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hatteri have a problem with gutsy (or the kernel i guess) not recognising rtl8169 chips00:07
hatterit find the chipset then loads the r8169 module but then fails to run00:07
nealmcbhatter: there are some tips on how to help track that stuff down at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection00:10
hatterI also am suffering slowness on the network,  which i havent been able to pinpoint yet, every now and then it the wondows pc's lag, and clicking on a shared drive sits and waits 20 seconds to open00:10
hatternealmcb, thx, i will check00:11
nealmcbsoren: of course I'm a newbie in several of these packaging and jeos areas, so I'd welcome feedback on any aspect of that branch00:26
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stainerhi... anyone familiar with a free solution that would allow me to serve powerpoint presentations from a server, making me a hero at my office, possibly getting me a raise and allowing me to send my child to a nice university?02:06
Burgundaviastainer: server powerpoint from a server?02:06
stainersorry02:07
Burgundaviawhy not convert to html and then use apache?02:07
stainerweb server02:07
staineryes, I have gotten that far02:07
stainerI would like to control the page changes02:07
stainerrather than have each client do it02:07
Burgundaviahmm02:07
stainermaybe to much?02:07
Burgundaviaso you have a bunch of html already?02:08
Burgundaviayou could add JS to have to page reload on a timer02:08
stainerya, I converted a presentation and have it on my apache server02:08
Burgundaviathen add some JS and go nuts02:09
staineroh, you are assuming I have some kind of skills...02:09
stainer:)02:09
stainersetting the server up was somewhat of a stretch, although I have hosted a mean Counter Strike server before02:10
stainerthanks a ton for the help though, Burgundavia, I had exhausted every place I knew to look.02:12
Burgundaviastainer: look online for JS stuff02:13
Burgundaviait shouldn't be too hard02:13
stainerok, I can do that... I can just cut and paste into the html... I can do that02:14
BurgundaviaonLoad or something is what youa re looking for02:14
stainerthis one --> Required. Specifies a JavaScript to be executed when the event occurs.02:16
Burgundaviaah02:18
nealmcbhmm - I never noticed this one before: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/linux-xen/2.6.22.14.2102:58
nealmcba xen kernel for gutsy02:58
ajmitchwhat didn't you notive about it?02:59
ajmitchthat does look just like a boring metapackage02:59
nealmcbajmitch: I've just been playing with the jeos stuff, and hearing questions about xen, and am wondering if folks have gutsy xen vms with optimized kernels03:06
nealmcbajmitch: so what is the difference between that one and linux-image-xen?03:09
ajmitch'that one' is 24kB03:09
ajmitchDepends: linux-image-xen (= 2.6.22.14.21), linux-restricted-modules-xen (= 2.6.22.14.21)03:10
ajmitchit just pulls in stuff that's useful03:10
nealmcbahh - so the "complete" kernel pulls in restricted modules that the basic kernel image doesn't03:12
ajmitchit's a metapackage, so it only exists to depend on others03:14
nealmcbbut my basic interest is in how e.g. the xen image differs from the virtual image (which is being used by ubuntu-jeos)03:15
* ajmitch shrugs03:16
nealmcbsoren: ^ on linux-image-xen vs linux-image-virtual03:27
ajmitchzul_ is probably the one to ask about xen stuff03:27
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c1|freakyis there any good backup solution with a tutorial availabe for ubuntu 7.10 ... maybe with duplicity07:08
c1|freaky?07:11
m11hi all07:47
krautmoin08:22
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Aw0LI'm trying to join a domain with samba, but keep getting this: 'm trying to join a domain and keep getting this error: http://pastebin.ca/76343713:58
Aw0Lmy FQDN seems to be correct13:58
sommerAw0L: have you configured kerberos?14:05
Aw0Lsommer, yes, and I believe it's done correctly14:09
Aw0Lafter kinit, klist shows a ticket and expiration time14:09
Aw0Ldoes say no tickets are cached thought14:09
sommerand you've setup the "administrator" account with smbpasswd ?14:09
Aw0Lumm...nope apparently14:10
Aw0Lthe guide didn't mention that :)14:10
sommeryou might give it a try then try the net ads join command again.14:10
sommerAw0L: you might also check out this section of the Samba guide if you haven't: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.html14:12
Aw0Lthanks14:13
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nealmcbis there a server team meeting this morning in 20 minutes?  it is scheduled on the server team wiki, but not in the topic on #ubuntu meeting.  Or are too many people involved in the canonical all-hands meeting?15:43
sommernealmcb: wondering that myself15:51
nealmcbdendrobates: howdy.  meeting today?16:18
nealmcbdendrobates: i.e. server team meeting 18 minutes ago?  or too busy with all-hands?16:18
dendrobatesnealmcb: sorry we should have cancelled that.16:26
* nealmcb nods16:26
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Centaur5Why would I not be able to login via console on an LTSP client?  (I do have one other client working 100%)18:44
nealmcbCentaur5: what version? how do the clients differ?  Perhaps the user is in /etc/passwd on one and not the other?19:04
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Centaur5nealmcb: The clients only differ in hardware.  I've tried logging in using the 3 users that I have setup and none of them work.  I tested those users on the working client.  I'm running Gutsy LTSP 5.0.39.19:09
Centaur5that was weird, I'll post again19:10
Centaur5nealmcb: The clients only differ in hardware.  I've tried logging in using the 3 users that I have setup and none of them work.  I tested those users on the working client.  I'm running Gutsy LTSP 5.0.39.19:10
nealmcbCentaur5: I forget how ltsp works, but wouldn't be surprised if you have the users configured on one machine but not the other.  or is ltsp supposed to share one passwd file among all clients?19:11
* nealmcb thinks back and suspects that the passwd file is indeed shared....19:13
Centaur5I thought all the users shared between clients.19:13
nealmcbanything in /var/log/auth.log?19:13
nealmcbCentaur5: bryang knows lots more about it....19:19
Centaur5I grabbed another old machine and I'm testing it now.  Same problem.19:20
bryangCentaur5, you are having login problems ?19:20
Centaur5yeah19:20
bryangedubuntu (or just ltsp), and what version ?19:20
Centaur5I'm not seeing any activity in auth.log19:20
Centaur5LTSP installed on Xubuntu gutsy19:21
Centaur55.0.3919:21
bryanghad you done any patching (and did you rebuild the chroot), plus update the ssh-keys ?19:21
Centaur5The only working client is running on SIS video chipset while the other 2 that won't load X are intel.19:22
Centaur5I didn't patch anything and I did update the keys a couple times to try testing that.19:22
bryangthere has been a fair amount on that topic in the edubuntu-users mailing list -- have you scanned that ?19:22
Centaur5I've been googling for hours but I haven't tried the mailing list.19:23
bryanghttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/19:24
bryangso is that the clients don't load X, or that you can't login (or both) ?19:24
Centaur5It's both, they don't load X so if I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 then I try to login it doesn't accept anything.19:26
bryangwhen you go into text mode, any useful info on the screen ?19:27
Centaur5It just lists the IP addresses from the DHCP server and the negotiation size19:28
bryangso no errors/warnings, right19:32
Centaur5nothing that looks bad19:32
bryangand the login you are attempting is a local (as in /etc/passwd) one ?19:33
Centaur5yes19:33
bryangwhich does work on the server, correct19:34
* bryang apologizes if this is lots of rehash, I joined late in the conversation19:34
Centaur5Yes, those logins work on the server and on my LTSP client that has SIS video chipset.19:35
bryangand on the clients that don't have X, no login works at all ?19:35
Centaur5That's okay, after my hours of diagnosing I'm glad to have help.  :)19:35
^robertjare the items in the partner repository packaged by 3rd partys as well?19:35
Centaur5^robertj: If that question is intended for me I do not know what you're referring to.19:39
^robertjCentaur5: was just a general question, I was wondering where the hold up with vmware-server was19:39
Centaur5I just tried a 4th client and this one doesn't have intel chipset but VIA and I still don't get X and can't login via console.19:40
bryangso server (with what graphics chipset) and SIS video clients do GUI/X, but nothing else you have tested ?19:41
* musashi1 joins in the discussion. anyone want to recap?19:42
bryangand nothing besides server is allowing logins ?19:42
bryangmusashi1, will send you log of what I have heard19:42
musashi1okay19:42
Centaur5Correct, I only have one working client that has SIS chipset and the other 3 tested clients (2 Intel 1 VIA) have no video or login capabilities.19:43
bryangand SIS client does (or does not) allow logins19:44
Centaur5Yes, the working client can login to all 3 accounts I created and runs everything fine.19:44
musashi1sorry if i'm rehashing but do they fail to log in with some sort of error or just a black screen and then maybe returned to the login screen?19:45
Centaur5They just say "login incorrect" and return to the login prompt19:47
bryangdoes your SIS client have higher res capabilities than the others (in other words were these clients known to work in previous LTSP setups) ?19:47
Centaur5I've never tested the 3 non-working clients with an alternate LTSP server.19:48
musashi1oh, yeah, we did have that issue. i'm not sure this is due to graphics chips (though i'm no expert). the black screen was a video card problem.19:48
musashi1trying to remember what the fix was for us19:49
bryangwe had two video cards on those systems, tho correct ?19:49
musashi1right, switch cards and it worked19:49
musashi1but we didn't get the "login incorrect" error in this case19:50
Centaur5So do you want me to test a PCI video card instead of onboard?19:50
bryangCentaur5: anything similar for you (multiple graphics cards)19:50
musashi1you could19:50
musashi1in my case, moving back to the on board fixed it19:50
musashi1but like i said, we didn't have the same symptoms with respect to video card problems. yours sounds like a problem in the setup (bryang is the expert there)19:51
musashi1bryang: i got this error on the set up where where we pulled the pci-e nics and then added one back and configured it. in that case i got the couldn't login errors19:52
musashi1the fix involved rebuilding the kernel (though i don't remember the commands)19:52
bryangmusashi1, couldn't quite recall the time sequence, thanks for joining/helping19:53
musashi1not sure it's the same issue...19:53
musashi1i just don't think you would get a "login incorrect" error because of the video card19:54
musashi1the real experts on this are in #edubuntu19:54
bryangnope, Centaur5 has two problems tho19:54
musashi1oh19:54
Centaur5okay, installed PCI card in and I now have video and login on that machine19:55
* musashi1 welcomes Centaur5 to the club :)19:55
* bryang nods in agreement with musashi1 re: experts19:55
bryangso Centaur5, good to go on a previously non-working client ?19:55
Centaur5Which makes me rather upset because I already tested with a different PCI graphics card 2 days ago.19:55
musashi1which problem did this fix?19:56
* bryang thinks have multiple graphics cards is causing issues19:56
nealmcbCentaur5: that is scary - that login on console would fail because of the video card....19:56
Centaur5bryang: Yes sir, which is actually the only other one I cared about cause I only want 2 clients I was just testing with other old machines.19:56
* nealmcb wonders what light #edubuntu folks could shed19:56
Centaur5If you want any further info for possible bug reports though let me know how to capture it and I'll help out.19:56
bryangif you get a minute, you might just want to post the situation/resolution to edubuntu-users mailing list19:57
Centaur5I am rather shocked the video card causes everything else to fail.20:00
musashi1yeah, i don't see the connection20:00
bryangon the other non-working client, can you just swap the video cable to the "other" card20:00
Centaur5The first PCI card I tested in this machine was an SIS chipset as well and it still didn't work.  The PCI video card that just made it function is an nivida geforce 420:00
bryangwe saw examples of built-in doing "boot" duties, and then pci card doing the X (so probably related to device enumeration)20:01
musashi1that would make sense if you had more than one but did he have more than one at first?20:02
Centaur5no, I was always attempting to use the onboard (I only have 3 PCI video cards on hand but now 2)20:03
musashi1but were any other cards install (even if unused)? if not, i don't see why enumeration would be an issue if there is just one20:06
* bryang agrees 20:06
* musashi1 feels validated :)20:06
* bryang must have read two graphics cards all along20:07
musashi1so the computer is seeing things that aren't there? we are heading into a scary future...20:08
Centaur5I disabled every integrated device except for LAN and video but the intel video wouldn't work apparently.20:08
Centaur5I also didn't have any other expansion cards plugged in.20:09
bryangbtw, Centaur5, what intel video are we talking about ?20:12
Centaur5bryang: MSI MS-6351 with Intel 815E chipset is the machine that I was most interested in.  Do you want info about the other 2 test clients I tried that had intel?20:15
bryangsure20:16
bryangthen maybe I can find some local clients to test with20:16
Centaur5It appears the other machine that is a gateway has Intel 815 as well but I don't have a motherboard model #.20:18
Centaur5The Compaq with VIA VT8235 also didn't work.20:19
musashi1i'm not convinced this is a video card issue. all those chips have good support. however, if changing the video card fixes it then you can't argue with that.20:20
musashi1well, not sure about that specific VIA20:21
Centaur5I'm very shocked as well and I'm sure that there is something more to it.  That's why I provided the MB model # for the MSI so you can check it out.20:21
Centaur5Oh, I did forget that I left onboard audio enabled on the machines but all serial ports, parallel ports, ide controller, etc were disabled.20:23
cwill747so i'm trying to hook up the ubuntu server for the first time... and need to partition my hard drive. how much space does the server need?20:44
fujinAnyone hear familiar with ldap authentication?20:45
fujinI need to work out what is causing this20:45
fujinhttp://rafb.net/p/NCQ20Q67.html20:45
Centaur5Thanks everyone for the help getting my LTSP up and going.  I'll give the mailing list information about it later on.20:46
bryangthnx Centaur520:46
sommerfujin: can you bind to your LDAP server using any user?20:47
fujinsommer: I can ldapsearch -x cn=aj from the user aj20:47
fujinhttp://rafb.net/p/bbIkA099.html20:47
fujinThat what you mean?20:48
sommerfujin: pretty much.20:49
fujinwell then, yes ;)20:49
fujinI'm not sure what could be causing this. going to check permissions on all my files20:49
sommerfujin: yep... you might try this: http://blog.herbertm.ca/articles/2007/06/04/libnss-ldap-conf-permissions-bug20:50
sommerseems similar to what you're experiencing20:50
fujinHeh20:50
fujinyep, I'm a tard.20:51
fujinchmod a+x /etc/libnss-ldap.conf20:51
fujinwinner!20:51
sommerfujin: party!20:51
fujinthanks dude20:51
sommernp20:51
cwill747anybody know how much space a server needs for the partition?20:52
sommercwill747: which one?  pretty much depends on what you want to do with the server20:54
cwill747sommer: Well i was just experimenting (i'm not very good with servers) but was trying to install the ubuntu 7.10 server20:55
sommercwill747: ah... if you're going to put everything under on partition I'd recommend at least 4G.20:55
sommerthe actual install will only use a couple hundred megs, but you'll want to add other things :)20:56
cwill747sommer: Thanks a lot20:56
sommernp20:56
cwill747I really wanted to access it from school (PuTTy) but just wanted to set it up first20:56
somerville32cwill747, You might set up your ssh server on port 80 than incase they have the ssh port blocked20:57
sommerhey somerville3220:58
somerville32hi sommer :)20:58
cameron_yeah that's probably a good idea20:58
sommerkind of cool how the doc discussion has kept going20:59
nxvli'm not sure about the way to work on LP: #4594422:17
nxvlcause it's a little difficult to decide wich aplications won't make a sysadmin be angry if they are installed by default22:18
nealmcbbug 4594422:36
ubotuLaunchpad bug 45944 in ubuntu-docs "Ubuntu Server Guide Not Installed On Servers" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/4594422:36
nealmcbnxvl: yeah - I know what you mean.  but I think a small text-mode web browser like lynx or w3m is sort of like vim these days - too small to worry about.  if I knew which one :-)22:38
nxvlnealmcb: mmmm, honestly i will prefer to have it in an info file22:39
nealmcbyeah - there is certainly precedence for that....22:40
nealmcband info is small and won't involve "network client" risks22:40
nxvlyep22:40
nxvlthat's what i mean22:40
nxvl:D22:40
nxvlyou have to keep in mind that most of the sysadmin are paranoic people22:41
nxvllike me22:41
nxvl:D22:41
nxvland i will really hate to have a lynx or w3m installed on one of my servers, thats why i have ssh and a desktop22:42
nealmcbso what do folks think of installing the server guide in texinfo format, and installing info by default?  bug 4594423:02
ubotuLaunchpad bug 45944 in ubuntu-docs "Ubuntu Server Guide Not Installed On Servers" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/4594423:02
somerville32+123:03
nxvl+123:03
sommer+1 from me as well23:03
nxvli have also send and e-mail to the list, so we can discuss it there, and more people can make an opinion23:04
nealmcbnxvl: good23:06
fujinmeh23:07
fujindo not want23:07
fujinextraneous bloat23:07
nealmcbit could also be a tasksel option (guide plus info browser).  it would help to know the total size23:09
somerville32Omgz23:09
somerville32Bloat?23:09
somerville32You guys have lots of room in your image :P23:10
fujinlawl23:10
fujinbut it's a waste23:10
fujinI've never used it23:10
* somerville32 doesn't care.23:12
* kgoetz looks at bug23:19
kgoetzis texinfo == 'info' command?23:21
* kgoetz hates that tool23:21
fujinIt's a little friendlier than man23:28
fujinthe sub-menu thing is cool23:28
fujinthe only time I've ever used it is info glibc "Name Switch Service"23:28
kgoetzits not my friend :(23:31
somerville32kgoetz, It doesn't bite.23:32
kgoetzsomerville32: i find it har to navigate23:33
nealmcbkgoetz: well anyone can browse the stuff with another browser and format.  but what format should be shipped on the server install - that is the question, and I don't see better options23:38
nealmcband I do like info....  which uses texinfo format....23:39
Bambi_BOFHfrigging23:40
* Bambi_BOFH hates you internet23:40
Bambi_BOFHno idea what causes the resets either :(23:41

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