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DaskreechHello I"m getting an Unknown keyword in configuration file at boot00:03
DaskreechWrote last night's daily to a USB drive00:03
penguin42do you have the text around it and what else is on the screen at that point?00:03
Daskreechpenguin42: me?00:03
Daskreechyes I do00:03
penguin42yes00:03
Daskreechboot: under the error obviously00:03
penguin42did it say what the keyword was that was unknown?00:04
DaskreechNope it's a generic boot error00:04
DaskreechSYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 Ebios Copyright etc00:05
Daskreechthat's above the error00:05
Daskreechand I can't enter anything at the boot: prompt00:06
DaskreechI'm overwriting it with the latest stable and see what it does00:07
penguin42what did you create the boot drive with? Lucid?00:08
Daskreechyes00:08
Daskreechusb-creator on Lucid00:08
penguin42I saw a bug go past on here a couple of days ago about an incompatible version of syslinux on lucid00:09
Daskreechah00:09
Daskreechso I need to get maverick to be able to test maverick?00:09
penguin42bug 608382 ?00:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 608382 in usb-creator (Ubuntu) "Maverick images build on lucid fail to boot - different syslinux version" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60838200:09
DaskreechPhooey :(00:10
DaskreechHmm now i can't make a Lucid bootdisk anymore00:11
DaskreechUncaught exception was raised Errno 5 Input/output error00:13
penguin42that sounds different00:14
penguin42something got fun or broke00:15
penguin42fun? Full!00:15
DaskreechHmm apparently need root to write to the thumb drive00:15
Daskreechpenguin42: I just formatted the drive00:15
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|rt|does anyone know if the installer is going to support installing on multi-device btrfs pools?00:56
|rt|currently if i setup the btrfs pool with a livecd prior to running the installer I it won't accept the btrfs volume for installation00:57
VolkodavI do not think so01:02
Volkodavyou can do that after install though01:02
Volkodavwhat's the reason you need it at install time ?01:03
|rt|ok I'll give that a try....I'm trying to play with ubuntu server using virtualization with 6 disks01:03
|rt|well given the pooled storage nature of btrfs I was hoping to just make / the btrfs pool and then make subvolumes for other mount points01:04
|rt|but maybe I'm just trying to drag my zfs baggage and push it onto btrfs :)01:05
|rt|the ultimate goal hear is to move my home server which has 6 SATA drives from OpenSolaris to Ubuntu Server leveraging btrfs01:06
|rt|I was planning on using the RAID10 volume type that btrfs supports01:06
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yofel!away | Milos_SD01:16
ubottuMilos_SD: You should avoid noisy away messages and -nicks in a busy channel like #ubuntu, or other Ubuntu channels; it causes excessive scrolling which is unfair to new users. Use the command "/away <reason>" to set your client away silently.  See also «/msg ubottu Guidelines»01:16
penguin42yofel: I don't know if there is a generic bug for this - but see bug 59878001:17
ubottuLaunchpad bug 598780 in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) "Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59878001:17
penguin42yofel: I've just added my understanding of what's happening; there are quite a few similar bugs I think01:17
yofelerm, are you sure you wanted to ping *me* ?01:20
penguin42yofel: Ish - I just wanted to make sure someone on here who was a regular knew for anyone else who hits it - and you were awake01:21
yofelheh01:21
penguin42IMHO 1) The idea of loading hacks like this is a disaster and 2) The code doesn't exactly seem to do a lot of checks01:25
yofelI'm not sure if removing a package should ever remove a file from /etc01:31
yofelprobably needs a posrm script to get rid of that file01:31
yofel*postrm01:31
penguin42yofel: Indeed, however having the consequence of persistently giving errors isn't what you want either01:31
yofelright01:31
yofelshouldn't that bug be against 'appmenu-gtk' though?01:33
penguin42I think it's spitting one of these out on every menu item that's added01:33
penguin42yofel: The thing that loads it is an ubuntu specific patch in libgtk01:33
yofelah01:33
penguin42I was wondering if I should add appmenu-gtk to it as well - but frankly it's the mechanism that's broken01:34
penguin42yofel: I've just added a comment clarifying that - does it make sense?01:42
yofelsounds good01:43
* penguin42 goes to bed!01:44
Poserhello just wondering if gnome fixed it's intel graphics issues yet01:58
IdleOnePoser: what issue is that?02:00
Poserit crashes and only works with gnome202:01
Posergnome3 won't boot02:01
IdleOnehmm check launchpad.net for bugs I suppose02:02
Poserit's a gnome 3 issue with the gma intell graphic cards02:02
Poseri looked all over with google and didn't see any fixes yet02:02
Poserprobably means no but was hoping someone knew for sure02:04
IdleOneI don't know to be honest02:05
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Volkodavflashplayer is still down this evil ?02:51
edgyHi, aplay file.wav no sound but mplayer works, any idea?03:09
MTecknology2mo before release...04:19
MTecknologyI think it's time to upgrade my one and only system04:19
MTecknologyIs it stable yet?   (please don't yell - I find it funny)04:23
kklimondaMTecknology: pretty stable04:31
MTecknologykklimonda: rock solid?04:32
kklimondaMTecknology: well, no - it's ubuntu and not debian ;)04:33
MTecknologykklimonda: I remember the first year I jumped my only system to the devel release - kaboom04:33
kklimondaI use it as my primary os04:34
MTecknologyI didn't understand that the constant suggestion of removing large sums of packages was a bad thing - I thought it was cleaning things up04:34
kklimondahehe04:34
MTecknologykklimonda: Do you have another system to fall back on?04:38
kklimondano04:38
MTecknologykklimonda: I have only one laptop04:38
kklimondabut then there isn't much I can't fix04:38
MTecknologyNow for a lot of sdownloading04:39
kklimondaif you have nvidia you have to add IgnoreABI to get closed driver to work04:40
MTecknologyintel04:40
kklimondaand there is no closed driver for ati right now afair04:40
kklimondaoh, so you should be more or less good to go04:40
MTecknologyHoping so, we'll find out whenever this thing downloads04:41
MTecknologykklimonda: oh! I also run a custom stripped down kernel04:41
MTecknologyYucky  [17%] 37.6kB/s 32min 14s s04:41
MTecknologyI missed part of that -  17% [Working] 8h 39min 7s04:41
kklimondaMTecknology: I can't help you with that - I have an allergy for custom kernels outside of embedded and similar cases ;)04:42
MTecknologykklimonda: :P - I stipped mine down further than what Ubuntu likes and I'm using 2.6.36-rc104:43
Skydrome? release schedule05:28
Skydrome!release schedule05:28
Skydrome!schedule05:28
ubottuA schedule of Maverick Meerkat (10.10) release milestones can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule05:28
Skydromewoot, is it  a good time to grab a nightly build?05:29
Skydromeor dist upgrading?05:29
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Andre_Gondimsince last update all pages that has flash doesn't show nothing05:52
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Ian_cornedoes nvidia work already now?07:12
Ian_corneor do i need special h4x to get it to work?07:12
knittlhi. nvidia-current is currently broken? no pun intended …07:18
CryWolfknittl: Broken how?07:20
knittlwhen booting it hangs after/in splash screen07:20
knittlno hdd activity nor anything else07:20
knittljockey does not work, and installing manually yields this problem. xorg logs tell me it's abi incompatible with current xserver version07:21
CryWolfcan you switch to a console?  (ctrl-alt-f1)07:21
knittlnope.07:23
knittli'll try to ignore abi version for now, rebooting07:23
knittlbecause directly booting into console works and lspci tells me nvidia driver is in use07:23
CryWolfI don't have nvidia in my system.  I was thinking it might be something else, but I don't think that would give an ABI mismatch.07:24
knittlyay, it works again07:25
billybigriggeryou should check the forums07:29
billybigriggerthat nvidia breakage was expected and the workaround is posted07:29
billybigriggerfyi for next time :P07:29
billybigriggerhttp://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=38507:30
midkniht:)07:52
Kangarooohello Bug 616725 can i somehow in 10.10 delete session?08:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 616725 in xfce4-session (Ubuntu) "Cant delete sessions" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/61672508:14
knittlmorning. gnome-power-manager crashes and won't start again. is there already a bug filed?09:27
Ian_corneIt's weird09:47
Ian_corneI'm using noveau09:47
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Ian_cornebut when i go to display properties09:47
Ian_corneit says I'm using the priopretary driver09:48
Ian_corneand should use the vendor-specific tool09:48
Ian_cornewhich launches and says i'm not using their driver09:48
yofellsmod and check what module is loaded, they're exclusive09:48
Ian_cornei did09:49
Ian_corneit's nouveau09:49
yofelodd09:49
Ian_cornevery09:49
Ian_corneI can't say I haven't had my share of weird problems with this card tho09:50
Ian_corneI think it's half broken :p09:50
Ian_cornehttp://vimeo.com/1277293510:10
Kangarooohello Bug 616725 can i somehow in 10.10 delete session?11:28
ubottuLaunchpad bug 616725 in xfce4-session (Ubuntu) "Cant delete sessions" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/61672511:28
nigelbarg, that's the one that ruined my evening yesterday.11:33
nigelbKangarooo: did you try deleting .cache/sessions ?11:33
nigelbnot the folder but the files inside it...11:33
Kangaroootryng now nigelb brb reloging11:34
Kangarooonigelb: wow yes that helped.. so now session configs are changed location. hope session gui manager will also be made11:37
nigelbKangarooo: great to know it helped.11:37
sebsebsebHi12:16
gnomefreakany progress on nvidia fix?13:13
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dutchiei seem to be missing one or two nautilus icons13:44
dutchiehttp://media.joshh.co.uk/nautilus.png13:45
Kangarooodutchie: if thats after update- restart. that may happen13:47
dutchieah yes, thanks13:50
MTecknologyIs it possible to upgrade without do-release-upgrade?14:46
PiciMTecknology: Use update-manager -d14:49
MTecknologyPici: Does that do the same thing?14:49
PiciMTecknology: Yes.14:50
MTecknologyPici: I was wondering if you can do something like sed -i 's/lucid/maverick/' /etc/apt/sources.list && aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade14:50
PiciMTecknology: You shouldn't.14:50
MTecknologyalrighty14:51
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MTecknologywoohoo - 10.1016:21
MTecknologyso far I notice no change :P16:22
MTecknologyI guess aptitude is a little less verbose16:22
Andre_Gondimis there any workaround to use flash player?16:25
BluesKajAndre_Gondim: what do you mean , work around to use or not use flashplayer ?16:29
Andre_Gondimwell, since last update nothing with flash is playing to me16:29
BluesKajAndre_Gondim:  sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer16:30
BluesKajbrb16:30
gnomefreakhas nvidia been fixed yet? i dont remember the bug # to follow it16:59
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kklimondagnomefreak: you still need IgnoreABI and the newest drivers to get it to work17:09
gnomefreakkklimonda: i tried that config and it failed still17:09
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gnomefreaki was given the xorg.conf to use and it still didnt work17:10
kklimondaoh? you sure you did it right and that you have the newest driver? 256.44?17:10
* kklimonda is using it right now17:10
gnomefreakkklimonda: bjsnider gave me the right conf file17:11
gnomefreakand yes it was with .44 version from the x-swat-updates repo17:11
gnomefreaki would have been happy with the nouveau drivers after i used that conf file but no matter what i did i couldnt get back to nouveau17:14
kklimondainstalling nvidia drivers blacklists nouveau module17:14
kklimondamaybe that's the problem?17:15
gnomefreaki removed the xorg.conf to fix it like it does for another bug wut it still dropped me into TTY17:15
gnomefreaks/wut/but17:15
kklimondacheck if you have /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf17:16
gnomefreakso i gave up and im on Lucid. my maverick box is still around but i am working on it17:16
sinurgegnomefreak: think you are usinga legacy video card which is not supported by 256 and 173 wont support the newest xserver17:16
gnomefreaksinurge: no its 620017:16
gnomefreakkklimonda: i cant on my maverick box it is open in my garage atm17:17
kklimondaah :)17:17
sinurgegnomefreak: fx6200 maybe not supported17:17
sinurgei have the same and it does not work, we have to wait for 173 to be upgraded to new xserver17:17
gnomefreakhere it lists 4 blacklists17:17
gnomefreaksinurge: than the other 100 people having issues? there are a crap load of bugs on it. and i was not told in my bug that it doesnt support it. if you run show nvidia-current it should list all the supported cards and the 6200 is listed17:19
gnomefreakall 3 of the 6200 are supported17:19
sinurgegnomefreak: pls read this sticky : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=154919517:20
sinurgeif you read the nvidia downloads place for 256 it does not show up 620017:20
* gnomefreak tends to believe the discription of the drivers :)17:21
sinurgeanyways alpha3 - there are always going to be some issues ..... more bugs found more safer the sw later17:21
gnomefreakneve had that problem it never asked and it never got held back17:22
kklimondagnomefreak: but you get the ABI Mismatch error with 256.44 and IgnoreABI?17:23
kklimondajust checking, because it really should work ;)17:23
gnomefreakbrb leaving comment on how to dfix thier issue (workaround anyway17:24
gnomefreakkklimonda: it should but it didnt, soi not sure why it wasnt althought that fix should have fixed it17:27
gnomefreakthey heed to fix LP :(17:28
gnomefreaks/heed/need sorry my typing sucks today17:28
gnomefreakalso i forgot to add the upstream drivers for my card didnt work either17:36
Some_PersonHow (un)stable is Maverick right now?17:42
gnomefreakSome_Person: if nvidia very17:43
PiciSome_Person: Some people who need proprietary video drivers are reporting issues, I myself haven't had any problems.17:43
JFoI'm using it on my desktop using nVidia and I have no issues17:43
gnomefreakother problems too but it all depends on what apps you have installed17:44
Some_PersonAnything interesting in Maverick?18:01
midknihtman18:03
midknihtyou havent heard about the auto hooker locater built into dbus and the new joint roller printer mod?18:03
Some_PersonI've kind of been out of the know for a while18:04
IdleOnemidkniht: nice attempt at humor, please try to remember the !guidelines and !codeofconduct apply here also18:23
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trigroufor people interested by webgl, I did a small demo about particles http://plopbyte.net/2010/08/webgl-particles/18:37
Milos_SDIs there a public PPA for new ubuntu font?18:37
PiciMilos_SD: I don't believe that is has been made public yet.18:38
Milos_SDI read somewhere that it will be available on Aug 8th ...18:38
Milos_SD:O)18:38
Milos_SD:)18:38
IdleOneMilos_SD: it is available only by invite to certain teams18:43
IdleOneI assume they will be making it public soonish18:44
lucidfoxGaaaaaahhh18:49
lucidfoxgreat18:49
* lucidfox wanted to talk to Milos_SD18:49
lucidfoxI hate it when people leave just as I'm about to ping them18:50
yofelsend him a memo :P18:51
lucidfoxmeh18:53
lucidfoxOh, there he is.18:54
Some_PersonIs maverick good enough yet to use as a production system or would I be better off testing with a separate install? I used lucid at a late alpha stage, should I expect about the same not-working-ness and instability as that?19:24
penguin42Some_Person: Yep - same not-working-ness and instability19:24
Some_PersonBut is it any worse/better than lucid was at this stage?19:25
* penguin42 can't remember lucid at this point19:26
gnomefreakSome_Person: its worse and do not install it on production box yet19:26
gnomefreakwait until after beta release.19:27
penguin42gnomefreak: It does seem to have its collection of nasties at the moment doesn't it19:27
gnomefreakpenguin42: it does and will. we are still migrating to x1.9 and that alone can and will cause nasty bugs19:28
penguin42gnomefreak: I don't actually think those are giving me problems!19:28
penguin42although hmm, maybe that's the reason for my problems with assaultcube19:28
gnomefreakatm nvidia is the worst imtell should be ok but ati im not sure about19:29
Some_Persongnomefreak: I'll test it with an SD install like I did with lucid at first then19:29
penguin42gnomefreak: nvidia always hits problems with the abi changes if you're using the closed source; intel is OK for me (although I don't push my Intel machine hard); Radeon has a few annoying bugs19:29
gnomefreakati was very bad during lucid and now its nvidias turn19:30
Some_PersonThis machine is intel19:30
gnomefreakmaverick is the first time in years i have had any issues with during devel cycles19:30
gnomefreakSome_Person: i still wouldnt do it19:31
penguin42Some_Person: Fun things keep breaking on and off; I wouldn't run maverick on something which would cause you a  problem if it exploded and ate your cat19:31
gnomefreakwe used to have it in title but seems it was removed19:31
penguin42Some_Person: But hey that's what Alpha's are about19:31
Some_Personpenguin42: I don't see how an OS would make a machine explode19:31
gnomefreakbeta is a little better than alpha but by no means is it stable19:31
Some_Persongnomefreak: Why not? I'm planning to do a clean separate install on an SD card19:32
penguin42Some_Person: Well, it probably won't - but still you see what I mean, don't use Maverick unless you can recover from it breaking the install19:32
gnomefreakSome_Person: you can do as you wish but i am giving you the facts19:32
Some_PersonHow could an install to an SD card break my production system on my hard drive?19:32
gnomefreakSome_Person: never said it would19:32
penguin42Some_Person: It's unlikely but not unheard of19:33
Andre_Gondimis the codename of N serie out?19:33
PiciNope.19:34
* penguin42 plumps for Null Nematode19:35
gnomefreakIIRC it is ~2weeks or so before release that we get names posted to devel lists19:35
Picignomefreak: actually...19:35
Picignomefreak: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/47819:36
gnomefreakit wasnt posted to the devel lists19:36
Picignomefreak: I'm pretty sure it was just posted. sabdfl just posted that url in -devel19:37
gnomefreakhell i remember when we got to vote on the name19:37
* Pici doesn't know what natty means19:37
gnomefreakthat would explain that19:37
* gnomefreak not sure what either word means19:38
gnomefreakah reading lower explains19:38
PiciOddly, one of the dictionary sites lists dapper and jaunty as synonyms.19:40
penguin42as a penguin, I definitely wouldn't want to be followed by one of those - it looks sharp19:40
gnomefreakPici: it is pretty much the same as dapper19:41
gnomefreakneatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce: a natty white uniform.19:41
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gnomefreakok finally caught up :)19:51
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dupondjegnome-power-manager broken?20:01
penguin42dupondje: Not that I know; this machine hibernated and resumed OK - what you seeing?20:02
dupondjeno icon and a crash msg  @ boot20:03
penguin42dupondje: Ah yes, the icon is broken for me20:04
dupondjejl@laptopjl:~$ gnome-power-manager20:04
dupondjeGdk-ERROR **: The program 'gnome-power-manager' received an X Window System error.20:04
dupondje:p20:04
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dupondjelol20:56
dupondjeNatty Narwhal20:56
dupondje:)20:56
dupondjeUbuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal20:57
martijn81hi, i noticed that 10.04.1 would came out today. I wanted to help seed this iso for a while, but when will this iso be released? Thanks for your time...20:57
SwedeMikeis the pressure for .1 download even 10% of the main release? I'd imagine people wouldn't wait to download a patch release like that?21:01
penguin42SwedeMike: I guess it depends if there are fixes that stop installation21:03
Some_Person"the natty release" doesn't sound very positive21:14
jpdsSome_Person: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/natty21:18
jpdsmartijn81: When it's ready.21:18
jpdsmartijn81: And thanks for the offer to help. :)21:18
martijn81yw jpds ;)21:22
Some_Personjpds: Yes, but if you didn't know what it meant, what would you think?21:28
jpdsSome_Person: Look up the work natty?21:29
jpdsword*21:29
Some_PersonHow many *atty words are positive?21:37
penguin42most21:42
Some_PersonBatty, catty, fatty, and tatty are certainly negative. A patty is a shaped food, which isn't exactly the best.21:44
penguin42oh, I see what you mean21:44
BUGabundowhat?21:46
BUGabundothere's a name already?21:46
penguin42BUGabundo: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/47821:47
* vish renames BUGabundo to NATabundo 21:48
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vish\o/21:48
NATabunto:D21:48
Jordan_UNatty seems too much like gnatty.21:59
NATabuntoWhat the F.................22:02
NATabuntoare this ppl doing with the icons?22:02
NATabuntonautilus disk mounter applet as a 1px icon in my panel22:02
charlie-tcaheh, it helps keep down the usage???22:04
ikoniaNATabunto: please don't use that sort of phrase22:04
NATabuntocharlie-tca: if I didn't want it, I wouldn't install, it and then manually add it to one of my panels22:05
NATabuntonow its close to useless22:06
NATabuntoI was scratching my head looking for it22:06
NATabuntorepluging my e-sata disk, turning it off and on22:06
NATabuntotill I tried to readd the applet22:06
penguin42NATabunto: I have the gnome disk mounter applet OK on my panel22:07
NATabuntomine isint22:07
charlie-tcayup22:07
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BUGabundosorry vish. it was funny while it lasted22:08
charlie-tcaAnd I keep thinking I am having vision issues...22:08
vishBUGabundo: np.. :)22:08
BUGabundoaaahaa22:09
barryhello folks.  i have a machine that i upgraded from lucid->maverick.  i thought the upgrade went pretty smoothly but several things are broken.  is this the right forum to ask for help in fixing them?  if there are bugs to be filed, i'm willing to do that.22:20
penguin42yep!22:20
penguin42what broke?22:20
* barry wonders where to start :)22:20
penguin42pick one22:21
Volkodavxorg for starters22:21
barryVolkodav: yes, xorg is messed up22:21
penguin42barry: In which particular way and which graphics card do you have?22:21
Volkodavflash probably22:21
barryi have a working dual headed desktop, but no opengl/compiz/desktop effects22:21
barryi have a radeon hd 4670 card.  this worked under lucid, but appears broken under maverick22:22
penguin42barry: OK, do you run the fglrx or the open drivers?22:22
barryi cannot install fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle22:22
ZykoticK9First time every i was glad to see someone with ATI over nvidia ;)22:22
barrypenguin42: neither at this moment, i think.  what's the open driver package?22:23
penguin42barry: xserver-xorg-video-radeon22:23
barryZykoticK9: came with the dell workstation, but i really liked it (until it broke :)22:23
barrypenguin42: checking...22:23
barryroot@limelight[~:997]% aptitude search xserver-xorg-video-radeon22:24
barryi A xserver-xorg-video-radeon       - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display d22:24
barry 22:24
ZykoticK9barry, I just say that as nvidia proprietary driver is currently (i still believe?) not working on Maverick22:25
penguin42barry: Did you previously have frglx installed?22:25
barryZykoticK9: i know ;)22:25
barrypenguin42: i didn't change this explicitly, so probably not22:25
barrypenguin42: i guess that's why fglrx* doesn't install.22:26
penguin42barry: Two things; can you pastebin your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and 2) There is a bug that affects some radeon users somewhere between the kernel and grub; it'sfairly easy to try working around by editing a grub boot line - are you up for trying it?22:26
barrypenguin42: i am.  i may have to powercycle my irc connection if reboots will be coming ;)22:27
barrypenguin42: let me pastebin the file first...22:27
barrypenguin42: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479603/22:28
* penguin42 reads22:29
Volkodavwhat kinda Dell is it ?22:29
penguin42barry: OK, I'm kind of confused22:30
penguin42barry: That log file happily starts up the Radeon driver, but has an error '(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)'22:30
barryVolkodav: a dell studio xps 465 iirc22:31
barrypenguin42: i wonder if the driver needs to be reinstalled22:31
penguin42barry: Have you ever had an nvidia card in that machine or have you ever for any odd reason ever installed the nvidia driver?22:31
penguin42Oh, and do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf?22:32
Volkodavor maybe he has 2 cards in one box ?22:32
barrypenguin42: the radeon is stock, never had nvidia, only ever the stock card22:32
penguin42Volkodav: Possible, but I'm not seeing anything else nvidia like in that output22:32
Volkodavdmesg22:33
penguin42barry: OK, any xorg.conf?22:33
barrypenguin42: i don't *think* i've ever installed the nvidia driver, but i wouldn't say i didn't screw up at some point ;)22:33
barrypenguin42: pastebin coming...22:33
barrypenguin42: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479610/22:34
penguin42barry: Ooh OK22:34
penguin42barry: So, that was generated by the frglx proprietary drivers at some point22:34
penguin42barry: Can you just take a copy of that file and move it out of the way and see if it's acually any better - or you need to install the frglx drivers (but I've never done that on maverick)22:35
barrypenguin42: it does look like nvidia-settings and a few of the nvidia-*-modalias packages are installed.  i suppose i should uninstall those ;)22:35
barrypenguin42: if i move it out of the way, it'll get regenerated?22:36
penguin42barry: Yeh I have nvidia-*-modaliases, nvidia-current and nvidia-current-modaliases - but I don't think that's the actual driver - I don't have nvidia-settings22:36
penguin42barry: Hang on, can you pastebin a full list of dpkg -l \*nvidia\*22:36
barryyep, sec...22:36
barrypenguin42: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479612/22:37
penguin42barry: Can you pipe that through cat so we can see the full titles22:38
barrypenguin42: yep...22:38
penguin42barry: How was the previous ubuntu installed? Fresh install lucid? You installed it from scratch?22:39
barryhttp://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479613/22:39
penguin42barry: OK, remove nvidia-current and nvidia-settings22:39
barrypenguin42: trying to remember ;)  i think it was an upgrade from karmic22:39
barrypenguin42: +1. sec...22:40
penguin42I'm *hoping* that will put the glx stuff back as it should be but I'm not great on my nvidia stuff22:40
barrypenguin42: apt-get is still giving me an error on fglrx --configure.  i think i should remove that package too22:41
penguin42barry: Possibly; I don't know what the current state of frglx is on maverick to be honest22:42
penguin42barry: However, frglx is still ahead fo teh free drivers so it might still be what you want to do22:43
barrypenguin42: gotcha22:43
barrypenguin42: dpkg -l is still showing ii for nvidia-current but apt-get remove says it's not installed22:44
penguin42barry: Just pipe the dpkg -l through cat - there is an nvidia-current-modaliases which is OK22:44
Volkodav-- purge22:44
barrypenguin42: ah yes, that's it22:45
barrypenguin42: ok, i've removed frglx* and reinstalled xserver-xorg-video-radeon22:46
barryi guess it's time to restart the x server... ? ;)22:46
penguin42barry: Well restart X, hold on tight and then repaste your /var/log/Xorg.0.log when it doesn't work!22:46
yofelpenguin42: nvidia-current *is* the actual driver22:46
yofelnvidia-common is not22:47
penguin42yofel: Yeh that was my guess - the problem is in 80 column dpkg -l shows nvidia-current and nvidia-current-modaliases as being identical22:47
barrypenguin42: okay, here goes!  if i lose the irc connection, i'll be back asap22:47
yofeland the modaliases are used to detect which card you have and recommend the right driver22:47
barrypenguin42: and piping to cat doesn't help much in an emacs shell buffer ;)22:47
penguin42barry: Well as a vi user.....22:48
* barry has many vi friends :)22:48
yofelvim ftw!22:48
barryi know.  only us graybeards still use emacs :)22:48
* penguin42 has never seen a machine with nvidia drivers accidentally installed before22:50
barryit's actually a dell studio xps 435mt22:53
penguin42so, what state is it in?22:54
barrypenguin42: it came back up, dual head and all.  i'm trying to enable desktop effects now22:54
barrywell, that's very interesting22:55
penguin42 'interesting'22:55
barryyeah, so i go to appearance -> visual effects, and click on normal22:56
barryi see the flashing and then the window that asks if i want to keep the settings22:56
barrysays if i don't respond in 36 seconds, it'll revert22:56
barrybut i cannot click on any of the buttons22:56
barrythe title bar does look transparent though22:56
barryi cannot seem to grab any windows22:57
barrythat 36 seconds never counts down.  seems like the desktop is totally unresponsive22:57
penguin42Sounds like the X server has just keeled over and died22:58
penguin42does ctrl-alt-f1 work?22:58
barrypenguin42: let's see if i can ssh into it22:58
barrySystem information disabled due to load higher than 122:58
barrypenguin42: yep22:58
barryssh and vconsole work22:58
penguin42barry: Can you get the /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?22:59
barrypenguin42: should be able to... sec.22:59
barrypenguin42: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479621/23:00
penguin42hmm interesting - it hasn't actually seg'd X23:01
penguin42barry: I'd try restarting and instead of compiz I'd start with some simple test - e.g. glxgears23:02
barrypenguin42: the desktop is reacting to mouse clicks and drags, but veerrrrryyyyyy slooowwwwwlllyyyy23:02
barrypenguin42: +123:02
penguin42barry: However, now we've got rid of the nvidia infection you might want to five fglrx another go23:02
* penguin42 disappears for 10mins23:02
barrypenguin42: good point too23:03
barrypenguin42: thanks, will try those things and report when you're back23:03
barrypenguin42: here's some interesting output installing fglrx pointed me at: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/479627/23:11
* penguin42 returns23:17
penguin42ok, so it was 1523:17
penguin42barry: And how were you installing fglrx ?23:18
barrypenguin42: apt-get install fglrx23:18
barryit does look like something's broken trying to build the kernel modules23:19
barryreinstalling linux-generic and linux-headers-generic doesn't help23:20
penguin42barry: Hmm it looks like fglrx hasn't been updated for the new version (blame ATI!)23:21
penguin42barry: utsrelease.h has moved23:22
barrypenguin42: yay! ;/23:22
penguin42barry: It's now /lib/modules/26.35-15-generic/build/include/generated/utsrelease.h23:22
penguin42however, somehow I doubt that will be the only fix23:23
barrypenguin42: i do remember there's an xorg bleeding edge ppa around.  i wonder if there's something more current in that23:23
penguin42barry: It'll have more upto date versions of the open driver, but I doubt of fglrx23:23
barrypenguin42: gotcha.  maybe that'll solve the high load, unresponsiveness of the open driver23:24
penguin42barry: However, I think maybe: http://ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/ubuntu-x-swat  does look like it has a new fglrx to try ?23:24
barrypenguin42: what the heck. it's worth a shot23:25
* penguin42 is wondering if he has a hardware fault on his mouse middle button or if it's just a bug....23:32
barrypenguin42: well, fglrx installed w/o error from that ppa, but x server did not start on reboot23:33
barrypenguin42: checking xorg log23:33
penguin42barry: It's possible that lot is intended for isntallation with the whole xorg-edgers set23:34
barrypenguin42: yep, x server seg fault23:34
* barry gives the xorg-edgers ppa a try23:36
penguin42yeh worth a go23:36
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barrypenguin42: well, x is happy again, but glxgears just complains that "GLX" extension is missing.  i think i'm at about the best state i can be with this.  i appreciate your help!  i may ping #ubuntu-x tomorrow23:53
penguin42bah! We had glx working!23:54
penguin42well, acknowledging23:54
penguin42yeh #ubuntu-x would be good23:54
barrypenguin42: yeah23:54
penguin42barry: So you know, I run an HD4350 single headeed with the open drivers23:54
barrypenguin42: thanks.  are you tired of me, or would you like to help me take a look at a couple of other (hopefully much simpler) issues?23:54
penguin42barry: I don't run compiz, but Google earth is my main GL user23:54
penguin42yeh I'm happy to help with any of them if I'm around23:55
penguin42heck, and it's not exactly busy in here23:55
barrypenguin42: gotcha.  i really do appreciate the help!23:55
barry:)23:55
penguin42np23:55
barrypenguin42: so one other little weird thing.  on my lucid gnome panel, i've got the little monochrome power button, and my name with a talk-balloon surrounding an X.  know what i mean?23:56
penguin42yeh23:56
barrythese two little applets are missing on my maverick panel.  none of the add-to-panel applets seem right.  do you know what package or applet provides these?23:57
penguin42it's one of the indicator-something packages23:57
penguin42indicator-applet-session probably23:57
barrypenguin42: cool thanks.  let me give those a shot23:58

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