[03:59] <redtornado5252> Hello. Could someone help a new user with "authentication" errors?
[03:59] <redtornado5252> I have a user account on Ubuntu 11.10 that was recently renamed. My orig. password work on the startup screen, but no where else. Trying to get apps etc from ubuntu software center. It wont accept my password for authentication
[04:03] <urfr332gO> redtornado5252, you a member of the ubuntu forums
[04:03] <redtornado5252> i dont think so. im @ askubuntu.com atm
[04:04] <redtornado5252> the recovery mode pass reset did not work for me last time
[04:04] <urfr332gO> redtornado5252, I have link that a mod gives there but you have to be a member to access it
[04:05] <redtornado5252> ok, thanks. ill register
[04:07] <urfr332gO> redtornado5252, check the 5th link. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=821685
[04:15] <redtornado5252> haha, geez
[04:15] <redtornado5252> you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:   	Your user account has less than 50 posts.         Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to  access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access  administrative features or some other privileged system? 	If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be
[04:15] <redtornado5252> ill try again in a few, maybe awaiting activation
[04:16] <holstein> redtornado5252: the recovery console is what you want.. from the grub list.. hold down shift while rebooting.. get to a root shell.. use the command passwd to change your username password
[04:16] <redtornado5252> Ok, ill try that again. Thanks
[04:17] <holstein> let us know the errors... check the caps lock... try a simpler one just for a moment.. you can always change it in the GUI where you may feel more comfortable later
[04:18] <redtornado5252> ok, rebooting now
[04:39] <redtornado5252> Ok so, recovery mode root access was not working. kept geting "read only file system" errors. just tried it in Xterm "passwd" and it seems to have worked for the moment
[04:40] <redtornado5252> are the read only errors something i should be concerned with
[04:45] <redtornado5252> thanks for the help.
[08:39] <Guest720> hi all. got a question. what's the difference between synaptic and gdebi?
[08:40] <geirha> synaptic is an apt frontend. gdebi is a dpkg frontend
[08:40] <Unit193> Synaptic works with the repos and I don't think installs .deb fils, gdebi doesn't actaully install from the repo, bu.... That.
[08:42] <Guest720> do I need both on system with nothing on it?
[08:44] <geirha> You need neither; you can use apt-get and dpkg on the command-line. synaptic and gdebi are just guis that allow you to install packages without using the command-line.
[08:45] <Guest720> Alright, let me ask like this: Is there anything that gdebi does, that I can't do with synaptic?
[08:46] <geirha> No
[08:47] <Guest720> Alright, I'm doing a Debian netinst and somebody tells me to install both...
[08:47] <Guest720> In Virtualbox
[08:48] <geirha> well, it's easier to install standalone deb-files with gdebi than synaptic
[08:49] <geirha> with gdebi installed, you just double click a deb file and click install.
[08:49] <Guest720> Ah OK thanks , didn't know that
[08:50] <geirha> With synaptic, you first have to run synaptic, then go to the file menu and select one of the options there, then browse your way to the deb file, then mark the package for installation, then install.
[08:50] <geirha> But the end result will be the same in either case
[08:55] <Guest720> thanks for the info!
[08:55] <Guest720> I recon Ubuntu has gdebi installed by default?
[08:55] <geirha> aye
[08:55] <geirha> Hm. Or it used to
[08:56] <geirha> I have it on my 10.04 install, but not on 11.10
[08:57] <geirha> Ah, the Ubuntu Software Center has encompassed that part
[08:57] <geirha> So gdebi is no longer needed with the newer versions of the software center.
[08:58] <Unit193> Unless you would like to replace USC with gdebi.
[09:03] <Guest720> OK, I'm trying out an install in Virtualbox I wanna do on my mom's old laptop. It'll use LXDE and no software center, so I'll go with synaptic/gdebi.
[09:06] <Unit193> For pangolin, there will be a lighter weight software center called "Lubuntu Software Center", but it is made in python for now.
[10:30] <s-fox> Hello
[12:55] <yawstick1> I deleted the status bar where minimized apps usually show
[12:56] <yawstick1> i added back bar but cant seem to gets minimized apps to show up
[12:59] <nothingspecial> yawstick1, which version of Ubuntu are you using?
[17:27] <boxODER> hi
[17:29] <s-fox> Hello boxODER
[18:08] <s-fox> Goodbye.
[18:28] <gribbly> I am trying to access a shared folder from a windows host on a ubuntu guest in vmware. I have installed open-vm-tools and enabled a shared folder. but the folder does not show up in /mnt/hgfs. there were a few errors during the open-vm-tools install "make: *** vmxnet: no such file or directory" and "make: *** vsock: no such file or directory".
[18:30] <gribbly> i'm running ubuntu 11.10 desktop with kernel 3.0.0-16-generic
[18:31] <urfr332gO> gribbly, you might try #vmware
[18:32] <gribbly> can do
[18:33] <urfr332gO> ;)
[18:33] <philipballew_> sometimes the people who are in this channel dont always know vmware because they dont use it. They run Ubuntu on their physical hardware and thats the only system they want to run
[18:33] <urfr332gO> I know vbox but never used vmware.
[18:34] <philipballew_> yeah, I only use virtualbox to test other linux distros and have no idea about vmware
[18:35] <philipballew_> some businesses  think its the best
[18:40] <gribbly> i'm the opposite, never used virtualbox. We had a copy of vmware here no one was using so I started playing with it. so far it has made my life a lot easier for testing distros and client/settings on a virtual network. does virtualbox have a virtual network option?
[18:40] <gribbly> *client/server settings
[19:12] <gribbly> another question. when using dd, if i know the part of the file i want starts at block 2000, would i then use skip=1999 or skip=2000?
[19:21] <geirha> the latter
[19:29] <gribbly> thanks
[21:11] <Xiziuz> hi peeps.. can i get some help ? i am new in kubuntu, and i want to update my kub, but cant find any update manager :/
[21:12] <Unit193> !crosspost | Xiziuz
[21:12] <ubot2`> Xiziuz: Please don't ask the same question in multiple Ubuntu channels at the same time. Many helpers are in more than one channel and it's not fair to them or the other people seeking support.
[21:13] <Unit193> It's called something else in K, don't remember as I don't really use it. Muon? Anyway, open a terminal and type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
[21:13] <Xiziuz> ok. ty ill try that :P
[21:15] <Xiziuz> its working :D tysm
[21:16] <Unit193> Sure. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is something else that'll install new kernels and such.
[21:16] <Xiziuz> and searched for muon, and yes it is :D
[21:16] <Unit193> Mel got you in the other channel too.
[21:44] <roswitha> hi all. got a question. I'm running ubuntu on a notebook with 512 MB RAM. Should I use Unity 2d?
[21:44] <roswitha> I ask because I want to increase the size of the icons in the launcher. Can't do that in Unity 2d...
[21:45] <Unit193> Well, you'd have to see if you can live with that, and if you can't there are other options such as Xubuntu since some think it's a little like Gnome2.
[21:47] <roswitha> My mom uses the notebook. After I found out how much RAM it has, I installed Lubuntu with LXDE. Thing is, my mom's eyes are real bad and there's no option to increase text size for the whole OS as in ubuntu
[21:49] <roswitha> so should I use unity 2d on a system with 512 MB RAM?
[21:51] <Unit193> I haven't installed Unity once on my system, and I never said anything about Lubu this time. :P
[21:51] <Unit193> Also, I need to leave 5 minutes ago, someone else should be around?
[23:35] <lukjad> Can anyone here help me with this issue: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11721072
[23:36] <urfr332gO> lukjad, did you look in printers to see if there was a driver there?
[23:37] <lukjad> urfr332gO How do you mean?
[23:37] <urfr332gO> lukjad, ubuntu has many drivers already.
[23:38] <lukjad> urfr332gO When I installed it the printer refused to work, was listed as "Generic Text Only printer."
[23:38] <lukjad> So I had to manually install it
[23:41] <urfr332gO> lukjad, I understand, but maybe it is the same but in printers your driver will be scanned and if there is adriver available it will ask if you want it installed, just curious if you started there.
[23:41] <urfr332gO> printer scanned that is
[23:42] <lukjad> urfr332gO It installed it automatically, detected the right version. But it doesn't work.
[23:42] <lukjad> I have to force an install using dkpg
[23:42] <urfr332gO> lukjad, ah, bummer, not sure really.
[23:43] <lukjad> urfr332gO It's just frustrating that I can't install anything without reinstalling my printer
[23:54] <E3D3> I installed another distro (Blag), edited fstab and hoped to reach my Ubuntu & Storage partition. But now I need certain rights. Anyone who can point me in the right direction ?