| nk8215 | Hello everyone :) | 00:33 |
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| nk8215 | I have a pretty serious Ubuntu booting problem | 00:34 |
| nk8215 | I'll post here the conversation initiated - mistakenly - in the ...team channel over there | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | nk8215 01:18:52 AM | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | Hello everybody | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | I do believe that somebody of you could give me advice... | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | 01:20:02 AM | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | On my netbook, there are 2 copies of GRUB and either of them would load... | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | 01:21:04 AM | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | *neither | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | 01:22:04 AM | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | 00:37 | |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif 01:24:29 AM | 00:37 |
| nk8215 | nk8215; our support channel is #ubuntu-beginners , you knew that? Secondly you are booting into Ubuntu? So it "skips" grub it seems? | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | JackyAlcine has disconnected (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | 01:25 | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | nk8215 01:28:55 AM | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif: oh, sorry, I didn't know that, there were both channels marked as Ubuntu Beginners Team in the channel list... | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | ad skipping GRUB: no, it's even worse - GRUB won't load at all, I'm getting the "reboot and select proper boot device" message instead, even when I set the boot flag to my boot partition. | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif 01:29:51 AM | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | Well, in the topic of this channel you can see it | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | MH0 - MrChrisDruif - | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | 01:30 | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | nk8215 01:31:37 AM | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif: Oh, I see now...OK, I'll copy my part of this conversation in the other channel in order not to spam this one... | 00:38 |
| nk8215 | :o I see that my clock is messed up...sorry :) | 00:39 |
| MrChrisDruif | nk8215; just one heads up: I think most supporters are CET based or GMT, which means it's about 1:39 or 0:39 respectively over there ;-) | 00:39 |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif: um, that's the point...my REAL local time is 1:41 AM now, whereas the toolbar clock shows 0:41...dunno why, all what happened was that my ethernet cable slipped a bit out of the socket, and after reconnecting the clock has gone 1 hour back... | 00:42 |
| nk8215 | ...and until then it had shown my real local time... | 00:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | What I meant to say it that it IS possible that they will not respond at this moment, due to them being in bed (like the two of us should) | 00:50 |
| MrChrisDruif | Unit193; you know anything about grub? | 00:50 |
| MrChrisDruif | ;grub | 00:53 |
| JackyAlcine | !grub | 00:53 |
| ubot2 | GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10) | 00:53 |
| nk8215 | MrChrisDruif: OK, OK, you're right, I should've tried it a bit earlier... | 00:54 |
| MrChrisDruif | nk8215; try reading this link for help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2 | 00:54 |
| nk8215 | thanks :) | 01:15 |
| nk8215 | gn to all :) | 01:15 |
| CrazyThinker | Can I remove text from desktop icons? I set the deskop_font size to 0 using gconf-editor | 03:51 |
| CrazyThinker | but its still showing the text | 03:52 |
| holstein | CrazyThinker: in unity? | 03:53 |
| CrazyThinker | yeah, I'm running unity but I thought the desktop is gnome | 03:53 |
| holstein | im not too sure how to do that in unity, and i havent tried in gnome | 03:55 |
| holstein | you did something like this http://askubuntu.com/questions/23570/how-can-i-hide-the-text-under-the-desktop-icons ? | 03:55 |
| holstein | ^^ i would expect that to work with gnome | 03:56 |
| escott | holstein, that in principle should still work. you might need to use dconf-editor instead | 03:58 |
| holstein | CrazyThinker: ^ | 03:58 |
| CrazyThinker | holstein, I followed instructions at the exact same link to do this and it didn't work | 04:04 |
| * CrazyThinker is trying again with dconf-editor | 04:04 | |
| holstein | CrazyThinker: right, you are using unity, not gnome | 04:04 |
| CrazyThinker | escott, where in dconf-editor? | 04:07 |
| escott | CrazyThinker, dcont-tools (this is 11.10 only IIRC) | 04:08 |
| CrazyThinker | I can't run dcont-tools => Bash can't find the command | 04:10 |
| CrazyThinker | I can get dconf-editor | 04:10 |
| escott | !info dconf-tools | CrazyThinker | 04:11 |
| escott | you have to install it first | 04:11 |
| CrazyThinker | When I use apt-get install dconf-tools, it says dconf-tools is already installed | 04:13 |
| CrazyThinker | but if I type dconf-tools in bash, it tells me it can't find that command | 04:13 |
| escott | CrazyThinker, sudo apt-get install dconf-tools | 04:14 |
| CrazyThinker | I ran that as root | 04:14 |
| escott | and the command is dconf-editor | 04:14 |
| CrazyThinker | lol | 04:15 |
| CrazyThinker | Where in that can I change the desktop icon details? | 04:15 |
| escott | its the same layout as gconf, just a different backend and database | 04:16 |
| escott | anything you know about gconf can be applied to dconf | 04:16 |
| CrazyThinker | escott, I don't see a nautilus in dconf-editor | 04:17 |
| CrazyThinker | in the same >apps tree | 04:17 |
| escott | you may need to create it | 04:18 |
| escott | i think gconf-editor shows the schema and defaults, whereas dconf may only show the set values | 04:18 |
| CrazyThinker | oh okay | 04:25 |
| CrazyThinker | escott, how can I add an app | 04:31 |
| escott | CrazyThinker, maybe in the gtk3 switch they moved it | 04:32 |
| CrazyThinker | oh | 04:32 |
| escott | try org.gnome.nautilus | 04:32 |
| CrazyThinker | found it! | 04:33 |
| CrazyThinker | Changed the font and its gone!! | 04:33 |
| * CrazyThinker awards 200 reputation points to escott | 04:34 | |
| escott | glad it worked for you. you'll have to keep in mind that any other gconf-editor tweaks should still work, but now with dconf-editor and gsettings, and might be in a somewhat different location | 04:35 |
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| truepurple | I am having DNS problems, could this at all be the fault of ubuntu? Or would that only be either caused by my modem, or my ISP? | 06:10 |
| nk8215 | Morning :) Oh no, why am I listed twice in the list of persons in this channel? O.O | 09:54 |
| coalwater | are u ? | 09:55 |
| bioterror | nope, you are not | 09:55 |
| nk8215 | Yeah | 09:55 |
| nk8215 | Oh, I see now - my "second nick" is my alternative one, my IRC client or the server cannot somehow print the underscore at its end :) | 09:59 |
| nk8215 | It prints a space instead | 09:59 |
| nk8215 | Which is not visible in the list... | 10:01 |
| coalwater | you probably tried to login from 2 places, or somehow the session disconnected and then it tried to login again but it found ur nick taken then it appended an '_' to get in, after some time the server realizes that one of the nicks isn't responding to pings or something so it disconnects it | 10:02 |
| coalwater | you could force it to happen by msg'ing nickserv, /msg nickserv ghost 'nick' 'password', no qoutes and u probably dont want to type it in a channel just in case u missed a character so it doesnt post ur pw over here | 10:05 |
| coalwater | but u dont really need it right now, im just telling you cause it might be helpful some other time | 10:05 |
| nk8215 | Anyway, let's head over to my problem :) I've bought a brand new external HDD and wanted to install Ubuntu onto it. Due to the fact that I'll be using it mostly with my Asus Eee PC 1015 netbook, I chose Oneiric Ocelot. The installation had gone normally, until GRUB was supposed to be installed - the installation program refused to do that. When I, however, re-booted (from my USB flash drive), I found two complete GRUBs in all two locations I tried be | 10:09 |
| nk8215 | The main problem is that none of them would load - all I become when booting from the USB HDD is that well-known BIOS error message about selecting proper boot device... | 10:13 |
| nk8215 | could it somehow be connected with EFI? (There is Win7 pre-installed on the netbook, as well as a recovery partition) | 10:21 |
| nk8215 | For the EFI, I have seen something about eLILO, where e is supposed to stand for EFI...What do you think, would such a bootloader replacement make sense in my case? | 10:29 |
| nk8215 | okay, bye for now :) | 10:33 |
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