[00:33] Hello everyone :) [00:34] I have a pretty serious Ubuntu booting problem [00:37] I'll post here the conversation initiated - mistakenly - in the ...team channel over there [00:37] nk8215 01:18:52 AM [00:37] Hello everybody [00:37] I do believe that somebody of you could give me advice... [00:37] 01:20:02 AM [00:37] On my netbook, there are 2 copies of GRUB and either of them would load... [00:37] 01:21:04 AM [00:37] *neither [00:37] 01:22:04 AM [00:37] [00:37] MrChrisDruif 01:24:29 AM [00:38] nk8215; our support channel is #ubuntu-beginners , you knew that? Secondly you are booting into Ubuntu? So it "skips" grub it seems? [00:38] JackyAlcine has disconnected (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [00:38] 01:25 [00:38] nk8215 01:28:55 AM [00:38] MrChrisDruif: oh, sorry, I didn't know that, there were both channels marked as Ubuntu Beginners Team in the channel list... [00:38] 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] MrChrisDruif 01:29:51 AM [00:38] Well, in the topic of this channel you can see it [00:38] MH0 - MrChrisDruif - [00:38] 01:30 [00:38] nk8215 01:31:37 AM [00:38] 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... [00:39] :o I see that my clock is messed up...sorry :) [00:39] 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 ;-) [00:42] 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... [00:45] ...and until then it had shown my real local time... [00:50] 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] Unit193; you know anything about grub? [00:53] ;grub [00:53] !grub [00:53] 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) [00:54] MrChrisDruif: OK, OK, you're right, I should've tried it a bit earlier... [00:54] nk8215; try reading this link for help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling_GRUB2 [01:15] thanks :) [01:15] gn to all :) [03:51] Can I remove text from desktop icons? I set the deskop_font size to 0 using gconf-editor [03:52] but its still showing the text [03:53] CrazyThinker: in unity? [03:53] yeah, I'm running unity but I thought the desktop is gnome [03:55] im not too sure how to do that in unity, and i havent tried in gnome [03:55] you did something like this http://askubuntu.com/questions/23570/how-can-i-hide-the-text-under-the-desktop-icons ? [03:56] ^^ i would expect that to work with gnome [03:58] holstein, that in principle should still work. you might need to use dconf-editor instead [03:58] CrazyThinker: ^ [04:04] 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] CrazyThinker: right, you are using unity, not gnome [04:07] escott, where in dconf-editor? [04:08] CrazyThinker, dcont-tools (this is 11.10 only IIRC) [04:10] I can't run dcont-tools => Bash can't find the command [04:10] I can get dconf-editor [04:11] !info dconf-tools | CrazyThinker [04:11] you have to install it first [04:13] When I use apt-get install dconf-tools, it says dconf-tools is already installed [04:13] but if I type dconf-tools in bash, it tells me it can't find that command [04:14] CrazyThinker, sudo apt-get install dconf-tools [04:14] I ran that as root [04:14] and the command is dconf-editor [04:15] lol [04:15] Where in that can I change the desktop icon details? [04:16] its the same layout as gconf, just a different backend and database [04:16] anything you know about gconf can be applied to dconf [04:17] escott, I don't see a nautilus in dconf-editor [04:17] in the same >apps tree [04:18] you may need to create it [04:18] i think gconf-editor shows the schema and defaults, whereas dconf may only show the set values [04:25] oh okay [04:31] escott, how can I add an app [04:32] CrazyThinker, maybe in the gtk3 switch they moved it [04:32] oh [04:32] try org.gnome.nautilus [04:33] found it! [04:33] Changed the font and its gone!! [04:34] * CrazyThinker awards 200 reputation points to escott [04:35] 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 === bladernr_ is now known as bladernr_afk === Axlin__ is now known as Axlin === truepurple is now known as truepurple2 [06:10] 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? [09:54] Morning :) Oh no, why am I listed twice in the list of persons in this channel? O.O [09:55] are u ? [09:55] nope, you are not [09:55] Yeah [09:59] 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] It prints a space instead [10:01] Which is not visible in the list... [10:02] 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 [10:05] 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] but u dont really need it right now, im just telling you cause it might be helpful some other time [10:09] 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 [10:13] 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... [10:21] could it somehow be connected with EFI? (There is Win7 pre-installed on the netbook, as well as a recovery partition) [10:29] 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? [10:33] okay, bye for now :) === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_