhafen> lapion: my upgrade of 11.10 has it the other way around though.
[21:57] <ViaNocturna85> Carri0n, unless you actually know what the -f is for, don't suggest
[21:57] <Carri0n> rm -rf works fine.
[21:57] <digitalfiz> klync oh wait its a pipe not a folder
[21:57] <iceroot> Carri0n: enough
[21:57] <digitalfiz> hmm
[21:57] <Carri0n> rm -rf works fine.
[21:57] <W3ird_N3rd> I just installed some extra memory and now I get "CPU frequency scaling unsupported" error when I boot up. Cool'n'quiet is still enabled in my BIOS.
[21:57] <W3ird_N3rd> why?
[21:57] <iceroot> !ops | Carri0n
[21:57] <klync> digitalfiz: grep -i log /etc/mysql/my.cnf ?
[21:57] <Carri0n> LOL
[21:58] <jmark> I know this room isn't specific to bash, but can anyone quickly point out why this doesn't work":  find -type d -a -name '*Temp' >> ~/tempfiles
[21:58] <jmark> for file in "cat ~/tempfiles"; do
[21:58] <jmark> 	rm -rfv $file
[21:58] <jmark> done
[21:58] <FloodBot1> jmark: Please don't flood; use http://paste.ubuntu.com to paste; don't use Enter as punctuation.
[21:58] <iceroot> jmark: quote it
[21:58] <iceroot> jmark: always quote a var in bash like "$file"
[21:59] <iceroot> jmark: #bash
[21:59] <jimmie> Is there any way to restore Ubuntu to "factory" defaults without doing a fresh install?
[21:59] <jmark> so make it say this:  for "$file" in
[21:59] <Carri0n> jimmie, rm -rf /*
[21:59] <jimmie> =|
[21:59] <iceroot> !ops | Carri0n
[21:59] <iceroot> !danger
[21:59] <ViaNocturna85> jimmie, do NOT follow that instruction!
[22:00] <Carri0n> oh noes
[22:00] <jimmie> Yes I got that.
[22:00] <iceroot> Carri0n: stop it!!!
[22:00] <Carri0n> Awh :(
[22:00] <iceroot> Flannel: thx
[22:01] <iceroot> hm?
[22:01] <jimmie> I take it thats a "no" to my question then
[22:01] <mdhafen> jimmie: I supposed dpkg-reconfigure could get you there, but that won't cover settings you've got in hidden folders in your home folder.
[22:01] <intgr> !firethemissiles
[22:01] <jimmie> Ah
[22:01] <mamece2> hi, i am using natty 10.04 ihave installed kernel 3.6.38-12 and when i reboot its not in the grub option, whats happening?
[22:02] <iceroot> mamece2: sudo update-grub
[22:02] <varkala> how to find the UUID of a device
[22:02] <three18ti> mamece2, I think you mean kernel 2.6.38
[22:02] <mdhafen> varkala: blkid
[22:02] <CarlFK> mamece2: how did you install the kernel ?
[22:03] <three18ti> mamece2, there is no 3.6 kernel.
[22:03] <Polah> varkala, sudo blkid
[22:04] <three18ti> hey, I'm getting this error when trying to build kerrighed, http://pastebin.com/ay4hLkat, anyone found a way to resolve this issue?
[22:07] <varkala> please tell me what is  <options>   <dump>  <pass>  in fstab
[22:07] <mamece2> iceroot: three18ti CarlFK i  mean 2.6.38-12 ive installed it throuhg update manager
[22:08] <three18ti> like apt-get install kerrighed?
[22:08] <mdhafen> varkala: options are used with mount, I don't remember what dump is for (maybe backup frequency), and pass is wether it should be fsck'ed
[22:08] <three18ti> belay my last...  got confused.
[22:09] <steph7> someone has blacklisted acer_wmi to solve rfkill softblock problems?
[22:09] <steph7> in acer laptops, obv
[22:09] <CarlFK> mamece2: then it should have taken care of updating grub. something is messed up.  you should figure that out before worrying about grub
[22:10] <mamece2> CarlFK: by grub i mean the first s creen when i get to choose the kernel to boot with
[22:11] <CarlFK> mamece2: me too
[22:11] <varkala> mdhafen : i want to mount a device with uuid F4822BF2822BB84E  (ntfs file system) on startup what sould i  add on fstab
[22:12] <SilfenX> is there a linux equivalent to winrar that can handle all rar archive types and is GUI based?
[22:12] <mamece2> i think sudo update-grub worked. THANKS!!
[22:12] <varkala> silfenx : unrar
[22:12] <ViaNocturna85> SilfenX, if you install unrar then you get to use that in the Archive Manager
[22:12] <mamece2> how can i erase old kernels?
[22:13] <SilfenX> ok, ty
[22:13] <varkala>  i want to mount a device with uuid F4822BF2822BB84E  (ntfs file system) on startup what should i  add on fstab
[22:13] <w30> mamece2, I use synaptic to remove them, that wa grub automatically removes them also.
[22:14] <w30> wa/way
[22:14] <mdhafen> varkala: It's been a while since I played with /etc/fstab, but something like this: UUID=F4822BF2822BB84E /media/mountpoint ntfs defaults 0 2
[22:14] <mamece2> w30:  ty
[22:14] <r4> so when i use xcompmgr in conjunction with notify-osd, a black border surrounds the popup....any hints as to remove it?
[22:14] <r4> it wasnt there when i wasnt using true transparency
[22:14] <ilyam> hi ... if i want to effectively have "ulimit -l unlimited" for a user
[22:14] <ilyam> this works right?
[22:15] <ilyam> echo "username   soft   memlock   unlimited" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
[22:15] <ilyam> echo "username  hard  memlock  unlimited" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
[22:15] <vafied> hello, i am trying to use dhclient on ubuntu 11.10 as i used to do on my 11.04 but it keep telling me that i should run service service start
[22:15] <osmosis> SilfenX, probably just the normal file manage will do it. Right click, extract.  have the unrar package installed
[22:15] <Reaper> ! usb
[22:16] <pnorman> I replaced a drive in my RAID array a couple of weeks back. My /boot is a RAID1 array where each volume is bootable. My understanding is I have to do something with grub to make it bootable, but I can't figure out what
[22:17] <mdhafen> pnorman: if the drive is hardware RAID1 i'd think installing grub on one drive would take care of it on the rest of the RAID1 set
[22:17] <pnorman> mdhafen: unless the drive that has grub on it dies and i need to boot off of another
[22:17] <vafied> any change to dhclient on ubuntu 11.10 ?
[22:18] <mamece2> whats the difference , in synaptic, about removal and complete removal?
[22:18] <mdhafen> pnorman: yeah, I though hardware raid1 would just clone grub from the one drive to the other automatically.  Seems I'm wrong.
[22:18] <w30> vafied, service --status-all will tell you what services service runs
[22:18] <zykotick9> mamece2, complete removal = purge, so it remove any config files (not the ones in home directory however)
[22:19] <varkala> my friend is having a THOSHIBA laptop and he say that he cant run ubuntu on it due to some problem with acpi . does any one face similar problem?
[22:19] <mamece2> zykotick9: so i can complete remove an old kernel, right?
[22:19] <vafied> w30: but dhclient is a script not a service as far as i know
[22:19] <mdhafen> varkala: i've heard of that.  there should be a kernel boot option, like noacpi, to take care of that.
[22:19] <zykotick9> mamece2, sure, i don't think it'll make much difference for linux-image*, but maybe.
[22:20] <wolfmitchell> How do I uninstall gnome?
[22:20] <wolfmitchell> (Not the packages it has with it
[22:20] <wolfmitchell> )
[22:20] <pnorman> mdhafen: google seems to indicate that grub-install /dev/sdX works - does that sound right?
[22:20] <w30> vafied, could be what does service --status-all tell you about dhclient?
[22:21] <mdhafen> pnorman: yeah, that's what I was expecting.  From there the hardware RAID1 mirrors the grub stuff to the other drive in the set.
[22:21] <w30> vafied, anything?
[22:21] <aeon-ltd> wolfmitchell: what specfically about gnome? cause you could just install another DE/WM and use that if hdd space is not a issue
[22:21] <wolfmitchell> Aeon-I want to uninstall the enviroment itself
[22:21] <vafied> w30: it is not listed
[22:21] <mdhafen> pnorman: also, if you are in recovery mode, that will reinstall grub on the drive for you.
[22:21] <aeon-ltd> wolfmitchell: so the UI?
[22:21] <wolfmitchell> Yes
[22:22] <varkala> mdhafen :' kernel boot option ' what u mean?
[22:22] <aeon-ltd> wolfmitchell: then you need to remove metacity that handles window management for gnome DE
[22:22] <mdhafen> varkala: I'm not sure I can explain properly.  The kernel line in grub can have options for booting the kernel, like noacpi.
[22:22] <aeon-ltd> wolfmitchell: but i'd install another DE or WM first
[22:23] <wolfmitchell> Aeon-I have XFCE already
[22:23] <pnorman> mdhafen: incidentially, /boot is a 4 volume RAID1 array
[22:23] <aeon-ltd> wolfmitchell: ok if you are in xfce right now you'll only need to remove metacity and gnome-panel they are what handles gnome's graphical interface (along with compiz if you used that)
[22:23] <mdhafen> pnorman:  wow, not that's serious fault tolerance.
[22:24] <w30> vafied, obviously you can't use service on it then
[22:24] <mdhafen> w30: doesn't ifupdown handle dhclient?
[22:24] <pnorman> mdhafen: it's a 4 disk RAID10 array for everything else, but for boot you need raid1 and it's a lot easier to have all the volumes the same
[22:25] <vafied> w30: but i dont want to use a service on it, i want to use it as i used to do sudo dhclient and it cleans the routing table and grant a new ip from dhcp
[22:26] <mdhafen> pnorman: is this software raid?  I'm didn't think hardware raid could carve up drives into seperate partitions like that.
[22:26] <pnorman> software
[22:26] <pnorman> I can't afford real hardware raid
[22:26] <varkala> which is having more memory consumption KDE or GNOME?
[22:26] <fxhp> Where could I go for Quickly advice.
[22:26] <mdhafen> pnorman:  I should have figured it was software RAID.  Then yes, you will need to re-install grub on the replaced drive to get it to work.
[22:26] <zykotick9> varkala, kde (at least in Lucid days it was, now not so sure)
[22:27] <pnorman> Ya, just did it
[22:27] <pnorman> I should test it at some point
[22:27]  * Ober ponders how to get the grub menu to appear. jumps straight to first kernel and bombs "press any key to continue" through the endless same error
[22:28] <mdhafen> pnorman: yeah, testing is good ;)
[22:28] <zykotick9> Ober, hold shift after BIOS (if you use grub2)
[22:28] <wolfmitchell> Yay. I am now, gnome-free
[22:28] <Ober> zykotick9: k
[22:28] <pnorman> mdhafen: any way to test if it's installed correctly short of rebooting, disabiling the other drives from the boot order in bios and seeing if it boots up?
[22:29] <w30> ls -la
[22:29] <Ober> porn/ wares/
[22:29] <mdhafen> pnorman:  all I can think of is either that or something like `dd if=/dev/sdX of=- count=1 | less`
[22:30] <mdhafen> pnorman: I think rebooting is really the only way to be certain
[22:31] <pnorman> mdhafen: what am I looking for in that command?
[22:31] <janisozaur> how do I list files provided by a package in cli?
[22:31] <zykotick9> janisozaur, "dpkg -L foo"
[22:31] <mdhafen> pnorman: the dd command should drop the first block of the drive, which you might be able to look at and see if grub is there.  But it would take a lot of nerd-cred to be able to tell if grub is configured correctly from that.
[22:32] <pnorman> I guess i could compare with my other drives
[22:32] <varkala> please suggest me some good books or websites to start with shell scripting
[22:32] <three18ti> anyone successfully running a SSI cluster?
[22:32] <mdhafen> pnorman: of course, that's brilliant
[22:33] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
[22:33] <three18ti> If anyone is successfully running an ubuntu SSI cluster, what are you using to do so?
[22:33] <pnorman> they differ.
[22:33] <mdhafen> pnorman: there might be some differences from the software raid setup.
[22:34] <pnorman> Yes, but I'm not sure how to tell. I really need to use a hex editor to be able to even see the files
[22:34] <mdhafen> janisozaur: dpkg -L package-name
[22:34] <janisozaur> zykotick9, awesome. I've been trying to get this answer for couple years now and it was right there, under my nose :P
[22:35] <mdhafen> pnorman: yeah, that's why I would recommend the reboot route, it doesn't involve a hex editor ;)
[22:35] <varkala> VianNocturna85 : any way to download this as pdf
[22:36] <aeon-ltd> varkala: there is a cli tool called htmltopdf
[22:36] <pnorman> and my geek cred is not high enough to tell if grub is installed, let alone configured, from the contents on the drive
[22:36] <avpx> Hello, everyone. I'm having a problem on my Eee PC 1000HE running an almost-fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 where I get kernel panics that are seemingly-random (they sometimes happen during boot, sometimes while I'm just editing a file). I'm wondering exactly what kind of information I need to collect to start debugging this.
[22:36] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=beginners%20guide%20to%20bash%20pdf&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftldp.org%2FLDP%2FBash-Beginners-Guide%2FBash-Beginners-Guide.pdf&ei=ZouoTvy_KoKb-gbtnom4Dw&usg=AFQjCNHpKXBHe_CK_QLtsRjldynr0cSYaw&sig2=Vnfo4oVPFEFDZQwg6T4T5w&cad=rja
[22:36] <mdhafen> pnorman: neither is mine :)
[22:36] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, ignore that
[22:37] <ViaNocturna85> varkala, tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Guide.pdf
[22:37] <pnorman> I also need to turn on AHCI in the bios - would that be likely to cause any problems with md?
[22:37] <avpx> Basically, I'll be using my netbook and it will just randomly crash or dump me to a kernel panic screen.
[22:38] <mdhafen> pnorman: as long as it doesn't change the bios order of the drives or somesuch I wouldn't think it would.
[22:38] <pnorman> mdhafen: they're done by guid, does the bios order matter?
[22:38] <three18ti> varkala, this is the best resource for shell scripting http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/, much better than bash (since Perl is readable) not to mention Perl is more flexible and powerful than bash.
[22:38] <aeon-ltd> avpx: use the liveusb (or sd) for a while does the same happen? if so problem is software not hardware; theres a start
[22:39] <three18ti> varkala, the best part of the Modern Perl book is it is Free!
[22:39] <mdhafen> pnorman: not much, but it might if you want to test booting of a particular drive.
[22:39] <pnorman> well, bios doesn't identify by guid, it identifies by drive name/sn
[22:39] <aeon-ltd> i'll be bach later.
[22:39] <mdhafen> pnorman:  yeah, UUID, didn't think of that.  It probably won't matter at all then.
[22:40] <varkala> three18ti : that link is not right
[22:40] <pnorman> ya, s/guid/uuid
[22:40] <pnorman> I figure I'll do it when I get ready to install new drives
[22:40] <mdhafen> pnorman: I'm pretty sure grub would still be able to find the drives, so it should be fine
[22:41] <three18ti> varkala, http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/ ?  here is the direct link to the PDF http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/modern_perl_letter.pdf
[22:41] <pnorman> The server is in the storage room and it requires some contortions to get into
[22:42] <three18ti> varkala, also, perl has a rather large community (see perlmonks.org, reddit.com/r/perl, etc.)
[22:42] <mdhafen> pnorman: ah.  yeah, don't want to make mistakes in that case.  ;)
[22:43] <varkala> three18ti : ok i will try it
[22:45] <pnorman> mdhafen: What makes my next upgrade more insane is that I plan on adding HD bays to the case - only have 6
[22:46] <nelson777> hello, I'm trying to enable VT-x support on Vbox for hours
[22:46] <nelson777> my processor is a Quad Core 64 Bits, my BIOS has VT-x support, it's enabled in Bios, Trusted computing is enabled in Bios, my host is a 64 bit Ubuntu (11.10 Oneiric Ocelot), I checked that the processor has the vmx flag in proc/cpuinfo, I am using the latest Virtualbox version (4.1.4 r74291) the virtual machine was created as Ubuntu 64 bits
[22:46] <pnorman> Although I might go the easy route and buy a new case with 10+ bays
[22:46] <nelson777> and still it shows the message that it can't detect a 64bit cpu
[22:46] <nelson777> Is there anything else I can do about it ?
[22:46] <mdhafen> pnorman: I am a big fan of the easy route ;)
[22:47] <pnorman> Know of a case that takes standard computer parts and has room for a truely excessive number of 3.5" drives?
[22:47] <soreau> nelson777_: Maybe try #vbox
[22:47] <mdhafen> pnorman:  sorry, haven't looked at cases in a long time.  I'd usually just grab whatever looked good on tigerdirect
[22:47] <buhman> how can I tell dpkg to resume an interrupted aptitude upgrade?
[22:48] <jaysonvd> Hi, I'm using HP Pavillion dm1, is there any advise on how to install the graphics driver in ubuntu?
[22:50] <nelson777_> soreau:  thnx already there
[22:52] <TheEvilPhoenix> jaysonvd:  is it an nvidia graphics card?
[22:52] <TheEvilPhoenix> or an ati one>
[22:52] <TheEvilPhoenix> jaysonvd:  if nvidia, is it an Optimus card? (i.e. utilizes Optimus)
[22:55] <robin0800> buhman, just run it again but run update first
[22:56] <sybariten> Hello i have a vps with 256 mb of RAM
[22:56] <sybariten> is there any chance, you think, to get a graphical environment of sorts running there? I'd like to run a browser
[22:57] <qin> sybariten: You can use socks proxy, or elinks
[22:59] <elvis2> hi
[22:59] <elvis2> how can i connect to my other ubuntu machine over vpn? i have remote desktop turned on on both machines
[22:59] <acu> how can I remove the gnome keyring - I am trying to remote connect and that always pops up
[23:00] <sybariten> gi3: elinks is  not a graphical browser, but what did you mean by socks proxy?
[23:02] <bioShark> does anybody know where does Klavaro store it
[23:02] <bioShark> does anybody know where does Klavaro store it's progression statistics?
[23:03] <bioShark> ported Klavaro from one Ubuntu to another and want to take my statistics with me as well
[23:05] <jaysonvd> TheEvilPhoenix: it's amd, I tried installing the ATI calyst drive from their site but it doesnt work
[23:05] <Seperand> Man and wife had to be seperated.
[23:05] <Seperand> oops
[23:05] <MisterX> hi there
[23:06] <Boontoo> Hi, I recently updated my linux kernel, I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and went from 2.6.35-28-generic-pae to 2.6.35-30-generic-pae
[23:06] <MisterX> i'm trying to save a flash-video streamed by youtube
[23:06] <TheEvilPhoenix> jaysonvd:  use the Hardware Drivers tool
[23:06] <Boontoo> now at boot, I get "No init found. Try passing init=bootarg.
[23:06] <MisterX> i followed instructions telling me to search /proc/PID/fd for deleted files (found some) and then copy them to any directory, thus saving them
[23:06] <Boontoo> basically, I can't load the new kernel or the old one in recovery mode or not
[23:07] <jaysonvd> TheEvilPhoenix: that's the first one i tried but it doesnt work
[23:07] <MisterX> but the file cannot be opened for reading
[23:07] <Boontoo> I already tried fsck from a live cd, but to no avail, same problem at boot. I will probably do a fresh install. But I would like to recover the data first if possible
[23:07] <Somelauw> Hi, I want to change the file association of a C++ file. In a file called /local/share/applications I created an entry text/x-cpp=gedit.desktop but it still opens it in eclipse. Do I need to change this maybe somewhere else?
[23:08] <jrib> MisterX: why not just use youtube-dl from the repositories?
[23:08] <wolfmitchell> Back
[23:09] <Somelauw> What would be the mime type of C++? I think text/x-cpp
[23:09] <zykotick9> MisterX, BTW it's /proc/PID/fd/## for the specific file, that can be seen from "lsof | grep Flash"
[23:09] <sigmab3ta> anyone know if grub2 in oneiric supports GRUB?
[23:09] <sigmab3ta> err supports GPT
[23:10] <MisterX> zykotick9: yes, file's not readable…
[23:10] <zykotick9> MisterX, then you're using the wrong ## i'd guess, or you've closed the browser?
[23:10] <MisterX> jrib: i already completely downloaded the file (90min vid) and am stuck with sloooooow dsl
[23:10] <Boontoo> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594621
[23:10] <MisterX> zykotick9: nope, browser's open…
[23:10] <Boontoo> I have tried this fix, to no avail on either drive
[23:11] <MisterX> can see and hear the guy speaking ;)
[23:11] <steph7> who knows acer_wmi module?
[23:11] <zykotick9> MisterX, verify the "lsof | grep Flash" info then
[23:12] <MisterX> zykotick9: no output.
[23:12] <zykotick9> MisterX, are you using adobe flash?  or something else?
[23:15] <MisterX> zykotick9: chromium, adobe plugin afaik
[23:15] <Satanaa> Hey all after I updated ubuntu to 11.10 some time back ( some of you might remember me ) I had a few issues that i fixed, but one of them is persistent.. Every time my computer is idle and the screen powers off, i cant get it back on tried installing xscreensavers, but still got this issue.. doesanyone know how i can fix this?
[23:15] <MisterX> i HAD some info for the flash-thing but the process seems to be daed, now
[23:15] <MisterX> *dead
[23:15] <Satanaa> in*
[23:17] <mappum> why is my HDD mounted as /cdrom and why can't i format it?
[23:18] <jrib> mappum: why do you believe your hdd is mounted as /cdrom?
[23:18] <Hilikus> what's the default mail/calendar client in 11.10?
[23:18] <mappum> that's what disk utility says
[23:18] <Satanaa> i know loads of people have this issue, so someone must have an answer.. i refuse to belive that everyone just moved away from ubuntu
[23:18] <mappum> nvm, it's /dev/sda1
[23:18] <jrib> mappum: pastebin the output of « mount » and « sudo fdisk -l »
[23:19] <mdsilva> might be a stupid drive utility
[23:19] <mappum> here's the problem, that is a different machine than this
[23:19] <mappum> and no network access
[23:19] <mappum> :/
[23:19] <jrib> Satanaa: my laptop has some weird issue where it dims the backlight but I can return it to normal by increasing brightness
[23:20] <mappum> but if i try to format it it says "the daemon is being inhibited"
[23:20] <Satanaa> jrib when i think about it, it is dim indeed
[23:20] <Satanaa> but i cant do that
[23:20] <Satanaa> i have to reboot
[23:20] <Boontoo> can somebody help me out here? I have made little progress trying to boot in recovery mode with my old kernel, I am getting an error pointing to my video card but I cannot even get a shell otherwise I would save my files and reinstall
[23:20] <mdsilva> mappum, the hdd and cdrom might have gotten swapped in your udex presistant drives files
[23:20] <jrib> Satanaa: is it a laptop?
[23:20] <Satanaa> netbook, so same thing
[23:21] <jrib> Satanaa: do the brightness keys work?
[23:21] <Satanaa> the FN doesnt work when its dim
[23:21] <Satanaa> yup first i did really
[23:21] <jrib> Satanaa: do they work normally?
[23:21] <mappum> mdsilva: i don't have a cd drive, and this is a brand new live USB
[23:21] <Satanaa> jrgp yup
[23:21] <Boontoo> Ubuntu 10.10 crashed after what appears to be a kernel update and now I have what a appears to be a proprietary drm blob and no way to boot
[23:21] <jrib> Satanaa: if you wait for it to dim and try to wake it up within a minute, do you still have the issue?
[23:22] <ktosiek> I get dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:978: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed.
[23:22] <ktosiek> when trying to install oneiric with debootstrap
[23:22] <Satanaa> jrib yup, only thing i can do is to reboot
[23:23] <ktosiek> to make it even more fun, I get it on a first package
[23:23] <jrib> Satanaa: have you tried to replicate the issue by issuing somewhat-related commands?  I am thinking of just starting the screensaver, then playing with dpms using xset and trying to experiment
[23:23] <mdsilva> mappum, do you have any kind of optical drives at all?
[23:24] <Satanaa> jrib we got to a point where i no longer understand you haha
[23:24] <magn3ts> how the heck do I get rhythmbox to STOP PLAYING when I close it.
[23:25] <jrib> Satanaa: well I'm just suggesting you try to issue the command to start the screensaver, then see if the issue presents itself.  If not, try using xset to play with the different dpms settings
[23:25] <magn3ts> or alternatively, how do I get banshee to stop crashing every 4 minutes
[23:25] <mappum> mdsilva: no other drives than the usb and hdd
[23:25] <robin0800> magn3ts, pause it first
[23:25] <magn3ts> robin0800, lol thats not what I want
[23:26] <jrib> Satanaa: also, if you close the lid and open it again, are you able to use the system?
[23:26] <mdsilva> mappum, does it call anything /dev/sda1 ?
[23:26] <spartan2276> Can anyone help me recover my files from an external drive?
[23:26] <Satanaa> jrib yea i am sometimes :)
[23:26] <Boontoo> spartan2276: maybe, what seems to be the problem
[23:27] <MisterX> so, anyone about the flash-video thing?
[23:27] <jrib> spartan2276: plug in, go to drive in nautilus
[23:27] <Satanaa> but it has to power down
[23:27] <jrib> !helpme | MisterX
[23:27] <SwashBuckla> do you recommend a distupgrade, or fresh install?
[23:27] <mappum> mdsilva: Disk Utility says the "device" is /dev/sda1 but it says it is mounted at /cdrom
[23:27] <SwashBuckla> !distupgrade
[23:27] <SwashBuckla> !upgrade
[23:27] <MisterX> …
[23:27] <mdsilva> spartan2276, from what you said before those files are probably gone forever. you powered down the drive and expected an automatic umount to flush the buffers *after* the power was cut
[23:27] <jrib> SwashBuckla: upgrade with backups just in case
[23:28] <magn3ts> This is freaking absurd. Banshee won't play music without crashing, Rhythmbox can't be quit unless you use Unity. who is in charge of this ux nonse
[23:28] <SwashBuckla> in the past I have experienced a lot of problems with distupgrading
[23:28] <jrib> magn3ts: upgrade to mpd :)
[23:28] <Boontoo> SwashBuckla: yeah me too...can't even boot now
[23:28] <magn3ts> everytime I look, I can't find a good client for it jrib
[23:29] <mdsilva> mappum, you might try unmounting it from /cdrom
[23:29] <SwashBuckla> random crashing, frankenstein monster style upgrading
[23:29] <SwashBuckla> Boontoo: :(
[23:29] <MisterX> (@jrib) Is anyone of the honorable guests here able to contribute to the channel's discussion on the topic of finding and saving a flash-video of youtube while not finding even a PID for libflashplayer.so ?
[23:29] <Boontoo> magn3ts: ever try amarok, or exaile with alsa?
[23:29] <jrib> magn3ts: I like ncmpcpp, it's a terminal app though.  I think a nice gtk one I tried once is sonata
[23:29] <mappum> mdsilva: how would i go about doing that?
[23:29] <spartan2276> mdsilva, how is that even possible?
[23:29] <Satanaa> jrib i take you have the same issue hehe
[23:29] <Hilikus> what's the default mail/calendar client in 11.10?
[23:29] <mappum> mdsilva: it still says "the daemon is being inhibited"
[23:30] <jrib> Satanaa: my suspend seems to work ok but takes an eternity to actually wake-up
[23:30] <mdsilva> mappum, the command would be "umount /cdrom"
[23:30] <spartan2276> mdsilva, what does me unplugin the drive has to do with the files being wiped out
[23:30] <SwashBuckla> jrib: backup what?
[23:30] <jrib> SwashBuckla: whatever you want?
[23:30] <Satanaa> i think its really hard to get used to unity when the devs have messed the distro up at the same time :/
[23:30] <SwashBuckla> jrib: I suppose that depends on what you want :) Yeah thought so
[23:30] <SwashBuckla> just /home reallyu
[23:31] <SwashBuckla> Satanaa: what is "messed up"?
[23:31] <jrib> SwashBuckla: i've upgraded since warty and have only experienced 2 issues (which were documented in release notes anyway)
[23:31] <urlin2u> Hilikus, I don't think there is a default mail/calender they are 2 different thing, if I'm incorrect you might elaborate more detail.
[23:31] <Satanaa> SwashBuckla jrib would be able to explain it way better than me :)
[23:31] <stercor> How do I create a launcher in 11.10?
[23:31] <Boontoo> so...there seems to be a pretty serious error in my sda1...which should not have a boot partition on it. I cannot load gparted from my ubunut install disc and fsck can't fix it
[23:32] <Boontoo> boot should be on sdb1, however, I cannot load either of my kernels even in recovery mode
[23:32] <wolfmitchell> The game
[23:32] <Hilikus> urlin2u: what's the default email client then?
[23:32] <mfitch> i got a new hard drive today and installed ubuntu.  now the disk utility says my partitions are misaligned!  is there a way of dealing with this without destroying my partitions?
[23:32] <Boontoo> no init found. try passing init= bootarg.
[23:32] <urlin2u> Hilikus, thunderbird I believe.
[23:32] <Satanaa> SwashBuckla but everytime my screen goes to idle mode, its dimmed all black, and stays that way
[23:33] <urlin2u> Hilikus, http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-11-10-Will-Use-Thunderbird-as-Default-Mail-Client-216288.shtml
[23:33] <SwashBuckla> Satanaa: you can not un-blank it?
[23:33] <SwashBuckla> (without a hard reset)
[23:33] <mdsilva> spartan2276, files are kept in cache/buffer in the computer's main memory, and they are not for-sure written to the drive until a "umount" command takes place.If you unplug the drive before a umount, then there may easily be files in cache that didn't get written to disk. if as you were saying before you were depending on the drive automatically being umounted when you unplugged it, then as far as the drive's concerned it was never pr
[23:33] <mdsilva> operly umounted
[23:33] <froq> anyone have a recommended sql GUI program for ubuntu?
[23:33] <Satanaa> SwashBuckla i have to reboot or go to standby and then wake it up
[23:34] <SwashBuckla> ouch
[23:34] <Satanaa> yup
[23:34] <SwashBuckla> I experience frequent application hangs
[23:34] <rdbuchmann> The time/date no longer displays in the system tray in Ubuntu 11.10. How can I correct this?
[23:34] <SwashBuckla> as in once every 10 mins
[23:34] <Satanaa> im so close to format lol
[23:34] <stercor> froq: depends on the db.
[23:34] <mfitch> anyone know if a way to nondestructively align partitions?
[23:34] <stercor> froq: PostgreSQL: pgadmin3; mysql: I dunno.
[23:34] <zykotick9> froq, for admin stuff I like mysql-admin
[23:34] <froq> stercor, why? (newbie to sql)
[23:35] <Seperand> Buy a smaller ssd to install OS on
[23:35] <froq> zykotick9, I will be using it to assess medical information
[23:35] <mfitch> er, i suppose its the blocks that are misaligned
[23:35] <froq> stercor, mysql is a GUI in its self
[23:35] <steph7> :-(
[23:35] <froq> ??
[23:35] <stercor> froq: Each SQL server has its own syntax for statements, and the server needs to communicate with the client with a specific protocol.
[23:36] <stercor> froq: I've not done MySQL in years, preferring PostgreSQL.
[23:36] <froq> okay.
[23:36] <froq> Does that chosen sql server matter much outside of proper statements?
[23:36] <r3zn0v> #capoiera
[23:37] <Boontoo> anyone know a workaround for sudo fsck /dev/sda1, if you have an invalid sperblock i.e. (GUID partition)
[23:37] <Boontoo> ?
[23:37] <stercor> froq: Oh, there are dialects of SQL used by the various vendors: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...
[23:37] <Boontoo> Is anyone seeing my posts? I am not on anonymous mode right?
[23:38] <pnorman> froq: Unless you're running some large complex DB, I'd suggest going with whatever is suggested for your particular applications
[23:38] <wolfmitchell> Is it possible to install ubuntu to the same device it is installing from?
[23:38] <diverdude> What is the difference between suspend and hibernate?
[23:38] <stercor> froq: But the byte stream between the server and and client is different for each database.
[23:38] <mdsilva> Boontoo, I see your posts, I just don't have an answer
[23:38] <Boontoo> mdsilva: ah, okey dokey
[23:38] <stercor> pnorman: Good advice.
[23:38] <froq> stercor, o!  so some servers are better for transferring data over internet, etc.
[23:38] <pnorman> Any potential savings in speed or flexability will be outweighed by the bother of setting up something non-standard
[23:39] <stercor> froq: Actually, it's the results of an SQL query that go out.
[23:39] <wolfmitchell> ...
[23:39] <Ragnarock> Myrtti its op ?
[23:40] <Myrtti> Ragnarock: huh?
[23:40] <stercor> But if you're talking about remote access, that's a whole subject in itself.
[23:40] <urlin2u> Boontoo, is the partition corrupted or do you just need to reload grub to the mbr, or purge and reload grub in the partition.   Xchat?
[23:41] <mdsilva> zircon
[23:41] <wolfmitchell> Ah
[23:41] <quentusrex> can someone help me verify a google talk ssl cert?
[23:41] <Boontoo> I have been looking through dmesg for errors, but I am not entirely sure what is wrong with the partition. I get a warning for a GUID partition table and it is listed as GPT under sudo fdisk -l
[23:41] <Hilikus> is it possible to move the unity bar to the bottom of the screen?
[23:41] <quentusrex> pidgin has just prompted me to confirm the talk.google.com cert with a sha1 hash of 0c:99:2a:04:72:48:59:1a:3c:cf:ab:60:d0:2a:9e:73:73:42:f0:08
[23:41] <Ragnarock> Myrtti ima brazilian my englysh its very very low
[23:41] <Ragnarock> sorry
[23:41] <wolfmitchell> How do I lock my xfce screen >.<
[23:42] <urlin2u> Boontoo, was it a gpt to begin with or is this a set up made dynamic by putting to many partition on the hd?
[23:42] <stercor> froq: A nice little play toy to learn rudimentary SQL is SQLite.  But it's good enough that Mozilla uses it in Firefox.  It's in many applications, including phones.
[23:42] <froq> stercor, well then that is what I want to learn! :)  I just want to dabble in databases.
[23:43] <pnorman> quentusrex: I can't help, but I recall seeing something in another channel about changes to google talk certs
[23:43] <Boontoo> urlin2u: this is the result of a kernel update I believe, I was working fine for months and some program was malfunctioning, I went to a restart menu and this happened as it reloaded
[23:43] <froq> I have had a recent idea for medicine, and the first step is to learn databases.
[23:43] <urlin2u> Boontoo, is it a gpt setup?
[23:43] <robin0800> Hilikus, the panel or the launcher not that it matters as the answer is no
[23:43] <stercor> froq: SQLite is easy to set up, as opposed to other DBs.
[23:43] <Boontoo> urlin2u: I believe it should have been ext2, but I set it up in gparted about 6 months ago I think
[23:44] <stercor> froq: http://www.sqlite.org/
[23:44] <mdsilva> I found mysql nearly impossible to setup
[23:44] <escott> !br | Ragnarock
[23:44] <pnorman> mdsilva: I found postgresql harder to setup, but that was because I was doing a much more complex setup
[23:45] <urlin2u> Boontoo, I would run the bootscript and look at it yourself or post the results.text in a pastebin to get more info here. http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
[23:45] <stercor> mdsilva: Monty Widenius, after Oracle bought MySQL, has a new MariaDB that is a drop-in for MySQL.  And not related to Oracle.
[23:45] <froq> awesome, it has a direct c/c++ interface!!
[23:45] <mdsilva> stercor, yes I tried MariaDB also, I couldn't get it to make
[23:46] <Ragnarock> ubottu leva a mau nao mas os brasileiros nao tao com nada em relação a ajuda em ubuntu
[23:46] <urlin2u> Boontoo, basically the info you give is to fragmented at least for me and not specific.
[23:46] <stercor> froq: The only thing that SQLite doesn't do well is when there are multiple clients going after the data.
[23:46] <froq> how difficult is it to transfer information from say sqlite to mysql at a latter date?
[23:46] <Ragnarock> ahuahuahauhauhauahau
[23:46] <Ragnarock> ubottu is a bot
[23:46] <Boontoo> urlin2u: agreed, I am sifting through a lot of craziness right now, I will try the boot info script
[23:46] <Ragnarock> escott
[23:47] <stercor> froq: Depends on how you export it.  You can export it as INSERT statements and it'll run on most databases.
[23:47] <Ragnarock> able portuguese ?
[23:47] <jrib> Ragnarock: n'este canal so falamos ingles. Para falar portugues tem que ir ao #ubuntu-br
[23:47] <froq> stercor, cool!!! I just don't want to get into one database and then realize I would be better off with another.
[23:47] <escott> Ragnarock, no, only spanish and not well enough to converse about computers. sorry there isnt anyone in !br
[23:47] <stercor> mdsilva: I've gotten PostgreSQL up... it's nice.  Faster than expected!
[23:48] <Ragnarock> ok mans
[23:48] <mdsilva> stercor, me too, I thought pgsql was the best working db I could actually get running
[23:48] <stercor> froq: That's the reason for exporting as INSERT statements.  You can go from one database to another easily.
[23:49] <stercor> mdsilva: And it will (probably) never be taken over by commercial interests.
[23:49] <escott> froq, the problem is the most time consuming part is getting the create table statements done correctly (especially if you use special data types or foreign keys)
[23:50] <stercor> escott: Ooo...I'd forgotten about that. :-(
[23:50] <mdsilva> stercor, the only problem with pgsql is trying to export back to mysql format :(
[23:50] <stercor> mdsilva: INSERT doesn't do it?
[23:50] <froq> okay.  i see.
[23:50] <johnjohn1011> will there be any problems loading the 3.1 kernel on 11.10?
[23:51] <mdsilva> stercor, that didn't work when I tried it. but maybe I was trying wrong
[23:51] <stercor> mdsilva: I'd bet you were doing it right...
[23:51] <Ragnarock> jrib, anyone know how to install nvidia drivers to run extension. and I can pass all the procedures here in the channel?
[23:53] <stercor> How do I set up a launcher in 11.10?  I'd like to click on an icon and have an x3270 session come up.  Yeah, I'm an old mainframer...
[23:53] <Boontoo> urlin2u: I am not sure how long it should take to make the results.txt file but I get this warning before it begins (and it is still running) http://pastebin.com/wcFZ8hBc
[23:53] <escott> stercor, use alacarte to create the launcher
[23:53] <escott> !info alacarte | stercor
[23:54] <stercor> escott: Thanks!
[23:54] <douglas-web-dev> Hello all
[23:54] <stercor> escott: I have to bring synaptic up via terminal.  Not a happy camper.
[23:55] <ph4nt0m_> hi could someone please help me with the shorewall setup
[23:55] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: best to just ask the channel your actual question (on a single line)
[23:55] <ph4nt0m_> ok
[23:55] <jrib> Ragnarock: I can send you instructions in english on how to install nvidia drivers if you want
[23:55] <jrib> !nvidia | Ragnarock
[23:55] <ph4nt0m_> sudo cp /usr/share/doc/shorewall-common/examples/one-interface/* /etc/shorewall/ this command isnt working
[23:55] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: what happens when you try?
[23:56] <ph4nt0m_> cp cannot stat
[23:56] <ph4nt0m_> and the command after it
[23:56] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: do you have shorewall-common installed?
[23:56] <ph4nt0m_> not sure ill check brb
[23:56] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: what version of ubuntu by the way?
[23:56] <ph4nt0m_> im using blackbuntu distro
[23:57] <escott> stercor, why not just apt-get install alacarte
[23:57] <ph4nt0m_> based on maverick
[23:57] <stercor> escott: good question...it's installed...
[23:57] <escott> ph4nt0m_, cannot stat means the file/folder doesnt exist
[23:57] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: unofficial derivatives aren't supported here
[23:57] <escott> ph4nt0m_, and we don't support blackbuntu here
[23:58] <julius_> hi
[23:58] <ph4nt0m_> ok is there a channel which does?
[23:58] <escott> !alis | ph4nt0m_
[23:58] <julius_> any idea if files from launchpadlibrarian.net are safe?
[23:58] <jrib> ph4nt0m_: check the site for blackbuntu
[23:58] <ph4nt0m_> ty
[23:58] <Chraz_Ritt> ok, so now i have ubuntu running on my lappy from a fresh burned cd, but i do have a minor problem. i'm using my 50" plasma as an extended desktop, for the most part it is working fine, however i can't find a setting that is quite correct for it, it seems that the desktop image goes slightly beyond the edges of the screen, does anyone have experence with this?
[23:59] <urlin2u> Boontoo, the indicators in the terminal are correct in the pastrebin but it should finish in a bout 3 seconds.
[23:59] <douglas-web-dev> I migrated from Debian tonight. Then I copied lots of folders from old /home/user. I only could do this as superuser. Now all my folders belong to root. How can I make all of them, including subfolders, belong to me, a normal user?
[23:59] <escott> Chraz_Ritt, make sure the tv isn't set to zoom in some way
[23:59] <douglas-web-dev> Someone help me please?
[23:59] <mdsilva> Chraz_Ritt, that sounds like the plasma screen's settings
[23:59] <synapse_> Linux darkside 2.6.32-34-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 19:39:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux