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Hydranthey all... what's the official way to downgrade your kernel?00:02
RainCTHydrant: uhm.. just install an older version and change the grub configuration to use it?00:03
Hydrantwhat about headers and such for the old kernel?00:04
* Hydrant needs to recompile some things against an old kernel00:04
HydrantI installed linux-image-2.6.24-21-generic... I don't believe that has header info in it though00:07
bytor4232Does anyone know when the netboot.tar.gz and mini.iso are being updated?  They are currently broken.00:23
stgraberbytor4232: what's broken ? I used netboot.tar.gz yesterday and it worked00:23
bytor4232I assume the kernel update last night broke it.00:24
bytor4232Try using it right now.00:24
bytor4232It gets past the network configuration, and fails when it tried to download the release notes.00:24
bytor4232Tried about five different mirrors, same thing.00:24
stgraberso internet doesn't work ?00:25
bytor4232No, the hardy netboot.tar.gz works fine.00:25
jdongok this system has been unbroken for 3 days. new record. let's change that....00:25
jdongwish me luck, today is ext4dev day00:26
stgraberbytor4232: where did you get it ? the one from I'm looking at at the moment was generated on the 26th according to the http server, so that can't be the kernel update00:27
calcjdong: yea it sucks a lot00:29
calcjdong: i just try not to do much disk io00:29
bytor4232stgraber, Same timestamp.00:30
calcjdong: i didn't realize it just started happening with intrepid since i don't do very heavy disk io very often00:30
bytor4232I even tried re-downloading it.00:30
bytor4232There was a kernel update last night.00:30
bytor4232I know that during development of Intrepid when there was a kernel update, it broke the netboot.tar.gz and mini.iso.  I had to re-download it.00:30
bytor4232not re-download it, I had to download the updated version.00:31
stgraberbytor4232: nope, the kernel update was actually done on release day (TCP fix). But in this case mini.iso wasn't rebuilt and the md5 matches the one that worked for me on thursday.00:31
jdongcalc: Hardy never really felt that way00:31
stgraberbytor4232: so in your case, I'd say that your ethernet module isn't included in the initrd00:31
bytor4232stgraber, No, I can ping out.00:31
jdongcalc: I am going to try my last resort (AHCI hack) and resort after last resort (ext4dev) and if that all fails then I'm going to be doing some deeper IO layer hacking :)00:31
bytor4232stgraber, so you used the mini.iso, not netboot.tar.gz.00:32
stgraberbytor4232: no, I used netboot.tar.gz I don't have a cdrom drive on that device :)00:32
stgraberbytor4232: did you check tty4, is there an error message more useful than what the installer tells you ?00:33
bytor4232stgraber, Not sure why its not working then.00:33
stgraberbytor4232: *.archive.ubuntu.com being overloaded may be a reason (getting an http timeout), did you with a mirror outside *.archive.ubuntu.com ?00:34
bytor4232stgraber, I did check it, but it scrolled out beyond anything useful.  Does it keep a log file I can post?00:34
stgraberbytor4232: /var/log/syslog should contain the installer log00:34
bytor4232stgraber, That would be it then.  Maybe its timing out.00:34
bytor4232stgraber, all the mirrors I tried were all *.archive00:35
calcjdong: ok, is there a bug reported about this already for the kernel?00:35
jdongcalc: I haven't done a bug report yet because I really don't know what to say.00:36
stgraberbytor4232: you can try gulus.usherbrooke.ca this one isn't loaded for sure (just used by Sherbrooke's university and there isn't much Ubuntu user there :))00:36
jdongcalc: it sounds like one of those vague "yeah this is kinda slow and wasn't before" type reports that won't be terribly helpful00:37
stgraberbytor4232: then when installed revert to archive.ubuntu.com (as gulus is a bit laggy and I prefer using official mirrors)00:37
calcjdong: hmm well reporting that disk io is really really really slow (causes repaints to take minutes) and that both of us see it might help for the kernel devs to take a look at it00:37
calcit should be something they can reproduce fairly easily00:37
bytor4232stgraber, BAD signature from "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key"00:38
bytor4232There is a lot of errors on alt-f400:39
wgrantcalc, jdong: I think I first started seeing that mid-Hardy, and blamed it on LUKS eating my CPU.00:39
stgraberhmm, what the hell did they do, looks like the rsync failed in the middle of the sync ... :(00:39
calcwgrant: sorry was does LUKS expand to?00:39
wgrantcalc: Disk encryption.00:39
jdongwgrant: I think it's related to the new scheduler in Hardy/intrepid and how it interacts with CFQ00:40
wgrantI recently reinstalled without it, and it's not so bad, but it's still there.00:40
stgraberbytor4232: do you remember which *.archive.ubuntu.com you tried ?00:40
bytor4232stgrabber anna WARNING bad d-i packages file00:40
calcwgrant: oh, i have no encryption so it most likely isn't that00:40
wgrantjdong: I suspect so.00:40
stgraberbytor4232: a good part of them are actually the same overloaded servers (london) ?00:40
jdongwgrant: I also have a slight suspicion that Firefox3's sync() calls aren't helping either.00:40
bytor4232stgraber, quite a few00:40
wgrantcalc: Right, the encryption just makes it worse.00:40
wgrantjdong: Mhm.00:40
jdongwgrant: forcing 3G of write cache to disk is probably going to hurt response times!00:40
calcwgrant: ok00:40
stgraberbytor4232: did you try Switzerland ? (ch.archive.ubuntu.com) this one is not one of the London ones so shouldn't be as overloaded as the others00:40
bytor4232stgraber, Well what do you know.00:41
bytor4232stgraber, switzerland is working.  Not much of a timeout on that.00:42
calcgotta run, have to finish packing and go to bed, i have to be up at 4am to catch a flight to Beijing for OOoCon00:54
srbakerugh01:02
srbakeri'm finding intrepid to be sluggish01:02
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* ptx0-aWay is Away, Reason: ( sleep ) | Since: ( Wednesday, October 29, 2008. 01:36:44 ) Xlack v2.104:17
slangaseksuperm1: because the mythbuntu tasks aren't in the archive Packages files, iirc, and are only listed in the Packages files on the mythbuntu ISOs04:52
superm1slangasek, so would it be a sane workaround then in livecd-rootfs for now to just use the metapackage rather than the task name?04:52
slangasekI... don't know04:53
slangasekare you not already using livecd-rootfs for the liveCDs you guys build?04:53
superm1well we're doing most of what it does04:53
superm1but i wanted to switch everything over to the formal route, and get rid of our old hacks04:53
superm1and every time i've tried, too much other stuff is breaking so i've never gotten it all moved over04:54
slangasekfwiw, I've found it inconvenient before to not have the mythbuntu tasks in the archive; it would be nice to remedy that05:09
superm1do you know what needs to be poked to remedy it?05:15
slangasektalking to cjwatson about getting germinate to look at the mythbuntu seeds, I think05:15
cjwatsontorkel: I believe gutsy did work on QS22, so you could try it ...09:15
cjwatsonsuperm1: could you file a bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+filebug about the mythbuntu tasks thing, please, and let me know the bug number so that I can ack it?09:17
calc_good morning09:37
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calc_weird11:38
calc_gnome didn't update its idea of the timezone11:39
calc_but the system itself did11:39
calc_hmm now it did after looking at the time setting it automatically fixed itself11:39
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cjwatsonok, let's see if that glibc/jaunty upload builds11:46
cjwatson(on ports)11:47
* calc gone, running to the plane bbia 1 day (19-20hr flight ugh)11:55
cjwatsoncalc: safe travels11:56
* ogra wonders if it wouldnt be possible to add something like: hal-find-by-property --key info.linux.driver --string btusb ... to /etc/init.d/bluetooth and make it exit silently11:59
ograindeed in a loop for all possible BT lowlevel drivers11:59
ograhmm, could be easier done by sending a dbus message and check if org.bluez.Device exists12:07
ograaha ... dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.bluez / org.bluez.Manager.ListAdapters12:30
ograhmm12:31
ograonly works with bluetooth running ... indeed not what i want12:31
loologra: Mind hoping in #ubuntu-virt to discuss locale handling ?12:57
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* cjwatson gives back glibc/powerpc to test the hypothesis that tst-pselect is racy14:26
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superm1sure cjwatson, but 29265215:08
superm1oops bug 29265215:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 292652 in soyuz "Mythbuntu tasks not reported as installable by apt-get" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29265215:09
mohbanahi, who is is responsible for the emacs 2.3 on ubuntu. i'd like to point out that there isn't even a link to start it. it's the ver. of emacs with AA fonts17:49
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mohbanaanyone?18:07
RainCTmohbana: Ubuntu hasn't Maintainers for each package like in Debian18:07
azeemmohbana: this channel is not for bug reporting, use launchpad for that18:07
mohbanaRainCT, what u mean?18:08
RainCTmohbana: that there isn't anyone "responsible" for it, but the entire developer team maintains it18:09
jms32how to mount NTFS partition in console?18:20
mdkejms32: try #ubuntu for support18:20
jms32hm... And about what is this channal?18:21
stgraberdevelopment of Ubuntu18:22
jms32oh, sorry18:22
jms32Hm... why in ubuntu 8.10 readonhd drivers are not in standart package?18:24
mohbanahi, i've installed the adobe reader tar 'AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i486.tar.bz2' i.e., from their site19:16
mohbananow when i try and start it, it complains19:16
mohbana$ acroread19:17
mohbanaexec: 579: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: not found19:17
mohbanaplease help19:17
ScottKThen you should probably talk to them about it.19:17
ScottKWe really can't support solving problems with third party software.19:18
ScottKIn any case, #ubuntu is the support channel.19:18
s0u][ighthello what are packages that are installed on the live-cd that can be missed?19:19
ScottKmohbana: Adobe does have a .deb installation option.  You'd likely have more luck with that.19:19
mohbanaScottK, i'm on a 64bit isntall19:20
s0u][ighti need to strip the iso to a 480 mb one19:20
ScottKOh.  No idea then.19:21
s0u][ighti still need to clear up about 80 mbs software19:21
murdokhi pochu :)19:24
* pochu waves at murdok :)19:29
tlbdkhey, just stated on my first PPA project and wanted to get a little info on how it's all working19:33
ScottKtlbdk: PPA questions in #launchpad.19:34
tlbdkOK, thanks19:35
LaneyHeh, DIF on Christams day19:37
tlbdkAnother question that also might be for another channel, so sorry for that, the packages in working on is Ekiga 3.0.1 that I have working without non-free codecs.19:42
tlbdkAs it uses ffmpeg for codec support and the default version in ubuntu only has free codecs enabled.19:43
siretarttlbdk: what are 'free codecs'?19:43
tlbdkdoes the exists a version of ffmpeg with support for patent encumbered codecs(non free if you need the debian package comments)19:44
siretartEPARSEERROR19:44
tlbdksiretart, I looked in the ffmpeg package and I could several codecs where disabled do to being "nonfree code"19:46
tlbdksee19:46
siretartthat is wrong. ffmpeg does not contain any non-free code upstream19:46
siretartwhat codec do you require?19:47
tlbdkMPEG4 Part 2 and H.263+19:47
tlbdkas i understand it, they should be provided in ffmpeg19:48
siretartno idea what you mean with mpeg4 part2, but the h263 encoder is indeed disabled in the ubuntu libavcodec51 package in ubuntu intrepid19:48
siretarthowever that encoder is available in libavcodec-unstripped-51 package in intrepid/multiverse19:49
tlbdkhttp://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Additional_Information#H.264.2C_MPEG4_Part_2_and_H.263.2B_.2F_H.263-1998_using_debian_prebuild_binaries_.28maybe_working_for_UBUNTU.2C_too.2919:49
siretartthe h263 decoder OTOH is available in both versions19:49
tlbdklibavcodec-unstripped-51??19:50
tlbdkand why does the version in the end change for every release?19:50
siretartbah, that page is recommending users to fetch the broken packages from debian-multimedia.org19:51
siretartignore that page19:51
siretartthe numbers in the end are for the library versioning. google for the shared library packaging howto19:52
tlbdkok, so I need to created two different versions of the package if I want to make it both for hardy and intrepid as the depends would be different.19:55
tlbdkthe unstripped in libavcodec-unstripped-51 does that mean that it's the version with debug symbols?19:57
tlbdkand if that's the case would that not be a bad idea to depend on?19:57
siretartno, it means that the debian/strip.sh, which disables some encoders like h263 was not run before creating the source package19:57
tlbdkok, so the best option would be to create two version, one that depends on libavcodec-unstripped-51 and one that depends on libavcodec5120:01
NCommanderScottK, around?20:54
ScottKNCommander: Sure.20:57
savvashello, does anyone know if there's a way to specify /etc/security/time.conf from a different file/folder? e.g. /etc/security/time.conf.d/ ?:)21:04
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* directhex reads debian-devel@lists, notes slangasek is enjoying interaction with my current favourite DD in the whole world21:16
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cjwatsonLaney: note the question mark; that's a recognised problem and is strictly provisional22:01
cjwatsoncould somebody in ~launchpad-buildd-admins bump up glibc's build score on hppa?22:06
cjwatsonI'd like to find out whether it's going to fail22:06
Hobbseecjwatson: request granted.22:25
* Hobbsee idly wishes buildd.py worked for that, still.22:25
Hobbseecjwatson: primero's fallen over again - i presume elmo isn't awake to fix it?22:28
cjwatsonHobbsee: thanks22:28
cjwatsonelmo: ^-22:28
Hobbseecjwatson: you're welcome.22:28
cjwatson+Original author: Joe Thornber (thornber@sistina.com)22:29
* cjwatson completely misreads in the light of the current US election campaign22:29
lordhelmethey. how do i compile something with debug symbols for the standard c library with gcc?23:01
Laneycjwatson: Hm?23:22
LaneyOh, DIF23:26
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cjwatsonLaney: right23:32
LaneyYes, that seems like a problematic date23:32
cjwatsonI agree. The problem is that the other possible dates are also problematic in different ways. I've already asked various people for advice.23:39
Laneycjwatson: Are you release manager for Jaunty? Or just taking on this task?23:44
HobbseeLaney: he's part of the release team, but the release manager is slangasek23:45
* Laney nods23:45
LaneyI thought it might have rotated23:45
LordMetroidIs there a specific reason why usb wifi-peripherals required drivers to be loaded though ncurses?23:50
LordMetroid*s/d/s23:50
LordMetroid*through23:50
jdongWHOO, alsa panicked!23:54
jdongmy punishment for trying upstream 1.0.18 to see if it makes sound quirk less23:54
wgrantjdong: I blame it on ext4.23:54
jdonghaha23:55
ajmitchext4 is crack for the new generation?23:55
jdongno way, btrfs is crack :)23:55
wgrantext4 hasn't eaten my root filesystem yet.23:56
ajmitchthat's a good thing23:56
wgrantDebatable.23:57
ajmitchwould you prefer it to be eating your filesystem?23:57
wgrantProbably. It would probably stop me from using such crack in future.23:57
ajmitchsurely it'll be stable by the time 2.6.28 is released?23:58

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