| === slidinghorn is now known as [-slidinghorn-] | ||
| === Narwhal is now known as IdleOne | ||
| === [-slidinghorn-] is now known as slidinghorn | ||
| === slidinghorn is now known as [-slidinghorn-] | ||
| === [-slidinghorn-] is now known as slidinghorn | ||
| loca | webcam question please: trying to figure out how to test to see if a webcam is working. Tried gstreamer-properties but got nowhere | 02:44 |
|---|---|---|
| loca | error messages were the likes of this: | 02:47 |
| loca | gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux 2 (v4l2)': Cannot identify device '/dev/video0'. [v4l2_calls.c(488): gst_v4l2_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline1/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src1: | 02:47 |
| loca | system error: No such file or directory] | 02:47 |
| loca | gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux (v4l)': Device "/dev/video0" does not exist. [v4l_calls.c(168): gst_v4l_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline2/GstV4lSrc:v4lsrc1] | 02:47 |
| loca | gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux 2 (v4l2)': Cannot identify device '/dev/video0'. [v4l2_calls.c(488): gst_v4l2_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline3/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src2: | 02:47 |
| loca | system error: No such file or directory] | 02:47 |
| aveilleux | pastebin | loca | 02:47 |
| aveilleux | e | 02:47 |
| aveilleux | !pastebin |loca | 02:48 |
| ubot2 | loca: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://tinyurl.com/imagebin | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 02:48 |
| aveilleux | there we go. | 02:48 |
| loca | thank you, will do | 02:48 |
| loca | anyone have a suggestion on how to test a webcam? | 02:49 |
| aveilleux | loca: According to that error output, there is no recognized webcam device. | 03:02 |
| loca | thanks aveilleux, that's what I was thinking. However, it's a new laptop with a webcam above the screen. Wondering if cam might be broken, or if there's a test I can do | 03:03 |
| loca | or if I'm just missing a driver. (newbie to ubuntu) | 03:04 |
| aveilleux | !webcam |loca | 03:04 |
| ubot2 | loca: Instructions for using webcams with Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam - Supported cams: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCameras | 03:04 |
| aveilleux | Try that | 03:04 |
| loca | thanks again, will do | 03:04 |
| === p is now known as Guest35295 | ||
| hassanz | hi my sound is not working after upgrade | 11:01 |
| oufofhand | hi, can someone assist me ... i have installed ubuntu 10.04 but when i plug in my huawei usb modem .,, i cant find how to dial up | 13:30 |
| harrison | outofhand still there? | 14:14 |
| harrison | guess not | 14:15 |
| harrison | Anyone here need help and is here? | 14:15 |
| paultag | harrison: thanks for helping out, I've seen your nick a lot lately | 14:17 |
| harrison | your welcome | 14:23 |
| harrison | I am half sick so I have very few things better to do. | 14:24 |
| harrison | might as well help someone | 14:24 |
| === paultag_ is now known as crabbytag | ||
| === crabbytag is now known as paultag | ||
| Guest5500 | hello | 16:16 |
| Guest5500 | how can i change the programs folder to another partition ??? | 16:18 |
| philinux | Guest5500: whats the problem | 16:22 |
| Guest5500 | hi | 16:22 |
| Guest5500 | im using ubuntu software center to download new stuff | 16:23 |
| Guest5500 | when i install, nothing tells me, where i want it | 16:24 |
| philinux | Linux is not like windows there is no programs folder as such. Does the app turn up in the menu system? | 16:25 |
| Guest5500 | yes | 16:25 |
| Guest5500 | and it works | 16:25 |
| Guest5500 | i want to install on another partition | 16:26 |
| Guest5500 | i have 2 partitions | 16:27 |
| Guest5500 | file system and storage | 16:27 |
| Guest5500 | file system 9gb | 16:27 |
| Guest5500 | storage 60gb | 16:27 |
| philinux | What do you want to do with the 9g partition | 16:28 |
| Guest5500 | save space for ubuntu updates etc | 16:29 |
| Guest5500 | other progs go to "storage" | 16:29 |
| Guest5500 | but i cant | 16:30 |
| Guest5500 | every time i install, goes to "file system" | 16:30 |
| philinux | How much space is left on the 9g partition. You can fine out with the command df -h | 16:31 |
| Guest5500 | -h | 16:31 |
| Guest5500 | just that | 16:31 |
| Guest5500 | ok | 16:31 |
| philinux | df -h | 16:31 |
| Guest5500 | 6.1G | 16:31 |
| philinux | Is that space left or used? | 16:32 |
| Guest5500 | left | 16:32 |
| philinux | No worries then at all | 16:32 |
| Guest5500 | how can i prevent that | 16:32 |
| philinux | Mine is exactly the same. There's nothing to prevent | 16:33 |
| Guest5500 | ok | 16:33 |
| Guest5500 | so there isnt a way to specify a programs folder | 16:33 |
| philinux | As long as you use your 60g for music vid files etc | 16:33 |
| Guest5500 | like windows? | 16:33 |
| philinux | No | 16:33 |
| Guest5500 | hehehe | 16:34 |
| Guest5500 | another thing | 16:34 |
| philinux | Read these to to see how linux organise itself. http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html | 16:34 |
| Guest5500 | why this new version 10 is kind of slow | 16:34 |
| philinux | Slow how | 16:35 |
| Guest5500 | slow | 16:35 |
| Guest5500 | if im copying something | 16:35 |
| philinux | Internet or using the desktop and apps | 16:35 |
| Guest5500 | i cant listen to music | 16:35 |
| philinux | .Whats are the pc specs | 16:35 |
| Guest5500 | im using a laptop pentium M 1.86ghz 512MB DDR2 80GB HDD | 16:36 |
| philinux | What does this command show free -m | 16:37 |
| Guest5500 | 26 | 16:37 |
| Guest5500 | hows that possible | 16:37 |
| philinux | You need to paste the output here. http://paste.ubuntu.com/ then paste the link back here | 16:38 |
| Guest5500 | i only have 5 firefox tabs and vlc | 16:38 |
| Guest5500 | playin music | 16:38 |
| philinux | linux uses memory completely diff from windows the important line is the +- buffers figures | 16:39 |
| philinux | i.e. much better | 16:40 |
| paultag | philinux: you saw that back and forth with me and that other fella, eh? | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | now what | 16:40 |
| paultag | philinux: linuxatemyram.com | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | free -m | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | total used free shared buffers cached | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | Mem: 487 461 26 0 3 230 | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | -/+ buffers/cache: 227 260 | 16:40 |
| Guest5500 | Swap: 939 184 755 | 16:40 |
| paultag | Guest5500: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ | 16:40 |
| paultag | !pastebin | Guest5500 | 16:40 |
| ubot2 | Guest5500: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://tinyurl.com/imagebin | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 16:40 |
| philinux | Guest5500: looks just fine | 16:40 |
| paultag | yeah, you've got 260 megs free | 16:40 |
| philinux | paultag: no what back and forth | 16:40 |
| paultag | philinux: I had this conversation a few days ago in here | 16:41 |
| paultag | Guest5500: read through http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ | 16:41 |
| philinux | paultag: go on | 16:41 |
| paultag | philinux: nothing more :) | 16:41 |
| Guest5500 | ok | 16:41 |
| philinux | Guest55 what does the command top show | 16:41 |
| Guest5500 | why video playin is kind of slow | 16:42 |
| philinux | Guest5500: have you got integrated graphics? | 16:42 |
| Guest5500 | yes | 16:42 |
| philinux | Disable compiz | 16:42 |
| philinux | Guest5500: sys>prefs>appearance>Visual effect > NONE | 16:43 |
| Guest5500 | compiz? | 16:43 |
| Guest5500 | where? vlc ? | 16:43 |
| philinux | paultag: can't recollect what happened | 16:43 |
| philinux | sys>prefs>appearance>Visual effect > NONE | 16:43 |
| Guest5500 | done | 16:44 |
| Guest5500 | let me test | 16:44 |
| paultag | philinux: I can pull logs if you really want, but it's long | 16:45 |
| Guest5500 | plus | 16:45 |
| Guest5500 | a strange thing happens | 16:45 |
| philinux | paultag: nah it's ok. | 16:45 |
| paultag | righto | 16:45 |
| Guest5500 | if i dont specify the video output module | 16:45 |
| Guest5500 | to opengl | 16:46 |
| philinux | paultag: I'll have a look myself. What date? | 16:46 |
| philinux | paultag: which user was it | 16:48 |
| paultag | philinux: not too long ago | 16:49 |
| paultag | philinux: and not sure | 16:49 |
| paultag | philinux: search for linode | 16:49 |
| Guest5500 | soo any help | 16:50 |
| philinux | Guest5500: what it like with visual effects none | 16:53 |
| out-of-hand | can anyone help me please | 17:16 |
| out-of-hand | i have recently installed ubuntu 10.04 for a client, and it works well ... but the problem im having is when i plug in the huawei e220 ... into the usb port ... it allows me to setup a connection ... but when i wanna try connect by it ... it does not bring it up on the connection status | 17:18 |
| out-of-hand | i plug the modem in ... and it see's it as a hard drive , also if i lsusb it shows that the e220 is connected | 17:19 |
| philinux | out-of-hand: install this usb-modeswitch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/446146 | 17:23 |
| ubot2 | Ubuntu bug 446146 in linux (Ubuntu Karmic) (and 2 other projects) "Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 (2.6.31.1 update related) (affects: 179) (dups: 16) (heat: 854)" [High,Fix committed] | 17:23 |
| out-of-hand | ok let me check | 17:23 |
| out-of-hand | thanks | 17:23 |
| paultag | nhandler: I'm having one hell of a time with a rules file | 17:48 |
| paultag | nhandler: any chance you have a minute? | 17:49 |
| nhandler | paultag: Yeah, but if it is the fluxbox rules file, I might not be much help | 17:49 |
| paultag | nhandler: I've re-written it | 17:50 |
| paultag | nhandler: it's for a recipie | 17:50 |
| paultag | nhandler: http://pastebin.com/2Pj2kKbn <-- rules | http://pastebin.com/JW5NGG1Y <-- error | 17:50 |
| paultag | nhandler: I have no idea why it's doing this | 17:51 |
| paultag | nhandler: I'm beyond befuddled, my rules don't do anything | 17:51 |
| nhandler | paultag: Out of curiosity, why haven't you switched to dh7 ? | 17:52 |
| paultag | nhandler: It was giving me the same error, so I figured I'd try it manually | 17:52 |
| paultag | nhandler: it's like my rules are not doing anything at all | 17:53 |
| nhandler | paultag: Have a copy of the package? | 17:54 |
| paultag | nhandler: bzr branch lp:fluxbox bzr branch lp:lp:~fluxbox-maintainers/fluxbox/debian-dir | 17:55 |
| paultag | you might also need to bzr branch lp:~fluxbox-maintainers/fluxbox/debian-themes | 17:55 |
| paultag | as theme | 17:55 |
| paultag | nhandler: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~fluxbox-maintainers/+recipe/fluxbox-bloody | 17:56 |
| paultag | that might help more | 17:56 |
| nhandler | That one fails patching data/keys. Did you try re-running with the patch disabled? | 17:57 |
| paultag | I thought I removed my patches | 17:59 |
| paultag | yeah I did | 17:59 |
| paultag | nhandler: no patches in latest. Those builds are old ( but the same problem ) | 18:00 |
| paultag | nhandler: ideas? | 18:07 |
| paultag | because it's pissing me the fuck off | 18:07 |
| nhandler | paultag: Sorry, still working on it (multitasking) | 18:09 |
| paultag | np | 18:09 |
| paultag | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 | 18:29 |
| philinux | paultag: Hi, is you an experty on dns lookups | 18:41 |
| paultag | philinux: not really, but I can try | 18:41 |
| paultag | philinux: what's usp | 18:41 |
| paultag | up | 18:41 |
| philinux | Had really slow net today sporadic. Firefox just sitting there. IRC ok and email ok | 18:42 |
| paultag | that's not dns | 18:42 |
| paultag | that's traffic over port 80 | 18:42 |
| paultag | philinux: try debugging it via telnet | 18:42 |
| paultag | philinux: you can see if it's browser side or if it's network side | 18:42 |
| philinux | Saw a suggestion to put 192.168.1.1 etc into auto dhcp and it worked | 18:42 |
| paultag | radical | 18:43 |
| philinux | It's only today been really bed. I hade open dns settings in there too | 18:44 |
| philinux | Why would 192.168.1.1 make a diff | 18:44 |
| paultag | if that's your router it might give you a better pointer to the dhcp server / route | 18:44 |
| philinux | ah | 18:44 |
| paultag | so if it's trying to do a route lookup and tries spamming and the router is slow, it could have issues | 18:44 |
| paultag | but I have no idea | 18:44 |
| philinux | Yep it's the router address | 18:45 |
| philinux | Anyway it worked | 18:45 |
| paultag | philinux: try `route`, and see if it's your gateway | 18:45 |
| philinux | err how to do that | 18:45 |
| paultag | philinux: open a terminal | 18:45 |
| paultag | philinux: type `route`, then hit enter | 18:45 |
| philinux | ok shall I paste bin that | 18:46 |
| philinux | http://paste.ubuntu.com/480039/ | 18:47 |
| paultag | woh | 18:48 |
| paultag | wtf | 18:48 |
| paultag | what in the hell is SE587WLANdsl.ti | 18:49 |
| paultag | philinux: do you have a lan card? | 18:49 |
| philinux | in pc yep I reckon | 18:49 |
| paultag | ah, must be it | 18:49 |
| paultag | yeah looks normalish | 18:49 |
| paultag | normal enough, really | 18:49 |
| philinux | so 192.168.1.1 is router but what is 192.168.1.0? | 18:50 |
| paultag | IIRC that's its IP facing the modem | 18:51 |
| paultag | don't quote me | 18:51 |
| paultag | I hate networking | 18:51 |
| philinux | ok lol. Well I have to say browsing is much faster now | 18:51 |
| paultag | kewl | 18:52 |
| paultag | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg52OSGmg7g&feature=related | 18:53 |
| teja | hie...i want to configure compiz config with some special effects like brick maximize can anyone help how to do it | 19:02 |
| duanedesign | hello teja | 19:12 |
| teja | hey... | 19:13 |
| teja | hru? | 19:13 |
| teja | duanedesign:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOjCoEre9rs&feature=related | 19:13 |
| teja | do chk dis video n temme how to configure dis plss....m dyin to have this | 19:13 |
| duanedesign | teja: the compizconfig-settings-manager is the easiest way to configure compiz | 19:14 |
| teja | n thnkx fr d previous as u said i updated alsa...no works cool | 19:14 |
| teja | yeah i have done many effects...n addons...but not the one in video.. | 19:14 |
| aveilleux | teja: Please try to use proper English... you're more likely to get a response and it's so much easier to understand you | 19:14 |
| === steemed is now known as st33med | ||
| duanedesign | teja: if you install the Settings Manager the Cube is easy to set up | 19:17 |
| teja | duanedesign: yeah i do have cube...but when maximize brick effect? | 19:17 |
| hobgoblin | teja: if you mean the sort of exploding thing have a look in animaions in ccsm | 19:18 |
| hobgoblin | might be in there | 19:18 |
| teja | hogoblin: yeah i chekd | 19:18 |
| hobgoblin | well that is where it would be | 19:19 |
| hobgoblin | teja might need to install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra - search in synaptic then mark for install and apply | 19:20 |
| teja | hogoblin,did that too | 19:20 |
| hobgoblin | try #compiz | 19:21 |
| teja | k | 19:22 |
| duanedesign | compiz-fusion-plugins-extra | 19:23 |
| duanedesign | d'oh | 19:23 |
| duanedesign | hobgoblin beat me to it. :) | 19:24 |
| hobgoblin | lol | 19:24 |
| teja | duanedesign:i tried i couldnt i guess betta to jus leave | 19:26 |
| teja | :P | 19:26 |
| === nuboon2age_ is now known as nUboon2Age | ||
| duanedesign | teja: i installed the package | 19:27 |
| teja | duandesign: did u get the blinds effect?? | 19:27 |
| duanedesign | teja: in CompizConfig-Settings-Manager it is under Animations | 19:27 |
| teja | duandesign:der r lot of options what to select | 19:28 |
| teja | ? | 19:28 |
| hobgoblin | teja: what does "der r" mean? | 19:30 |
| hobgoblin | use english | 19:30 |
| teja | sorry | 19:30 |
| teja | there are lot options | 19:30 |
| teja | m really sorry | 19:30 |
| teja | duandesign:yo.....cooolll i got d effects, thnk u very mch | 19:40 |
| duanedesign | teja: there are a lot of choices. | 19:43 |
| duanedesign | teja: i was just looking through them all | 19:43 |
| teja | duandesign:yeah mee to doin d sme... :d | 19:44 |
| hobgoblin | wb aveilleux | 20:03 |
| sebsebseb | Hi | 20:08 |
| hobgoblin | hi | 20:08 |
| sebsebseb | hobgoblin: hi | 20:08 |
| hobgoblin | sebsebseb: how you doing | 20:10 |
| sebsebseb | hobgoblin: ok | 20:10 |
| sebsebseb | you? | 20:10 |
| hobgoblin | yep - pretty good ty | 20:11 |
| hobgoblin | quiet at least :) | 20:11 |
| sebsebseb | hobgoblin: What is? | 20:11 |
| hobgoblin | life | 20:13 |
| harrison | anyone here good at file system recovery? | 20:14 |
| hobgoblin | you can try testdisk - but the best recover | 20:15 |
| hobgoblin | is probably good backups | 20:15 |
| harrison | already did and it's a corupted filesystem. | 20:17 |
| hobgoblin | no idea then | 20:18 |
| === slidinghorn is now known as [-slidinghorn-] | ||
| Phrea | can Evolution work with multiple mail boxes [that it has to import] | 20:56 |
| Phrea | ...on the same account, my mom devided her mail into several categories :\ | 20:57 |
| Phrea | also, I'd love some live support on the conversion of OE files [as they are now] to mbx/mbox, using nothing but linux [I have no windows :\ | 20:58 |
| Phrea | ] | 20:58 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: OE files? You mean Outlook Express? | 21:03 |
| Phrea | yes | 21:03 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: What file format are they> | 21:03 |
| aveilleux | ?* | 21:03 |
| Phrea | I am NOT planning on doing it now, but in the near future | 21:03 |
| Phrea | I forgot, what's the standard format it uses? | 21:03 |
| aveilleux | DBX | 21:04 |
| Phrea | I could only get them out of the directory, I could not export them | 21:04 |
| Phrea | dbx it is :) | 21:04 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tips/internet/outlook_express_files.php | 21:04 |
| Phrea | I have never understood why OE is so different from Outlook itself :\ | 21:05 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Dunno, I've always stayed very, very far away from either program | 21:06 |
| Phrea | well, I have too, but sadly, my mother did not | 21:06 |
| hobgoblin | might be worth trying to import to thunderbird on the win machine and then import form tbird to evolution | 21:07 |
| Phrea | that's one of the options indeed | 21:08 |
| Phrea | hmmm, the stupid external drive where the files are on refuses to work now :x | 21:08 |
| Phrea | nice, it spins up, I can see it in disk utility, but I can't mount it | 21:09 |
| Phrea | oh linux, how I sometimes loathe you | 21:09 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Have you tried mounting it from Terminal? | 21:09 |
| Phrea | no, I'm a user, so I try to stay away from the terminal as much as possible, since I don't konw what I'm doing there | 21:10 |
| Phrea | it's a VERY important disk, it holds ALL of my parents backups, so I'm very careful with it | 21:11 |
| Phrea | it connected fine the other day to my mothers machine, but now on my own machine, it won't mount | 21:12 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: How many hard disks are in the computer? | 21:12 |
| Phrea | 2 in this one, why? | 21:13 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Actually, better yet. Open Terminal, type "cd /dev" without quotes and hit Enter | 21:13 |
| Phrea | the extrenal device is called /dev/sdc | 21:13 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Ah, problem solved. What file system is it using? | 21:13 |
| Phrea | I'm not sure, but it's either NTFS or FAT32 | 21:14 |
| Phrea | I did what you said | 21:14 |
| Phrea | it said now: /devS | 21:14 |
| Phrea | /dev$ even | 21:14 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Well then. Type "sudo mkdir /media/external" (without quotes) and hit Enter | 21:14 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: You'll have to enter your password | 21:14 |
| Phrea | it did not ask for a password | 21:15 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Oh really? Interesting. Anyway. Type "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /media/external" | 21:15 |
| Phrea | you know what, I'm disconnecting it, and I'll reconnect it to my moms laptop later tonight, I can NOT ef this disk up | 21:15 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: You won't. | 21:15 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Just follow my directions. Nothing I'm saying can possibly damage the disk. | 21:16 |
| Phrea | ok sir, I'll start with the mkdir then, gimme a sec | 21:16 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: No need to mkdir again... the directory already exists :-P | 21:16 |
| Phrea | no no, I did nothing yet | 21:16 |
| Phrea | I'm sorry, I did something wrong, it sais [on the mount -t command] that it failed to access volume '/dev/sdc1' nu such file or directory | 21:18 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: You're still in /dev, correct? If so, type "ls sd*" and paste the output here | 21:19 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Don't forget the asterisk ( * ) | 21:19 |
| Phrea | I started over... :| | 21:19 |
| Phrea | sudo mkdir /media/external --> doing that now, starting over | 21:20 |
| Phrea | it doesnt do anything | 21:20 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:~$ sudo mkdir /media/external | 21:20 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:~$ | 21:20 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: That means it worked | 21:21 |
| Phrea | oh, ok | 21:21 |
| Phrea | I'm sorry for being so stupid | 21:21 |
| aveilleux | phrea: type "cd /dev && ls sd* " | 21:21 |
| Phrea | what do I do now? | 21:21 |
| Phrea | k | 21:21 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Paste the output | 21:21 |
| Phrea | sda sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sdb sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdc | 21:22 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:/dev$ | 21:22 |
| Phrea | that's the output | 21:22 |
| aveilleux | Huh.... Just sdc? No sdc1?... Interesting. Try this: "sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdc /media/external" | 21:23 |
| Phrea | I thought about doing that, since it has no 1 or so | 21:23 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: It's very odd that there isn't an sdc1 listed | 21:23 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:/dev$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdc /media/external | 21:24 |
| Phrea | mount: you must specify the filesystem type | 21:24 |
| aveilleux | phrea: sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /media/external | 21:24 |
| Phrea | I think it's FAT32 | 21:24 |
| aveilleux | phrea: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/external | 21:25 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:/dev$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc /media/external | 21:25 |
| Phrea | Failed to read bootsector (size=0) | 21:25 |
| Phrea | Failed to mount '/dev/sdc': Invalid argument | 21:25 |
| Phrea | The device '/dev/sdc' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. | 21:25 |
| Phrea | ok | 21:25 |
| Phrea | sorry for spamming so much | 21:25 |
| aveilleux | !pastebin |phrea | 21:25 |
| ubot2 | phrea: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://tinyurl.com/imagebin | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 21:25 |
| Phrea | phrea@pb1:/dev$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/external | 21:25 |
| Phrea | mount: /dev/sdc: can't read superblock | 21:25 |
| Phrea | I know, bot, sorry | 21:25 |
| Phrea | aveilleux: it doesnt work :( | 21:26 |
| Phrea | I hope it's not dead... | 21:26 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Hmm... It seems like the drive isn't able to be read in Linux... In all probability it could have gone bad. Try it on the other machine then report back. I really hope it didn't die :-( | 21:27 |
| Phrea | it worked fine in the laptop, and it's quite new | 21:27 |
| Phrea | now I'm scared to try it again... :x | 21:28 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Try it on the laptop it works on. Back that up, then partition the drive with one big volume with the vfat file system | 21:29 |
| aveilleux | !partition |Phrea | 21:29 |
| ubot2 | Phrea: For help with partitioning a new install see: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing-partitioning.html - For partitioning programs see !GParted, !QtParted (!Kubuntu 8.10 and lower) or !PartitionManager (!Kubuntu 9.04 and up) - Other partitioning topics include !fstab !home and !swap | 21:29 |
| Phrea | well, at least it's not dead, it works fine on the laptop | 21:30 |
| Phrea | aveilleux: it might actually be this pc that doesnt understand that drive :? | 21:31 |
| Phrea | I'll work on it using that computer | 21:31 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: I think that the drive has what's known as a "bad superblock" | 21:31 |
| Phrea | man, that scared me for a bit | 21:31 |
| Phrea | I know bad sectors, never heard of a bad superblock | 21:32 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Windows can ignore bad superblocks, but the way Linux handles filesystems, Ubuntu can't ignore superblock errors | 21:32 |
| Phrea | well, it does on my mothers computer... | 21:32 |
| Phrea | which runs Lucid, just like this one [cept this one is 64bit, hers runs 32bit] | 21:32 |
| Phrea | first thing to do: forget about OE to Evolution for now, backup that drive ASAP !! | 21:33 |
| robs1 | Good afternoon all | 21:34 |
| robs1 | I have a question am hoping someone can help me with | 21:34 |
| aveilleux | robs1: Shoot | 21:35 |
| robs1 | I can do a "uname -a" and it returns | 21:35 |
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| robs1 | headnode 2: uname -a | 21:35 |
| robs1 | Linux headnode 2.4.27 #1 SMP Mon Mar 21 15:15:05 CST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux | 21:35 |
| robs1 | headnode 3: | 21:35 |
| Phrea | aveilleux: you might as well have saved me from a future crash of a backup disk | 21:35 |
| aveilleux | !pastebin |robs1 | 21:35 |
| ubot2 | robs1: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://tinyurl.com/imagebin | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 21:35 |
| robs1 | What I'm actually trying to find out is what OS is actually installed | 21:35 |
| robs1 | like Ubuntu, Red Hat | 21:35 |
| robs1 | etc | 21:36 |
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| robs1 | I know its a debian distro | 21:36 |
| aveilleux | robs1: cat /etc/*-release in Terminal | 21:36 |
| robs1 | http://paste.ubuntu.com/480115/ | 21:40 |
| robs1 | auveilleus....please see my paste above | 21:40 |
| aveilleux | robs1: Try just cat /etc/release | 21:41 |
| robs1 | I did | 21:42 |
| robs1 | and unfortunately does not seem to work | 21:42 |
| aveilleux | robs1: cat /etc/issue | 21:43 |
| robs1 | I did cat /etc/issue and it returned: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l | 21:43 |
| aveilleux | robs1: Let me get my Ubuntu laptop | 21:44 |
| Phrea | what were you on now then? | 21:44 |
| aveilleux | Phrea: Not Linux :-P | 21:45 |
| Phrea | oh no ! | 21:45 |
| robs1 | The reason I am asking to find out how to determine my OS type is because I am trying to google to find out which logs contain log information about recently installed software, especially failed software attempts. I suspect its somewhere in /var/logs but couldn't find anything | 21:45 |
| robs1 | I mean to say "failed software installation attempts" | 21:46 |
| aveilleux | robs1: your system is Debian. cat /etc/issue is the right command | 21:46 |
| aveilleux | robs1: If you want kernel logs, try dmesg |tail | 21:46 |
| robs1 | Will the kernel logs offer details about software installation attempts? | 21:46 |
| aveilleux | robs1: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. What are you using for the installation? | 21:47 |
| robs1 | I am trying to install HP Dataprotector (DP) patches onto a DP client which is a debian client | 21:48 |
| aveilleux | robs1: What software is doing the installation? | 21:48 |
| robs1 | HP Dataprotector is an enterprise level backup solution | 21:48 |
| robs1 | Also is there some way I can keep from getting booted out of channel from a timeout ping? | 21:49 |
| aveilleux | robs1: If you pingout then it's a connection issue. Can't really help that | 21:49 |
| aveilleux | robs1: If you pingout then it's a connection issue. Can't really help that | 21:50 |
| robs1 | HP Dataprotector is the software that is installing itself | 21:51 |
| robs1 | ok thanks aveilleux | 21:51 |
| robs1 | k | 21:52 |
| OpalMoon | can't get 10.04LTS installed on my laptop using standard desktop install - components crash (tz and disk in particular) - any suggestions? | 21:52 |
| aveilleux | robs1: So let me see if I understand... you downloaded a patch, and you ran the autoinstall script to try and apply it. The patch failed. Am I right? | 21:53 |
| aveilleux | OpalMoon: Have you tried the alternate install? | 21:53 |
| OpalMoon | was wondering of that would make a diff | 21:53 |
| OpalMoon | is that on the standard CD image or do I need to download the other image | 21:53 |
| aveilleux | OpalMoon: You need to download a different image | 21:54 |
| robs1 | Negative. I am installing an HP application (HP Dataprotector) using an HP unix command known as swinstall | 21:54 |
| OpalMoon | of course - why build it in? D'Oh! | 21:54 |
| robs1 | swinstall is the HP unix command that installs the Dataprotector client (DP) software onto the linux client | 21:55 |
| aveilleux | robs1: I'm unfamiliar with that system, sorry | 21:55 |
| harrison | hobgolin still there? | 22:57 |
| isiah | Cannon to right of them, | 23:29 |
| isiah | Cannon to left of them, | 23:29 |
| isiah | Cannon in front of them | 23:29 |
| isiah | Volley'd and thunder'd; | 23:29 |
| isiah | Storm'd at with shot and shell, | 23:29 |
| isiah | Boldly they rode and well, | 23:29 |
| isiah | Into the jaws of Death, | 23:29 |
| isiah | Into the mouth of Hell | 23:30 |
| isiah | Rode the six hundred. | 23:30 |
| aveilleux | !offtopic |isiah | 23:30 |
| ubot2 | isiah: #ubuntu is the Ubuntu support channel, for all Ubuntu-related support questions. Please use #ubuntu-offtopic for other topics (though our !guidelines apply there too). Thanks! | 23:30 |
| isiah | you will rue this day ubot2 | 23:32 |
| isiah | !!! | 23:32 |
| aveilleux | I'm not sure ubot2 can rue | 23:32 |
| isiah | he will!!!!! | 23:32 |
| isiah | we shall all see some serious rueing action going on here | 23:32 |
| isiah | oh shall he rue! | 23:33 |
| aveilleux | !rue |unot2 | 23:33 |
| ubot2 | Factoid 'rue' not found | 23:33 |
| aveilleux | oops. | 23:33 |
| aveilleux | !rue |ubot2 | 23:33 |
| aveilleux | Aw. | 23:33 |
| aveilleux | Guess not. | 23:33 |
| isiah | the greatest ruing of all time | 23:33 |
| isiah | many will flock to this room to see the epic rueing going on | 23:34 |
| isiah | as I get sweet revenge on ubot2 | 23:34 |
| isiah | none that see the rueing will ever be the same..... | 23:34 |
| isiah | oh how he will rue! | 23:35 |
| isiah | cant you see him trembling there? | 23:35 |
| aveilleux | Robots don't tremble | 23:35 |
| isiah | awaiting the rueing to begin | 23:35 |
| isiah | they do if the revenge is sweet enough | 23:36 |
| isiah | and this revenge is the sweetest of all | 23:37 |
| cprofitt | hey isiah how is Buffalo? | 23:39 |
| isiah | decent, I am an engineer now so everything is better | 23:40 |
| isiah | the swat team closed a block down today | 23:40 |
| cprofitt | Have you be made aware that this is the BT -- support channel | 23:41 |
| nhandler | isiah: You might be interested in joining #ubuntu-beginners-team. This is a support channel | 23:41 |
| cprofitt | and #ubuntu-beginners-team is the OT channel? | 23:41 |
| isiah | so this is for asking for help? | 23:41 |
| cprofitt | and it would be nice to have you in #ubuntu-us-ny now isiah | 23:41 |
| isiah | i am there | 23:42 |
| cprofitt | yes asking for help and/or getting help | 23:42 |
| isiah | oh | 23:42 |
| isiah | well what is #ubuntu for then? | 23:42 |
| cprofitt | no problem isiah -- been a while since we have see you on so just wanted to make sure you knew the protocol; | 23:42 |
| cprofitt | #ubutnu is for asking question of the entire community | 23:42 |
| cprofitt | this is for asking for help from the Ubuntu Beginners Team | 23:43 |
| cprofitt | and the BT hangs out in #ubuntu-beginners-team | 23:43 |
| isiah | I am in a year-math only allowed to enter the irc once a year during aneathem | 23:43 |
| sebsebseb | isiah: yeah or anyone else that hangs out in here and does support sometimes | 23:43 |
| isiah | see now no one is talking | 23:45 |
| aveilleux | That's because thsi channel is for support, not general conversation. | 23:46 |
| isiah | i could use support | 23:46 |
| aveilleux | Do you have a specific question? | 23:46 |
| isiah | no just support in general | 23:46 |
| isiah | my cane sucks | 23:46 |
| aveilleux | !topic | 23:47 |
| ubot2 | Please read the channel topic whenever you enter, as it contains important information. To view it at any time after joining, simply type /topic | 23:47 |
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