| TandyUK | anyone had X crash out ocmpletely when doing an upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10? | 01:16 |
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| TandyUK | the best i can get is the login screen but no actual desktop | 01:16 |
| somethinginteres | hi all, just installed MythTV on the standard Ubuntu install I am running the NVidia graphics drivers. I am trying to get TV working properly on Myth. I had to modprobe.d to get my card recognised and it all works fine except for one channel that has pink fuzzy lines all over it. I don't think it is poor signal as, before I formated the channel was fine. My card is a Compro DVB-T300. Any help would be greatly appricated. | 02:32 |
| qwebirc76466 | Just upgraded to Mythbuntu 11.10 but can't get lightdm to start properly....I keep getting unity-greeter segfaults in dmesg....any ideas....if I switch to gdm it starts fine | 17:24 |
| tgm4883 | superm1, ^^ | 17:26 |
| tgm4883 | I didn't think we were using lightdm, but I didn't look at that closely | 17:26 |
| superm1 | qwebirc76466, did you upgrade using update-manager? | 17:32 |
| superm1 | qwebirc76466, i don't think the unity-greeter should have installed, it *should* have loaded the mythbuntu greeter. | 17:33 |
| qwebirc76466 | no....command line | 17:33 |
| superm1 | qwebirc76466, how on command line? | 17:33 |
| superm1 | do-release-upgrade, or apt-get dist-upgrade | 17:33 |
| qwebirc76466 | sudo do-release-upgrade | 17:33 |
| superm1 | ok then there is an upgrade bug | 17:33 |
| superm1 | can you file a bug with "ubuntu-bug update-manager" | 17:33 |
| superm1 | that the unity greeter got installed and shouldn't have | 17:34 |
| qwebirc76466 | I'm not sure it's an upgrade bug because my system crashed in the middle of it..... | 17:34 |
| superm1 | oh.. | 17:34 |
| superm1 | how so? | 17:34 |
| qwebirc76466 | I had to apt-get install everything to get it up to 11.10 | 17:34 |
| superm1 | what exactly crashed? | 17:35 |
| superm1 | is there a bug at play software wise, or was it some sort of hardware fault? | 17:35 |
| qwebirc76466 | system completely hung | 17:35 |
| qwebirc76466 | I was thinking it was hardware since I'd seen it happen before but it doesn't happen often.....I haven't had it hang since the upgrade and it's been running all the time | 17:36 |
| superm1 | ok | 17:36 |
| superm1 | ok well then i'd lean on not upgrade bug | 17:36 |
| superm1 | so go ahead and remove the unity-greeter | 17:36 |
| superm1 | just make sure you have mythbuntu-lightdm-theme installed | 17:36 |
| superm1 | and it should fix your problem | 17:36 |
| qwebirc76466 | I did purge all the lightdm packages as well as the unity-greeter but when I installed mythbuntu-desktop again the unity-greeter got installed too | 17:37 |
| qwebirc76466 | I'll try that | 17:37 |
| qwebirc76466 | now I get a init: lightdm main process terminated with status 1 | 17:39 |
| qwebirc76466 | where as before lightdm was running....I just had nothing on the screen | 17:39 |
| superm1 | check /var/log/lightdm | 17:39 |
| qwebirc76466 | Failed to load session file /usr/share/xgreeters/unity-greeter.desktop: No such file or directory: | 17:40 |
| qwebirc76466 | my lightdm.conf file still has greeter-session=unity-greeter in it | 17:41 |
| qwebirc76466 | changing that line to greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter fixed it for me....not sure how the unity greeter got in there or why the config file didnt' change when I removed it | 17:45 |
| superm1 | it must have been the order you installed/removed things | 17:45 |
| superm1 | because the postinst /postrm of the scripts might not interact the way you expected together | 17:45 |
| qwebirc76466 | ya...that makes sense...since I had to do it by hand | 17:46 |
| qwebirc76466 | one more thing....now that I have lightdm up and running the automatic login configuration button in mythcontrol center is still greyed out...how do I enable that | 17:46 |
| superm1 | unfortunately there isn't a standalone GUI tool to change automatic login anymore in ubuntu | 17:48 |
| superm1 | none was written for lightdm | 17:49 |
| superm1 | it's a short coming that we'll need to work out for precise | 17:49 |
| superm1 | to do it by hand add these keys to the [SeatDefaults] section of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | 17:49 |
| superm1 | autologin-guest=false | 17:49 |
| superm1 | autologin-user=supermario | 17:49 |
| superm1 | autologin-user-timeout=0 | 17:49 |
| superm1 | autologin-session=lightdm-autologin | 17:49 |
| superm1 | of course switching out your username | 17:49 |
| qwebirc76466 | ah....so will a normal upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 have those setting set if they were set in 11.04?...(not an upgrade that crashed :) ) | 17:50 |
| qwebirc76466 | autologin now works....thanks....would I need to do that with all mythbuntu upgrades that go from gdm to lightdm? | 17:53 |
| Ankhwatcher | Hey, how do you connect to a linux box if you only know it's name | 18:29 |
| likwid-- | if there is no dns for it (ie it doesnt resolve to its name) you'll need to find the ip address of it | 18:58 |
| likwid-- | either by getting on it and running 'ifconfig' or some other means like logging into your router and finding out what dhcp addresses have been givin out | 18:59 |
| Ankhwatcher | found it | 19:03 |
| Ankhwatcher | I ran a ping bomb to a txt file | 19:04 |
| Ankhwatcher | Should I run the oneric update on mythbuntu or not? | 19:07 |
| tgm4883 | Ankhwatcher, is something broke? | 19:08 |
| Ankhwatcher | yes | 19:08 |
| Ankhwatcher | not that I expect the oneric update to fix it | 19:09 |
| tgm4883 | what is broke? | 19:09 |
| Ankhwatcher | I can't get my component output to work with my tv | 19:09 |
| Ankhwatcher | and my screen got disabled during install | 19:09 |
| Ankhwatcher | (hence needing to find the ip address to ssh and vnc to the box) | 19:10 |
| tgm4883 | I usually recommend fresh installs | 19:10 |
| Ankhwatcher | this install is about 3 hours old | 19:11 |
| tgm4883 | you have a 3 hour old install and you didn't already install oneiric? | 19:12 |
| Ankhwatcher | nah I couldn't get 11.10 when i was getting my iso so I had to make a 11.04 iso instead | 19:12 |
| Ankhwatcher | I can download and install mythbuntu again if you think it'll help | 19:27 |
| Ankhwatcher | fourth times the charm and all that... | 19:27 |
| tgm4883 | Ankhwatcher, I don't know if it will help or not, as I don't know what is causing the breakage | 19:27 |
| tgm4883 | I don't know enough about your hardware | 19:27 |
| tgm4883 | etc | 19:27 |
| Ankhwatcher | I'm trying to use a HP TX1000 as a Mythbuntu mythtv frontend | 19:31 |
| Ankhwatcher | http://kellyandsopho.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LinuxOnHpPaviliontx1000z | 19:31 |
| Zinn | [kellyandsopho.com] : LinuxOnHpPaviliontx1000z | 19:31 |
| tgm4883 | Ankhwatcher, looks like it needs some tweaking to work with linux (at least with fedora) | 19:34 |
| Ankhwatcher | Well that's quite an old document. It really isn't too bad now. | 19:35 |
| tgm4883 | so when you boot it, you get no video? | 19:35 |
| Ankhwatcher | nothing comes up on the screen or on the tv | 19:36 |
| Ankhwatcher | I can boot it from a usb stick and the screen will work but I can't get anything but a quick flash of colour on the tv | 19:36 |
| tgm4883 | and you are connecting via component? | 19:37 |
| Ankhwatcher | yes | 19:37 |
| tgm4883 | and you've installed the nvidia propritary driver? | 19:37 |
| Ankhwatcher | yes | 19:37 |
| Ankhwatcher | during setup | 19:37 |
| tgm4883 | hmm | 19:38 |
| tgm4883 | sounds like it might be outputting something that the tv can't handle | 19:38 |
| Ankhwatcher | oh hey | 19:38 |
| Ankhwatcher | I just got something onto the tv | 19:38 |
| Ankhwatcher | I opened firefox (through vnc) and a corner of the window showed up in black and white on the tv | 19:39 |
| tgm4883 | it's in black and white? | 19:40 |
| Ankhwatcher | yeah | 19:40 |
| tgm4883 | are you in the US? | 19:40 |
| Ankhwatcher | no | 19:41 |
| Ankhwatcher | but my laptop is from the us | 19:41 |
| tgm4883 | ok | 19:41 |
| Ankhwatcher | and my tv is from ireland (ie uk standards) | 19:41 |
| tgm4883 | so since you see a corner of it, can you drag it around and see more? | 19:41 |
| Ankhwatcher | moving the window causes the tv to disconnect and reconnect | 19:42 |
| Ankhwatcher | I think it might be something to do with refresh rates | 19:42 |
| Ankhwatcher | clicking on the applications menu does the same thing | 19:42 |
| tgm4883 | well being it is in black and white, sounds like it's outputing in NTSC and the TV is PAL | 19:43 |
| tgm4883 | which would be an issue with refresh likely too | 19:43 |
| Ankhwatcher | sounds likely | 19:43 |
| tgm4883 | try switching that and see if it makes a difference | 19:43 |
| Ankhwatcher | how do I switch that? | 19:44 |
| tgm4883 | good questions, IDK, I haven't had to deal with that in a long time. It's either going to be in the nvidia control panel or possibly xorg.conf | 19:44 |
| tgm4883 | I'm at work, so I can't do a ton of research for you | 19:44 |
| Ankhwatcher | no problem | 19:44 |
| Ankhwatcher | thanks for your help | 19:44 |
| tgm4883 | yw | 19:46 |
| Ankhwatcher | ah hah! | 22:27 |
| Ankhwatcher | I chose HD1080p when I should have chosen HD1080i | 22:28 |
| Ankhwatcher | now I have fixed that and my screen is tiny and blue | 22:28 |
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