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mptcrimsun_, "Mono: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on]"00:00
crimsun_mpt: and, amixer get 'External Amplifier'|grep Playback00:01
mpt  Playback channels: Mono00:02
mpt  Mono: Playback [on]00:02
crimsun_mpt: if you would, please, attach /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/* contents when sound is audible00:02
mptcrimsun_, ok, I'll put that in the bug report so I remember :-)00:03
crimsun_mpt: thanks.00:03
mptthank you00:03
TheMusoslangasek: Re pulse and PC speaker, does backscroll give you enough info, or do you want me to IRC/email you a good description of what the problem is?00:12
slangasekTheMuso: the one thing I don't have to hand at the moment is the bug number00:15
slangasekthough there's another bug about snd_pcsp breaking KVM, so the fact that snd_pcsp is a problem is already somewhat covered00:15
crimsun_blacklisting the pc speaker makes more sense, really.00:15
TheMusocrimsun_: And loose PC speaker functionality entirely?00:15
slangasekblacklisting the pc speaker /also/ makes sense. :)00:15
crimsun_(and by "blacklisting", I mean "have PA ignore it")00:15
slangasekTheMuso: what "functionality" are we losing, exactly?00:16
TheMusocrimsun_: I've a better idea. I have a patch that will make sure the pc speaker sink is loaded last by the hal module, so its available for those who want it, but not used by default unless there are no sound cards.00:16
slangasekI don't see that we would ever want to use this as an output device, even when there are no sound cards00:16
crimsun_I agree w/ Steve.00:16
TheMusoWell I was talking about this with persia yesterday and he thought it would be considered a bug if it wasn't available.,00:17
crimsun_has anyone actually said "oh, it works fine at a reasonable volume by default"?  If not, it's a pretty compelling case to not make it available.00:18
TheMusoslangasek: I  hae one bug in mind, but checking to see whether any others are more relevant.00:18
TheMusocrimsun_: I am of the same view TBH.00:18
persiaMy main thought was that upstream put it there, and there is documentation.  If we can make it not broken (using PC Speaker by default), and still support it for whatever use case it exists to support, that would be better.00:18
persiaIf this is especially hard, dropping it is perhaps correct.00:19
slangasekTheMuso: *I* consider it a longstanding bug that my computer beeps at me like a petulant robot child, and have always blacklisted the pcspkr module on my system; I just have never filed it, or bothered to complain until it became correlated with much more serious bugs00:19
ograit just wants to start a conversation ...00:20
ograand you ignore it !00:20
crimsun_persia: the real problem, IMO, is that there's no sane level for "reasonable by default", which is a long-standing issue WRT sane levels attempted in alsa-utils's initscript (to erm, little success).00:20
TheMusoslangasek: Bug 242966.00:21
ubottuLaunchpad bug 242966 in pulseaudio "snd_pcsp can take precedence of soundcards" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24296600:21
TheMusoAlright, I'll revert to my original patch, which prevents pulse from loading pcspkr as a sink.00:24
TheMusoOh, and since pulseaudi o0.9.11 has landed, sooner than I expected, do we want to consider it for intrepid, given that we are a few months out from release?00:25
slangasekis that the version that requires the alsa upgrade that the kernel team hasn't committed to yet?00:26
persiacrimsun_: True.00:28
TheMusoslangasek: Yes, what do you mean not ocmmitted to? Is this documented somewhere?00:28
slangasekTheMuso: weren't you asking just the other day about whether to ask the kernel team to update the version of alsa in the kernel?00:38
slangasekif you haven't asked them yet, then I guess they haven't committed to it either00:39
TheMusoslangasek: Right, I haven't asked them due to what you said about considering sticking with 1.0.16.00:39
TheMusoHowever, 1.0.17 has support for more hda hardware for notebooks.00:39
TheMusoSo if we don't go that route, those additions will have to be backported.00:40
slangaseksorry, what did I say that gave you the impression I thought we should stick with 1.0.16?00:40
TheMusolangCan't exactly remember without checking logs, but thats the impression I got.00:41
TheMusoslangasek: ^^ gah typing00:41
crimsun_(you really will want 1.0.17 if for nothing else than vmaster migration to core and HDA codec quirks)00:41
TheMusocrimsun_: Right.00:42
slangasekTheMuso: I tend to ask lots of questions about the decision making process when I see that someone is discussing an issue that could become release-critical if things go pear-shaped; this usually doesn't mean that I'm attached to one decision or another unless I explicitly say so :)00:42
slangasekI'm happy for you to proceed with talking to the kernel team and find out whether 1.0.17 is considered reasonable from their end00:42
TheMusoslangasek: Ok I'll keep that in mind.00:42
hwildeis there something on boot that tries to get on any open network??01:02
hwildecoworker observed it on the client  "I was running iwconfig every second. It shows the free wifi at that point, but by the time everything is loaded we are on the correct ssid. "01:03
hwildeorion caught the snmp trap    apf_policy.c:538 APF-1-DISCONECT_MOBILE_DUE_TO_WLAN_SWITCH: Disconnecting mobile 00:16:6f:b4:0d:68 due to switch of WLANs from 4 to 601:04
hwildetell me this is not possible, how could ubuntu possibly get onto free wifi on boot before /etc/network/interfaces is loaded up01:05
hwildetell me their wlan id are screwed up and ubuntu is infallible01:05
slangasekhwilde: /etc/network/interfaces is not how wireless is configured by default in Ubuntu; maybe you can provide more information about your setup?01:08
hwildeslangasek, 8.04 server stripped down, no network manager01:08
hwildehow is it configured by default in Ubuntu01:09
slangasekusing network manager :)01:09
slangasekif you aren't using NM, then there's nothing that would bring up a network prior to /etc/network/interfaces01:09
hwildethey are saying it's hopping onto an ssid for free wifi on boot,   then it goes to correct ssid01:09
slangasekI can't promise that this means the kernel driver won't associate with an AP on its own01:09
hwildehow is that even possible01:09
ogracjwatson, see bug 251066, i thought i rememebred to fixed the CD unmounting in one of the last alphas ....01:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251066 in ltsp "LTSP fails to install from Alternate CD" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25106601:11
* ogra wonders why that returned01:11
ogras/to/you/01:11
hwildeslangasek, is the kernel module ipw2200 or ieee80211 ?01:11
ograi doubt the kernel driver doesn aynthing on its own ... you usually need wpasupplicant to do the assocation01:12
MartiiniHas intrepid alpha 3 been released yet ??01:12
hwildeogra, thats the thing it's open01:13
ograi mean the driver wont do anything on its own01:13
hwildeit has to be their wlan ids are borked01:13
hwildeit's just not possible :/01:14
slangasekMartiini: no, we're in the final stages of validating it01:19
Martiinislangasek: do you work on ubuntu as we speak ?? do you actually work at canonical as a developer ?01:21
infinityMartiini: He's the release manager.01:22
Martiiniare you serious ?!01:22
infinityAlways.01:22
ograinfinity, liar ...01:22
slangasekwell yes, you joined the Ubuntu developers channel, so there are Ubuntu developers here :)01:23
infinityogra: s/Always/Often/ ?01:23
ogra:)01:23
MartiiniDo you work in one geographical location or all over ? how do you communicate .. git and launchpad and irc ??01:30
MartiiniDo you know any developers from scandinavia ?01:31
ograwe use bzr, not git01:31
MartiiniI just watched google video where Torvalds talks about git01:31
ograthats what kernel.org uses to develop the kernel, right01:32
Martiiniapparently ,, I know nothing really01:32
LaserJockMartiini: there are Ubuntu developers everywhere ....01:34
hwildeGeorgia Institute of Technology??01:34
ograheh01:34
LaserJockMartiini: there's probably one looking over your shoulder right now01:34
MartiiniThanks, I feel safer now :)01:34
slangasekMartiini: we have community summits twice a year, and Canonical has team sprints at other times, to allow face-to-face collaboration.  But bzr, launchpad, IRC, and mailing lists are the primary means of collaboration the rest of the time, yes; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment is a good overview01:35
Martiiniok, thank you01:35
LightkeyLaserJock: that one scared me there..01:36
LaserJockmwuahahahaha01:37
* LaserJock slinks back to his evil lair01:38
ograputting a mirror behind your monitor might help :)01:38
ion_martiini: That video is awesome. :-)01:39
MartiiniTorvalds is a nice person .. typical Helsinki swede01:40
Martiiniubuntu and linux development is too slow .. all the best developers in the world SHOULD be working on linux .. I have posted countless threads about this subject on ubuntuforums.org .. but the common voice means nothing obviously01:57
Martiinilinux OS-s must become the mainstream os one day .. but as it is .. its going to be a VERY long wait01:58
hwildeppl typicaly use that arugment against ubuntu01:59
hwildesays shuttlesworth should've just funded debian01:59
Martiinino .. as far as I understand .. they are different distros with different views , strategies ,, organization etc02:00
hwildelol what are you in debate class02:00
hwilde"no"02:00
MartiiniI just cannot see linux provide sufficient competition to OSX and Microsoft ... but this is not the place to start voicing my layman opinions02:01
hwildedell.com/ubuntu02:01
ograyes, but the competition avoids monoculture like windows brought us ... there are a gazillion different solutions for a problem ...02:01
alex-weejmonoculture isn't all bad, though. it's just bad when it's unhealthy.02:02
ograsoemtimes ubuntu might not have the right one, but anther distro has, so it can be adapted from there .... that raises the overall quality ...02:02
alex-weejthere is no downside to the entire planet standardising on the metric system, for example.02:02
Martiiniits taking too long .. linux development speed is increasing every year but it still hasnt exploded02:02
alex-weejMartiini: then be patient02:02
jcastroMartiini: hop in dude02:02
alex-weejor do something about it. what did you hack today?02:03
hwildelol02:03
hwildejcastro,   lol I love telling people at work that complain like that   "well, you do know it's open source..."02:03
ograalex-weej, well, on teh other hand only having one kind of birds on the whole planet would be kind of boring and leave us with a lot of nasty insects02:03
ogra;)02:03
hwildeif the birds kept breaking my dual-head nvidia xorg.conf every update they might end up that way...02:04
ogradont blame the birds for closed source !!02:04
persiahwilde: Always remember birds eat bugs02:04
hwildebirds eat worms dude02:04
Martiiniyes, and why do they still use imperial system in USA02:04
hwildespiders eat millions of bugs02:04
persiaYep.  So we need both birds and spiders.  Diversity is good :)02:04
hwildegoogle calculator  will be the end to unit conversion02:05
hwildewho needs to know that crap when google can translate for you02:05
MartiiniUSA is a backwards country  .. imperial :)02:05
alex-weejMartiini: FWIW though, i agree, but everything we have in place right now with our million different distros is serving a purpose.02:05
ograMartiini, because they also run "worldcups" where nobody apart from the US is involved probably :)02:05
alex-weejISV support would come more confidently if there was only Ubuntu02:05
alex-weejbut there isn't.02:05
hwildewhat is "ubuntu" anyways?  it doesn't actually exist02:06
* alex-weej blinks02:06
hwildeit's a collection of packages, gnome, xorg, etc02:06
MartiiniUSA World cup and World Series :)02:06
alex-weejno way02:06
alex-weejUbuntu is my operating system.02:06
hwildeit's a bunch of online tools and forums and communitiies02:06
hwildeok then what "is" ubuntu02:06
ograand a trademark :)02:06
alex-weeji don't use Linux.02:06
ograyou do02:06
hwildeit's the collective of developers who make it and the people who use it02:06
ograbut only as part of ubuntu02:06
alex-weejogra: *I* don't use Linux.02:06
alex-weejif all else was the same, Ubuntu could be running NTOSKRNL for all i care02:07
ograyou developed ubuntu with bsd kernel and made it not available to the community ? evil you !02:07
persiahwilde: It's the collective of people who create it (not just developers) and the people who use it.02:07
hwildelol what like project managers02:07
hwildegantt charts dont make modules02:07
alex-weejand artists, and usability geeks02:07
hwildedevelopers and users02:07
hwildewell those people are included02:07
hwildehci = development02:07
alex-weejseriously though02:07
hwildegraphics and visualizations = development02:08
persiaYes, and artists, and musicians and usability reviewers, and testers, and integrators and triagers and more02:08
alex-weejanyone up for porting Ubuntu to NT?02:08
ografeel free02:08
ScottK-laptopalex-weej: Have fun with that.02:08
alex-weej:D02:08
ScottK-laptopDon't forget that Ubuntu is virtually all about integrating the work of others.02:08
hwildeand improving on it :)02:08
* ogra just had a presentation at OSCON from a company that developd a kind of "reverse wine" to run linux apps on windows :)02:08
hwildeubuntu handles rpms better than my redhat box02:08
alex-weejcygwin?02:08
ograno02:09
ograLINA02:09
ScottK-laptopWhen you say stuff like "I use Ubuntu, I don't use Linux" that, to my mind, devalues the work of the people who actually make the stuff Ubuntu integrates.02:09
alex-weejScottK-laptop: well don't take it personally.02:09
hwildeScottK-laptop, thank you that is waht i'm saying.  it's really gnome, and ext3, and launchpad, and xorg,  etc02:09
ScottK-laptopalex-weej: I'm just telling you how it sounds to me.02:10
hwilde"ubuntu" only means this specific group of creators and users02:10
ScottK-laptophwilde: For me except not the Gnome part.02:10
hwildefine bash and ssh whatever02:10
ograubuntu is an ancient african word maning ....02:10
ogra*meaning02:10
hwildethere is no src code for "ubuntu"02:10
hwildeits a collective02:10
ScottK-laptophwilde: No, an actual DE, KDE.02:10
ograits a spirit as well02:11
hwildeScottK-laptop, , ice owns u02:11
* ScottK-laptop goes back to trying to make source port randomization work in python-dns.02:11
hwildetrue randomness is elusive.02:11
alex-weejthe problem i find is that every layer of ubuntu itself lacks any form of common design02:12
ogra??02:12
alex-weejoperational conventions in linux are dissimilar to those in X are dissimilar to those in GNOME02:12
alex-weejis everything a file?02:13
hwilde?02:13
hwildehave you ever heard of unix02:13
* Hobbsee looks in02:13
hwildethat is the common design02:13
ScottK-laptophwilde: Fortunately for this to work it doesn't need to be truly random.  It just needs to be not in a really obvious pattern.02:13
alex-weejhwilde: that's what i'm saying02:13
alex-weejeverything is a file is old unix hangover02:13
* ogra looks out ...02:13
ogra... and sees Hobbsee02:13
ogra:)02:13
hwildeScottK-laptop, make sure you seed your random generator   *glares at ssh-keygen*02:13
ScottK-laptopalex-weej: That's because they weren't designed commonly.02:13
alex-weejScottK-laptop: i understand this02:14
hwildeyeah they also lack the common flaws of microsoft and the stagnation of their monopoly02:14
alex-weejhwilde: irrelevant02:14
hwildewhat you call lack of common design is actually the competition that makes it successful02:14
hwildeyou don't even use linux02:14
hwildewhy are you even here02:14
hwildelol02:14
hwildeget a mac02:14
alex-weejhwilde: when was the last time you directly interfaced with Linux02:14
hwildemake cheesy commercials02:14
ScottK-laptophwilde: I looked at Python's SystemRandom takes from /dev/random on Linux, so it's unlikely I'll do better.02:14
ograhwilde, because he wants to port ubuntu to NT02:15
alex-weejand i'm running Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro :P02:15
hwildeI prefer a wireless keyboard to direct interface02:15
hwildelol02:15
ogramodprobe hwilde02:15
alex-weeji'm just suggesting it would be a much more attractive platform if, for example, the lower level tools were even using the same TYPE system as the higher level tools02:15
hwildethat's what ubuntu needs is an advertising plan02:15
Hobbseeogra: :D02:15
hwildehi I'm linux... and i'm a pc02:15
* ScottK-laptop points hwilde at #ubuntu-marketing.02:15
hwildeogra, sudo modprobe duh02:15
ogrageeez silly me02:15
hwildelol02:15
ogra:)02:16
hwildeand maybe -r02:16
hwildewould be more funnier02:16
ograthat would deinterface you :)02:16
* ogra needs to rush out, the others want to go for dinner02:16
hwildeyou are a jambalaya ingredient typo02:16
alex-weejbye02:16
hwildeHobbsee, are you a dj02:17
Hobbseehwilde: no.02:17
alex-weejDJ Hobbsee on the ones and twos02:18
Hobbseedo you have something constructive to add?02:18
alex-weejlittle bit hostile there.02:18
diogohi... How can I get ubuntu patches that it used to compile xorg 1.4.0.90 on Hardy... and how do I get the steps it used to compile it?02:19
hwildeHobbsee, do you know waht secondayr myogenesis is02:19
StevenKdiogo: The patches are probably split out in the source package.02:20
Hobbseehwilde: how does that relate to the development of ubuntu?02:21
diogosorry really newbbie on DPKG packages styles... is the source file the xorg 7.3_orig.tar.gz ?02:21
hwildeholy shit this isn't offtopic ??02:21
Hobbseeno...it's not...02:21
* hwilde looks around02:21
hwildewhat is with all this jibber jabber go back to idling you offtopickers02:21
diogodo you provide the source already patched or is it a source with the patches02:21
StevenKdiogo: That's one of three files. And I'd have to check.02:21
hwildeHobbsee, now that your here, why would ubuntu associate to free wifi on boot automatically, no network manager?02:22
diogocould you check it please trying to understand why xorg on ubuntu is having better performance with fglrx than on others... to report it to ATI Devs02:23
Hobbseehwilde: i believe that answering such questions counts as "support".02:23
Hobbseeand apart from that, I don't know.02:23
hwildeHobbsee, nobody in support knows... last chance is devs02:23
hwildeI just don't see how its possible :/02:23
hwildeI would like to develop a module to stop it02:24
Hobbseemodprobe -r the card?02:24
hwildeI need the card obviously02:24
hwildebut why is it hopping to an open ssid that it knows nothing about02:24
Hobbseei've no idea.  mine doesn't.02:24
hwildethat's what you think02:25
hwildethat's what I thought up to yesterday02:25
Hobbseewell, on the basis that i don't have a network connection when i'm not running network manager...02:25
hwildei have an eye witness, and an error from the wlan controller, that says on boot it hops to open wifi02:25
slangasekHobbsee: it wouldn't bring up your tcp stack; that doesn't guarantee it won't associate with an AP02:25
Hobbseeslangasek: ah02:26
hwildeand I don't buy it's the kernel module slanga02:26
persiaAP association may even be driven by firmware without regard for OS directives02:26
hwildemodule just sit there they don't associate automagically02:26
hwildeIntel says the mini pci card firmware won't do anything unless you tell it to02:28
slangasekhwilde: well if you don't believe it's the kernel module, then you have something else running on your system that no one else does.02:29
hwildebelieve me, I've spent hours defending ubuntu02:29
hwildethere's no way I can see it hopping on free wifi02:29
hwildebut they actually caught it on their controller02:29
hwildeapf_policy.c:538 APF-1-DISCONECT_MOBILE_DUE_TO_WLAN_SWITCH: Disconnecting mobile 00:16:6f:b4:0d:68 due to switch of WLANs from 4 to 602:29
ScottK-laptopAs you've been told, it may be out of the kernel's hands.02:30
hwildeand therein lies the problem02:31
hwildeyou don't see it as an "Ubuntu" problem02:31
ScottK-laptopRight, but it's nothing to do with Linux or Ubuntu or whatever you call it.02:31
hwildeblame the kernel, blame the firmware, blame the wlan controller, etc etc02:31
diogohey, if I'm not mistaken just looked at the xorg-xserver installation way of ubuntu and saw it added no patches... so Xorg 1.4.0.90 has no patches on ubuntu?02:31
ScottK-laptopdiogo: You're mistaken.02:32
ScottK-laptophwilde: What wifi chipset and were you using an completely FOSS configuration (no proprietary firmware/driver)?02:33
hwildeScottK-laptop, intel 2200bg mini pci card,  ipw2200 module02:33
diogoso how can I get these patches?02:35
Hobbseepatches.ubuntu.com?02:35
diogoon patches.ubuntu.com has the patche for the 1.4.2 and not the 1.4.0.90 I need the older group of patches!02:36
StevenKThe patches are in the source package.02:36
diogowhere in the tar.gz package there are a lot of stuff there02:36
Hobbseein the .diff.gz02:37
StevenKThe orig.tar.gz is the original upstream source, the .diff.gz contains the Ubuntu and Debian changes and the .dsc ties them both together02:37
slangasekhwilde: a) this is not a support channel, b) I'm telling you the only thing in the stack that could do this is the kernel module itself because there's nothing else in an Ubuntu system that *could* associate with an AP prior to /etc/network/interfaces if you don't have Network Manager installed; so I'm trying to steer you in the right direction towards a solution, not "blaming" something.02:38
diogosorry but I downloaded the http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xorg_7.3+10ubuntu10.tar.gz and got no .diff.gz on the source02:38
StevenKdiogo: Oh, you want xorg-server, not xorg02:38
diogoyes xorg-server02:38
slangaseknow, if you're not actually going to make use of such help when it's offered, I don't see what you expect to get out of this channel for your trouble02:38
StevenKdiogo: That link you pasted is 'xorg', though :-)02:39
diogok02:39
Hobbseediogo: there's a similarly named one there, in the correct directory, ending in .diff.gz - that's the one that contains the ubuntu changes.02:39
diogok02:39
* cody-somerville takes a deep breath and goes to bed.02:41
hwildeslangasek, ok thank you for confirming my suspicion that it just wasn't possible.  i'm blaming their wlan ids it's not ubuntu's fault02:41
diogosorry to annoy again but... on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/ there is the patches for lots of versions but the 1.4.0.90 is not there the question is... which 1.4.1~git is the ne used on hardy?02:41
hwildeslangasek, I have to be absolutely sure before throwing down with customer IT02:41
diogosorry02:42
diogomy mistake02:42
diogoalready solved it02:42
diogo:)02:42
diogothx02:42
Hobbsee:)02:42
hwildeslangasek, arguing with ubuntu-dev provides that level of confidence.    beyond a reasonable doubt and all that you know02:42
slangasekhwilde: well, I'm not saying that it's not possible; I'm saying that nothing in userspace on a pristine Ubuntu system does this02:42
hwildeit's not possible02:42
hwildethat's my story and i'm stickin to it02:43
slangasekok; that's your statement. not mine. :)02:43
hwildeif nobody here can shoot holes in it then neither can the customer it group02:43
hwildethey lose.   ubuntu wins02:43
hwildeI logged the SSID every 5 seconds on all 5 clients today and send them the log file :)     over 38k entries and never once switched ssid's02:44
ScottK-laptophwilde: Making stuff up and spreading it is not an Ubuntu win.  It needs to be accurate.02:44
hwildeso then what would you suggest... Intel says it's not their firmware02:45
hwildeI don't believe it's the ipw2200 module02:45
hwildeand it's nothing in ubuntu02:45
hwildeso their wlan ids are messed up02:45
hwildeonly possible explanation02:45
Hobbseeright.  who broke thunderbird?03:06
StevenKIs the next line, "Come on, own up!"03:07
ScottK-laptopHobbsee: That would be Mozilla Corp since we can only do stuff they say it OK.03:07
Hobbseehttp://rafb.net/p/W8zgz343.html03:08
ScottK-laptopBecause that's how Free Software <<<<<<< stupid corporate policies work.03:08
RAOFScottK-laptop: being a grumpy old man in #ubuntu-* since 1782 ;)03:10
RAOF(Not that I disagree with the comment at all)03:10
ScottK-laptopPersonally I think we compromised to much on that one.  It's Free as long as you make this other set of changes to change the branding, isn't freedom at all.03:11
RAOFYeah.03:12
kirklandTheMuso: ping03:37
TheMusokirkpong03:37
kirklandTheMuso: :-)03:37
TheMusokirkland: PONG03:37
kirklandTheMuso: howdy, i'm working on bug #12037503:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 120375 in initramfs-tools "cannot boot raid1 with only one disk" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/12037503:37
kirklandTheMuso: I just posted a pair of patches, one to mdadm, one to initramfs-tools03:37
kirklandTheMuso: actually, see the last 3 posts...  the one just before the pair of patches has a decent explanation03:38
TheMusokirkland: You'd like me to look them over?03:38
kirklandTheMuso: I would, very much03:38
kirklandTheMuso: fwiw, kees pointed me in your direction ;-)03:38
TheMusokirkland: Right, no problem.03:38
TheMusokirkland: The initramfs-tools patch looks sane. Tooke me a bit to work out why you had to do things as you did, but I understand why so thats fine.03:42
kirklandTheMuso: can you think of any negative effects of executing the failure hooks code earlier?03:42
kirklandTheMuso: i certainly benefit from the positive effect of doing it earlier :-)03:43
kirklandTheMuso: but i was having a hard time thinking of negative effects....03:43
kirklandTheMuso: also, I remove the "-r" bit from the panic() call ...  the could perhaps go back in (calling the failure hooks in both places)03:44
TheMusokirkland: The one problem I can think of that I still need to address in initramfs-tools is the issue where if usplash is used, no failure text is displayed when dumped to the initramfs. Having a separate call failure function makes implementing a solution for this a little more tricky.03:46
TheMusoTo busybox I mean.03:46
kirklandhmm, how so?03:46
TheMusoAtm when crashing out of boot when usplash is used, you get an (initramfs) prompt, which is on tty8, and the error text is on tty1.03:46
kirklandTheMuso: panic -r will still call the failure function03:47
kirklandTheMuso: erg, that's messy03:47
TheMusoSo we need to switch to tty1 before any text is displayed that the user needs to read.03:47
kirklandyeah03:47
kirklandTheMuso: so I see that initramfs-tools is in bzr; i should probably move my debdiff patch over to bzr branch, right?03:48
TheMusokirkland: I have a solution in mind, but I need to run it by cjwatson and maybe others before doing it, as it involves putting chvt into the initramfs, and depending on console-tools or whatever package chvt is in.03:48
TheMusokirkland: It is?03:48
kirklandhttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/initramfs-tools/ makes it look like so03:49
TheMusohrm I don't see anything.03:49
kirklandTheMuso: https://launchpad.net/initramfs-tools03:50
kirklandupstream anyway03:50
kirklandTheMuso: okay... the mdadm patch?03:50
kirklandTheMuso: any comments there?03:51
TheMusokirkland: No looks fine.03:56
kirklandTheMuso: cool, thanks for looking them over03:56
TheMusoSorry, my desktop is giving me a little grief atm. After several hours of use, I get an oops + segfaulting. There is something in linux htat I am using that is leaking memory which eventually causes issues. When I reboot and run memtest, memory looks bad, but when I switch off and on again, i.e no reset, everything is fine.03:57
TheMusoI am just about 100% sure its not hardware.03:58
kirklandTheMuso: ugh, that's no good04:00
kirklandTheMuso: out of curiosity, are you using wireless?  if so, which driver?04:01
TheMusokirkland: No it isn't good, and no I am using wired, nm is removed. I am using nvidia drivers though, latest envy packaged ones, not from LRM.04:01
kirklandTheMuso: ah...  well, i'm getting a nasty hard hang if I download something large, and fast over my atheros wireless04:02
TheMusoWell I am on hardy as well.04:02
kirklandTheMuso: yep, this is hardy that i'm seeing this04:03
TheMusoOuch.04:03
kirklandi've been meaning to try the ath5k driver04:04
TheMusoWell I am pretty sure its something X related for me, as I had this desktop running all last week during the sprint, and when SSHing to do stuff, never had this problem.04:06
superm1kirkland, did you have any luck with trying out that alternate tethering method?04:43
kirklandsuperm1: hadn't tried, sorry04:43
superm1ah okay04:43
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kirklandsuperm1: been slammed ;-)04:43
srbakerheya folks05:19
srbakeris jeff waugh on this chan?05:19
srbakeror, better yet, anyone from Melbourne, AU?05:19
Hobbseesrbaker: he goes by jdub, but would be normally found in #slug.05:27
srbakergreat, thanks05:28
Hobbseewgrant: is from melbourne, but isn't here atm.05:28
srbakerah, he's in sydney not melbourne05:28
srbakeralthough i guess anyone from .au is fine05:28
srbakerit's more cultural questions i have05:28
Hobbseetry #slug, then05:33
srbakerthanks05:35
=== thegodfather is now known as fabbione
* NCommander investigates the possiblity of bootstrapping Ubuntu ARM06:16
pittiGood morning06:40
Hobbseepitti!06:41
nxvlhi all06:49
nxvlHobbsee: i have just saw your mail on -motu, it's sad to hear that your are going away06:49
nxvlHobbsee: but i assume is for personal/time reasons an temporaly06:49
nxvlHobbsee: so, have good look doing what you need to do and i hope you will be back soon06:50
nxvl:D06:50
Hobbseenxvl: perhaps.  we'll see :)06:50
nxvlpitti: you don't even think on steping out, we will need like 100 people to replace you06:51
nxvl:P06:51
pittinxvl: hm? did I say that anywhere?06:52
pitti(*blush*, thanks)06:52
nxvlpitti: no, just joking around06:52
pitti*phew* :)06:52
nxvlactually repeating a joke i heard on Prague06:53
nxvl:P06:53
slangasekabout replacing pitti with the crew of a trireme?06:53
nxvlabout how many people will need canonical to replace pitti06:54
pittiLet me assure you that I am just one person06:55
nxvlpitti: yes, but working as 4006:55
nxvleverywhere i try to jump in, someone (or something) mention you06:55
nxvlis like, you are everywhere06:56
pittinxvl: thanks :)06:57
nxvlpitti: no, thank you for making my system better (almost every part of it)06:57
saivann+106:58
LaserJockI'd like to +1 nxvl on that one06:58
nxvlyeah, we love pii06:59
nxvlpitti*06:59
saivannSounds like pitti is really appreciated :)06:59
nxvldamn kayboard06:59
nxvlkeyboard*06:59
StevenKThere's another bug. Random Ubuntu developers seem to lose their 't' key06:59
nxvlsaivann: yes, we love pitti06:59
LaserJocksuuure, blame it on the keyboard06:59
StevenKkees, ScottK and now nxvl!06:59
nxvlwell, i'm sleepy, and i may not pressing keys hard, also 't' key is in the middle where i need to move my fingers more to press it07:01
pittiStevenK: haven' noiced so far07:01
nxvlso it was just not a good pressing07:01
slangasek--> dvorak07:01
StevenKpitti: :-P07:01
pittislangasek: I actually tried that for a couple of weeks, but my utterly slow response in IRC channels and everywhere else annoyed me so much that I gave up :/07:01
pittiyou have to get "over the hump" with it, I guess07:02
StevenKslangasek: Did you move the keycaps as well?07:02
nxvli have tried a french keyboard (don't remember what type was) and i almost died07:03
slangasekpitti: yes; I did this a decade ago when I was studying overseas and had a small laptop keyboard that was hurting my hands, and no work-related reasons to be typing :)07:03
slangasekStevenK: only during training07:03
pittioh, and using dvorak in vim is quite confusing as well :/07:04
pittiI don't actually think about which letters to press most of the time, it's just muscle memory07:04
pittiso it'd take learning typing *and* controlling vim again07:05
pittiI think I'll teach my children dvorak straight away, to save them the hassle of switching :)07:05
nxvlheh07:05
nxvlyeah07:05
* pitti crosses fingers that this i386 desktop test install will work now07:05
nxvlis a problem that you notices when some ask "what did you press to do that" and you actually don't know, your fingers just did it somehow07:06
slangasekright; there are probably vim remappings though, to let you use the keys in the same positions :)07:06
slangaseksince the direction keys aren't so intuitive under dvorak07:07
nxvli'm going to sleep07:12
nxvlread you!07:12
nxvlhave a nice day!07:12
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snadgedoes anyone happen to know if framebuffer is enabled on the xen kernel image?07:42
snadgei've spent hours stuffing around trying to get the graphics console to work.. as well as the standard xen serial console (which works)07:42
snadgei give up07:47
snadgei can see that framebuffer is compiled as a module.. but i just dont know enough about ubuntu or xen to know why its not working07:49
pittisiretart: ffmpeg-free was removed in Debian with "obsolete source package", but it's not obsolete in intrepid; what's the current structure supposed to be?07:52
siretartpitti: the same. intrepid already has 'ffmpeg-debian', which replaces 'ffmpeg-free'07:52
siretartpitti: good morning, btw :-)07:53
pittisiretart: but if I would remove ffmpeg-free, a lot of binary packages would go with it, such as libavutil-dev, libavformat52, etc07:53
pittisiretart: good morning! *hug*07:53
* siretart hugs pitti back07:53
siretartpitti: err, they all are built by ffmpeg-debian as well07:53
siretartI don't quite understand why they should be removed?07:54
siretartah, dependency wait07:54
pittisiretart: it seems that ffmpeg-debian isn't current, yes07:55
siretartlibdc1394-22-dev is in universe07:55
pittisiretart: so I think the display is just confused, it will only remove the even older binaries07:55
siretartpitti: waht is the plan with libdc1394-22? it is supposed to replace libdc1394-13-dev AFAIUI07:55
pittino idea, tell me :)07:55
siretartwell, I was told that it is the new version of firewire libs07:56
siretartso fabian, my co-maintainer in debian decided to switch to the new libs. I tried to make the package usable against both version, but that caused subtle breakage07:56
siretartso we fixed the dependencies to the new version07:56
siretartI don't really have a clue about firewire and libs, but I suspect that it might be a good idea to replace the source package libdc1394-13/main with libdc1394-22/universe07:58
siretartreplace in terms of 'promote -22' and 'demote -13' in exchange07:58
siretartBenC: can you comment/clarify the situation of libdc1394-22 vs libdc1394-13?07:59
pittisiretart: yes, I guess this makes sense; however, I'll  do that after alpha-3, just to be sure08:04
pittiargh, since today's dist-upgrade, seahorse/ssh doesn't work any more -- "Agent admitted failure to sign using the key."08:08
pittidoes that happen to anyone else?08:09
RAOFpitti: That kindof happens to me; if I try to connect via cooperteam.net it says that, but everything works using raof.local, which refers to the same box.08:09
pittisiretart: I promoted -22, so that ffmpeg-debian can build08:17
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siretartpitti: thanks!08:27
cjwatsonkirkland: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BzrContributorHowto08:36
cjwatsonTheMuso: just turn on chvt in the busybox initramfs config?08:36
cjwatsonkirkland: but, as TheMuso implied, I don't think that our initramfs-tools is in bzr; AFAIK (not having checked recently) the one on LP is old, from before upstream moved to git08:37
davmor2My blog post on planet about how non-devs can get involved seems to of attracted an artist who can I put them onto?08:38
Tm_Tdavmor2: #ubuntu-artwork ?08:39
davmor2cool thanks08:39
Sianis_mvo: are you here?08:50
mvoSianis_: yes08:51
Sianis_great08:51
Sianis_can we talk in private or stay here?08:51
Sianis_mvo:08:54
Sianis_1. was the potmodify.py usefully?08:54
Sianis_2. can you put it in the brz branch?08:54
mvoSianis_: both is fine08:54
snadgecan i try booting the intrepid xen kernel on hardy?08:54
mvoSianis_: I think its useful, I have the diff here locally, I have not reviewed it yet but I will do that today08:54
snadgei've wasted all day trying to figure out why i cant get hardy to output anything on xens graphical framebuffer.. it just comes up black08:55
snadgefine.. i'll try using opensuse 11's xen kernel08:58
snadgeok it doesnt boot as you would expect but at least i get graphics09:07
snadgewould a kernel from debian sid work with ubuntu? :P09:16
tkamppeterpitti, hi09:17
asacsiretart: what do you think are the chances that upstream will make pcsc-lite pluggable?09:21
pittihi tkamppeter09:23
asactkamppeter: the thing i mentioned during sprint is debian bug 282235 ... the decision to drop that from cups made lexmark z4X printers unusable on debian iirc.09:25
ubottuDebian bug 282235 in cupsys "Lexmark printing suddenly broken (had to compile z42_cmyk on my own)" [Important,Closed] http://bugs.debian.org/28223509:25
asacby coincident my RFP was closed yesterday .. thats why i remember now09:25
asac(auto-closed)09:25
tkamppeterpitti, I have seen in the debian/changelog that you are rather active on HAL.09:26
pittiyes, indeed I am09:27
tkamppeterpitti, HAL needs a little change, in preparation for CUPS 1.4 and also to work better together with HPLIP.09:27
pittiemgent: sorry for the double rapache reject; at first I rejected the wrong (newer) version instead of the older one; I'll fish out the newer one from rejected, reviewing now09:27
pittitkamppeter: sure, which?09:28
tkamppeterpitti, for HAL a USB printer is present when coupled to the usblp character device.09:28
tkamppeterHPLIP and CUPS 1.4 use libusb to access USB printers. HPLIP uncouples the printers from the usblp module, letting them disappear for HAL. Same can occur also with CUPS 1.4.09:29
pittihm, going from kernel driver to raw device access? that direction sounds backwards to me ...09:30
pittiember: oh, it's justified after all, I'll mail you09:31
tkamppeterpitti, we have to follow upstream here. It seems that for modern printers with ink level readout, and multi-function stuff like scanning a character device is unadequate.09:33
pittitkamppeter: right; is there a hal patch already for this?09:33
tkamppeterpitti, no, but printer detection without usblp is no problem, as the hp CUPS backend and the new usb CUPS backend do it. Also reading out the device ID without the usblp module is no problem.09:35
tkamppeterpitti, after some transition period the usblp module could probably even get removed from the kernel, like the scanner module.09:36
pittitkamppeter: but the printers should appear as USB devices/interfaces in hal even right now, even if they aren't associated to usblp09:36
pittidon't they?09:36
tkamppeterpitti, I think I tested once and they did not. Try blacklisting the usblp module and see whether printers get still detected by HAL.09:37
pittithat would be weird; they will certainly not appear as printers, but the devices should still be there09:37
pittitkamppeter: can't do right now, I don't have a printer here09:37
pittitkamppeter: maybe you can do an lshal with and without usblp and pastebin the diff -u ?09:38
tkamppeterpitti, if HAL is correctly set up for detecting printers without usblp, hal-cups-utils should get triggered even with usblp blacklisted.09:38
pittitkamppeter: right, I guess hal-cups-utils looks for the "printer" capability09:38
pittiI guess that's the one which is missing if usblp is not loaded09:38
tkamppeterpitti, you are Debian maintainer of CUPS and do not own a printer? Should I organize a printer for you?09:39
pittitkamppeter: I have one, but not right now09:39
pittitkamppeter: according to "modinfo usblp|grep alias", printers can be identified with some particular interface classes and device classes; so it should be easy to set up an fdi rule which does the same09:40
pitti(FYI)09:40
pittitkamppeter: but to confirm this, can you please do the lsusb diff?09:40
tkamppeterpitti, yes, I think it is this way, the "printer" capability comes from the usblp module.09:40
tkamppeterpitti, I will send you the diff.09:40
tkamppeterasac, was z42_cmyk ever packaged for Debian and later dropped?09:41
pittitkamppeter: confirmed, current code looks at the sysfs path; if it ends with lp%d, it sets "printer" capability09:42
asactkamppeter: yes. it was working at some point. the cups maintainer (not sure who he was) said it was dropped from cups and i should file a RFP ;)09:42
tkamppeterasac, the upstream CUPS package never contained drivers for Lexmark printers.09:51
tkamppeterpitti, did the Debian CUPS package ever contain any third-party drivers, like the z42_cmyk driver?09:51
pittitkamppeter: I don't know personally; not in my times (but the changelog should tell)09:52
tkamppeterasac, in general, at least for Ubuntu, we do not ship Foomatic data for which we do not ship the appropriate driver executable. I do not know whether Debian has overtaken this from us.09:52
tkamppeterasac, the best would be if some volunteer would make an LSB package of the z42_cmyk driver and so distros do not need to hassle with drivers for old printers. These drivers would be auto-downloaded when needed (at least from Intrepid on).09:54
pittidoko: E: cacao-oj6-jre: no-copyright-file09:55
liwhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/30236/ -- would anyone like to give that a quick review and tell me if there's things in there they don't understand? it's the draft manpage for the system-cleaner tool I'm writing09:57
tkamppeterpitti, biff09:57
cjwatsonliw: typo in first line ;-)09:57
cjwatsonliw: (might want to format that with LANG=C to avoid Unicode that I'm guessing pastebin doesn't understand09:58
cjwatson)09:58
liwcjwatson, "administration", check09:58
liwcjwatson, good point09:58
cjwatsonseems comprehensible to me but of course I already know what it does09:58
pittidoko: oh, so all the other packages have a symlink of their entire /usr/share/doc/package -> cacao-oj6-jre, and that one doesn't have any /usr/share/doc...09:59
liwhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/30238/ -- now without unicode (I hope)09:59
liwcjwatson, yeah, it's superbly clear to me, too :)10:00
affluxliw: I think I understand it.10:02
liwafflux, cool! based on the manual page, does it sound like something that you would try to use?10:02
affluxdefinetly. I use my system mostly for playing around, so it might help in some situations.10:03
tkamppeterpitti, asac, according to the changelog Debian's CUPS package never shipped third-party drivers.10:03
tkamppeterpitti, I have sent the diff of the lshal output to you by e-mail.10:04
asactkamppeter: so why did it work out-of-box before i filed that bug?10:06
mvotseliot: could you please have a look at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16297761/buildlog_ubuntu-intrepid-i386.update-manager_1%3A0.92_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz ? it looks like nvidia-common has a undeclared dependency on lspci10:06
mvotseliot: btw, is nvidia-common in bzr yet?10:07
liwafflux, thanks10:07
* liw goes to commit the manpage into bzr, then10:07
pittitkamppeter: hm, weird that it disappears entirely10:07
tkamppeterasac, this is also strange for me. Can it be that Debian had some driver collection package in former times which they have dropped?10:07
tseliotmvo: yes it's in bzr and you have your own branch there10:08
pittitkamppeter: I guess a hal debug output is in order (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHal), i. e. what happens in hal if you plug in a printer in both cases10:08
mvomeh, right :)10:08
tkamppeterpitti, what do you mean? The printer entry in the diff? Or the z42_cmyk driver in Debian?10:08
* mvo coughs10:08
pittitkamppeter: can do this later, or if you have time, feel free to do it now10:08
pittitkamppeter: the usblp issue10:08
tseliotmvo: you're right about lspci, since nvidia-common needs it to perform hardware detection10:08
mvotseliot: you mind if I fix it and upload a new version?10:09
tseliotmvo: do you want to add a dependency or change the code?10:09
mvotseliot: I add a dependency10:10
tseliotmvo: ok, then it would be great if you could do it10:10
tkamppeterpitti, trying the HAL debugging stuff ...10:10
mvotseliot: or do you think having conditional code in it is better?10:10
tseliotmvo: nvidia-common relies on hardware detection therefore it's useless without lspci10:11
mvotseliot: yeah, that is what I thought. execellent, you can merge from me10:11
pittiNEW queue empty \o/10:11
DktrKranzpitti: I noticed you synced e2fsprogs. It still build-depends on dietlibc though, which is in universe. Are there plans to ship dietlibc in main or should e2fsprogs not bdepend on it?10:11
pittiDktrKranz: ah, no, I don't think we want dietlibc; thanks for pointing out10:12
DktrKranzpitti: if you want, I can look at it, it shouldn't be that hard10:12
tseliotmvo: shall I merge right now or will you ping me later with the fix?10:13
dokopitti: looking ...10:14
mvotseliot: you can merge now10:15
pittiDktrKranz: oh, that would be nice10:16
tseliotmvo: bzr tells me "Nothing to do". I did a "bzr merge http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/nvidia-common/mvo/"10:17
pittitseliot: note that http:// takes some 5 minutes to catch up10:17
pittitseliot: try lp:~mvo...10:17
tseliotpitti: no dice10:18
pittihm, maybe mvo forgot to push then?10:18
dokopitti: wrong reject, the docs are in the -headless package10:19
pittilrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2008-07-23 18:08 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre-headless -> cacao-oj6-jre10:20
pitti^ in cacao-oj6-jre-headless_6b11-0ubuntu2_i386.deb:10:20
tseliotmvo: did you use some other branch I'm not aware of?10:21
dokopitti: in -headless:10:21
dokodrwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-07-23 19:08 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root       897 2008-07-23 19:07 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/JAVA_HOME10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root       415 2008-07-23 18:29 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/README.Debian10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root       840 2008-07-23 19:07 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/README.alternatives10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root       611 2008-07-23 07:26 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/NEWS.IcedTea.gz10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root    151850 2008-07-23 18:29 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/copyright10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root       951 2008-05-31 08:46 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/AUTHORS.IcedTea10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root      6975 2008-07-23 18:29 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/changelog.Debian.gz10:21
doko-rw-r--r-- root/root      2556 2008-07-23 07:26 ./usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/README.IcedTea.gz10:21
mvotseliot: oh, sorry. the branch was not bound yet, it should be fine now10:21
pittidoko: -headless contains /usr/share/doc/cacao-oj6-jre/ ? that's even weirder...10:21
pittibut *shrug*10:22
dokopitti: nothing weird, some in openjdk-6 (-jre-headless did appear after -jre)10:22
pittidoko: ok, accepted10:23
dokocacao-oj6 is just a copy of the packaging10:23
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tseliotmvo: merged and pushed. Thanks10:25
tkamppeterpitti, HAL debug output in mail10:25
DktrKranzpitti: re e2fsprogs, bug 251746 if you have some time. FYI, I uploaded e2fsprogs on my PPA, it has just been built.10:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251746 in e2fsprogs "e2fsprogs should not build-depend on dietlibc-dev" [Wishlist,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25174610:43
pittiDktrKranz: thanks a lot! will do in a bit10:49
pittiDktrKranz: uploaded10:51
* DktrKranz hugs pitti10:51
* pitti hugs DktrKranz back10:51
gnomefreakis there a way to enalbe all 4 virtual desktops anymore?11:09
tkamppeterpitti, did you have a look into my usblp specs?11:10
tkamppeters/specs/logs/11:10
pittitkamppeter: I'm in a phone conf11:11
tkamppeterpitti, sorry, I saw you talking all the time here on IRC.11:12
tjaaltonok, compiz on i965 should be fixed now upstream. do other drivers see corruption (wrong colors) on effects like opening the right-click menu on the desktop?11:12
tjaaltonie. fade-in/fade-out colors are wrong11:13
siretartasac: I don't think that Jouni (upstream is basically a one man show) will invest energy in creating that patch himself.11:34
siretartasac: however AFAIU his email, depending on how the patch is written, he is likely to accept, integrate and support it11:34
siretartasac: my personal feeling is that we have less efford by proting pcsc-lite11:34
siretartasac: my personal feeling is that we have less efford by promoting pcsc-lite11:35
pittitjaalton: -all still depends on -via, but -via is NBS11:42
pittitjaalton: oh, sorry, it's just an alternative11:43
tjaaltonpitti: openchrome | via :)11:43
tkamppeterpitti, finished the telecon?12:00
asacpitti: ok. so given what siretart said, can you look at the partial MIR for pcsc-lite?12:13
pittitkamppeter: hal-log-without-usblp.txt is 0 bytes, hmm; can you send that one again?12:24
snadgewho looks after xen?12:29
snadgenobody? :P12:31
pittiasac: ok, promoting12:32
pittisnadge: try asking zul12:34
pittiI'm offline for a bit to reinstall my laptop, bbl12:35
sorensnadge: #ubuntu-xen?12:35
asacpitti: you rock13:06
asacsiretart: ^^13:06
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tkamppeterpitti, it seems to be not possible any more. I do13:11
tkamppetersudo hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no 2>&1 | tee /tmp/hal.log13:11
tkamppeterI get the screen full of messages and /tmp/hal.log has always 0 bytes. tee turned to a no-op13:11
tkamppeterpitti, I retry without tee13:12
ScottKpitti: (see I found the 't' key this time) Thanks for all the backports.13:13
tkamppeterpitti, here it is, I am approaching slowly ...13:15
tkamppeterpitti, the new usb backend of CUPS 1.4 (http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/backend/usb-libusb.c) checks the interface class, whether it is 7 (USB_CLASS_PRINTER, /usr/include/usb.h).13:17
tkamppeterWith HAL one can do this, too. see lshal-without-usblp.txt, section starting with "udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_7317_CNK2N34563_if0'", line "usb.interface.class = 7  (0x7)  (int)".13:19
tkamppeterpitti, only thing missing in the lshal output without usblp is the device ID, hal_lpadmin script could poll it from the printer.13:20
tkamppeterThe new USB CUPS backend also polls the device ID from the printer.13:21
tkamppeterpitti, using libusb13:22
siretartasac: pitti :)13:23
asacanyone here with a b43 wifi driver on intrepid?13:24
NikratioIs there some python-apport guy around here?13:30
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mvoanyone here with plenty of diskspace and a kvm capable machine who would want to test the sandbox-upgrader? http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16299860/sandbox-upgrader_0.1%2Bbzr20080724-0ubuntu1%7Eppa1_all.deb13:31
BenCsiretart: No idea off hand13:55
pittire14:15
pittiso, that went reasonably well, aside from my network connection being painfully slow ATM14:15
pittitkamppeter: did you manage to get the hal log in the end?14:16
pittitkamppeter: you sent me one, I wonder why it worked once, but not the second time...14:16
pittitkamppeter: right, adding the capability based on device class shouldn't be a problem14:16
pittitkamppeter: however, it concerns me that the entire device disappears14:17
seb128ogra: there?14:27
pittiseb128: is it just me, or did seahorse's ssh agent get broken for you today, too? I get "Agent admitted failure to sign using the key"14:28
seb128pitti: iz gnome-keyring agent and gnome bug #54455414:28
ubottuGnome bug 544554 in general "ssh agent doesn't work correctly" [Normal,Unconfirmed] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54455414:28
pittiseb128: merci!14:28
seb128de rien ;-)14:28
tkamppeterpitti, I have sent you a new version. Try that one.14:30
tkamppeterSee also my e-mail about printer detection without usblp.14:31
DktrKranzseb128: is it related to gnupg agent too?14:33
seb128DktrKranz: what gnupg agent, what too?14:33
cjwatsonogra: openssh 5.1p1 in intrepid now, enjoy14:34
seb128gnome-keyring doesn't do gpg agent if that's the question14:34
DktrKranzseb128: seahorse-agent is not working, it was moved to another source package (I read it from your changelog entry), I though it was related to the gnome bug above14:35
seb128DktrKranz: there is no seahorse-agent in intrepid14:35
seb128but no14:35
seb128gnome-keyring does ssh agent and it's installed correctly14:36
DktrKranzok, I'll try to figure out what's wrong here, thanks14:36
seb128yeah, upstream xrandr capplet code landing in intrepid, we will be able to reduce delta and send bugs upstream now ;-)14:41
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pittiseb128: is that similar to our's?14:45
* pitti likes the current capplet14:45
pittior did our's went upstream? (I hope)14:46
seb128pitti: yes14:46
seb128well, technical it's rh's capplet14:46
seb128they did 95% of the job14:46
seb128we just used their patch for hardy, integrated and fixed some issues14:46
seb128they landed that upstream now14:46
pittiArneGoetje: ah, seems I forgot to drop the ispell dictionaries from *-support-writing; doing now14:57
tkamppeterpitti, upstream bug #1 (or better feature request) on hal-cups-utils reported: https://fedorahosted.org/hal-cups-utils/ticket/114:57
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1 in ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share" [Critical,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/114:58
pittibug #1! wow14:58
ubottupitti: Error: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: The read operation timed out (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1/+text)14:58
dokoinfinity, tjaalton: see https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b11-2ubuntu1/+build/676462  now the first xvfb-run succeeds, the second doesn't ...14:59
pittitkamppeter: nice, thanks14:59
tkamppeterpitti, but do not think that hal-cups-utils is perfect software, free of bugs. Tim Waugh moved it from his private box to fedorahosted only 1 week ago.15:01
tkamppeterpitti, as you are more HAL expert than me, your patch for 10-hal_lpadmin.fdi is welcome.15:02
pittitkamppeter: I'll get to that; it's probably best if I try and fix that locally15:03
pittiArneGoetje: done15:04
kirklandpitti: good morning!  i was wondering if there's anything else need by me on the MIRs for opencryptoki, and ultimately ecryptfs?15:04
pittikirkland: I haven't taken a look at MIRs for three days or so, sorry15:05
pittikirkland: I'll get to it, promised15:05
kirklandpitti: ;-)  okay, no problem.... i thought someone told me fridays were MIR days, so I've been waiting until today to ask :-)15:05
pittikirkland: friday is my archive day; for MIRs there's no magic day usually :)15:06
kirklandpitti: ah, gotcha :-)15:06
kirklanddoko: did you have a chance to take another look at opencryptoki?  i comprehensive replaced all of the hardcoded 2048 path elements with a #define'd global15:08
dokooops, yes, the week didn't end yet ;)15:08
kirklanddoko: :-)15:09
pittiseb128: FYI, ronne has good intrepid chroots now (thanks lamont!), I moved the retracers into intrepid dchroots; that should stop the crashes in the intrepid fakechroots15:17
seb128pitti: oh, excellent, thanks!15:18
seb128pitti: btw, sent a gnome-panel SRU your way, ogra was waiting on it, he needs to ability to prevent gnome-panel moves by dnd for some devices where is create issues15:18
kirklandhi seb128, can you take a look the patch for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/251375 ?15:20
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251375 in gdm "gdm init script should support the 'status' action" [Wishlist,Triaged]15:20
seb128kirkland: hi, not today, I'm officially on holiday so I try to not get caught it too many things, trying to catch up on SRU waiting and stop working then15:21
kirklandseb128: gotcha, have fun ;-)15:21
seb128thanks15:21
seb128(do we really need a status action there?)15:21
seb128(otherwise patch seems to be good)15:22
kirklandseb128: we're trying to add that to as many init scripts as possible15:22
kirklandseb128: at least those with daemons15:22
kirklandseb128: we're focusing on sever pacakages, but an enterprising volunteer from the community decided to patch gdm15:23
seb128alright, I don't see that being really useful but it doesn't hurt either15:23
kirklandseb128: we're trying to 'encourage' community participation on this one ;-)15:23
seb128right :-)15:23
kirklandseb128: thx!15:24
seb128I'll include it in the next upload, commenting on the bug to say that now15:24
pittiseb128: 90_from_svn_fix_random_position_changes.patch15:24
pittiseb128: ... looks weird; what does that do?15:24
pittiseb128: by default we have both a top and a bottom panel15:24
kirklandcjwatson: I took a different approach with the usplash_write EACCES error, was wondering if you could review15:24
pittiso it seems to 'unconfigure' one and 'configure' the other?15:24
cjwatsonkirkland: ok, where?15:24
kirklandcjwatson: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25165615:25
seb128pitti: it fixes typos in the key names15:25
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251656 in lsb "lsb calls to usplash_write should fail silently" [Undecided,Triaged]15:25
seb128pitti: top was used at some place for bottom config, probably extra copy or something15:25
pittiseb128: so there is no 'top_panel' really?15:25
seb128pitti: there is, but that's a different section which was correct and doesn't need to be changed15:26
cjwatsonkirkland: I'm not sure, personally I'd prefer changing usplash_write to avoid discarding other error messages15:26
pittiseb128: ok15:26
kirklandcjwatson: ah, really?  okay, no problem.... i have that patch too :-)15:26
seb128pitti: I expect bottom has been made by copying the top config and they forgot to change some instances15:26
cjwatsonkirkland: but I don't seriously object to either I suppose, it's just that as a general rule 2>/dev/null should be wielded with caution15:26
seb128pitti: the patch comes from upstream and has been verified working in intrepid already15:26
pittiargh15:26
kirklandcjwatson: to me, it's really a difference of who decides to throw away that message15:26
seb128pitti: arg?15:26
pittiseb128: I already set the bugs as "accepted", but actual acceptin gfails15:26
kirklandcjwatson: either done across the board with upslash_write itself15:27
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cjwatsonkirkland: not really, the lsb patch throws away all possible errors15:27
kirklandcjwatson: or letting the caller decide15:27
pittiseb128: FAILED: gnome-panel (The source gnome-panel - 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu2 is already accepted in ubuntu/intrepid and you cannot upload the same version within the same distribution. You have to modify the source version and re-upload.)15:27
cjwatsonkirkland: the usplash_write patch throws away that one specific error15:27
seb128urg15:27
kirklandcjwatson: hmm, that's true too15:27
seb128pitti: changing the version and reuploading15:27
pittiseb128: 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu1.1 plz :)15:27
cjwatsonkirkland: depends whether you're confident that nobody will ever have to debug any other problem with usplash_write, really :)15:27
kirklandcjwatson: okay, let me brew some coffee, and I'll post the patch to usplash write15:27
kirklandcjwatson: :-P15:27
seb128pitti: uploaded15:28
Riddellmvo: do we allow utf8 in package descriptions?15:28
cjwatsonwe *mandate* UTF-8 in package descriptions, IIRC ;-)15:28
Riddellgood, lots of twiddly characters in this language name15:29
cjwatsonactually policy 3.8.0 doesn't say15:30
cjwatsonI guess it depends whether ddtp will explode15:30
pittiseb128: oh, F***, in the intrepid dchroot the hardy fakechroot doesn't work any more; switching back to hardy dchroot then, and we'll live with the segfaults (they shouldn't hurt too much, just break fakechroot upgrades every now and then)15:32
kirklandcjwatson: okay, new patch attached to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/25165615:33
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251656 in usplash "lsb calls to usplash_write should fail silently" [Undecided,Triaged]15:33
pittihm, seems that compiz forgot how to virtual display desktops in several rows (2 by 2 instead of 4 by 1)15:48
seb128pitti: ccsm, preferences, make sure you are using the gconf backend there15:49
pittihm, installing15:50
seb128pitti: it likely fallbackend to the text one, which breaks the layout and the shortcuts to switch workspaces15:50
pittiis that compizconfig-settings-manager or simple-ccsm?15:50
* pitti keeps getting confused about these two15:51
seb128compizconfig-settings-manager but simple-ccsm is the recommended one nowadays15:52
seb128I still have ccsm installed and I don't know if you can change the backend using the other one15:52
seb128but you can try ;-)15:52
pittiI installed c-c-s-m now15:52
pittiseb128: right, it seems to have forgotten all my settings (focus-follows-mouse, too, etc.)15:53
pittiand keybindingd15:53
seb128pitti: what backend is used? click on preferences in the sidebar to get the option tab15:54
pittiah, there, I was still searching15:55
pittiright, text15:55
seb128change to gconf15:55
pittihah fun, that did it15:55
pittimy ws switcher looks funny now, but I guess a session restart will do15:56
pittiseb128: btw, where does it save *that* setting (text/gconf); in gconf? :-)15:56
seb128pitti: .config/compiz/compizconfig/config15:57
* pitti hugs seb12815:57
pittihush, hush, you are on holiday!15:57
* seb128 hugs pitti15:57
seb128pitti: going to upload a gvfs sru too, I didn't start on the computer before 3pm so that's alright ;-)15:58
pittisebner: for your amusement: workspace switcher in a workspace switcher: http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/tmp/ws.png :)16:00
* ion_ ewws the blurry font16:01
pittisebner: sorry, tab error16:01
pittiseb128 already offline...16:01
pittiion_: what's wrong with it?16:02
seb128pitti: no, just restarted GNOME to try this gvfs update16:02
ion_pitti: The blur. :-) As long as our monitors’ resolutions are what they are now, partially translucent subpixels should be avoided where possible.16:03
seb128pitti: gvfs sru sent your way now16:03
pittiseb128: for your amusement: workspace switcher in a workspace switcher: http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/tmp/ws.png :)16:04
seb128pitti: lol, try switching between no desktop effects and normal again16:04
pittiseb128: nah, that will again destroy the placing of all my windows16:04
pittiseb128: I guess it'll fix itself on next login16:04
seb128could do16:05
seb128otherwise do what I said16:05
seb128the compiz workspace to viewport conversion code still has some bugs16:05
mvoRiddell: utf-8 should be fine, that is what ddtp uses too16:15
joaopintoHello, I am working on package for wich the software is distributed under GPL-2, and the artwork under FAL (Free Artwork License), is this latest license accepted for universe ?16:23
cjwatsonlink for the FAL?16:26
cjwatsonis this http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ ?16:26
joaopintoyes16:26
joaopintowell, v1.2 on this software16:27
cjwatsonjoaopinto: having looked at 1.3, I *think* it's OK16:28
cjwatsonfeel free to upload it, and if the archive admin on duty is unhappy with it they'll speak to you16:28
joaopintook thanks :)16:29
kirklandcjwatson: did that usplash_write patch look better to ya?16:31
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Milyardols16:55
devfilwhen will archives be resynced?17:13
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cr3Keybuk: upstart question for you: is there a way to set a delay so that a command is run after everything has been initialized?17:24
* cr3 needs to jet, brb17:24
Keybukcr3: -v17:27
LucidFoxWhy aren't packages being moved from ACCEPTED to DONE?17:31
cjwatsondevfil: err ...?17:31
cjwatsonthe publisher is still apparently running17:31
cjwatsonoh, huh, seems to be stuck on a lock17:31
cjwatson-r--r--r-- 1 lp_publish lp_publish 1 Jul 25 08:03 /srv/launchpad.net/ubuntu-archive/cron.daily.lock17:32
LucidFoxcan it be reset?17:32
cjwatsonit is in fact still running, WTF17:32
cjwatsonLucidFox: anything *can* be done, I'm trying to figure out what's a good idea ;-)17:32
cjwatsonLucidFox: I've killed it, but can't guarantee it will work next time17:45
gaspapitti: added recommends and lpia to nbs handling.18:05
keesjdstrand: I'm going to shove my font bolding patches into vte.18:19
jdstrandsounds good to me18:19
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* ogra hugs cjwatson 18:30
cr3Keybuk: to be more verbose on my query about running an upstart event later, I think my script is failing because dbus wasn't initialized first. so, I added a 10 second delay before running my script and it works but I'm wondering if there's a better way18:34
Keybukcr3: what is your script?18:36
cr3Keybuk: hwtest which, if preseeded to do so, can potentially run at startup18:38
cr3Keybuk: or did you want everything I defined for my event at the exec line?18:38
Keybukit uses dbus?18:38
cr3Keybuk: well, it gathers information through hal which, in turn, uses dbus18:39
Keybukright18:39
Keybukwhen do you run it?18:39
cr3runlevel 2 and 318:39
Keybukstart on runlevel [23] ?18:40
cr3Keybuk: exactly18:40
Keybukthat won't work so well18:40
Keybukbut I guess you know that, which is why you're asking me ;)18:40
cr3Keybuk: right, I don't understand how I can determine when it would be proper for the script to run18:41
Keybukstart on stopped rc[23]18:41
cr3Keybuk: aha! now I understand, that'll run after the respective rc scripts have run. so, since there's an S12dbus, I should be good to go18:42
cr3err, an S12dbus for rc218:42
Keybukexctkly18:43
cr3Keybuk: cheers man, glad I used upstart rather than init :)18:44
keesslangasek: based on the discussions about openssl, it sounds like "drop sslv2 support and wait for complaints" is the consensus?  if you agree, I'll upload ivoks's patch...18:57
slangasekkees: yes, that's fine with me18:57
slangaseknot that my agreement is necessarily a yardstick for "consensus" :)18:57
keesslangasek: true, but for the people involved in the discussion, it seemed like you were the last to have stronger hesitations.18:58
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emgentheya18:59
infinitykees: Well, as pointed out, gnutls already doesn't support it, so parts of the distro are already gimped in that fashion (like OpenLDAP), so may as well make the gimping complete and consistent.19:02
keesinfinity: yeah, I agree.19:03
infinitykees: I can't see making a strong argument for "OpenLDAP shouldn't support old protocols, but Apache should".19:03
infinity(Seriously, anyone connecting to apache with Mosaic can die)19:03
* Darklock prefers the Mosaic Killer :-D19:04
infinityOr, more realistically, anyone who still has Mosaic, IE3.0, NS2.0, whatever, can probably figure out how to download a newer browser over plain HTTP, so they can then use HTTPS. :)19:05
infinity(Which isn't actually as easy as it sounds... I installed NT4.0 for kicks a couple of years ago and discovered that IE3.0 really can't render anything well enough to even FIND a new browser, and had to resort to ftp.exe)19:05
broonie~6 years ago it was a struggle convincing it to talk to the MS update site to install any security or other updates :/19:07
sommerslangasek: just fyi, I merged your changes and re-worked the samba file and print sections to not use security=share... I appreciate your feedback19:14
slangaseksommer: great, thanks for your work :)19:14
sommerslangasek: also, you mentioned that enabling acls doesn't require a remount, but I only see the option in the tune2fs man page as a mount option.  am I missing something?19:15
slangaseksommer: oh, it's possible that it still requires a remount to be seen by the kernel19:15
slangaseksommer: I just meant it's preferable to have it set as an attribute of the filesystem itself, rather than a mount option in /etc/fstab19:16
sommerslangasek: okay, just wanted to double check, because that's the only way I could get it to work19:16
slangaseksince mounting a device without acls can sometimes accidentally give users *more* permissions than is intended under the acls that are present19:16
sommerslangasek: ah gotcha, there's also a new Samba and LDAP section if you have time to review it :)19:17
slangasekprobably not today, but some time. :)19:18
sommercool no big rush19:18
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petHi. I'm trying to build a package in my Personal Package Archive. One of the Build-Deps is in hardy-proposed, which doesn't seem to be available for the builder. How can I build the package, without waiting for the package to be available in the "hardy" pocket.19:50
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slangasekpet: does PPA accept uploads to hardy-proposed?20:07
slangaseknote that build-deps in the hardy-proposed pockets /never/ reach the hardy pocket, only the hardy-updates pocket; so hopefully PPAs use -updates when building (I don't know)20:07
petslangasek: I got an "Rejected: PPA uploads must be for the RELEASE pocket."-error when trying to build it in hardy-proposed20:09
slangasekthen I guess you'll have to wait, sorry20:09
slangasekor build it somewhere other than in a PPA20:10
petI'd been thinking to build the required package (actually a kernel package) in my own PPA, but i think it's a spoil of resources20:11
petslangasek: thanks for your time20:21
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jdstrandslangasek: hi!20:38
slangasekjdstrand: 'lo20:38
jdstrandslangasek: I wonder if in bug #249881 these aren't omitted by design20:38
ubottuLaunchpad bug 249881 in openldap "Hardy slapd server is not supporting sasl/external authentication" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24988120:38
jdstrandslangasek: eg, if you use ldapi://, you see EXTERNAL, but also PLAIN and LOGIN20:39
jdstrandslangasek: if you use ldap:// you don't get those three20:39
slangasekjdstrand: the fact that it's omitted may be a symptom of the underlying problem (external auth unavailable), but I don't see how it could be by design20:40
jdstrandslangasek: maybe a safety 'feature' that crept in?20:40
slangasekI don't know20:40
jdstrandslangasek: well, PLAIN and LOGIN go away too-- they are plaintext20:40
slangaseksure20:40
jdstrandslangasek: ISTR some setting that turns this off...20:41
slangasekyes; but 'external' isn't considered a plaintext method, AFAIK?20:41
jdstrandI don't know20:41
jdstrandssf? is that what it is?20:41
* jdstrand goes to look20:41
slangasekthe option is 'sasl-secprops none' to allow plaintext20:42
slangasekso you can try setting that, to see if it makes EXTERNAL available over ldap://20:42
slangasekthe other possibility is that something's gone wrong in the gnutls/sasl interaction, to make it think that there's no external auth method available20:43
slangasekbut this was /supposed/ to have been addressed explicitly in the gnutls port of openldap, so I don't know20:43
jdstrandslangasek: it would seem odd that that were the case, since ldapi works-- unless you are saying the gnutls is somehow not used with ldapi20:44
slangasekI would be surprised if the gnutls were used with ldapi, it's kinda pointless :)20:44
jdstrandah yes, sasl-secprops with 'minssf'-- that was what I was thinking of20:44
slangasekit's possible that over ldapi, sasl is offering a different sort of 'external' auth, in the form of peer creds20:45
slangasekunix socket peer creds, that is20:45
jdstrand*shrug*20:45
jdstrandI'll check with sasl-secprops none20:45
slangasekyes, that'll tell which one of us is right :)20:45
jdstrandslangasek: oh, I'm not actually asserting rightness mind you! just thinking out loud :)20:46
jdstrandslangasek: FWIW, dapper behaves the same20:49
slangasekon both ldapi and ldap?20:49
slangasekI thought this was reported to be a regression20:49
jdstrandslangasek: I mean it is the same as hardy20:49
slangasekok20:50
jdstrandslangasek: LOGIN, PLAIN and EXTERNAL show up with ldapi, but not ldap20:50
jdstrandcertainly doesn't seem like a regression20:50
slangasekthe submitter says it worked on dapper20:51
jdstrandwell, that was a 2.2 -> 2.3 update, maybe he/she forgot to add something20:51
slangasekfwiw, there was just a bug report in Debian saying that external fails to work now against their AD(!) LDAP server, where it worked before20:51
jdstrandor the upgrade stripped it out20:51
slangasekso it could be a client problem20:51
slangasekrather, a client and server problem, since the submitter here says he tested with fedora ldapsearch too20:52
jdstrandI of course mean 2.2 -> 2.420:52
jdstrandslangasek: I am testing dapper client and server, and hardy client and server20:52
slangasekalso, the submitter says that PLAIN and LOGIN *are* allowed mechs over ldaps20:53
jdstrandhaven't tested ldaps20:53
slangasekanyway, I'll stop kibbitzing now; let me know what you find with sasl-props none20:53
slangaseksasl-secprops, too20:54
jdstrandslangasek: sasl-secprops one pops up PLAIN and LOGIN, but no EXTERNAL20:55
jdstrands/one/none/20:55
slangasekright20:55
slangasekso I think it's the gnutls integration that's broken20:55
slangasekyou could test /that/ by recompiling against openssl20:56
jdstrandslangasek: and again, dapper behaves the same way20:56
slangasekhum, ok20:57
jdstrandslangasek: well, I wan't actually planning to go that far ;) I was just updating qa-regression-testing and thought I'd share my findings :)20:57
slangasekwell, what about a test with an actual trusted client cert?20:57
slangasek(or are you already doing that?)20:57
jdstrandslangasek: I do plan to add ldaps for this test, but won't have it today20:58
slangasekit ought to work with tls anyway20:58
slangasekbut if you aren't testing where you have a trusted client cert, I'm not surprised if EXTERNAL isn't reported as a valid mech20:59
slangaseksince in that case, there are no external creds to validate against20:59
jdstrandslangasek: ok21:03
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mochahello, any devs here?21:27
jpdsmocha: This is the Ubuntu developer channel. Welcome.21:28
mochaI wanted to talk about backporting Alsa 1.0.17 to Hardy21:28
jpdsmocha: I'd try: #ubuntu-motu .21:28
mochaoh, okay I'll give that a shot21:28
mochathanks21:29
Chipzzjpds: incorrect21:36
Chipzzjpds: alsa is main, and hence the relevant channel is this one21:36
Chipzzmocha: jpds was incorrect in referring you to #ubuntu-motu ; feel free to ask your question here21:37
mochaChipzz: hello21:37
mochaI was just wondering if Alsa 1.0.17 will be updated or backported to Hardy21:37
Chipzzmocha: though I'm not sure I can be of much help for your specific question21:37
crimsun_mocha: no.21:38
mocha1.0.17 fixes a lot of really annoying issues with the Intel HDA specifically the AD1988 chip21:38
mochacrimsun_: why not? because of LTS?21:38
crimsun_mocha: if you're referring to -driver, then that's a possibility for linux-backports-modules-2.6.24.21:39
Chipzzmocha: alsa is a very central library; updating it may break a lot of stuff21:39
mochaChipzz: I realize that, I can tell you in Feisty I manually updated Alsa to 1.0.1621:39
jpdsChipzz: OK, sorry.21:40
mochaI probably will do it for Hardy if there are no plans to update the repositories with it21:40
Chipzzmocha: you are of course free to update it yourself :) but having it as an update for an LTS may negatively affect a lot of people, hence such an update has to be considered very vcarefully21:40
Chipzz!release21:41
ubottuUbuntu releases a new version every 6 months. Each version is supported for 18 months to 5 years. More info at http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases & http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases21:41
crimsun_mocha: the revelant component aside from -driver is -lib, and even 1.0.16 has shown regressions.21:41
mochacrimsun_: aren't those regressions fixed in 1.0.17?21:41
crimsun_mocha: no21:41
mochacrimsun_: are they with a specific card?21:42
Chipzzmocha: even if they were, new regressions could have been introduced21:42
crimsun_mocha: I'm referring to -lib, not -driver.21:42
mochahmm, well I realize this involves a lot of testing on your part21:42
mochaGenerally speaking, if I manually update my modules and something goes wrong, can I just purge and reinstall alsa from the repositories?21:43
Chipzzmocha: generally speaking: yes, but a downgrade is always manual21:43
mochaChipzz: even if you purge?21:44
Chipzzso you cannot easily push a downgrade once you realize an update is broken21:44
crimsun_mocha: if by "modules" you only mean the driver, then erasing the newer ones (with find, etc.) and reinstalling linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r) should suffice.21:44
Chipzzmocha: no, not then. but as I said, purging involves manual interaction21:44
crimsun_(alternately, you could wait until Debian and Ubuntu have 1.0.17, then request backports of -driver and -lib)21:45
mochacrimsun_: ?  won't driver, lib, utils, etc all be updated to 1.0.17?21:45
crimsun_mocha: that is improbable for hardy-updates but possible for hardy-backports21:46
mochaChipzz: It was always my understanding that by manually updating alsa driver, lib, and utils, that the manually compiled and installed files simply overwrite the files from the packages from the repositories21:47
mochaso if something goes wrong it was just a matter of purging -driver -lib -utils and then reinstalling from the repositories21:48
mochathe "21:48
crimsun_that is mostly the case.  Doing so also strews files that aren't part of the packages on your fs.21:48
Chipzzmocha: ah yes, in that way; I was assuming you were referring to a proper way (ie with packages) ;)21:48
mochathe "reinstalled" files would go back to 1.0.1621:48
mochacrimsun_: what do you mean?21:49
crimsun_e.g., /etc/init.d/alsasound, /usr/sbin/alsaconf21:49
mochacrimsun_: but those files are part of the repository packages, so they would get rewritten with 1.0.1621:50
crimsun_mocha: no, those files are -not- part of Ubuntu's packages.21:50
asacanyone here with hardy + b43 wifi chip?21:50
crimsun_asac: yes.21:50
mochawhere did they come from then?21:50
asaccrimsun_: cool ... can you please paste the lshal output somewhere?21:50
crimsun_mocha: they are part of the upstream alsa-driver tarball that Ubuntu does not install.21:51
crimsun_asac: do you mean hardware driven by the b43 driver or bcm43xx hardware generally?21:51
mochacrimsun_: ok, well how would a person get them on an Ubuntu system then?  because I have them21:52
asaccrimsun_: i think b43 driver is what matters here ;)21:52
crimsun_mocha: you would get them by compiling and installing alsa-driver from upstream.21:53
crimsun_asac: ok, then I retract that (I have to use ndiswrapper currently for this 4315)21:53
mochacrimsun_: I think we are just confusing ourselves.  Obviously there was some package in the repository that put them on my system.21:54
asaccrimsun_: does b43 work at all for you?21:54
crimsun_asac: on another system with bcm4311 rev 01, yes.  On this system with bcm4315, no.21:55
asacok21:55
asacthanks21:55
MaximLevitskyIs adding support for easy edit of labels to nautilus considered for ubuntu?21:55
crimsun_mocha: no Ubuntu or Debian package owns /etc/init.d/alsasound, and only Debian's alsa-utils package owns /usr/sbin/alsaconf.21:56
mochacrimsun_: okay, so I got alsaconf from alsa-utils 1.0.1621:57
crimsun_(note that Ubuntu has not shipped alsaconf since warty)21:57
mochawell, this is strange then21:58
mochaI will have to double check21:58
mochaI don't want to keep taking your time, but I think later I will attempt a manual install because I've been waiting for about a year for these bugs to get fixed and I got excited today when I went to Alsa webpage and saw the final release of 1.0.1721:59
mochaThe changelog was even more exciting21:59
crimsun_it's your system; "off you go".22:00
mochaFYI, there is a thread in the Ubuntu forums where a guy made a script to download and compile and install -driver -lib -utils, and then he has another script that moves snd-intel-hda.ko to the proper directory22:01
mochaI don't know if that is necessary since I didn't do that in Feisty22:01
crimsun_it's necessary due to the default path to snd-hda-intel.ko.22:02
mochaOkay, I'll make sure I put the modules in the proper places then22:02
crimsun_[and by "default", I mean the one installed by linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)]22:02
mochaheheh, maybe when I did this in Feisty it never actually updated the module22:03
ScottK-palmpitti: If you're still around, the sauerbraten backport wanted the sauerbraten-data package too and it's uninstallable until that gets done ...22:03
mochaI never checked /proc/asound/version or whatever file shows the version22:03
crimsun_mocha: feisty had no such issues with paths.22:04
mochacrimsun_: why is that?22:04
crimsun_mocha: because feisty was the last Ubuntu release to not modify the installed path for ALSA modules.22:05
ScottK-palm ... or any other archive admin ...22:05
mochacrimsun_: ah ha.  Finally you have just stated the question I originally had22:06
mochaI was wondering about that, if the alsa modules location had changed22:06
mochaSo I guess the conclusion is that I better be careful, if I check the current location of snd-intel-hda.ko and make sure that the manually compiled one goes there, is that sufficient?22:07
* ScottK-palm notices the battery level on his phone and quits ...22:09
mochacrimsun_: do you happen to know of the ubuntuforums thread I'm talking about, sorry can't find the link right now22:10
crimsun_mocha: no.  You need to ensure that your intended snd-hda-intel.ko is lexicographically sorted first.22:10
crimsun_mocha: vaguely, yes.22:11
mochacrimsun_: lexicographically sorted???22:11
mochawhat is that in simple english?22:11
crimsun_mocha: dictionary/alphabet-wise22:11
mochawell why wouldn't it be sorted that way?22:11
crimsun_mocha: because upstream installs into kernel/sound, whereas Ubuntu uses ubuntu/sound22:12
mochaOK, yes that is what we were already talking about22:13
mochagot it22:13
mochathat is what the guy's second script does22:13
mochaI've run into this same issue when compiling modules for wi-fi cards on Gutsy22:14
crimsun_err, sorry, I meant "sort last" above instead of "sorted first".22:14
mochaI have to copy the new module into /ubuntu/whatever because otherwise the older module still gets loaded22:15
crimsun_anything dictionary-wise after 'ubuntu' will suffice.22:15
mochameaning that any modules loaded into the dir blah/ubuntu/xxxx will get loaded?22:16
crimsun_if you intend your self-compiled version to take precedence, you need it in a path that sorts "after" ubuntu/sound22:17
crimsun_note that you can pass --with-moddir= to alsa-driver's configure script.22:17
crimsun_anyhow, ping me offline in #ubuntu if you have further questions, please.22:18
mochaOk, I think I understand22:18
mochaI will just make sure to take account of where snd-intel-hda.ko is currently and what files are installed from the repository before I do the manual install22:19
mochaanyway, I appreciate your time, thanks very much, I love linux22:20
crimsun_anytime.22:20
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lionfishHello all. I asked in #ubuntu, but maybe this is the right place: I thought I'd give USB driver development a go, and tried compiling some of the drivers already there to start with...23:15
lionfish...I posted a question on the forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86928423:15
lionfishwith the detail.23:15
lionfish*details23:15
lionfish(bbiab)23:18
choudeshlionfish, do you have the kernel headers package installed?23:18
lionfishhey. Yup.23:19
lionfishI also downloaded the source code too.23:19
lionfishI assume there's probably an easy way of compiling them that I've just not figured out yet...23:20
lionfishI could pastebin the whole error if you want (I just wrote the first few lines to give an idea of the error)23:20
choudeshuse /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r) for -I paths23:22
lionfishoh right...23:22
choudeshalso try running make from the kernel root23:23
lionfishooh, good thinking.23:23
choudeshand you make need to kconfig config USB_LD23:24
choudeshI am too hungery to actually look23:24
lionfishah23:24
lionfishawesome, thanks for the pointers.23:24
lionfishum, is it even supposed to be possible to compile these files separately?23:28
tormodlionfish: you want to compile only a subtree of the kernel?23:32
lionfishI guess so, sorry I'm possibly trying something too advanced for my knowledge.23:33
lionfishI'm just trying to compile one driver.23:33
lionfish(in this case drivers/usb/misc/usbled.c) but it could be any driver.23:33
tormodlionfish: I did it once, made some notes in a forum post. (searching)23:33
lionfish(indeed my plan is to write my own driver... for my scope, which doesn't seem to have a linux driver for it)23:34
lionfishcool, awesome. thanks!23:34
tormodlionfish: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27962823:35
tormodlionfish: in many cases you don't need to make a kernel driver, you can use libusb instead23:36
lionfishYeah...23:36
lionfish...I might have to look into that a bit more...23:36
lionfishIt's for a scope,23:36
lionfishso it uses uh, ah, can't remember the word: When it allows the device to spew lots of data.23:36
tormodstreaming23:36
lionfishhang on.23:37
tormodlink to manufacturer?23:37
lionfishit's embarrassing!23:37
lionfishit's a Hantek DSO-2100 USB scope... http://www.hantek.com.cn/english/jianjie.asp23:37
lionfish(the page makes me want to cry)23:37
lionfishBut it was an ebay cheapy, so I guess I get what I pay for.23:38
lionfishIts front page has sentences such as "antek is willing to display own quantity of heat to provide the sunlight enthusiasm and the service for all customers."23:38
tormod"own quantity of heat" lol23:38
tormodis it the 2150 model? I can't see 210023:40
lionfish(It's at the bottom of the download list)23:40
lionfish(If you're looking there)23:40
lionfish(for the windows driver)23:40
* lionfish tries clicking on "fist"23:41
lionfishah, no that's probably "first"23:41
lionfishwell, it's on this page: http://www.hantek.com.cn/english/produce.asp?page=2&classid=1123:42
lionfishbut clicking on it takes me to a frightening page http://www.hantek.com.cn/english/produce.asp?page=2&classid=1123:42
lionfishanyway, doesn't matter. Kinda wonder if it's worth writing a driver for - or I could just dual boot.23:42
lionfishWas partly doing it for other people who might need it.23:42
lionfishI'll look into using usblib anyway.23:43
lionfishsorry libusb.23:43
tormodhow much are these cards?23:43
lionfishUh, I don't know how much they're supposed to be I got this for about £5023:46
lionfish($100)23:46
lionfish(probably fell off the back of a lorry)23:46
tormodyou can also check out that Linux instrumentation driver project, (forgot the name)23:46
lionfishUsually a scope about 10MHz will cost ~£100 I think.23:46
lionfishbut to get over 100MHz costs a load more, and you need good probes etc...23:47
lionfish...and over 1GHz you need very good probes (need amps at the probe itself) and cleverness in the scope. There's lots of other factors though: The impedance the scope can manage, and capacitance... noise, bits/sample, etc..23:48
tormod"comedi" http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/intro.html23:49
* lionfish is going to go and read the libusb dev guide (maybe not tonight), thanks for pointing me at it agian.23:49
lionfish*again23:49
lionfishfantastic.23:50
sistpotylionfish, tormod: maybe you'd like to discuss this on another channel?23:50
lionfishIt might be worth looking inside and seeing if the chips are the same.23:50
lionfishsistpoty, oh right: Which channel should this be in?23:50
sistpotylionfish: that's a good question... not too sure actually ;)23:51
tormodnot that we are disturbing much here right now23:52
lionfishAnyway, I need to get some sleep.23:52
lionfishThanks so much for the help tormod!23:52
tormodyou're welcome, good night23:52
lionfishI should have looked more at libusb. Ty for reminding me23:52
sistpotywell, kind of... I usually watch #ubuntu-devel to see development discussion and hence look here from time to time if there's activity ;)23:52
lionfish(and comedi looks very good - hopefully I'll find that Hantek are just putting boxes around someone elses chip - quite common I find ^_^)23:53
sistpotybut granted, at this point in time, you don't disturb development too much ;)23:53
lionfishVery nice OS btw :D - It's getting very user friendly: my gf was dubious at first, but now she's telling everyone at work about it :)23:53
sistpoty:)23:54
lionfishRight, better go. Ty all! nn.23:54
sistpotycya lionfish23:54

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