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* jdong ponders the laziest way to replace this encrypted Hardy netbook image with Jaunty.....00:25
lifelessupdate-manager -d -c00:26
jdonglifeless: do you think that will go smoothly from Dell's modified LPIA Harddy port up to Jaunty?00:26
lifelessno idea00:27
lifelessbut it would be fun to find out00:27
jdongyeah that was my worry :)00:27
jdongregular Hardy, that's what I would've done in a heartbeat00:27
jdongok I'm just not gonna be lazy and download an alternate CD and repack it into a USB.00:28
mneptokjdong: you'll do as you are ordered, and like it, soldier!01:09
jdongmneptok: wow... either the first heat wave is taking its toll on me or we need to take this conversation into private quarters :D01:10
mneptokjdong: let me get my "Ursula, Demon Mistress Of The SS" costume01:12
jdongmneptok: my therapist said those only exist in nightmares01:13
mneptokjdong: http://cfs7.tistory.com/image/11/tistory/2008/08/05/15/27/4897f2d81962701:14
pipegeekI think there may be a bug in the version of kvm that shipped with jaunty (kvm-84).  It's currently very slowly and meticulously hosing a qcow2 image (instead of snapshotting it).  If I find it, I'll submit a bug report.  It looks like there's already a bug report open for a similar problem with the version of qemu-img that shipped with jaunty (352785), and that it was reported nearly a month ago.02:46
pipegeekerr, s/kvm/kvm-img/02:46
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doctormoI'd like to create the simplest kind of debian package, one of a binary blob, which only really needs to put some files in the right places.05:03
StevenKdoctormo: Then your debian/rules contains a bunch of boiler plate and a few calls to cp05:04
doctormoStevenK: Yes my next line was going to bem shoudl I use rules or just an install file?05:05
StevenKOr mv, if you're feeling particularly evil05:05
doctormobecause the install file seems to cover this use case too05:05
lifelessan install file would be better I think05:05
StevenKdoctormo: Sounds like a perfect case for debian/install and dh_install, but it is your choice05:05
jdongdoctormo: IMO install file would be the more "aesthetically pleasing" way of doing it though nothing's wrong with the cp-in-install-target approach either05:08
lifelessdata driven++05:09
doctormoAlso, since so many of you are here,05:10
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doctormoI'm packaging up a binary driver which has a license which allows redistribtion, what's the rules on putting in on my ppa?05:11
jdongthat's more of a #launchpad question05:11
doctormojdong: aye aye05:12
doctormothanks for your help05:12
doctormoAh, now it's interesting, some of the files are symbolic links, using just the install file, the debuild process just creates copies of the files instead of preserving the links05:25
jdongthere's a special install.links file or something like that for symlinks IIRC05:31
doctormojdong: do you know of documentation where the format of that file might be available?05:35
ScottKman dh_link is a likely place to start.05:38
LaserJockdoctormo: it's just links or <binary name>.links05:39
LaserJockdoctormo: but that's to create new links, not preserve old ones05:39
doctormoLaserJock: It's ok to create new links, it's just linking a lib to it's versioned versions05:40
LaserJockdoctormo: hmm, I'd think that should have worked05:42
doctormoLaserJock: I still don't know the format of the file debian/links05:42
LaserJocksource destination05:44
LaserJockdoctormo: like ln -s just without the ln -s :-)05:44
* LaserJock just realizes that it's impossible to do a search for "canonical" LP teams :(06:09
LaserJockthat is, searching for the term "canonical" gives a permission denied06:10
pittiGood morning06:50
pitticjwatson, infinity: I uploaded debhelper on Friday, waiting in unapproved now06:56
dholbachgood morning07:21
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jussi01err, who wrote the release notes?08:54
StevenKMany people08:55
jussi01perhaps we should suggest using "gksudo gedit" instead of "sudo gedit" ?08:55
liwwhy?08:56
jussi01!gksudo08:57
ubottuIf you need to run graphical applications as root, use « gksudo », as it will set up the environment more appropriately. Never just use "sudo"! (See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why)08:57
liw"sudo gedit" seems to work for me (I had nothing to do with the release notes, though)08:58
jussi01liw: it works, but isnt the right way to do it. (read the link there)08:58
jussi01brb09:00
geofftout of curiosity, does 'sudo -H' solve these issues? (i.e., does gksudo just happen to do what -H does, by default?)09:01
liwsudo seems to preserve HOME already09:01
liwI have nothing against people recommending gksudo instead of sudo for GUI apps, but as long as sudo works perfectly fine, except for a couple of broken apps, I'm not sure I care much :)09:03
geofftright, -H means to set HOME=/root09:03
geofft$ sudo env | grep HOME     HOME=/home/geofft09:03
geofftThe issues that web page discusses seem to be caused when root creates files in your homedir09:04
liwfew GUI programs should be run as root (firefox certainly not)09:07
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geofftApparently screen's initscript cleans sessions I started at the emergency password prompt.09:41
geofftWhere on the "bug" to "you're doing something weird, stop it" scale is that?09:41
liw"obviously a bug"09:43
liw/tmp cleaning might have similar issues09:44
directhexit looks like i need an SRU after all.09:48
dholbachasac: thanks for signing up for a Packaging Training session :)09:50
asacdholbach: welcome09:53
jussi01sorry, had to disappear for a while there - work ftw!10:10
jussi01liw: My issue is we have always had the recommendation for using gksudo as put forward in that factoid. If we are going to have that there, does it not come across silly to do the contrary on the release notes?10:12
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liwjussi01, I don't know. Since plain sudo works for all relevant apps, I'm personally fine with having it in the release notes, but if you would like it fixed, suggest it to the release notes people (or edit the wiki)10:19
dholbachbryce, tjaalton: does bug 352708 need any more info to make it more useful?10:21
ubottuLaunchpad bug 352708 in xserver-xorg-video-intel "[i915] external screen stays dark after suspend/resume via lid" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/35270810:21
slangasekjussi01, liw: FWIW, this was discussed and we're using 'sudo' for consistency, so please don't edit the wiki until you've persuaded the release team why this is wrong :)10:21
jussi01slangasek: exactly the reason I hadnt edited it yet. thanks for clarifying10:25
* slangasek looks in dismay at the set of upgrade bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/~milkthemilk10:49
slangasekI don't think that user's system is coming back10:49
StevenKThe description in #366326 is fairly tasty10:53
pittiScottK, slangasek: sru-accept updated to add missing space to bug comment, FYI10:54
slangasekpitti: ah yes, thanks10:54
pittiNCommander: so, I set up an apport retracer on rimu for armel, but I get timeouts from LP11:05
pittiseb128: ^ (FYI)11:06
seb128pitti: ok11:06
* pitti blames firewall rules11:06
ograpitti, doesnt matter, armel has no bugs anyway :P11:07
pittiogra: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=need-armel-retrace :)11:07
ograits the totally bugfree arch :)11:07
ogralies all lies !11:08
directhexsabdfl, a word of advice? mail from roy schestowitz -> /dev/null. the guy's a compulsive liar.11:08
pittiogra: got an Android G1 last week, so now I have arm in the house as well ;)11:08
ograpitti, none we support though ...11:08
pittiogra: we need to change that!11:09
ograpitti, we likely do but in the other direction ...11:09
* amitk hides his android ports tree11:09
pittiogra: (just kidding)11:09
ograkarmic migth only support armv711:09
ograwhich pretty much makes us lose all community11:09
pitti:(11:11
ograyeah11:11
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geofftwhere should I report HTTPS on brainstorm.ubuntu.com being broken?11:33
directhexi'd start a brainstorm vote on it. options include "ignore it" and "fix it". i'd totally vote up the "fix it" option though11:33
geoffthahaha11:34
geofft SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)11:34
directhexhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ideatorrent/ i think11:35
Hobbseethere's #ubuntu-brainstorm as well, fwiw11:35
geofftah, thanks11:37
ScottKpitti: Thanks.11:46
ScottKpitti: I need to do another clamav SRU I think rather urgently for Bug #365823 - I was hoping you'd be willing to accept the one that's currenlty pending and verified first.11:52
ubottuLaunchpad bug 365823 in clamav "clamav-milter chowns root directory" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36582311:52
AmpelbeinScottK: i attached a new debdiff to bug 35101711:52
ubottuLaunchpad bug 351017 in mjpegtools "[SRU] mpeg2enc crashes with SIGILL on non-p4 architectures." [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/35101711:52
pittiScottK: 'accept first' -> move to -updates before accepting another SRU?11:53
ScottKAmpelbein: I'm not in a position to sponsor it right now, I'd approach the person that sponsored the last upload.11:53
ScottKpitti: Yes.11:53
pittiScottK: or is your new upload fixing something that got broken in the previous SRU?11:53
Ampelbeinok11:53
ScottKpitti: No, I confirmed the problem exists in -release too.11:54
pittiScottK: no problem from my side11:54
ScottKGreat.  I'll have the new on uploaded shortly.11:54
pittiScottK: the intrepid SRU isn't verified yet, though, so I only copy the jaunty one11:54
ScottKCorrect.11:55
ScottKThis new bug is only for Jaunty anyway.11:55
pitticopied to j-u and karmic11:55
ScottKThanks.11:57
ScottKpitti: clamav uploaded to jaunty-proposed again.  The test case is also being written.12:08
Keybukpitti: could you push your udev changes somewhere?12:40
Keybuklp:~ubuntu-core-dev/udev/ubuntu-jaunty maybe?12:40
pittiKeybuk: oh, sure13:17
seb128evand: hi, do you need any extra info on this usb key usb-creator bug?13:18
seb128evand: I will probably format the key or something so I can use it13:18
evandseb128: no, I have enough.  Please do go ahead and format the key.13:21
seb128evand: ok thanks13:21
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pittiKeybuk: done, lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/udev/jaunty (btw, you might want to consider to upgrade --1.6 for go-faster stripes)13:26
Keybukpitti: but I only have bzr 1.13 ?13:28
pittiKeybuk: it's just the format version (there's an --1.9 too :) )13:29
Keybukpitti: what I mean is that's the version I init'd with13:29
Keybukso surely that's the latest format?13:29
pittifor some reason unknown to me it's not the default13:29
pittiperhaps to keep it compatible with some ancient dapper bzr or so13:29
Keybuk*blink*13:29
Keybukso what format are we supposed to be using?13:29
pittiI don't think we are "supposed" to any13:30
Keybukand how are we supposed to make an informed decision?13:30
pittiI just converted mine to 1.6, so did a lot of other people13:30
slangasek'bzr help formats'13:30
pittito make use of stacked branches and much faster pushes/commits13:30
Keybukslangasek: that says "use the default format"13:31
pittiKeybuk: it's not an error to use the default one, I just wanted to mention that a newer one might particularly benefit udev, with its throusands of commits13:31
Keybukpitti: the bzr repository is converted from git13:31
Keybukso I don't really want to muck around, since it breaks pretty much monthly anyway13:31
Keybukand I have to push --overwrite it13:31
pittiugh13:32
pittiKeybuk: I recently tried to get bzr-git working, but it failed spectacularly; did you manage to get this to work?13:32
* Keybuk just works on udev in git13:32
Keybukpitti: nope, I'm just fast export | fast import13:32
pittiah13:32
KeybukI started off trying to work in bzr, with a branch based off git13:34
Keybukbut I repeatedly suffered from that age-old problem where I needed to know what git was doing, and what bzr-git was doing, in order to use bzr13:34
Keybukso it was more effort13:34
Keybukso I reverted to just using git, with the packaging in bzr13:34
pittiI just use git for importing postgresql as well13:34
Keybukfor util-linux-ng, the packaging is in git too13:34
mvoI'm considering doing the same for compiz13:35
pittiKeybuk: any idea why https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html still considers most merges as "updated"?14:01
Keybukpitti: MoM is still running14:02
Keybukit hasn't got as far as updating the web pages yet14:02
pittiah, so it'll fix itself then?14:02
pittithanks14:02
Keybukdid I not understand that we weren't to use MoM for the merge this time anyway?14:02
pittioh, we aren't?14:02
Keybukcjwatson: ?14:03
KeybukMark was saying we were to use bzr and james_w's imports?14:03
pittiOIC14:03
pittidid I miss an announcement for that?14:03
ograKeybuk, damned and i was hoping we actually did such a good job with upstreaming stuff that we only had 52 updated packages :P14:05
cjwatsonjames_w's imports aren't quite going to make it for the start of the merge, unfortunately, but will hopefully be available by part-way through (before UDS)14:05
pittiogra: remember that in jaunty, debian was still in freeze14:05
ograyeah14:05
ograscary ...14:05
pittimost of my patches forwarded to Debian weren't applied then14:05
cjwatsonthey need a bit of rejiggering to have the right ancestry relative to Debian, and to upgrade to a new branch format per the Bazaar team14:06
pittiand many still aren't :( (but many were)14:06
ScottKI seem to have fallen out of favor with ubuntu-devel-discuss (just had a post moderated and it looks to me like I sent from the correct address).  I'd appreciate it if some list admin would have a look ....14:15
slangasekpitti: could you comment on the correctness of the patch in bug #366119?  (cf. my comments about invoking hal vs. pm-suspend)14:17
ubottuLaunchpad bug 366119 in acpi-support "Prefer HAL when suspending/hibernating ourselves" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36611914:17
pittislangasek: gosh, I thought we entirely got rid of acpi-support suspend quirks in jaunty14:18
slangasekwell, we've gotten rid of the quirks14:19
slangasekbut not eliminated all the cases where acpi-support will bypass pm-utils14:19
* pitti reads the completl bug trail first14:19
* slangasek shakes his fist at gdm14:19
pittislangasek: replied and subscribed14:23
pitticody-somerville: do you still need cdbs' xfce.mk?14:29
pitticody-somerville: last merge log said it's being phased out14:29
cody-somervillepitti, We do not use it anymore however I'm wondering about how the archive reorg will affect that14:29
pitticody-somerville: what does the reorg have to do with it?14:30
cody-somervilletranslations14:30
cody-somervilleCurrently only main get the magic translation love14:30
mr_pouitpitti: I filed a bug report long ago asking for its removal14:30
pittimr_pouit: oh14:30
pittiah, bug 25404814:31
ubottuLaunchpad bug 254048 in cdbs "Please drop xfce.mk" [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25404814:31
cody-somervillemr_pouit, Do you think its a possibility we might use it again if we get the translation magic stuff back with the archive reorg?14:31
pittibut then you could just as well include langpack.mk14:31
mr_pouitcody-somerville: no, I would prefer to stick with upstream translations14:32
cody-somervillemr_pouit, okay.14:32
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superm1cody-somerville, with archive reorg, universe and multiverse are getting translated too then?14:36
cody-somervilleI dunno14:36
cody-somervilleThats what I was wondering14:36
superm1won't that make the lang packs too big for DVDs?14:36
superm1well should the first phases of archive reorg be happening during the karmic cycle then, or still in planning mode and (karmic +x)?14:38
cjwatsonsuperm1: we'll only be doing the permissions reorganisation in the karmic cycle. Once we do the more sweeping component reorganisation (still in planning mode and so only "later"), we'll be able to have finer-grained control over language pack generation, so we'll be able to say "Ubuntu desktop", "Kubuntu", etc. rather than "main".14:54
cjwatsonsuperm1: I don't think we'll be putting universe and multiverse in language packs, no14:54
superm1cjwatson, ah i see.  that makes much more sense14:54
slangasekRiddell: follow-ups on bug #339313 point out that the release notes only mention problems with WPA2, whereas users are reporting that plasma-widget-network-manager also has problems with WEP; can you confirm, and do you know if anything more should be added to the RN besides s/WPA2/& and WEP/?15:01
ubottuLaunchpad bug 339313 in ubuntu-release-notes "Kubuntu Jaunty: Cannot Connect To Wireless Network with WEP shared key" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33931315:02
Riddellslangasek: I've not heard of it being broken with WEP, but that doesn't mean to say it never is15:06
Riddellslangasek: I'll look into it15:07
liwevand, are you planning to add a "remaining time estimate" to usb-creator?15:07
evandliw: I am now :)15:08
liwevand, I'm wanting to write a little Python library to do the actual estimation, would you like to include that? :)15:08
evandsurely15:08
slangasekRiddell: ok, thanks15:09
liwcool, I'll hit you with a patch some day soon15:09
liwevand, hmm, also, usb-creator seems to be really, really slow on this laptop/with this usb stick15:15
evandliw: significantly slower than using dd directly?15:23
liwevand, it's been running for half an hour now...15:24
liwor something like that15:24
* Keybuk actually LOLs at the "Paging Jeff Waugh" on Planet GNOME15:24
evandliw: What size persistence file did you create?15:25
liwevand, um, the default -- 128 mb?15:25
evandvery odd15:25
evandDid it crash?  (~/.usb-creator.log)15:26
liwevand, correction, it's been running for one hour15:26
liwevand, hasn't crashed, and occasionally it progresses a bit15:26
liwperhaps it's a crappy usb stick, I'll try with another (on another computer, though, so lots of things will change)15:27
liwhow big a stick do I need, anyway?15:28
evandanything larger than 700MB should work15:28
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liwevand, hmm, on the other machine, with another stick, usb-creator already finished; I've had trouble with Transcend sticks before, so I'll stick with the theory that that's the problem15:38
evandok15:38
evandthanks for the heads up anyway15:38
ograliw, on a sidenote, usb 1.1 vs 2.0 issue ?15:39
mdzara:  http://qa.ubuntu.com/ says "ubuntu brainstorm" :-)15:41
ion_Cool, the legacy lcdfilter started working again in jaunty after updating. I’m unable to find any mention of it in the changelogs. When it broke (a couple of weeks ago, i think), i didn’t find anything in the changelogs either.15:41
liwogra, remind me how I verify?15:41
aramdz: yes. it said that a long long time ago. schwuk is working in a new landing page15:41
ograliw, hmm, good question :) dmesg might be able to tell something ... i used to check with lsmod in the past but nowadays i think we compile in the usb host drivers15:42
dholbachhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek starting in 18 minutes on #ubuntu-classroom15:43
ogradholbach, will there be canapes, tea and coffee ?15:43
liwogra, alas, I see nothing obvious in the output of lsusb or dmesg15:43
dholbachogra: sure :-)15:44
ograliw, i have one of these cheap intel give away usb hubs here that switch the connection to 1.1 *behind* the port with no indication at all ... writing a 2G stick with that thing easily takes 2h for me15:44
liwevand, usb-creator still wants a desktop ISO, right?15:46
mdzliw: I believe it accepts server, alternate and DVD as well15:46
evandindeed, what mdz said15:47
liwexcellent15:47
pittislangasek, cjwatson: cdbs merged, tested, uploaded; *ugh*15:50
mnemopitti: I've been asking a lot of people to run apport-collect lately and it seems that this script itself actually crashes for a significant number of users --> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/36800415:56
ubottuUbuntu bug 368004 in apport "apport-collect crashes when ran under certain locales" [Undecided,New]15:56
mnemopitti: within the hour I had two such crashes and this makes triage of all the xorg bugs pretty difficult15:58
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Keybuk418 outstanding merges16:15
Keybuk2 updated merges16:15
Keybukeep16:15
pittiyay lenny release16:18
seb128karmic is going to be "fun"16:22
* ogra wonders if seb128 has that as IRC macro anywhere ... you seem to say that sentence every time the archive opens :P16:23
highvoltageheh, how so?16:23
seb128ogra: every cycle you mean?16:23
ograyeah :)16:23
ograits a traditional thing, isnt it ? :)16:24
seb128I probably didn't for jaunty16:24
seb128that was quiet cycle16:24
directhexnot for me16:24
seb128but karmic seems to shape to be crazy16:24
ograyeah, compared to whats ahead :)16:24
directhexjaunty was ke-raaazy for some of us16:24
seb128directhex: I didn't say it was not busy16:24
seb128directhex: but we didn't land thousand of new packages or any major refactoring in upstream code16:25
* ogra notices that jaunty was one of his busiest ... thanks to ARM16:25
directhexlenny freeze didn't help16:25
seb128I found it helpful to have a bug fix cycle16:25
seb128we got bug fixes updates and not thousand of new versions16:25
directhexogra, and the intersection of our work? http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/00-single/armless.png ;)16:26
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ograheh16:27
directhexseb128, on the subject of bug fixes, how do you feel about bug 367810?16:28
ubottuLaunchpad bug 367810 in mono-tools "monodoc-browser: Only GtkHtml renderer included; unusable on dark GTK+ themes" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36781016:28
directhexwait, trust me to pick the one archive admin who isn't in the SRU team -_-16:28
ScottKThere's more than one.16:29
directhexokay, one of the ten, then.16:30
pitticjwatson, slangasek: I took the liberty to accept cdbs myself, since we previously talked about it16:30
cjwatsonpitti: np16:41
cjwatsonanyone know of a sync request they need to do anyway for which bug 246307 would fire?16:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 246307 in ubuntu-dev-tools "OOPS when e-mail sent to Launchpad has incorrect encoding" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24630716:44
cjwatsoni.e. the Debian changelog delta contains non-ASCII characters16:44
cjwatsonif you do, I'd appreciate if you could try http://paste.ubuntu.com/159460/16:44
pittimnemo: thanks, I'll take a look at it and followup in the bug16:52
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* hyperair grumbles about jaunty not using 1GB of RAM, and swapping too damn much17:40
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Adri2000mvo_: can you take a look at bug #338419 please? why does it want to install filezilla-locales (which doesn't exist anymore by the way) instead of filezilla?18:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 338419 in filezilla "Filezilla fails to install " [Undecided,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33841918:14
mvo_Adri2000: thanks, will do (but tomorrow morning)18:18
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chiehHello, If i wrote an app I would like to add into the ubuntu repository, how do I go about doing it?18:59
johnmchieh: you can easily get your own launchpad ppa to begin with :)19:00
chiehi'm not sure what you mean?19:00
chiehoh i found a site on it19:01
chiehbut is there a way to incoporate it with ubuntu apt-get?19:01
maxbchieh: Hop over to #ubuntu-motu for new package contributions19:01
chiehok, thanks19:03
shayaunsure where to file a bug for cpu governor choice.  i.e. I think if a laptop (or a desktop) is plugged in, there's no reason to use the ondemand governor, and one ends up with a degraded experience by using it.19:19
shayaany ideas?19:19
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Commander1024heyho, found a bug in ubuntu 8.04 LTS stable 32bit (at least)19:29
Commander1024where shall I report that?19:30
Commander1024package: openvpn19:33
Commander1024file /etc/init.d/openvpn line 5819:33
ion_http://launchpad.net/19:33
Commander1024hmm, registration requred :-( well I'll file it there -.-19:35
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ion_Yeah, Launchpad isn’t an OpenID consumer yet. :-(19:38
Commander1024just mentioned, that I already got an account because of earlier incidents so I should have remembered launchpad -.-19:39
Commander1024just found out ...19:39
Commander1024filed as Bug #36814120:02
ubottuError: Could not parse data returned by Launchpad: timed out (https://launchpad.net/bugs/368141/+text)20:02
olmariHello20:32
olmariThere is small problem when installing new ubuntu 9.04 trough "netboot" or mini.iso20:33
olmariculprit is AFAIK package libmbca020:33
cjwatsonolmari: it would help if you said *what* the problem was - but really, bugs like this are better reported in Launchpad20:35
olmariI'll try to be short: if I choose only to install most basic CLI system and then spt-ge install ubuntu-desktop, it downloads everyfile, apparently libmbca0 last, then there reads [99% working] and it sits there forever20:35
cjwatsonthat's not libmbca0's fault20:35
cjwatsonthat's a rarely-reproducible bug in apt20:35
olmarihmm20:36
cjwatsonevery so often, the http method gets stuck right at the end20:36
cjwatsonif you try it again, it'll probably work20:36
olmarinope20:36
olmaritried 3 times allways same file / spot20:36
cjwatsonunfortunately we've never quite managed to track it down, because (at least on the systems we've tried) it doesn't happen every time20:36
cjwatsonmvo would probably like to work with you on it, but he's not around right now20:36
olmariok20:36
cjwatsonplease file a bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+filebug in the meantime20:37
cjwatsonmention that I sent you20:37
PatrickBichi20:37
PatrickBicmy old code (which worked in ubuntu8.10) still compiles but crashes on execution => http://pastebin.be/18092 ... is this usual/wanted/subject-to-change?20:38
PatrickBicconcerning libnotifymm20:38
olmariif it does matter anything, I managed to install mine ubuntu by choosing ubuntu-desktop in installer, then when it "jams" I press esc and then choose form main menu "select packages to install" or to that effect, ubuntu-desktop was selecer already, then chose next and it started to install straight on :)20:38
olmaribut I'll ofcourse do the bugreport too20:39
cjwatsonolmari: right, that would work around it because it doesn't need to use the http method at all the second time round20:39
olmaricjwatson: well it apparetnly didn't download anything the second time as everything was on the comp already, including that lib20:40
olmaricjwatson: if that also matter20:40
cjwatsonolmari: that's a restatement of what I just said, yes :-)20:40
cjwatsonolmari: it doesn't matter20:40
olmaricjwatson: well I'm not native english speaker so you have to just bear me ;)20:40
cjwatsonthe problem you're encountering is specific to downloading stuff, so if apt-get doesn't have to download anything because it's all cached locally then that won't hit the problem20:41
olmaricjwatson: so the problem is in the apt download, it finishes downloading but not the process, I assume :)20:42
olmarinow in retrospect20:42
cjwatsonright20:42
cjwatsonwe encounter it from time to time in our live filesystem builds, but unfortunately only occasionally (once every week or two)20:43
cjwatsonthe symptoms suggest a race condition, so it could well depend on e.g. relative speed of your CPU and network connection, or things like that20:43
Commander1024cjwatson: considering your fist problem (http download with apt) do you have an nforce board with integrated "hardware" firewall?20:44
olmarihmm... I hope I could reproduce the bug when/if someone want's to try squash it... as I said it happened exact same spot each 3 times until I figured a way to finish installation (without do old ubuntu)20:44
cjwatsonCommander1024: firstly, it's not my problem; secondly, it's vanishingly unlikely to be specific to certain motherboards. We've seen it on a variety of systems. It's almost certainly an apt bug20:45
olmariCommander1024: The problem is with ME this time, I have ibm t42p laptop, it is all intel stuff20:45
cjwatsonit's very rare for problems above the level of the kernel and X (i.e. stuff that talks to the hardware directly) to be hardware-specific, and it should not normally be the first assumption20:46
Commander1024hmm, was just an idea, I am maintaining over 40 servers and workstations with debian / ubuntu and I have never seen such behaviour20:46
cjwatsonit displays all the symptoms of a race condition. Race conditions are like this. Some people will see them all the time, some people will see them occasionally, some people will never see them.20:47
cjwatsonit makes them very frustrating to debug20:47
cjwatsonthey also tend to go away when you try to apply debugging tools to them20:47
Commander1024that's right, it's just that this "nforce firewall thingy" created crippeled and wasted downloads of any kind20:48
olmariI can imagine... again I haven't even seen this problem before but for this one it was a constant20:48
cjwatsonthat's not the problem then.20:48
Commander1024k, got that20:48
cjwatsonif the download were just corrupt, then apt would fail with an error message; it wouldn't just sit there forever.20:48
cjwatson(and if it did sit there forever, then that would *still* be an apt bug ...)20:48
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* cjwatson fixes rmadison to know about karmic20:56
Adri2000I wonder why we do not have a file somewhere with the list of known releases so that all the programs who need it can just use that file instead of managing their own list21:10
olmaricjwatson: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/368178 if interested :)21:11
ubottuUbuntu bug 368178 in apt "apt doesn't finish downloading files on 9.04 mini.iso installation" [Undecided,New]21:11
doctormoIs there a way to re-set home after of while someone is logging in?21:17
doctormoI'm trying to create a useful way to use usb-pam while allowing the user's home directory (thus files and settings) to be safely stored on the usb stick too.21:18
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jablkowhere is cron job output sent by default in ubuntu?22:32
ion_To the appropriate user via /usr/sbin/sendmail probably. Now please read the topic.22:35
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EagleScreenwhat is the difference between ubuntu-laptop-mode y laptop-mode-tools packages?23:51

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