| tomswartz07 | hey guys. i have a bit of an emergency, and I would like some advice | 02:27 |
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| tomswartz07 | my (just upgraded) 12.04 machine ran out of space on the / partition, and now I cant even use aptitude to free up space. | 02:27 |
| tomswartz07 | any ideas on how to clear up a bit of room to get my machine working again? | 02:28 |
| tomswartz07 | im afraid to even reboot, as it may lock out X from starting | 02:28 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: You can delete everything in /var/cache/apt/archives. It contains the deb files that apt-get downloads. | 02:47 |
| tomswartz07 | godbyk: i sorted it. its a LightDM logfile that took over my partition. 160G of logfiles. piece of junk | 03:03 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: Wow! | 03:03 |
| godbyk | Where does it keep the logs? /var/log? | 03:03 |
| tomswartz07 | ill say! | 03:04 |
| tomswartz07 | yep, /var/log/upstart/lightdm.log and /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log | 03:04 |
| tomswartz07 | both were pushing 80G each | 03:04 |
| godbyk | Strange. What was in the logs? | 03:04 |
| tomswartz07 | LightDM "failed to get connection from VNC socket: Error accepting connection: too many open files"? | 03:05 |
| tomswartz07 | about 10 billion times | 03:05 |
| tomswartz07 | anywho. i sorted it, now im back down to a mild 45% / usage | 03:07 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: Strange. I thought syslog automatically ellided duplicate messages when they were being printed frequently (to prevent the logs from growing so large). | 03:07 |
| godbyk | That's good to hear. | 03:07 |
| godbyk | Glad you got everything running again. | 03:07 |
| tomswartz07 | phew, i was worried there for a bit! | 03:08 |
| tomswartz07 | anyway, to manual business; whats the author deadline? | 03:08 |
| godbyk | Here's the schedule I proposed: | 03:11 |
| godbyk | May 31 – First draft completed: authors have updated and written new content; screenshots are in place. | 03:11 |
| godbyk | June 15 – Editors have edited and proofread content. | 03:11 |
| godbyk | June 22 – Release a draft for public comment and proofreading for one week. Incorporate changes as they are suggested. | 03:11 |
| godbyk | June 27 – Final draft is complete and all last-minute changes have been made. | 03:11 |
| godbyk | June 30 – The final PDF is released on our website and printed copies can be purchased via lulu.com. | 03:11 |
| godbyk | I haven't heard anyone protest that timeline, so I'll add the milestones to Launchpad. | 03:12 |
| tomswartz07 | very nice! okay. | 03:14 |
| tomswartz07 | i was very briefly re-reading my sections and it appears I dont have much to update | 03:15 |
| tomswartz07 | some title and wording, but not much work at all! Is that the case with others? | 03:15 |
| godbyk | I think it's fairly hit and miss. Most sections require only a little work. | 03:16 |
| godbyk | Some other sections require more work. | 03:16 |
| godbyk | But I don't think there's much work to do overall (compared to some previous versions). | 03:17 |
| tomswartz07 | right. | 03:17 |
| tomswartz07 | are we still allowing latex edits via bzr? | 03:18 |
| tomswartz07 | i missed the last meeting where it was likely discussed. regrets. | 03:18 |
| godbyk | Yep! | 03:18 |
| godbyk | No worries. | 03:19 |
| godbyk | Yeah, LaTeX editing via bzr is still the primary method. | 03:19 |
| godbyk | For those who aren't interested in learning LaTeX, etc., we'll accept them to send plain text to the editors so they can handle the markup. | 03:19 |
| tomswartz07 | excellent. I very much prefer doing it right in LaTeX- much quicker that way. | 03:20 |
| tomswartz07 | what version of LaTeX are we using? the standard TeX2011 from before? or a new default package? | 03:20 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: I'd stick with the upstream TeX Live still. | 03:20 |
| godbyk | I think Debian is repackaging everything, but I don't think they've finished yet. | 03:21 |
| godbyk | You can update all your TeX Live packages by running 'sudo tlmgr update --all' if you like. | 03:21 |
| godbyk | (They update the packages rather frequently.) | 03:21 |
| godbyk | Okay, milestones are on Launchpad now. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/precise | 03:22 |
| tomswartz07 | hm. okay. any notion to the version? i have arch on my main work bok. if not, i can use my ubuntu server | 03:22 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: Well, it's TeX Live 2011 still (from tug.org). They'll release 2012 in a few months. | 03:22 |
| godbyk | tomswartz07: But the 2011 Debian packages that are in the Ubuntu repositories are still broken as far as I know. | 03:23 |
| tomswartz07 | heh. they always have to change things, dont they? :P | 03:23 |
| tomswartz07 | ok. Ill use our installer to get up and running again. Im excited to get back into things! | 03:24 |
| godbyk | Yeah, I'm hoping that Debian gets the new TeX packages sorted out. I'll be nice when we can start using stuff from the repository again. | 03:25 |
| godbyk | (Though I'll likely keep using the upstream versions because I like to have the latest LaTeX packages.) | 03:25 |
| tomswartz07 | alrighty- im off to bed! hey, it was good chatting with you! | 03:27 |
| tomswartz07 | thanks for the hard work on the milestones! | 03:27 |
| godbyk | No problem. Have a good night! | 03:28 |
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| hannie | hello herat | 15:44 |
| herat | hannie: hi | 15:45 |
| hannie | herat, started writing already? | 15:45 |
| herat | hannie: yes | 15:45 |
| hannie | good | 15:45 |
| hannie | sagaci, hi, are you an author too? | 15:46 |
| herat | hannie: Thanks for all the guidelines. They were quite useful. | 15:46 |
| hannie | herat, yes it was a combined effort, John, Kevin and me | 15:46 |
| sagaci | hannie, I've started working on the listening to music chapter | 15:46 |
| hannie | sagaci, ok, if you have any questions, ping me | 15:47 |
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