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smallfoot-i want 2.6.25 plz00:24
brycesmallfoot-: you can download it from http://kernel.org/00:25
Forgeryhey, is anybody here?00:26
smallfoot-bryce, then i have todo mad stuff like compile it00:28
smallfoot-Forgery, yes plz00:28
smallfoot-bryce,  cant someone compile it, make a .deb and put it in a repo00:28
Forgeryhey00:28
Forgeryi'm installing the new 8.04 and yea i'm a complete newb to this00:28
Forgeryi'm installing it on an old box so it isnt the fastest thing in the world but it could run XP ok so it's not bad00:29
ForgeryI get to the screen when I can see the bird as the wallpaper00:29
Forgerybut there are no icons on the desktop00:29
Forgerythe green cd light is flashing away but nothing is happening00:29
Forgeryis this meant to happen?00:29
lagaForgery: how much memory does it have?00:30
Forgeryerm00:30
Forgery25600:30
Forgeryi think00:30
brycesmallfoot-: 2.6.25 was just recently released and is not stable, so only people comfortable with compiling it themselves should be using it00:30
Forgeryooo somethings happening....00:30
lagaForgery: i'm not sure if 256M is enough00:31
Forgeryok the screen just turned off00:31
Forgeryreally?00:31
Forgeryi thought if it could run XP00:31
bryceForgery: I would suggest at least 384M, better with 51200:31
Forgerythen it would have no problem with this00:31
Forgeryok let me check the memory00:31
Forgeryi think i can still access as windows00:31
Forgeryabout to find out anyway00:32
bryceForgery: I'd be surprised if you could run XP on 256M without performance issues00:32
lagaForgery: try the alternate disk maybe, that should install better00:32
brycebut I haven't used windows in a long time00:32
bryceForgery: you may find Xubuntu runs easier on 256m00:32
Forgeryok00:32
Forgeryif it's a case of getting a little extra memory then that isnt expensive really00:33
Forgeryhaha!00:34
Forgery128 :$00:34
jcastroForgery: note that ubuntu doesn't have icons on the desktop by default, so unless you have a usb key plugged in or something then not having icons on the desktop is normal00:34
Forgeryi know but there was nothing on the screen, no task bar or anything00:34
jcastrooh oh00:34
Forgeryalthough the 128m memory might explain it! haha00:34
bryce128m??00:35
Forgery128mb00:35
bryceouch, yeah that'd be your problem ;-)00:35
Forgeryhaha that's funny00:35
Forgeryok anoother question i'd like to ask although it isnt specific to linux00:36
brycealso, like laga said, the LiveCD loads everything into memory, so on such a low memory system you should use the alternate cd00:36
Forgeryis what's the best way to find if I have DDR or DDR2?00:36
Forgeryi can only assume it's DDR on my old box, simply because its old00:36
Forgerybut it's something I don't know how to dfind out00:36
Forgeryis the best way to find the make of the motherboard?00:37
bryceyeah refer to your mboard manual00:38
Forgeryso where do you find the name of your motherboard on it00:38
bryceForgery: also please be aware this channel is more for development and not support, so you may want to ask these q's on #ubuntu00:38
bryce(see topic)00:38
bryceForgery, sudo lshw00:39
Forgeryok, sorry guys, was just the first one i could find00:39
bryceno prob00:39
Forgeryi'll go off investigate00:40
Forgerythank you for your help guys! much appreciated00:40
Forgerybye00:40
FrankHhi. what is the new package name for vim-full in 8.04?00:45
ion_apt-cache show vim-full00:45
FrankHtried that. doesn't return anything00:47
FrankHsuggest vim-gnome00:47
ion_You might not have universe enabled. Also, please see the topic.00:47
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FrankHuniverse is enabled. sorry if this is not a devel question.00:49
FrankHhoped that someone in here had the same issue00:49
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smallfoot-when does 8.10 ibex start? when is the first alpha? ;)01:47
nxvlelmo: ping01:56
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* Twigathy waves02:54
TwigathyCan I request a version bump on a package? The initramfs-tools package has a bug which means dhcp-based nfsroot booting does not work. See debian bug#39514 and ubuntu launchpad bug# 221613. All that is required to fix is to bump from 0.85eubuntu36 to something 0.88 flavoured (Where the bug is allegedly fixed...)02:56
CheGuevarahardy has just been released02:57
TwigathyI'm working around this atm by specifying IP address / netmask etc. manually but it'd be nice if dhcp would work :)02:57
CheGuevaraand hardy+1 not started yet02:57
CheGuevaraa bit of bad timing :P02:57
Twigathyyeah, I know :)02:57
CheGuevarafile a bug02:57
TwigathyMaybe I should become a beta tester - using weird things like nfsroot..02:57
Twigathyyep - have done so02:58
niadhJust wanna report a bug here, regarding hal not being restarted upon upgrade to hardy, spent hours working out a problem with banshee and ipods, only to discover hal needed to be restarted manually, I'm told I shouldn't have had to do this, so figured i would report it02:58
Twigathyniadh: https://bugs.launchpad.net :)02:59
niadhI may need some help about specifics to write, but I'll definatly submit it02:59
wgrantniadh: You're meant to reboot after upgrades....03:02
wgrantniadh: But I thought it was restarted unless you were coming from Dapper.03:02
niadhI DID reboot after the upgrade03:02
niadhAnd i upgraded from 7.1003:02
wgrantSo you had to restart hal twice?03:03
niadhJust updated my system to all the latest patches via update manager, THEN ran the upgrade procedure. Yeah, system rebooted and then I had to manually restart hal03:03
niadhjust to confirm the upgrade procedure DOES restart hal?03:07
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jdong-rw-r--r--  1 jdong jdong  30M 2008-04-24 23:56 urlclassifier3.sqlite05:09
jdongasac: ^^ err I think the URL classifier thing is a security vulnerability. It's slowing down my browser's performance :D05:09
jdongasac: but more seriously, it's adding serious latency and CPU spinning to opening every URL. The file regenerates to around that size every few days.05:10
Amaranthjdong: what is it?05:17
jdongAmaranth: I think it's the phishing detector thing05:17
jdongAmaranth: but it grows at some annoying rate of 5MB/day05:17
Amaranthright, i'll disable that then05:18
Amaranthcould this be why firefox randomly locks up and beats the crap out of my HD?05:18
jdongAmaranth: exactly05:20
jdongAmaranth: it's sqlite journaling activity05:20
jdongAmaranth: which enforces a sync()05:20
jdongon *every* *page* *load*05:20
jcastrojdong: asac is aware, as is upstream05:26
jcastroupstream is working on a fix05:26
jcastroit's bug 21572805:27
ubotuLaunchpad bug 215728 in firefox-3.0 "High CPU Consumption" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/21572805:27
tjaaltonCaesar: you should be able to find it on launchpad05:33
pwnguini wonder if this affects liferea05:34
pwnguini think it uses webkit or something to render05:34
wgrantliferea uses xulrunner-1.9, pwnguin...05:35
jdongjcastro: ok, thank you!05:40
warp10Good morning!05:40
pwnguinwgrant: i dont know a whole lot about the liferea source code, but I do see this: http://liferea.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/liferea/trunk/liferea/src/webkit/05:41
jcastrojdong: the current plan is for mozilla to attach a patch to an lp bug, then we'll roll it out via ppa. If you could subscribe to the bug and help test when that's available it would help a great deal05:42
wgrantpwnguin: We use the xulrunner-1.9 backend.05:42
pwnguinah, multiple backends, i see05:43
jdongjcastro: I'd be more than happy to :)05:43
jcastrojdong: <305:43
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dholbachgood morning06:22
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pwnguinoh dear, this has gotten way out of hand: http://np237.livejournal.com/17716.html06:49
pittiGood morning06:50
dholbachhi pitti06:51
geserGuten Morgen pitti06:55
tjaaltonhelp.ubuntu.com still has 7.10 material07:21
tjaaltonum, I mean no 8.0407:21
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mdketjaalton: yes, it will take at least a few days to get it ready08:43
mdketjaalton: but if you file a bug report on ubuntu-doc you can follow its progress08:44
* mdke gtg08:44
tjaaltonmdke: ok, no rush :)08:47
edugonch hello, do somebody have problems with Anjuta and glade, I start edit a widget but when I close Anjuta and then I open again and choose glade IDE Anjuta doesn't open08:53
asacjdong: do you have your .mozilla dir on a special filesystem?08:55
james_wI've got a couple of bugs to propose for SRU to Hardy. Do we have to wait for them to be fixed in Intrepid as normal, or can we propose them now? The one I have in mind will be fixed in Intrepid in the first run of the auto-sync.09:06
pittijames_w: that's fine09:06
pittijames_w: i. e. feel free to open SRU bugs now, we already did a few09:06
james_wgreat, thanks.09:07
james_wpitti: oh, and thanks for getting back on the ca-certificates SRU, you rock!09:07
pittijames_w: no problem; sorry for the latency09:07
james_wit's understandable.09:08
fabbionehey guys09:13
pittihey fabbione, how are you?09:13
fabbionepitti: good thanks and you?=09:13
pittiI'm intrepid today :)09:14
fabbionepitti: eheheh..09:14
fabbionedid they already opened the repo in lp?09:14
pittino, not yet09:14
fabbioneok09:14
seb128hum, bug #21549910:37
ubotuLaunchpad bug 215499 in nautilus "Nautilus not preserving timestamps" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/21549910:37
seb128does anybody has an opinion if a standard copy should preserve timestamps or not?10:38
seb128I would tend to say that since cp doesn't do it by default nautilus shouldn't10:38
cjwatsonsounds like cp vs. cp -a to me10:38
seb128right10:38
seb128but cp -a is not the default10:39
seb128I'm not sure it should be in nautilus either10:39
seb128but I'm no good argument out of "that's the standard unix way"10:39
seb128s/I'm/I've10:39
cjwatsonseems like it'd be nice to have a way to do cp -a, though; timestamps are valuable information you might want to preserve in a backup10:40
cjwatsoneven if it isn't the default10:40
soren"can't fully use my laptop because of this"... Yay, proportions.10:40
seb128right10:41
cjwatsonI don't have a strong opinion on whether it should be the default or not, although I know that I have a reflex of using cp -a unless I explicitly think "hmm, I don't need the timestamp"10:41
seb128I'll change that to a wishlsit to add an option doing that10:41
seb128I don't think changing the default makes sense10:41
cjwatsonbug report says "whether cross-partition or the same partition" - is the behaviour the same for both cases at the moment?10:41
seb128or maybe a gconf key to change the default10:41
realistPerhaps a checkbox, that says "preserve timestamps/permissions"?10:42
seb128I've to check if cross partition behaves different10:42
seb128realist: where?10:42
seb128realist: you usually get no dialog when doing a dnd or ctrl-C, ctrl-V10:43
realistseb128: I don't know, I don't use nautilus. In a preferences dialog?10:43
seb128ok, an option then10:43
sorenWhere does LANG and LC_* get set when I log in on the console?10:44
gesersoren: doesn't pam_env.so take care of it?10:50
sorengeser: Oh, there it is. Yes, it does.10:51
sorengeser: Thanks!10:51
abliHi! I am having problems with consolekit on a fresh hardy install. After the default install I installed kubuntu-desktop. Now in a gnome session, running  ck-list-sessions prints "active = FALSE" even for the current session under gnome. As a result automounting usb thumbdrives break because only the active session has permission to do so (by default settings)11:15
abliany ideas why the active session is not set correctly or what should I check?11:16
Riddellworks for me in KDE11:16
abliyes, works for me in kde as well. but not in gnome11:17
Riddellabli: using KDM?11:19
ablino. gdm11:20
abliI only installed kubuntu-desktop to get kde as a second option. I want to use gnome as default, and have the possibility of switching to kde11:20
cjwatsonabli: works for me in GNOME, FWIW11:22
cjwatsonah, though I don't have kubuntu-desktop installed11:22
abliYeah, I assume it works for everyone but me. The question is, what should be setting that flag so I can debug why it isn't set.11:22
cjwatsonabli: normally that gets changed by consolekit when the active VT is changed to the one corresponding to the session11:25
ablicjwatson, ok. does consolekit write logs somewhere?11:26
cjwatsonthough I admit I don't know whether something else deals with it when the session is initialised11:27
cjwatsonIME the best way to track what consolekit is doing is to attach a monitor to the D-BUS11:27
cjwatsonit's a bit hairy ...11:28
cjwatson(p.s. I'm not a consolekit expert, I just know what I needed to figure out in order to implement support for it in openssh)11:28
abliok, I'll try that11:29
cjwatsonI suspect that d-bus messages won't be sent for consolekit's internal actions though11:29
cjwatsonabli: I believe you can run the daemon with --debug11:30
abliok, I'll try that, too :)11:30
cjwatsonnot sure whether you have to do anything special - you'll probably have to close all sessions and shut down the running daemon first11:30
cjwatsonprobably --debug --no-daemon too11:31
thomgrrrr.11:50
thomApr 25 12:50:13 madrigal kernel: [18896.521532] gnome-keyring-d[5102]: segfault at 7f511b0d5000 rip 42dce0 rsp 46e90d20 error 711:51
lagathom: apport?11:51
wgrantthom: I saw a bug on that an hour or two ago.11:52
thomlaga: unfortunately not11:53
wgrantlaga: apport is off now.11:53
lagawgrant: i was suggesting that he enables it again to catch the segfault, but it's probably not necessary if there is already a bug report.11:55
wgrantHm, maybe it was on the forum. I can't see the relevant bug.11:55
wgrantCould be bug #218434, I guess.11:56
ubotuLaunchpad bug 218434 in gnome-keyring "gnome-keyring-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/21843411:56
thomyeah, pretty hard to tell11:58
thomi guess i'll just try again11:58
cody-somervilleWhy are my posts to ubuntu-devel being held for moderation saying I'm not a developer? :)12:01
cody-somervilleI'm sending from my @ubuntu.com address.12:01
wgrantcody-somerville: Probably because you need to manually request the sync these days, I guess.12:01
wgrantI've seen a couple of other people complain about that recently.12:01
cody-somervilleIs elmo the person I need to chat with?12:02
highvoltagecody-somerville: I think the admins of the list need to add you to a whitelist of some kind first12:02
sorenCould someone let new virtinst into hardy-proposed, please?12:03
seb128soren: open a bug, subscribe ubuntu-sru, etc12:07
seb128soren: and wait for pitti to be back from lunch ;-)12:07
sorenseb128: Already did.12:07
sorenAh.. I did not do that.12:07
soren:)12:07
soren(wait for pitti to get back from lunch, that is)12:07
cjwatsoncody-somerville: I wonder if it only looks at direct members of ubuntu-dev - mostly people are members via the motu team these days12:08
canburakhi, I want to mirror just the latest release of ubuntu. hos is that possible? ~200GB is so much for me12:08
cjwatsoncanburak: use debmirror with --dist=hardy12:09
cody-somervillecjwatson, but the xml file thingy will return an aggregated list... so unless they're screen scrapping...12:09
highvoltagecanburak: why would you want to mirror it, to act as a local mirror?12:09
cjwatsoncody-somerville: I don't know - #canonical-sysadmin would be a good place to ask12:09
cjwatsonhighvoltage: local mirrors are very common and I hardly see the need to ask why :-)12:10
* cjwatson has one himself12:10
* highvoltage too :)12:10
highvoltagecjwatson: but the reason is important though, if you only want it for one arch being used in your office, you don't need to download the others12:10
highvoltagecjwatson: and he probably doesn't need to download the source packages either12:11
cjwatsontrue, best to read the debmirror manual page12:11
highvoltage*nod* canburak ^^^12:11
canburakhighvoltage: no to act as a provate mirror. currently I don't have the required space for a local mirror12:13
highvoltagecanburak: ah, then you probably just need i386 (or 64bit) binaries for main universe multiverse and restricted, which would be 20GB or so12:13
canburaki once had a country mirror for TR and nuked when i was in bad mood :)12:14
highvoltagecanburak: but check the debmirror manpage, it's probably your best bet.12:14
canburakhighvoltage: is it possible to use debmirror of the debian installation to mirror ubuntu?12:14
highvoltagecanburak: yes, you might just have to use the newest available debmirror that already knows about hardy12:15
canburakhighvoltage: my mirror is on etch12:15
canburakand you suggest to use (if available) debmirror from backports?12:16
canburakand you suggest to use (if available) debmirror from debian-backports?12:16
wgrantdebmirror doesn't have to know about the suite, does it?12:16
cjwatsoncanburak: pretty much any version of debmirror should do just fine; highvoltage is mistaken here, it doesn't have to specifically know about hardy12:34
cjwatsonI'm using the version of debmirror in Debian stable to mirror hardy, with no problems12:34
highvoltagehmm, yes I am. I confused debmirror with debootstrap a bit, I think.12:35
cjwatsondebootstrap does have to be up to date, yes12:36
cjwatson(when one is using it)12:36
canburakhmm thanks i'll give a try12:36
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pittisoren: what's up?13:54
pittisoren: ah, virtinst; I'll deal with it13:54
sorenpitti: Thanks very much.13:58
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evandcody-somerville: I'll tkae care of it.  Sorry, your email got buried in my inbox.14:34
evandoh, that was Scott Ritchie14:38
highvoltagewho was?14:38
evandScott emailed me saying that his emails were being put in the moderation queue.14:39
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cody-somervilleevand, mine too :P14:41
evandcody-somerville: hrm, better check with the sysadmins, I'm not sure how that bit is set up as no one on the list has the moderation bit set.14:41
cody-somervilleIt says I'm not a developer14:42
evandcody-somerville: I've asked in #canonical-sysadmin as this is beyond my control.14:46
peciskhi guys, in our locale, in last minute changes, some update in xlrunner b0rked security exception dialog, therefore lots of people can't log in on internet via wifi. It is known issue for other languages/more general issue?14:46
sistpoty|workcan an archive admin please shove libitpp through hardy-proposed binary new? thanks.14:46
pittisistpoty|work: ugh, NEW for stables?14:46
sistpoty|workpitti: yeah, it's a leftover from the gfortran transition... but fortunately it doesn't have rdepends14:46
ScottKUnfortunately I didn't find the missed spot in the transition until about 6 hours after the archive closed14:49
* sistpoty|work didn't find it at all14:49
ScottKpitti: Would you be up for some archive work on clamav updates/backports?14:50
pittisistpoty|work: ok, I'll have a look later; I'd like to finish my current hack job first, to not loose so much brain state14:52
sistpoty|workpitti: sure, no hurries ;)14:52
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evandYokoZar: Can you join #canonical-sysadmin?15:01
cjwatsonevand: it's done in the sender filters, but people in ubuntu-dev ought to be processed automatically without needing to be in there by hand15:04
cjwatsonso adding them by hand will make it work short-term but isn't really the right answer long-term15:04
cjwatsonevand: (privacy options -> sender filters -> accept_these_nonmembers is what we use for non-developer autoaccepts)15:05
evandcjwatson: ah15:05
evandcjwatson: I've since taken it to #canonical-sysadmin to see if there's a problem with the processing code.  Spads is looking into it.15:06
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edugonch_Hello, I have install code:blocks but I have problems when I try to compile a project, an error with a file wx/setup.h that not is found15:35
edugonch_any help please15:35
Kim^Jedugonch_: Install wxwidgets.15:37
Kim^JAslo, this is not the channel for such a question I think.15:38
sistpoty|work(-dev to be more precise... headers will always be in the -dev packages)15:39
Kim^Jsistpoty|work: Ah correct... Too used to Arch now, which installs it all.15:39
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cjwatsonmvo: how are the Translation-* files updated? I notice that their mtimes are 22 Feb16:17
cjwatsonwhich seems a bit old for hardy, really16:17
mvocjwatson: there were issues with rosetta that made updates difficult - I can manually work around those, its more effort. I will prepare a update now (its a special upload handler)16:18
mvocjwatson: I discussed a spec how the translations can/should be improved within rosetta/LP but I is not implemented yet (or even assigned)16:19
cjwatsonI'm wondering whether we can/should push that into hardy directly, rather than updates16:19
mvohm, not sure if that is possible16:20
cjwatsonI don't approve of updating Packages post-release, obviously, but this doesn't seem like it would cause practical problems16:20
cjwatsonif you upload to hardy directly, it ought to get held for approval16:20
mvowe may push them into -proposed first, I don't think there will be problems, its probably best to test them there first16:21
mvobut for .1 we should have them in main hardy IMHO16:21
cjwatsonI very much doubt that the usual copy-out-of-proposed trick will work, so they'll need to be reuploaded16:22
mvothat should be ok I think16:22
cjwatsonmy only concern is that the Rosetta export should happen ASAP so that it's close to what real hardy ought to have been16:22
mvook, I request the export now16:23
cjwatsonmvo: what's the translation component in Launchpad called, just for my curiosity?16:23
mvocjwatson: translated-package-descriptions is the name of Source: and Binary: in the changes file16:24
cjwatsonhttps://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/translated-package-descriptions doesn't exist though16:25
cjwatsonjust wondering where to direct people who want to translate it16:26
mvocjwatson: oh, sorry - I misunderstood the question. its called ddtp-ubuntu16:26
mvohttps://edge.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu16:26
mvoI keep syncing those with debian16:27
cjwatsonah, right, thanks16:27
cjwatsonsyncing those must be a horrible job16:27
mvoyeah, the scripts do most of the work, but its still time consuming16:28
Hobbseemvo: you screwed up!16:28
tseliotmvo: any ideas as to why this happens? bug #22197716:34
ubotuLaunchpad bug 221977 in gnome-control-center "Cannot enable compiz with the fglrx driver (ATI X1600)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22197716:34
mvotseliot: that is a mobile ati one? that might be a (unintended) side-effect of our mobile ati test :/16:35
tseliotno, a standalone card16:35
tseliotmvo: Compiz works well if launched from the command line16:36
tseliotmvo: my card is an ATI X1600 Pro 256MB16:36
mvotseliot: could you please check what .xsession-errors says when you enable it?16:36
mvotseliot: strange that it works fine if you run it on the commandline16:37
mvoit should be just the same16:37
tseliotmvo: sure, let me check16:37
ramviI have an openPGP key on Launchpad. I'm trying to build a deb, but I'm not allowed because I don't have an gpg key (fresh ubuntu install). How do I activate my old gpg key in Ubuntu?16:39
mjg59ramvi: If you no longer have the secret key, you don't16:40
ramviI have the secret key16:40
mjg59Then use it16:40
ramviRight, how? I can only find how to make a new pgp thing in the wiki16:40
mjg59Just copy the keyring into your new install16:40
mjg59It's in the .gnupg directory16:41
Amaranthramvi: You're supposed to keep the key16:41
cjwatsonramvi: are you just building the .deb for personal use?16:41
AmaranthGuard it with your life and never delete it16:41
ramvicjwatson: no16:41
cjwatsonah16:41
ramviAmaranth: Oh, I have deleted it..16:41
tseliotmvo: here it is: http://pastebin.com/m1e3a1f5516:41
Amaranthramvi: Then you don't have a key16:42
ramviAmaranth: Didn't know I was suppost to keep it. So I have to create a new one? Can't download from the keyserver?16:42
ramviAmaranth: right, stupid me16:42
AmaranthThe keyserver only has the public key16:42
mjg59ramvi: The secret half of the key never goes anywhere near the keyserver16:42
mjg59That's why it's secret16:42
ramvi:)16:43
ramvithanks16:43
mjg59(please don't upload the secret part of your key anywhere at any point!)16:43
mvotseliot: right, that is a bug in "jockey" (There is no available graphics driver for your system which supports the composite extension.) - that message comes from jockey16:44
mvo^--- pitti could you please have a look?16:44
tseliotmvo: ok, I have edited the bugreport so that it affects jockey16:47
pittimvo: right, I already talked with tseliot about it; I'm still not sure which exit codes the applet expects16:47
pittimvo: ATM it exits with 0 iff it installed a compositing-enabling driver16:48
d1nker_has anyone fixed the smb:// and network:// bug yet?16:48
pittimvo: i. e. it exits 1 if installation failed or there is no driver, or you don't need one16:48
pittimvo: I guess we need more exit codes then16:48
pittimvo: jockey currently does not know about all possible X drivers and whether they already support composite16:48
pittimvo: it only knows composite support for the drivers it can handle (nvidia, fglrx)16:49
pittimvo: I guess we need to redefine the exit code protocol16:49
slangasekd1nker_: that's a bit imprecise; do you have a bug number for the issue you're referring to?16:49
slangasekd1nker_: or can you explain what the bug is that you're talking about?16:49
d1nker_https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/18575616:50
ubotuLaunchpad bug 185756 in gvfs "Couldn't display "network:///" - Nautilus cannot handle network:locations" [Medium,Fix released]16:50
mvopitti: can/should it not just do the same as it does when nvidia is already installed/enabled on the system?16:50
Amaranthd1nker_: They work fine here16:50
slangasekd1nker_: well, yes, that bug was fixed some time ago16:50
seb128d1nker_: that bug has been fixed some months ago as indicated16:50
pittimvo: so far I thought the applet would only call jockey if the current driver would not support composite16:50
d1nker_how do I apply the patch?16:50
pittimvo: I didn't know it would *always* call jockey before enabling16:50
Amaranthd1nker_: The bug did not affect 7.10 and is fixed for 8.0416:51
pittimvo: I think it does16:51
slangasekd1nker_: all that's required is to log out and log back in after upgrading from the older version of pre-release hardy to the official Ubuntu 8.0416:51
d1nker_I still have the exact same problem as described with 8.04 (fresh install this morning) should I reopen the bug16:51
slangasekd1nker_: if network:/// still doesn't work for you, then you have some other bug and we'd need more information about your symptoms16:51
slangasekd1nker_: if you freshly installed 8.04, then no, you don't have that bug16:52
AmaranthIn a bug report, preferably16:52
mvopitti: I check the code out, we should milestone it for .116:52
pittimvo: right; compiz itself knows whether the current driver is composite-capable, right? can the applet ask compiz, and only ask jockey to install a driver if the current driver doesn't work?16:52
pittimvo: (the option should really be --install-composite, not --check)16:53
mvopitti: yeah, the option is pretty unfortunately named - well, its a bit more complicated, compiz does not really know until it is started, this is why we have the wrapper script16:54
pittioh16:54
mvopitti: we would have to add a --check-only option to the wrapper to get this information16:54
d1nker_when I go to places - connect to server and select windows share, fill the info out I get an error that says "Can't display location smb://SERVERNAME" No application is registered as handling the file16:54
mvopitti: maybe the best solution is to just remove the cal to jockey entirely16:54
pittimvo: or, just try to enable it, and if that fails, call jockey?16:54
mvopitti: the user knows about the misisng nvidia driver already from the notification bublle16:55
mvopitti: hm, yeah, we could do that too (start, if it fails call jockey)16:55
pittimvo: so, don't check if compiz would work, just start it and check if it fails?16:55
pittiif the magic test script would return "thumbs up", you'd just start compiz anyway, right?16:55
seb128d1nker_: that's a different issue, does places, networks give an error?16:55
slangasekd1nker_: to clarify, that's the Places -> Network menu in the desktop16:56
pittimvo: btw, bug 208026 is also related to that16:56
mvopitti: yeah, start it, if that fails, run jockey16:57
ubotuLaunchpad bug 208026 in gnome-control-center "gnome-appearance-properties asks for reboot if you cancel ATI driver install" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/20802616:57
d1nker_Places -> Network works fine it's when you enter information into the Places -> Connect to Server -> Service Type: Windows Share16:58
pittimvo: I think that part does need a separate exit code16:58
mvopitti: yeah16:58
pittimvo: although, hmm16:58
pittimvo: it only asks for reboot if the driver was installed, right?16:59
pittimvo: i. .e if jockey returns 016:59
pittimvo: in that case, the bug might just be that jockey returns with 0 if the install was cancelled16:59
mvohm, right16:59
slangasekd1nker_: for shares that I know to work, I'm able to connect without error on 8.04.  Is this a share that requires authentication?17:00
d1nker_yes17:00
pittimvo: right, I just checked the code17:00
pittimvo: I'll get that fixed in jockey17:00
d1nker_which if I access it using the control+L option I can get to17:01
seb128ok, so it seems to be an issue in the connect to server dialog, could you open a bug on nautilus and describe the steps you are using?17:01
d1nker_yah can you send me a link, I've never submitted a bug before17:01
pittimvo: thanks; I'll summarize in the bug17:02
mvopitti: thanks17:03
pittimvo: done; I didn't assign the bug yet17:03
slangasekd1nker_: in this case, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+filebug17:03
strider_hi , where can I find why there is no more multimedia tab in gnome-volume-properties ?17:04
pittitseliot: did you already file a bug about the 'envy superseded by lrm' problem?17:05
tseliotpitti: the one about "-envy" lrms?17:06
d1nker_thanks I'll submit the bug this afternoon17:06
pittitseliot: problem (1) in our chat17:07
tseliotpitti: bug 22196817:07
pittiah, an upstream bug17:08
tseliotpitti: d'oh!17:09
seb128d1nker_: replaces gvfs by nautilus in the url, that's a nautilus issue17:09
pittitseliot: that's fine, don't worry17:09
slangasekseb128: ah, oops :)17:10
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MrDakokihi all17:14
MrDakokiim trying to code an app17:14
MrDakokibut i have a linker error  for XTest.h17:14
MrDakokii cant find the library17:14
slangasekMrDakoki: see the /topic, please17:14
gnomefreakmvo: doesnt update-manager have the do-upgrade flag? to upgrade gutsy > hardy?17:15
MrDakokiok17:15
mvognomefreak: it will/should pick that information up automatically (i.e. from the internet)17:16
gnomefreakah ok thanks17:16
jburdI think the upgrade tools should resolve configuration conflicts using a GUI diff/merge tool instead of asking for a file level "keep/replace"17:23
jburdAfter upgrading I have to make changes in so many configuration files.  Using meld as part of the dist upgrade tool would have saved me that.17:23
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duanebhello?18:02
duanebwhere can I find gtk-doc.m4?18:02
duanebit's missing from /usr/share/aclocal, and I can't find it in any package18:02
duanebahh, gtk-doc-tools18:04
duanebubuntu never ceases to piss me off in its separation of packages... like manpags-dev18:04
duanebtook me about five months to find that18:04
ion_Duane Barry? Is that you? :-) Please read the topic.18:07
cjwatson18:11 [Freenode] -!-  ircname  : Duane Bailey18:11
* cjwatson hands /whois to ion_18:11
cjwatsonduaneb: manpages-dev has been separated out in Debian for well over a decade, FWIW; not an Ubuntu-specific thing18:12
ion_cjwatson: That was a joke, an X-Files reference actually.18:12
ion_Thus the smiley.18:12
duanebcjwatson, it's still stupid >.<18:12
jdongduaneb: it shouldn't take you 5 months to find a file in a package though :)18:12
cjwatsonduaneb: I disagree, and I'm sure we can agree to disagree18:12
duanebI mean, it should still be a dependency of build-essential18:12
cjwatsonno, it *really* shouldn't18:12
duanebcjwatson, why would you EVER want it separate18:13
cjwatsonbuild-essential is for a very specific purpose; it is not a general "help me develop stuff" package18:13
cjwatsonI think it's perfectly reasonable to have only manpages installed and not manpages-dev on a system that isn't used for development18:13
duanebcjwatson, then there SHOULD be a "help me develop stuff" package18:13
cjwatsonit's a suggestion of gcc18:13
duanebcjwatson, but if build-essential is installed...18:13
cjwatsonSuggests: autoconf, automake1.9, bison, flex, gcc-doc, gcc-multilib, gdb, libtool, make, manpages-dev18:13
slangasekPackage: gcc Depends: diveintopython ;)18:13
duanebnobody actually looks at that, though :P18:14
cjwatsonbuild-essential is there to tell you what the build daemons install by default when building packages18:14
cjwatsonthat is its purpose18:14
cjwatsonand it's a very useful purpose for package maintainers18:14
duanebcjwatson, still, there should be a development bpackage18:14
duanebi.e. 'build-tools'18:14
cjwatsonif you want to find packages, I recommend using packages.ubuntu.com18:14
cjwatsondevelopment for whom?18:14
duanebthat would include the basics for development, like gcc and the manpages18:15
cjwatsonit would end up pulling in half the archive18:15
jdongbuild-tools will turn into .*-dev18:15
duanebcjwatson, console development18:15
cjwatsonmany developers never touch gcc18:15
cjwatsonwhy is your development more special than others/18:15
cjwatson?18:15
duanebcjwatson, find, gcc developers18:15
duanebcjwatson, because manpages should come with libc-dev (or whatever the package name is).18:15
cjwatsonI think it's a fair question. Why is your development more special than others? We have to consider a pretty wide base of people.18:15
persiajdong: *-dev self-conflicts :p18:15
duanebdocumentation, especially those manpages, is an integral part of development18:15
cjwatsonit's an integral part of C development18:16
duanebcjwatson, because their development is based on c development :P18:16
cjwatsonI do think we need to do better at serving developers18:16
lagai demand that a standard ML interpreter comes with the proposed build-tools package18:16
cjwatsonbut lumping it all together doesn't really help anyone18:16
cjwatsonin the meantime, I recommend packages.ubuntu.com for finding packages18:16
jdongIMO we need an apt-file like mechanism more readily accessible18:16
jdongi.e. within Synaptic18:16
cjwatsonor a good package manager that shows suggestions18:16
duanebcjwatson, installed, manpages-dev is ~3 megabytes.18:17
duanebthat's hardly 'lumping it all together'18:17
cjwatsonI see I am not getting anywhere18:17
jdongduaneb: so's libxmms-dev and python-setuptools.18:17
jdonglet's put those in too18:17
duanebjdong, there's no reason to think that c developers would EVER use python18:18
cjwatsonin the meantime, we provide excellent search tools, and I recommend that you use them18:18
jdongand g++ is too big too, and everything that g++ does can be done by gcc anyway18:18
jdonglet's take out g++.18:18
duanebbut every c developer uses manpages-dev18:18
cjwatsonthere is absolutely no reason it should take you five months to find anything18:18
duanebjdong, I wouldn't protest :)18:18
jdongduaneb: *every* C developer uses manpages-dev?18:18
duanebjdong, I would say yes18:18
jdonginteresting.18:18
slangasekjdong: everything that g++ does except for building C++ code, I guess you mean?18:19
cjwatsongcc doesn't depend on manpages-dev because gcc is on our CD images and those three megabytes would put us over our limit.18:19
jdongslangasek: you can rewrite C++ code anyway ;-)18:19
jdongslangasek: that's a luxury18:19
slangasekanyway, g++ is part of build-essential because of the definition of build-essential18:19
cjwatsonsimilarly libc6-dev18:19
cjwatson(well, that's not the original reason why it doesn't have that dependency, but it's a very good reason not to add it now.)18:20
User633hello18:22
User633anyone in here18:22
User633is this ubutnu irc channel correct18:22
pitti!ask | User63318:22
ubotuUser633: Please don't ask to ask a question, ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely answer. :-)18:22
pittiUser633: you probably want #ubuntu18:22
User633yes18:22
User633can i have to server for that to join ubunth help room18:22
pittiUser633: just /join #ubuntu, it's the same server18:23
slangaseksame server18:23
User633oh really thank you18:23
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geniiQuick question... is default user created now at install time allowed sudo? A user is telling me he can't issue sudo visudo for instance19:03
jdonggenii: yes, the default user is allowed sudo19:11
jdonggenii: add users to the "admin" group to give them sudo access19:11
* ScottK looks up at /topic19:12
jdongScottK: does ubotu need =~ /question/i && forward #ubuntu? :D19:13
ScottKSounds reasonable to me, but I just volunteer here.19:13
cjwatsonI think that's a bit much. Ubuntu developers ask each other questions too.19:13
geniijdong: Were there some changes made perhaps to the sudo system ? He's telling me vi opens but he can't change or alter anything as before19:14
geniiI only ask here since there may be recent changes the main support channels have no knowledge of, don't mean to get support here :)19:15
cjwatsongenii: not since before hoary19:17
cjwatson(not at that kind of level anyway, of course modulo bugs)19:17
geniicjwatson: OK, thanks19:17
juliankcjwatson: my local debimg tree can now read the Germinate output files and use them instead of calculating the dependencies itself.19:25
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emgentheya20:06
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smallfoot-Blender runs in fullscreen (even when I tell it to run in window mode) if I use Compiz. Without Compiz, Blender behaves properly though.20:36
slangaseksmallfoot-: please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs for information about reporting bugs; reporting them on IRC is not a reliable way to get them seen by the relevant developers20:39
Caesarslangasek: so the timeframe for the first Hardy point release is July?20:42
slangasekCaesar: yes20:43
Caesartjaalton: can you be more precise? I can't see any xorg source packages in dapper-proposed on archive.ubuntu.com, and there's no obvious links from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/xorg-server/+bug/11367920:45
ubotuLaunchpad bug 113679 in xorg-server "xorg freezes when running openoffice" [High,Fix committed]20:45
lucentsoren: thanks for the fix to virt-manager w/re OS settings that have no info for vt21:31
lucentat the moment I'm not 100% sure, but I think there is a bug or undocumented problem with 8.04 LTS release of virt-manager for the networking aspects21:32
lucentI am a member of libvirtd and kvm21:32
lucentHowever, I am not able to configure network settings?21:33
sistpotyhey LaserJock... motu meeting going on right now21:41
LaserJockoh really?21:41
sistpotyyes21:41
lagaludo_: you need to connect to the system-wide session i think21:42
lagamario_limonciell: i'd like to do an SRU for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222009 - is that OK with you or do you want to wait for other issues to come up?21:54
ubotuLaunchpad bug 222009 in mythplugins "package mythvideo 0.21.0+fixes16838-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: " [Undecided,New]21:54
mario_limoncielllaga, no i think that's a good idea to do an SRU, but i don't know that is the proper solution for it21:55
lagamario_limonciell: well, what do you suggest? trying to fix permissions if we can and just ignoring it if we can't sounds like a pragmatic idea ;)21:56
mario_limoncielllaga, well i guess the only alternative that comes to mind is checking whether the file system is mounted on nfs21:57
lagawhich will also result in doing nothing. and that's probably error-prone and requires a lot more shell code21:57
mario_limonciellthis solution seems like it can be a bad idea in one circumstance that i can think (and the original lines have  this same problem), overriding uid/gid on a remote system that doesn't necessarily have the same uid/gid21:57
mario_limonciellso that's why it almost makes more sense to me to check if /var/ /var/lib /var/lib/mythtv or /var/lib/mythtv/videos are on nfs21:58
mario_limoncielland if they are do nothing21:58
lagais overriding permissions a good idea anyways? there is probably a reason why the user changed them22:00
lagamario_limonciell: don't forget about cifs22:00
mario_limoncielllaga, yeah maybe it's better to only override if the directory ends up getting made22:00
mario_limonciellor its a first install22:00
mario_limoncielletc22:00
lagamario_limonciell: let's assume the user is running NFS. the postinst runs with UID0. shouldn't any UID0 calls be mapped to "nobody" on the server?22:02
lagaunless the user uses "no_root_squash"22:02
lagathat'll also explain the failures people are seeing. UID/GID isn't changed22:03
mario_limonciellyeah22:03
mario_limonciellis there a mkdir -p for that directory i nthe postinst?22:03
lagaso || true ought to be enough22:03
mario_limonciellor is it explicitly made?22:03
mario_limonciellor shipped with the package22:03
lagai think it's in the package22:03
mario_limonciellah.22:03
mario_limonciellwell i guess in that case || true should do the trick, but "laga> is overriding permissions a good idea anyways? there is probably a reason why the user changed them"22:04
keesslangasek, bdmurray: can you check on bug 222108 ?22:04
ubotuLaunchpad bug 222108 in ubuntu "md5sum check fails on wubi.exe in Hardy" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22210822:04
lagamario_limonciell: now remember all the times users have thought it was a good idea to override the mysql password22:05
* mario_limonciell shrugs22:05
mario_limonciellokay yeah.22:05
mario_limonciellthis solution is good enough for now then22:05
mario_limonciellapply it across the board to the other plugins22:05
lagayeah22:05
slangasekmario_limonciell, laga: looking at that bug, I'm not sure why NFS has anything to do with this code failing?22:07
slangasekkees: duplicate of 222018, oddly22:07
mario_limonciellslangasek, there have been several reports of  the exact same thing popping up and it turns out that on NFS you can't chown or chmod the directories22:08
mario_limonciellbryce, and kees both ran into it too afaik22:08
lagaslangasek: .. because root access is mapped to nobody using default NFS export options22:08
keesslangasek: ah-ha, thanks.  I have at least one other dup of that, I'll mark it.  thanks.22:09
slangasekoh, a concern about root squash, meh22:09
slangasekmario_limonciell: well, you can't if you're running with root_squash, correct; but then, er, don't do that :)22:09
lagano_root_squash is bad22:09
slangasekif all of /var is mounted on NFS, you are generally screwed if it's root_squash22:10
slangasekditto /var/lib22:10
slangasekso there's no reason to solve this problem on a per-package basis22:10
mario_limonciellwell that goes back to the question should permissions really be overridden on a per package basis like that22:11
lagaslangasek: there are a few very good reasons to have /var/lib/mythvideo mounted via NFS. it contains your video files22:11
slangasekmario_limonciell: sure they should22:11
mario_limonciellslangasek, well i mean every time the package is upgraded though22:11
mario_limonciellthe first install sure, but on every upgrade i dont think22:11
lagaslangasek: and mythbuntu actually allows you to export them, so users might just mount them on another box in /var/lib/mythvideo/22:12
slangasekmario_limonciell: /var/lib == package state; if you think you know better than the package what the perms on its own state should be, you need to use dpkg-statoverride22:12
slangasekmario_limonciell: which the cited postinst code already checks for22:12
lagai meant to say /var/lib/mythtv/videos of course22:12
laga(have we reached a consensus yet? ;))22:14
mario_limonciellto at least stop the bug traffic on it, i think the || true would be fine22:16
lagagood.22:16
slangasekand if the user did mount it over NFS, it has the wrong perms, and the mythtv user won't be able to access it?22:16
slangasekpackage installs successfully and then fails mysteriously at runtime? :)22:17
lagaslangasek: an angel gets its wings? ;)22:17
lagaslangasek: we can't do anything about that. i blame NFS for not having a sane UID remapping mechanism. (dunno about nfsv4)22:17
slangasekI'm asking whether you really think it's better for the package to claim to have successfully installed in this case, as opposed to bailing at install time22:18
laganfs-user-server has something usable, but it doesn't do files over 2GB22:18
lagaslangasek: it's still possible that the user made it work without invoking dpkg-statoverride.22:19
slangasekI know mvo disagrees on this point because he has to deal with all the upgrade fallout when packages do it badly :), but I'm a firm believer that packages should *not* be lenient in their maintainer scripts, because it's better to find the cause of failures up front rather than let the package install continue and leave behind an inconsistent system22:19
lagaslangasek: yeah, you're talking about *installing*, i'm talking about upgrading :) i guess we can safely assume that it worked before the upgrade.22:21
lagahum22:21
slangasekwell, yes, instead of the || true, you could put in a check for [ -z "$2" ]; I wouldn't object as loudly to that22:21
lagaah, $2 only shows up when upgrading. i guess it's the version number of the previously installed package22:22
Caesarlaga: http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts22:23
lagaokay, that makes sense. is there any way to show a nice message to the user if it fails?22:23
slangasekusing debconf error templates you could22:23
slangasekbut, er, that's a change that definitely shouldn't pass muster in an SRU without first being uploaded to intrepid (when it opens)22:24
lagano, we need the fix now and i don't want to do so much fiddling nowe22:25
laganow*22:25
lagathanks, you've been a great help22:25
slangasekone hopes so, at least :)22:25
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sorenlucent: Sorry for breaking it to begin with :)23:16
lucentsoren: I have filed a new bug, with a different python error23:19
lucentsoren: you will have to catch any further info from me soon, because this laptop system is going to be sent in tonight for repairs :)23:19
lucentbug #22219123:20
ubotuLaunchpad bug 222191 in virt-manager "Virtual Machine Manager start-up python error as user belonging to libvirtd group" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22219123:20
sorenlucent: No, I see what the problem is there. It's completely unrelated to that fix, though.23:23
hwildewhy doesn't network manager put auto [iface] into /etc/network/interfaces :(23:34
lucenthwilde: network manager supercedes the use of interfaces file to define interfaces, I think23:34
slangasekbecause n-m can't be trusted to write the file correctly ;)23:35
lucentas a user, I remember having to disable or remove most of my /etc/network/interfaces file in order for early versions of nm-applet to function appropriately23:35
hwildefair enough, but lots of people asking why their wireless doesn't work automaticall on boot,  they pastebin the interfaces file and it's missing auto eth1 or auto wlan023:35
crimsunthey also could simply remove the $wifi_iface stanza altogether from interfaces(5)23:35
slangasekthat doesn't sound right; n-m isn't supposed to require anything in interfaces to work23:35
slangasekso "missing" auto eth1 should have no effect on n-m23:36
lucenthwilde: this is a big change from the way people are used to doing it in debian23:36
lucentor older versions of wifi access and wpa-supplicant script hacks23:36
hwildehey I wrote one of those supplicant hacks :)  and it works great23:36
slangasekthere are no uncommented lines in /etc/network/interfaces related to the wifi interface I'm currently using n-m on23:36
hwildebut what generates the interfaces file23:37
lucentnothing in your case23:37
lucentit's not generated... there are other subsystems controlling the networking functions now23:37
lucentI'm guessing HAL and/or DBUS23:37
hwildethere is an /etc/network/interfaces file23:37
hwildeand people don't type it in themselves23:38
hwildeso where does it come from23:38
lucentohhh23:38
hwildeand why is it missing auto [interface]23:38
lucentthe network configuration applet in gnome23:38
lucentI understand now23:38
hwildewhich causes it to not come up on boot23:38
lucentThere is a conflict between the wifi configuration of the Gnome network configuration applet, and network-manager23:38
lucentwhen a person enters the Gnome network configuration applet to configure their wifi device, it writes out the /etc/network/interfaces file23:38
lucentthis in turn screws up network-manager from working23:39
lucentis that still a problem in Hardy?23:39
slangasekhwilde: no, see what I wrote above; lack of "auto" has nothing to do with network-manager using the interface or not23:39
sorenslangasek: Er... Sure it does. n-m needs to know that it's not going to fight with ifupdown about managing an interface. It does so by checking if there's a config stanza and (I believe) an "auto $iface" as well.23:39
hwildei've answered the same question in #ubuntu about a dozen times.  they pastebin the interfaces file and there is no auto.  and they say their wirelss doesn't come up on boot23:39
hwildepersonally, I do not have these problems, and I do not use the guis, so I cannot say....23:40
sorenslangasek: (Not sure about the auto part, though)23:40
slangaseksoren: no, what n-m does is refuse to expose the interface if there's anything *other* than the 'auto' line23:40
sorenslangasek: Ah.23:40
slangaseksoren: or rather, an 'auto' line and/or an 'iface $foo inet dhcp' line, IIRC23:40
sorenslangasek: Ah... Ok, reading what you said again, I see what you mean now.23:40
lucentwhat is "Enable roaming mode", does this toggle the use of /etc/network/interfaces ?23:42
lucentfrom Network settings applet23:42
slangasekhwilde: yes, so what *do* they have in their interfaces file?  they probably have /other/ stuff set, which was not set by network-manager and is a hint to network-manager to not manage that interface23:42
hwildethey have everything looking good, except the "auto" line23:42
slangaseker, no23:42
sorenslangasek: I thought you were saying that n-m didn't care at all what was in /e/n/i.23:42
slangasekwhat is "looking good"?23:42
slangaseksoren: it does care, but it doesn't care about adding/removing an 'auto' line.. :)23:43
hwildethey have everything else that is required, static ip or dhcp, wireless, whatever, but there is   no    auto23:43
sorenslangasek: Right.23:43
hwildelet me look through the url grabber and see if any pastebins are still available23:43
lucenthwilde: this should not be a problem in a fresh install of Hardy23:43
slangasekhwilde: those are not things that are required, those are things that directly interfere with network-manager agreeing to manage the interface23:43
slangasekhwilde: because network-manager doesn't know how to manage /etc/network/interfaces directly, so if you configure your interface there, n-m will not touch it23:43
hwildetelling them to add the auto line fixes it, but what should they be doing, commenting out everything and letting n-m handle it?23:44
slangasekadding the auto line causes the interface to be managed with ifupdown23:44
slangasekit will not cause the interface to be configurable through network-manager23:44
slangasekif you want to use n-m, you have to comment out everything, yes23:45
hwildelike I said, I don't personally have this issue23:45
hwildeso the problem is they are going into gnome network config, and that writes the interfaces file, so n-m won't touch it, but it's missing the auto line so ifupdown is not up on boot23:46
hwildewhat a mess :/23:46
slangasekseems so23:47
lucentsoren: w/re the new virt-manager bug I filed, do you need any information from me?  I would like to see if it is related to bug #20243223:47
ubotuLaunchpad bug 202432 in virt-manager "Unable to use anything but usermode networking" [Undecided,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/20243223:47
sorenlucent: No, they're completely unrelated. I see what the problem is and I have a patch, but I need some sleep before I do anything useful about it.23:48
lucentokay, thank you23:48
lucentthe user symptom is that we cannot configure networking23:48
lucentbecause qemu:///system does not show in the virt-manager23:48
hwildehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/50099  "network has to be started each time system is booted"23:49
ubotuLaunchpad bug 50099 in ifupdown "network has to be started each time system is booted (dup-of: 44194)" [Undecided,Confirmed]23:49
ubotuLaunchpad bug 44194 in wpasupplicant "wpasupplicant doesn't start when the network start" [Medium,Confirmed]23:49
sorenlucent: Yeah, I know.23:49
hwildein that bug post two people pasted the interfaces file missing the auto line23:49
lucentsoren: when that bug gets squashed, would I then be able to configure networking?23:50
lucentor am I confused23:50
slangasekhwilde: right, definitely a bug in whatever wrote the interfaces file then...23:50
sorenlucent: You can already configure networking if you just follow the guides (start virt-manager as: virt-manager -c qemu:///system).23:50
sorenlucent: But if you're seeing that bug, you probably can't start virt-manager right now?23:51
slangasekhwilde: actually, in that bug I see config snippets that *do* list 'auto'?23:51
lucentsoren: I can start virt-manager, and I can run and do all things except configure Networking23:51
sorenlucent: Start it as "virt-manager -c qemu:///system" just once, and qemu:///system will stay there.23:52
hwildeslangasek, yeah I think that would be the thing he is talking about n-m won't touch it23:52
* lucent does this23:52
lucentsoren: Yes, this is working23:52
hwildeslangasek, I have specifically answered a dozen people who added the "auto" line and that fixed their problem... that's about all I know.  I use command line for everything and i've never had the problem myself23:52
slangasekhwilde: right, fair enough23:52
sorenlucent: Yeah. It's on the wiki about this: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/KvmVirtManagerEtc23:53
sorenAnyhow, as I was saying: It's bed time. :)23:53
lucentgood night and thank you again23:53
slangasekI would love to know why avahi-autoip thinks it's clever to set a default route23:53
hwildeslangasek, I actually go as far as uninstalling n-m :)  so I don't have this interfernece23:53
lucentI read that guide and somehow missed the need to run a terminal command23:53
slangasekhwilde: I normally don't use n-m and prefer to have it uninstalled; I've been using it for the past two months in the run-up to the hardy release because there were a number of major wireless bugs that needed attention23:54
hwildelol good excuse23:55
hwildeit doesn't like my wpa so I just run the supplicant from rc.local23:55
* hwilde ducks23:55
slangasekhwilde: it's actually doing much better now than it did in the past; if someone would just fix the bug whereby n-m doesn't bother connecting to anything until after I log in, preventing me from using kerberos authentication correctly, we'd be all set23:55
slangasekhwilde: ah, there were a number of wpa-related bugs fixed in the past months, in fact23:56
lagan-m doesn't always set an IP address when connecting to my wlan :/23:56
hwildeit works for awhile, then it jsut stops... Ican't have that23:57
hwildeit also latches on to free public wifi whenever it has the chance and I can't have that either23:57
hwildeeven with a strict .conf file, it roams to open networks :/23:58

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