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magespawnMorning all07:10
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marcogfor those in cape town, don't forget the release party tomorrow09:49
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tumbleweedand #ubuntu-release-party now11:18
tumbleweedhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-April/000159.html12:05
charlvntumbleweed: thanks, installing it inside vmware now12:14
charlvngonna try the easy install; the beta didn't want to work like that so it would be interesting to see if the release does12:15
Squirmhi12:15
zerefYaawwN12:19
tumbleweedcharlvn: what went wrong before?12:20
charlvntumbleweed: no idea, just hanged with a blank screen12:23
charlvnah, worked this time!12:23
tumbleweedouch12:23
charlvnoh no wait, it did a server install from ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.iso12:24
charlvnwhat the heck?12:25
charlvnworked fine with ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso12:25
tumbleweedthe -desktop- ISOs sohuldn't be able to do server installs12:25
tumbleweedalthough, obviously, you can turn any ubuntu install into any other ubuntu install12:26
charlvnno i don't think it's a proper server install, but it doesn't boot the desktop manager12:26
charlvnso i log in at the command line12:26
tumbleweedthat sounds more like a ubg12:26
charlvnyeah12:26
tumbleweedwhat graphics card does vmware present?12:26
tumbleweed(I don't assume much pre-release testing ahppens on vmware...)12:27
charlvnyeah probably not12:27
charlvnunder virtual machine settings, it says the "Display" device is set to "Auto detect"12:27
charlvnnot sure what that means12:27
tumbleweedwhat options do you have?12:27
charlvnit won't let me change any of the settings12:28
superflycharlvn: why are you using vmware?12:28
charlvnwait lemme make a screenshot12:28
charlvnsuperfly: for the lulz12:28
tumbleweedcharlvn: shut it down first12:28
tumbleweedyou can't change that kind of thing while its running12:28
superflycharlvn: VirtualBox will give you better performance12:28
charlvntumbleweed: http://i.imgur.com/W2k2K.png12:29
charlvntumbleweed: ah yes, you're right, now i can change stuff12:30
charlvnsuperfly: benchmarks?12:30
tumbleweederr nafc12:30
charlvnyeah weird12:31
charlvnwhat is the new desktop manager in ubuntu called... maybe i can start it manually12:31
charlvnnot gdm right?12:31
tumbleweedlightdm12:31
charlvnah yes, thanks12:31
tumbleweedif it starts manually, please report a bug, that's something we want to get to the bottom of12:32
charlvnah, it started! sudo lightdm did the trick12:32
charlvnmanaged to log in and am now on the desktop12:32
charlvnexcept the time is wrong but virtualbox always sets the time zone to pst or something, that's a vmware issue12:33
tumbleweedcharlvn: it was a clean install, not an upgrade?12:33
charlvns/virtualbox/vmware/12:33
charlvnyes it was a clean install12:33
charlvnyou say i should report it somewhere? never reported a bug before, any pointers?12:35
charlvni know a lot of people can get pretty pissed if you don't file a bug properly so i'm careful :)12:35
tumbleweedcharlvn: ideally, first check if you can reproduce it12:39
tumbleweedcharlvn: but just do a fairly simple report saying what you did and what vmware you are using. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs12:40
charlvntumbleweed: ok thanks12:42
charlvnmmm getting a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable on that url atm12:43
tumbleweedok, just run "ubuntu-bug lightdm"12:43
charlvncool thanks12:44
charlvnah got the page now after a refresh12:44
charlvnseems like the server is taking some strain due to the release :)12:45
superflycharlvn: none at hand, but I do know that VB makes use of the hardware wherever possible, while VMware does full virtualisation12:51
charlvntumbleweed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/98884712:53
tumbleweedcharlvn: would you mind seeing if that still happens in a new install?12:54
tumbleweedcharlvn: hrmm @modified.conffile..etc.init.lightdm.conf: [deleted]12:56
charlvntumbleweed: that right there probably explains the issue12:57
charlvnthat was the info that the ubuntu-bug tool collected12:57
tumbleweeddo you have a /etc/init/lightdm.conf?12:57
charlvni think that's a "feature" of the easy install option12:57
charlvnlet me double check12:57
tumbleweedit shouldn't have been able to start without that12:57
tumbleweedwhat is this "easy install" you speak of?12:57
charlvnnope indeed i don't12:58
charlvni'm not entirely sure how it works but it automates the installation12:59
tumbleweedok, try not using that12:59
tumbleweedthat sounds like something that should be reported to vmware...12:59
charlvni'm almost 100% sure it will work then12:59
charlvnlet me try to reinstall with and without12:59
kbmonkeylo o/13:00
charlvnhi kbmonkey 13:00
charlvnsuperfly: to get back to your point, vmware workstation even has partial support for 3d hardware acceleration, which afaik virtualbox does not13:01
tumbleweedIIRC the commercial virtualbox did13:02
charlvnthat's possible, never used it13:02
charlvnvmware workstation has drivers that you can install that dramatically increases performance, just like virtualbox13:02
tumbleweedthose are getting standardised to a large degree13:03
tumbleweedvirtio etc.13:03
charlvnit should, that would make things a heck of a lot easier13:03
charlvndebian detects and installs the virtualbox ose drivers automatically during the installation process13:03
charlvni don't think ubuntu does this yet, although i haven't tested 12.04 inside of virtualbox yet13:04
tumbleweedfaor the last few years, ubuntu has supported virtio out the box13:04
charlvnit's possible that it doesn't ship in the iso and that debian just downloads them automatically during the installation13:04
tumbleweednothing that needs to be installed13:04
tumbleweedit also has the vmware video driver13:04
tumbleweedwhich KVM also implements13:05
charlvninteresting, when i did an ubuntu 11.10 desktop install inside of virtualbox, it popped something up about installing the virtualbox drivers13:05
charlvnso it has them in the repo somewhere13:05
charlvnjust didn't install them immediately during the initial installation13:05
charlvnis it true though that vmware doesn't support hardware virtualisation?13:06
charlvnhttp://www.vmware.com/support/ws80/doc/releasenotes_workstation_80.html#Installation_Requirements13:07
charlvnwhy would it require a "64-bit x86 CPU" then13:07
charlvntumbleweed: ok did a new clean install and got the same problem, going to try without the easy install now13:09
kbmonkeyI use qemu with kvm (hardware virt). It works fantastic, I have not tried 3D accel yet though13:22
tumbleweedI don't think it does 3D acceleration, although I saw someone experimenting with it last year13:23
charlvnnever tried using qemu/kvm for gui installs myself, only for command line installs (mostly for "server purposes" or whatever you want to call it)13:25
charlvnqemu is pure software emulation but kvm enables hardware virtualisation13:26
tumbleweedkvm was a qemu fork, but I tihnk it's got all the momentum these days13:27
tumbleweedkvm is the only VM tool I use13:27
charlvn"KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream."13:27
charlvnit has been saying that for years... i wonder how it's going with the upstreaming :)13:28
charlvnfrom http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page13:28
charlvnbut yeah... for virtualisation on servers i always go straight to kvm13:29
charlvnbut at this point all the servers i use are virtual servers that are hosted on physical servers ran by other people13:30
charlvnso not something i spend much time thinking about13:30
charlvntumbleweed: the clean install without using easy install worked perfectly, booted straight into lightdm13:33
charlvni am installing vmware tools now manually inside the vm to see if that breaks it...13:33
superflycharlvn: my open source VB has support for 3D acceleration13:39
charlvnsuperfly: that's good news, which version?13:40
superflydunno, whichever version has been in Ubuntu for the last year13:40
charlvnhmmm13:42
charlvncan you get gnome 3 to run?13:42
charlvngnome shell or whatever people call it now13:42
charlvnthat was mainly what i was having trouble with13:43
superflyI'm not too clued up on VMware these days though, other than it's still not open source (which VB is, for the most part) and when using it for servers for a certain high profile site it SUCKED performance wise13:43
superflycharlvn: dunno, I don't use Gnome, but KDE  runs with all the bells and whistles13:43
charlvnyeah kde indeed runs fine, but that doesn't need 3d acceleration13:43
charlvngnome3 is a pain in that regard13:44
superflycharlvn: if you want all the bells and whistles (the fancy effects) it does13:44
superflyand it runs with all the effects in VB13:44
charlvnfrom my experience, vmware workstation is about the same as virtualbox on a desktop when it comes to performance13:44
superflyand IIRC I got Unity 3D working fine in VB13:44
charlvnthe big difference is obviously that virtualbox is floss and vmware is proprietary13:44
charlvnif i recall correctly, i had no trouble with unity either, only with gnome313:45
charlvnin any case, i got ubuntu 12.04 working perfectly now inside vmware workstation by not using the easy install and installing vmware tools afterwards13:46
nuvolario/14:06
nuvolarihappy pangolin day14:06
kbmonkeyXD nuvolari 14:07
charlvnhttp://www.vulkaner.no/n/africa/somalia/pangolin.jpg <- "hello!" :P14:13
charlvncute little things http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/files/2012/02/pangolin.jpg14:13
charlvnhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/pangolin-poaching-soup-pictures/index.html <- yuck14:14
nuvolarilyk vir my maar baie 'skurf' :P14:21
kbmonkeythanks for that charlvn :P14:21
kbmonkeyyuck, meats :(14:21
kbmonkeycute little things indeed!14:22
kbmonkeywonder what sound they make14:22
zerefgrrrrr grrrr grrrrr14:25
zerefpew pew weo weo14:25
zeref:D14:25
charlvnnuvolari: sorry what does "skurf" mean?14:28
charlvndoesn't seem relevant http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skurf14:29
charlvnkbmonkey: they probably sound quite cute until they land in the soup... after that they probably don't say much :P14:31
zerefo0o014:34
magespawnYou will be very fortunate to ever see pne in the wild.14:39
magespawnOne14:39
nuvolaricharlvn: rough14:49
charlvnah rough.. still don't understand but ok :P14:49
kbmonkeyha ha 'skurf', I like that14:56
charlvnwell the pangolins look quite "skurf" on the outside so biologically speaking that is probably correct :P15:04
nuvolariI can see it's home time. The download speed nearly doubled15:04
kbmonkeyeverybody is off youtube and facebook :p15:05
zereflol15:05
kbmonkeydownloading 12.04? ;)15:05
charlvntoday we are teleworking when we are at home and telehobbying when we are at work15:06
nuvolarithat's true15:06
kbmonkey*snorts*15:06
magespawnHa nice one15:07
charlvnkbmonkey: don't snort too hard or you'll end up like this http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-fucking-love-cocaine-cocaine-bear15:07
charlvnand alas it is 5 and home time for me as well... ciao all15:09
kbmonkeythat bear is very excitable15:09
kbmonkeyciao ciao15:09
zereflooonnnngg weekend :D15:09
kbmonkeyright... lets nuke this pc and dd ubuntu across.15:09
kbmonkey*cue music montage*15:09
nuvolario/ i'm off15:25
kbmonkeyciao nuvolari 15:30
zerefhmmm15:33
zerefwonder if there will be a big diff between the beta2 and final release15:33
magespawnLater all.15:55
superflyDum de dum de dum...17:02
Kilosevening superfly and others17:37
Squirmhello17:55
SquirmI know this is Ubuntu17:55
Squirmbut with a basic install of debian, any ideas how to stop my monitor turning off every (what I guess is) 15min17:55
Kilosoh my Squirm i just got ian to download the debian iso for me 17:55
Kiloswhat does it look like?17:56
Kilosno power settings anywhere?17:56
Squirmdepends what DE you use17:56
zerefSquirm: gnome-screensaver17:56
zerefsettings there17:56
SquirmI started with a debian basic install.17:56
Squirmzeref: I dont have gnome17:56
zerefo0o017:57
zerefwhich DE17:57
Squirmumm17:57
Squirmone I put together?17:57
Squirmpekwm as the window manager, pcmanfm as file manager17:57
Kiloslol squirmian17:57
zerefo0o0o0o0o017:57
SquirmI started from an install with no xorg17:58
SquirmX1117:58
Squirmw/e17:58
zerefummm in /usr/bin/ there are some screensaver settings there18:00
zerefi think its one of the xscreensaver , have not that in a loooong while18:01
Kiloszeref, do you know bebian?18:01
Kilosdebian18:02
SquirmKilos: Ubuntu is built on debian18:02
zerefKilos: yep18:02
Squirmif you install GDE, it'll look like Ubuntu with GDE18:02
Kilosoh so gnome is part of it18:02
Squirmand feel like Ubuntu18:02
Kilosthats nice18:02
Kilostelkom kinda sucks in rustenburg18:03
zerefyep, but tthere is a bit oc configuing involved18:03
SquirmGnome, KDE, LXDE, etc18:03
Kilosthe debian dvd iso download says its gonna take 4 days18:03
Kiloshehe18:03
zerefLOL18:03
Kilosthats much worse than 3g18:04
Kiloslike gprs about18:04
zerefdo you want to move to debian Kilos18:04
Kiloszeref, i am kinda hooked on gnome so im looking for another os thats not gonna use lotsa data with updates all the time18:05
Kilosgoogled lubuntu but only find 11.0418:06
SquirmKilos: you could install fedora with gnome18:06
Squirmthough I use it on my office pc, don't really like fedora18:06
Kilosdoes debian also update all the time?18:07
zerefnope18:07
zerefdebian is like an LTS18:07
zerefsuper LTS18:07
Kilosah that sounds good then18:07
Squirmyeah18:07
Squirmbefore squeeze, it was a few years before they released a version18:08
Kilosbecause ian sometimes takes 4 months to get here18:08
KilosBanlam, hi what os are you using?18:09
zerefi've got debian as my server, hardly any updates18:09
Squirmmy debian server has been up 80 days18:10
Squirm80 becuase I think I forgot to pay my account. so it died18:10
Kiloslol18:10
zerefKilos: debian still uses gnome 2.3 :)18:11
Kilosthen maybe i will stick there zeref 18:11
Kilosbut will try keep maverick going as long as possible first18:12
zeref10.04?18:13
zeref:whistle:18:13
Kilos10.018:13
Kilos10.1018:13
SquirmKilos: no 12.04?18:13
zerefi mean why not 10.0418:14
Kilospc cant do unity and the classic gnome wasnt as stable as 10.1018:14
Kilosi have 11.04 xubuntu on a small drive but it has probs with its apt18:15
zerefi'm sure gnome-stable in 12.04 will be solid18:15
zeref*gnome-classic18:15
Kilosyeah maybe but all the updating kills my data18:15
Kilosbut i will definitely try it18:16
Squirmdon't update?18:16
Kilosdont really wanna leave ubuntu18:16
Kilosyou have to do the first update and that a few hundred megs of data18:17
zerefget ubuntu 10.04.418:18
Kilosi have 10.04 as well but 10.10 worked better18:20
Kilosis that 10.04.4 a typo?18:21
Squirm10.04 is an LTS isn't it?18:21
Kilosyeah18:21
zeref*10.04.318:21
Kiloszeref, where are you getting the .3 and .4 from18:22
zerefall LTS have like *servce pack" updates18:28
Kilosoh didnt know that18:29
Kilosnight guys sleep tight18:35
superflyMissed all the action, did I?18:52
inetprosuperfly: action?19:05
superflyinetpro: some chatter19:06
kbmonkeyyay it worked!19:06
kbmonkeycopied ubuntu install from a disk to another19:07
zerefwoah, who has 12.04 already 19:10
superflyzeref: um, I've been running it since the first beta19:22
nuvolario/19:23
* nuvolari starts upgrading19:23
kbmonkey*jealous face*19:24
zerefsuperfly: any difference19:24
superflyzeref: between 11.10 and 12.04?19:24
superflylots19:24
superflyKDE 4.819:24
zerefbeta and final19:24
superflyoh, I dunno19:24
superflybeen upgrading incrementally, so I can't really say19:25
superflytumbleweed: ping19:25
zereffor me beta was slow, + using >1GB of ram19:26
inetprozeref: I don't think the usage of more RAM is a bit thing19:27
inetpros/bit thing/bad thing/19:28
zerefnah, at start up 500MB19:28
zerefo0o019:28
inetproI would almost say the more RAM used, the better19:29
inetprothat's what it is there for after all19:29
inetproand what is slow?19:30
inetproit's all relative19:30
zerefbootup was slow, unity was slow19:30
nuvolarianyone used the mysql tools?19:45
nuvolari*the new mysql tools19:45
nuvolariI've seen it swiftly at work this week19:45
nuvolaribut it was really not intuitive19:45
nuvolaritook both of us way too long to figure out how to create a schema with the new tool19:46
kbmonkeyi've _seen_ it briefly nuvolari, cant say much from using it19:47
magespawnEvening all19:52
kbmonkeylo magespawn o/19:52
magespawnWhats up?19:53
kbmonkeysetting up a pc with ubuntu so my dad can try it out19:56
kbmonkeyand learning some urwid while i wait for it to finish19:56
magespawnurwid?19:59
superflyheya magespawn19:59
magespawnHey superfly19:59
kbmonkeyurwid is a python ncurses widget library20:01
magespawnTy20:01
magespawnJoust googled20:02
magespawnJust20:02
nuvolarioh pooh. : ( this is the issue with customized systems: you're screwed when upgrading20:08
zerefcustomized systems??20:08
nuvolarizeref: lots of non-standard packages20:10
nuvolariI don't know what exactly :P20:11
nuvolaribut I think I did a clean install for 11.10 and now it complains for something on upgrade, then exits20:11
superflynuvolari: I disabled all PPA's and other repositories, and then I did a plain "upgrade" to the latest version of oneiric, and then I did a dist-upgrade20:13
nuvimobugh, this doesn't make sense...20:26
nuvimobwhy would there be an alternate disc when it still wants to download from the net?20:27
nuvimobmaybe I should just switch to a rolling release distress20:28
nuvimobdistro 20:28
nuvimobHmm. it only now makes sense what you said superfly :-P 20:28
superflynuvimob: ?20:29
superflyoh, the ppas20:29
nuvimobya20:29
superflyI've been toying with the idea of installing Arch20:30
* nuvimob tries to be patient tonight20:30
superflyapparently they have a very vanilla version of KDE, and some folks say it's better than the version of KDE in Kubuntu20:30
nuvimobye, me too, but I had issues with Java, but on a virtual machine though20:31
nuvimobgetting ticked off20:36
nuvimobI really don't want to wait untill Monday20:38
nuvimobto do a net install20:38
nuvimobthis is not funny at all20:55
nuvimobmy worst upgrade experience so far20:55
tumbleweedsuperfly: hi20:56
superflytumbleweed: I've installed debian in a VM so that I can get back to packaging that app20:57
superflyis there an "official" list somewhere of packages I should install for building packages?20:57
tumbleweedsuperfly: packaging-dev is a fairly recent attempt at that21:01
superflyhrm, let me see if I have that21:01
superflynope21:10
superflytumbleweed: I have Debian 6.0.421:10
tumbleweedsuperfly: I recommend using unstable / precise for packaging work21:11
superflyOK21:11
superflyI just downloaded the ISO they recommended... 21:11
tumbleweedyeah, we only really release the stable releases :)21:12
tumbleweedyou can use squeeze, you'll just have some older tools. That's not a problem, though21:12
* superfly upgrades to unstable21:19
superflytumbleweed: bandwidth isn't a problem :-)21:19
superflywell, I'm going to hit the hay, tumbleweed I'll see you tomorrow... I'll be there in the morning.21:30
magespawnNight all.21:42
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