| Space-Duck | o.O but I want eye candy. | 00:00 |
|---|---|---|
| holstein | Space-Duck: 10.04 :) | 00:00 |
| holstein | or wait a bit longer... im sure its on the way | 00:00 |
| holstein | ubuntu1110: im not sure what you are asking me? | 00:01 |
| holstein | is there a 'disk utility' on the live cd's? | 00:01 |
| holstein | is that the question? | 00:01 |
| Space-Duck | system info says my graphics drive is unkown | 00:01 |
| Space-Duck | could that be the issue? | 00:01 |
| holstein | Space-Duck: yeah... try the compiz script | 00:02 |
| ubuntu1110 | I THINK I JUST holstein LOOKED At the disk informationa of the unallocated space, 931gb, and it was fine, maybe i have to write zero over that | 00:02 |
| Space-Duck | the compiz script? | 00:02 |
| ubuntu1110 | yes, ccan i open disk utility on 1110 live cd nowß?, do you know? | 00:02 |
| holstein | ubuntu1110: i mean... i can.. | 00:02 |
| ubuntu1110 | ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo open udisks ?? | 00:03 |
| holstein | the 'disk utility' im thinking of is in the menu | 00:03 |
| holstein | and its literally called 'disk utility' | 00:04 |
| ubuntu1110 | uh k, found it | 00:04 |
| holstein | Space-Duck: http://forlong.blogage.de/entries/pages/Compiz-Check | 00:04 |
| holstein | i was trying for a while, then realized i was using the vesa driver ;) | 00:04 |
| ubuntu1110 | how do i run the test that u meant? | 00:04 |
| holstein | ubuntu1110: its there... smart test | 00:05 |
| holstein | its a GUI | 00:05 |
| === Somefellow is now known as Silent_Samurai | ||
| holstein | ubuntu1110: on the left you should see the drives | 00:05 |
| holstein | hover over the drive you want to check out with the cursor and press the mouse button to select it | 00:05 |
| ubuntu1110 | holstein there a 3 version of the test? | 00:06 |
| ubuntu1110 | which one can u suggest | 00:06 |
| holstein | you'll see 'smart data' hover over that and click | 00:06 |
| holstein | then, you get a popup | 00:06 |
| ubuntu1110 | im there | 00:06 |
| holstein | i suggest the extended one | 00:06 |
| ubuntu1110 | uh k | 00:06 |
| ubuntu1110 | thx, hostein | 00:06 |
| holstein | sure :) | 00:06 |
| ubuntu1110 | thx, holstein | 00:07 |
| Space-Duck | holstein, it says my driver in not in the whitelist | 00:10 |
| Space-Duck | and seeing how systeminfo says it's unknown, I can see why it would not be in the whitelist | 00:11 |
| holstein | Space-Duck: there you go... it doesnt lie :) | 00:11 |
| Space-Duck | How do you install a video card drive for a nvidia geforce 5200? | 00:11 |
| holstein | usually theres a popup for it... i check the 'restricted drivers' area... and i look here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia | 00:12 |
| holstein | but, i think unity-2d is quite slick | 00:12 |
| holstein | i didnt even know | 00:12 |
| Space-Duck | replacing video card driver now.... last time I did this I had to reinstall. | 00:15 |
| holstein | Space-Duck: check the xorg.conf file if you have issues... ive been there before too ;) | 00:16 |
| holstein | the last few times i *didnt* have to reinsatll and i was stoked | 00:16 |
| Space-Duck | damnit, I gotta reboot. I thought rebooting for settings was only a winblows thing. | 00:18 |
| holstein | Space-Duck: its a driver though | 00:18 |
| holstein | and a kernel module | 00:18 |
| holstein | i mean, theres probably a way *not* to, but rebooting is easy :) | 00:18 |
| Space-Duck | holstein, thanks for you help! If I don't make it back.... I'm installing 10.04 | 00:19 |
| holstein | hehe | 00:19 |
| notreallyhere | have ubuntu 11.04 desktop, recently stopped booting. downloaded 11.10 to usb and booted from it and can see the hard drive. don't really know much about linux. is is there a way to rebuild the boot folder or some other folder/files to recover the drive? | 02:39 |
| philipballew | notreallyhere, lets work at this | 02:44 |
| notreallyhere | ok | 02:44 |
| philipballew | first off, do you know what might have happened that caused it to stop booting? | 02:45 |
| notreallyhere | no, was working great for about six months, it is my sister-in-laws computer. she stated that she turned it on and it only showed a blank screen | 02:47 |
| philipballew | alright. well i can help you with some stuff | 02:47 |
| notreallyhere | I thought the hard drive may have failed | 02:47 |
| philipballew | we can look at that as well :) | 02:48 |
| notreallyhere | thats why I tried the usb | 02:48 |
| notreallyhere | since I can see it | 02:48 |
| philipballew | makes sense | 02:48 |
| notreallyhere | might it be OK? | 02:48 |
| philipballew | i would not know, but i would run a test on it myself | 02:49 |
| philipballew | is gparted installed on your machine? | 02:50 |
| philipballew | or are you comfortable with the terminal? | 02:50 |
| notreallyhere | where would I look for it | 02:50 |
| notreallyhere | I'm kinda accustomed to windows | 02:51 |
| notreallyhere | I am chatting from another machine in a different room | 02:52 |
| philipballew | ah, well this is 11.10 so click on the top box or square with the ubuntu logo on the side bar. type gparted and open it | 02:52 |
| notreallyhere | ok it is up | 02:54 |
| philipballew | would you take a screen shot and post it to say immage bin or something such as that? | 02:55 |
| notreallyhere | not sure how to do that since I am on a different computer | 02:56 |
| Becka | I am teaching a course in open source software development next term at the colleigiate level. I would like to use Ubuntu as the community to get my students engaged in. Who would I want to communicate with to find out about setting up mentors for my students? Or where would I go to ask this question? | 02:58 |
| philipballew | the ubuntu comp should have a network connection? notreallyhere | 02:59 |
| philipballew | Becka, well. lets see | 02:59 |
| philipballew | what kind of development? | 03:00 |
| Becka | I am thinking easy bug fixes. It is only a ten week course, so I really just want to get them engaged to encourage them to continue participation. This is part of research to engage more under represented groups. I am hoping to create a model to increase diversity and Ubuntu is a good community to start them in | 03:01 |
| holstein | Becka: theres also easier non-coding projects like #ubuntu-news | 03:02 |
| notreallyhere | yes it has network, just not sure how to do screenshot in ubuntu | 03:02 |
| philipballew | there is #ubuntu-bugs | 03:02 |
| holstein | yeah, thats a lenthy ordeal though i think | 03:03 |
| philipballew | notreallyhere, doees the keybord have a screenshot key | 03:03 |
| holstein | doesnt mean you cant just work on it though | 03:03 |
| notreallyhere | there is a key with "Prt Scrn" | 03:04 |
| philipballew | yeah, that | 03:05 |
| Becka | Philipballew and holstien, I am looking for people who would be good at introducing newcomers to open source to the community. These are CS students who have programming, but they are not familiar with OSS | 03:05 |
| philipballew | oh cool, what college? | 03:05 |
| notreallyhere | I hold shift and press that, then what? | 03:05 |
| Becka | Western Oregon University | 03:05 |
| philipballew | press prt screen notreallyhere | 03:05 |
| urlin2u | Becka, been on the campus years ago from salem | 03:06 |
| philipballew | nice. I would email a email list. I can put out a announcement to ubuntu planet. A place where community members read other members blogs. I would email your organ LoCo as well. the guy who runs it is a friend of mine and a nice guy | 03:07 |
| philipballew | but imo Becka a mailing list would be a good idea. you could also have someone from the organ loco come speak | 03:09 |
| holstein | Becka: yeah, bring them here, or the OT channel.. #ubuntu-beginners-team | 03:09 |
| Becka | Philip would you be willing to give me his name so I could contact him directly? And Urlin2u I am quite fond of our campus. It is an amazing place to teach :-) | 03:09 |
| holstein | we could help sort them out into other groups of interest from there | 03:09 |
| philipballew | yeah, he lives in Portland as well. let me see if he is around to | 03:10 |
| urlin2u | Becka, you familiar with the oregon ubuntu local on freenode? | 03:10 |
| holstein | yeah, someone from the LOCO if its active could be helpful in person | 03:10 |
| Becka | These are great ideas!!! | 03:10 |
| Becka | I believe I saw a chanel for loco oregon | 03:11 |
| urlin2u | Becka, I think this is the channel look for bkrensa #ubuntu-us-or | 03:11 |
| philipballew | Becka, https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-or https://launchpad.net/~bkerensa | 03:12 |
| philipballew | IRC: #ubuntu-us-or | 03:12 |
| Becka | Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. | 03:13 |
| Becka | I will go see what I can stir up there | 03:13 |
| Becka | You all have been great help | 03:13 |
| philipballew | Anytime, if nothing works out there find us on here again, but i am confident it will | 03:14 |
| Becka | I will take you up on that if need be. I know my students will enjoy the tone of what I have seen so far in this community. You reinforce the fact that I chose well with Ubuntu :-) | 03:15 |
| philipballew | anytime, I am a student as well and use ubuntu quite happily being a CIS major. Ubuntu is the best ever :) | 03:17 |
| Becka | Where areyou a student? | 03:17 |
| philipballew | Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego | 03:18 |
| Becka | Ahhh, you have the sun. Very cold here. I hope you enjoy your studies. Computer science is one of the most amazing, creative and powerful things I have ever encountered. | 03:20 |
| philipballew | Me as well. I hope it takes me somewhere :) | 03:21 |
| notreallyhere | i am quite familiar with file transfers using IRC | 03:31 |
| philipballew | yes, but when you paste in on a link others can look and share their input | 03:32 |
| philipballew | but you can send it if you want | 03:33 |
| philipballew | and ill paste it | 03:33 |
| notreallyhere | no paste link I can dcc it directly to you | 03:33 |
| philipballew | hum, alright | 03:33 |
| notreallyhere | u should have it | 03:34 |
| philipballew | let me check | 03:37 |
| philipballew | my internet is really slow here. send it one more time | 03:39 |
| philipballew | its kinda funky with files | 03:39 |
| philipballew | what your probably gonna wanna do is look at what grub is doing and maybe update your mbr | 03:40 |
| notreallyhere | http://imagebin.org/182565 | 03:41 |
| philipballew | okay | 03:41 |
| philipballew | paste sudo fdisk -l | 03:42 |
| philipballew | into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ | 03:42 |
| notreallyhere | not sure what u mean or how to do that | 03:43 |
| bodhizazen | !pastebinit | 03:43 |
| ubot2 | pastebinit is the command-line equivalent of !pastebin - Command output, or other text can be redirected to pastebinit, which then reports an URL containing the output - To use pastebinit, install the « pastebinit » package from a package manager - Simple usage: command | pastebinit -b http://paste.ubuntu.com | 03:43 |
| notreallyhere | u mean an image ir the folder | 03:43 |
| philipballew | open a terminal and post the output of sudo fdisk -l | 03:44 |
| philipballew | :) | 03:44 |
| bodhizazen | sudo fdisk -l | pastebinit -b http://paste.ubuntu.com | 03:44 |
| notreallyhere | ok | 03:44 |
| philipballew | bodhizazen, knows whats up | 03:44 |
| bodhizazen | 'lo philipballew | 03:45 |
| philipballew | i have to take a 15 minute break to get a part for my vehicle | 03:46 |
| holstein | notreallyhere: theres a disk utility | 03:53 |
| holstein | you can run the smart tests (usually) on the hard drive | 03:53 |
| holstein | i would test the ram too since that is easy as well | 03:53 |
| CrOnOs2000 | hi guys what are you talking about? | 03:55 |
| holstein | CrOnOs2000: hey... i think notreallyhere is diagnosing a machine | 03:55 |
| bodhizazen | notreallyhere, is having questions, but I missed the beginning part, sort of waiting | 03:55 |
| holstein | yeah, me too | 03:55 |
| * holstein catching up | 03:56 | |
| Unit193 | < ~notreallyhere> have ubuntu 11.04 desktop, recently stopped booting. downloaded 11.10 to usb and booted from it and can see the hard drive. don't really know much about linux. is is there a way to rebuild the boot folder or some other folder/files to recover the drive? | 03:56 |
| bodhizazen | probably need to start by looking at the logs | 03:57 |
| holstein | black screen could be bad graphics card though | 03:58 |
| holstein | or ram... | 03:58 |
| bodhizazen | yea, could be most anything | 03:59 |
| CrOnOs2000 | ic well it can be any number of problems, runing grub again may fix it but we need to know the root of the problem | 03:59 |
| bodhizazen | but if the live USB boots ram and videocard seem less likely | 03:59 |
| notreallyhere | I have it running from a usb rite now so those things are fine | 03:59 |
| bodhizazen | notreallyhere, what happens when you boot to hard drive ? | 04:00 |
| bodhizazen | Edit the grub boot like, remove the words quiet and splash from the kernel line | 04:00 |
| notreallyhere | I n that is blank but NOT black | 04:00 |
| bodhizazen | then let it boot and tell us the error message or describe the problem | 04:00 |
| notreallyhere | sorry | 04:00 |
| notreallyhere | lag | 04:00 |
| CrOnOs2000 | yea, i may run a low level hdd check software just to be shure like spinrite or hdd regenerator | 04:01 |
| notreallyhere | I get a screen that is blank but NOT BLACK | 04:01 |
| bodhizazen | the options quiet and splash are (I presume) hiding your error messages | 04:01 |
| bodhizazen | If you are running from a live USB ... | 04:02 |
| bodhizazen | Mount your ubuntu root partition at say /mnt | 04:02 |
| notreallyhere | I am not familiar with Linux so those suggestions are not really making sense to me | 04:02 |
| bodhizazen | then cd /mnt/var/log and start looking at the contents of dmesg , boot, message ... | 04:02 |
| notreallyhere | greek | 04:03 |
| bodhizazen | well , either fire up google or re install then | 04:03 |
| notreallyhere | I thought this was for BEGINNERS? | 04:03 |
| CrOnOs2000 | is not that hard notreallyhere | 04:03 |
| bodhizazen | It is going to be difficult to impossible to explain all that on IRC when you have a crappy connection | 04:04 |
| bodhizazen | Boot Ubuntu , hold down the shit key | 04:04 |
| notreallyhere | mine is fime | 04:04 |
| bodhizazen | you will then get the grub menu | 04:04 |
| bodhizazen | Follow the on screen instructions | 04:04 |
| bodhizazen | e for edit | 04:04 |
| bodhizazen | go to the kernel line, the one with vmilnuz-version .... root= ..... quiet splash | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | hit enter to edie | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | *edit | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | remove the words quiet and splash | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | boot | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | I think it is control-x | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | but the instructions are on your screen :p | 04:05 |
| bodhizazen | You will get a lot of messages as the system boots | 04:06 |
| bodhizazen | and it will hang somewhere | 04:06 |
| bodhizazen | what is the error message ? | 04:06 |
| bodhizazen | ===== Live USB instructions === | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | sudo -i | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | fdisk -l | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | from that output identify your ubuntu root partitin | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | mount /dev/sda1 /mnt | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | cd /mnt/var/log | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | tail messages | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | tail demsg | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | tail boot | 04:07 |
| bodhizazen | any error messages ? | 04:08 |
| bodhizazen | ==== End wall of greek speak ==== | 04:08 |
| bodhizazen | But if you can not follow that and give us more information ... | 04:08 |
| bodhizazen | we would be $random_guessing your problem | 04:08 |
| bodhizazen | Once we identify $your_problem there will be another wall of commands to fix the problem | 04:09 |
| bodhizazen | Perhaps one command | 04:09 |
| bodhizazen | perhaps 5 , 10 ?? 20 ??? | 04:09 |
| CrOnOs2000 | notreallyhere, it may look hard but is not just try and we will help dont be afraid of the terminal even if you dont know about linux commands | 04:10 |
| bodhizazen | so you will need to use $google to help fill in the gaps or consider backing up your data an re-install | 04:10 |
| notreallyhere | okay I will try what you suggest, and I thank you for you patience and help. Very late here and I will get back tomorrow, I will keep this connection on | 04:10 |
| bodhizazen | notreallyhere, http://linuxcommand.org/ | 04:13 |
| bodhizazen | notreallyhere, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin | 04:15 |
| bodhizazen | pastebin those errors, copy and paste them from your terminal to your browser or use pastebinit like I showed you | 04:16 |
| bobweaver | Can any one help me I can not get bzr to install it. I am in dependencey heck right now with it The following packages have unmet dependencies: bzr : Depends: python-bzrlib (<= 2.4.1-1ubuntu1.1~) but 2.4.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed Recommends: bzrtools but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. | 04:36 |
| bobweaver | looks like I got it had to add there ppa | 04:41 |
| === samsul_ is now known as samsul | ||
| jisaacs1207 | hey, anyone awake? | 10:22 |
| nlsthzn | hey jisaacs1207 | 10:42 |
| nlsthzn | if you have a question ask... sure someone will attempt to assist | 10:42 |
| hobgoblin | hi zeroseven0183 sattu94 | 11:03 |
| sattu94 | ? | 11:04 |
| sattu94 | hi | 11:04 |
| zeroseven0183 | hey what's up hobglobin | 11:04 |
| hobgoblin | zeroseven0183: not much - juts hanging about waiting for inspiration to strike :) | 11:05 |
| zeroseven0183 | And what kind of inspiration would it be? | 11:05 |
| zeroseven0183 | Dinnertime! Sorry people, I have to 'park' my login here for a few moments. Hobglobin, later! | 11:08 |
| duanedesign | 'lo all | 12:36 |
| nlsthzn | o/ duanedesign | 12:49 |
| Guest34922 | my unity is crashed I cant able to see the dash ,panel,status menu etc ..I purged unity and reinstalled it but no luck ....please help | 21:45 |
| philipballew | Guest34922, lets look into this | 21:45 |
| philipballew | you purged it and now you reinstalled? well did you start it? | 21:46 |
| === yofel_ is now known as yofel | ||
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!