[00:22] <davidhurwich__> i have a question about my wireless driver
[00:23] <davidhurwich__> i cant seem to pick up wireless networks on my 11.04 install
[00:23] <davidhurwich__> ive checked my driver, uninstalled and reinstalled it, but still can not pick up wireless networks
[00:23] <davidhurwich__> any suggestions?
[02:53] <edmin> beginner here in need of help
[02:55] <edmin> i am creating a linux webserver
[02:56] <edmin> in an earlier attempt I used chown or chmod to modify the rights of the ~/var/www folder
[02:56] <edmin> so I could put in an index.html file to host my page
[02:56] <edmin> is there anyone here?
[02:57] <escott> more people in #ubuntu
[02:57] <edmin> can I go there when I know so little?
[02:57] <escott> do you really mean ~/var
[02:57] <escott> "/join #ubuntu"
[02:57] <edmin> I don't want to offend anyone
[02:57] <edmin> okay I will
[02:58] <edmin> thanks
[02:59] <edmin> it's not in the network list
[02:59] <edmin> ???
[05:41] <sarcor> can someone help me? I tried to run ubuntu 11.04 through a Live CD, and selected the option of trying it and not installing it. It then proceeded to show a log screen with multiple entries referring to my graphics card. It didn't even boot to the desktop and the CD stopped working entirely. Then the computer just hangs on this screen. What am I doing wrong?
[05:43] <bodhizazen> sarcor, did you check the integrity of the iso and the burn ?
[05:43] <bodhizazen> what graphic card do you have ?
[05:44] <sarcor> yea, all the files are there, its not just one single iso image
[05:45] <sarcor> I even ran the CD on my Win7 desktop and a wizard popped up with the three options of installing it, installing it in windows and learning more
[05:46] <sarcor> oh, well this is a ati mobility radeon HD 5650
[05:47] <bodhizazen> sarcor, well, you can try running it in so called low graphics mode
[05:47] <sarcor> but my graphics card is quite recent, i don't understand
[05:48] <bodhizazen> and even try installing it, but it sounds as if you will need to configure your ATI card
[05:48] <bodhizazen> I am not overly familiar with ati cards, but the driver is not open source
[05:50] <bodhizazen> sarcor, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1422762
[05:50] <sarcor> Ubuntu is only default configured with open sourced graphics drivers?
[05:51] <sarcor> I can't even get into the actual OS, how am I supposed to configure my ATI card?
[05:51] <bodhizazen> The CD can only hold so much sarcor , apparently it does not have a driver for your card, but according to that thread you can configure it post-install
[05:51] <bodhizazen> It is often similar with nvidia cards
[05:51] <bodhizazen> And I have this GMA500 card I will sell you =)
[05:51] <sarcor> Lo, sorry, laptop
[05:52] <sarcor> Cant take it out without voiding warranty
[05:52] <bodhizazen> boot the low graphics option
[05:52] <sarcor> is that in f6?
[05:52] <bodhizazen> I think yes
[05:53] <sarcor> Ok, thanks
[05:54] <sarcor> I can't get a screenshot or even logs, so it's kinda hard to explain what's really written on this screen
[05:55] <bodhizazen> I understand, I have had that problem with my nvidia card from time to time
[05:56] <sarcor> Well let me just try to explain it anyway, lol. It reads the cd for a while, then a whole string of entries having to do with removing pci drivers and whatnot appear and a automatic crash report starts going. I can't find the damn crash report though.
[05:58] <sarcor> well whatever, I'll go try to find that low graphics option. Thanks
[07:07] <aayush> Hello
[07:10] <zkriesse> aayush: hi
[07:13] <aayush> hi.. how's going
[07:14] <zkriesse> quite well
[07:14] <zkriesse> And for yourself?
[07:14] <zkriesse> Pardon the response time, switching between this and a remote pc
[07:22] <Duck_> Can anyone tell me how to install sun-java for metasploit?
[07:22] <bioterror> meta what?
[07:23] <bioterror> if you dont have partner repository enabled, heres command: sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
[07:23] <bioterror> and after that: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-{jre,bin,plugin,fonts}
[07:23] <bioterror> and then you need to remove that foss stuff that doesnt really work: sudo apt-get purge openjdk-6-{jre,jre-lib,jre-headless} icedtea{-6-jre-cacao,6-plugin}
[07:24] <bioterror> there you go, now you can enjoy internet like it was 1998
[07:25] <Duck_> Why will the internet be like '98?
[07:25] <bioterror> it was wonderful and worked like a charm!
[08:51] <Radicalsouthern> has anyone ever had this error before guys?
[08:51] <Radicalsouthern> Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
[08:51] <Radicalsouthern> Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) utility
[09:59] <Jesse80> Ok, so my computer no longer wants to boot up
[10:00] <bioterror> usually I want that my computer boots up ;)
[10:00] <Jesse80> I get an error message...mount> mounting dev/disk/bz/uid..... on /root failed
[10:00] <Jesse80> Invalid argument
[10:00] <Jesse80> followed by
[10:00] <Jesse80> mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
[10:00] <Jesse80> mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
[10:00] <Jesse80> mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
[10:00] <Jesse80> Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
[10:00] <Jesse80> No init found. Try passing init=bootarg
[10:01] <bioterror> sounds like grub tries wrong harddrive or something like that
[10:01] <Jesse80> ok
[10:02] <Jesse80> wrong partition_
[10:02] <Jesse80> I have onlz one hard drive
[10:02] <bioterror> boot livecd and and command: sudo blkid
[10:02] <bioterror> should show the uid
[10:03] <Jesse80> ok
[10:04] <Jesse80> livecd is the cd I made to install ubuntu?
[10:04] <Jesse80> /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
[10:04] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1: UUID="91e863bc-14e1-487e-a54d-9ec8ed40c443" TYPE="ext4"
[10:04] <Jesse80> /dev/sda5: UUID="35f6aeb1-b79a-4a64-9e44-dee623989e73" TYPE="swap"
[10:06] <Jesse80> Please forgive my ignorance...heh heh
[10:06] <bioterror> Jesse80, now you can mount your ubuntu partition from the harddrive and look for /boot/grub/grub.cfg if it has that correct line
[10:07] <bioterror> like my wife has:
[10:07] <bioterror> /dev/sda1: UUID="96d6ca29-86b7-4a1d-b261-5ae48882d969" TYPE="ext4"
[10:07] <bioterror>         linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-30-generic root=UUID=96d6ca29-86b7-4a1d-b261-5ae48882d969 ro single
[10:07] <Jesse80> I should just enter these commands into the terminal_
[10:08] <Jesse80> and I cant switch keyboard layouts &*()
[10:08] <bioterror> i just said that you need to look into your grub.cfg
[10:08] <Jesse80> (am running trial Ubuntu from livecd)
[10:09] <bioterror> and confirm you have that correct UUID in there on root=UUID=
[10:09] <bioterror> you can use nano as editor for example
[10:09] <bioterror> or even gedit
[10:09] <bioterror> what ever you want
[10:11] <Jesse80> trying to find grub.cfg
[10:12] <bioterror> it's on that your hard drive /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[10:12] <bioterror> so /media/something/boot/grub/
[10:13] <Jesse80> ok
[10:13] <Jesse80> so permission denied
[10:13] <Jesse80> grr
[10:17] <bioterror> with graphical program remember to use gksudo
[10:17] <bioterror> or gksu
[10:17] <bioterror> it's the same
[10:19] <Jesse80> why would I not have permission_
[10:19] <Jesse80> kezboard!
[10:19] <Jesse80> arggh!
[10:23] <Jesse80> keyboard fixed
[10:23] <Jesse80> thank god
[10:24] <Jesse80> so, anyway the hard drive is not mounted, but I guess that is obvious
[10:24] <Jesse80> and in media/apt/ i dont have the permission
[10:24] <Jesse80> in terminal my su password wont work
[10:36] <Jesse80> wait
[10:36] <Jesse80> ok the filesystem is not mounted
[10:36] <Jesse80> why would I not have permission?
[10:37] <krusi> are you running liveCD?
[10:37] <Jesse80> yes
[10:37] <krusi> if you run sudo su, you should get to root shell(in terminal)
[10:38] <Jesse80> ok
[10:38] <krusi> then you would have access, easier and safer way would be just to run sudo mount /disk/location, so you don't messup something on disk by accident :)
[10:38] <krusi> sudo mount /disk/location/ /dir/location ...is the syntax
[10:42] <Jesse80> ok
[10:43] <Jesse80> I am trying to access my grub.cfg
[10:43] <Jesse80> in the media/ is only on directory, apt/
[10:43] <Jesse80> for which I have no permission
[10:45] <krusi> did you successfully mount your disk now?
[10:45] <Jesse80> no
[10:45] <Jesse80> sudo su worked though
[10:46] <Jesse80> I obviously don not have enough linux experience
[10:46] <Jesse80> Ubuntu was too easy
[10:46] <krusi> you need to mount your primary partition first, if you are in root shell you should issue mkdir /mnt/sda1, this will create directory in /mnt/
[10:46] <bioterror> no point in making sda1 under /mnt
[10:47] <krusi> nex tyou mount disk in this directory with command mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
[10:47] <bioterror> just sudo mount /dev/sda1  /mnt
[10:47] <bioterror> sudo nano /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
[10:47] <bioterror> after editing file: sudo umount /mnt
[10:48] <Jesse80>  sudo mount /dev/sda1  /mnt brings
[10:49] <Jesse80> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
[10:49] <Jesse80>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
[10:49] <Jesse80>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
[10:49] <Jesse80>        dmesg | tail  or so
[10:49] <bioterror> Jesse80, sudo fsck /dev/sda1
[10:49] <Jesse80> aha
[10:53] <Jesse80> error in reading block 59284150
[10:53] <Jesse80> ignore error?
[10:54] <Jesse80> I accidentally cancelled
[10:54] <Jesse80> redod fsck
[10:54] <Jesse80> redid
[10:55] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 59284150
[10:55] <Jesse80> JBD: Failed to read block at offset 6838
[10:55] <Jesse80> fsck.ext4: Input/output error while recovering ext3 journal of /dev/sda1
[10:55] <Jesse80> root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo fsck /dev/sda1
[10:55] <Jesse80> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
[10:55] <Jesse80> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
[10:55] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1: recovering journal
[10:55] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
[10:55] <Jesse80> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
[10:55] <Jesse80> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
[10:55] <Jesse80> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
[10:55] <Jesse80> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
[10:55] <Jesse80> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
[10:55] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
[10:55] <Jesse80> /dev/sda1: 254064/29761536 files (0.7% non-contiguous), 36602037/119024384 blocks
[10:55] <bioterror> maybe reboot will fix it
[10:55] <Jesse80> ok
[10:56] <bioterror> but check that uuid
[10:56] <bioterror> before you reboot
[10:56] <Jesse80> how?
[10:56] <bioterror> to be sure that it's correct
[10:56] <bioterror> like I mentioned above
[10:56] <Jesse80> with the grub.cfg?
[10:56] <bioterror> uuid of sda1 with blkid command
[10:56] <Jesse80> I never got that to work
[10:56] <bioterror> and then match it with the one in grub.cfg
[10:56] <Jesse80> I couldnt find grub.cfg...or didnt have permission
[10:57] <bioterror> maybe you can now mount that hard drive when it's clean from errors, what do you think?
[10:57] <bioterror> or why did you run that fsck?-)
[10:57] <Jesse80> uh
[10:57] <Jesse80> I thought you told me to
[10:58] <Jesse80> and otherwise some forums were giving similar advice
[10:58] <krusi> try the mount now
[10:59] <krusi> bad bioterror  :)
[10:59] <Jesse80> e2fsck told me to run fsck manually
[10:59] <Jesse80> try what mount now?
 just sudo mount /dev/sda1  /mnt
[11:00] <krusi> should work now,i guess :)
[11:00] <Jesse80> and now?
[11:01] <bioterror> Wed12:47 <+bioterror> sudo nano /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
[11:01] <bioterror> Wed12:47 <+bioterror> after editing file: sudo umount /mnt
[11:01] <Jesse80> how do I edit file?
[11:02] <Jesse80> with gedit?
[11:02] <bioterror> for example
[11:02] <bioterror> or with that nano
[11:02] <bioterror> but if gedit is easier for you, then use it
[11:03] <Jesse80> ok
[11:03] <Jesse80> I opened grub cfg from mnt/boot/grub
[11:03] <Jesse80> is this right?
[11:04] <bioterror> you tell us
[11:04] <bioterror> what do you see
[11:04] <bioterror> do you see your blkid
[11:04] <bioterror> Wed12:05*<Jesse80> /dev/sda1: UUID="91e863bc-14e1-487e-a54d-9ec8ed40c443" TYPE="ext4"
[11:04] <bioterror> thats what you were looking for
[11:06] <Jesse80> where will that be?
[11:06] <Jesse80> file is long...
[11:06] <bioterror> some where with word menuentry
[11:06] <bioterror> linux /boot/blaablaablaa
[11:08] <Jesse80> well
[11:10] <Jesse80>  can I just paste a big chunk of the file in here?
[11:10] <bioterror> what do you think
[11:10] <bioterror> !paste | Jesse80
[11:10] <ubot2> Jesse80: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://imagebin.org/?page=add | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic.
[11:10] <bioterror> but now I'm not going to read your grub.cfg
[11:10] <Jesse80> yea yeah
[11:10] <bioterror> I bet you can see yourself those lines with uuid's
[11:10] <bioterror> if it matches with that you pasted us
[11:10] <Jesse80> no I found where it is saying uuid and such
[11:10] <Jesse80> it is just repeated...a lot
[11:11] <bioterror> sure it is
[11:11] <bioterror> but is it same?
[11:11] <bioterror> does it end c443?
[11:11] <Jesse80> ah ok
[11:11] <bioterror> begin with 91e?
[11:11] <bioterror> does it match?!
[11:11] <Jesse80> yes
[11:11] <bioterror> good
[11:11] <Jesse80> yes
[11:11] <bioterror> close the editor
[11:11] <bioterror> say in terminal
[11:11] <bioterror> cd
[11:11] <bioterror> sudo umount /mnt
[11:11] <bioterror> sudo reboot
[11:12] <Jesse80> double check
[11:12] <bioterror> and enjoy your working system
[11:13] <Jesse80> thanks!
[14:29] <s-fox> Hello.
[14:29] <holstein> s-fox: o/
[14:30] <s-fox> Hello holstein :)
[18:29] <nlsthzn> random question about planet ubuntu (planet.ubuntu.com) ... yesterday I read an entry from it... now it is gone?! Isn't blogs uploaded persistant?
[18:31] <pleia2> nlsthzn: if someone removes a post from their feed the planet will remove it from it's feed
[18:32] <pleia2> so it won't show up
[18:32] <nlsthzn> pleia2: ah ok... what a pity, was one of the most witty reads about somebody switching from Gnome to KDE that I have ever read... and I only got half way yesterday... drats... thanks for the info :)
[18:33] <pleia2> nlsthzn: the twitter feed for the planet should have it: http://twitter.com/#!/planetubuntu
[18:33] <pleia2> assuming the post wasn't deleted completely
[18:34] <nlsthzn> pleia2: cool... will look into it when I get home (the works firewall doesn't much care for any "social" sites :p
[18:34] <pleia2> nlsthzn: http://www.siltala.net/2011/06/09/the-grand-review-pt1/
[18:35] <pleia2> (looks like that one is just too old to still be on planet0
[18:37] <nlsthzn> pleia2: yup, that is is... strange that I was reading it on planet not 14 hours ago... thanks for finding it, that was way above and beyond needed (but appreciated)
[18:39] <pleia2> yeah, looks like a few new posts from earlier today bumped it it off the bottom of the page and to the ether :)
[18:42] <nlsthzn> pleia2: curse you mr bacon :p (but thanks for the song)
[18:43] <pleia2> haha
[18:48] <charlie-tca> 24
[18:49] <nlsthzn> charlie-tca: I believe the answer is actually 42...
[18:50] <charlie-tca> heh, my mistake ;)
[21:40] <philipballew__> I installed 11.04 on m lsptop and when i restart al i get is a blinking cursor and i cant boot into my new system. any ideas?
[21:41] <philipballew__> *laptop
[21:56] <coalwater> sorry philipballew__ , wish i could help
[21:57] <bioterror> philipballew__, try pressing alt+f1
[21:57] <bioterror> do you get into console's tty1?
[21:59] <philipballew__> all the comp is when i turn it on s blinking line up top or cursor apperas, bioterror what will alt-f1 do?
[22:00] <bioterror> !tty
[22:00] <ubot2> To get to the TTY terminals 1-6, use the keystroke ctrl + alt + F1-F6 respectively (Alt+F7 will get you back to your graphical login).  To change the resolution for your TTY, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ChangeTTYResolution.
[22:01] <philipballew__> i think the peoblem is its not booting
[22:01] <philipballew__> when do i press this
[22:02] <bioterror> can you choose from grub the safe mode?
[22:02] <philipballew__> the grup menu does not appear
[22:02] <bioterror> press left shift or something right after BIOS
[22:03] <philipballew__> i tried pressing shift and nothing happened
[22:03] <philipballew__> i was pressing the right shirt
[22:03] <bioterror> hold it down :D
[22:03] <philipballew__> ill try now :)
[22:04] <philipballew__> nothing! hum...
[22:05] <holstein> philipballew__: i would want to look with a live CD, and see that the installation worked
[22:05] <holstein> then, i would try recovering grub while i was in there
[22:06] <philipballew__> i did. the filesystem is thereat least. i reinstalled snd same thing
[22:06] <holstein> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Methods of Reinstalling
[22:06] <holstein> philipballew__: reinstalled grub?
[22:06] <philipballew__> no
[22:06] <philipballew__> saw file syatem was there
[22:07] <bioterror> I read it could be esc key to access grub menu
[22:08] <philipballew__> esc didnt work. but it made my laptop beeb. haha
[22:09] <philipballew__> *beep sorry for typos. using my old machine
[22:10] <philipballew__> bioterror: boooting into live usb now
[22:13] <philipballew__> i could try installing 10.10 and upgrading maybe bioterror ?
[22:14] <holstein> philipballew__: if you are booting the USB, sounds to me like its the hard drive.. maybe the MBR
[22:14] <holstein> i mean, try it, but if the install is there and not booting, you might just keep ending up with that
[22:16] <philipballew__> 10.04 instaled way back when. holstein
[22:17] <holstein> philipballew__: maybe you should see if you still have that 10.04 install media and try again
[22:18] <holstein> that would be a good trouble shooting step
[22:18] <philipballew__> holstein: i installed from a usb twice and ten i pulled out an oficiol 11.04 cd and that prodused the ame error
[22:19] <holstein> philipballew__: you installed 10.04 from USB twice? and those failed?
[22:21] <philipballew__> no. 11.04
[22:21] <philipballew__> and they are what is prousing this error
[22:21] <holstein> right.. SO, if 10.04 used to install, and you still have that media, try that
[22:21] <philipballew__> *prouduceing
[22:21] <philipballew__> alright. ill do that now
[22:21] <philipballew__> what could go wrong
[22:21] <holstein> then, the first logical constant that is failing is the hard disk
[22:22] <philipballew__> how can you tell that?
[22:23] <holstein> because you've tested the hardware with the live media... assuming its booted up to the desktop live
[22:23] <holstein> AND, the OS version and install media will be changing, so the only thing left is the hard drive
[22:23] <holstein> *in theore
[22:24] <holstein> theory*
[22:28] <philipballew__> maes sence. ill go install 10.04 and see what happens