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psusino, it's an issue for internal disks too... see what happens is udev runs dmraid-activate which runs dmraid with the -Z switch to delete the kernel partition table from the underlying physical disks, so that you no longer see an /dev/sda100:00
TheMusoright00:01
psusiand this causes a change event... I'm not sure why but in 9.10 it only makes a change event on the device being processed, so while processing the add for sda, it makes  change only for sda, which it seems udev is smart enough not to recursively process00:01
TheMusoah ok00:01
psusibut in Karmic it causes a change event for sdb as well, which in turn causes dmraid-activate sdb to be called, which changes sda, and so on00:01
psusimy guess is there was an upstream bug that got fixed in dmraid where it used to only apply the -Z to the device it was passed, and now it applies to all the underlying devices in the set being activated00:02
rurtiseb128: putting it /etc/environment didn't work, i had to back out the changes in terminal mode, I am just going to do the script; should i possibly add this as a bug?00:04
psusiso do you think just dropping the |change part from the udev rule would do the trick, or are there other changes that should trigger an activate?00:04
seb128no idea but I guess it's not a bug no00:04
rurtiseb128: design flaw?00:05
seb128dunno00:05
cjwatsonrurti: /etc/environment is KEY=VALUE as well, not a shell script00:05
seb128enough for today anyway, good night everybody00:05
rurticjwatson: can i use other variables in it like a script, ie: path=$ToolDir/tool1/bin00:07
cjwatsonas I think I said above: no.00:08
TheMusopsusi: yes sounds sane.00:10
rurticjwatson: thanks, for the information.  I will have to think this over a bit, without the scripting variables it means i have to rethink where i put the tools, as well as whom has access.  I suppose i could add a dev group who is the only one with access to them.00:10
cjwatsonthere are other less elegant ways to do it, usually involving a single (shell-script-format) file that you source from multiple places, such as .bash_profile and .xsession00:11
rurticjwatson: .bash_profile does not exist and i put it in .profile but that does not get run for apps.  As for .xsessions is that run at login?00:13
cjwatsonthe fact that .bash_profile does not exist by default does not mean that it isn't read if it exist.  Please read the bash(1) manual page for specific information00:14
cjwatson.xsession (no trailing s) is sourced as part of standard X session startup00:15
cjwatson.bash_profile is not sourced until you start an interactive login shell00:15
rurticjwatson: is .bash_profile any different from .profile?00:16
cjwatsonread the manual page00:16
cjwatsonit's just bash-specific - you can use either, and they're sourced at around the same place00:16
cjwatsonyou may also need to get .bashrc to read the file in question00:17
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cjwatsonpersonally, I have my .bash_profile do little else apart from read .bashrc, and in fact that appears to be how we ship .profile by default these days00:18
rurticjwatson: well i know that putting it in .profile does not work. and putting it in .bashrc only works if opening a terminal window.00:18
cjwatson.profile does work, just not for things that are spawned without going through an interactive login shell!00:18
cjwatsonwhat I'm telling you is that there is no one place (other than .pam_environment) where you can put this change without having to change multiple files!00:18
cjwatsonthis is unfortunate00:19
cjwatsonbut in order to cover all the bases, you need to arrange for the variable to be set from both .bashrc and .xsession00:19
cjwatson(I think I've got the file names right, stuff changes from time to time, adjust to taste)00:19
rurticjwatson: so putting the script lines in .xsession and .profile should cover it?  also is there a way to change how an app spawns?00:21
cjwatson.xsession and .bashrc00:21
rurtiok00:21
cjwatsonand check that .profile sources .bashrc00:21
cjwatson"change how an app spawns"?  BTW this is getting well off-topic for #-devel00:22
rurticjwatson: yes .profile does source .bashrc i know that.00:22
rurticjwatson: its ok ill not bother you anymore ill check into the information you have given me and try some things out then come back to irc if i need more help.00:24
rurtithanks for the help guys :)00:25
cjwatsonI suggest that #ubuntu would be better for future questions00:25
cjwatsonthis isn't really a development topic00:26
rurticjwatson: thats where i started, then they sent me to #bash, whom sent me to #ubuntu-desktop, whom sent me here.00:27
cjwatsongrrr00:27
rurtisorry00:27
cjwatsonboo @ #ubuntu-desktop, that was inappropriate IMO00:27
cjwatsonnot your fault if you were told that00:27
rurtiyea unfortunately no one has the answer i need lol, may i add some times gui's are a pain00:28
rurtithanks anyway for the help00:28
rurtii will take a look at .session00:29
rurtisorry .xsession00:29
chrisccoulsondoko - FYI, it seems to be the latest version of llvm which breaks the openjdk-6 build00:31
chrisccoulsonthe current version of openjdk-6 in the archive is not built with the latest version of llvm00:31
chrisccoulsonheh, i see you've just uploaded another new version of that too00:32
lamalexis cowbuilder-dist broken in lucid? I'm getting tons of errors  like cp: cannot create link `/var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.14578/lib/libnss_files.so.2': Invalid cross-device link00:56
slangasekcjwatson: syncing pinyin-database 1.2.99-3 from unstable, per the discussion last night (looks like cjohnston struck again :-)00:57
cjwatsonoh yes, thanks00:59
cjwatsonI did actually see it, but forgot00:59
cjwatsonwill you also deal with main promotion now that pitti's objection in the MIR bug is resolveD?00:59
cjwatsonresolved00:59
slangasekcjwatson: how was it resolved? I don't see the resolution mentioned in the bug01:00
cjwatsonthe problem was that ibus-pinyin was depending on pinyin-database but not appearing to actually use it, because the dangling symlink it shipped wasn't actually pointing to anything in the pinyin-database package01:01
cjwatson(there was also some confusion about build-dependencies - from a casual grep it *looked* as though ibus-pinyin was using pinyin-database at build-time, although it wasn't actually)01:02
cjwatsonnow, pinyin-database ships the file that's the target of the symlink in ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase01:02
slangasekhmm - I understood pitti's objection as "described as a build-dep, not a runtime dep, do we want 10MB more on the dVD"01:02
cjwatsonso the dependency is correct01:02
cjwatsonmy understanding was that he didn't want 10mb more on the dvd without this confusion being resolvd01:02
slangasekoh, no, I see what he's said01:02
cjwatson*resolved01:03
slangasekack, will promote01:03
cjwatsonbut I'm happy to wait until tomorrow morning and ask him01:03
cjwatsonthere doesn't appear to be much of a compilation step, so if we're short on space then the question needs to become whether we want ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase or not, rather than whether we want pinyin-database or not, IYSWIM01:03
cjwatsonibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase is non-functional without pinyin-database01:03
slangasekright01:04
pooliesuperm1: hi, in the tip of usb-creator trunk it still seems to prefer a local cd device to the specified ios01:36
poolietherefore i think hiding the list would be bad01:36
superm1poolie, local cd device?01:36
superm1i didn't realize that's even an option.  i thought it only populated ~/Downloads ?01:37
poolieit does01:37
pooliethat's the problem in bug 477529 that i was trying to fix01:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 477529 in usb-creator "Fails with uncaught exception "No such file or directory"" [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/47752901:37
superm1interesting.01:38
pooliethis little sandisk device pretends to also have a usb cd drive01:38
pooliecontaining win32 stuff01:38
pooliesuperm1: istm that if --iso is given, we want to absolutely force the iso to be taken from that value01:39
poolieand avoid this whole messy issue of trying to force that list to have the right value selected01:39
superm1yes01:39
pooliesuperm1: you can probably reproduce this yourself by having a cd mounted when you run the program01:39
superm1poolie, great.  i'll take a look this week and see if I can01:40
superm1i'll hold off reverting the GUI to be hidden until I can sort that out01:40
poolieyeah, my fix is very far from ideal, but at least it makes the error a bit less confusing01:40
pooliebut i had a train to catch01:40
poolieand just haven't come back to it since then01:41
smoserslangasek, finally bug 532682 was fixed, which allowed me to try the old upstart.  reverting from 0.6.5-4 ro 0.6.5-3 made me unable to reproduce bug 53149402:31
ubottuLaunchpad bug 532682 in eucalyptus "instance stays in pending for > 1 hour, then to terminated" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53268202:31
ubottuLaunchpad bug 531494 in upstart "cloud-init job not running in eucalyptus without ramdisk" [Critical,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53149402:31
ScottKdoko: Would you please look at Bug 525547 and let us know what you think?03:18
ubottuLaunchpad bug 525547 in ironpython "[FFe] for dlr-languages sync from Debian NEW" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52554703:18
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pittiGood morning06:58
pitticjwatson, slangasek: thanks for resolving the ibus-pinyin-db; if that's the actual runtime data file, it's fine of course; it just was described differently, so I didn't want to spend the space for an useless dependency (which it isn't apparently)07:01
pitticjwatson: wrt udisks, yesterday I committed the b-dep change to libparted-2.1-dev to Debian git; do you plan to introduce libparted0 into unstable soon as well?07:21
pitti(then I can do that in Debian git and get back in sync)07:22
superm1pitti, i thought it was in debian's NEW right now still07:23
pittiah, great07:23
lifelessNEW seems to be backlogged again07:23
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dholbachgood morning07:40
dottedmagp07:42
dottedmag-ECHAN07:42
cjwatsonpitti: parted 2.2 (a.k.a. libparted0-dev) is currently in NEW for Debian experimental; I would like to get parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 into testing to simplify the upgrade process before uploading 2.2 to unstable, but other than that there are no blockers09:22
cjwatsonpitti: (2.1 is in experimental too, and will never be in unstable ...)09:22
mvoDktrKranz: hi, I think lp:gdebi is looking good now for a debian upload (and a sync to ubuntu) - to you want to do the upload? or shall I?09:25
siretart`seb128: who is caring for gst-ffmpeg these days?09:25
seb128siretart`, slomo09:26
seb128siretart`, we get in sync from debian09:26
siretart`seb128: do you know if gst-ffmpeg for lucid is going to use the system or the internal copy of ffmpeg?09:26
seb128whatever we have now09:26
seb128I don't expect any other change, we synced yesterday09:26
seb128usually it's using the system ffmpeg IIRC09:27
seb128I've not looked to it for a while though09:27
siretart`seb128: the thing is that upstream is pretty vocal against using our system ffmpeg copy09:27
siretart`which I can understand to some extend, but updating it is not an option at this point09:28
seb128siretart`, why?09:28
seb128why are they vocal about it?09:28
siretart`bilboed explicitly states using ffmpeg 0.5 is absolutely unsupported with the current gst-ffmpeg09:29
siretart`I expect many crashes will occur because of that, but that's what time will show09:30
seb128siretart`, I guess debian will have the same issue09:31
seb128siretart`, can you try to talk to slomo about it?09:32
siretart`seb128: sure, if I catch him. although I don't think there is much to discuss09:34
siretart`the debian package is compiled against 0.509:34
seb128siretart`, so you would recommend using the gst-ffmpeg copy?09:35
siretart`seb128: if you manage to convince the security team to support both versions of ffmpeg, that would be an option09:35
seb128siretart`, what else is an option?09:36
seb128pitti, kees: ^09:36
siretart`move gst-ffmpeg from official repo to an PPA with a ffmpeg 0.6 backport from lucid+1?09:37
siretart`or live with crashers09:37
seb128using the copy seems to best option we have there09:38
seb128having a ppa will not work, most users will never find it09:38
DktrKranzmvo: I can do it this evening, unless you've got some time to manage it yourself. is version = 0.6.0 fine for you?09:39
mvoDktrKranz: 0.6.0 is fine yes - thanks09:39
cjwatsonpitti: so can we remove devicekit-disks from lucid yet?09:41
cjwatsonpitti: oh, never mind, I just realised somebody already did :)09:42
DktrKranzmvo: have you had the chance to see if python-apt 0.8 api is suitable for merging?09:42
mvoDktrKranz: for gdebi? well, yes and no. we will have to port DebPackages.py back to python-apt, its more featureful and contains fixes that the python-apt version does not have09:43
mvothat is going to be a bit of work as the python-apt version contains a bunch of formating/variable name changes as well09:43
mvoonce that is done, the rest is trivial09:43
persiamvo: Have you had a chance to review my python-apt ports stuff for the SRU?09:46
persia(and do you have any idea why it FTBFS in lucid?)09:46
mvopersia: sorry, doing that now. i forgot about that09:46
persiamvo: Thanks.  Be warned that I couldn't build in lucid (older releases work), so there's something else odd there.09:46
persiamvo: Also, the information isn't strictly correct for warty (but I don't imagine that matters that much).09:47
* persia hasn't dug out the correct information yet09:47
cjwatsondebootstrap should have canonical information09:48
* persia looks at debootstrap09:48
cjwatson(modulo bugs obviously ...)09:48
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* persia is amused by the logic in debootstrap/scripts/ubuntu/gutsy09:54
persiamvo: Let me update those branches again quickly, now that I have authoritative information09:54
DktrKranzmvo: ok, let's keep it out for a while then, after all it won't change before {Squeeze,Lucid} + 109:58
mvoDktrKranz: yeah, I need to get to it at some point, but its not super urgent IMO09:58
mvoDktrKranz: uploaded and I file a sync request now09:59
DktrKranzgreat!09:59
cjwatsonhttp://norvig.com/21-days.html # great page for all the people who show up here asking how to learn enough programming to contribute to Ubuntu09:59
persiamvo: Nevermind.  debootstrap doesn't have the bits that I don't know.10:00
cjwatsonpersia: which bits don't you know?10:00
persiacjwatson: Modern debootstrap (properly) points at old-releases.ubuntu.com for warty/hoary, and dapper debootstrap doesn't seem to know about ports.10:00
persiacjwatson: I don't know whether ia64 or hppa existed for warty.10:01
cjwatsonpersia: they didn't10:01
persiaMy previous information is that they did for hoary.  Does that match your understanding?10:01
cjwatsonpretty sure ia64 did; I'll have to check back to remember for hppa10:01
DktrKranzmvo: I'm going to remove bzr branch on bzr.d.o/collab-maint, just to use a unique location10:02
cjwatsonubuntu-meta (0.17) hoary; urgency=low10:02
cjwatson  * Added ia64 support.  No changes to dependencies.10:02
cjwatson -- LaMont Jones <lamont@canonical.com>  Sun,  9 Jan 2005 14:45:39 -070010:02
cjwatsonubuntu-meta (0.53) breezy; urgency=low10:02
persiacjwatson: lamont said that ia64 and hppa came at the same time, and thought it was hoary.  No need to check.10:02
cjwatson  * Add hppa, no dependency changes.10:02
cjwatson -- LaMont Jones <lamont@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:25:54 -060010:02
mvoDktrKranz: ok, fine with me.10:02
persiacjwatson: Oh, thanks :)10:02
cjwatsonpersia: my memory and the ubuntu-meta changelog respectfully disagree with lamont ;-)10:02
persiaAnd ubuntu-meta ought be authoritative10:03
* persia edits the hint files10:03
persia(not that I'm expecting anyone to really do upgrades from warty with do-release-upgrade or anything)10:03
cjwatsonhm, apparently there was some hppa support in hoary10:04
cjwatsonI applied a patch from lamont to debian-installer in hoary to add hppa support10:04
persiaThen for safety, I'll assume there may have been stuff on ports.ubuntu.com then.10:04
mvothe whole ports/old-releases/archive is a bit of a problem for update-manager (and users). I hope we can use something like "mirrors.ubuntu.com" for the next release that does auto detection on this and just brings us to the right place10:05
mvothere is some support for this in apt for this already10:05
cjwatsonpersia: what tool is this?10:05
cjwatsonoh, u-m10:05
persiacjwatson: python-apt10:06
persiaOddly, debootstrap claims that powerpc was on archive.ubuntu.com for feisty, but there's a TB ruling that powerpc was on ports for 7.0410:07
persiaI think that's probably a bug in debootstrap (not that it matters much now)10:07
DktrKranzmvo: some months ago I asked to insert gdebi in blacklist because of difference between Debian and Ubuntu versions. That is no longer true, I'll ask to remove such entry.10:08
cjwatsonpersia: the archive didn't catch up with the TB ruling10:08
cjwatsonI checked that one quite carefully :)10:09
persiacjwatson: Thanks.  I'll put powerpc on archive for feisty then.10:09
cjwatsonpersia: ports.ubuntu.com itself wasn't created until October 2005, confusing the issue a bit; I think ia64 and hppa initially lived on people.ubuntu.com, and my mail records indicate that hppa was just a sketch in hoary10:10
DktrKranzRiddell (or another archive-admin available): mind removing gdebi from sync-blacklist? Current versions are now in sync, thus blacklist is no longer needed.10:11
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persiacjwatson: If ports.ubuntu.com existed in October 2005, then I'm willing to claim that entries in sources.list pointing to ports.ubuntu.com for hppa and ia64 for a hoary install are correct.  Do you see any reason I shouldn't?10:12
cjwatsonI don't think it matters if you add those, so go for it10:13
mvoDktrKranz: yeah, its no longer true, but I think it was also not done, gdebi in ubuntu/lucid got auto synced10:21
DktrKranzmvo: that's why I asked to blacklist it after it got autosynced (that's why of the 0.5.9debian2 package currently available in Lucid)10:22
DktrKranzI figured out only later :(10:22
mvoDktrKranz: aha, ok :)10:22
mvoDktrKranz: thanks! we can unblacklist now - I'm pretty happy about the unifcation release10:23
DktrKranzme too10:23
mvoI also like "look inside files in the deb" feature that we got recently, also seeing what is done in the postinst so easily is sometimes scary (at least for certain third party debs ;)10:24
DktrKranztonight I will have a triage run at outstanding bugs, to see if we can close some10:25
mvoDktrKranz: great!10:25
mvopersia: I looked at the diff, looks fine to me. if there is consensus on the exact times when stuff moved/was created I'm happy to upload10:25
persiamvo: All branches should be updated to reflect powerpc on archive for feisty and no ports for warty.  Please double-check my syntax :)10:26
mvopersia: just let me know10:26
mvopersia: ok, I will :)10:26
mvopersia: will you do the update for this?10:26
persiamvo: Might take a few minutes for bzr to sync, but they should all be good to upload.10:26
persiamvo: I'm not a core-dev even though LP thinks I am.10:26
mvopersia: ok, no worries. I can take the upload (thats the easy bit)10:26
persiamvo: OK.  Please upload for all releases: I'll chat with the SRU team.  Also, if you have any suggestions for dapper, I'd be glad to hear them :)10:28
ograW: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be attempted 5 times.10:28
ograhmm, seems debootstrap is missing something10:28
cjwatsonshould be more in the log file it leaves around10:29
ograheh, if that wouldnt live inside a vm image i would be able to read it :)10:29
persiaogra: can't you mount the VM image as a secondary disk in another VM and then mount it as a filesystem to check that?10:30
mvopersia: ok, I have a look at the dapper problem too10:30
ograpersia, the prob is that rootstock dies to fast because glib is also out of sync ...10:30
* ogra tries to save the img somewhere10:30
persiaogra: Ah.  That makes it tricky.  If you can capture the image, it should be easy to use -hdb or something in kvm to dig into it.10:31
ogracjwatson, /var/log/bootstrap.log  ?10:31
* ogra got it quick enough10:31
ograoh, its actually glib's fault ... i wasnt aware debootstrap pulls that in10:32
cjwatsonplymouth10:32
ograwell, i gave it back already and its currently building ... so should be fine later today again10:33
ograah, the root of all evil, plymouth :)10:33
persiaWorks for some folk, and is even essential for some use cases.10:34
* ogra wonders if he should somehow cat the bootstrap.log into the rootstock log for such cases10:34
ttxpitti: updated the servlet-api dependencies, you should be able to demote libservlet2.{3,4}-java in a few.10:38
persiamvo: You figured out the python-apt FTBFS in lucid, or will we plan another upload for that?10:43
loolSomething is adding massive load to my laptop since the latest upgrade10:47
loolI can't figure out what it is; I see one of my CPU is busy in kernel space10:47
looliotop shows nothing (nor top obviously)10:47
sorenIf I want to have a python package work with python2.4, do I really have to rebuild it with an explicit b-d on python2.4?10:48
loolI have a long list of console-kit processes though10:48
loolsoren: You mean only python2.4?10:48
sorenlool: No.10:48
sorenlool: python2.4 in addition to whatever it supports now (which is just 2.6).10:49
loolsoren: problem is that it's not really supported to rebuild modules for python2.4 anymore10:49
sorenlool: The available python versions at build time mandates which of /usr/lib/python* it gets installed to.10:49
loolsoren: in theory you should intersect the supported versions wiht the ones available (which you bdep on)10:50
sorenlool: ..so if I have something that only really works with python2.4, and I want to use twisted with it, I'm kind of screwed, AFAICT.10:50
loolsoren: pyversions shouldn't return 2.4 anymore10:50
loolsoren: Yes10:50
sorenHm. Ok.10:51
loolYou have to install a local python2.4 and the relevant packages10:51
loolWell I guess I'll just reboot *sigh*10:52
* soren builds an Intrepid VM to play with python 2.410:53
sorenlool: Thanks.10:53
awoodlandis it possible to request debian->ubuntu syncs for packages in lucid still if they fix ubuntu bugs?11:09
cjwatsonyes11:09
cjwatsonif they introduce new features, they'll need a feature freeze exception; if they're bug-fixes alone, that's fine11:09
awoodlandI can split them out, I wanted to add a feature but I can do that once the fix has hit testing11:10
persiaawoodland: If you're really confident, it's possible to sync the bugfixes from unstable.11:11
awoodlandit's a pretty trivial change, developed by upstream not me11:11
awoodlandso that probably makes sense. I'll upload the fix only with a reference to the LP bug in the changelog shortly then11:12
mvopersia: FTBFS> let me check11:18
persiamvo: Thanks.  I'm stumped.  The prior version FTBFS on rebuild in lucid also.11:18
persiamvo: The karmic branch builds in karmic though, so I'm convinced it's a change to the build-deps.11:19
mvopersia: thanks, I think I have a idea about this, I will work on it11:19
persiamvo: Oh, excellent.  Thanks!11:19
amitkpitti: I've pushed a bzr branch for pm-utils-powersave-policy (https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~amitk/ubuntu/lucid/pm-utils-powersave-policy/amit). I'm still testing it, but I'd like you to have a look when you have time.11:21
amitkpitti: I was thinking of uploading it to a PPA to allow for wider testing prior to integration11:21
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kermiacsladen: sorry for the pm. this chan didn't show in whois11:37
lamontcjwatson: hppa/hoary was outside the datacenter, and lived under people.u.c/~lamont/hppa for quite some time (I noticed it and killed it within the last year)11:48
apwcjwatson, wondering what the right approach with linux-tools package.  seems it ended up in universe.  as it carries useful but not necessary things i wonder if i should move it to Recommends: ... though that would leave a binary in main with its manuals in universe11:49
lamontat least I'm pretty sure it was hoary...11:49
cjwatsonapw: any particular reason for Recommends as opposed to explicitly seeding it?  (there might be but I want to make sure you've thought about it)11:50
cjwatsonapw: for example, does it need to be on CDs?  I think probably not11:51
apwcjwatson, no i'm not sure as to the right approach at all, i suspect it needs to be with linux-image policy wise11:51
apwno its not needed on a CD, but currently is Depends: from linux-image so causing issues for netboot11:52
cjwatsonso why not just seed it as a supported thing for developers?11:52
cjwatsone.g. in platform.lucid/supported-kernel-common11:52
cjwatsonlinux-doc and linux-source are already there11:52
cjwatsonDepends from linux-image sounds wrong; that means that it MUST be on the CD11:53
cjwatsonI would weaken that to Suggests if I were you11:53
apwseems completely reasonable to me11:53
cjwatsonI've promoted it to main for now anyway11:53
apwok thanks for that11:53
* apw has no idea as to the process for handling seed updates11:54
cjwatsonand I've seeded it explicitly in platform.lucid/supported-kernel-common11:54
apwahh i see, waiting a bit ... thanks11:54
cjwatsoncore-dev commit access11:54
apwi'll move it to Suggests: then11:54
cjwatson(lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/platform.lucid)11:54
cjwatsonthanks, that should complete it11:54
RiddellDktrKranz: gdebi removed from sync-blacklist12:09
al-maisanhello geser, thank you very much for the vim fix!12:16
zubin71hi, will ubuntu be taking part in gsoc this year?12:28
pitticjwatson: thanks for the heads-up; yes, I removed dk-disks on the day when I did the udisks migration :)12:29
pittittx: yay you!12:29
pittiamitk: thanks, I'll have a look; PPA for wider testing sounds good12:29
DktrKranzRiddell: thanks12:40
cjwatsonmvo: so I'm currently trying a hardy->lucid upgrade using dselect (yes I know, but I thought it might be amusing ...).  I ran into an interesting loop and wondered if we ought to solve it some other way.  libc6 Depends: findutils (newer than hardy), because old xargs breaks with new libc6; findutils Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info for the install-info transition; dpkg Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), presumably due ...12:50
cjwatson... to newer symbols12:50
cjwatsonmvo: are you familiar with this problem?  I was wondering if we could break it at findutils somehow, to simplify things12:50
cjwatsonIt can be done if you know what you're doing but it does require --force-depends once.12:52
cjwatsonand apt refuses to perform immediate configuration on libc612:52
mvocjwatson: its showing up at http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/automatic-upgrade-testing/current/ since a couple of days, but I have not looked at it in details yet. I can give it some time today and see what can be done, but my gut-feeling is that findutils is the best choice for a fix12:56
cjwatsonI'm very much inclined to just remove that dependency12:57
cjwatsonthe policy directive is:12:57
cjwatson     The `install-info' program maintains a directory of installed info12:57
cjwatson     documents in `/usr/share/info/dir' for the use of info readers.[1]12:57
cjwatson     This file must not be included in packages.  Packages containing info12:57
cjwatson     documents should depend on `dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info' to ensure12:57
cjwatson     that the directory file is properly rebuilt during partial upgrades12:57
cjwatson     from Debian 5.0 (lenny) and earlier.12:57
cjwatsonbut (a) it's not the end of the world if it isn't and (b) in these upgrades it will be taken care of anyway12:58
cjwatsonfindutils.postinst doesn't call install-info itself now - it's done with dpkg triggers12:58
cjwatsonmvo: I think I've convinced myself :-) I'll make that change12:59
mvocjwatson: I have no objections :) thanks, I will trigger another upgrade test run once its uploaded to see if its happy13:00
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cjwatsonmvo: source uploaded13:16
primes2hseb128: Hello, who could I address this to, please? bug 53504113:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 535041 in openoffice.org "OpenOffice splash screen is incongruous with new Lucid theme" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53504113:45
seb128primes2h, hi, why do you ask me?13:48
seb128primes2h, try asking ccheney or kwwii they are openoffice and artwork maintainers there13:48
primes2hseb128: Thank you very much. Sorry if I bothered you. :-)13:53
seb128primes2h, no bothering don't worry13:53
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fatal^hello. is syncing from debian currently frozen?14:13
pittifatal^: no, why?14:13
pittiwe got a whole slew of syncs just today14:13
fatal^could you please sync rygel which has a small but important fix.14:13
SwedeMikeFebruary 11th was "LTSdebianimportfreeze" according to the release schedule, what does that mean?14:14
pittiit means that we stopped syncing from Debian automatically14:14
SwedeMikeah14:14
pittimanual syncs upon explicit request are still handled14:14
SwedeMikethanks.14:14
fatal^also, you might want to consider syncing libarchive which brings the much requested ISO9660 joliet extension support.14:14
pittifatal^: can you please file a bug about it? (requestsync is handy for this, in ubuntu-dev-tools)14:14
fatal^I'm not running ubuntu... just trying to give you some hints for packages I maintain in debian.14:15
pittifatal^: we are in FF, so the latter might not be approved (but that needs a bug for documentatino/review in any case)14:15
pittifatal^: ah, ok; thanks14:15
pittirygel looks fine14:15
pittifatal^: rygel synced14:16
ografatal^, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess14:16
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geserfatal^: ubuntu-dev-tools is also in Debian14:16
fatal^ogra: thanks... (but unfortunately I'll probably forget it before next time I consider looking at which version of packages ubuntu is carrying. :P)14:17
ografatal^, for libarchive a feature freeze exception is needed, that requires a bug14:17
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ttxpitti: the ubuntu-server dailies are borken ?14:33
persiattx: For image build or image install?  If install, you need the new glib (recently building)14:34
* persia thought the images built, from the logs14:35
ttximage build: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/20100309/14:35
cjwatsonno, they failed14:35
cjwatsonshould be fixed though14:35
ttxI mean, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/20100309/14:35
cjwatsonit's just d-i kernel version desync14:35
ttxcjwatson: OK, I assume it was fixed today ?14:36
persiaOh, that explains why the architecture I checked appeared to have worked :)14:36
cjwatsonlate last night, I probably just missed the server build14:36
ttxcjwatson: ok, thx !14:36
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alkisgIn LTSP, when running `ck-list-sessions` we're getting "active = FALSE" possibly because `ck-launch-session` sets the display-device instead of the x11-display-device. Could someone tell me how to tell ck-launch-session to set x11-display-device?14:49
keesseb128: I would prefer a single copy of ffmpeg.  :P15:34
primes2hccheney: kwwii: Hello, about the new theme - icon set, I see this bug 535041,  bug 53506115:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 535041 in openoffice.org "OpenOffice splash screen is incongruous with new Lucid theme" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53504115:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 535061 in light-themes "Install and Startup Disk Creator icon is incongruous (and low resolution) with Ubuntu mono icon set" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53506115:37
nxvljames_w: ppa's don't get automagic branches, do they?15:51
ccheneyprimes2h: ok, if kwwii gets me a new splash screen for it I will update it in the next upload15:51
james_wnxvl: correct15:51
nxvljames_w: correct as in they don't or as in they do?15:51
james_wthey do not15:52
primes2hccheney: That's nice, what about the icon? It looks a bit weird (and with a low resolution i UNE). :-)15:52
nxvlok, thanks15:52
nxvljames_w: are there plans to make them get it?15:53
james_wnxvl: no15:53
nxvl:(15:53
primes2hccheney: Have I to report it to kwwii?15:53
primes2hccheney: it's even always present on desktop using live cd15:54
ccheneykwwii: see above about the splash screen for OOo not fitting in with new theme15:57
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ccheneyprimes2h: i don't think there is an actual package to assign bugs to him with, letting him know is probably enough15:57
kwwiiccheney: the first thing we can do to improve that is change the color of the progress bar ;)15:58
kwwiiprimes2h, ccheney: I'll push this out to my colleagues on the design team15:58
ccheneykwwii: iirc there is a file that you can modify the placement and color of the bar with16:00
ccheneyi don't remember where/how to do it though16:00
ccheneyi can ask around and see if i can find out16:01
kwwiiccheney: if you don't know how would I ever find out?16:01
ccheney:)16:01
ccheneydigging through the source, which would take longer16:01
ccheneyoh sorry misread16:02
* ccheney needs more caffeine16:02
bdrungpitti: the units policy is finally gone gold?16:04
pittibdrung: yes, with two modifications; the original one was too strong to find TB approval16:04
pittibdrung: but better start a bit smaller and fix the GUI portions first, but get going16:05
pittibdrung: thanks for your persistence, took a while :)16:05
bdrungpitti: i saw you changes.16:05
bdrungpitti: great.16:06
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bdrungpitti: we can fix most of the gui portions with bug #36952516:07
ubottuLaunchpad bug 369525 in glib2.0 "Use IEC standard for binary byte units " [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/36952516:07
pittibdrung: right, I remember that one; it's somewhat stuck upstream, but I think we'll go ahead and JFDI it16:07
pittibdrung: I put that one on the lucid list now16:08
bdrungpitti: JFDI?16:08
pittibdrung: just f* do it, without getting it upstream first16:09
pittibdrung: it might create just the right amount of nudging for them, too :)16:10
bdrungpitti: and it's small enough for beeing maintained by us ;)16:10
ccheneykwwii: i think this is the information: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/change-remove-splash-screen.html16:10
pittithat, too; I'm more worried about the behavioural difference, not the patch maintenance16:10
primes2hkwwii: btw, did you see this too? it looks a bit weird. bug 53506116:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 535061 in light-themes "Install and Startup Disk Creator icon is incongruous (and low resolution) with Ubuntu mono icon set" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53506116:11
ccheneykwwii: and its already in the /etc/openoffice/sofficerc with values you can tweak16:12
kwwiiprimes2h: hrm, seems that icon is not at the right size16:12
kwwiiprimes2h: but that bug has nothing to do with the ubuntu-mono set16:12
kwwiiccheney: ok, I will edit that and get back to you16:13
primes2hkwwii: in fact it has because the HD pic in comes about human theme16:13
primes2hd/about16:13
primes2hs/about/from16:14
kwwiiprimes2h: right16:14
pittibdrung: hah, you missed a "KB" in the description comment :)16:14
pittibdrung: (don't worry, I'll fix it when I sponsor)16:14
primes2hkwwii: it should be updated.16:14
bdrungpitti: you are right ;)16:17
evslangasek: you're a star; thanks for the Kashmir advice16:17
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kwwiiprimes2h: yes, it should ;)16:19
asacRiddell: so thats just a helper for the kde dialogs?16:49
asacRiddell: why isnt that done inside the mozillatree?16:50
asace.g. is that also distributed by opensuse etc.?16:50
Riddellasac: yes it is.  opensuse package it separately so we followed them16:50
asacRiddell: ok. just curious ... do you see any mid term reason to keep that out of mozilla tree? is it useful for anything else?16:51
Riddellasac: it's not really useful for anything else I can forsee16:52
Riddellasac: but mozilla uses autotools and KDE doesn't so that could be fiddly to integrate16:52
asacapproved16:53
Riddellasac: if you're in a MIR mood bug 533990 is wanting looked at too16:57
ubottuLaunchpad bug 533990 in kubuntu-debug-installer "[MIR] kubuntu-debug-installer" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53399016:57
debfxmdeslaur: the 62_tray_icon_size_kde.patch can dropped from the pidgin package since the eggtrayicon isn't used anymore17:00
mdeslaurdebfx: ok, thanks17:01
asacRiddell: i assume drkonqi could also e used to put that code in long run?17:03
asace.g. adding a kubuntu backend etc.17:03
Riddellasac: I don't follow17:04
Riddellasac: this app is run by drkonqi17:04
asacRiddell: right. but why not ship this as part of drkonqi ;)17:04
asacthats what i wondered about17:04
asace.g. kubuntu should be important enough to justify such code17:05
asacanyway approved.17:05
Riddelloh I see, yeah we should merge it upstream for the next KDE17:05
asaccommented on that in MIR bug17:05
Riddellthanks asac17:05
asacanything else to make KDE happy ;)?17:05
Riddellasac: I think that's all thanks, until that gcc ARM segfault manages to fix itself17:06
asachehe17:06
asacare there still bad things left? from what i understood most kde things are working now17:06
asacwell at least building. kdeedu is still on our list in main17:07
asacanything that popped up today?17:07
Riddellyeah  kdeedu is the issue.  I removed the edu packages from the images so they won't block that but it would be nice to get them back17:07
asacRiddell: on ftbfs kdeedu seems to have built17:08
asachttp://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/17:08
mikebuntuwhen I start up my eeePC, I see the ubuntu splash screen then I get a black screen and all I see is the mouse and cursor. I can hit Ctrl+T, then type gdm-restart (even though I can't see anything I'm typing) and then the login screen comes up and everything works... Any ideas?17:08
Riddellasac: "Finished 21 hours ago " interesting17:09
asacyeah ;)17:09
Riddellasac: I wonder if that means kdebindings would build17:09
asacRiddell: they are building since a few days already17:09
asaci dont have anything i nmain kde related left from what i see17:09
Riddellasac: but only because I disabled smoke from kdebindings.  I might try it in the PPA with smoke enabled17:09
awoodlandcan someone sync blcr-0.8.2-10 from Debian/Unstable into Lucid please? It fixes an Ubuntu bug http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/blcr/news/20100309T120216Z.html17:10
asacRiddell: do you have a armel ppa somewhere?17:10
asacotherwise i can upload to one of mine17:10
Riddellasac: the canonical-arm-devs one or whatever its called17:10
asacgimme the .dsc17:10
asacoh ok17:10
asacif that works go for it17:10
asacwould be lovely to have a fully working kde on armel ;)17:10
asacand kde-netbook17:10
Riddellawoodland: please file a bug and subscribe ubuntu-archive17:11
awoodlandfile a bug against ubuntu-archive?17:11
Riddellev: did today's ubiquity upload include the fix to the language selection crash?17:11
Riddellawoodland: file a bug on the package17:11
asacRiddell: xul 1.9.2 is in NEW in case you do an archive run today still ;)17:11
awoodlandthere is a bug on the package17:11
awoodlandthat's why I found it :)17:11
Riddellawoodland: a sync request bug17:11
awoodlandah ok17:12
* asac takes a break17:12
awoodlandso you mean subscribe ubuntu-archive to the bug?17:13
Riddellawoodland: that's ok if it's clear to a busy archivev admin that it is a sync request17:13
asacthere probably is a wiki page about how to request a sync17:14
asacawoodland: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess17:14
awoodlandThanks (I'm kind of new to doing anything more with Ubuntu development than watching my packages come in from Debian)17:17
jcastroawoodland: this might be useful to you: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/ForDebianDevelopers17:19
awoodlandyeah I read that, and I've taken advantage of the time period before "DebianImportFreeze" by putting LP bugs in changelogs17:20
didrockskirkland: hey. What is the official way to know for both connected and not connected user those who use an encrypted home? (I want to prevent them to set autologin in gdmsetup)17:29
kirklanddidrocks: boy that would be phenomenal17:30
didrockskirkland: should be easy on the gdmsetup side, but first, I have to grab the list. Tired of getting but report and tell to people "reboot in recovery mode… , vim /etc/gdm/custom.conf, urgh :-)"17:31
kirklanddidrocks: right-o17:31
kirklanddidrocks: okay, well, it's easy from the ecryptfs side too, so let's hook it up17:31
Keybukpitti: I've discovered something annoying about the fact the Dell Minis need you to press Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F1 to get to a console17:31
kirklanddidrocks: ls -alF /home/.ecryptfs/$USER/.ecryptfs17:31
Keybukpitti: ...try it on your D420 ;-)17:31
kirklandKeybuk: you can change the Fn bit in the BIOS, fyi17:32
kirklandKeybuk: ie, make the sound controls secondary and the F-keys primary (if that's your gripe)17:32
Keybukkirkland: the gripe is more that on the other Dells, that's HIBERNATE! :p17:33
kirklandKeybuk: doh!  :-)17:33
kirklandKeybuk: ie, "take my console away from me" rather than "give me a console"17:33
Keybukmore "take my laptop away from me for a few minutes"17:33
kirklanddidrocks: so if that directory is well-populated (at least has a wrapped-passphrase file), then the user has an encrypted setup17:34
kirklanddidrocks: if the contents of Private.mnt are equal to the user's $HOME, then they have an encrypted home17:34
kirklanddidrocks: note that the contents of Private.mnt can be any directory the user owns17:34
didrockskirkland: just tested on two box. awesome, that will be more than easy to fix :)17:35
kirklanddidrocks: which people like pitti set to $HOME/Private, rather than just $HOME17:35
kirklanddidrocks: and for older installs (upgrades), if Private.mnt is omitted, it's assumed to be $HOME/Private17:35
kirklanddidrocks: see also the auto-mount and auto-umount files17:35
didrockskirkland: oh ok, so, looking at that file should be good17:35
pittiKeybuk: I switched off the Fn function key thing in the bios17:36
didrockskirkland: auto-mount and auto-umount are empty for me17:36
pittiKeybuk: hm, ctrl+alt+hibernate? does that work? :-)17:36
kirklanddidrocks: right, it's a presence test17:36
pittiah, apparently it does17:36
kirklanddidrocks: the pam_ecryptfs module will skip it's work, if those are missing on login/logout17:36
kirklanddidrocks: cool, i think you're money17:37
kirklanddidrocks: let me know if there's anythign else17:37
Keybukpitti: the problem is I need to switch it off in my BRAIN17:37
didrockskirkland: I guess I just have to look at Private.mnt for each user, see if this corresponds to their home, and not show them in that case. Does that sound correct?17:37
pittiKeybuk: just press F2 while you wake up in the morning!17:38
kirklanddidrocks: yup17:38
KeybukF2?17:38
kirklanddidrocks: that should do it17:38
didrockskirkland: perfect, thanks a lot, good task for tomorrow morning with a fresh brain :)17:39
kirklanddidrocks: if $(cat /home/$USER/.ecryptfs/Private.mnt) = $HOME then don't set autologin!17:39
kirklanddidrocks: good plan17:39
didrockskirkland: agreed ;) of course, gdmsetup is in C with glib, but the idea is there ;)17:40
kirklandright17:40
* ogra lols about pitti'S last comment ... 17:44
ograKeybuk, btw, did i show you that one ? http://people.canonical.com/~ogra/celeron-M-lucid-20100308-3.png17:45
ograureadahed seems to not really like if L2 cache is only 64k17:46
Keybukogra: ureadahead --dump | head -217:47
ogra/var/lib/ureadahead/pack: created Mo, 08 Mär 2010 12:51:39 +0000 for hdd 8:117:50
ogra19 inode groups, 1878 files, 1933 blocks (102236 kB)17:50
ograKeybuk, ^^^17:50
Keybukogra: how much memory does that box have?17:51
ogra51217:51
Keybukoutput of "free" ?17:51
ograMB17:51
ograMem:        500752     486256      14496          0      44972     13874417:51
Keybukcan't see any issue there17:51
ograogra@ogra-laptop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep cache17:51
ogracache size: 64 KB17:51
ogracache_alignment: 6417:51
Keybukare you sure it's not just a stupidly slow drive?17:51
ograsure, its not a fast drive additionally17:52
Keybukwhat debugging have you done to ascertain that this is an L2 cache issue?17:52
Keybukyou seem *very* certain17:52
ograKeybuk, no debugging at all ...17:52
Keybukcould you describe to me what effect the size of the L2 cache would have on the kernel's CFQ algorithms?17:52
ograno idea but i have other machines with similar setup that are way faster L2 is the one big difference17:53
Keybukhave you put the drive from this machine in the others?17:53
ograno, its a little laptop and requires some screwdriver work i havent had time for yet to replace the drives17:53
Keybukok17:54
Keybukwell, I think it's a shit drive17:54
ograbut you think it clearly is a drive issue ?17:54
ograok17:54
Keybukyour pack size isn't huge (100MB)17:54
Keybukit's smaller than your page cache after you've been running17:54
Keybukso it's not an issue with that17:54
Keybukthe throughput profile shape looks normal17:54
Keybukit's just very long17:54
Keybukand very low throughput17:54
Keybukthat to me says shit drive or shit I/O controller17:54
ogra/dev/sda1:17:55
ogra Timing buffered disk reads:   70 MB in  3.07 seconds =  22.77 MB/sec17:55
ograyeah, iirc its attached to USB17:55
ograinternally17:55
Keybuk*facepalms*17:55
Keybukthere you go then17:55
Keybukyou could read from that drive faster with a magnet and a tweed jacket17:55
ograseems more and more manufacturers fake SATA on a USB port17:55
ograits very intresting though that my ARM board has faster readahead (other speed issues though) with a similar drive setup and throughput17:57
ograhttp://people.canonical.com/~ogra/babbage2-lucid-20100211-3.png17:57
KeybukARM manufacturers would fake SATA using ancient egyptian canal and aqueduct systems if they thought it'd save them a cent on production costs17:58
ograit peaks even 10MB less17:58
ograKeybuk, note, the first bootchart is a celeron :)17:58
Keybukogra: you're getting much faster seek times17:58
Keybukie. it costs less to skip the bits of the files you don't need17:59
ograno arm involved ... and the celeron is actually 1/2 min slower17:59
KeybukI don't think the processor is relevant, as I said18:00
Keybukit's the I/O controller through to the drive18:00
ograright18:00
Keybukogra: another possibility could be syscall time18:09
Keybukto read 1,933 blocks, ureadahead has to make 1,933 syscalls18:10
Keybukif that round trip and context switch time is high - that'd make it slower18:10
ograyeah18:11
Q-FUNKcall me silly, but where does the patch being edited go to when we call 'edit-patch'?  debian/patches ends up empty in the working directory created by edit-patch.18:16
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Q-FUNKah.  it applies the patches and tries to rebuild them afterwards.  hmm.  ok.  this will take some getting used to.18:45
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\shguys...did anyone had a look at the problem described in bug #527666 ? creating VGs + LVs + update-initramfs could not be a valid solution for this...19:23
ubottuLaunchpad bug 527666 in lvm2 "LVM Not mounting in Lucid" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52766619:23
Keybuksince discovering the gdb "handle" command, my debugging productivity has increased at least 5%!19:48
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Caesarwtf. nano has equal alternatives priority to vim-nox?21:36
Caesarbut vim-gnome has higher21:37
slangasekfor sensible-editor?21:37
Caesareditor21:37
* slangasek nods21:37
CaesarWhen does editor come into play versus sensible-editor?21:37
CaesarAh, sensible-editor is that fandangled wrapper21:38
Caesareditor is the alternative21:38
ccheneyis there a way to keep light-themes from continously resetting button layout, or do I just need to someone rip it out of the install?21:38
slangasekCaesar: yes; sensible-editor is what you're meant to invoke, it honors $EDITOR as a per-user pref21:39
CaesarYeah I note that that uses one's homedir21:40
CaesarAgain, not ideal on a server21:40
slangasekhmm?21:40
CaesarWe don't automount /home on servers21:40
CaesarYou just don't get a homedir on servers by default21:40
slangasek... eew :)21:41
jdongcan't you initialize the environment at the PAM level in that case?21:41
CaesarConsider the alternative: you're homedir is in Mountain View and you log into a server in Bangalore21:41
slangasekCaesar: I'm not arguing for automounting, but not having a homedir == eew21:41
CaesarWe seem to survive21:42
slangasekjdong: why would you do that instead of adjusting the alternative?21:42
CaesarI guess the path of least resistance here is to adjust the alternative with Puppet21:42
CaesarBut the whole thing makes me sad21:42
jdongslangasek: the use case where each user has his own editor preference21:42
directhexthat was unpleasant21:42
directhextotal lucid upgrade failure on 2 different issues21:43
jdongdirecthex: apport is refusing to process a upowerd assertion failure here...21:43
directhexjdong, at least your system boots! i was unbootable :'(21:43
slangasekjdong: so you'd rather write a PAM module to pull in per-user environment settings from $arbitrary_store, instead of allowing for some sort of stub homedir that would provide the settings?21:45
\shCaesar: is there any reason why you don't share a centralized home for your users on servers? just out of curiosity21:46
jdongslangasek: well a stub-home would be nice. I'd like that option too :)21:46
Caesar\sh: latency21:46
CaesarI described the situation earlier21:47
CaesarBasically we have the home directories close to the user, but if the user (usually) an admin has to log into a server that is not local to them, they're not going to want the added latency of their home directory21:47
CaesarSorry, that should have been (usually an admin)21:48
CaesarGah. Trying to manage alternatives with Puppet is going to suck :-(21:49
\shhmmmm...latency can be fixed ;) just put some more 10GbE to the cores and sides ;)21:50
Caesar\sh: there's this speed of light thing21:50
CaesarAsia is always going to be about 130ms from the US21:51
directhexhm, this really hasn't gone smoothly :(21:51
Caesar130-210ms for me from my desk to servers in Taiwan and Bangalore for example21:51
\shoh well...I21:52
\sh'm a child of old analog lines...130ms is nothing ;)21:53
\shbut depending on the work I need to do remotely...it can be a problem agreed...21:53
\shthat reminds me, to solve this problem, too21:54
CaesarAnyway, back to the problem at hand21:55
CaesarI would argue that if someone has gone to the trouble of installing vim-nox they probably want that to be their editor21:55
CaesarThat logic seems to extend to vim-gnome, but not vim-nox21:55
CaesarIn fact, looking at vim-nox's postinst, it seems kinda crazy how the priority of the alternative varies wildly depending on the package variant installed21:57
CaesarMaybe the real issue is nano's priority is too high...21:58
Caesarslangasek: if I do the work for either change (lowering nano's priority or raising vim-nox's) can that make 10.04?21:59
slangasek"if someone has gone to the trouble of installing vim-nox" - no, because if you apply that reasoning equally to any package that provides the alternative, you wind up with whatever arbitrary editor one of the admins *personally* prefers being used as the default for all users on the system22:00
slangasekcurrently I'm reviewing what policy has to say about this particular alternative, if anything22:00
Caesarok22:01
slangasekhmm, no guidance there; I guess it's list archaeology to recover the rationale for the current values, then22:02
Caesar:-(22:02
CaesarI bet they were all arrived at independenty22:02
slangasekpersonally, I hold the view that nano is a much better value for a "sensible" editor, on the grounds that it has a low learning curve compared to vim (self documenting, etc)22:03
CaesarI agree, but I disagree about visudo for example using it22:03
slangasekah, heh22:03
CaesarI guess we could set EDITOR in /etc/bashrc22:04
CaesarThat doesn't appear to do the trick though22:05
slangasek/etc/bashrc, or /etc/bash.bashrc?22:08
CaesarI just tried setting the environment variable and then running visudo22:08
slangasekand it wasn't honored?22:08
CaesarSimulating having added it to /etc/whatever it is22:08
CaesarNo it was not22:08
Caesarsudo liking to strip environment variables and all22:09
CaesarWe have "Defaults env_reset,always_set_home" in our sudoers file22:09
slangasekheh, ironic22:09
CaesarI might be able to use env_keep though22:09
CaesarWoot22:15
CaesarThat seems to work22:15
cjwatsonsomebody at some point wrote an extensive justification of all the editor alternative priorities22:15
cjwatsonI distinctly remember reading it about five years ago22:16
CaesarI have a workaround that doesn't require me to write gobs of Ruby to try and manage alternatives properly with Puppet22:16
cjwatsonSteve Greenland maybe?22:16
cjwatsonthe modern numbers were certainly not all arrived at independently - somebody sat down and thrashed out a list of rules22:17
CaesarI just find it weird that vim-nox and nano have the same priority, but vim-gnome is higher22:17
cjwatsonthere's a bit of a danger of hard cases making bad law22:17
cjwatsonbetter to find the ruleset, tweak it if necessary, and get a global view of what that would mean for all the editors22:18
CaesarI've found something on -policy from 2000 from Steve Greenland22:18
cjwatsonthat might be it ...22:18
cjwatsonat least that sounds like it'll be what our current numbers evolved from22:18
* Caesar goes and reads the thread22:19
CaesarHeh. 199722:21
Caesarhttp://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2000/06/msg00122.html22:21
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cousteauis there a place to submit hand-drawn ideas of an interface?23:37
cousteauI've been playing with a small idea I had for the netbook edition and I think it could be interesting23:38
cousteaudon't know much about programming, I would just do it if I knew23:40
cousteaumaybe I just post it on Ubuntu Brainstorm, but I don't feel like it's the right place for these kind of things23:45
voriancousteau: you can use a "whiteboard" on launchpad.net23:45
vorianstart a project page, and recruit developers who may also share an intrest in your idea23:46
cousteauwell, I don't think it might require quite a big development, it's more a look for the UNE launcher23:47
voriancousteau: there are many projects on lanchpad that aren't "big"23:48
vorianit's just a place to develop an idea, track progress and bugs23:48
cousteauit's an interface that could be also controlled wit the keyboard, in case you don't have a tablet pc23:49
wgrantcjwatson: Argh, that custom upload breakage is due to a last-minute change requested by the reviewer :(23:49
voriancousteau: sound interesting, gtk or qt?23:53
cousteauthat's the problem, I've no idea about programming... my idea was to modify the current launcher23:54
vorianin gnome or kde?23:54
cousteaugtk, I guess...23:55
cousteauwell, the current one is done in gtk, right?23:55
vorianin gnome, yes23:55
voriani suppose this is ubuntu-devel23:55
cousteauhttp://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5690/ubuntunetbooklauncher2.png23:56
cousteauthe idea was to control the upper tabs with the F-keys and escape, the app buttons with 1-7, Q-U, A-J and Z-M23:57
vorianah23:57
cousteauand space bar to give focus to the "Search" bar23:57
cousteauwhich would be used to filter apps, files, do internet searches and open web pages, much like gnome-do or gnome launcher23:59

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