[00:11] oh yeah... sumo [00:11] why should i join? [00:11] nathwill, hmmm? [00:14] hey c_smith... was wondering why bkerensa thinks i should join sumo-hackers [00:15] nathwill, lol === bdmurray_ is now known as bdmurray [02:30] hi nathwill [02:39] hey bkerensa [02:40] you're a villain [02:40] nathwill: Of epic proportions [02:40] massive easter-egg hunt :D [02:40] lolz [02:40] it is spring after all [02:40] :P [02:41] since i already know half the answers, i'm gonna give myself a 30 minute handicap [02:41] tgm4883: your silly [02:41] :D [02:42] :) [02:42] Gotta love me some contests :) [02:42] nathwill: if it takes anyone 30 mins to do that then uhh idk if they should be using Linux [02:42] :D [02:42] nathwill: tgm4883 did it in 3 mins [02:42] :P [02:42] oh snap [02:44] well I do know everything [02:44] I had to look most of those up [02:45] I think I only knew 3, and part of 5 [02:45] Dinner: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0484pc18e [02:45] btw what is a acceptable pizza tip anyways especially if its only three blocks away? [02:45] :P [02:45] I always drop a $5 [02:46] $5 sounds fine to me [02:47] some of the mom and pop pizza places out here have insane prices [02:47] UFO Pizza is almost $25 for a pie [02:47] :( [02:47] and Hammys is expensive too [02:48] That's why I make my own pizza. But it's a challenge to make any kind of dough in colder climates like this... [02:48] give a bigger tip if it's only 3 blocks away or they might send someone over to rough you up. [02:59] ok, now it's whiskey time [03:12] and salmon hour! [03:48] bkerensa: flying pie. it's also $25 for a pie, but the thicker crusts ones are like two meals. [05:13] pegasus or sy's is the pizza of choice in the EUG [05:13] :D [05:15] wow, the flickr app on android is hella slow to upload... [05:17] nathwill: inform your CEO and ask for the job [05:17] :P [05:17] demand a All-Hands :P [05:18] no, all-hands are received for the bi-annual occasions when we get a new ceo :P [05:18] lol [05:18] send the pitch up the internal mailing list :) [05:18] and hope for no walkout [05:20] yeah, i shoulda just used the native camera app [05:56] nathwill: http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf [05:58] dude, texas is as big as ceres [05:59] ha, minecraft world [05:59] that's awesome [06:15] nathwill: http://i.imgur.com/AizEG.jpg [06:57] bkerensa: wut [06:58] cy1: you looking at my horns ^ [06:58] cy1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkerensa/6342050941/sizes/l/in/set-72157627710899733/ [07:15] That scale2 thing is... ludicrous... [07:25] bkerensa: So what's with the cops I dun' get it. Surveilling them? [07:26] cy1: was from when the camps were still in the parks [07:27] ...oh [07:27] I never got to see that. :/ [07:27] just thought it was funny the guy was wearing fuzzy black horns and a homeland security cop was looking astonished [07:27] :D [07:31] I guess that could be astonished. [07:31] Funny looking ski hats have long since divested me of any reaction to odd winter headwear. [11:12] anyone awake? i could use some help.... [11:22] hughessd: with what? [11:23] i am trying to upgrade the company server from 10.04 to 12.04 [11:23] and after the reboot it says it can't mount the root partition [11:23] and thank you for replying, nibalizer [11:24] hughessd: yikes, does it drop you off in a rescue shell or something? [11:24] yes, it gives me the option of typing 'm' for manual recover (as root w/password) or skipping and continuing with the boot, [11:24] which fails bc there is no hdd [11:28] yea [11:29] did you go to the manual recovery? [11:29] sounds like we need to lvchange -a y or fsck it or something [11:29] yes, it is just the command line [11:30] i did 'touch /forcefsck' [11:30] okay [11:30] but that didn't force it [11:30] * nibalizer personally believs forcefsck is lies [11:30] did you manually fsck it? [11:30] no i did not [11:31] ill try it when it comes up again [11:31] did it say 'root did not appear' or 'root had errors'? [11:31] hmmm [11:31] i keep getting bit by this weird behiavior where the logical volume gets all deactivated [11:31] here is what I can glean [11:32] the first line at the top of the a screen says "root file system check failed" [11:32] but that is only what didn't get pushed off the screen [11:32] eh no worries [11:32] get back to the emergency shell and fsck it [11:32] I can talk you through that if you need [11:33] then when i cat /etc/fstab it has '/dev/sda1 on / ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr)' [11:33] so the hd is being mounted, [11:33] just not in time for the xserver or whatever is drawing the screen to catch it and make use of it [11:33] ok [11:34] so if you think the next step is fsck, i'm ready to go [11:34] i should unmount first, right? [11:36] uh [11:36] hrm [11:37] so it sounds like you have your root filesystem [11:37] what does 'mount' show you [11:38] mount gives [11:40] aw crap [11:40] did it not send all that i just typed [11:40] curses [11:40] uh oh [11:40] oh well [11:40] mount has [11:40] dev/sda1 [11:40] the point is what is / mounted on? [11:41] er what is mounted on / [11:41] ah i get it ,i can't put a slash in front of things... [11:41] grrr [11:41] haha [11:41] im not good at irc [11:41] if you double // it lets you [11:41] /hai [11:41] or [space]/ [11:41] /hai [11:41] exact line is; [11:42] /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_attr) [11:42] so yea, you have your root, ubuntu just wants you to fsck it [11:43] if you unmount root you're gonna have a bad time though [11:43] do you have a liveCD or something? [11:44] um [11:44] maybe [11:44] i think i have a liveUSB around, [11:45] if /forcefsck isn't doing it for it [11:45] and at least some old old liveCDs around [11:45] ok, hang on a sec while i go search around.... [11:46] what does 'fsck.ext3 -n /dev/sda1` show? [11:49] /dev/sda1: clean, [11:49] 2330372/14606336 files, [11:50] 37492553/58418356 blocks [11:50] hi [11:51] so it looks, like, good [11:52] and on reboots it complians that you've got a bad / ? [11:52] yes [11:53] there is probably a way to get more error messages but I can't seem to find them [11:53] besides /var/log/syslog [11:53] and kern.log [11:53] i founda live usb if that helps [11:55] yea prolly reboot into liveusb [11:56] then more diagnostics we will perform [11:56] how long did you get for a downtime window [11:57] i have until 7 or 8 perhaps [11:57] ill get it booted in to the live distro [11:57] okay [12:02] hm it's saying cd rom drive not found [12:03] i have both cd rom and usb live distros... [12:04] i turned on all ata drives in the BIOS [12:04] fingers crossed [12:05] hm [12:06] not working [12:06] fuuuu [12:06] this is no bueno [12:06] yea [12:06] im going to stick the usb in to see if that's recognized [12:07] okay [12:07] im workign with a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Server [12:07] if that helps at all [12:07] i have no idea what to do really [12:07] i think you should ask on ubuntu-server as well as here [12:08] ok, [12:08] i asked in the regular ubuntu room and they ignored me [12:14] this is weird [12:14] it says / isn't ready [12:14] so i push S [12:14] then it says /tmp isn't ready [12:14] so i push S [12:14] then it says UUID = blahblahblah sin't ready (which is the swap) [12:14] wtf is going on, is it just thinking that nothing is ready? [12:19] ok the liveUSB is working.... [12:21] this is no good [12:21] fsck everything [12:21] ok [12:21] the USB is plugged in, i went into BIOS to make sure its in the boot sequence [12:22] fsck the ubuntu drives [12:22] the server is rebooted and it gets to the Unetbootin Screen [12:22] so i just choose 'check disk' [12:22] woot [12:23] no wit [12:23] check disk is like verify the usb driev [12:23] "check disc for defects" [12:23] boot off the usb drive [12:23] yeah [12:23] that's what i figured.. [12:23] ok [12:23] Trying Ubuntu w/o installing.... [12:24] ok, desktop now [12:25] since im in the usb [12:25] do i have to chroot to the other file system? [12:26] don't have to chroot [12:26] just echo /dev/sd* [12:27] figure out which ones are the ubuntu fses [12:27] and fsck [12:28] sda, sda1, sda2, sda5 [12:28] im guessing sda1 [12:30] yea [12:31] hm [12:31] sudo fsck /dev/sda1 [12:31] e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) [12:32] /dev/sda1: clean , #/# files, #/# blocks [12:32] hrm [12:32] try the other ones too [12:33] sda2 said "Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open" " could this be a zero-length partition" [12:33] ? [12:35] * nibalizer shrugs [12:35] i got nothing [12:35] hm [12:35] ill try to other one [12:35] if it passes fsck then its clean [12:35] why would ubuntu not let it boot [12:36] is there anything relevant in dmesg /var/log/syslolg /var/log/messages? [12:36] sda1 is clean, sda2 is zero size and sda5 is sqp [12:36] swap [12:36] hrm [14:30] sorry hughessd! [14:31] :) [14:31] if you're here to help then no need to apologize [14:31] im at wits end.... [14:32] well, in my many failed linux installs and upgrades, i've never encountered that [14:33] post on ubuntuforums.org and wait a few days...someone can help no doubt [14:34] ... [14:34] this is the company LTSP server [14:34] many people need this to work today [14:34] ive been here since 11pm last night [14:34] this was...unforeseen === steve_h is now known as hughessd [18:16] hi nathwill [18:16] nathwill: You cant grab all the charms :P [18:16] eh? [18:16] i grabbed 2? [18:17] i think there are many more pieces of software... [18:17] i know... I just need moar for this contest [18:17] :D [18:17] i'm just trying to make things more complicated for the people in the contest [18:17] make them earn those prizes [18:17] my landlord offered me a entire month rent if I painted the unit next door [18:17] lulz [18:17] Not a chance was the response [18:17] :P [18:19] haha [18:19] lots o' work [18:20] :) Yeah and so far I have not paid full rent for the last three months [18:20] since I have been doing improvements which I bill him for [18:20] :P [18:22] nice [18:39] ugh, home inspection just came through [18:39] making the house smell like salmon last night may not have been my best idea... [18:40] LOL [18:40] nathwill: :) what did they have to say? [18:40] :P [18:40] nothing. [18:41] they came in, wandered around, and left [18:41] it took all of about 3min [18:41] but we'll see if i get a letter [18:41] our office is a disaster, because we're reorganizing everything [18:41] nathwill: you going to UDS? [18:42] kees: nope. i'd like to, but can't really afford to, we're saving for a down payment on a house [18:42] nathwill: apply for membership then apply for sponsorship next cycle? [18:42] * bkerensa will likely not go next cycle [18:42] :P [18:43] bkerensa: yes, i plan on applying for membership soon. you've convinced me that Ubuntu Membership is not like membership in the Hitler Jugend [18:43] ;p [18:44] maybe I will be on the membership board when you apply [18:44] heh [18:44] :D [18:44] haha, that'd be cool [18:45] nathwill: not for you :P because I would not vote [18:46] nathwill: members get a fancy lwn.net premium acct [18:46] and a sixxs.net acct like slangasek has although they declined me one =/ [18:47] bkerensa: he.net will give out ipv6 allocations for free. [18:47] and they're not as.... idiosyncratic in who they choose to give them out to as sixxs.net [18:48] oh, are sixxs being stingy now? [18:48] they said my proof of address was insufficient [18:48] =/ [18:48] wat [18:49] I don't remember being asked for my address [18:52] well when I registered they said my ip's geolocation did not match the address I provided or something [18:52] then asked me for a copy of my photo id and mail and my photo ID is still a California so yeah idk [18:52] he.net is the way to go [18:53] was not worth the hassle [18:53] :P [18:53] nathwill: I got one setup just now but no idea how to create the tunnel from Ubuntu [18:53] :D [18:53] where can I RTFM? [18:53] they has instructions... [18:53] they has whole series of task-based tutorials [18:53] very cool [18:55] nathwill: have you checked out the iTwin? [18:55] is that the magical usb cloner thing? [18:56] yeah, it looks pretty cool... have doubts about it working with linux [18:56] in linux that technology is called "scp" [18:56] nathwill: MBA is sending me some :D [18:56] They are also sending me Verbatims new V3 Thumbdrives which are USB 3.0 [18:56] ah. lemme know how it works out... if it works between linux and windows boxes without too much hair-pulling, i might get some for me and the wife [18:57] slick. [18:57] the wife uses redmond products [18:57] >.< [18:58] yeah... mine too [18:59] she was going strong on Ubuntu for awhile but Unity on 11.04 was killing the buzz [18:59] anyways I better get ready.... My mum is coming to help me plant flowers in front and a bunch of veggies on the patio [18:59] sweet. enjoy [22:52] hughessd: figure it out? [22:52] nope [22:52] im trying to figure out to to save the data and reinstall the LTSP environment [22:54] i haven't been able to figure out what could be keeping the system from booting if the hd is recognized as clean after a fsck [23:49] >.< [23:50] i kno u has wat going on the firefox way you kno fix it k? [23:50] haz not works five yars!