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knightwisemornin07:14
dwatkinsloes08:09
knightwisemorning dwatkins08:17
meetwhat is gambas2-runtime?08:31
directhexgambas is a visual basic clone08:33
directhexthat package is required files for a gambas app to run08:33
diploMorning all08:38
knightwisehey diplo09:11
daftykinsmornin'09:28
daftykinsmy dogs are loonies http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LpN5xwYnyj809:38
daftykinswatch the older one, he gets zero traction on that tiled floor and so the puppy a tenth his age drags him around it :>09:39
diploheh daftykins, love when dogs do stuff like that10:06
brobostigongood morning everyone,10:16
AzelphurPotentially controversial question here, but has anyone noticed that 12.10 is terrible?10:25
AzelphurEvery device I've installed it on has had deal breaking issues, mostly not even booting o.O10:25
knightwiseAzelphur:  ?10:26
knightwiserealy , On what devices ?10:26
Azelphurknightwise: two PC's, one I built X wouldn't start after driver install, another just plain wouldn't boot at all (that's one of those cheap ebuyer zoostorm things)10:27
Azelphurand on my laptop (Lenovo S205) X only starts intermittently, and nm-applet doesn't work properly (half the time it doesn't show any of the connection options, only enable / disable wifi) and I've seen this on multiple other peoples laptops too.10:27
AzelphurI don't usually join the "zomg this version sucks" camp, but it literally seems like every machine I try has major issues, was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing that10:28
knightwiseNow I know i"ve also had some issues on my pc running an ATI card , mostly regarding dual screen10:29
knightwisei'm currently running 12.10 on a last gen macbook air and its perfect.10:29
Azelphurknightwise: yea, all my "X won't start" woes have been on ATI machines10:29
knightwiseAzelphur: I am however dreading to reinstall it on this machine. Did quite a few tweaks and tricks to get it running just right.10:30
Azelphurknightwise: yea, that's why I'm avoiding it on my PC :(10:30
knightwiseand since i'm dual booting i'm now running out of space for my home directory .. so I am seriously thinking about nuking OSX on this machine10:30
Azelphurfun :)10:31
knightwiseyeah . I did an upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 on the machine and it kinda just works pretty well10:32
knightwiseironic since this is a mac10:32
jpdsAzelphur: No problems here.10:34
jpdsAzelphur: Sounds like E_USER_ERROR.10:34
Azelphurjpds: hard to user error a completely fresh install ;)10:34
Azelphurbut yea, guess it just hates me10:35
knightwiseAzelphur: :( I feel your pain10:38
jpdsAzelphur: Buy some certified hardware.10:39
knightwisethats rediculous10:39
AzelphurI usually custom build, it's cheaper and you get better bang for buck.10:39
knightwiseUbuntu should not require "certified" hardare10:40
knightwisethats not what linux is all about10:40
jpdsknightwise: Disagree, how are you suppose to know what's been QA and tested and sure to work?10:42
jpdsknightwise: And thus fully supportable?10:42
knightwisethats true... but please no "built for ubuntu" stickers ! :)10:42
knightwisesounds to windwowzzz-ee10:43
jpdsI quite like the orange "Ubuntu Certified" label on my laptop.10:43
jpdsAzelphur: OK, keep using failing hardware. ;-)10:43
Azelphurjpds: it's hardly failing, the performance is probably 10x what you have :)10:44
Azelphurand yea, knightwise++10:44
jpdsAzelphur: My Thinkpad X230?10:48
jpdsAzelphur: No.10:48
AzelphurHD Graphics 3000 xD10:49
Azelphuryes.10:49
knightwiseBUt a thinkpad .. of all things , should be certified.10:50
jpdsAzelphur: Actually, it's the 4000.10:50
Azelphurstill, vs a 797010:51
Azelphurthere will be floor wiping, lots of it.10:51
Azelphurand what you got in there, some mobile i7?10:51
Azelphuryou really think that's gonna compete with a high end sandy?10:51
Azelphuror ivy?10:51
jpdsHeh.10:52
AzelphurI think most of my problems are related to newer ati cards not being supported so well yet, apart from the network-manager issue *shrug*10:53
Azelphureverything I had issues with was new builds on high end AMD cards, so could explain it I guess10:53
davmor2Morning all11:05
brobostigonmorning davmor211:05
darrenFs11:12
DJonesMorning all11:20
knightwisequestion. i've dual booted my macbook Air with OSX and Ubuntu and the drive is getting a little cramped12:51
knightwiseso i'm thinking of removing OSX alltogether and just leaving Ubuntu on it.12:51
knightwisecould I do this using A live USB stick and Gparted ?12:51
jonnymacHi guys12:52
jonnymacAnyone here got experience with webmin? I'm having difficulty finding out what  address to give so that one of my users can log on12:53
jpdsWell, don't use webmin.13:02
knightwiseshould be https://ip.of.your.server:1000013:04
knightwisejpds: be nice !13:04
jpds!webmin | knightwise13:06
lubotu3knightwise: webmin is no longer supported in Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected issues with your system.13:06
jpdsknightwise: I am being nice, I'm preventing them from bricking their box.13:06
knightwiseWebmin bricks your box ?13:07
* knightwise didnt know that13:07
jpdsknightwise: Potentially.13:07
knightwisei stand corrected13:07
ali1234webmin was replaced by something new wasn't it?14:01
dwatkinsswat?14:02
dwatkinsoh, that's just Samba, ignore me14:02
davmor2ali1234:  it was ebox but I think that has changed it's name now14:03
davmor2ali1234: http://www.zentyal.org/ I think this is what it is now14:04
AlanBellthat isn't the same thing at all14:04
AlanBellwebmin is more like cpanel I think14:04
davmor2AlanBell: Zentyal is a similar thing to webmin in that it controls services and gives a nice web gui to do it in, zentyal is aimed more squarely at SMB though where the guy that knows the most about computers gets to admin the server too14:12
NET||abuse /join #jquery14:34
Laneysnooooooooooooooooooow stay away until later16:17
Laneygot to bike a few miles to the climbing centre :(16:17
* Laney smacks google's apt repo16:21
davmor2morning popey17:04
popeyyo17:04
* Laney wibbles17:05
davmor2popey: oh god 4 days in the states and you think your 'merican17:05
Laneyhe's wearing a backwards baseball cap17:05
Laneyi saw it17:05
popeyyou shizzle17:05
popeyor something17:05
davmor2popey: next you'll be out back firing guns till your neck gets tanned ;)17:06
popeyyeeeee haw17:09
=== io is now known as IdleOne
meetfor a little while I tried the login without password option from the user account settings. But now i am unable to revert back to the original. On clicking the ask for password on next login it makes me create a new password. I don't want that19:48
popeymeet: is it configured in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf19:49
meetpopey: http://dpaste.com/881143/19:50
meetpopey: what changes do i make there?19:54
popeyhmm, maybe not19:55
meetso what maybe the problem?19:56
davmor2meet: you have to create a password but you can use the same one I think or have you tried that20:00
GRShello?20:08
GRSanybodt here?20:08
daftykinsyes20:08
daftykinsfail.20:08
ubuntubhoylol20:09
meetdavmor2: ya i tried that. that option does not allow me to keep a password less than 8 chars..and actually i don't need that long20:12
daftykinsmeet: long pass that much of a hardship?20:14
meetdaftykins: i infact prefer no password. but then the keyring not unlocking problem crops up. moreover if from the root shell i am able to setup a 4 characters long password i don't understand why here it asking for that length?20:15
daftykinswell it's the common disparity between CLI utility and GUI utility20:16
daftykinsbut ja, i see your point on the keyring hassle20:17
davmor2meet: it is trying to establish what a sensible security password is for users that have no clue20:18
meetinfact.. i even tried the solution of not keeping any password for the keyring.. but still at times the error showed up and that time there was noway to unlock the keyring as blank is not accepted.20:19
ali1234the trick is "sudo passwd <user>"20:20
ali1234it will warn you about weak passwords20:20
ali1234but since you are root, it will let you use them anyway20:20
meetdavmor2: also when i did the set password on next login and chose a 8char password. after that entered the root shell and changed my password again. at next login i was logged in without any password and again the annoying keyring problem.20:20
meetali1234: i tried that. but at the next login i am either logged in automatically or asked to create a new password.20:21
ali1234that makes no sense20:21
meetali1234: exactly20:22
daftykinsmeet: create one that meets the criteria, then bypass it afterward?20:22
meetdaftykins:  i tried that. but at the next login i am either logged in automatically or asked to create a new password.20:22
ali1234what do you mean "exactly"20:22
daftykinsah same deal20:22
ali1234it makes no sense in that what you are saying doesn't match reality20:23
meetali1234: it's happening!20:23
ali1234the system does not know how long your password is unless you type it in20:23
ali1234it doesn't know what your password is at all20:24
ali1234if you change your password as root there is no way the system can automatically log you on20:24
ali1234and it will only ask you to change the password if the existing password has expired20:24
meetali1234. at present my password is 4 chars long.20:24
ali1234and ubuntu does not use password expiry by default20:24
popeyis it "meet"? ☺20:24
meeti go to the user accounts and ask it set password now.20:24
ali1234do not use "user accounts"20:25
daftykinspopey: 'teem'20:25
daftykins8D20:25
ali1234that is some ubuntu retardation20:25
meetno :)20:25
ali1234disable auto login20:25
ali1234set password from the shell with sudo20:25
ali1234check password expiry20:25
meetali1234: just a min.20:25
ali1234log out and log in with your new password20:25
ali1234if this doesn't work it is a bug20:25
meethow to disable auto login from terminal20:25
meethope that works20:26
ali1234you don't disable it from the terminal20:26
ali1234you disable it however you enabled it20:26
ali1234did you set it on install?20:26
meetno20:26
ali1234how did you set it then?20:27
meet15 min back.20:27
meetfrom settings>user accounts20:27
ali1234the default is to ask for a password on boot up20:27
meetyes20:27
meetfrom settings>user accounts20:27
meetfrom user accounts password menu i selected do not ask for password.20:28
ali1234do this20:28
ali1234chage -l meet20:28
ali1234what does it say?20:28
meetlast password change and other details20:28
ali1234so does it say your password expired?20:29
meetno20:29
meetpassword expires: never20:29
ali1234so there's no reason why the greeter would ask you to change your password20:29
ali1234can you tell me how to reproduce this?20:29
ali1234what version of ubuntu is it first?20:29
meetok20:29
meet12.1020:29
ali123464 bit?20:30
meet3220:30
ali1234hmm. well it probably doesn't matter20:30
ali1234ok, so i'm going to install it in a VM...20:30
ali1234hmm i don't have that iso20:31
ali1234ok, downloading it, 32 bit20:32
ali1234so, how did you install?20:32
ali1234did you encrypt home directory or anything like that?20:33
meetno20:33
ali1234ok. 10 minutes until download finishes... don't go anywhere20:33
meeti have a normal user account. my password is 4chars long. no big deal. eveything fine. i am asked at the login screen to enter my password. i want the login screen and do not want the password.  so I select from user accounts password: login without a password.  After some restarts at every login i am greeted with a message: keyring did not unlock. so i am like ok you can ask me password at the login screen. so i choose ask for password at next login. but i20:34
meett asks me to create a new password. and this time 4chars not allowed. Thus my 4char comfort is snatched away!20:34
ali1234i see20:35
meetali1234: is it ok if i leave?20:39
ali1234i suppose... :?20:39
meetok. how do know if you find a solution?20:39
ali1234you'll just have to come back and ask?20:40
ali1234or check the logs20:40
meetok. i am pretty sure it's a bug.20:41
meetwhat happens when bugs are found?20:41
daftykinssaid bug is filed20:41
ali1234usually nothing :(20:41
daftykinsand in my experience 2 years pass20:41
daftykinswith nary a change20:41
ali1234if you are lucky there might be an argument20:41
daftykins^ this20:42
meetoh.. i thought it is fixed in the next release or something like that.20:42
ali1234about who's fault it is20:42
daftykinsthen the argument about the way it should be begins20:42
meetoh.. i thought I had made some contribution to improve ubuntu :D20:44
daftykinsas did i20:44
daftykinsyears ago, installing Ubuntu would detect that i'm from Guernsey20:44
daftykinsbut it'd auto select a US keyboard instead of US20:44
daftykinsi filed a bug20:44
daftykins2+ years passed20:44
daftykinsit sat idle, couple of others agreed once20:44
daftykinsthen about 6 releases later it was fixed20:45
daftykins*shrug*20:45
ali1234well it could have been worse, you could have got french20:45
meetsounds like a government office.. where no one cares..20:45
meetlol20:45
daftykinsthat would've been welcome20:45
daftykinsi could've changed my keyboard letters over to AZERTY20:46
daftykinsif they weren't all blank anyway20:46
ali1234oh you're one of THOSE people20:46
ali1234i would make it randomly change keyboard layout if it detected on of those blank keyboards plugged in20:46
ali1234ok, VM booting...20:47
meetanyways. i am leaving now. thanks. bye20:47
ali1234i bet isle of man doesn't give the wrong keyboard layout :(20:48
ali1234ok, i set a 4 char password20:49
daftykinsali1234: yeah, someone that buys a keyboard and likes to dick over their friends who come by20:50
shaunothat's pretty much my history with bug reports too.  2 years later, someone posted "is this still an issue?"  answer: no, we'd migrated that platform to debian 18 months prior21:01
davmor2night all21:01
daftykinsshauno: oh dear21:07
BigRedSshauno: yeah, I'm now filing bug reports in the full expectation that that's the last I'll hear about them21:07
BigRedSuntil I rant at somebody that I can't tell which tab I'm on21:07
BigRedSBut it doesn't feel right to rant before I've filed the bug21:08
shaunowell to be fair, it was an xen issue not long after they'd announced they were throwing themselves behind kvm.  just that final reply made me sad21:08
ali1234i've got a question21:08
ali1234if i watch pirates of the caribbean movies in the wrong order, will it ruin it?21:08
shaunoif you watch the fourth one (at all, in order or not), it'll ruin everything.  other than that, I don't really think so21:10
dwatkinsI barely remember the plots of them.21:12
ali1234shauno: because the fourth one is really bad?21:12
shaunoreally may be an understatement21:13
meetAli1234 is it a bug?21:17
ali1234don't know yet21:17
ali1234it's still installing21:18
meetOk just let me know when you are done.21:21
ali1234ok i am in user accounts21:22
ali1234there is a slider "automatic login"21:22
ali1234so i unlock it21:22
ali1234move the slider to on21:22
ali1234restart VM...21:24
meetNo21:24
meetNot that slider. When you click on your password it gives you some nation's21:24
meetOptions*21:25
ali1234"login without password" ok21:26
ali1234restart VM...21:26
daftykinswhy would it be in two places 0o21:27
ali1234ok logged in without password21:27
ali1234as a result, i cannot use sudo any more, because it requires me to type in a password21:28
meetNo try to undo that. There should be a direct option to just start asking password again as it stopped.21:28
ali1234i also cannot unlock the user accounts panel21:29
meetYa21:29
ali1234i can attempt t change password thoough21:29
ali1234but i cannot enter 4 character password21:29
meetYa which it initially allowed21:30
ali1234no, it won't let me change password21:30
ali1234"change" is just grey21:31
meetYa on hovering over change it says password too short21:31
ali1234when i enter a password which is "long enough" it says "you need to enter your current password" - which is blank21:32
ali1234i can set password from the terminal with passwd though21:34
ali1234it knows not to ask for existing password21:35
ali1234however, it wants longer than 4 characters21:35
ali1234so i enter a long password21:35
ali1234then sudo passwd al21:35
ali1234enter the long password i just set21:35
meetIt allowed me to enter a 4char password from the terminal21:35
ali1234then enter the 4 character password21:35
ali1234now restart VM21:36
daftykinsthis is exciting21:36
daftykins(genuinely)21:36
ali1234and no i logged in without a password21:37
meetExactly21:37
ali1234well that is messed up21:37
ali1234my password is now "test"21:37
ali1234i can sudo21:37
ali1234when i log in i am not asked for a password21:37
ali1234i am not asked to change the password21:38
ali1234it's not "automatic login" because that doesn't show the greeter at all21:38
meetYa21:38
ali1234and it's not "login without a password" because that sets your password blank21:38
ali1234i will report this bug for you :)21:38
ali1234this is severaly messed up21:38
ali1234probably more than a single bug21:39
daftykinsdaym21:39
ali1234i can think of at least 321:39
meet:-) first contribution... Lol! Feels nice :-D21:39
daftykinsmeet: if you get the bug numbers off ali1234 once he's created them, you too can watch with baited breath as they - well actually they might well fare better than our ignored ones :>21:42
meet:-)21:43
daftykinsnn all \o21:44
ali1234i should update the VM first i guess21:46
ali1234hmm lots of updates21:47
daftykinsdoh21:48
meetOk cya gud nite ali1234 daftykins21:50
=== Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte
ali1234https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/104334922:13
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 1043349 in accountsservice (Ubuntu Quantal) "User Accounts reports wrong "Automatic Login" status when upgading from 12.04" [Undecided,In progress]22:13
ali1234one already reported22:13
ali1234second also already reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/107044922:16
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 1070449 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) ""Login without password" option effectively locks super user out!" [Undecided,Confirmed]22:16
ali1234confirming22:16
ali1234wait, why is it against ubiquity?22:17
ali1234bug 110098922:29
lubotu3bug 1100989 in lightdm (Ubuntu) "lightdm doesn't ask for password if you clear users password and then recreate it" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/110098922:29
ali1234third and final bug reported22:29
ali1234bugs bugs bugs22:31
popeythanks ali123422:33
ali1234Popey: do you think the second and/or third should be against accountsservice?22:35
ali1234i moved the ubiquity one to gnome-control-center but accountsservice might be more appropriate... but i don't know what that even is22:36
ali1234Azelphur: you use XFCE and mythtv right? how do you get the XFCE panel to not cover myth-frontend?22:39
ali1234maybe it is a compiz problem?22:41
ali1234confirmed, it does not happen with metacity22:43
ali1234i need to purge unity-team sru ppa before i can report this :(22:45
ali1234https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-panel/+bug/110099922:52
lubotu3Ubuntu bug 1100999 in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu) "xfce4 panel covers myth-frontend video playback window" [Undecided,New]22:52
czajkowskievening23:05
beatsonlinepopey, How's the phone gig going ??23:26
beatsonlineczajkowski: Hi there ..23:26
popeybeatsonline: fun!23:31
beatsonlineAlso, QUESTION :: How do capture a screenshot of certain part of the screen ??23:31
beatsonlinegood going popey..23:31
popeybeatsonline: shutter23:33
beatsonlinepopey, It would be nice to get a google plus tech. photo album of several shots of the phone .. it's good for me to put comments onto your pictures for QnA , and possible feedback .. I'd love to see that, if you possibly can, but I know it's time consuming..23:50
popeyi dont think we have any marketing pictures other than the ones on the site already23:52

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