[02:26] um hi [02:26] i had to reinstall [02:26] windows 7 [02:27] on my pc... and um [02:27] i dont seem to be able to boot into ubuntu now... [02:27] lisac, try a live cd / install cd [02:28] okay [02:28] you should be able to recover grub, that was overwritten by windows installer [02:28] how O.o [02:29] !recover [02:29] Some tools to recover lost data are listed and explained at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery - Recovering deleted files on !ext3 filesystems can be virtually impossible, although methods that might work is some cases are described at at http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html and http://projects.izzysoft.de/trac/ext3undel [02:29] !boot [02:29] Boot options: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions - To add/remove startup services, you can use the package 'bum', or update-rc.d - To add your own startup scripts, use /etc/rc.local - See also !grub and !dualboot - Making a boot floppy: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/BootFloppy - Also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManagerHowto [02:29] !dualboot [02:29] Dual boot instructions: x86/AMD64: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot/Windows - Macs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro https://help.ubuntu.com/community/YabootConfigurationForMacintoshPowerPCsDualBoot [02:29] @_@; [02:29] u're scaring me [02:29] no it is oftenly asked [02:31] 1 sec ill boot onto the cd [02:46] so um the site said to [02:46] do grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda [02:46] but i get an error O.o [02:46] yes [02:47] huh? [02:47] the /mnt/ needs to be replaces with your path [02:47] most likely /media/329437459020348023 [02:47] or whatever the id of the device is [02:48] im confused [02:48] duanedesign, aveilleux am i right ? [02:48] what? O.o [02:49] also, it is not know if /dev/sda is correct [02:50] it points to the actual drive ubuntu is installed upon [02:50] i think its right so far i dide [02:50] often it is /dev/sda [02:50] fdsk -l [02:51] then did mount/dev/sda1 /mnt [02:51] but the step after throws an error [02:51] grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda [02:51] /usr/sbin/grub-install: line 291: grub-mkdevicemap: command not found [02:51] sed: can't read /mnt//boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory [02:51] grub-probe: error: Cannot open `/mnt//boot/grub/device.map' [02:51] does /dev/sda1 hold your windows partition or your ubuntu partition [02:52] sda1 holds the ubuntu partiton [02:52] ok that is odd for windows 7 [02:52] it very much dislikes not being on the first partition [02:52] oh -_- [02:53] but windows is booting properly O.o [02:53] that is good [02:53] but /dev/sda1 is not alright [02:53] UndiFineD: It doesn't matter what partition Windows is on, as long as it's in GRUB [02:54] sed: can't read /mnt//boot/grub/device.map [02:54] it means the file is not there [02:55] im going to hazard thats not very good [02:55] I am going to waste, 4 am [02:56] ls -Al /mnt [02:56] o.o [02:56] see wht is on your /dev/sda1 [02:57] everything looks fine the boot folder is there but not grub o.o [03:00] :/ [03:00] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 [03:00] all i have [03:00] now I must go to sleep [03:01] gn pedro3005 [03:01] hi UndiFineD [03:01] O.o [03:03] so um [03:03] anybody still here? O.o [03:04] no [03:04] :D [03:05] nope [03:06] so um refresher, im booted via usb with "ultimate boot cd" [03:06] and im trying to get grub 2 back so i can boot back into ubuntu [03:08] so... [03:08] any ideas? O.o [03:09] @_@; [03:15] -.-; === PabloRubianes_ is now known as PabloRubianes [03:36] uggh nevermind [03:37] ill just reinstall the whole damn thing [03:37] yay /s === DarkJuju is now known as juju2143 [05:10] hi [05:12] hi === Guest25329 is now known as wolfpack [10:30] is there a ubuntu audio channal? [10:30] Sorry I know it should been: [10:30] Is there an Ubuntu audio channel [10:30] but I pronouce Ubuntu incorrect [10:31] It's suppose to be oo-boon-too [10:31] but I pronouce it as you-bun-ta [10:31] so a ubuntu was on my mind as I typed [10:32] I meant you-bun-tu [10:33] oo-boon-too is Afrian meaning something like for the people I think off the top of my head [10:34] OK, so for the reason I came here [10:34] Is this installed? or Does it need to be installed with what I want to do?: [10:34] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/alsa_in.1.html [10:35] I need to give detail about what I am trying to do [10:35] I bought a usb cable called ligthsnake [10:36] it is mono, not stereo [10:36] I got it to work with my guitar finally [10:37] I had read that I would need an amp to hook through through the lightsnake cable [10:37] but I don't have what's needed to do that [10:38] With the help nevyn I was able to get lightsnake working just now with my guitar by routing my guitar through my stereo system through the lightsnake cable into my computer [10:38] thank you nevyn [10:41] I am thinking about using the mic jack to use to hear the guitar while playing through the computer [10:41] I haven't tried that yet though [10:42] nevyn said I might need alsa_in and alsa_out to have 2 sound card working at the same time [10:43] I have ideas I should text out first then I can tell him what happened [10:43] anyways that is all I can think to say [12:35] Hello all, I am currently using ubuntu 9.10 Koala connected with a XGA video projector. I am facing some problems with the twinview: with a XGA connected in twinview configuration as I cant visualize video on the projector. I get the player window but it only shows black content [12:35] please help === Guest28722 is now known as jhanafrog === Vetinari is now known as lukjad === Vetinari is now known as lukjad === IdleOne is now known as Idle0ne === Idle0ne is now known as IdleOne === Guest28722 is now known as jhanafrog [17:13] I'm up a certain creek here. Ubuntu 10.10 delivers the error, "HD0, msdos1 read error" upon boot. [17:15] The what? [17:15] I have absolutely no idea what this means, or what to do with the following 'grub rescue' command prompt. [17:15] Fanshawe: were you able to boot to Ubuntu before? [17:16] hm... that sounds like grub can't read the partition table of the first HDD. I have no idea what would cause that though [17:17] MrChrisDruif: Yes. I should explain what happened. Ubuntu 10.10 is on my netbook. It was connected to an external HDD dock via USB. I switched the dock off and there was an immediate crash. The error appeared when I switched it back on. [17:18] Fanshawe: Did you try booting with the external HDD dock attached / switched on? [17:18] Yeah. I even went into the BIOS to prioritise that drive, but I don't see how that would help. Ubuntu isn't installed there, it's on a native drive. [17:19] An SSD. [17:19] A netbook with a SSD? Good upgrade :) [17:20] I'm not even sure what this error means. [17:20] I assume it was something to do with disk space. It was so strange, an instant crash when a removable device was, well, removed. [17:21] Do you have a dualboot Fanshawe? [17:21] No, just Ubuntu 10.10. [17:23] GTG [17:23] Good luck Fanshawe [17:23] Thank you. [17:23] can you access the drive from a live cd? [17:23] Fanshawe: Try searching google with your error, you might find some thread which solved your issue :) [17:24] Will do. [17:24] jhanafrog: I'll try the USB I installed Ubuntu from. [17:25] right, it's a netbook, no live cd, a live usb [17:25] i should just call it a live iso from now on [17:25] heh [17:25] good luck Fanshawe [17:25] Thanks [17:28] Good idea to run memtest? [17:33] Fanshawe: How's it going? Dinner is postponed since it wasn't warm :P [17:33] Running memtest right now [17:35] Alright... [17:36] I saw in one thread that reinstalling solved the problem, but that shouldn't be normal (even thou with most real problems I've got, I reinstall :P) [17:37] reinstalling solving the problem is quite mysterious [17:37] hopefully the hdd isn't going bad [17:39] That's my biggest worry, jhanafrog [17:39] So it boots from the Live CD perfectly. I'm going to try booting from the first disk with the Live CD still present. [17:41] No, grub rescue prompt again. How bizarre. [17:41] Perhaps I should just reinstall? [17:41] To be honest, though, I don't really appreciate system bricking errors with no explanation. Any ideas on what the problem was? [17:43] Fanshawe: I never had this issue before, and I don't know of a fix to solve it. I'll keep looking thou [17:45] Fanshawe: what brand hdd? [17:46] 10.10, right? [17:46] i guess the problem is either in grub2, the kernel, not sure what else [17:47] Fanshawe: was the dock attached during installation? [17:47] ASUS-PHISON OB SSD? [17:47] and yeah, 10.10 [17:47] hmmm, maybe there is something different with the firmware of that SSD [17:48] http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180460?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products [17:48] That's the dock, I was using an IDE drive with it [17:48] for storage, mainly, no system files on there as far as I'm aware [17:48] ignore me, just thinking out loud [17:49] i must misunderstand, i thought you were booting off the internal ssd [17:49] jhanafrog: Fanshawe is booting from the internal ssd [17:50] Yes. Hence the confusion when the crash occured. Made absolutely no sense to me. [17:50] However, Fanshawe had an immediate crash after turning the dock off [17:52] Right, I'm going to try booting from the live CD and reinstalling the grub [18:05] No dice. [18:05] I looked on my filesystem and the entire partition is 'unknown'. [18:07] I have no idea what to do here, other than to reinstall. [18:09] =-O [18:09] Got to eat now, but you can't apply a filesystem to it without installing? [18:24] The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) failed. [18:24] That's it, I think. Is this a hardware failure I'm looking at? [18:26] hi [18:48] Nothing worked yet. Can anybody confirm whether the disk is dead? [18:49] it is [18:49] ;) [18:50] Really? My laptop bricked, just like that? [19:00] Fanshawe: sorry, i had to plant some dill [19:01] if you couldn't access the hdd from the livecd, or partition, then reinstalling is all i can think of [19:01] would OS did the asus come with? [19:01] can you compare kernel versions? [19:02] The OS was originally an XP machine, but it was completely wiped and loaded with Eeebuntu (or something like that), which I then replaced with Ubuntu. [19:02] 10.04 then 10.10. [19:02] Might have to help me with the kernel. [19:13] Alright, I'm running memtest again. [19:13] And I'm letting it finish. [19:14] i think memtest is for testing ram [19:14] sorry, i had to fill up my bowl Fanshawe [19:15] oh. Then what can I do? [19:15] you can try running fsck from a terminal [19:15] let me see if i have the code for it [19:16] ah, even easier Fanshawe [19:17] run "disk utility" from system > adminstration > disk utility [19:17] Yes [19:18] then click "check filesystem" [19:18] okay, I'll boot the livecd again now [19:18] ok, good luck [19:22] All it returned was, "File system NOT clean." [19:23] jhanafrog: what does that mean? [19:24] wow, that was fast. i guess it found errors. [19:24] you should run it again, it should attempt to repair the filesystem [19:25] All that happens is that message appears. There's a spinning icon in the background, but I'm not sure whether it's doing anything. [19:25] i dunno, i've never run fsck from the disk utility [19:25] you can try from the command line [19:25] let me see if i can find the command [19:26] It says the device is busy. [19:26] you can read the man page, man fsck [19:26] you're in a live cd and it said it was busy? you may have to close the "disk utility" app [19:28] It's closed. Same result. [19:28] rebooting and trying again... [19:28] did you mount the file system? [19:28] you're in a livecd right? [19:29] ah, i think the livecd mounts it, you'll have to umount it first [19:30] there is an "unmount volume" button in the "disk utility" program [19:33] Wow. [19:33] Okay, that's really strange. [19:33] Disk utility now says that my disk is free. [19:33] Nothing on it. [19:33] I tried to format it earlier but it didn't work. [19:34] All I can think, is, the drive has now completely failed? [19:34] did you try running fsck to see what it would say? [19:36] Output follows: [19:37] http://pastebin.com/gjw7uQB9 [19:41] jhanafrog: still can't install anything on it, no matter what's happened [19:42] i don't know, there may be more options that you can use in fsck Fanshawe [19:42] i'm trying to brush up on it [19:42] Cool. Thank you. [19:43] i've used it before, but i didn't save the command :( [19:43] i have this saved: sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo reboot [19:43] but i don't know if that will work from a livecd [19:44] it shouldn't make a difference though :| [19:45] oh, yeah, /dev/sda won't work. there should be /dev/sda1 [19:45] or /dev/sda*, if there aren't, then yeah, you need to repartition and format the drive [19:45] so i guess reinstall [19:47] There used to be an sda1, not the partition is gone [19:47] weird [19:48] i dunno what happened. well, reinstall, and if you can get the kernel from the eeepc linux that was installed [19:48] so that if it happens again we can compare [19:49] Maybe I could try installing the eeebuntu? [19:50] yeah, why not. whatever works that is foss. of course, i'd rather get you up with UNR if we can. it may be prettier, and i don't know if eeepc has repositories set up [19:50] where are you located Fanshawe? [19:51] there may be a LUG or UUG (LoCo) in your area to get synced up with [19:54] http://pastebin.com/jCFPeDdv [19:54] fsck on sda1 ^ [19:55] Located? UK. [19:56] check out #ubuntu-uk Fanshawe [19:58] Will do, thanks, jhanafrog. [20:05] how did you run that one Fanshawe? [20:07] when i ran a file system check on my "pen drive" from "disk utility" i got "file system is clean" [20:08] you know, considering it's an ssd it is probably better to reinstall to avoid needless writes to the disk (assuming fsck writes, i don't know) [20:08] and if there isn't data you're retrieving...just reformat [20:08] see if the problem happens again [20:08] ah, ignore me, you're getting help in #ubuntu-uk [20:09] cool! [20:09] No, no, thanks, jhanafrog. [20:09] I am going to try for a full reformat. [20:09] i'm in there too if you want to talk there :) [20:10] Cool, alright. [21:42] Good morning! What is the command to check the available versions of software for an upgrade? [21:42] sudo apt-get update [21:42] sudo apt-get upgrade [21:43] bioterror: Cheers, bioterror but I think for that command I need the name of the version I want to get, do I? I am looking for the command that is listing the available versions... But I give it a try [21:45] A listing of the available versions? [21:46] it will list and ask if you want to upgrade ;) [21:51] hmm... [21:51] so what do I have to type in to get firefox 4... doesnt work as expected... [21:51] :P [21:51] LukasB: You'd need to add an PPA [21:51] you need to install mozilla's daily-beta ppa [21:51] what? [21:51] or add [21:51] yeah [21:52] oh [21:52] Wasn't it this one bioterror? ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa [21:52] yes [21:53] LukasB: type in terminal "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" [21:53] Or copy-paste :P [21:54] now we all know, I am a newbie... Prop thats why in ubuntu-beginners... But anyway, thank you very much. I do as you say MrChrisDruif [21:54] :D [21:55] LukasB: I didn't mean to offend you :) [21:55] I know! [21:55] Its all good! Just wanted to make a little joke.. [21:57] LukasB: Here's how it works; Ubuntu has software in it's repositories and only does security updates to them during a release. If you want from a certain software updated outside of the releases, you need to add Personal Package Archives or PPA's, like FireFox4. And it's alright, I just thought you were serious, hence the apology :D [22:00] Ah thank you! You know, I use ubuntu for two weeks now and started to work on websites for some reason 7 months ago (drupal) and I am so amazed by this open-source movement and all the great support you get from lovely people!!!But I really rely on you guys... [22:01] LukasB: We all started one day, we've been where you are now and help those in need :) [22:03] It's just awesome! I am happy to help other people as well, but rather in drupal where I already know something and its just nice how it works! [22:03] Do you know url hunter? [22:04] probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter [22:04] No, I do not I'm afraid :) [22:04] www.probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter [22:04] have a look, very creative [22:06] ah okay, my terminal stopped working by now... what shall i do? [22:06] Your terminal stopped working? :-/ [22:06] It's funny btw that game [22:07] I think its finished... === raju_ is now known as raju [22:11] I restarted firefox [22:11] It is Namoroka now? [22:11] I thought as much :) [22:12] I don't know...check the About section I would say :P [22:13] Yeah it says Namoroka. version 3.6.17pre Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0 [22:14] there is no fox around the globe anymore... just the globe... is that right? [22:14] i thought you wanted ff 4.0? [22:15] yes i did [22:15] He does jhanafrog [22:15] just typed in what you wrote down :P was I supposed to add something? [22:16] this might help: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/firefox-4-ppa-for-ubuntu-10-04-and-10-10-users/ [22:16] ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable [22:16] sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable [22:16] sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade === Cheri703_ is now known as Cheri703 [22:18] before i put in ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa [22:18] and update/upgrade [22:24] I leave chatzilla to restart firefox... will be back soon [22:29] I am back. With firefox 4.0 this time... thank you very much! [22:30] Your welcome LukasB :) [22:30] where are you located LukasB? you should try and sync up with your LoCo [22:31] What do you mean? [22:32] Like are you in USA, England, Holland [22:32] I am in New Zealand at the moment... [22:33] jhanafrog tries to motivate you to start helping with your Local Community :) [22:33] aah :D sync up with LoCo means to meet some people? [22:34] Well...first meet up on IRC and forum etc. when there are events you could meet some members of the LoCo [22:34] it's more fun working with other people in a group [22:35] jhanafrog: Like UBT ;) [22:35] MrChrisDruif: kind of, UBT isn't in person [22:35] LukasB: #ubuntu-nz [22:35] jhanafrog: UBT is like a LoCo ;) [22:35] But then globally :P [22:36] what is ubt? [22:36] Ubuntu Beginners Team :) [22:38] It's the team devoted to help everyone who wants to help in the community to get started [22:38] a global LoCo, that's paradoxical :) [22:38] ah ;) so where are you guys located? [22:38] I'm from Holland [22:38] i love paradoxes [22:38] u.s. here, california [22:39] correction, love and hate [22:40] Holland is cool :) I have been there quite often, as I am German... I like your cities... But I have not been to the US yet, I am sorry... [22:40] California, how's the weather there? [22:40] Ahh, your German :) [22:41] Yeah I do a volunteer service down here.. [22:42] Alright :) [22:43] Where about are you from in NL? [22:45] Zoetermeer :P [22:46] LukasB: About the UBT; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam [22:51] You see, I have been to the campground in Wassenaar last summer. Duindigt... [22:51] Thanks for that link, I check you link out, later... [22:51] I got to do some garden work now ;-) [22:52] Alright, good luck with the garden :) [22:53] Thank you very much! See you later! [22:53] jhanafrog: See you later jhanafrog! [22:54] Your welcome LukasB :) [23:04] Luk later dude