[00:50] <FusionX> I don't know what happened but I can no longer boot into ubuntu and booting into recovery console says "whiptail command not found" and now most of the commands don't work (like sudo).
[00:50] <FusionX> using normal boot, the screen goes blank
[00:53] <FusionX> Is it possible to repair or restore xubuntu as in Windows (follow-up to previous question)?
[00:54] <knome> what were you trying to do?
[00:56] <FusionX> I don't know. After closing the laptop's lid, it went to suspended mode and after that it showed up some weird (looking, never seen before in previous versions) xscreensaver log-in dialog
[00:56] <FusionX> and after that things started behaving oddly
[00:56] <FusionX> text in some of the sites that were open vanished
[00:56] <FusionX> during shutdown, pop-up dialogs had weird fonts
[00:56] <FusionX> and it didn't even shutdown itself properly
[00:57] <FusionX> I did alt+f2 and tried "sudo shutdown -r now" and it said sudo command is not recognized
[00:57] <FusionX> (while still in bash)
[00:57] <knome> did you hard boot?
[00:57] <FusionX> yup
[00:58] <FusionX> should I just reinstall, or can I recover it?
[00:59] <knome> i'm not sure. there's no one easy way to recover
[00:59] <knome> reinstalling is probably easier, but it would be nice to know why the system went to that state
[00:59] <FusionX> yeah
[01:00] <FusionX> I was installing a lot of softwares, but none that could interfere with the system. it went weird particularly after waking up from suspended state
[01:06] <knome> i suppose you could google "ubuntu" and your pc model
[01:07] <knome> err, and maybe "suspend" :)
[01:17] <xubuntuTHEBEST> hello im new in linux and after a day of trying diferent distros on my laptop (debian<-didbt worked :/, ubuntu,kubuntu and a few more) i can say that xubuntu was the best option!
[01:25] <vuarabei> who play alien arena
[12:36] <broglin> gdm has suddenly stopped showing the login screen and I am presented with a broken xfce4 desktop (no window manager). how can i fix that? I'm on natty
[12:37] <TheSheep> "suddenly"?
[12:37] <TheSheep> what did you do just before that happened?
[12:38] <broglin> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
[12:38] <broglin> but i think that only changed the display driver :S
[12:39] <TheSheep> broglin: what driver exactly?
[12:40] <broglin> TheSheep: i don't remember. something about intel chipset
[12:40] <broglin> oddly, when i run DISPLAY=:0.0 xfwm4, the login screen appears. but when i log in, the window manager exits and things are broken again
[12:42] <broglin> TheSheep: ok, it was xserver-xorg-video-intel:i386
[12:45] <broglin> are there alternatives to gdm that I could try?
[14:23] <chaudhry> hello guys i have two audio chips in my pc one built in(dont work) and one is riptide and i have set it up but still cant hear any sound
[14:24] <chaudhry> i have 2 options for every thing alsa and pulse audio mixer
[14:30] <tkennedy> is it possible to auto resize windows in Xubuntu 11.10 like they do with Unity?
[15:32] <ragnarok> The kmess package in ubuntu is buggy. It has a disconnection bug which was fixed in a recent version of Kmess. Please update it.
[15:33] <Myrtti> have you filed a needs-packaging bug?
[15:33] <Myrtti> also, crossposting isn't polite
[15:34] <ragnarok> no
[15:34] <ragnarok> i have no account
[15:34] <ragnarok> i just inform you
[15:34] <Myrtti> well informing it here will do squat
[15:34] <ragnarok> this is an old bug
[15:35] <Pici> Okay? Our channels aren't a replacement for logging bugs. Its very quick to create a launchpad account to log the necessary information.
[15:36] <ragnarok> i am lazy
[15:36] <ragnarok> i will just use amsn
[15:36] <ragnarok> who cares
[15:36] <ragnarok> i never liked ubuntu
[15:37] <Myrtti> eh
[15:38] <Myrtti> you know what, why would I raise a finger for something that I don't even know what it's used for. it doesn't come preinstalled in either Ubuntu or Xubuntu. if you want it fixed, in the words of all mighty Wikipedia, file the necessary bugs yourself.
[15:38] <ragnarok> nah
[15:38] <ragnarok> archlinux ftw
[15:40] <Pici> How rude.
[15:41] <genii-around> Pici: I already told them in #k to ubuntu-bug kmess
[15:42] <Pici> genii-around: I saw :)
[17:46] <phunyguy_work> can anyone tell me how to specify MORE DHCP options for Qemu/libvirt?  I need to specify DNS search suffix for guests.  Thanks
[18:33] <chaudhry> hello i have 2 audio chips and i cant hear any sound on any player or in any service.my mobo integrated dont works but riptide card do works fine on ubuntu but not xubuntu :(
[18:33] <chaudhry> any body
[18:34] <baizon> check your audio settings
[18:34] <chaudhry> checked it there were two mixers alsa and pulse audio tried both but of no use.
[18:35] <baizon> are all audio channels enabled?
[18:35] <baizon> mute is off?
[18:35] <chaudhry> yes
[18:38] <chaudhry> a guy had same prob he said actually xubuntu detects both and uses both at same time something like that
[18:38] <chaudhry> but he forgot solution
[18:39] <Sysi> chaudhry: install pacucontrol
[18:39] <Sysi> *pavucontrol
[18:40] <akovia> i am looking for a way to make a shortcut to switch my audio output device under sound preferences but not sure where to start
[18:40] <hobgoblin> chaudhry: I've had to turn off the integrated in BIOS in the past - but I had no need for both cards
[18:40] <chaudhry> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/176091
[18:40] <chaudhry> heres the link for guy who had same prob
[18:41] <akovia> tyvm, checking it out
[18:41] <chaudhry> i also dont need both cards cox one dont work
[18:42] <chaudhry> sysi i installed it before but what now?
[18:42] <Sysi> set correct sound card with it
[18:42] <chaudhry> how to open it?i mean where is its menu?
[18:42] <akovia> ok, not exactly what i need. I'm using both cards in my system. one is for digital out for my home theater, the other the internal SC for headphones
[18:43] <Sysi> "pulseaudio settings"
[18:44] <akovia> i do it manually now by just selecting the appropriate SC output under sound preferences and just want to find the command line alternative for the same action
[18:44] <Sysi> akovia: sound preferences being xfce4-mixer or pavucontrol?
[18:45] <chaudhry> sysi i am sorry i am newbie cant find it still i tried emulator but it said too many arguments
[18:45] <akovia> hmm
[18:46] <akovia> i think both are present on my taskbar but not sure how to distinguish
[18:46] <Sysi> chaudhry: menu -> sound&video, shouldn't be that much items
[18:47] <akovia> i have 2 speaker icons on my taskbar, the one i use gives the sound preferences or mute when i r-click
[18:48] <Sysi> do you switch device from drop-down menu?
[18:48] <akovia> the other has mixer, and some xfce panel options so i'm guessing that is the xfce-mixer one
[18:48] <akovia> i click the sound prefernces and there is a tabbed interface with...
[18:49] <akovia> snd fx, input, output, hdw, applications
[18:49] <akovia> i go to output and select the one i want
[18:49] <chaudhry> thanks sysi i got it configured.now should i uninstall alsa mixer?
[18:49] <Sysi> sounds like pavucontrol
[18:50] <akovia> cool
[18:50] <akovia> that's a start
[18:50] <akovia> no man page =/
[18:51] <Sysi> chaudhry: you can set panel applet to launch pavucontrol if you want, you can't remove alsa if you want any sound and you don't need/should remove xfce4-mixer
[18:51] <Sysi> akovia: "man pulseaudio"
[18:52] <chaudhry> kindly tell me how to set panel applet to launch pavucontrol
[18:53] <Sysi> if you have sound applet in panel, you can choose what to launch in it's preferences
[18:55] <akovia> ok, i scanned the man page but nothing is standing out as to how to send a command to switch the output device. If you have an idea that would be much appreciated but I don't mind getting help from the pulseaudio ppl if not
[18:57] <chaudhry> thanks man.....its why i am in love with linux.God bless you all
[18:57] <Sysi> akovia: yeah, I don't really know (it's probably done with pacmd)
[18:58] <akovia> i think i found what i needed now on the ubuntu forums. thanks so much for getting me in the right direction!
[19:00] <phunyguy_work> Can anyone tell me where in libvirt you would set the dns suffix for guest VMs?
[19:32] <sidney> On my system i have a drive to store cd's and video what fs is good
[19:32] <sidney> it NTFS @ present but no need to share with Ms
[19:33] <Sysi> shouldn't be problems with NTFS, if you want to be really linux, ext4
[19:35] <sidney> thanks
[19:36] <phunyguy_work> I say FAT16
[19:36] <phunyguy_work> ok sorry, I'm done trolling.
[19:37] <Sysi> I wish exfat worked on linux
[19:40] <CiPi> Sysi, why? Xubuntu sees all the partitions, regardless of filesystem. :)
[19:41] <CiPi> But is best to use Ext4 for the Linux partition.
[19:41] <CiPi> And is bettor to use an Ext4 separate partition, don`t use it side by side windows in the same partition.
[19:41] <genii-around> Sysi: https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
[19:42] <TheSheep> CiPi: why not?
[19:42] <CiPi> TheSheep, I see is working a bit better in ext4. i don`t know why.
[19:42] <TheSheep> CiPi: what do you mean by better exactly?
[19:43] <CiPi> Speed is one.
[19:43] <Sysi> genii-around: oh cool
[19:43] <TheSheep> CiPi: what's the difference in your measurments?
[19:44] <Sysi> ntfs-3g shouldn't be very slow but ext4 is faster, though that doesn't matter so much on data storage
[19:45] <CiPi> I didn`t make tests on SSD, now i have a SSD, on this one I don`t see the difference, but on an HDD was ext4 with a fiew MB better.
[19:45] <TheSheep> CiPi: MB/s? on what operations? copying? large or small files?
[19:46]  * TheSheep is curious on how one would compare that
[19:46] <Sysi> TheSheep: probably everything, I guess it's most visible with big files in basic usage
[19:46] <CiPi> Large and small files. And the OS was slow on NTFS, on ext4 was quicker.
[19:47] <Sysi> how do you install linux on ntfs, wubi?
[19:47] <CiPi> On stability I didn`t see a difference.
[19:47] <CiPi> But on speed it is.
[19:47] <Sysi> wubi has some own overhead that is't actually because of ntfs
[19:50] <CiPi> Anyway, I`m using a separate partition with dual boot. The Linux partition is Ext4 and Win is NTFS.
[19:50] <Sysi> and he asked about data storage partition
[19:51] <CiPi> Data storage I`m using NTFS because of windows.
[19:51] <CiPi> Windows dozn`t recognize ext4, so...
[19:51] <TheSheep> CiPi: there are drivers for windows that let it read and even write ext filesystems
[19:52] <TheSheep> CiPi: not sure if they support the ext4 extensions
[19:52] <pteague_work> is there a way to figure out what i386 packages i have installed? i'm getting sick of architecture dependency issues i can't seem to solve
[19:52] <CiPi> Yes, but is no need to put all the things inside. With Xfce i`m using more Linux than Windows.
[19:52] <prouter> Hi, i wonder can anyone help?  I installed xubuntu but the fonts are HUGE - I'm sure there's an easy fix?
[19:55] <CiPi> prouter, Settings/settings manager/apparences/fonts
[19:57] <prouter> CiPi: I only have settings/settings editor - no settings manager?
[19:57] <prouter> and there's no appearance/fonts in settings editor :S
[19:57] <CiPi> You using Xubuntu or what?
[19:57] <CiPi> You don`t have apparence ?
[19:58] <prouter> Yes, I installed xubuntu-desktop from unity
[19:58] <prouter> no appearance
[19:58] <CiPi> Do here on irc.
[19:58] <CiPi> /exec -o xfce4-appearance-settings
[19:58] <prouter> hold, wait found appearance
[19:59] <prouter> yes, that's it fixed Cipi thanks
[19:59] <CiPi> Ur welcome.
[20:04] <CiPi> pteague_work, I don`t get what you want to say.
[20:04] <CiPi> I think is this...
[20:05] <CiPi> Open terminal and writhe - dpkg --get-selections
[20:05] <CiPi> dpkg --get-selections
[20:05] <CiPi> Whis you want to see, or ?
[20:06] <CiPi> This...
[20:07] <pteague_work> CiPi, thanks, that seems to be it... i think these were all added due to the *-restricted-extras wanting to install 32bit packages for adobe flash when the 64bit is already available >.<
[20:08] <CiPi> Nice.
[20:08] <CiPi> To see somthing specific try:
[20:09] <CiPi> dpkg --get-selections | grep core
[20:09] <CiPi> Or | grep what you want.
[20:10] <CiPi> dpkg --get-selections | grep flash
[20:10] <CiPi> :)
[20:11] <pteague_work> just did `apt-get purge $( dpkg --get-selections | /bin/grep i386 | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' )`
[20:11] <CiPi> I didn`t know that trick. :))
[20:12] <pteague_work> i'm too lazy to cut & paste sometimes ;o)
[20:16] <CiPi> Nu pot fara ala.
[20:16] <CiPi> :Sorry.
[20:25] <xubuntu797> Hello.
[20:25] <xubuntu797> Can anyone here answer a question aobut Xubuntu for me?
[20:26] <Sysi> you will never know if you don't ask
[20:31] <anra> SaaMmY: you scared him :-)
[20:31] <anra> oops
[20:31] <anra> I meant Sysi
[20:31] <SaaMmY> anra ?
[20:31] <anra> sorry, I meant to to talk to Sysi, nevermind
[20:32] <SaaMmY> k
[20:32] <Sysi> no it was him!
[20:32] <Sysi> :P
[22:17] <akovia> i made a simple script to switch between pulseaudio output devices and it seems to work as it switches the radio buttons in the gui, but the actual audio doesn't switch without using the gui implicitly.
[22:17] <akovia> here is the cmd: pacmd set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1e.2.analog-stereo
[22:19] <akovia> just wondering if there is a difference in the way the gui issues the command