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| revolverXD | hello guys have a little question does ubuntu has built-in syslog service? and if it does how do i access it? | 00:46 |
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| revolverXD | i read something about rsyslog and tried to access it but the only responce i got from it is that its active | 00:47 |
| revolverXD | anyone? | 00:54 |
| stlsaint | revolverXD: yo | 01:06 |
| Calbertha | Hi all. Was here earlier and I'm still in a bind. Anyone round to help? | 01:10 |
| revolverXD | hi stlsaint | 01:10 |
| Calbertha | Anyone here? | 01:13 |
| phillw | Calbertha: hi | 01:13 |
| revolverXD | me ? :\ | 01:13 |
| Calbertha | You helping or looking for help? | 01:14 |
| revolverXD | looking for help still trying to figure out how to run syslog on ubuntu | 01:14 |
| * phillw sorry, I've been doing wiki pages. | 01:14 | |
| Calbertha | Hahah, hey Phillw | 01:15 |
| revolverXD | hi m8 | 01:15 |
| Calbertha | I tried to do the reinstall for Grub but got big problems | 01:15 |
| phillw | Calbertha: ?? the reinstall of grub is absolute, unless the hard drive is dying :-/ | 01:16 |
| Calbertha | Well lemme tell you how it went | 01:16 |
| Calbertha | Basically I know the hard drive isn't bad since the comp detects it every time I boot up. But when I try to load in the Ubuntu disc, the same one i did the original install with mind you, it shows this box that says LIVE with an ok button | 01:17 |
| Calbertha | Problem is, it won't let me click the button | 01:17 |
| phillw | Calbertha: on the posting I gave you, there is the 'mild' version of reinstalling, the 'medium' version and the 'to heck with it, just do it' versions :-) How far did you go? | 01:18 |
| revolverXD | god i think i will just buy the linux bible book and be done with it - trying to install apache or mysql became a torture for me | 01:18 |
| Calbertha | Like the mouse isn't working. I've tried 2 as well | 01:18 |
| Calbertha | Well.. | 01:18 |
| Calbertha | I read all of it, and it all needs to be done from the desktop pretty much...whichhhhh I can't get to | 01:19 |
| phillw | revolverXD: I recently did a classroom on LAMP, if you want an easier way, I will go get the notes and presentation for you. | 01:19 |
| revolverXD | i would really like that phillw cause i remeber i tryed to install LAMP at one point there | 01:19 |
| revolverXD | seems like some korean kid got access to my long dead battle net account and now it made a little bit more aware on my system security | 01:20 |
| Calbertha | That sucks. Battle Net isn't the most secure thing hah | 01:21 |
| phillw | revolverXD: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/07/28/%23ubuntu-classroom.html | 01:22 |
| phillw | that has the links to the pages that I used, and the classroom Q&A session | 01:22 |
| revolverXD | thank you very much phillw :) | 01:22 |
| Calbertha | Oh btw Phillw, I also at one point got "Fix Symbol 'grub_puts' not found" | 01:23 |
| phillw | Calbertha: From a boot CD, you will be able to get grub installed? | 01:23 |
| Calbertha | Well like I said. When I boot up the original install CD, it shows a box saying LIVE and an ok button | 01:24 |
| revolverXD | are there anymore lessons in the near time? | 01:25 |
| Calbertha | but I cant click it | 01:25 |
| phillw | Calbertha: as i run dev stuff, the instructions for grub re-install do work ;-) | 01:25 |
| Calbertha | Well I'm sure they would if I could get to that part ya know | 01:26 |
| phillw | revolverXD: yes there are | 01:26 |
| Calbertha | But I just keep getting that box I can't click | 01:26 |
| phillw | I'd suggest that your cd is poorly :'( | 01:27 |
| revolverXD | is there a place i can see their schedule? | 01:27 |
| Calbertha | So I guess I should make another? | 01:28 |
| phillw | revolverXD: I'm just getting the inforation | 01:29 |
| phillw | Calbertha: ensure your CD passes the self test option | 01:29 |
| revolverXD | ah thx im trying to install lamp now it seems i did install it at some point | 01:30 |
| Calbertha | I guess I'll try booting it up on another machine | 01:30 |
| phillw | revolverXD: my draft notes from the classroom are over on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw/draft | 01:31 |
| phillw | Calbertha: it's also worth running a CD cleaner in the cd/dvd drive | 01:33 |
| Calbertha | Alright then. Going to go try this real fast. Will return. | 01:34 |
| phillw | hi Mohan_chml :-) | 01:35 |
| revolverXD | just out of curiosity what is tasksel? | 01:38 |
| revolverXD | is it something along the line of aptitude? | 01:38 |
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| phillw | revolverXD: it is a bit, but the "geeks" have made tasksel so that it asks some simple questions and gets on with it | 01:40 |
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| revolverXD | lol aptitude for the simple folks | 01:41 |
| phillw | revolverXD: no, aptitude for people who do not want out of date instructions from "your favourite search engine" | 01:42 |
| revolverXD | sigh this wont be easy it seems - i got error 1045 while installing phpmyadmin | 01:43 |
| revolverXD | the error says i enterd the right password but for some reason i cant do the reinstalling of the data base | 01:44 |
| phillw | revolverXD: let me guess, have you previously tried to install LAMP? | 01:45 |
| revolverXD | oh yes :) | 01:45 |
| phillw | ::sigh:: | 01:45 |
| revolverXD | i allways try to do things alone first | 01:45 |
| revolverXD | anyway i ignored the data base and created a new one | 01:46 |
| phillw | let me look it up; do you have data you need to keep? | 01:46 |
| revolverXD | no | 01:46 |
| revolverXD | my next question wouldev been how can i manually delet my data base | 01:46 |
| phillw | you need to assert your password for the MySQL area, phpmyadmin needs that | 01:47 |
| revolverXD | yes and i did gave the right password(the error even state i gave the right one) and still got the error | 01:48 |
| phillw | error 1045 reports back as a windows error meeegae? | 01:51 |
| phillw | are you using WAMP or LAMP~? | 01:51 |
| revolverXD | lamp | 01:51 |
| revolverXD | but i pureged mysql and phpmyadmin and lamp and gonna reinstall them fron scratch | 01:52 |
| phillw | it would be the better version | 01:52 |
| phillw | revolverXD: take out php as well | 01:53 |
| revolverXD | well at lest the install window is what is stated in the slid :) that a good sighn | 01:53 |
| revolverXD | done that allready | 01:53 |
| phillw | I'm puzzeled, as the tasksel ssytem should over-write :-\ | 01:55 |
| revolverXD | dont worry i think i figured it out - i purged all the mysql ,lamp,phpmyadmin related pacges and now it seems to be on the right course of installation | 01:56 |
| revolverXD | packages* | 01:56 |
| * phillw ::sigh:: It really does madden me when people follow old instructions | 01:59 | |
| revolverXD | ok i got into my phpmyadmin root account | 01:59 |
| phillw | revolverXD: it should be pretty much plain sailing from there :-) | 02:00 |
| revolverXD | hm looks kinda cool need to dedicate some time to learn what i can do with that :) | 02:00 |
| phillw | oh, indeed, follow the links from the classroom, they will educate you :-) | 02:01 |
| revolverXD | lol thx | 02:01 |
| phillw | revolverXD: you are more than welcome, welcome to the LAMP club :-) | 02:03 |
| revolverXD | only one thing i cant make the apache2 service to restart using the terminal - i navigated to the etc/init.d but the restart order wont work | 02:12 |
| phillw | revolverXD: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart | 02:15 |
| revolverXD | nvm i will do it tomorrow thx for the phillw you saved me once again :) | 02:17 |
| revolverXD | and GN guys | 02:18 |
| phillw | heck, it's waht we are for :-D | 02:18 |
| _schism_ | anyone have a moment to help me fix the computer I just trashed :( | 04:00 |
| _schism_ | just did an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 no problems then I went to 10.04 and now I cant get to the desktop most of the time. on occasion I can with safemode but not always | 04:04 |
| stlsaint | _schism_: so again? | 04:07 |
| stlsaint | _schism_: you cant get to your desktop ? | 04:07 |
| stlsaint | well alright | 04:14 |
| _schism_ | <sigh> lspci shows an ati card and the bootsplash shows invidia anyone ever seen this before? | 04:26 |
| zkriesse | Hey team | 06:50 |
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| tenach | GRR | 07:55 |
| tenach | GIMP just crashed my entire GNOME session. | 07:55 |
| ubuntubeginner | I just installed the Ubuntu studio updates on my laptop. and I seem to have lost the main menu in my file browser window.... Can someone please help? | 08:30 |
| === IAmNotThatGuy is now known as Mohan_chml | ||
| ronankennedy | I'm trying to recover from disk problems with Ubuntu Netbook Edition. GRUB is just giving me a command line prompt. I have figured out how to get it to manually boot from the disk, but it stops with a kernel panic. Can anyone help? | 14:36 |
| Mohan_chml | ronankennedy: you remember the error or the next line displayed after GRUB> | 14:41 |
| ronankennedy | Mohan_chml: no message, just a command line prompt | 14:42 |
| Mohan_chml | ahha | 15:07 |
| Mohan_chml | ronankennedy: its just stayed with "GRUB> " right! | 15:07 |
| ronankennedy | Mohan_chml: yes | 15:07 |
| Mohan_chml | ronankennedy: I think your Grub is not Identifying the boot partitions | 15:17 |
| Mohan_chml | make a bootable USB stick and try getting in and look at the grub and update the grub if needed | 15:18 |
| ronankennedy | Mohan_chml: yes, I've done that. I've re-installed GRUB through a live stick, and I think I've got the config right, but it just doesn't work. | 15:26 |
| phillw | ronankennedy: you may want to try re-installing the kernel | 15:26 |
| phillw | http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=35 covers how to do that, and get grub to 'see' it. | 15:27 |
| ronankennedy | phillw: thanks, that looks useful | 15:29 |
| ronankennedy | phillw: I think that has worked... system is booting normally now. Many many thanks. | 15:48 |
| phillw | ronankennedy: you're welcome. | 15:49 |
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| Mjiig | hi is there a way to change the number of workspaces without using the workspace switcher on the gnome-panel? | 18:58 |
| geirha | Run "gconf-editor", then browse to /apps/metacity/general and change num_workspaces | 19:01 |
| slidinghorn | Mjiig: open a terminal (applications > accessories > terminal) and type gconf-editor | 19:01 |
| slidinghorn | then go where geirha pointed | 19:01 |
| geirha | You can also use gconftool | 19:02 |
| Mjiig | i've done that but there's still the same number | 19:04 |
| geirha | If you're using compiz, it's /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize (and/or vsize) | 19:05 |
| Mjiig | thanks a lot | 19:06 |
| geirha | gconftool-2 -t int -s /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize 4 | 19:06 |
| bootstrap | Hello, does anyone know if there are issues with ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 and Ubuntu? I'm used to Nvidia, but a deal came along with an ATI. | 19:20 |
| pedro3005 | bootstrap, I see a lot of people bashing ATI's linux drivers | 19:24 |
| bootstrap | pedro3005: yeah me too, I asked just to see if anyone had any first hand experience with that card. Thanks though. | 19:25 |
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| starspot | Hi folks, In Ubuntu 10.04 Firefox 3.6.8 how do I disable the pop-up menu that appears when I select a URL for copying? | 20:25 |
| starspot | It came with the Ubuntu 10.04 update and also appears in Thunderbird | 20:26 |
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| MarkRich | Hello everyone. I'm using Ubuntuo 10.4 & I'd like to create a soft link in a directory other than the one I'm working in. I use this command ln -s home/mark/data linktodata Desktop & it places the link on the desktop. But when I access it it says it's a broken link. I've also used this command which does the same thing. ln -s home/mark/data linktodata -t Desktop. | 22:58 |
| suprengr | MarkRich: open nautilus - go to (e.g.) home folder - right click - use 'Make Link' - it will create link where you are - drag to folder of your choice. Done... the easy way. | 23:04 |
| MarkRich | OK, but is there a way to use the command line & create a soft link to a directory other than the working one? | 23:07 |
| suprengr | MarkRich: Don't know answer to that when your method is failing,,, to much a 'fresh' (1 step above newbie?) myself. I simply profer help when a lnown working soln to a prob works. | 23:11 |
| suprengr | *known | 23:11 |
| MarkRich | OK thanks. | 23:12 |
| MarkRich | Is anyone aware of any other Ubuntu channels for Linux support other than the ones listed at the top of this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList ? | 23:13 |
| suprengr | http://ubuntuforums.org/ | 23:15 |
| suprengr | http://search.ubuntu.com/ | 23:16 |
| suprengr | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=801404 | 23:18 |
| MarkRich | OK thanks | 23:19 |
| suprengr | MarkRich: no prob | 23:20 |
| geirha | ln -s /home/mark/data ~/Desktop/linktodata | 23:20 |
| suprengr | geirha: :) | 23:22 |
| MarkRich | That did it. Thanks <geirha>. | 23:24 |
| stlsaint | geirha: sup | 23:24 |
| geirha | stlsaint: Just finished the Starcraft II campaign | 23:25 |
| geirha | Blizzard sure knows how to make addictive games :) | 23:26 |
| stlsaint | geirha: lol, everybody i know grabbed that game :D | 23:28 |
| geirha | I haven't actually baught it. A friend of mine did, and he gave me the 7 hour trial key that comes with it. | 23:34 |
| stlsaint | lol, you did it in 7 hours | 23:34 |
| geirha | It appears to only count the hours when you play on battle.net. | 23:34 |
| geirha | Playing the campaign as a guest user, you can apparently play as long as you like :) | 23:35 |
| live | I found the ubuntu beginners channel!!!!! | 23:53 |
| live | !irc | 23:53 |
| ubot2 | A list of official Ubuntu IRC channels, as well as IRC clients for Ubuntu, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat - For a general list of !freenode channels, see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#channellist - See also !Guidelines | 23:53 |
| stlsaint | live: hello | 23:54 |
| live | hi i'm using xchat. Am i on an offical ubuntu beginners FORUM? | 23:57 |
| live | hello, sorry, thanks, bye | 23:59 |
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