| duanedesign | an black screen with part of a line | 00:00 |
|---|---|---|
| duanedesign | duane@myComputer: | 00:01 |
| duanedesign | something like that | 00:01 |
| jpdoc | i'm sorry, like i said i'm really a basic user looking to move beyond windows, have no idea what a shell prompt is | 00:01 |
| jpdoc | oh exactly like that | 00:01 |
| duanedesign | after you enter log in and pass do you get another back screen | 00:01 |
| duanedesign | ok | 00:01 |
| duanedesign | try typing the foolowing | 00:02 |
| duanedesign | startx | 00:02 |
| duanedesign | then hit enter | 00:02 |
| duanedesign | type that after --- duane@mycomputer: startx | 00:02 |
| duanedesign | like that | 00:02 |
| jpdoc | ok it says the program startx is currently not installed | 00:03 |
| duanedesign | weird. | 00:03 |
| duanedesign | sounds like somthing got interupyted in the install process | 00:04 |
| jpdoc | then it says "you can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install xinit | 00:04 |
| duanedesign | try that | 00:05 |
| duanedesign | I was going to say also try installing sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-volume-manager | 00:05 |
| duanedesign | just type: sudo apt-get install xinit | 00:06 |
| duanedesign | and enter your login password | 00:06 |
| duanedesign | also try to install: sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-volume-manager | 00:06 |
| duanedesign | once you install startx the GUI should start or give us hopefullt usefull errors | 00:08 |
| jpdoc | now all i get is a long list of failed lines | 00:13 |
| duanedesign | by any chance are you able to run: sudo apt-get update | 00:14 |
| duanedesign | and: sudo apt-get upgrade | 00:14 |
| duanedesign | sorry that is updates^^^^ | 00:15 |
| duanedesign | so that would be: sudo apt-get updates | 00:15 |
| duanedesign | sudo apt-get upgrades | 00:16 |
| duanedesign | ugh | 00:16 |
| duanedesign | sorry to confure you | 00:16 |
| duanedesign | it is after all: sudo apt-get upgrade | 00:17 |
| duanedesign | i was right the first time | 00:17 |
| jpdoc | E: Invalid operation upgrades | 00:17 |
| duanedesign | sorry it is upgrade | 00:17 |
| jpdoc | same with updated | 00:17 |
| duanedesign | ok must be no networ | 00:18 |
| Unit193 | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade | 00:18 |
| Unit193 | To test network, you can try pinging 8.8.8.8 | 00:18 |
| jpdoc | ok | 00:18 |
| jpdoc | pinging gives me lines and lines of stuff "64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=221 ttl=58 time 15.2 ms | 00:28 |
| Unit193 | So you have networking. | 00:28 |
| Unit193 | (And if you are using that computer to connect to here, you surely have networking and DNS) | 00:29 |
| jpdoc | do i have to wait for this to finish? | 00:29 |
| jpdoc | oh and i m on my new pc here so... | 00:30 |
| Unit193 | No, just hit ctrl+c | 00:35 |
| Unit193 | Then try dig google.com | 00:36 |
| jpdoc | dig google.com gives me lots of info, should i be looking for anything in particular | 00:53 |
| jpdoc | by the way i have managed to get it to upgrade | 00:53 |
| Unit193 | Alright, all is good I guess. (I didn't see the orig question) | 00:55 |
| jpdoc | no its still not working | 00:56 |
| jpdoc | when i put in startx i get a message "failed to load session ubuntu" | 00:56 |
| jpdoc | basically i have just loaded ubuntu today, basic user, and can't get it to work | 00:58 |
| jpdoc | have black screen | 00:58 |
| jpdoc | wnter user name and password | 00:58 |
| jpdoc | thats as far as i can get | 00:58 |
| jpdoc | reinstalled 3 times | 00:58 |
| jpdoc | no joy | 00:58 |
| bobweaver | jpdoc, what is computer and have you checked the md5sum ? | 01:01 |
| bobweaver | !md5sum | 01:01 |
| ubot2 | To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows | 01:01 |
| jpdoc | using my old Dell dimension 5150 | 01:02 |
| bobweaver | Sorry I am just kinda walking into this have you tryed with nomawhatver it is called ? | 01:04 |
| * bobweaver is googleing | 01:04 | |
| bobweaver | nomodeset is the name I was looking for | 01:05 |
| bobweaver | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 | 01:06 |
| bobweaver | also what is gfx card ? thanks | 01:07 |
| jpdoc | sorry i really have no clue what gfx card it is, really am a basic pc user, starting to wish i had stayed that way... | 01:08 |
| bobweaver | :>) | 01:09 |
| jpdoc | just reading up on nomodset | 01:09 |
| jpdoc | think this might be beyond me | 01:09 |
| bobweaver | does it boot live cds fine ? | 01:09 |
| jpdoc | no, nothing | 01:11 |
| jpdoc | thanks for help guys, think ill download again and try tomorrow | 01:20 |
| asterismo | hi people | 03:08 |
| asterismo | does anybody figured out how to fix the Google Earth flickerin g problem when using XFCE and compositor enabled? | 03:08 |
| holstein | didnt know that was a problem.. id ask the package maintainer to do it though | 03:10 |
| holstein | asterismo: ^ | 03:10 |
| Karmen | Does a Intel SE7501BR2 Dual CPU Socket 604 Motherboard Server Board work with Ubuntu Server? | 05:50 |
| Karmen | its an older board. | 05:50 |
| deper29 | hey, I am having trouble with a library thing. I am getting this error: jar: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | 07:55 |
| StepNjump_ | Hi guys, I am trying to run a command : ls -al >> date. I would like to run this every so many hours. HOw could I do that please? | 07:56 |
| deper29 | StepNjump, I *think* you could write a script and set it to run every x hours | 07:56 |
| StepNjump_ | yes I don't know how to create a script deper29 | 07:58 |
| deper29 | StepNjump, hold on a sec | 07:58 |
| StepNjump_ | k | 07:59 |
| StepNjump_ | tnx | 07:59 |
| deper29 | take a look here | 07:59 |
| deper29 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto | 07:59 |
| StepNjump_ | thanks a lot deper29 | 08:00 |
| deper29 | np | 08:01 |
| deper29 | StepNjump, to my understanding, you can just crontab -e then edit that file and set what you want | 08:03 |
| StepNjump_ | yes thanks deper29 I appreciate it | 08:18 |
| StepNjump_ | Going zzzz can't believe it 4h! | 08:18 |
| StepNjump_ | gN | 08:18 |
| s-fox | Hello. | 09:37 |
| benonsoftware | Hiya s-fox | 09:39 |
| s-fox | Hello benonsoftware , how are you ? | 09:39 |
| benonsoftware | Fine thanks, yourself? | 09:39 |
| s-fox | Really good thank you, I just had a second interview for a position. | 09:40 |
| StepNjump | Hi guys, is there a way to create a shortcut to a website using the cli? | 20:07 |
| Unit193 | Create a desktop file with something like exo-open http://google.com in it. | 20:08 |
| StepNjump | how does that work Unit193 ? | 20:16 |
| Unit193 | That uses your default browser to open the link, you can always just use the browsers name. | 20:17 |
| StepNjump | I don't understand how come there is nothing more easier to do this yet | 20:18 |
| Unit193 | Not really sure what you'd be looking for... | 20:19 |
| StepNjump | well I tried the command from the cli, works and opens the page but how can I create the link? | 20:19 |
| StepNjump | ln? ln exo-open combination? | 20:20 |
| Unit193 | Nope, you can create a .desktop file for it, but there may be a GUI/Unity way to do it. | 20:20 |
| StepNjump | No I have no problem using the cli but how can I create a desktop file using exo-open | 20:21 |
| StepNjump | something like? exo-open url ~/Desktop/lnName | 20:22 |
| Unit193 | nano link.desktop and type name=Google (new line) exec=exo-open http://google.com | 20:23 |
| Unit193 | http://pastebin.com/wUs8MTVd | 20:23 |
| StepNjump | oic... let me try that Unit193 tnx | 20:25 |
| StepNjump | Unit193: I am getting close to it | 20:42 |
| StepNjump | Unit193: how do you create a desktop launcher via cli? | 20:42 |
| Unit193 | I use nano. :P | 20:43 |
| StepNjump | I tried it, it didn't work... | 20:43 |
| StepNjump | ok so nano newlink | 20:43 |
| Unit193 | newlink.desktop | 20:44 |
| StepNjump | i guess I could create an alias too | 20:44 |
| StepNjump | oh it has to be file.desktop? | 20:44 |
| StepNjump | mmmm | 20:44 |
| StepNjump | ok thanks again Unit193 that exo-open certainly helped a lot. Thanks | 21:00 |
| StepNjump | talk to you later | 21:00 |
| Unit193 | Sure, adios. | 21:00 |
| StepNjump | adios amigo | 21:01 |
| === yofel_ is now known as yofel | ||
| daslinkard | What's up room? | 23:07 |
| philipballew_ | not much daslinkard | 23:07 |
| daslinkard | How's everyone doing? | 23:08 |
| daslinkard | Anyone from Alabama here? | 23:14 |
| philipballew_ | daslinkard, probably the south somewhere | 23:17 |
| philipballew_ | im from ca | 23:17 |
| daslinkard | Cool Philip...I obviously live in Alabama....wanting to start a LUG in Northern Alabama however it seems that the area may be dead in the Northern Alabama area | 23:18 |
| philipballew_ | starting a lug. thats a good topic | 23:18 |
| === szczur is now known as bananikus | ||
| === bananikus is now known as szczur | ||
| daslinkard | Yeah, right now the closest one to me is 1 1/2 hours South of me. | 23:26 |
| bodhi_zazen | 'lo daslinkard | 23:53 |
| bodhi_zazen | daslinkard: FWIW - I did get you PM earlier, was AFK at the time | 23:53 |
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