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pittiYokoZar: dropping older wine1.2 upload, since the patch also seems to be present in the newer one09:00
pittidoko__: rejecting libapache2-mod-python, it doesn't have a bug reference09:01
sabdflhello hello09:45
wgrantMorning.09:46
pittihey sabdfl09:46
* pitti pats the Meerkat09:46
iono hai09:47
sabdflhe09:49
sabdflmagic maverick turned out nicely09:49
pittisabdfl: magic maverick?09:51
pittiOMG!09:51
pittiwe are doing the wrong release!09:51
sabdfl:)09:51
pitti"Mark Shuttleworth stops the 10.10 presses due to major misunderstanding"09:51
sabdflfile it under "Headlines we do not want"09:52
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Riddellsomeone may want to update the topic :)11:16
Riddellcongratulations all the sleepy ubuntu devs11:16
pittiskaet: may you have the honor?11:16
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pittiwhat did you change?11:18
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ogra_acheh11:19
faganpitti: you have a meerkat I got to get the plane to germany so I can see it :)11:19
yofelpitti: about apports --save - it only fails if you use --save=~/... and expanduser shouldn't mess with the path if home is already expanded11:19
pittiyofel: aah, good point11:19
pittiyofel: can you please follow up to the bug with that, for the record? I'm about to go offline now11:20
yofelsure, I'll change it back to triaged then too11:21
persiaSo, when does natty open?11:22
faganpersia: I thought it was open a few days ago11:27
nigelbno, it takes a few days11:27
wgrantIt can't be initialised until after release.11:27
wgrant... and after we sacrifice some goats to Soyuz.11:27
persiahttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+queue doesn't seem to show it open (and it is usually initialised frozen for toolchain folks)11:28
persiawgrant, Haven't you managed to downgrade the sacrifices to chickens yet?11:28
nigelbwgrant: ah, at least you got it down from the bulls.11:28
faganand the whales before that11:29
persiaBut it's been goats for at least since karmic.11:29
persia(unless cprov was issuing forward looking statements at the time)11:29
wgrantfagan: Maybe we should try whales again this time. They are more relevant to the release.11:32
faganhah11:32
faganand the gods would find them more pleasing since they are bigger11:33
nigelbLOL11:33
nigelbunicorns?11:33
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fagannigelb: if you can find them and feed them to the whales the gods would be very pleased11:34
nigelbfagan: at the risk of all the little girls cursing me.11:35
faganhehe it would be worth it11:35
persiaThe larger-creatures-developed-by-several-subcreatures-eating-each-other hypothesis has been deprecated for a couple millenia now: let's not revive it.11:36
nigelbHeh.11:37
nigelboh, sabdfl tweeted.  It is indeed an auspicious day :p11:37
nigelband stack exchnage looks gorgeous today11:37
fagannigelb: yeah I was supprised too11:38
faganabout sabdfl tweeting11:38
faganand yeah the stackexchange looks great11:38
sabdflstack exchange looks fantastic11:38
faganit would be nice now to have answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu to redirect to there11:39
nigelblol11:40
nigelbhaha, this rocks: http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/themes/canonical-design/42day/11:41
nigelbdesign team ftw11:41
faganthat banner on there is awesome11:42
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nigelbwhoa => < rickspencer3> elmo just opened Natty :)11:44
nigelbpersia, fagan, and wgrant ^^11:46
wgrantWell, FSVO opened.11:46
wgrantIt exists.11:46
nigelblooks like they had the goats ready11:46
wgrantBut none of the Soyuz sacrifice is done yet.11:46
nigelbAh11:46
fagansomeone must have found a cat11:46
persiaa cat just isn't sufficient11:47
fagancats are magical creatures they are worth 2 goats11:47
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highvoltagewhen does natty open!? it feels weird and uncomfortable being on a stable release!!!12:07
persiahighvoltage, Next week, likely.12:07
Riddell11:35 < rickspencer3> elmo just opened Natty :)12:07
nigelbhighvoltage: when we offer a few sacrificial goats to soyez; see discussion above :)12:07
Riddellbut presumably we should wait for the toolchain first12:08
faganhighvoltage: I agree being on a stable release is annoying /me quickly installs debian unstable12:09
persiaWe can dist-upgrade whilst waiting for the toolchain, just can't upload anything.  Mind you, this may result in a need to reinstall, but ...12:09
fagan(kidding)12:09
highvoltageRiddell: :)12:09
nigelb\p/ spiffy new fridge http://ubuntu-news.org/12:13
persianigelb, So, for folks subscribed to the RSS feed, are you doing something nifty to inform the readers of the new feed subscription?12:14
nigelbpersia: I think there will be an announcement on the old feed (fi there isn't one already)12:16
nigelbpersia: there is one already: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/214112:17
faganall we need is a new planet.ubuntu.com and we have the set of updated sites12:18
persianigelb, Sure, but no automation to help clients resubscribe.  One has to open a browser, investigate the website, select the new feed, etc.12:18
persiahighvoltage, "flavours" :p12:21
highvoltagepersia: I'm just being consistant with how it's being called everywhere else atm :)12:25
persiaWhere else?  Who else do I have to complain at?12:26
* persia sees a *huge* difference between flavours, participating as part of Ubuntu, and derivatives, who use the results of a release to build something else.12:26
highvoltagepersia: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/derivatives12:26
persiaUgh.  That wasn't there before.12:27
highvoltagepersia: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives12:27
* persia files yet another website bug12:27
persiaThat one is hard to change for annoying historical reasons, sadly12:27
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highvoltagepersia: the top results for searching ubuntu flavours results in pages that refer to what you would call derivatives as flavours:12:30
highvoltagehttp://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/01/23/new-flavours-of-ubuntu-being-developed-in-ireland/12:30
highvoltagehttp://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/ubuntu-based-linux-32-flavours-and-then-some/12:30
highvoltagepersia: It would be nice to have it defined properly somewhere and have that definition updated everywhere so that there could be better consensus and better use of these terms12:31
persiahighvoltage, I know.  I've been hunting for slibs cogent distinction between "remix" and "flavour" for a while, and can't find it (which annoys me).  I fear that page may have been a victim of the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" nomenclature discussions, and then the wiki history was lost in a site update.12:33
persiaThe nice guide to when one had to use "remix" to be within the trademark guidelines has also gone missing (and finding good language for these is currently blocking me from some tasks).12:33
persiaBut I think there is a vast difference in each class of Flavour (e.g. Edubuntu), Remix (e.g. Ubuntu Japanese Remix), and Derivative (e.g. gNewSense)12:34
highvoltagepersia: *nod*12:35
persiaAnyway, thanks for being the target of my rant about this :)  Please help rant at folk in the future to preserve the useful semantic distinctions, and maintain our reputation for quality for all flavours.12:36
highvoltagepersia: will do12:49
persiaThanks :)12:49
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real_atehi all... I'm having a bit of trouble working out to build someting I get from apt-get source13:28
real_ateI want to find the right way, so I can build a package and install it instead of just using make install13:28
persiareal_ate, You're looking to fix a bug in Ubuntu, or package something separately?13:29
real_atepersia: fix a bug13:29
persiaExcellent.  Just wanted to make sure we'd be on-topic :)13:29
real_atecool cool13:29
real_ateI know there was some command to run in the same folder as you run apt-get source... i did it before but I can't remember13:30
real_ateIt packaged up the deb and applied any patches if there were any13:30
persiaMaybe `debuild -S -us -uc -i -I`?13:31
real_ateooo... that sounds familliar!13:31
* real_ate goes googling13:31
persiaThat should convert an unpacked source, post modification, into a new source package.13:31
persiaIt's a good idea to make sure you've used `dch -i` to get a new changelog entry, so you can be sure you end up with the right newer version when you make the new source.13:32
real_atehmm interesting... these are all part of the devscripts package then?13:33
* real_ate is not used to working like this13:33
persiaI think so.13:33
persiaYep.13:33
persiaNow, to convert the now updated source package with the patch to fix the bug into a binary package there are three common techniques.13:34
persiaMost of us use pbuilder or sbuild13:34
persiaYou can also use `debuild -b` but this may not result in the same thing as you'd get if your patch was uploaded, so isn't the best test.13:35
persiahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFix#The%20traditional%20process is a sensible place to start digging around on the wiki13:35
shadeslayerpitti: regarding bug 654236, i dont think a backport would be possible, since alot of work had to be done to port choqok to OAuth, ill contact upstream and see if its realistically possible tho13:38
ubottuLaunchpad bug 654236 in choqok (Ubuntu Lucid) "SRU : Please release choqok 0.9.85 for lucid" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/65423613:38
real_atepersia: thanks for all the help! that page is exactly what I was looking for but wansn't quite able to find :)13:39
real_atepersia: hopefully you've helped me fix a rather annoying bug! cheers!13:39
persiareal_ate, Which bug?13:39
real_atei'm working on KDE gdm integration13:39
shadeslayeroooh ^13:40
persiaOh my :)  If you get it sorted, please remember to try to get it into Ubuntu, so we all have it fixed.  I think three are links to the sponsoring processes from that page.13:40
real_atepersia: i'm usually an upstream developer but I want to see if I can do this the right way and get a patch into LTS13:40
real_atepersia: thats the plan13:41
real_ate:)13:41
persiaExcellent.13:41
Riddellreal_ate: what needs done with KDE gdm integration?13:41
real_ateRiddell: it wasn't updated since the gdm protocol was updated13:42
real_ateso things like... you can't shutdown in KDE when you have gdm enabled13:42
real_ateselecting "switch user" actually just locks the screen13:42
real_ateetc.13:42
mindentropyHi. When I am trying to upload my ssh key to launchpad it says invalid key. Do I need to upload everything in the id_rsa.pub file i.e. the last username@hostname too?13:43
persiamindentropy, I'd recommend asking in #launchpad: they likely know better than us.13:44
wgrantmindentropy: Yes.13:45
Riddellreal_ate: ah right, would be good to have that fixed, sounds like a patch for kdebase-workspace somewhere13:45
wgrantI believe you need the comment too.13:45
real_ateRiddell: well i've got a fedora patch to use as a starting point13:46
Riddellreal_ate: ah hah, so worth checking if the patch is in upstream KDE or not13:46
real_atefirst point of call is to try that and see if it works, then get out my bug investigation hat!13:46
real_ateRiddell: its not13:46
real_ateRiddell: that is why i'm doing this... i'm trying to get this done13:47
real_atepersia: that page you sent me is suggesting that i work off the bzr repo... should i do it that way or can I just work off the apt-get source ?13:51
persiaI just work off apt-get source myself.  Saves fussing with bzr.  There's all sorts of fancy infrastructure that handles commiting my uploads into bzr without me needing to think about it at all.13:53
BUGabundotsimpson: pong :P13:55
BUGabundotopic needs to be updated for karmic :)13:56
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JarvisBTW, according to do-release-upgrade maverick is still classed as a development release, is that correct?14:01
Jarvisor are you waiting for the servers to calm down a bit first :p14:01
* real_ate imagines the servers seeing red and going a little bit green and "hulky"14:03
Jarvishehe :p14:03
BUGabundoJarvis: it should work14:03
BUGabundobut -d will take care of it14:04
Jarvisyea thats what i've had to do, unfortunately if your using karmic, it only offers lucid , unless you do -d ... and if your on lucid, you get 'No new release found' unless you use -d14:05
Jarvisupgrade-manager (not sure if that uses do-release-upgrade or not) is the same . it doesn't see maverick14:05
BUGabundoJarvis: are you set to long term (aka LTS) or normal releases?14:07
Jarvisi've not set anything, neither has my friend14:08
Jarvisso its whatever the defaults are14:08
BUGabundoplease check the release target14:09
JarvisBUGabundo: its set to lts .. and it seems thats the default :(14:11
BUGabundoyes14:12
BUGabundoso change to normal14:12
Jarvischeers BUGabundo14:15
BUGabundonp14:15
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real_atewow! this debuild stuff is COOL! :D15:18
real_ateone question though... first i ran debuild -S and it generated the source package but it said that it was building too15:21
real_atedoes it build a binary package with debuild -S ?15:22
real_ategrr... and now i've run debuild -S -us -uc but where does it build the deb package? :/15:23
persiareal_ate, To convert a source package to a binary package, you likely want sbuild or pbuilder.  You can use `debuild -b` but it's not recommended.15:31
persia!sbuild15:31
ubottusbuild is a system to easily build packages in a clean schroot environment.  To get started with SBuild, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto15:31
persia!pbuilder15:31
ubottupbuilder is a system to easily build packages in a clean chroot environment. To get started with PBuilder, see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto15:31
persia`mk-sbuild` or `pbuilder-dist` from the ubuntu-dev-tools package will likely make it much easier to set up either one.15:31
real_atei take it that those convienience scripts are detailed on those how-to pages?15:32
nigelbis Lubuntu an official derivative yet (I think no, but I'd like to confirm)?15:32
gilirnigelb, no, it's not on the Ubuntu release announcement15:35
padhuNot yet15:35
nigelbThank you :)15:35
persialubuntu *is* a fine derivative.  it's 99% of the way to being a flavour (but not there yet)15:36
Tm_Tit needs a bit more sugar to have correctt flavour (:)15:37
persiaNo.  Needs someone (me) to publish clear documentation on how to become a flavour, and someone (else) to stamp it as the official procedure.15:37
real_atewow! pbuilder is even cooler than debuild! :D he he he15:38
persiaSugar is a different proto-flavour15:38
persiaAnd I hear that there may be discussion of spice at UDS, although I'm not yet convinced I understand it entirely.15:39
penguin42the remote video thing?15:40
persiaNo, nor the circuit simulator thing.  something related to flavours, but I'm waiting for a spec to be drafted.15:44
real_ategrrr! damn you release! pbulder can't rectrieve its packages cos I assume the servers are busy! oh what a world! ;)15:45
pittishadeslayer: fair enough15:47
persiareal_ate, The couple days after release are the least convenient for doing Ubuntu development (unless you happen to live near a mirror that doesn't have many users).15:47
padhureal_ate: +115:48
real_atepersia: :D what is the process of mirroring? lol15:48
persiareal_ate, You don't want to start now :)  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors15:52
real_atelol15:52
real_ateit would be done in 2 days time and by then i could just develop normally :D15:54
persiareal_ate, I doubt that.  When there's no current release, setting up a mirror usually takes a week or two (for sites with lots of bandwidth).15:56
real_atewell things are starting to pick up now! I just wonder what it will do when it comes to the end... "sorry all that time is wasted 'cos we couldn't get these packages: {blah}" ;)16:09
real_ateinterestingly they were only warnings and not errors :s16:10
persiaI think it retries until it succeeds.  I don't use pbuilder, but for sbuild I always pass debootstrap-mirror= to point at a local mirror.16:11
persiaI seem to remember pbuilder-dist having some code that tried to automate that, but I'm unsure how well it works.16:11
real_atepersia: well i was having trouble with the UK mirror so I changed my sources to the main server... but this pbuilder is still using the local mirror16:12
real_ateso it must be doing something intilligent!16:13
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real_atenope!16:41
real_ateit just died16:41
real_atehave to start from the begining again ! :(16:41
diogorcorreiahey guys, what i might to do to become a ubuntu tester?16:58
BUGabundo_moviesdiogorcorreia: you join #ubuntu+1 once it opens again16:59
BUGabundo_moviesafter tool chain opens17:00
asaccongrats for release!17:00
BUGabundo_moviesand you run a disposable system or VM17:00
BUGabundo_moviesehy asac17:00
asachell BUGabundo_movies17:00
asachello ;)17:00
asacfunny typo17:00
BUGabundo_moviesdiogorcorreia: reporting bugs to launchpad, following devel and devel-discuss MLs17:00
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asachehe17:01
diogorcorreiaBUGabundo_movies: once it opens again?17:02
diogorcorreiaBUGabundo_movies: is it closed for now?17:02
BUGabundo_moviesyes17:02
BUGabundo_moviestill tool chain17:02
diogorcorreiaok, so i must download some tools before start?17:03
BUGabundo_moviesnot really17:03
BUGabundo_moviesset up a vm, and install maverick, ready to upgrade to 11.04 devel17:04
yofeldiogorcorreia: see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/UsingDevelopmentReleases for this, also see http://qa.ubuntu.com/testing/17:06
diogorcorreiaOk, Thanks for the support!17:08
diogorcorreiabtw, anyone from Portugal here?17:08
BUGabundo_moviesdiogorcorreia: #ubuntu-pt17:18
jackyalcinehello?17:22
micahg!ask | jackyalcine17:22
ubottujackyalcine: Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)17:22
jackyalcineokay17:23
jackyalcinesoo ive been looking at IDEs17:23
jackyalcineand im accustomed to Visual Studio.17:23
jackyalcineof course this doesnt work on Ubuntu17:23
jackyalcinebut i want to use GTK17:24
jackyalcinesoo ?17:24
jackyalcinegood ideas?17:24
jackyalcine?17:29
huntz0rjackyalcine, try mono-develop17:30
jackyalcinei have.17:31
jackyalcineit wasn't to my taste, though.17:31
jackyalcinenot a fully extensible system.17:31
huntz0rwhat language do you wnt to use?  Yeah, wasn't to mine either tbh, but its as good as it gets AFAIK for .net dev under linux17:31
jackyalcineC++17:34
jackyalcineor C17:34
jackyalcineso far, the Qt framework's awesome.17:34
jackyalcinei'm working on making a more efficient GUI for the AirCrack software.17:34
huntz0rjackyalcine, sounds cool!  I'm not a c/cpp programmer so I don't think I'll be of too much use, have you tried out ajanta?  I mean if you use that in conjunction with glade, you might be onto a winner17:37
huntz0rother than that, eclipse or netbeans might be a better option, I've only used those for java development, but they do support c/c++17:38
huntz0rjackyalcine, just tried out anjuta, seems to do what you need it to do.  In my opinion, the gui builder is not quite as simple to use as the visual studio one, but may be good enough for what you need.17:49
jackyalcineajunta was okayy!17:49
jackyalcinebut i need a GUI with forms intergration.. saves time.17:49
jackyalcineand eclipse has a plugin for Qt, it's okay, but Eclipse feels bloated.17:49
jackyalcineand Netbeans... >_< not a fan of Oracle.17:49
kklimondahave you tried QtCreator?17:51
kklimondaoh, you want to use Gtk+17:51
huntz0rjackyalcine, if you double click the .ui file in the src folder of your new gtk+ project it comes up with a form builder thing, is that what you're after?17:54
jackyalcineyess, huntz0r17:54
jackyalcineim in for RAD for C/C++17:55
penguin42valac seems an interesting approach18:14
jackyalcinevalac?18:15
penguin42http://live.gnome.org/Vala18:15
penguin42jackyalcine: It's an object based C varient where gobject's are 1st class parts of the language18:15
penguin42shotwell is written in it18:15
jackyalcineinteresting.18:16
YokoZarpitti: Yes although my hope is that wine 1.2.1 can go through like today18:59
sladenkeybuk: there's a question about yer MoM on the end of https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-application/+bug/62579319:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 625793 in Application Indicators "Regression: Multiple Keyboard Layouts unusable: continuously changes layout + 100% CPU usage [updated]" [Undecided,In progress]19:11
sladenkeybuk: wondering how to extract just a portion of a patch19:12
shadeslayerpitti: 1) Upstream says its not possible to backport and 2) upstream says we need to ship choqok 0.9.90 and qoauth 1.0119:23
shadeslayerum19:23
shadeslayer1.0.119:24
Chipzzsladen: the thing that popped to mind when I read that was: queue the "Yo Momma" jokes ;P19:35
slangasekpitti: ping19:39
ari-tczewslangasek: did you know this bug? bug 65327419:54
ubottuLaunchpad bug 653274 in linux (Ubuntu) "Plymouth doesn't show Kubuntu or Ubuntu logo with Nvidia proprietary driver" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/65327419:54
persiaari-tczew, Do you know if it is fixable?  I thought that required KMS support for the relevant DRI.19:56
ari-tczewpersia: I don't know. I think that I'm also affected by this bug and now I'm attaching a photo to this bug.19:57
persiaari-tczew, I'd encourage you not to highlight folk about bugs unless you happen to have some ideas about them to help fix them.  Especially not in this channel.19:58
ari-tczewpersia: I don;t mind.19:58
persiaSure, but the folk you highlight might :)19:59
ari-tczewpersia: I saw that slangasek is involved in plymouth, so I wanted ask him whether he knows this bug. that's all.20:01
ari-tczewand making too much policy in communicator making me upset (and I think that not only me)20:01
ari-tczewwe are not robot to talking in procedures20:01
persiaI'm not trying to set policy.  I just think that this channel works better when people use it to collaborate to solve issues, rather than asking about the many bugs.20:02
persiaEntirely my opinion, really.20:02
ari-tczewpersia: it's just release day, I think it doesn't matter which channel is excellent. natty is not open yet.20:03
persiaSo?  Here's a list of a good bundle of issues probably not in the bug tracker that are probably release-critical and need immediate SRU: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/bugs/rcbugs/20:04
ari-tczewpersia: OK, I won't investigate in bugs.20:05
ari-tczewyou did this one. I'm discouraged.20:05
persiaFeel free to investigate anything you like.20:05
ari-tczewpersia: take your policy communication and destroy ubuntu contribution. ban me if I couldn't ask here for bugs in fresh release.20:06
owen1is this the final/offical xubuntu - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/10.10/release/20:07
persiaLike I said before, I'm only expressing my opinion.  I am not telling you about policy.  I'm not currently someone who even could ban from this channel.20:07
owen1why it's not part of xubuntu's site?20:07
persiaowen1, yes.  Dunno.  Maybe the xubuntu guys didn't update their site yet.20:07
ari-tczewpersia: I think that we can close this discussion at this moment.20:08
owen1persia: do they have an irc channel? we should tell them there is a new release...20:14
persiaowen1, I suspect they know, but you might try #xubuntu or #xubuntu-devel20:15
persiaThe trick is that there might be a gap between the folk who know about the release and the folk who know how to update the website to talk about the release.20:15
spy6hi there20:25
spy6anybody seen problems on upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 via "do-release-upgrade -d" like http://pastebin.ca/195881420:25
spy6without glibc systems are not so comfortable :)20:25
persiaspy6, That's definitely unexpected.  Please file a bug.  I suspect it's specific to your system (but have no idea why)20:27
spy6persia: any suggestions which package?20:27
spy6anyways .. even debugging is not so easy without glibc20:28
persiaI'd file against update-manager to start.20:28
spy6any ideas if that problem maybe recoverable? i guess without glibc i need to reinstall20:29
persiaIf you can get to IRC, you can probably grab the .deb from somewhere, adn dpkg -i install it.20:29
persiaReinstallation might be easier.20:29
persiaBut if you reinstall, you'll havea  hard time recreating the environment that exposes the bug.20:29
spy6persia: dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.12.1-0ubuntu6_i386.deb20:29
spy6dpkg: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by dpkg)20:29
persiaOh, heh.20:30
spy6persia: i'm online from a different system20:30
spy6even dpkg needs glibc20:30
persiaYeah, recovery from that might be highly awkward.20:30
ebroderIt...seems wrong that dpkg will let you remove dependencies of essential packages without extensive whining and screaming20:31
ionBoot with a live CD and unpack the deb to the root partition manually20:31
spy6ebroder: yeah, thought so20:31
persiaebroder, libc6-i686 oughtn't be essential, because there's libc6 (but something is odd)20:31
spy6ion: eh! nice idea ;)20:31
spy6will try that tomorrow, when i have physical access to the system20:32
slangasekari-tczew: I've not been involved in plymouth maintenance this cycle; and I don't have any hardware that uses the proprietary drivers, so it's hard for me to debug such things20:51
GPenguinwhats a good alternative for #ubuntu?21:12
slangasekwhat do you mean, "alternative"?21:17
GPenguinslangasek: a smaller and more lively place maybe, where people discuss Ubuntu related topics21:18
micahgGPenguin: #ubuntuforums?21:20
GPenguinmicahg: ah, thats a good one. i keep forgetting about it21:20
highvoltagesabdfl: ubuntu is 6 years old with this release right? if you add the numbers of 42 (4+2) you get 6.21:22
ionI’m sure there are about a million ways to get a random number related to Ubuntu from another set of numbers related to Ubuntu. ;-)21:24
GPenguinhighvoltage: the real magic number for (german) hackers is 23 tho21:24
GPenguincause Robert A. Wilson said so21:25
GPenguinand i am not saying sabdfl is involved in that conspiracy :-P21:25
GPenguin23, 2+3 - 5, Ubuntu 5 was the first release. RIGHT?!21:25
ari-tczewGPenguin: The first release of Ubuntu was 4.10 Warty Warthog.21:29
GPenguinoh, bummer21:29
ari-tczewwhen natty will be open?21:30
micahgari-tczew: asking multiple times won't help, the answer is when it's ready :)21:31
ari-tczewmicahg: I know, but the sooner is the better21:32
stgraberari-tczew: anyway, you want to have the toolchain uploaded and some of the most common packages to be updated before uploading anything to a new release.21:33
stgraberari-tczew: also, it's usually a good idea to wait for UDS so at least you know what's the focus for the next release and what you should be focusing on.21:34
ari-tczewstgraber: ok I understand and I remember, that it's related to gcc updates.21:34
ari-tczewstgraber: heh, I work there where I want to work.21:35
GPenguin!21:36
GPenguinari-tczew: but what if the entire team works against you then?21:36
GPenguinknowing what the team plans to do can really help21:37
stgraberari-tczew: yes, gcc is one of the packages that's part of the toolchain indeed. So is binutils and the libc. Any major change of these might require rebuild of everything else that was uploaded.21:37
ari-tczewGPenguin: there are a lot of things to do - merges, security updates, rc bugs, ftbfs, SRUs. I'm not a Canonical employee and I won't work with UDS objectives. I could, but I don't need.21:38
GPenguinspeaking of security updates, i am wondering what the status is regarding apparmor. it seems to disappear from novell/suse sites since quite a while. and the ubuntu community does not really reflect on it either21:41
GPenguinis a proper selinux integration maybe more desireable?21:41
micahgGPenguin: apparmor is actively used in Ubuntu and has been accepted as part of the linux mainline kernel21:42
GPenguinmicahg: how do you know its actively used when i may ask so directly?21:43
micahgGPenguin: it's installed by default21:44
GPenguintomoyo e.g. is also accepted upstream btw21:44
micahgGPenguin: https://launchpad.net/apparmor21:45
GPenguinyeah, its installed by default like many other things. but it does not mean many people make use of it21:45
micahgGPenguin: it works behind the scenes in most cases to enhance security21:45
ari-tczewGPenguin: advanced questions about security are welcome on #ubuntu-hardened21:46
GPenguini am asking cause ... the only documentation is the release notes. the ubuntu wiki points to a suse wiki that does not exist, etc.21:48
GPenguinthat leaves a lot of mystery to the average users21:49
jdstrandGPenguin: what page has the link to suse?21:52
jdstrandGPenguin: apparmor is primarily maintained by Canonical these days21:52
GPenguinhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor21:52
GPenguinin the resources section21:53
jdstrandok. I'll adjust21:53
GPenguinthats where it _would_ get interesting actually. there it stops :-)))21:53
jdstrandGPenguin: there is also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor21:53
GPenguinchecking it out, thanks21:54
GPenguinah, and there is a *-doc package which i missed21:55
GPenguinlets see21:55
GPenguinthats it, exactly what i was looking for: /usr/share/doc/apparmor-docs/techdoc.pdf21:59
jdstrandGPenguin: ok, the community page has been edited. you might also be interested in https://apparmor.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation22:01
jdstrand(I also added that to the wiki)22:01
* jdstrand wanders off22:01
GPenguinhang on, why does that page look a lot different from the other kernel.org resource, hmmm22:03
jdstrandGPenguin: it is a wiki page. projects in the kernel can ask for a wiki and they can do with it what they want22:03
GPenguinyeah, somebody should re-work https://apparmor.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page maybe22:04
jdstrandGPenguin: it isn't 'official kernel documentation' -- but AppArmor is in the kernel so it is eligible to have a wiki hosted in the kernel.org namespace22:04
GPenguinproblem is, that i dont understand enough yet to be of any help22:04
jdstrandGPenguin: the apparmor wiki is a work in progress22:04
jdstrandthere is a lot to do...22:05
GPenguinbut its good to know that Canonical took over from Novell22:05
GPenguinso its no dead investment to learn more about it22:05
jdstrandGPenguin: hardly! it is now in the official upstream kernel :)22:06
GPenguin:-)22:06
jdstrandGPenguin: we (Canonical and AppArmor upstream) are actively working on it for maintenance and features. you can expect more distributions besides Ubuntu and Suse (et al) to have it now that it is official (eg Debian)22:08
GPenguinwhile redhat is more into expanding selinux support so it feels22:09
* jdstrand nods22:09
jdstrandUbuntu also has selinux available too, but it isn't the best fit for Ubuntu22:10
jdstrandthat is oversimplified22:10
jdstrandAppArmor is a better default choice for Ubuntu22:11
GPenguinfor a desktop that changes often it requires too much work22:11
* jdstrand notes that Ubuntu is much, much more than a desktop OS22:11
GPenguine.g. with browsers like chromium22:11
jdstrandthan 'just' a desktop OS :)22:12
GPenguinwell! :-)22:12
spy6okay ... i recovered vrom brocken libc22:12
GPenguinthe whole cloud computing stuff has yet to be defined22:12
jdstrand(we've had a server install for years)22:13
jdstrandand it is quite good, imnsho22:13
spy6anybody a guess, why upgrading to 10.10 result into http://pastebin.ca/1958827?22:13
spy6why is removing libc6-i686 so bad?22:14
spy6there is no install candidat for it in 10.1022:14
* jdstrand really leaves22:15
micahgspy6: you might want to try #ubuntu22:15
jibelspy6, can you file a bug against update-manager, describe what you did and attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ . Thanks.22:19
spy6jussi: thanks, I'll do22:20
BUGabundojust made such a nice /etc/grub.d/40_custom that it should be default :P23:19
BUGabundoboots from desktop livecd, netboot (that doesn't work cause of GPU driver), netboot.me and mini.iso23:19
BUGabundohad to hack a bit of netboot, cause my grub2 is on 64bits, and netboot is 3223:19
BUGabundolinux16 to the rescue23:20
persiaWhy ought that be default?  I'd think it would confuse lots of folks.23:20
BUGabundo$ pastebinit /etc/grub.d/40_custom   http://paste.ubuntu.com/510426/23:20
BUGabundopersia: great rescue system :D23:20
GPenguina rescue system that depends on a working grub2 :-)23:21
BUGabundoeheh23:21
BUGabundotrue23:21
BUGabundoits also great to test daily isos23:22
GPenguinfor that its great, yeah23:22
superm1BUGabundo, curious, when the system is mounted like that, does that partition containing the ISO still get a mount point by default?23:24
BUGabundosuperm1: I have /boot on a partition23:24
BUGabundocause my / is on btrfs23:24
superm1ah23:25
BUGabundobut yeah, on a non mounted system, you would need to adapt it23:25
BUGabundoand change the hdroot23:25
superm1BUGabundo, well if it can be adapted well to work with casper, it could make for a nice solution for usb-creator installs when switching to grub. usb-creator would just need to copy the .iso to the stick rather than extracting it23:26
BUGabundoyeah, thinking about it23:26
BUGabundolet me get you a stock set23:26
BUGabundosuperm1: http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB23:27
BUGabundothere's a stock boot from usb containing an ISO23:27
BUGabundomy guess, have casper look for iso on mounte usb devices23:29
persiaBUGabundo, The tricky bit is that casper is inside a squashfs on the ISO23:30
persiaSo the nifty config would be something that would work on the ISO, but when copied to USB/MMC/etc. would also work from that.23:30
persia(one assumes a first-stage bootloader capable of device selection for this purpose)23:31
superm1usb-creator can always write a custom config out too23:31
superm1think something that just loop mounts the iso, and chainloads into the grub on the ISO already23:31
BUGabundopersia: but casper _is_ capable of reading the ISO... that's what I did on 3 of those entries23:31
BUGabundocause its mounted loop23:31
persiaBUGabundo, Right.  I'm imagining that I have an Ubuntu install (which doesn't have casper) and I want to make a target to install for another device that has no optical drive.23:32
BUGabundowell, put grub on the usb :P23:33
persiasuperm1, I'm not a huge fan of usb-creator writing out configs, because it makes it harder to make it "just work" for armel/ppc (mind you, grub2/ppc needs more testing, and grub2/armel needs porting, so these aren't really first-class targets yet)23:33
BUGabundoisn't that what usb-creator fakes?23:34
persiaRight.  Idea is to not fake it, but to have a configuration that allows one to just copy files from ISO to USB without anything else.23:34
persiaThat means one can more easily write USB creator for Windows/OS X/Android/etc.23:35
BUGabundopersia: then you need grub2 installed on a pendrive, and BIOS boot from it23:37
BUGabundothen, having usb-creator just create a grub.cfg to boot from an ISO, just like I did mine23:38
persiaPrecisely, and you have to do this in a way that lets you just copy the ISO rather than processing it.23:38
BUGabundoI'm lost23:38
BUGabundowhat's hard about that?23:38
BUGabundocopy, install, create cfg23:38
persiaYep.  Not terribly difficult, but needs a bit of documentation, cleanup, and integration into existing systems.23:38
BUGabundoI know nothing about usb creator, so I may be wrong23:39
persiaOh, what's hard?  hard is making it just work for people who have never heard of "grub2" :)23:39
BUGabundogrub2 has pretty neat support for all of that23:39
BUGabundoahhh23:39
BUGabundoLOL23:39
BUGabundobut all major distros are using grub2 for.... one or two cycles!23:39
BUGabundoeven debian has it on testing23:40
persiaSure, but that means, given the market share numbers I'm making up right now, 95% of folks have never used it, and 99% of folks don't know they used it.23:40
persiaOr maybe I made a mistake in math: the idea being that 80% of grub2 users don't know they use grub223:41
persiaAnd 95% of folks don't use any major distro (or any minor one, etc.)23:41
BUGabundook, lets back up a little here23:42
BUGabundowe are talking of improving usb-creator to boot from ISO instead of processing its content23:42
BUGabundoOR23:42
BUGabundoare we speaking of making a failsafe entrie in GRUB2 to allow remote/iso boot23:42
BUGabundo?23:42
persiaThe former: so that the ISO can just be copied onto the USB stick, rather than needing to be unpacked, processed, etc.23:43
persiaShould reduce usb-creator code size significantly, and, ideally, more closely align the install experience.23:44
superm1there would still need to be some processing done though to install grub to the stick23:44
BUGabundoI agree23:44
superm1which wouldn't necessarily making it any easier to implement on !linux systems23:44
BUGabundosuperm1: yes, that would be one part of it23:44
persiaOh well.23:44
BUGabundowe have usb creator on NON linux systems?23:44
superm1well that was something persia mentioned above as being desirable23:45
BUGabundoahh23:45
persianon-linux is definitely worth extra points.23:45
BUGabundogrub2dos ?23:45
BUGabundothe pen drive is already in fat3223:46
* persia had a 48-hour sprint for jaunty release to end up with a Windows tool to turn .img files on releases.ubuntu.com into bootable USB drives.23:46
superm1the current way that usb-creator has grub code in place, when the ISOs are switched to booting with grub, dd is used to put the stages of grub in place23:46
superm1so that can be easily adapted on other OS's23:46

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