/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/11/06/#ubuntu-bugs.txt

hggdhare you running X?00:00
hggdh(KDE, Gnome, etc)00:00
cllaudyugnome00:00
hggdhand this is a gnome-terminal you are executing the commands under?00:00
cllaudyuyes00:00
hggdhweird...00:00
jspirocllaudyu: do you see apport yet?00:00
cllaudyui got a error apt get terminated unexpected00:01
jspirocllaudyu: yes, that is apport00:01
hggdhin a pop-up?00:01
cllaudyunow i repport?00:01
cllaudyuyes00:01
hggdhyou wait a bit while it collects data, then it should prompt you to send the data or not00:01
hggdhselect send00:02
cllaudyuit's sending00:02
cllaudyuit was sent00:02
cllaudyuthat's it?00:02
hggdhno00:03
cllaudyumy browser opened00:03
hggdhnow you file the bug00:04
cllaudyui logged in launchpad what do i do nesxt?00:04
cllaudyunext00:04
jspirocllaudyu: hggdh told you, "now you file the bug".00:05
jspirocllaudyu:  fill in all the questions that your web browser asks you.  If you are not sure, then ask us what to type.00:05
hggdhbrb00:05
cllaudyubrowser crashed00:06
jspirocllaudyu: :(00:06
cllaudyui lost it00:06
jspirocllaudyu: then you will have to do this again:  sudo apt-get update00:06
cllaudyuif i log in again how do i do it?00:06
jspirocllaudyu: wait: which browser?00:06
cllaudyufirefox00:06
jspirocllaudyu: start Firefox again.  Applications > Internet > Firefox00:06
jspiroit may be able to take you back to where you were before the crash00:07
cllaudyuit crashed again00:07
cllaudyuno00:07
cllaudyuit didn't00:07
cllaudyuit the ubuntu home page00:07
cllaudyu:((00:07
jspirocllaudyu: ok.  quit the browser, then sudo apt-get update00:07
cllaudyusudo apt-get updated now it worked00:08
cllaudyuis this ok?00:08
jspirocllaudyu: did you get a segmentation fault?00:08
cllaudyuno00:08
cllaudyuit worked fine00:08
jspirocllaudyu: wait00:08
cllaudyuil do it again00:09
jspirocllaudyu: do you also have any other operating system than Linux?00:09
cllaudyuonly xp00:09
jspirocllaudyu: does xp work perfectly?00:09
cllaudyuno00:09
jspirocllaudyu: or have you been having crashing and other weird problems there too?00:09
cllaudyuyes00:09
jspiroif so: what kinds?00:09
cllaudyuit crashes often00:09
jspirodo you have any idea what's wrong?00:09
cllaudyuno i really don't00:10
jspirocllaudyu: how about ubuntu?  do programs crash often too?00:10
cllaudyuit just restarts for no reason00:10
cllaudyuubuntu does not restart but some programs crashes00:10
cllaudyuyes00:10
jspirocllaudyu: (in ubuntu, when programs crash, they disappear from your screen.  You might see the words "Segmentation fault" or you might not.)00:10
cllaudyui haven't seen it00:10
cllaudyumaybe if i open them in terminal00:11
jspirocllaudyu: you can start them in a terminal like this:00:11
jspirofirefox &00:11
cllaudyuxchat crashed earlyer and did got no error pop-up00:11
jspiroor: xchat &00:11
jspiroor similar00:11
cllaudyui'l try with firefox00:12
jspirocllaudyu: yes, there was no pop-up because apport was off.00:12
jspironow apport is enabled, so you will see apport every time a program crashes.00:12
cllaudyunow it's on and i'l get pop-ups00:12
cllaudyuok00:12
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cllaudyuthen00:12
cllaudyuwhen i have a chrash00:12
jspirocllaudyu: yes.  every time a program crashes, please report it.  Use your real email address.  You will get emails back if we need more information.  You will get emails also when a problem is fixed.00:12
cllaudyuwhat do i do in launchapd?00:13
jspirocllaudyu: you fill in the blanks then click "Submit".  if you need help, ask us here in this channel (#ubuntu-bugs)00:13
cllaudyuok thanks00:13
cllaudyui'l ask help at soon as i have a problem00:13
jspirocllaudyu: excellent.  by filling in apport reports, you can help make ubuntu better.00:14
jspiroall : how likely is it that cllaudyu is experiencing hardware problems which are leading to his repeated crashes?00:15
hggdhjspiro, I sort of doubt00:15
jspirowhat else could it be?00:16
hggdhsigsegv is usually memory management00:16
jspirowhat do you mean?00:16
jspiroso he doesn't have enough ram?00:16
jspirothat shouldn't mean crashing.00:16
hggdhno,00:17
cllaudyui have 256 mb ram isn't that enough?00:17
jspirocllaudyu:  I don't know.  Anyone?00:17
cllaudyu512mb ram is required of ubuntu?00:18
hggdhit is sort of on the low side, but this should not be the sigsegv cause00:18
cllaudyufor*00:18
hggdhsigsegv usually is caused by program errors on memory usage00:20
hggdhjspiro, 256M will probably limit what you can run under Gnome (before starting to trash heavily on swap space)00:22
jspirocllaudyu:  Computers use "swap" so if it runs out of RAM, it saves some of your memory to disk temporarily.  You can tell your computer is swapping when your computer becomes extremely sluggish, and the red hard-disk-usage light on the front of your desktop computer turns on continuously, for 10 seconds or more.00:23
cllaudyuok00:23
jspirocllaudyu:  I think there is a way to use the Gnome System Monitor to check on swap, but I don't know how.  And I don't have the Gnome System Monitor installed on my computer.00:23
jspiroYou have it though.00:24
cllaudyui created swap partition with 1GB if it's ok then i shouldn't have no prblms00:25
cllaudyuright?00:25
cllaudyuswap is used only 12.3%00:26
cllaudyucould my computer/programs crash if i have big CPU usage?00:27
jspirocllaudyu:  1GB is enough swap.00:32
cllaudyui had apport again00:32
cllaudyui'm on launchpad00:32
jspirocllaudyu:  I don't think they would crash more because you don't have enough RAM.00:32
cllaudyuit's a list of repports but none of them reaches to one i have00:33
jspirocllaudyu:  But if you are using more than 0% of swap, then switching back and forth between multiple programs will be slower.00:33
jspirocllaudyu:  skip the list00:33
jspirocllaudyu:  report a new bug00:33
cllaudyuand now00:33
cllaudyuwhat info cand i write???00:34
jspirocllaudyu:  which program crashed?00:34
jspirocllaudyu:  what was the last thing you did?00:34
jspiro(if you remember)00:34
jspiroif it is a web browser, what was the last link you clicked on?00:34
cllaudyui done command sudo apt-get update in terminal00:34
jspirocllaudyu: and what did it say onscreen?00:35
cllaudyui just subbmit it?00:35
jspirocllaudyu: what did apt-get say?00:35
cllaudyuapt-get crashed with SIGSEGV00:35
jspirocllaudyu: what did it say in the terminal?00:35
cllaudyusegmantation fault00:36
jspirocllaudyu: what else?  a percentage?00:36
cllaudyuno just that00:36
cllaudyui just click on submmit00:36
jspirocllaudyu: what are the next 3 lines after the line "sudo apt-get update"?00:36
cllaudyu?00:36
jspirocllaudyu: no00:37
jspirocllaudyu: the next 3 lines in your terminal00:37
cllaudyuwait00:37
cllaudyuthe urls from where it was updating00:38
jspirocllaudyu: what is the last line before "Segmentation fault"?00:38
cllaudyucomplete chech something like it00:38
jspirocllaudyu: the exact and complete line please00:38
cllaudyuSegmentation fault (core dumped)00:39
jspirocllaudyu: what is the entire line right before that one?00:39
cllaudyuit interupted updating00:40
cllaudyuit was  aurl00:40
cllaudyuurl00:40
jspirocllaudyu: which url?  please copy and paste the whole line.00:40
cllaudyuhttp://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Sources00:40
jspirocllaudyu: 1 minute please00:41
cllaudyuok00:41
jspirocllaudyu: that was not a whole line.  It should start with Get, Ign, or Hit.00:41
jspirocllaudyu: it should end with a number or a letter.00:41
jspirocllaudyu: please try copying and pasting again :)00:42
cllaudyuok00:42
cllaudyuAtins http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages00:42
cllaudyuAtins http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Sources00:42
cllaudyuAtins http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Sources00:42
cllaudyuAdus 6511B în 1s (5665B/s)00:42
cllaudyuSegmentation fault (core dumped)00:42
cllaudyuis this ok?00:42
jspirocllaudyu: yes00:42
jspirocllaudyu: then title the report this: apt-get segfaulted right after "Got 6511B in 1s" when I typed "sudo apt-get update"00:42
cllaudyuok00:43
jspirocllaudyu: when you write the report, copy and paste everything that apt-get told you, starting with "sudo apt-get update" and ending with "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"00:44
cllaudyui pasted it00:46
cllaudyunow i submmit it00:46
cllaudyudone00:47
jspirocllaudyu:  what is the URL?00:49
cllaudyuhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/29446000:49
ubottuError: This bug is private00:49
jspirocllaudyu: thank you very much for your bug report.00:49
cllaudyuthank you too00:49
jspirocllaudyu: by the way, if you use English every time you use apt-get, it will be easier for us to understand your bug reports.  To do an apt-get update in English, do this:00:49
jspiroLANG=C sudo apt-get update00:50
jspiroeveryone :  It tells me "Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page.  You are logged in as Jason Spiro."  Why?00:50
jspiro(when trying to view cllaudy's bug)00:51
hggdhnobody is cleared to look at the bug until apport finishes processing it00:52
jspirohow long does that usually take?00:52
hggdhwhen an apport crash bug is filed, only the apport bot has access to it -- it will extract the coredump, process it, and then release the bug00:53
hggdhabout 10 to 20 min00:53
hggdh(depends on the load)00:53
jspirois there a way we can bump this bug to earlier in the queue?  If not, why not?00:53
jspiro:)00:54
hggdhcuz it is automated processing ;-)00:54
hggdhmeanwhile, you can look at the birds singing, chirping, or doing whatever it is birds do00:54
hggdh:-D00:55
cllaudyuwhat Changed security from Private to Public means?00:55
jspirocllaudyu:  it means everybody can see your report now.00:55
hggdhit means now everybody can look at the bug00:55
hggdhbefore only those subscribed could00:56
cllaudyuaaa00:56
hggdhall apport bugs with a crashdump are private00:56
cllaudyuhope this will help00:56
hggdhcllaudyu, we should get a nice backtrace (hopefully), and we will go from there00:57
cllaudyui changed security to public01:07
jspirocllaudyu: thank you, I can see it now.01:08
jspiroStacktrace:01:08
jspiro #0 0xb7e9ae10 in ?? ()01:08
jspiro #1 0x34323264 in ?? ()01:08
jspiro Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)01:08
jspiroStacktraceTop:01:08
jspiro ?? ()01:08
jspiro ?? ()01:08
jspiroanyone?01:08
jspirowhat does the above mean?01:08
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jspiroah, it is still not retraced.  it is tagged "need-i386-retrace"01:09
cllaudyuwhat that means?01:10
hggdhright now it means apport has not yet worked on the coredump01:11
hggdhso we have to wait01:11
cllaudyuaha01:11
jspirocllaudyu:  Feel free to go have a hot drink, or go outside, while waiting.  In fact, you can quit from IRC if you want.  If you are not on IRC anymore when we look at the bug, we will add a comment and launchpad.net will email the comment to you.01:12
hggdhcllaudyu, just for curiosity -- on a terminal, type 'vmstat'01:12
hggdhit will print out 3 lines; copy the LAST one here01:12
cllaudyu1  1 127080  41784   8112 101932    8   22   150    78  259  702 25  5 67  301:13
cllaudyugot it?01:13
jspirohggdh:  when you surround command names by single quotes, some people type the quotes by accident.  :)  I usually use colons like: vmstat01:13
hggdhdifferent styles, I guess :-)01:13
cllaudyui pasted the last line01:14
jspirocllaudyu: yes, we saw it.01:14
hggdhthanks. you are indeed low on memory, but not critical01:14
cllaudyuok01:15
cllaudyuhope to see some results soon i'm out bye01:16
jspirocllaudyu:  thanks again for the report.  Results won't be immediate.01:16
jspirocllaudyu:  it could take 1 day, or it could take 2 weeks, or more.01:16
cllaudyuit's no prblem for01:16
cllaudyume01:17
jspirocllaudyu:  if you are usually on IRC, add a comment to the report01:17
cllaudyuok01:17
jspirotell us you are usually on freenode, and that your nickname is cllaudyu.  Then we can send you a /msg even if you aren't in any channel.01:17
jspirocllaudyu: or we can email you.01:18
cllaudyui'l better receive emails01:18
jspirocllaudyu: no promise01:18
cllaudyuok01:18
jspirocllaudyu: we are all volunteers.  But we will try.01:18
cllaudyuthanks01:18
jspiroyou're welcome.01:18
cllaudyui'm romanian by the way01:18
jspiroi am canadian01:18
cllaudyumy english is a not so good01:19
jspiroI am in Eastern Standard Time.  I think GMT-070001:19
jspirocllaudyu: your english is good enough :)01:19
cllaudyutoo be understood i know01:19
cllaudyubut i don't really understand when somebody tells me something01:20
cllaudyuspecial long phrases01:20
jspiroYour vocabulary and grammar are very good.  Two things you should work on are homonyms and spelling.  to/too and now/know are examples.  You can learn more by reading websites in English, watching TV in English (www.hulu.com),01:21
jspirocllaudyu: listening to radio in English (www.shoutcast.net), and speaking in English on IRC.01:22
cllaudyuthanks for thoose links01:22
cllaudyui will try my best01:22
jspirocllaudyu:  you're welcome.  Also, always keep an English -> Romanian dictionary nearby, so you can look up all the words you don't know.  Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:37?sort=popular for dictionary software01:23
jspirocllaudyu:  also, when you don't understand what someone means, tell them you are ESL, and ask them to explain using simpler language.01:24
jspiro(a speaker of English as a Second Language)01:24
cllaudyuok i understood01:25
cllaudyuthank you very much01:25
jspiroyou're welcome.01:25
jspirocllaudyu: for more help with english, see channel ##english01:25
cllaudyui think i can get help only by writing it.... i learned it since a child but didn't got so interested of it...01:26
hggdhcllaudyu, we can understand you, don't worry01:26
jspirocllaudyu:  yes.  I understood you fine.01:26
cllaudyui'm worring about my spelling01:27
cllaudyuworried01:27
jspirocllaudyu: your spelling is good enough for us to understand.01:27
hggdhcllaudyu, this is irc. *everybody* writes wrong01:27
jspirocllaudyu: when somebody writes "know" instead of "now", or "too" instead of "to", we know what you mean.01:27
jspirocllaudyu: if you are very worried, use an XChat built-in spellchecker.  But it is not important.01:27
cllaudyuthink about some people who does not know english...01:27
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cllaudyuyeah, the time there is different from here01:28
cllaudyueastern european time01:29
cllaudyui think it's daylight over there01:29
jspirocllaudyu: it is night here in Toronto, Canada.01:30
cllaudyuhere is ooo the darkest night01:30
cllaudyu03:3001:30
jspirocllaudyu: then go to sleep :) wait for an email from us.01:30
cllaudyui can't sleep thanks01:30
* jspiro always finds that when I turn off my computer, I fall asleep sooner.01:31
jspiromy brother, OTOH, counts sheep in his imagination01:32
jspirothey say it works.01:32
cllaudyui know that in canada there are tow languages spoken french and english am i right?01:32
woody86cllaudyu- yes, that's correct01:33
cllaudyui'd love to count girls in my imagiantion...01:33
woody86cllaudyu- french more so on the eastern side if I'm not mistaken01:33
jspirocllaudyu: but here in Toronto, 97% or so of people speak English.01:33
jspiroonly01:33
cllaudyustrange thing!01:33
jspiroin Montreal, more than 50% speak French.  in Quebec City, more than 75%01:33
cllaudyui wonder how thit it get this way01:33
jspirocllaudyu: the French came from France to Quebec province many years ago.  everyone else went to other parts of Canada.01:34
cllaudyucanada is split appart from america?01:34
woody86cllaudyu- nope, we butt right up against eachother01:35
cllaudyui would love to be canadian01:37
cllaudyu;)01:37
woody86cllaudyu- you're telling me :) I'm moving to Vancouver in a couple years01:37
cllaudyuwoddy86 good for you.... search for romania to see where i'm from01:38
cllaudyui guess you'l be amazed01:38
jspirocllaudyu:  could you move to Western Europe?01:39
cllaudyui could01:39
jspirocllaudyu:  you do know a lot of English already, which must help, no?01:39
cllaudyuyes...01:39
cllaudyubut in europe there's spoken ither kinds of languges01:39
cllaudyuother01:39
cllaudyugerman deutsch01:40
cllaudyufrench i should have to know every one of them01:40
cllaudyui wonder if you have heard of romania?01:40
cllaudyuor from were did you heard of it...01:41
jspirocllaudyu: my aunt's family is from romania.01:41
jspiromy family is from hungary.01:41
cllaudyustrange combination01:41
cllaudyumaybe we're relatives :)01:42
jspirocllaudyu: (btw i see at https://launchpad.net/~cllaudyu1987 that you didn't fill in a public email address.  It would be helpful.)01:42
jspirocllaudyu: could be :)01:42
cllaudyuhmmm01:42
cllaudyuwhere to fiil it?01:42
cllaudyutrust me i don't know a thing01:43
cllaudyuon that launchpap01:43
jspirocllaudyu: https://launchpad.net/~cllaudyu/+edit01:43
cllaudyui'm learning do01:43
cllaudyupage not found01:43
cllaudyui'm logging in01:44
cllaudyuhopefully finding a way01:44
cllaudyuto add my mail01:44
jspirocllaudyu: oops.  it is https://launchpad.net/~cllaudyu1987/+editemails01:45
cllaudyuit's allready there01:45
cllaudyuis not visible?01:45
jspirocllaudyu: not visible.01:45
cllaudyuhow to maki it01:45
cllaudyuvisible?01:45
jspirocllaudyu: go to https://launchpad.net/~cllaudyu1987/+edit01:46
cllaudyui could add the same mail again?01:46
jspirocllaudyu: at the bottom, remove the "X" from "Hide my email addresses from other Launchpad users"01:46
cllaudyuok its done01:47
cllaudyudo you see it know?01:47
jspirocllaudyu: yes, thank you.01:47
cllaudyuyoure wellcome01:47
jspiroalso, if you go to https://launchpad.net/~cllaudyu1987/+editircnicknames you can write your IRC nickname there.01:47
cllaudyuhope your not spamming01:48
jspirocllaudyu: no, i am just making sure we can reach you through launchpad about the bug01:48
cllaudyuchannel and server?01:48
hggdhjspiro, any comments in the bug will be mailed to cllaudyu01:48
jspirohggdh: ah.01:48
hggdhautomagically01:48
cllaudyunetwork01:49
jspirocllaudyu: network is irc.freenode.net -- nickname is cllaudyu01:49
cllaudyuwhat netowrk is this01:49
cllaudyuaaaa thanks01:49
cllaudyui have irc.ubuntu.com if im not mistakin01:49
Piciirc.ubuntu.com is a cname for irc.freenode.net01:50
cllaudyuaha01:50
cllaudyuhow the weather in canada?01:51
cllaudyuit has all the fous seasons?01:52
cllaudyufour01:52
cllaudyuor is it just summer and winter01:52
jspirocllaudyu: yes, all 4.01:52
cllaudyunice01:52
cllaudyuthen is similar to romania01:53
jspiro:) anyway, i must get back to the game i am writing.01:53
cllaudyuwhat game?01:53
jspirocllaudyu: Political Table Tennis01:54
cllaudyupolitical?01:54
cllaudyuit sounds weird01:54
jspirocllaudyu: really just Pong, with faces of famous presidents and prime ministers.01:54
cllaudyuaaa01:54
cllaudyuyou are writing it or playing it?01:54
jspirowriting it.01:54
cllaudyuyou create games01:55
jspirosometimes.01:55
cllaudyusometimes means like what?? :)01:55
cllaudyui played some games01:55
cllaudyuflash games01:55
jspirocllaudyu: every 3 years or so, I write a game.01:56
cllaudyuthey'r very weird by their nature01:56
cllaudyuit's that long it tooks?01:56
cllaudyuand i'm keeping you out of work?01:56
cllaudyusorry :)01:57
cllaudyuhmmm01:57
jspirocllaudyu: no, you're not.  I am keeping myself from getting work done :)01:57
jspirocllaudyu: but back to work now.  bye01:57
cllaudyubye01:57
jspiro(I work at home, and am a student, so am not losing any money :) )01:58
cllaudyunice01:58
Awsoonnanyone else haveing issues with teh wiki tonight01:59
Awsoonnas well as repos01:59
Awsoonnbeing slow/unresponsive that is01:59
hggdhAwsoonn, here it seems fine02:01
hggdhthe wiki, I mean. for the repos, at least the US one was not bad02:02
Awsoonnhggdh: kk, thats what I get for living in northern Michigan....02:02
hggdh:-)02:02
Awsoonnwhen they say we have fiber at my ISP, I think they were refering the trees that surround their facility..02:03
* hggdh is in Kentucky, this week02:03
* Awsoonn wants to tap chicago at least once in his life.02:03
Awsoonnmost people would go see teh sears tower and all that crap, Id just want to steal some bandwidth :D02:04
greg-gAwsoonn: all is good in South East Michigan, but, that is of course not the UP02:05
Awsoonngreg-g: T_T yea.... a beaver probably chew through our fiber ... AGAIN ( no joke )02:06
lfaraoneHey, istanbul and xvidcap both crash for me, know of any other good screencast utils for bugreporting purposes?02:20
james_wlfaraone: try gtk-recordmydesktop02:27
jamesishHey folks. I am currently looking at my desktop system which appears to have had all of its groups deleted.02:39
jamesishThis is either by a malicious unknown entity, or by me somehow. What's the best procedure for moving forwards with regards to writing a good bug report for this?02:40
james_wjamesish: /etc/group is empty?02:41
jamesishno, there are 3 groups in there02:42
jamesishroot, nogroup and a local group I made called fuzz.02:42
james_wouch02:43
james_wdo you still have /etc/group-?02:43
danbhfivehmmm, were you using a group add command or something?02:43
jamesishNo, not even close.02:43
jamesishI've been reading my auth.log, and at twenty after five I have a message that polkit-grant-helper granted authorisation for blah blah to some process02:44
jamesishthen at 17:24:21, out of nowhere, there's about fifteen calls to groupdel02:44
jamesishhm02:45
jamesish25 calls, maybe :P02:45
jamesishLots.02:45
jamesishThen a bunch of calls changing groups' GIDs from whatever they were to 6553402:45
jamesishAll at 17:24:4902:45
jamesishthen more calls to groupdel, for the same groups that were remoed earlier.02:46
jamesishin between the changing of group ids and the second calls to groupdel there is changing of the www-data user's password.02:46
jamesishI'm not using apache or anything on this box, though.02:47
james_wjamesish: that sounds very suspicious to me02:47
jamesishYeah, me too.02:47
james_wdid you upgrade today?02:47
jamesishI did routine security upgrades for Intrepid.02:47
james_wat that time?02:48
james_wthat would be a usual activity that may remove groups02:48
jamesishIt would have had to have been at around nine am.02:48
james_wnot like that, but still02:48
james_wok02:48
jamesishYeah, I don't think it's connected to that.02:48
james_wI assume it is recorded as root doing all the groupdel, etc?02:49
jamesishThe nogroup GID is the one that all the groups were changed to.02:49
jamesishWEll, funny thing.02:49
jamesishI've not read many ubuntu authorisation logs02:49
jamesishbut it doesn't seem to list a user for executing groupdel02:49
jamesishdate time hostname groupdel[someNumbers]: remove group 'foo'02:50
jamesisheach line follows that pattern02:50
james_wPID I think02:51
james_whave you checked other logs for around that time?02:51
james_wand have you run things like chkrootkit and the like?02:51
james_wdo you have any suspicious processes running?02:52
james_wwhat network connections are active02:52
jamesishI yanked the machine out of the network as soon as I noticed something was up02:52
jamesishI have been looking in the other logs. Nothing odd stands out.02:52
jamesishI haven't run chkrootkit or anything02:53
james_wyou might want to02:53
jamesishAnd processes looked very normal.02:53
james_wto be honest it doesn't sound like a bug at the moment, and the pattern doesn't sound too much like a bug02:54
james_wbut I wouldn't rule it out02:54
james_wwere you using your machine at that time?02:54
jamesishYes, I was.02:54
jamesishI believe it's a security intrusion, which is a security bug in my eyes.02:55
jamesishBut that's why I came here, to ask you folks about that ;)02:55
lifelessclearly, if you got hacked there was a security issue; only post mortem can tell you if that was due to a bug or misconfiguration02:55
jamesishI have two repositories which are non-standard; they're the skype repository and one for a program called moblock. There were no updates for either of them today, though.02:58
jamesishBeyond that, I run with defaults everywhere.02:59
james_wdo you have an ssh server installed?02:59
james_wany services listening on the network at all?03:00
jamesishYes, I believe so.03:00
jamesishThere should be some, you're right.03:00
jamesishsshd, which was running on port 60022.03:00
james_wnot likely to be a ssh password probe getting lucky then03:01
jamesishI was running a bittorrent client on something like 4512303:01
james_wunless they have started scanning ports first, but that's a lot of effort03:01
james_wyou might like to jump on to #ubuntu-hardened, there may be someone there that knows for good places to look03:02
james_wthough it's a small channel, so there may be no-one around03:02
jamesishAlways worth a shot.03:03
jamesishHm.03:05
jamesishRecords show cron running update-motd hourly. BUt there's no update-motd script in /usr/bin, where it was looking.03:05
james_wodd03:07
james_wthough I think that's a known bug that may be fixed03:07
james_wupdate-motd is a package in Ubuntu though, so it's unlikely to be malicious03:08
jamesishAnd to put something in /usr/bin to be executed with elevated privileges, you need to have root access in the first place. So it's not a huge security issue.03:09
jamesishI had just got my system how I wanted it, too.03:13
jamesishBuggers.03:13
jamesishWhat's very odd here is I'm not showing any traffic to anywhere or from my internal network to anywhere odd in my router logs.03:15
james_wdoes your router log all ports, or is a http log?03:18
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ausimageI am trying to solve an audio problem with my ICH8 82801H audio device...04:44
ausimageI updated the kernel today and then had to fix virutal box... but now the audio device lost its alsa connection :/04:45
ausimageThe new kernel is 2.6.27-7 and I have tried 2.6.25.2.304:47
ausimageneither seem to get the audio back04:47
* ausimage says to ping him if you have suggestions... 04:53
* ausimage continues to stumble through fixing the issue04:54
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=== bdmurray changed the topic of #ubuntu-bugs to: Hug Day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20081106 | Ubuntu BugSquad | http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad | Documentation: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs | If you have been triaging bugs for a while, please apply to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol/ | Want to report a bug? Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs | User support (not related to triage) is in #ubuntu
ausimageI would be curious to know if there is more hd intel fallout from the kernel update...06:14
ausimageI am working on getting a copy of an earlier kernel...06:15
ausimage /sbin/alsa: Warning: Processes using sound devices: 5700(mixer_applet2).06:29
ausimageUnloading ALSA sound driver modules: <snip> (failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-intel snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc).06:29
ausimage<snip>06:29
* ausimage thought it looked interesting06:29
ausimageperhaps not :(06:30
Rafikausimage: have checked bug #274995 ?06:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 274995 in network-manager "MASTER storing ALSA mixer element values during shutdown hangs nondeterministically if non-loopback network interfaces are still up" [Medium,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/27499506:40
* ausimage will look at it... though it is strange that it happened after the kernel update06:41
ausimageRafik the issue is that I am getting no sound....06:42
ausimagebefore the update all was fine06:42
Rafikausimage: It was also the case for me. sound was find before update to RC. I got it fixed with the linked alsa-utils. It seems to be related to network-manager06:45
Rafiks/find/fine06:46
ausimageit was actually fine for more till tonight when the kernel recieved a security update06:46
ausimage*me06:46
ausimagerafik where is the link for alsa-utils.... ??06:53
* ausimage is near his bedtime... and perhaps cannot see straight enough 06:54
Rafikhttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/274995/comments/5906:54
ubottuLaunchpad bug 274995 in network-manager "MASTER storing ALSA mixer element values during shutdown hangs nondeterministically if non-loopback network interfaces are still up" [Medium,Invalid]06:54
Rafikausimage: i just had the security update notification06:55
ausimagebe careful06:55
ausimageI think that is what borked my sound :/06:55
Rafiklet's try :)06:55
ausimageRafik the bad thing is I cannot go back to previous kernel at all06:56
RafikI was checking out the changelog  : https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/linux/+changelog06:56
Rafikausimage: you can't. it's an update of a same kernel version06:57
ausimageyeah... which means most likely a reinstall :(06:58
ausimage ALSA: hda - Fix model for Dell Inspiron 1525  ;)06:58
Rafikausimage: have you looked at : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting ?06:59
ausimagemine is e52006:59
ausimageactually OSS does make noise... but alsa does not which is weird :/07:01
ausimageaplay: device_list:215: no soundcards found...07:02
ausimageBUT07:02
persiaMight be that something has /dev/dsp blocked.  On one of my computers, I need to unload the OSS compatibility modules in order to make sound work.07:02
ausimage00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)07:02
ausimageSubsystem: Dell Device 01dd07:02
ausimageFlags: fast devsel, IRQ 1107:02
ausimageMemory at dffdc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]07:02
ausimageCapabilities: <access denied>07:02
ausimageKernel modules: snd-hda-intel07:02
ausimagehmmm how does one do that?07:02
persia`for i in $(lsmod | cut -d\  -f1 | grep oss); do sudo modprobe -r $i; done`07:05
ausimagehmmm it seems to work after modprobed :/07:05
persiaNote that this might not work for you, and you might need to reboot to get things back to where you where.07:05
ausimageOk... I had to modprobe snd-hda-intel07:07
persiaInteresting it didn't come up automatically.  Please reboot, and if it again doesn't appear, file a bug including the output of the sound troubleshooting shell script.07:10
ausimagewhere is that script?07:11
persiaI thought it was linked from that wikipage.07:11
* ausimage is well passed his bed time ;)07:12
ausimageahhh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh ;)07:13
persiaAh, it's linked from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems : in the Reporting Sound Bugs section.07:13
persiaYep, that's it.07:13
ausimagethanks for the tips...07:13
* ausimage needs his rest...07:13
ausimagewill work on this after I get the OpenWeek logs up tomorrow :)07:14
jpv950the linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-7-generic package (verson 7.6 in proposed) completely broke my wireless card... I had to revert to 7.4 to get it back07:40
persiajpv950, Does your card not work with the regular modules?  If so, that's a bug worth reporting (even against -proposed).07:45
jpv950I get random hard locks07:46
jpv950the modules in the backports package seemed to fix it07:47
jpv950until the latest update in proposed07:47
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xteejxMorning guys!09:50
xteejxQuick question: What is the quickest way to grab the version info for any program - i.e. the latest version and the installed version without having to open synaptic - as <blah> --version doesnt work with every package?09:51
Hobbseexteejx: apt-cache policy <package>09:53
Hobbseexteejx: or sequence of packages, as appropriate09:53
xteejxHobbsee: Thanks! :)09:54
Hobbseexteejx: you're welcome!09:54
xteejxAm I right in setting a few bugs to Incomplete if there isn't enough info on them and they haven't attached many log files? And if they are reproducible, if I can do it on my system then attach the logs myself?09:56
xteejx(And setting to Confirmed)09:57
seb128you should better try on your system before and not set those incomplete if you can trigger the issue09:57
xteejxseb128: Of course :) So check it first if I can do the same, Incomplete it if not and ask for their logs, and Complete if I can with my own if they haven't?09:58
xteejxJust read that back sounds confusing lol09:58
seb128confirmed if you can trigger the bug right09:59
xteejxseb128: Cool cool, thanks :)09:59
azimout117 people in this channel. no one is doing the bug day?10:24
xteejxI am, but I'm useless lol10:49
xteejxOh you mean the proper day thing on the Wiki, no just normal triage :)10:50
wolfgerazimout: what do you mean "no one"? I'm doing it11:01
wolfgerHaven't done it in a while because of the holiday and election and life in general, but you'll see me on that list if you look hard enough :-)11:02
azimoutwolfger: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20081106 is still empty11:14
thekornazimout: what about you starting to work on the list ;)11:17
thekornor check the list again in a few hours, things might change until then11:19
azimoutthekorn: don't mean to be argumentative, but i am trying to get people involved in bug triaging. what exactly was the purpose of your answers?11:24
thekornazimout: sorry, no real purpose, doesnot menat to be argumentative either,11:31
thekornmaybe I will do some of them later today,11:31
azimoutfair enough, no offense taken11:32
thekornthanks for cheering for todays Hugday!11:32
* thekorn hugs azimout 11:32
azimout:-)11:35
seb128hi hggdh11:40
seb128hggdh: would you be interested to do test packages for bug #293207 too?11:41
ubottuLaunchpad bug 293207 in evolution "Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29320711:41
xteejxQuestion: You see on bug reports when you have for example: wrote on 2008-05-11: (permalink) Does that mean 5th November or 11th May? Stupid question I know but just want to make sure its May and not Nov.11:43
hggdhhi seb128, let me look at it11:44
persiaxteejx, That would be May 11th.  Year-Month-Day.11:47
xteejxpersia: Thanks :) thought so just didn't want to look stupid on reports, just do it here instead :D lol11:48
hggdhxteejx, it is YYYY-MM-DD11:48
xteejxthanks11:49
xteejx:)11:49
persiaxteejx, Both are archived for general perusal by anyone later, but at least here, such a question is entirely on-topic :)11:49
hggdhseb128, I will put up a test package for it11:50
xteejxpersia: True, at least I can wait a few weeks before being ridiculed then, but thanks :)11:50
seb128hggdh: thanks11:51
hggdhseb128, welcome11:54
drunkenkillakann ich irgendwie gucken, mit welcher taktung mein arbeitsspeicher mom läuft?11:55
persia!de11:56
ubottuDeutschsprachige Hilfe fuer Probleme mit Ubuntu, Kubuntu und Edubuntu finden Sie in den Kanaelen #ubuntu-de, #kubuntu-de, #xubuntu-de und #edubuntu-de11:56
drunkenkillasry i thought i am in the ubuntu-de channel^^11:56
persiaNo problem.  I only feared you might be lost :)11:56
xteejxubottu speaks german?11:57
ubottuSorry, I don't know anything about speaks german?11:57
xteejxShut up you :)11:57
persiaxteejx, ubottu speaks a phrase note dissimilar to that above in nearly every language with an active Ubuntu community.11:58
xteejxpersia, now that's clever, detecting an irregular language for the irc room and automatically telling people "wrong room"11:59
lfaraonejames_w: thanks12:00
persiaIt's not that smart.  It relies on others to detect which language is being used.  See my hint above.12:00
hggdhseb128, should the test package be just for this fix? If so, it will replace the current one on my PPA12:05
xteejxpersia: Oh yeah didnt see the command there12:19
seb128hggdh: not especially, you can add those changes to the one you have right now12:27
hggdhseb128, uploading the first, then12:28
hggdh(will take a while -- uploading from the hotel is sort of slow)12:28
xteejxQuestion: When do I get all my hugs. I haven't done any Bug-day bugs but have been confirming, incompleting and getting info for normal ones...where's my damn hugs?? :)12:50
geserbdmurray: do you agree that the "fix" for bug 293592 is to add "--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com" to the gpg call in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?13:01
ubottuLaunchpad bug 293592 in gnupg "Getting gpg: no keyserver known" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29359213:01
BUGabundo_workgood afternoon13:38
BUGabundo_workhow is everyone?13:38
BUGabundo_workasac: ping13:38
BUGabundo_workasac: can you take a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6117302 ?13:38
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asacbug 269071 bug 28870313:42
ubottuLaunchpad bug 269071 in network-manager-openvpn "Intrepid regression: default route is no longer redirected over VPN tunnel" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26907113:42
ubottuLaunchpad bug 288703 in network-manager "Routes lost on DHCP lease renewal (breaks VPN)" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28870313:42
BUGabundo_workthanks13:42
BUGabundo_workI'll let the user know13:42
asaci am posting already13:42
asacBUGabundo_work: done13:43
BUGabundo_workok!13:44
BUGabundo_workeven better. lol13:44
BUGabundo_workdid not know about that bug.13:44
asacupstream wanted to look at it ... i think its really dhcp lease stuff13:45
asacso i didnt take action yet. will ask if he still is looking into this for 0.713:45
BUGabundo_workI used to experience something like that on gutsy13:46
BUGabundo_workasac: does this affect everyone or just some users?13:47
BUGabundo_workbecause I don't remember having this bug when we were debuging pptp13:48
asacBUGabundo_work: well. this bug is about that not all traffic goes over vpn after connected13:54
asacBUGabundo_work: i think you wanted to have traffic for  a certain subnet only to that net13:54
asacso you didnt see13:55
arahola pedro_, can i make you a quick question about python-launchpad-bugs14:24
seb128ara: usually it's better to just ask on the channel so anybody can reply and if pedro is away he can reply to the question when he's back directly14:25
araseb128: ;-)14:26
arasure, will do that14:26
pedro_ara: hey, well thekorn is in the room and he probably know way better than me how python-launchpad-bugs works, but just ask in the channel in case somebody else knows14:26
arathing is, that everytime I try to get the bug sourcepackage, I get this error:14:27
arahttp://paste.ubuntu.com/68376/14:27
seb128ara: what do you run to get this error?14:28
arahttp://paste.ubuntu.com/68380/14:29
thekornara: this is a know issue when using the text interface,14:29
thekornand there seems to be no way to work around this on py-lp-bugs' side14:30
thekornbasically bug.info, bug.status, bug.importance and so on is not working correctly in text mode14:31
arathekorn: thanks, I'll use the html interface14:31
thekornara: that's definitly the easiest solution14:31
arathekorn: ;)14:31
thekornara: or use launchpadlib ;)14:32
BUGabundo_workasac: actually the idea is for trafic!14:33
BUGabundo_workhumm I guess I need to subs that bug too14:33
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hggdhseb128, the evo 2.4.1 change for bug 293207 did not apply cleanly (I guess it was written from trunk). I will have to look at it15:04
ubottuLaunchpad bug 293207 in evolution "Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29320715:04
seb128hggdh: try asking srag he said he will use the change on the stable opensuse version15:06
xteejxWhat is the current kernel for Hardy?15:11
Pici!info linux hardy15:12
ubottulinux (source: linux-meta): Generic complete Linux kernel.. In component restricted, is optional. Version 2.6.24.21.23 (hardy), package size 25 kB, installed size 52 kB15:12
xteejxlol thanks pici :)15:13
xteejxQuestion: If a user is having problems with a package in 7.10, can we tell them to enable backports if we know it works in Intrepid? How does that work exactly?16:13
xteejxAnyone?16:20
pwnguinwhich package in Ubuntu but not Debian has 82 open bugs filed against it?16:21
thekorn_pwnguin, good question to ask james_w ;)16:22
james_wccsm16:22
asacxteejx: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports16:22
xteejxasac: Thankyou16:22
andrewski_workI'm having a hard time finding how to report a bug for lists.ubuntu.com. Anyone happen to know?16:22
seb128james_w: there is no such source in intrepid16:23
pwnguincompizconfig settings manager is out of intrepid?16:23
james_wseb128: sorry, compizconfig-settings-manager16:24
seb128james_w: that one is in debian and name ccsm there16:24
seb128james_w: so that's not something which is not in debian, it's just named differently16:24
pwnguindoes it sync/merge?16:25
james_wah, ok16:25
seb128james_w: it likely has been packaged in ubuntu first and they used a different sourcename16:26
pwnguinseb128: so do we completely ignore the debian package?16:33
seb128pwnguin: dunno I never worked on this one, it likely requires somebody to look at if the debian version can be used in ubuntu16:41
pwnguinjames_w: now that we've knocked one off the list, which package has 30 bugs and no debian upstream? ;)16:59
james_wpwnguin: well, I don't know if it's off the list, but ok17:00
james_wemerald17:00
pwnguinheh17:01
james_wshould kill that this cycle I think17:01
pwnguincompiz is probably an outlier in the bugginess17:01
persiaLast time we removed emerald, *lots* of users complained.17:01
persiaMInd you, last I heard, emerald didn't actually work properly in Ubuntu, but that's apparently not sufficient deterrence.17:01
james_wthen emacs-snapshot, xen-3.1, vm-builder, hubackup, xen-meta, penguintv, kdenlive17:02
persiaemacs-snapshot is probably mixed up with Romain's application for per-source uploads.17:02
james_w"mixed up"?17:03
persiaxen-3.1 sounds like an old version : I know there were a few xen-related packages that were intended to be dropped for intrepid, but didn't make the deadline,17:03
persiazul?17:03
persiajames_w, Not being processed clearly because of delays and confusion.17:03
persiaDidn't vm-builder get superceded by something?17:03
* persia doesn't have any meta-information about hubackup, penguintv, or kdenlive17:04
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zulxen-3.1 should be removed17:18
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persiazul, And xen-meta?17:21
pwnguinpenguinTV has an "unstable" 3.4 release17:27
pwnguinand a 3.6 mentioned on the homepage17:27
pwnguinso the project seems alive, just without attention17:28
persiaThat's unfortunately not uncommon for some ubuntu-local packages.  Some people package something until it works for them, upload, and forget about it.  It might be perfect when it was uploaded, but it may not age well.17:37
persianorsetto did an excellent session on updating packages for DeveloperWeek a couple months ago.  Might be a good package if someone wants to give it some attention.17:38
pwnguinmaybe we should develop a threshold for dropping that kind of package17:39
pwnguinin hopes a sword of damocles motivating people17:39
pwnguinthe debian orphan policy would at least be a starting point17:42
zulxen-meta should stay until its updated for jaunty17:47
persiazul, Do you need help with bug triage, or are you on top of it?17:56
persiapwnguin, Any package without rdepends can be removed with a bug.  Do you think it's buggy enough to drop?  File a removal bug, and subscribe the appropriate party.17:57
pwnguinreally?17:57
persiaYep.17:57
zulpersia: im generally on top of it17:57
pwnguinim not sure anything's buggy enough to drop, if it works17:57
persiaPersonally, I think it's better to try to get the packages up to date rather than drop them.17:57
persiazul, OK.  It was just #7 on james_w's list.17:58
pwnguinbesides which, if there's a functioning upstream, it'd probably be better to contact users and upstream looking for volunteers17:58
zulwhich list is this?17:58
pwnguinlist of buggy packages not in debian17:59
pwnguinpersia: file a bug, subscribe the appropriate people, sure, but there should at least be a timeout for any call to action17:59
persiapwnguin, Well, the archive-admins tend to process removal bugs last, unless they're *really* obvious.  Sponsors tend to let them languish as well.  There's no official timeframe, but it can take anywhere from a couple weeks to 18 months for a removal bug to be processed, depending on the strength of the rationale.18:01
pwnguinheh18:01
persiae.g. if there's a licensing issue with redistribution, it can happen in a week or less.  If it's that it's orphaned upstream, and there are alternate tools available, it might take at least several months, if not in excess of a release cycle.18:02
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pwnguinpersia: well, i might give it a look-over, since I've been kinda looking for something closer to what it does, see if its worth my time to save18:04
pwnguinliferea is nice, but it handles enclosures... poorly18:05
persiapwnguin, See, there's usually someone like that for any app in need of help :)18:05
pwnguinBut ive kinda got my own plate full18:08
pwnguini was just notified two hours ago i have a new job18:08
persiaNo rush.  There's still time before the freezes start.18:08
persiaOh, congratulations!18:08
pwnguinit pays double what im making now, but probably half of what im worth ;)18:09
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persiaConcentrate on the first part then :)18:11
BUGabundoasac: ping18:17
BUGabundoasac: now that WPA/EAP is working so wellllllllll I have a new prob18:17
BUGabundohow do I make it NOT auto connect when using eth cable ?18:18
BUGabundoROFL18:18
affluxBUGabundo: no offense meant, but this sounds like a #ubuntu issue18:20
BUGabundonaaa18:20
BUGabundojust nagging asac18:20
affluxheh18:20
BUGabundohe was finally able to make (most) of my connections work18:20
BUGabundobut is funny.... afflux who do why make wifi not connect?18:20
* afflux has no idea about wifi.18:21
BUGabundoon NM 0.6 it was either one or the other18:21
BUGabundonow but connect!18:21
pwnguinnetwork manager decided that was the way to go, it seems18:21
pwnguini donno how it works either =(18:21
BUGabundolet me see if I turn wifi off on NM it won't taint my kernel again.. and I wonder if I'll be able to make it work again...18:22
* BUGabundo starts tailing logs to append to LP in case of crash18:22
BUGabundowish me luck18:23
BUGabundocan some one ping me to see if connecing is still Up?18:24
BUGabundogot it pwnguin18:24
pwnguinyour lag keeps growing18:24
* BUGabundo tries to be bold and will attempt to enable wifi again... that should make it crash... eheh18:25
BUGabundoYAY \o/18:26
BUGabundoit works as expected18:26
BUGabundoone more vitory to ibex18:26
pwnguinyou expected it to crash...18:26
BUGabundoand if you keep ping me the all network will lag even more18:27
BUGabundowell, past experience proved it crashed18:27
BUGabundoso I needed to retest...18:27
BUGabundotests done, and system is AOK18:27
BUGabundothanks asac!!!!18:27
BUGabundoany ideas what does this mean on an wifi scan:18:28
BUGabundo IE: Unknown: 0005656467617218:28
BUGabundo??18:28
* BUGabundo starts testing nm-pptp18:28
* BUGabundo warns everyone that VPN will most probably send IRC down18:29
BUGabundobahhh18:31
BUGabundoVPN still fails18:31
BUGabundojust updated bug 259168 with new logs of the fail18:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 259168 in pptp-linux "Network Manager unable to connect to PPTP VPN" [Undecided,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25916818:40
BUGabundopwnguin: see why I though wifi would crash?18:40
BUGabundolol18:40
BUGabundostill not fixed.... but it was previous...18:40
xteejxGod! Some bug reporter are real arrogant assholes. Do any of you guys ever get that?18:49
pedro_xteejx: all the time, welcome to the real world :-P18:51
BUGabundoall the time18:51
BUGabundooh wait... I may be one of them... hope not...18:52
BUGabundoI try to do my best18:52
BUGabundobut by the end of the day.... I'm to tired to even reply to tickets...18:52
pedro_sometimes users are pretty pissed and tend to be a bit rude on reports..18:52
BUGabundoI'm sorry if I ofended anyone in the past, present or future18:52
BUGabundoyeah... they need to learn the value of community work18:53
pedro_indeed18:53
BUGabundoI learned it the hard way pedro_18:54
pedro_so yeah don't follow the game, try to educate them rather, everybody can have a bad day :-)18:55
BUGabundoI do volunteer work by giving free ubuntu and other FOSS apps classes18:55
pedro_nice!18:55
BUGabundoand even on free, non mandatory classes18:55
BUGabundoI would get students that wouldn't shut up for more than a minute...18:56
BUGabundoI learned there how I make my own teachers piss when I keep talking the entire time on clasess18:56
BUGabundohehe18:56
bdmurraygeser: I'd say yes and I've updated the wiki page19:30
geserbdmurray: thanks19:33
angusthefuzzanyone know how i could grep all of ubuntu's documentation? referring to bug # 294348 which has interested me.19:36
angusthefuzzbug #29434819:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 294348 in ubuntu "ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29434819:37
bdmurrayangusthefuzz: I'm looking at it19:42
bdmurrayangusthefuzz: you might try http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html or manpages.ubuntu.com19:43
angusthefuzzbdmurray: i tried some specific googling (grep of the internet)19:43
bdmurrayif you look at the man for install the mailing list address is mentioned19:44
angusthefuzzhmmm19:44
bdmurrayHowever, I'm just speculating19:44
angusthefuzzi feel like its more likely that these were isolated incidents, considering the size of the ubuntu userbase, but those are some good resources19:46
angusthefuzzbdmurray: I believe that bug should be marked triaged and wishlist after my comment.19:56
angusthefuzzor maybe even wontfix since ubuntu doesnt write the manpage20:00
persiawontfix should be reserved for cases where it's just really never going to be fixed.20:01
angusthefuzzwe could write their mailing list complaining about ubuntu users posting to their list because of their manpages20:01
persiaSomething like "thunderbird should include a MIDI sequencer".20:01
pwnguinwouldn't that be invalid?20:02
persiaWell, perhaps, but consider the possibility of a less extreme example that we *know* isn't ever going to be fixed.20:03
pwnguinfor example, anything serious in nv20:05
persiaWell, in nvidia perhaps.  nv is presumably fixable.20:05
pwnguinexcept for the ones that ive reported that have been delined by upstream20:06
pwnguinrotation, for example20:06
persiaangusthefuzz, I'd recommend keeping that as "Confirmed", and waiting for feedback from the reporter.  Depending on the response, it may be appropriate to patch the manpages.20:07
angusthefuzzpersia: I wasnt aware that we could patch manpages, I thought they were meant to be standard across distro's20:07
persiapwnguin, RIght, but that's wontfix by upstream, which might result in wontfix by Ubuntu, but no reason to wontfix it ourselves without presenting it.20:07
angusthefuzzit seems like this is an upstream bug20:08
pwnguinpersia: that wouldn't be very collaborative20:08
angusthefuzzoh, now i see what you are getting at persia20:08
persiaangusthefuzz, It's debateable.  manpages are intended to be similar cross-distro.  On the other hand, annoying upstream is bad.  If upstrream requested we remove the "REPORTING BUGS" section from the coreutils manpages, it doesn't seem unreasonable to comply.20:09
angusthefuzzpersia: that sounds reasonable, and actually it would affect many more packages than just coreutils20:09
pwnguinangusthefuzz: generally, you'd be best off asking upstream if they're annoyed by reports from users who don't also report to ubuntu itself20:10
angusthefuzzpersia: many many manpages contain a reporting bugs section, should we wait for upstream to complain about those, or perhaps file a bug to do it in one shot20:10
pwnguinno reason to bother if they're either willing to do the work or haven't seen any problems20:10
angusthefuzzokay20:10
angusthefuzzas an offtopic comment, while people are here, I am unable to assign a bug to the package amarok-kde4 even though it exists in launchpad20:11
angusthefuzzanyone have any ideas20:11
persiaYeah.  Most upstreams are only likely to get bugs about their own packages.  `man install` is just an especially awkward case.20:11
angusthefuzzyeah it is persia20:12
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wolfgerazimout: it doesn't look empty to me... what are you wanting me to do?21:18
hggdhangusthefuzz, indeed, the core-utils mailist has been receiving emails re. ubuntu. I have tried to look at how they got there, and found nothing.21:27
hggdhangusthefuzz, the standard response sent out asks how they got to the c-u, but we never received a response21:27
bdmurrayhggdh: are you subscribed to that list?21:29
hggdhyes21:29
bdmurrayIs it just the 4 or 5 mentioned in the bug?21:29
hggdhno, there are more.21:29
hggdhjust today, two requests, from the same person (one was "Aide sur Linux", the other "aide sur Ubuntu"21:31
bdmurrayHmm, I poked around some too and couldn't find anything pointing to that mailing list.21:31
hggdhneither could I... :-(21:32
hggdhbut, somehow, they get there. And the questions are -- most of the times I remember -- completely unrelated to c-u (like dpkg was interrupted)21:32
bdmurraythat's really strange21:33
hggdhanother: "since I install ubuntu 8.04 I cannot connect to my lan"21:33
hggdhsometimes I think these users are just firing off to *all* email lists they can get hold of, hoping to get an answer from someone21:48
persiaI suspect that the reference from things like "man install" probably help.  While there are requests for Ubuntu help in the most unlikely places, it's not usually several per day where they are off-topic.21:50
hggdhpersia, it may be... but I shudder to think of we creating a delta for the man pages; also, this started heating up on the last few months on the c-u ML21:53
hggdhit is still some way of being "many per day", but it is starting to bother some21:54
persiaWell, if I were writing the "patch", it would just be a single line of sed in debian/rules to trim out the "REPORTING BUGS" section of the pages, so not a lot of maintenance effort.21:54
pwnguinheh21:55
pwnguin"see REPORTING BUGS" section21:55
joumetalshould bug 246505 be closed or not? it probably happened only in intrepid development version and has an easy workaround.21:59
ubottuLaunchpad bug 246505 in gthumb "ghtumb says no image in a folder full of images" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24650521:59
charlie-tcajoumetal: if it is still happening, it is still valid. Perhaps ask if it is still a problem in the final version?22:04
bdmurrayI wonder how the mime database got in the state it did.22:12
joumetalIt could be upgrading development version. For me messed files were related to google-earth.22:17
bdmurrayjoumetal: How did you determine that and could you update the bug with that information to see if that is what happened with the other reporter?22:23
joumetalbdmurray: Updated. I didn't find backup of mime database yet.22:35
xteejxEvening guys!23:42
xteejxQuick question: How do I find the kernel module for a failing wireless card? e.g. blah card?23:42
bdmurrayxteejx: is the card in your system? do you the pci id for the card?23:44
xteejxNo, its in a bug report :( Specifically the Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card23:45
xteejxI thought there'd be a way to search or something23:45
bdmurrayI'm not certain how to find out the driver w/o the pci id23:45
xteejxWhat about googling for the windoze pci id would that make a difference at all?23:46
xteejxDont worry i think its bcm43xx but how can I double check the hardware compatibility for said card against the bcm43xx?23:48
jibelxteejx: check the output of "sudo lspci -vvnn". At the bottom of the info about the card, there are 2 lines "Kernel driver in use" and "Kernel modules" that gives this information.23:48
hggdhxteejx, you cannot if you do not know the pciid23:49
xteejxhggdh: Ok no probs, after I manage to get that, then what? :)23:50
hggdhand, if I remember the Dell wlan cards, they re-brand the pciid...23:51
xteejxHmm sounds likely, so their best option is to just continue using ndiswrapper for now until Dell shift on the closed source drivers?23:51
hggdhyou look at the output of sudo lspci -vvnn, as jibel pointed out23:51
xteejxOk hggdh :)23:52
hggdhwhen I tried a wlan card from Dell, it was a "pci" one -- but it appeared as a USB modem23:52
hggdhso it might be a good idea -- just in case -- to have a 'lsusb' output23:53
jibelxteejx:  Dell used to ship many different chipset with the name 1470 . Without the pciid or lspci or even lsusb if it's an external adapter you won't go very far.23:54
xteejxok guys, well I've asked for the bare essentials, uname, cat /proc/version_signature, dmesg, and lspci -vvnn, so that should show it all up shouldn't it?23:56
jibelxteejx: Yes, that should.23:59

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