[08:28] <Kilos> morning superfly  and others
[08:29] <superfly> morning Kilos
[08:39] <Kilos> Maaz, coffee on
[08:39]  * Maaz washes some mugs
[08:40] <Kilos> lo nlsthzn coffee time
[08:40] <nlsthzn> Kilos: Hey... that's ok... making myself tea here at work now... brought all the ingridients needed :p
[08:41] <Kilos> lol
[08:41] <Kilos> man its for the cyberbrain not the soft one
[08:43] <Maaz> Coffee's ready for Kilos!
[08:43] <Kilos> Maaz, ty buddy
[08:43] <Maaz> Dont get familiar now Kilos
[08:46] <nlsthzn-work> Kilos: Both my minds need tea... then again both are soft :p
[08:46] <Kilos> hehe
[09:16] <Kilos> yay that free sms site is working kiff again
[09:16] <Kilos> they mustas been upgrading as well
[09:28] <Kilos> nlsthzn-work, ^^
[09:28] <Kilos> nice and fast as well
[09:34] <nlsthzn-work> Kilos: Good to hear :)
[17:02]  * Kilos gots a problem. will try explain
[17:03] <Kilos> lay down for a while this avy and when coming back to pc freecell opened blank
[17:03] <Kilos> not much wanted to work . even shutdown didnt work
[17:04] <Kilos> on rebooting i get initramfs prompt
[17:04] <Kilos> even doing a recovery gives the same initramfs prompt
[17:04] <Kilos> im on karmic now
[17:05] <Kilos> i typed help at the prompt but nothing there can help me
[17:06] <Kilos> Maaz, google ubuntu maverick boots to initramfs prompt only
[17:06] <Maaz> Kilos: "[ubuntu] 8.04 Boot Problems: initramfs prompt/ BusyBox - Ubuntu Forums" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=807345 :: "VirtFeatureVerification - Ubuntu Wiki" https://wiki.edubuntu.org/VirtFeatureVerification :: "Bug #686832 in multipath-tools (Ubuntu): “multipath-tools-boot ..." https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/686832 :: "ubuntu-bugs: [Bug 778520] Re: install on degraded raid1 does not ..." http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu-bugs/2011
[17:15] <somaunn> hello everyone
[17:16] <somaunn> hello
[17:17] <Kilos> hi somaunn 
[17:18] <somaunn> i need help
[17:18] <somaunn> i have this message on ubuntu startup, error: sparse file not allowed
[17:19] <Kilos> explain what your problem is then be patient. someone will help when they get a chance
[17:19] <somaunn> what does it mean? how can i resolve it
[17:19] <Kilos> you on natty?
[17:20] <somaunn> yes
[17:20] <Kilos> lets see what maaz has to say while we wait for a clever guy
[17:21] <somaunn> i've reinstalled my natty with btrfs and after that i received that msg on startup
[17:21] <Kilos> Maaz, google ubuntu natty starts with error: sparse file not allowed
[17:21] <Maaz> Kilos: "Bug #736743 in grub2 (Ubuntu): “environment block not implemented ..." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736743 :: "Bug #464743 in grub2 (Ubuntu): “error: sparse file not allowed”" https://launchpad.net/bugs/464743 :: "On Ubuntu: btrfs is now available on Natty" http://onubuntu.blogspot.com/2011/01/btrfs-is-now-available-on-natty.html :: "Full BTRFS support in grub [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums" http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index
[17:22] <Kilos> check if there is help at one of those links somaunn 
[17:23] <somaunn> okay will check it
[17:23] <somaunn> thanks for help
[17:25] <Kilos> you welcome. hope you get it fixed
[17:30] <somaunn> another question, 
[17:31] <somaunn> how to recover the network icon next to sound
[17:35] <Kilos> try right click on the panel
[17:35] <Kilos> then add i think
[17:36] <Kilos> ya add to panel
[17:36] <Kilos> then look for it in your options
[17:37] <Kilos> somaunn, ^^
[17:40] <Kilos> hiya kbmonkey 
[17:41] <Kilos> how clever are you
[17:41] <somaunn> bye bye 
[17:42] <kbmonkey> hiya Kilos 
[17:42] <kbmonkey> Im making some veg soup so I guess Im clever enough. whats up?
[17:42] <Kilos> kbmonkey, my maverick boots to initramfs prompt only
[17:43] <Kilos> dunno where to go from there
[17:43] <Kilos> normal commands dont work there
[17:43] <Kilos> and the help is beyond me
[17:43] <kbmonkey> like a grub prompt?
[17:43] <Kilos> yeah but initramfs $
[17:44] <Kilos> i booted from live cd and tried installing grub-pc again but no luck
[17:44]  * kbmonkey warms up the search engine
[17:44] <Kilos> lol
[17:45] <kbmonkey> if you can get a line of error message we can search it might help
[17:45] <Kilos> i looked at lotsa google links on it but they all for IT guys\
[17:46] <kbmonkey> does it look similar to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1561735
[17:46] <Kilos> when i am there i cant get online or anything. am using karmic thats first install on this drive
[17:47] <kbmonkey> so you have karmic and maverick on one drive, separate partitions?
[17:47] <Kilos> kartmic then maverick alongside
[17:47] <Kilos> that looks similar
[17:48] <kbmonkey> okay, karmic uses grub 1.9, maverick grub 2
[17:48] <kbmonkey> during maverick install, do you remember where you installed the boot loader?
[17:50] <Kilos> whew
[17:50] <Kilos> in sda i think
[17:51] <Kilos> i dunno what happened it was working fine and after a break even my shutdowjnh option didnt work
[17:51] <kbmonkey> oh dear
[17:52] <Kilos> yeah. like a bad guy got in while i was away
[17:52] <Kilos> but i got firewall running
[17:52] <kbmonkey> did you use the boot repair graphical tool to reinstall grub?
[17:52] <Kilos> lol
[17:53] <Kilos> the recovery one
[17:53] <Kilos> ?
[17:53] <kbmonkey> yes the one found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling GRUB2
[17:53] <kbmonkey> (that link is broken up )
[17:53] <Kilos> i tried recovery onb booting and it also ends at that initramfs prompt
[17:54] <kbmonkey> no there is a recovery Live CD to reinstall grub
[17:54] <Kilos> ok i go see what they say
[17:54] <kbmonkey> not the recovery boot menu option, that is differnt 
[17:54] <Kilos> oh from the live cde?
[17:54] <Kilos> cd?
[17:54] <kbmonkey> yes it is a new live cd to repair the system https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
[17:55] <kbmonkey> it must be new, I never noticed that before :)
[17:55] <Kilos> ok i go look for that. not sure if i seen it before. do you go the install route?
[17:57] <kbmonkey> okay that second link is a modified Ubuntu live CD, so you may not want to DL an entire ISO for that
[17:57] <Kilos> oh wait\
[17:57] <Kilos> a new live cd repair cd
[17:57] <Kilos> not the maverick live cd
[17:57] <kbmonkey> your live CD can get online right?
[17:58] <Kilos> yes if i go try ubuntu\
[17:58] <kbmonkey> okay thats good. I think what we can do is boot a Ubuntu Maverick live CD
[17:58] <Kilos> ok i write this down and go try it. ty
[17:59] <kbmonkey> hang 5
[17:59] <Kilos> ok
[18:00] <kbmonkey> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair tells you how as well
[18:00] <kbmonkey> when in the live environment, follow the 2nd option to install boot-repair
[18:01] <kbmonkey> then follow the rest of the instructions in that same link :)
[18:01] <Kilos> thanks kbmonkey 
[18:02] <kbmonkey> I hope that helps!
[18:02] <Kilos> lol so do i
[18:02] <kbmonkey> okay gtg for 30 mins I'll be back soon :)
[18:02] <Kilos> later all
[18:21] <superfly> kbmonkey: grub 1.9 == grub 2
[18:28] <Symmetria> lol, so like, we always use airport codes in our router names
[18:28]  * Symmetria is thinking that when he puts routers down in grahamstown
[18:28] <Symmetria> it may not be politically wise to use their airport code
[18:28] <Symmetria> "FAGT" 
[18:46] <Kilos> kbmonkey: that is a cd download site
[18:46] <Kilos> i cant do that
[18:50] <Kilos> i go back to karmic if i dont get it working
[18:50] <Kilos> see yas later
[19:09] <kbmonkey> hi Kilos 
[19:10] <kbmonkey> you do not need to download a CD ISO, you can use your existing ubuntu live CD via the 2nd option
[19:10] <Kilos> eish sorry
[19:10] <Kilos> missed that
[19:11] <Kilos> ok i go try again
[19:11] <Kilos> i wonder what happened. everything been working great for months
[19:13] <Kilos> later
[19:13] <kbmonkey> perhaps a grub update incompatibility
[19:13] <kbmonkey> not too sure, see if that works :)
[19:17] <Kilos> ok ty will do
[19:48] <Kilos> hehe kbmonkey 
[19:49] <Kilos> now i dont get any options on boot anymore
[19:49] <Kilos> goes straight to karmic
[19:49] <Kilos> and modem battling
[19:49] <Kilos> hehe
[19:52] <Kilos> needed to reboot a few times and also move the modem to different usb port
[19:54] <Kilos> and when trying to mount the partition with maverick on i getting 
[19:54] <Kilos> Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6,
[19:54] <Kilos>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
[19:54] <Kilos>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
[19:54] <Kilos>        dmesg | tail  or so
[19:55] <kbmonkey> oh wow I hope your partition for maverick isn't corrupt. maybe thats why the boot stopped working :(
[19:56] <kbmonkey> when you run sudo update-grub, it should detect all Linuxes on your disk. The fact that it did not detect Maverick tells me that partition cannot be read
[20:27] <Kilos> it only seems to see the karmic images
[20:28] <Kilos> will check how much data i got left and install maverick again
[20:28] <Kilos> tomorrow maybe
[20:28] <Kilos> head thumping now
[20:29] <Kilos> i go lie down some. maybe come back later. if not sleep tight all
[20:34] <kbmonkey> awe alrightee then, sleep tight