| Joeb454 | time to call it a night. Bye! :) | 00:01 |
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| mmiller235 | steemed, will unity work inside virtualbox? | 00:29 |
| steemed | I assume so... | 00:31 |
| steemed | If you are talking about 11.04 maybe | 00:31 |
| mmiller235 | steemed trying out a beta of it right now | 00:33 |
| mmiller235 | Okay, after detecting the keyboard, i am staring at a pink screen | 00:40 |
| mmiller235 | is this normal? | 00:40 |
| mmiller235 | oh there it goes | 00:40 |
| mmiller235 | nvm | 00:40 |
| mmiller235 | steemed are you there? | 01:47 |
| steemed | yes but I'm busy | 01:47 |
| mmiller235 | well I need help :( | 01:47 |
| steemed | mmiller235, what do you need? | 02:44 |
| mmiller235 | steemed to get unity to work in vbox | 02:53 |
| mmiller235 | which apparently can't be done | 02:53 |
| steemed | I wouldn't know: I don't run 11.04 | 02:54 |
| s-fox | Hello. | 10:32 |
| s-fox | I will be back later. | 18:09 |
| falco_ | I need help: I tried installing kde with kde-full on ubuntu (not kubuntu) i realize now that this is a mistake, but i need some way to restore gnome locally (net doesn't work on recovery console) | 18:55 |
| Pici | falco_: you're better off asking in #ubuntu, this isn't exactly a support channel. | 18:56 |
| falco_ | Pici: they didn't know | 18:56 |
| Pici | falco_: No, one person didn't know. You can ask again and see if someone else can help you. | 18:57 |
| Bachstelze | falco_: you shoult be able to bring your net up from the console with ifconfig | 18:57 |
| falco_ | Pici: okay | 18:57 |
| falco_ | oh | 18:57 |
| Bachstelze | and either way, you shouldn't need it | 18:57 |
| falco_ | what do i do without it to restore? | 18:57 |
| Bachstelze | wezll, it would depend what exactly the problem is | 18:58 |
| falco_ | i (partially) installed kde and i need to restore gnome | 18:58 |
| Bachstelze | yes | 18:59 |
| Bachstelze | by "the problem" I mean "why X doe"sn't( start" since you say you're stuck in the console | 19:00 |
| Bachstelze | doesn't* | 19:00 |
| Bachstelze | you don't really need to "restore Gnome", gnome is still here | 19:00 |
| falco_ | ah. the error message is: 'Warning: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127' and after that it takes me back to the login screen. i can get into recovery console tho | 19:01 |
| Bachstelze | it just doesn't start for some reason which is not obvious | 19:01 |
| Bachstelze | ok | 19:01 |
| Bachstelze | hmm | 19:01 |
| Bachstelze | are you ytrying to log in a KDE or Gnome session? | 19:01 |
| falco_ | KDE, Gnome isn't an option for some reason. | 19:02 |
| Bachstelze | hm | 19:02 |
| Bachstelze | hasq the login screen changed? | 19:02 |
| falco_ | yes. | 19:03 |
| Bachstelze | formerly yoou had GDM, maube the KDE installation changed it to KDM | 19:03 |
| Bachstelze | ok | 19:03 |
| Bachstelze | try to go back to GDM | 19:03 |
| falco_ | how? | 19:03 |
| Bachstelze | sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm | 19:03 |
| falco_ | k | 19:03 |
| falco_ | alrite. | 19:04 |
| falco_ | lemme try again now that i did that | 19:04 |
| falco_ | booting... | 19:05 |
| falco_ | it's taking a REALLY long time to boot | 19:06 |
| Bachstelze | I think you cna press ESC to see the boot messages | 19:07 |
| Bachstelze | it might just be fsck'ing your disks | 19:08 |
| falco_ | okay, the last message it gave me was 'Starting TiMidity** midi emulation...' but it says ok, so it's doing something else. ur right tho, it may just be fsck'ing my discs. | 19:09 |
| falco_ | sry, thats ALSA midi emulation | 19:10 |
| Bachstelze | I think fscl happens before | 19:11 |
| falco_ | hmm... so what's happening? | 19:11 |
| Bachstelze | hmm you cna alwyas hard-reboot and boot without quiet splash | 19:11 |
| Bachstelze | no idea | 19:11 |
| falco_ | 'boot without quiet splash'? | 19:11 |
| Bachstelze | boot without passing the "quiet" ans "splash" parameters to the kernel, so you can see what's going on | 19:12 |
| Bachstelze | you can edit the boot command line in GRUB | 19:12 |
| falco_ | how? | 19:12 |
| Bachstelze | you cna press a key to edit a GRUB entry, I think it's 'e', but it's described on the GRUB menu | 19:14 |
| falco_ | when do i press e? | 19:15 |
| Bachstelze | hughlight the entry you want to modify and press 'e' | 19:16 |
| Bachstelze | then edit the kernel line, remove "quiet splash" and boot | 19:16 |
| falco_ | i can't do anything like that. trying to highlight anything only switches from the graphical (four dots) boot to the non-graphical one. | 19:18 |
| Bachstelze | before that, when you're in the GRUB menu | 19:18 |
| Bachstelze | if you don't have it, press shift at boot | 19:18 |
| falco_ | k | 19:18 |
| falco_ | pressing shift doesn't work | 19:19 |
| Bachstelze | it should | 19:19 |
| Bachstelze | you're probably doing it too late | 19:19 |
| falco_ | do i do it right when it starts rebooting? | 19:20 |
| Bachstelze | you have to do it right when the computer boots | 19:20 |
| Bachstelze | after the BIOS screens, before it qtarts the OS | 19:20 |
| falco_ | huh. i tried it at every possible place before my machine booted. nothing happened. | 19:21 |
| falco_ | no, before it loaded ubuntu | 19:21 |
| falco_ | sorry, | 19:21 |
| falco_ | wording error. | 19:21 |
| falco_ | or tried to load ubuntu | 19:21 |
| Bachstelze | it definitely should work | 19:23 |
| Bachstelze | unless you are running GRUB 1, but that's unlikely | 19:23 |
| falco_ | strange... because it isn't working. but hypothetically, if i had grub 1, what would i do? | 19:25 |
| Bachstelze | you would know it | 19:25 |
| Bachstelze | there would be a "Press ESC to enter GRUB menu" at the top left corner of your screen | 19:25 |
| falco_ | ah. that's very odd. do you have any ideas about why i cant open the grub menu? | 19:27 |
| Bachstelze | no :( | 19:27 |
| falco_ | :/ dang | 19:27 |
| Bachstelze | you cn alaways edity the grub config from the recovery console, though | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | to change the boot settings | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | but it's still weird that you can't just enter the menu | 19:28 |
| falco_ | how do i get into the recovery console if ubuntu doesn't load? | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | ... | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | good point | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | hmm | 19:28 |
| Bachstelze | well the next step is boot a live CD and tinker with your system from there | 19:29 |
| Bachstelze | though at that point, if you didn't have anything important, you might as well reinstall | 19:30 |
| falco_ | well... i do have some stuff. but anyways, i'll go get the live cd | 19:30 |
| Bachstelze | then yeah, you can access your installed system from the live cd and hopefully fix it | 19:31 |
| falco_ | okay... i'm having trouble finding it, but i started dloading it, and i'll look for it in the meantime. | 19:42 |
| falco_ | Bachstelze: i've booted the live cd. what do i do now? | 21:22 |
| Bachstelze | falco_: you mount the root partition of your installed system and do whatever you want to do | 21:27 |
| Bachstelze | either get your data back and reinstall, or try to fix it | 21:27 |
| falco_ | how do i mount the root partition of the existing installation? | 21:28 |
| Bachstelze | using the mount command, like you mount any other filesystem | 21:29 |
| falco_ | ah. sorry. i wasn't thinking. | 21:30 |
| falco_ | how do i navigate to my actual drive? | 21:33 |
| Bachstelze | like you navigate to any other location, using Nautilus or the terminal | 21:34 |
| falco_ | it's only showing a file system for the live cd | 21:34 |
| Bachstelze | did you mount your drive ? | 21:34 |
| falco_ | how do you mount your drive? sry, n00bish question | 21:35 |
| CharlesA | falco_: Is it listed on the places menu? | 21:36 |
| falco_ | oh! i found it. thanks! | 21:36 |
| falco_ | now is there a way to install ubuntu onto my drive without interfering with any of my personal files, or do i have to back everything up? | 21:42 |
| Bachstelze | nnot easily, and I wouldn't recommend it | 21:50 |
| Bachstelze | (this is why you should always have a separate /home partition) | 21:50 |
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