[01:28] <ricardoperera> olá
[03:54] <dekenx> Hello, I have installed Xubuntu 10.04 on an old laptop, after a reboot I pass by the GRUB menu and the system then freezes at a blinking cursor, any ideas?
[03:55] <dekenx> (btw i have tried noacpi, noapic, nomodeset, etc...)
[04:18] <Xenphor> hello I had a question regarding the xubuntu wubi installer
[04:19] <Xenphor> it hangs at 79% complete and gives me this error: Apt configuration problem: attempt to install packages from the CD failed
[04:19] <Xenphor> it then proceeds to hang at 79% and seems to be scanning for other files
[04:20] <Xenphor> then it crashes and said it had an unrecoverable error and reboots
[04:20] <Xenphor> is my problem that I don't have a required CD?
[04:51] <pleia2> Xenphor: /g 57
[04:51] <pleia2> oops
[04:52] <pleia2> Xenphor: maybe a bad burn of the cd?
[04:52] <Xenphor> i dont have a cd
[04:52] <Xenphor> i used the installer from the internet
[04:52] <pleia2> ah
[04:52] <pleia2> I'm not sure then :\
[04:52] <Xenphor> hmm ok thanks
[07:43] <Arpad2> how can be opened .m3u  file in exaile? it needs some plugin...
[08:04] <TheSheep> .m3u file is just a text file with an url inside, open that url instead
[08:05] <Arpad2> ok, thx:)
[09:21] <xubuntu793> ciao a tutti
[09:25] <gottto> !it
[15:03] <Sysi> am i on wrong channel or is lucid working frigging awesomely?
[15:03] <Sysi> zero problems visible
[15:11] <Pres-Gas> Thunar has a clicking issue, Sysi
[15:11] <Pres-Gas> Fortunately, I mostly use the terminal
[15:11] <Pres-Gas> I would also say the migration from t-bird 2 to 3 is not the smoothest...but that may be my selection of pluggins
[15:33] <renata_> hello, I use xubuntu lucid with the latest nvidia drivers. However, I have and extremely slow boot, my laptop show blinking cursor for about 15 sec, then ugly boot screen with somehow too big XUBUNTU name on it. I wonder if there any possibility to improve both the speed and the look of the startup?
[17:32] <MTecknology> What tool is there for managing multiple desktops?
[17:34] <Pres-Gas> MTecknology, do you mean multiple desktops for different operating systems?
[17:34] <MTecknology> Pres-Gas: monitors*
[17:38] <MTecknology> Pres-Gas: just one ubuntu system - i just got another monitor
[17:38] <charlie-tca> !twinview
[17:38] <Sysi> !xrandr
[17:39] <MTecknology> thanks :)
[17:46] <MTecknology> That was amazingly easy...
[17:47] <charlie-tca> with the correct information?
[17:47] <Sysi> my friend wrote xorg.conf for 2 days with debian and ati
[17:48] <MTecknology> charlie-tca: ya- i used xrandr - two commands and it's working perfect
[17:49] <charlie-tca> Great! glad Sysi had the reference right ;-)
[17:51] <MTecknology> me too :P
[18:02] <meowgoesboom> hello was wondering if i could get some help with xubuntu
[18:02] <bittin> ask the question?
[18:02] <charlie-tca> !help
[18:02] <charlie-tca> oops, the correct answer to the question is 'yes'
[18:03] <meowgoesboom> i installed xubuntu and i picked dual boot with grub and when my computer boots up i can not move my arrow up or down
[18:03] <meowgoesboom> it always picks xubuntu
[18:04] <charlie-tca> At the desktop, open a terminal, and then run 'sudo update-grub'
[18:04] <charlie-tca> restart, it should let you make a selection
[18:05] <meowgoesboom> does it matter that i have a usb keyboard?
[18:06] <meowgoesboom> thank you
[18:06] <meowgoesboom> i will go do that now and i will let you know if it works for me
[18:07] <meowgoesboom> charlie i got another question but its not about xubuntu
[18:09] <meowgoesboom> i have a hard drive thath wont read in windows it showes the drive but wont read the data off it if im in xubuntu is there a way i could get the data off it?
[18:11] <Pres-Gas> !ddrescue
[18:11] <Pres-Gas> d'oh
[18:11] <charlie-tca> or samba, maybe
[18:13] <Pres-Gas> charlie-tca, is there something that I am missing with samba and reading disks?  I think this is the 2nd time you have mentioned samba to read local disks
[18:13] <charlie-tca> samba is what they need to read the windows disks
[18:14] <charlie-tca> It is probably formatted ntfs, and Xubuntu does not automatically install the stuff to read it
[18:14] <ochosi> samba for local windows discs?
[18:14] <Pres-Gas> I thought that was the ntfs fs drivers
[18:14] <ochosi> i thought that's something like ntfs-3g
[18:14] <Pres-Gas> ochosi, me too
[18:14] <charlie-tca> If you create the fstab entries
[18:14] <charlie-tca> but if you use gigolo, it uses samba
[18:15] <ochosi> oh, never used that for local drives
[18:15] <Pres-Gas> hmmmm
[18:15] <Pres-Gas> I wonder if gigolo is using the loopback interface then?
[18:15] <charlie-tca> windows drives do not automatically read for some reason I don't know
[18:17] <Pres-Gas> charlie-tca, do you always use gigolo to mount local devices?
[18:18] <charlie-tca> I have no windows drives
[18:18] <charlie-tca> I haven't had anything windows for over 10 years
[18:18] <Pres-Gas> Ahh, see...this is why I am asking as I have not locally attached an ntfs drive for awhile
[18:19] <charlie-tca> me neither ;-)
[18:20] <charlie-tca> !windows
[18:20] <leonard_> hello i did 'sudo update-grub' and nothing happend
[18:20] <charlie-tca> Next?
[18:20] <charlie-tca> the only other suggestion I have is try different usb ports
[18:20] <leonard_> ok
[18:20] <leonard_> thanky ou
[18:21] <leonard_> is there a way i could remove data off a hard drive that windows can not read?
[18:22] <Pres-Gas> In the future, I think we need to mention the more typical ways to mount windows drives....samba is a pretty huge progect and opens up services and ports that should not be opened unless you know what you are doing.
[18:22] <Pres-Gas> I suggest this:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions
[18:22] <leonard_> ok i will read thank you
[18:23] <charlie-tca> sounds good to me. I will try to remember it
[18:23] <Pres-Gas> Yeah, I have been working on docs integrating Linux with Active Directory and samba is the key....and huge in scopt
[18:23] <Pres-Gas> s/scopt/scope
[18:24] <charlie-tca> I just know it works for most people
[18:24] <Pres-Gas> Now, samba is perfect for sharing files to windows hosts as well.
[18:25] <charlie-tca> I'm learning, I hope ;-)
[18:26] <Pres-Gas> charlie-tca, in lurking here you have taught me plenty!  :D
[19:46] <p0a> Hello how can I tell X to insert a ( every time I hit the [
[19:47] <TheSheep> p0a: you can remap your keyboard
[19:47] <charlie-tca> Create a shortcut in Applications -> Keyboard -> shortcuts ?
[19:47] <TheSheep> !xmodmap
[19:52] <p0a> I've did it
[19:52] <p0a> how can I make sure xmodmap .xmodmap is run every time I log in to X?
[19:53] <TheSheep> add it to autostarted applications
[19:53] <TheSheep> p0a: you program in lisp? :)
[19:53] <p0a> eh they got me :P
[19:54] <TheSheep> p0a: it might be more practical to only remap those keys in your editor, and if it's vim or emacs, you can even only remap them whhen editing a lisp file
[19:55] <TheSheep> ok, that was silly, why would you use vim if you program in lisp
[19:55] <p0a> :P
[19:55] <p0a> I know but it's confusing
[19:56] <p0a> I could have emacs do that job but in firefox I'd want to type a [ and I'd type a ( instead, etc.
[19:56] <TheSheep> I usually have no problems switching modes like this
[19:56] <TheSheep> I rarely type 'i' in firefox :P
[19:57] <p0a> I have the vimperator plugin and I'm an emacs user :]
[19:57] <TheSheep> do you ant to talk about it?
[19:58] <TheSheep> I'm sure they have a therapy group or something
[19:58] <p0a> I talk to my mxdoctor often
[19:58] <TheSheep> say hello to Eliza
[20:05] <ToddDailey> Hello. My Xubutnu desktop is not loading and I need to reach the console to fix it. Does Xubuntu have a "recovery mode"?
[20:09] <ToddDailey> Does anyone here know? I can boot the live cd but the hard disk is not mounted, so that's no help.
[20:10] <charlie-tca> do you get a grub menu?
[20:10] <ToddDailey> No GRUB menu when booting from HD.
[20:11] <ToddDailey> I thought that was strange with Xubuntu. Most other distros seem to give you choices at boot.
[20:12] <charlie-tca> You can try holding down the right-shift key while starting, which should bring up the grub menu. There is a recovery mode option on it
[20:12] <ToddDailey> I'll try that now ...
[20:13] <ToddDailey> Better. Why the heck is that hidden behind the right shift key ???
[20:14] <charlie-tca> That is the default for Lucid. It was confusing too many users to have the menu shown every boot
[20:14] <ToddDailey> ... and then the users who expect to see it at every boot get confused when it's missing ...  <sigh>
[20:15] <charlie-tca> It is referenced in the release notes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#No%20delay%20for%20boot%20menu%20with%20GRUB%202
[20:15] <ToddDailey> Thanks. I'll bookmark that.
[20:16] <Reign25> Hey everyone. I was hoping someone could help me out with a very odd issue I'm having with Xubuntu. The wireless card finds my network, but when it tries to connect, it ends up failing to connect. It's the same situation with wired. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[20:17] <charlie-tca> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Avahi%20will%20always%20start%20even%20if%20a%20.local%20domain%20is%20present
[20:18] <charlie-tca> is what I usually blame for such things, if both wired and wireless are affected
[20:20] <Reign25> ok I'll check that out. thank you.
[20:21] <Reign25> The Avahi mDNS is what you're referring to?
[20:22] <charlie-tca> Yes, it is worth a try. Avahi seems to grab the ethernet port somethimes, thinking there is nothing else going to use it.
[20:25] <Reign25> gotcha. I'll give it a try and see. Quick question while you're here; could you tell me how to install an Orinoco driver or link me please? I haven't been able to figure it out since the readme is blank?
[20:26] <Reign25> well, blank on instructions
[20:26] <charlie-tca> don't know, myself. Normally, all the wireless drivers are installed automatically through the kernel.
[20:26] <charlie-tca> !wireless
[20:26] <charlie-tca> may be helpful?
[20:28] <Reign25> alright. thanks again.
[20:41] <ToddDailey> Problem fixed. Thank you charlie-tca.
[20:42] <charlie-tca> You are welcome
[20:42] <charlie-tca> Glad we could help
[20:51] <handjob> Hi all. I've got problem with 10.04 installed on emachine 620. eth 0 does not seems to get along with network manager. Strange thing is that desktop with does not have any problems with connection. Help.
[20:52] <charlie-tca> If there is no problem with the connection, what is wrong?
[20:53] <Arpad2> how can be disk ejected?
[20:53] <charlie-tca> Open a terminal, type "eject"
[20:54] <Arpad2> :)
[20:54] <Arpad2> ok, thx!
[20:54] <charlie-tca> no problem
[20:54] <handjob> charlie-tca: There is not problem with connection form desktop, but once I plug the cabel into laptop i get the message that I am disconected from wireless and nothing happens.
[20:55] <charlie-tca> but wireless works?
[20:55] <handjob> On deskto yes, on laptop very no, and it's a problem.
[20:55] <handjob> *desktop
[21:00] <handjob> Sorry I am wrighting such a bullstit. From the begining : I don't have wireless at all. I have only ethernet cabel connection that does work on desktop running on 10.04 but same connection does not work on laptop. When i plug the cabel into laptop I get the message boout being disconnected from wireless and nothing happens.
[21:04] <handjob> Bye
[21:30] <Viking667> hi all. Having trouble with a machine... how do I downgrade from ext4 to ext3?
[21:30] <TheSheep> you backup all data, format the drive to ext3 and put the data back
[21:30] <Viking667> The machine has 512Mb memory, is a 1.3GHz Celeron and is having some trouble keeping up with Cafe World from Facebook.
[21:30] <Viking667> yush.
[21:31] <TheSheep> this is the safe way
[21:32] <Viking667> Any way I can get the Live installer to default to ext3 instead?
[21:32] <TheSheep> sure, you can partition manually
[21:32] <TheSheep> and choose any filesystems you want
[21:36] <Viking667> *nod*. I may have to do that then.
[21:36] <Viking667> just as well I've got two other machines I can drop stuff on.
[21:38] <TheSheep> be careful to not lose anything in the process
[22:02] <Viking667> To create a tarball, is bz2 or lzma better? (/home, /etc, /root)
[22:22] <dystheria> just joined to ask a quick question, is xubuntu 10.04 using gdm to handle login sessions?