| noahk11 | How do i properly install xubuntu to a partition on a external drive that i can actually boot to? | 00:07 |
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| noahk11 | hello? | 00:08 |
| noahk11 | How do i properly install xubuntu to a partition on a external drive that i can actually boot to? | 00:08 |
| primorialhobbit | My Xubuntu netbook crashed earlier today, and now refuses to boot - I see a blinking cursor in the upper left for a little while, then the screen flickers, and stays black. I booted off a USB disk and run 'fsck -fv /dev/sda5', which reported no errors. Rebooting in recovery mode fails, the last few lines visible on the screen are http://pastie.org/2582239 ... anyone have an idea on how to fix it? | 01:42 |
| charlie-tca | which version of Xubuntu, primorialhobbit | 01:48 |
| primorialhobbit | 11.04 | 01:48 |
| charlie-tca | I would suspect it doing an fsck of all drives. boot in normal mode, when the screen goes black, hit s for skip, give it up to 5 minutes, it should boot | 01:49 |
| primorialhobbit | charlie-tca: I've just rebooted several more times, and each time it makes stops at a different point in the init process. This time, it stopped at 'Starting Userspace boostsplash' and subsequently 'Stopping Userspace bootsplash' | 01:50 |
| charlie-tca | My 400GB hard drive takes up to 25 minutes for the checks, and 11.04 had no notice when it did that | 01:50 |
| primorialhobbit | I let it sit there for about an hour and a half earlier | 01:51 |
| charlie-tca | it depends on how far into the fsck it gets as to where in the process it shows you things. | 01:52 |
| charlie-tca | Tried turning completely off, let it sit two minutes, power it back on? | 01:52 |
| primorialhobbit | Fsck reports no errors at all, e.g. when I boot off a separate dis. And I've already tried a cold reboot | 01:52 |
| charlie-tca | boot from the live cd, mount the hard drive, cd to / and run updates | 01:53 |
| charlie-tca | strange but works sometimes | 01:53 |
| primorialhobbit | `Run updates? | 01:53 |
| charlie-tca | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade on the hard drive itself | 01:54 |
| primorialhobbit | I'll give it a shot. I assume I'll need to chroot for that? My experience with apt-get is limited | 01:54 |
| charlie-tca | I never did. I just boot to a live session, cd into the hard drive, find the partition with / on it, and run it | 01:57 |
| charlie-tca | I don't know how to chroot | 01:57 |
| knome | chroot isn't technically hard, but you want to make sure you do it right | 01:58 |
| primorialhobbit | knome: But is it unnecessary? | 01:59 |
| knome | sorry, i haven't followed the discussion too closely | 02:01 |
| knome | it looks like you need chroot, yes | 02:02 |
| primorialhobbit | Thankfully I have a second computer to use in the meantime, but it would be really nice to get the netbook running again before Monday's classes | 02:02 |
| primorialhobbit | knome: Could you assist with the proper way to chroot? | 02:03 |
| knome | if you don't chroot, you'll just update the packages on your main pc | 02:03 |
| knome | haven't done that in ages. i'd suggest just looking at some tutorial from google, because if i'd help, that's where i'd read the instructions from myself :P | 02:03 |
| primorialhobbit | hah, thanks | 02:04 |
| knome | !chroot | 02:04 |
| ubottu | A chroot is used to make programs believe that the directory they are running in is really the root directory. It can be used to stop programs accessing files outside of that directory, or for compiling 32bit applications in a 64bit environment - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot | 02:04 |
| knome | that's probably a good starting point | 02:04 |
| wdouvet | I am running xubuntu, am a newbie, and I am having trouble updating with synaptic package manager | 02:34 |
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| chirag_d_gr8 | when i installed xubuntu using wubi, i see boot time errorbad lun bad numbers(1-10) | 05:04 |
| chirag_d_gr8 | how to fix this? | 05:04 |
| Shirakawasuna | I want to rip movie/show DVDs to ISO before encoding them with HandBrake. What would be a good tool for this (preferably light, xfce philosophy and all that)? | 05:22 |
| Shirakawasuna | basically I want k3b without kde dependencies :). It will rip to an ISO and check md5sums. I want that. | 05:23 |
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| csenger41 | hy everyone :) | 08:55 |
| csenger41 | i'd need some help with flash games | 08:58 |
| csenger41 | the ones on facebook are freezing if im moving my cursor on the screen and start moving again when i stop it | 08:59 |
| csenger41 | theres no such problem on Win7 | 08:59 |
| csenger41 | anyone online? | 09:11 |
| philippe | Hello | 10:16 |
| philippe | I need some help | 10:16 |
| philippe | I just installed xubuntu 11.04 on my laptop | 10:16 |
| philippe | It all works fine when plugged in | 10:17 |
| philippe | But when it runs on the battery xubuntu freezes | 10:17 |
| philippe | Is this a known problem? | 10:17 |
| dirtycookie | hi i want to make my indicator plugin transparent so that it fits in my transparent pannel can someone tell me how | 10:22 |
| well_laid_lawn | philippe: not a problem most ppl have no | 10:22 |
| philippe | I dunno what to do :( | 10:23 |
| philippe | Defeats the object of having a laptop with xubuntu if it crashes on battery power :( | 10:23 |
| well_laid_lawn | philippe: can you change to a tty or enter stuff in a terminal when it freezes? | 10:23 |
| philippe | no | 10:24 |
| philippe | hard freeze | 10:24 |
| well_laid_lawn | it must be a hardware issue | 10:25 |
| dirtycookie | hi i want to make my indicator plugin transparent so that it fits in my transparent pannel can someone tell me how | 10:25 |
| philippe | I will google some more | 10:25 |
| philippe | To try and solve it | 10:25 |
| philippe | Thanks for answering my questions well_laid | 10:25 |
| philippe | Have a nice day :) | 10:25 |
| well_laid_lawn | philippe: have a tty running when you | 10:26 |
| well_laid_lawn | unplug the power | 10:26 |
| dirtycookie | hi | 10:31 |
| dirtycookie | anyone there | 10:32 |
| dirtycookie1 | hi i want to make my indicator plugin transparent so that it fits in my transparent pannel can someone tell me how | 10:40 |
| ismailov | hii pleese join linux-bg,org in facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/linux-bgorg/165834412004 | 10:56 |
| knome | ismailov, please don't advertise | 10:56 |
| IdleOne | ismailov: Please stop advertising your facebook page. | 11:02 |
| ismailov | ok | 11:03 |
| ismailov | noo problem | 11:04 |
| dirtycookie | hi anyone there | 11:25 |
| dirtycookie | i need some help plz | 11:26 |
| knome | !ask | 11:26 |
| ubottu | 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. :-) | 11:26 |
| dirtycookie | i have freshly installed xubuntu and i want to change the fore- and background color of my indicator plugin | 11:28 |
| dirtycookie | how can i do that | 11:28 |
| dirtycookie | ... | 11:33 |
| dirtycookie | i have freshly installed xubuntu and i want to change the fore- and background color of my indicator plugin, does anyone know how to do this?? | 11:35 |
| knome | please don't repeat | 11:35 |
| knome | if somebody knows the answer, they will reply | 11:36 |
| knome | no need to repeat every 5 minutes | 11:36 |
| Sysi | and crosspost | 11:36 |
| knome | !coc > dirtycookie | 11:36 |
| ubottu | dirtycookie, please see my private message | 11:36 |
| knome | !guidelines > dirtycookie | 11:36 |
| knome | dirtycookie, just for reference. | 11:37 |
| dirtycookie | that is fine and understandable, i thought that all users in this channel are afk. thanks for giving a sign of activity and ill wait patiently. And thank you in advance | 11:39 |
| Sysi | I think indicator plugien goes with gtk-theme, for some reason it doesn't go transparent with alpha/panelbg but with fg/icons-slider it does | 11:47 |
| dirtycookie | Sysi: ok... so what does that mean? | 11:55 |
| Fulcher1993 | . | 13:54 |
| seemawn | hi | 15:45 |
| seemawn | i have serious problems with my screen resolution | 15:45 |
| seemawn | description following: | 15:45 |
| seemawn | i use a nvidia-fx 5700 graphics card, so the nvidia-173 driver should be suitable | 15:46 |
| seemawn | but I cannot raise the resolution above 640x480. | 15:46 |
| seemawn | and it seems like, that it does not read the xorg.conf. | 15:48 |
| seemawn | glxgears reports more than 2000 fps, and according to glxinfo, direct rendering works | 15:49 |
| seemawn | how can i override monitor detection? | 15:51 |
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| XubuntuKris | anyone ever use Trimage image compressor? | 21:07 |
| GridCube | nope | 21:08 |
| GridCube | !info trimage | 21:08 |
| ubottu | trimage (source: trimage): GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.0.5-1 (natty), package size 28 kB, installed size 200 kB | 21:08 |
| XubuntuKris | I asked cause I'm using it now, trying to compress about 120 pngs and it's taking forever on just the first one. | 21:09 |
| GridCube | oh | 21:09 |
| GridCube | you could use imagemagick | 21:10 |
| GridCube | !info imagemagic | 21:10 |
| ubottu | Package imagemagic does not exist in natty | 21:10 |
| GridCube | !info imagemagick | 21:10 |
| ubottu | imagemagick (source: imagemagick): image manipulation programs. In component main, is optional. Version 7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4 (natty), package size 48 kB, installed size 284 kB | 21:10 |
| GridCube | its pretty easy and very powerful | 21:10 |
| XubuntuKris | well Trimage just got passed the first couple, I'll give it a chance to do it's thing, and if I'm unsatisfied with the results, I'll give imagemagick a go | 21:11 |
| XubuntuKris | lol, thanks GridCube. | 21:11 |
| XubuntuKris | any other suggestions? | 21:11 |
| GridCube | :P i'd say use irfanview trough wine | 21:12 |
| GridCube | but thats just me | 21:12 |
| GridCube | not the best option | 21:12 |
| XubuntuKris | I don't like wine | 21:12 |
| XubuntuKris | never understood it. | 21:12 |
| GridCube | there you got it :P | 21:12 |
| GridCube | then use imagemagick | 21:12 |
| GridCube | :) | 21:12 |
| XubuntuKris | Besides, I keep a winblows machine just for situations when linux just won't do the trick | 21:13 |
| XubuntuKris | lol | 21:13 |
| XubuntuKris | Thanks again | 21:13 |
| GridCube | if imagemagick had a good gui there wouldnt be a need for any other imagining software | 21:13 |
| XubuntuKris | That's kind of why I installed Trimage. I like GUI's. | 21:13 |
| GridCube | :P | 21:14 |
| XubuntuKris | I know how to operate in a terminal, I'm just lazy | 21:14 |
| XubuntuKris | lol | 21:14 |
| seemawn | if anyone considered answering my question I asked several hours ago: I solved the problem and apologize not to tell you that. | 21:34 |
| seemawn | the problem was: xorg.conf was not aware of possible vertical frequency of my screen. | 21:35 |
| seemawn | twas too low. | 21:35 |
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| philippe | Hi | 23:17 |
| philippe | I need some help | 23:17 |
| philippe | I have a new install of xubuntu 11.04 and this red icon appears in the system tray | 23:18 |
| philippe | like a remove icon in a terminal window | 23:18 |
| philippe | but doesnt do anything | 23:18 |
| philippe | How can I remove it? | 23:19 |
| philippe | ok I just fixed it | 23:20 |
| philippe | Removed the usb charger for my iphone | 23:20 |
| philippe | Was related to the power manager icon | 23:20 |
| philippe | Many thanks :) | 23:21 |
| philippe | Another happy xubuntu user :) | 23:21 |
| philippe | Good night and god bless | 23:21 |
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