[01:16] <TandyUK> anyone had X crash out ocmpletely when doing an upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10?
[01:16] <TandyUK> the best i can get is the login screen but no actual desktop
[02:32] <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.
[17:24] <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
[17:26] <tgm4883> superm1, ^^
[17:26] <tgm4883> I didn't think we were using lightdm, but I didn't look at that closely
[17:32] <superm1> qwebirc76466, did you upgrade using update-manager?
[17:33] <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"
[17:34] <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
[17:35] <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
[17:36] <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
[17:37] <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
[17:39] <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
[17:40] <qwebirc76466> Failed to load session file /usr/share/xgreeters/unity-greeter.desktop: No such file or directory:
[17:41] <qwebirc76466> my lightdm.conf file still has greeter-session=unity-greeter in it
[17:45] <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
[17:46] <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
[17:48] <superm1> unfortunately there isn't a standalone GUI tool to change automatic login anymore in ubuntu
[17:49] <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
[17:50] <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 :) )
[17:53] <qwebirc76466> autologin now works....thanks....would I need to do that with all mythbuntu upgrades that go from gdm to lightdm?
[18:29] <Ankhwatcher> Hey, how do you connect to a linux box if you only know it's name
[18:58] <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
[18:59] <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
[19:03] <Ankhwatcher> found it
[19:04] <Ankhwatcher> I ran a ping bomb to a txt file
[19:07] <Ankhwatcher> Should I run the oneric update on mythbuntu or not?
[19:08] <tgm4883> Ankhwatcher, is something broke?
[19:08] <Ankhwatcher> yes
[19:09] <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
[19:10] <Ankhwatcher> (hence needing to find the ip address to ssh and vnc to the box)
[19:10] <tgm4883> I usually recommend fresh installs
[19:11] <Ankhwatcher> this install is about 3 hours old
[19:12] <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
[19:27] <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
[19:31] <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
[19:34] <tgm4883> Ankhwatcher, looks like it needs some tweaking to work with linux (at least with fedora)
[19:35] <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?
[19:36] <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
[19:37] <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
[19:38] <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
[19:39] <Ankhwatcher> I opened firefox (through vnc) and a corner of the window showed up in black and white on the tv
[19:40] <tgm4883> it's in black and white?
[19:40] <Ankhwatcher> yeah
[19:40] <tgm4883> are you in the US?
[19:41] <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?
[19:42] <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
[19:43] <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
[19:44] <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
[19:46] <tgm4883> yw
[22:27] <Ankhwatcher> ah hah!
[22:28] <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