[01:38] <Culiforge> coalwater, around?
[06:44] <r4y> I found a neat commandline program called audio-convert and instead of just converting one file at a time I want to convert all the audio files in one folder at a time. How do I do that?
[06:45] <r4y> I didn't think to man audio-convert
[06:45] <r4y> sorry
[06:45] <bioterror> make a shell script
[06:46] <bioterror> for example
[06:46] <r4y> I've never made a script before. I've read about it before
[06:46] <r4y> It doesn't have a man page
[06:48] <r4y> I did audio-convert --help
[06:51] <philipballew> I wonder if someone has a form post anywhere on this?
[06:52] <philipballew> does audio-convert have an irc channel as well?
[06:54] <philipballew> r4y, not sure if that helps
[06:59] <r4y> It's cool. I have a quicker way to do it now. I took a file, right clicked it chose open with and went down to use costume command and typed in audio-convert, then click cancel and then I highlighted all the audio files in a folder by holding down shift because the album art sometimes gets in the way. The control key can be used to highlight and un-highlight one file at a time.
[07:01] <r4y> It would be cool to remake this program which is a script into a costume script, so I don't have to choose what bit rate I want every time and what format and whether the tags get passed through, but I am happy.
[07:04] <r4y> There is no channel on freenode for audio-convert, but I have been using Ubuntu for a few years and I have never heard of audio-convert before. I have used soundconverter before many many times.
[07:06] <philipballew> r4y, alright, it might that their irc is just not on freenode
[07:06] <r4y> I found audio-convert to get the highest bit rate for converting audio files. I was going to use audacity but I wasn't sure what to pick for conversion so I started Googling around and I found audio-convert
[07:07] <r4y> Right, freenode is not the only network on the internet. I get it.
[07:08] <r4y> I meant irc network. Oops
[07:10] <r4y> Anyways, I am happy with audio-convert and I want to go. Thank you all for being here for the Linux people.
[07:11] <r4y> :) /
[09:42] <Culiforge> mornin hobgoblin
[09:46] <hobgoblin> hi Culiforge
[09:49] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, was it you that was helping me the other day along with urlin2u with my non booting system?
[09:49] <hobgoblin> mmm - possibly ...
[09:49] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, so many people, I can't keep track of them all :)
[09:50] <hobgoblin> lol - all I did was point you at pyschocat's minimal install pages it seems
[09:51] <hobgoblin> you still got problems?
[09:51] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, oh yeah, i remember now.
[09:52] <hobgoblin> use a client that keeps logs then you can look back :p
[09:52] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, yeah, still got problems.. coalwater and I tried a bunch of stuff. I had to leave him yesterday as he was reading the chat logs to see what all I've done so far
[09:53] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, apparently he had similar issues with his nvidia card but what worked for him doesn't work for me
[09:53] <hobgoblin> well if you want to restate the issues I can have a look - but I will be in and out
[09:55] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, sure: installed nvidia 8400gs, system installed restricted drivers, restart, system hangs at bootsplash with .pid error, reinstalled grub a couple of times through chroot, passed some commands to boot through grub
[09:55] <Culiforge> such as nomodesed and gfxpayload
[09:55] <Culiforge> nomodeset
[09:56] <Culiforge> edited xorg.conf, replaced xorg.conf...
[09:57] <Culiforge> hmm, may be more.. it all seems a blur by now.. it's been almost 2 weeks of trying to figure this out there's more I'm sure of it
[09:58] <hobgoblin> k - you know how to pastebin I assume - get me the xorg.log   - you can see it in log file viewer, or in a terminal do   cat /var/log/xorg.0.log
[09:59] <hobgoblin> let me also see your grub.cfg    cat /etc/default/grub
[10:00] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, ok
[10:00] <hobgoblin> dmesg might be worth a look as well - either log file viewer or cat /var/log/dmesg
[10:01] <hobgoblin> pastebin them all and I'll see if I can see anything - at the moment what graphics driver is it using - nouveau or nvidia
[10:02] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, getting logs now, others have asked for this as well http://paste.ubuntu.com/829922/
[10:05] <hobgoblin> I want current ones - I assume that is a current one - if you're doing a lot of this pastebinning - install pastebinit - then you can cat /etc/default/grub |pastebinit and it's done easily :)
[10:05] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, xorg log http://paste.ubuntu.com/831151/
[10:07] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, dmesg http://paste.ubuntu.com/831152/
[10:07] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, sorry for the havy reading so early
[10:07] <hobgoblin> lol - give me a while to look and see if I Can see anythig
[10:08] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, don't know what driver it's using i'm not that savvy, thanks for your help hobgoblin
[10:09] <hobgoblin> nouveau :)
[10:10] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: can I have the /etc/default/grub you gave me a bootscript output
[10:11] <hobgoblin> is that actually a current one ?
[10:13] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, that should be the current
[10:13] <hobgoblin> k
[10:15] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: well they all look ok to me - is this the machine that you are talking to me on?
[10:16] <Culiforge> yeah but i'm on a live os right now
[10:16] <hobgoblin> does it not boot?
[10:16] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, I can access the drives but no boot
[10:16] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, not even recovery
[10:17] <hobgoblin> mmm
[10:17] <hobgoblin> so you still get the crash at bootsplash with the restricted drivers disabled?
[10:17] <Culiforge> yes
[10:20] <hobgoblin> ok - what happens when you boot recovery?
[10:20] <hobgoblin> do you get as far as the menu?
[10:21] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, well, wait.. disabled.. I'm sure we've disabled rest drivers but not certain. recover has same behavior
[10:21] <hobgoblin> do you have an xorg.conf? ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[10:22] <hobgoblin> also what version of buntu is this?
[10:22] <Culiforge> one sec. i'm not chroot'd so I have to find it through the file manager... 10.04
[10:23] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, xorg http://paste.ubuntu.com/831163/
[10:24] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, Prev. xorg http://paste.ubuntu.com/831165/
[10:25] <hobgoblin> ok - well I know for a fact that 10.04 and nvidia 8400gt works lol
[10:25] <hobgoblin> any reason why you are using 10.04
[10:26] <Culiforge> hobgoblin,  A thought just occurred to me... would it have anything to do with using badger repos?
[10:26] <geirha> ...what??
[10:27] <hobgoblin> thanks geirha - saved me doing it - never heard of those lol
[10:27] <geirha> You definitely don't want to use breezy badger repos
[10:28] <hobgoblin> oh lol
[10:28] <hobgoblin> yea - you'd not want to do thatr Culiforge
[10:28] <Culiforge> no, it's something else.. I'm looking it up now
[10:29] <Culiforge> http://badgerports.org/
[10:29] <geirha> That's for use with 8.04, you have 10.04, so you should remove that ppa
[10:30] <hobgoblin> no - you'd not want to do that either - what are you using them for
[10:30] <Culiforge> 10.01 http://badgerports.org/about.html
[10:30] <Culiforge> 10.04
[10:31] <hobgoblin> so they are mostly just mono things it seems
[10:32] <Culiforge> I used it for Mono to run Marcedit but am wondering if maybe the nvidia driver was taken from there
[10:32] <Culiforge> if that would be a possiblility or issue
[10:32] <hobgoblin> try renaming the xorg.cong to xorg.conf.bak and booting
[10:32] <Culiforge> did that yesterday
[10:33] <Culiforge> no joy
[10:33] <hobgoblin> mmm
[10:33] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: you any good with hardware?
[10:34] <hobgoblin> oh - also you say you are using a livecd - is that a 10.04 livecd?
[10:34] <Culiforge> hobgoblin,  Hehe, what do you mean "good" can I install a video card physically.. yes... no, it's a Parted magic liveos
[10:35] <hobgoblin> ok
[10:35] <Culiforge> I can flop over to a 10.04 live if I can find it...
[10:35] <hobgoblin> that would be useful - you could have a look at the xorg.conf if it has one and copy it over.
[10:36] <Culiforge> looking through the stack of live cd's ..... .....
[10:36] <hobgoblin> I would be inclined to disable the badgerports thing - do an update in the chroot you've been using if you can
[10:37] <geirha> aptitude search '~i nvidia' # will list all installed packages who's names contain "nvidia". apt-cache policy <package-name>  will tell you what repos a package is found in.
[10:37] <hobgoblin> if that's not a go - I would seriously start thinking about hardware problems if all the software help you've had is not getting anywhere
[10:37] <hobgoblin> I'd also be inclined to getting a newer version to try as well
[10:38] <hobgoblin> you shouldn't be having issues with that card - I've been using the same for a long time
[10:38] <Culiforge> I've got a 10.04 64bit... will that work?
[10:38] <Culiforge> not for chroot but for the xorg?
[10:39] <hobgoblin> should do
[10:39] <hobgoblin> geirha: what do you think
[10:39] <Culiforge> ooh, wait.. I've got a minimal disc as well
[10:40] <geirha> I don't think 10.04 has an xorg.conf by default
[10:41] <geirha> does the login screen work?
[10:41] <hobgoblin> yea :( so removing the xorg doesn't help either
[10:41] <Culiforge> geirha, login screen for ...
[10:42] <geirha> where you type in username and password for a graphical login
[10:42] <hobgoblin> geirha: crashes during bootsplash
[10:42] <Culiforge> geirha, no, can't get that far.
[10:42] <Culiforge> what he said
[10:43] <hobgoblin> a pid error
[10:43] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: actually - can you boot it and get the exact message
[10:44] <Culiforge> yeah, I (hehe) took a picture of it.. and put it on imagebin... a few days ago
[10:44] <hobgoblin> ok - lets have a look then :)
[10:45] <Culiforge> looking for it
[10:47] <Culiforge> ok, actually this is the behind the bootsplash from a recovery boot.. I'd have to reboot to get you the pid message http://imagebin.org/197268
[10:48] <Culiforge> which I can do if you also need
[10:50] <Culiforge> shall I?
[10:50] <hobgoblin> please
[10:51] <Culiforge> ok, will be switching chat to laptop and I'll be back in acouple min
[10:54] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, OK just gotta put it to imagebin and I'll be right with you
[11:16] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: all gone quiet ...
[11:17] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, yeah, sorry... had to switch to my son's windows laptop... slower than dirt when you run more than 2 programs and 3 tabs in chrome
[11:17] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, waiting for it to catch it's breath
[11:17] <hobgoblin> lol
[11:18] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, http://imagebin.org/197586
[11:21] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, crud!  I gotta run for a bit.. be back in 15-20
[11:21] <hobgoblin> k
[11:29] <hobgoblin> geirha: you got any ideas - I've not
[11:34] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, i'm in and out... if no ideas from here is it possible to rescue my system and reinstall?
[11:35] <hobgoblin> I would first  check the video card - take it out see if it boots ok with the onboard
[11:35] <hobgoblin> if you want to reinstall - backup
[11:36] <hobgoblin> I'd probably look to a newer version than 10.04 unless there's some specific reason why you are using it
[11:36] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, will do, tried that at first with no luck but that was almost 2 weeks ago
[11:37] <hobgoblin> you tried taking the card out?
[11:37] <hobgoblin> tried a memtest?
[11:37] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, yeah, when the issue first happened... yes, ran memtest.. no problems
[11:38] <hobgoblin> so a livecd boots but an install doesn't
[11:39] <Culiforge> right
[11:39] <hobgoblin> 10.04 is about when plymouth started to be used iirc - wasn't too good to start with
[11:39] <hobgoblin> I'd seriously look at a newer version
[11:41] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, whoozawhatsis.. I don't understand any of that... maybe later today i'll be on to find out what I need to backup. then reinstall a higher ver. then I'll dual boot fedora as well as I need that for work
[11:42] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, memtest just loops untill you stop it right?
[11:44] <hobgoblin> yes it does
[11:45] <hobgoblin> Culiforge: well I'll be about all day - ping me if you want
[11:56] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, will do, thanks for your help
[11:57] <Culiforge> geirha, thanks to you too
[12:06] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, ok, before I go to work.. I'll start backing up. What files/folders.. home for one right? anything out of / that will help me to retain installed program settings?
[12:09] <hobgoblin> about the only thing I keep from / is /etc/fstab
[12:09] <hobgoblin> personalised settings will be in /home
[12:09] <hobgoblin> though anything you might have server wise like apache etc I would have no idea about
[12:11] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, I do have a library catalog with apache mysql and a program called koha but I should be able to restore that easy enough. Mostly concerned about pics, vids and docs as part of my personal stuff
[12:13] <Culiforge> hobgoblin, so I'm using grsync 'cause it's right there.. should I just leave settings at default or to I need to preserve things like owner and permissions and group and whatnot
[12:13] <hobgoblin> assuming you have them in default places then they'll be in /home
[12:21] <Culiforge> ok, I'm out for the morning... tc all
[16:32] <e33> hi
[16:33] <e33> Hi, i have lenovo with ubuntu 11.10, i have issue with wireless, when i tried on of the posts regarding wireless, i got ERROR: Module acer_wmi does not exist in /proc/modules
[16:34] <e33> anyone can advise why cannot locate acer_wmi?
[16:54] <deper29> hey, can someone help me with this potentially? http://askubuntu.com/questions/72003/grub-invalid-arch-independent-elf-magic-after-11-10-install-on-macbook-pro-5
[16:54] <deper29> I don't know which drives I should be mounting. I don't have a macbook, but I do have that problem that is outlined there
[16:57] <phillw> hi deper29 there are not that many on here with Macs. You may well find more success asking on the Mac section on the main forum http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=328
[16:58] <deper29> anyone?
[17:00] <deper29> phillw, I don't have a mac, I do have a PC
[17:01] <deper29> I'm just curious which drives I should be mounting
[17:03] <phillw> deper29: are you dual booting?
[17:03] <deper29> yeah, windows
[17:03] <hobgoblin> deper29: without knowing exactly what went on in that askubunt thing - I would hazard a guess that sda3 was the / drive and sda1 the /boot
[17:03] <hobgoblin> check that against what you have
[17:04] <phillw> deper29: have a look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/78095/grub-elf-magic-error-message-after-installation-how-to-get-dual-boot-option it covers a dual boot machine
[17:04] <deper29> hobgoblin, how can I see which ones I have?
[17:05] <deper29> er, which device partitions I have rather
[17:07] <phillw> deper29: sudo fdisk -l
[17:07] <phillw> will list your partitions
[17:15] <deper29> phillw, my internet connection is being very slow, I apologize
[17:15] <phillw> deper29: thats okay.
[17:15] <deper29> I am putting the output on pastebin
[17:16] <deper29> phillw, http://pastebin.com/hh7zs2QJ
[17:17] <phillw> deper29: the one to install grub onto is /dev/sda1
[17:17] <phillw> do boot from a live CD though!
[17:18] <deper29> I'm on a live one now :)
[17:18] <deper29> would i have to mount two drives as they did in their scenario? or just one?
[17:18] <deper29> just the sda1?
[17:20] <phillw> deper29: what does the command df show?
[17:22] <deper29> phillw, http://pastebin.com/38uNLp6Q
[17:22] <deper29> i mounted sda1 to /mnt
[17:23] <deper29> i can undo that if I need
[17:27] <phillw> deper29: that looks fine, now issue   sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda    ( that is 2 of - before root, --root, not -root)
[17:27] <deper29> okay, I'll give this a shot
[17:30] <deper29> should directory=/mnt instead?
[17:30] <deper29> I did sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt earlier
[17:31] <phillw> yes, sorry I was not paying attention
[17:32] <phillw> I'm following a different set of instructions!
[17:33] <deper29> phillw, lol, that's okay. I don't think it worked :( http://pastebin.com/6DDRfctF
[17:34] <phillw> deper29: use the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708   (yours is dev/sda1, not dev/sda5 as in that example).
[17:36] <hobgoblin> I am fairly sure that you need a seperate /boot partition
[17:37] <deper29> so I should unmount sda1 for now?
[17:37] <deper29> then just restart at those instructions?
[17:37] <deper29> hobgoblin, what do you suggest for that?
[17:38] <deper29> phillw, followed the instructions. got the exact same thing :(
[17:38] <phillw> deper29: yeah unmount
[17:41] <deper29> still got that same thing though
[17:41] <deper29> said /mnt doesn't look like an EFI partition
[17:42] <hobgoblin> not sure tbh - not got much into it as yet and I've got some net issues here so can't get on search engines very well
[17:42] <phillw> deper29: re-issue df and pastebin, please.
[17:43] <deper29> i see :/
[17:45] <deper29> wait, I see the error
[17:46] <deper29> phillw, http://pastebin.com/0sPMH5c1
[17:46] <deper29> i unmounted the drive though. what should I be mounting for /dev/sda?
[17:47] <deper29> they have that in their example, but the error I get back when I do grub-install is "(is /dev mounted?)."
[17:48] <phillw> deper29: according to that paste, /dev/sda1 is not mounted anywhere....
[17:49] <phillw> sudo mkdir /media/sda1
[17:49] <phillw> sudo mount /dev/sda5 /media/sda1
[17:49] <phillw> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda
[17:50] <phillw> oops!!! sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
[17:52] <deper29> phillw, sorry I had done all of that stuff and then it didn't work so I unmounted then ran df. here is what I have now http://pastebin.com/ZWDxdHNa
[17:53] <phillw> :) it's mounted
[17:53] <phillw> deper29: sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda should now work!
[17:53] <phillw> ARGGGGHH typo...
[17:53] <phillw> sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda1 /dev/sda
[17:54] <deper29> http://pastebin.com/JMgArmr1
[17:59] <deper29> phillw, sorry, disconnected there
[18:00] <phillw> hi deper29 I've had a further dig & things are more involved than I thought.
[18:00] <deper29> oh no
[18:00] <phillw> I've never 'played' with Win7 and EFI
[18:01] <deper29> I see
[18:01] <deper29> so this is a lot more difficult then?
[18:03] <phillw> It is certainly more involved and beyond my knowledge. take a read of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1837235 to give you an idea! If there is not someone on here familiar with that scenario by honest advice is to post onto the main forum area in that section (don't tag onto that thread, start a new one!) Give as much info as you can and one the people familiar with the situation will reply.
[18:04] <deper29> okay, I will give that a shot. thanks a bunch for your help :) I really appreciate it!
[19:28] <congressmon> Hello... I have an issue with trying to install linux on both usb stick and/or usb hdd.. can anyone help me??
[19:29] <congressmon> It's like this machine won't let me install linux ... not even with the WUBI utility...
[19:30] <congressmon> Helloooooo
[20:05] <congressmon> Hello...
[20:06] <congressmon> I need help installing UBuntu 11.10 on a usb stick
[20:06] <congressmon> I've checked all the web resources... still hving problem with booting
[21:25] <s-fox> Hello
[21:26] <Unit193> Hello
[21:27] <s-fox> How are you?
[21:28] <Unit193> Alive so it seems, and you?
[21:32] <s-fox> Keeping busy, covering bodhi's job on the forum.