[01:32] <wagonboi> what's the lightest (RAM wise) way to add a GUI to Ubuntu server? I want to VNC into it and use Firefox
[01:32] <jkitchen> wagonboi: evilwm and your vnc server of choice
[01:34] <wagonboi> would it be possible to set up a proxy on the server and just use a local install of Firefox? That way I can keep the server light
[01:35] <wagonboi> if I use a VPN, iirc all traffic from my computer will use the server's IP... but I need one window of Firefox to have my regular IP, and the other to use my server's IP
[01:38] <MavKen> is it possible to create a script to run after clean os install?  i'd like to make a script of all my apt-get installs along with mysql root password and automatically say yes to all prompts
[01:40] <qman__> wagonboi, you can use X11 forwarding over SSH
[01:40] <qman__> and not actually run an X session on the server
[01:41] <wagonboi> qman__, even if I'm running Windows locally?
[01:42] <qman__> there are ways to do that on windows, but you didn't mention that
[01:43] <qman__> if your purpose suits it, you could use w3m instead of firefox
[01:44] <qman__> or if you want to script something, use curl or wget
[01:44] <qman__> an http proxy is also suitable
[01:45] <wagonboi> yes, just an HTTP proxy. So would I just set it up on the server and plug in the values on my local firefox install?
[01:45] <qman__> yes
[01:45] <qman__> make sure you set up some form of protection though, like only allow connections over an SSH tunnel, or a restrictive firewall
[01:46] <qman__> if you leave it open to everyone it won't be long before people find it and start using it
[01:46] <wagonboi> sure, thanks
[01:47] <jrwren> MavKen: yes, it out of hte box available via cloud-init
[03:49] <kieppie1> hi guys
[03:50] <kieppie1> running an update on a remote host & it's failing to complete the upgrade due to an error: "error while loading shared libraries: libssp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" - seems libssp.so.0 is missing from the host. not exactly sure how this has come about. online resources are a bit vague
[04:01] <tinman_> where is my "Source function library"?
[06:04] <Overand> man, setting up a rails app on ubuntu is miserable
[06:05] <Overand> It was easier to get *Request Tracker* working with FCGI than it has been to get redmine installed.
[06:06] <Overand> I wonder why rails is so painful, or if it's just redmine itself
[06:06] <Overand> It
[06:06] <Overand> Its just like... ok - even the apache module for it by default runs as root, rather than www-data.  What?  Why the heck?
[06:09] <Overand> I can't be the only person who has experienced this.
[08:58] <Plizzo> I had a power failure yesterday, and now I'm fearing one of my RAID5 discs have gone bad. Please read and help me. http://askubuntu.com/questions/361489/problem-with-mdadm-raid5-after-power-failure-disk-missing
[09:57] <DenBeiren> i'm looking for some help with bonding on my machine
[10:32] <Plizzo> I had a power failure yesterday, and now I'm fearing one of my RAID5 discs have gone bad. Please read and help me. http://askubuntu.com/questions/361489/problem-with-mdadm-raid5-after-power-failure-disk-missing
[14:13] <novato> buenas
[14:14] <novato> alguien sabe de Configurar los discos en un arreglo RAID1 con hotspare
[14:14] <novato> necesito instalar esto en un servidor dell
[14:14] <novato> con ubuntu server 12
[14:16] <novato> alguien que me ayude =??
[14:16] <novato> x favor
[14:32] <novato> hola
[14:32] <novato> ayudenme
[14:32] <novato> http://rapidshare.com/files/168981737/VMware_Workstation.part1.rar.html
[14:33] <hxm> hi, exists a way to read an imap mail server from console?
[14:33] <hxm> i just want to get the non-read subjects
[15:10] <pmatulis_> hxm: yes, of course
[15:10] <pmatulis_> hxm: read up on the IMAP protocol, it's quite featureful
[15:39] <bananapie> Is there a software I can install on one of my user's desktops ( ubuntu ) that will let him browse syslog on my server without ssh access to the server? I don't want to send syslog to his computer because there is not enough bandwidth to send the whole thing.
[15:40] <bananapie> I need something basic that will let him do commands like grep and maybe even sed and cut, but no funky stats or anything
[15:49] <jrwren> bananapie: why not ssh?
[15:50] <bananapie> because I don't trust the guy :P
[15:50] <bananapie> he's an employee
[15:50] <bananapie> I don't really trust anyone on my servers
[15:50] <jrwren> can you fire him?
[15:50] <jrwren> why hire someone you don't trust?
[15:50] <bananapie> do you trust people to log into your servers??
[15:50] <bananapie> I don't even trust my boss with a private key to access my servers...
[15:51] <bananapie> I am a very paranoid person
[15:51] <bananapie> ok
[15:51] <bananapie> I'll give him root acces :(
[15:51] <bananapie> thanks :)
[15:51] <jrwren> lol
[15:51] <jrwren> no, i understand you.
[15:51] <jrwren> depends on what you mean by "my servers"  personal home stuff: no one but me.   work stuff: all coworkers
[15:52] <jrwren> bananapie: how about command= in authorized_keys?
[15:52] <jrwren> so give him his own key which can only cat the logs you want him to read.
[15:53] <bananapie> I can do that ???
[15:53] <bananapie> Wicked sweet
[15:54] <bananapie> man authorized_keys, never thought to look there.
[15:54] <bananapie> Can I get the key name in auth.log?
[16:00] <mickie> Hi All, I'm trying to install server, on RAID1 across 2 disks, with partitions on RAID, i.e. my /boot is on /dev/md127p1.
[16:01] <mickie> but I can't install grub on it, so I tried /dev/md127 and it accepted it
[16:01] <mickie> However, now it can't find boot medium and booting stalls  :(
[16:01] <mickie> How can I repair this?
[16:11] <qman__> mickie, grub must be installed on each disk that makes up the raid, not the raid itself
[16:12] <qman__> so if you install /boot on a partition on md127, you would grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sdb
[16:12] <qman__> that way if either disk fails, the other one still has the grub mbr
[16:13] <jrwren> banzounet: no, you make a key with ssh-keygen. did you find some docs?
[16:14] <jrwren> here is a nice little blog post on it: http://daryl.learnhouston.com/2006/12/06/limiting-ssh-access-with-the-command-option-in-authorized_keys/
[16:30] <mickie> Thanks qman__ I tried /dev/sda as well as /dev/md127p1 and both failed.
[16:44] <mickie> Now trying with sysrescuecd, but /dev/sda fails again: "error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd0" This is because the fs was created on /dev/md127p1,2,3,4 not on sda
[16:45] <mickie> in other words /dev/sda does not have partitions on it - the RAID1 array does.
[16:51] <RoyK> mickie: is the raid started?
[16:51] <RoyK> mickie: cat /proc/mdstat
[16:53] <mickie> RoyK, yes it is.  md0 : active raid1 sda[0] sdb[1]
[16:53] <RoyK> can you pastebin that, please?
[16:53] <mickie> Just a mo pls
[16:57] <mickie> RoyK, here goes: http://pastebin.com/T5F2VF08
[16:58] <RoyK> no md127 there ;)
[16:58] <RoyK> try md0
[16:58] <mickie> That's right, I'm booted into the installation with sysrescueCD which recognises it as /dev/md0
[16:59] <RoyK> it's only called 127 etc if it's not configured in mdadm.conf
[16:59] <RoyK> the live cd doesn't care about that
[17:00] <mickie> I C
[17:00] <RoyK> mickie: does mounting md0* work?
[17:00] <mickie> Have a look here: http://pastebin.com/sdwMAw5c
[17:01] <RoyK> I generally don't use partitions with md, but looks fine to me
[17:01] <RoyK> did you try to mount md0p3 ?
[17:02] <mickie> I already have /dev/md0p1 mounted as /boot, /dev/md0p2 mounted as swap, /dev/md0p3 mounted as /, and /dev/md0p4 mounted as /home
[17:02] <RoyK> k
[17:02] <RoyK> so everything works now?
[17:02] <mickie> Well, no!  There's no GRUB installed it seems
[17:03] <mickie> I've booted the installation on the disks using sysrescueCD
[17:03] <RoyK> chroot to the installation, mount /proc, /sys etc, and run grub-install /dev/md0
[17:03] <mickie> Essentially the sysrescueCD is working as the bootloader
[17:03] <RoyK> ah
[17:03] <RoyK> ok
[17:03] <RoyK> never used sysrescueCD
[17:04] <mickie> Just another liveCD
[17:04] <RoyK> I thought you said bootloader...
[17:04] <RoyK> anyway
[17:04] <RoyK> chroot into the installation and do as I said
[17:04] <mickie> OK, I just run grub-install on /dev/md0 and it seems to have accepted it.
[17:05] <RoyK> k
[17:05] <mickie> No need to chroot, because I am booted into it already
[17:05] <mickie> Right, I'll try to reboot now
[17:06] <mickie> update-grub seems to be working ...
[17:07] <mickie> 'sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/md0' is not complaining either ... hmm ... time to reboot.
[17:09] <mickie> Arrgh!  "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."  :-(
[17:10] <mickie> Does this mean that GRUB cannot read /dev/md0 - will I need to set up a separate partition on the hard disks?
[17:11] <mickie> Got to dash, thanks for your help
[18:08] <MraMaria> Hi. Which #channel is for Ubuntu's next release? 13.10
[18:11] <lenios> MraMaria, 13.10 is no more the next release
[18:11] <MraMaria> lenios: isn't for november?
[18:12] <lenios> no, it was released on october 17th
[18:12] <MraMaria> oh :o https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule
[18:13] <MraMaria> i've been using it for more that that date but i thought the calendar(releaseSchedule) were correct
[18:14] <MraMaria> well, i just finished a fresh install and the pc goes into an endless loop right when entering grub
[18:14] <MraMaria> i have no way of reproducing this
[18:15] <MraMaria> it's on a Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX200 S2 - XEON 3.2Ghz DUAL CORE
[18:16] <lenios> what do you mean "when entering grub"?
[18:16] <MraMaria> "grub" shows up and loops to a reboot
[18:17] <MraMaria> is this probably because i did a LVM? my previous 13.04 install was trough a manual partitioning and everything were right
[18:18] <MraMaria> btw, pressing "Shift" doesn't help
[18:19] <lenios> i'll be curious to see what it's trying to boot (grub.cfg) , and what are the partitions (fdisk -l)
[18:19] <MraMaria> lenios: i have the pc working here. i need to load a live cd to check that
[18:20] <MraMaria> lenios: Knoppix good enough isn't?
[18:20] <MraMaria>  i get a cd with it here. let me see
[18:21] <lenios> !paste
[18:22] <MraMaria> lenios: tell me what commands you want to check this and i'll pastebin it from the server
[18:22] <MraMaria> please
[18:22] <MraMaria> sory to bother you
[18:22] <MraMaria> sorry too :)
[18:22] <lenios> cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[18:23] <lenios> and fdisk -l (as root)
[18:23] <MraMaria> i really don't want to go back for 13.04...
[18:23] <MraMaria> okay...
[18:36] <lcb-0> this is weird.. it seems the installation didn-t go trough ... i-ll tell you why in a sec
[18:36] <lcb-0> damn need to change kbd
[18:36] <lcb-0> lenios, http://paste.ubuntu.com/6265511/
[18:36] <lcb-0> fdisk -l\
[18:37] <lcb-0> just a sec pls
[18:42] <lcb-0> lenios: i had to copy the contents, but look at those sda files... it seems the installation did-t go trough, althout not having any errors, at ll. sorry for the kb - i can-t see where is the place to change it on this lice cd
[18:42] <lcb-0> http://paste.ubuntu.com/6265541/
[18:42] <lcb-0> err live cd
[18:43] <lcb-0> btw, i-m typing from the server
[18:46] <MraMaria> while configuring, i got: LVM VG srv100-vg, LV root  (ext4) ; LVM VG srv100-vg, LV swap_1 (swap) ; partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)	as ext2
[18:48] <MraMaria> now, if i go with gparted i see /dev/sda5 (38.11GiB) lvm2, not mounted and with the "!", error, i believe
[18:49] <MraMaria> only /dev/sda1 (ext2) is mounted
[18:50] <MraMaria> i believe it's probably a HD failure. although i'm admired the system didn't complain while installing
[18:53] <MraMaria> any thoughts before i remove that drive, lenios ?
[18:54] <lenios> can you try to mount it manually?
[18:54] <lcb-0> let me try
[19:02] <lcb-0> lenios, i tried several ways
[19:02] <lcb-0> mkdir  /media/sda5 ; mount -t auto -v /dev/sda5 /media/sda5
[19:02] <lcb-0> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda5
[19:02] <lcb-0> which one should i put
[19:03] <lenios> mount /dev/srv100-vg/root /mnt
[19:03] <lcb-0> I will try type LVM2_member ... mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
[19:03] <lcb-0> ok
[19:03] <lenios> you need lvm2 to do that
[19:04] <lcb-0> i believe i can/t get with this knoppix. i-ll grad an old graphical ubuntu here, somewhere
[19:05] <lcb-0> grab, i mean
[19:05] <lcb-0> lenios: you want me to do it just in case there is any6 bug cooking here or just remove the hd and do another clean install
[19:06] <lcb-0> i-m pretty sure this is due to this kind of old hd
[19:06] <lenios> i don't know if the disk is faulty
[19:07] <lenios> you can check the disk, or try another one, but if the disk mounts well, it might not be hardware related
[19:07] <lcb-0> lenios: so there are no other known situations like this, i believe... if not, i really go for faulty hd
[19:08] <lcb-0> do you agree /// interrogation mark/// kb not setted
[19:08] <lcb-0> hehehe
[19:09] <lcb-0> if you want me to discover if it is a bug i-ll go ahead with more testing
[19:10] <lenios> you can do as you want
[19:10] <lcb-0> it is not mounted, i forgot to mention, i guess
[19:10] <lcb-0> lvm , i know.
[19:11] <lcb-0> well, i-ll go for a live ubuntu
[19:11] <lcb-0> damn, i don-t have any 64 bit here
[19:11] <lenios> you don't really need 64 bit
[19:11] <lcb-0> ok
[19:12] <lenios> if it's only to test
[19:12] <lcb-0> ok
[19:29] <MraMaria> lenios: the system files are there. it mounted but, i can't get graphics - i know there is a way of pastebin from console but i can't remember how
[19:30] <MraMaria> to give you /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[19:32] <MraMaria> well, i see it already: there is no  /boot/grub/grub.cfg . whole dir empty
[19:33] <lenios> what do you mean you can't get graphics?
[19:34] <MraMaria> lenios: the system gives me a X error on the liveCD
[19:34] <Elico> I am looking for a good interface to manage 2-3 kvm HYPERVISORS.
[19:35] <yeats> Elico: virt-manager?
[19:35] <MraMaria> lenios, i have a /etc/default/grub, if that matters
[19:36] <lenios> MraMaria, you mounted the lvm root from the livecd?
[19:36] <MraMaria> lenios: when i installed i followed "the lider". did everything by the book
[19:38] <Elico> yeats: any web interface?
[19:38] <bekks> Elico: proxmox
[19:38] <MraMaria> lenios: now, i just mounted " mkdir /mnt/sda5 ; mount /dev/srv100-vg/root /mnt/sda5 " and i can see the system files.
[19:38] <Elico> but it's a distro no?
[19:39] <lenios> if you can get the system files, that would be interesting to take a look at the log files
[19:39] <MraMaria> lenios: how can i do what you want? "mounted the lvm root from the livecd?" from cli
[19:39] <lenios> that's ok if you have a mounted sda5
[19:40] <MraMaria> lenios: ok, i'll check. how can i pastbin from cli. i get internet from the server
[19:40] <lenios> use pastebinit
[19:40] <lenios> install pastebinit package if you don't have it
[19:41] <MraMaria> i need to install the ppa though. ok, i'll try. never used it b4
[19:42] <MraMaria> lenios: i need to leave for a while. i'll try to tar all /var/logs later and when i see you here i'll send it to you, ok?!
[19:43] <MraMaria> cya later, lenios. thanks a lot for your time :)
[21:54] <MraMaria> lenios: if you are there, i have all /var/log logs in a .tar.gz . i'm dcc 'ing it to you, when/if you want to see it-
[21:55] <MraMaria> tks in advance, btw :)
[21:58] <MraMaria>  var_log.tar.gz is the correct one, not  var_logs.tar.gz
[22:09] <MraMaria> looks like lenios is not here... if any of the 13.10 devs is here and want to see the logs of a system where it loops on boot right when starts loading grub, let me know, pls. i'll clean up the installation if no one is interested in looking at it.
[22:13] <MraMaria> in fact, although without any errors during the installation, only an empty /boot/grub/ was created
[22:14] <MraMaria> besides other system files, of course
[22:54] <MraMaria> resolved; manual partitioning and not LVM defaults
[23:28] <BrianH> Howdy.  I'm having a huge problem with my USB keyboard getting disabled during the install menus and I'm trying to preseed the entire installation.  It's currently stopping at entering a hostname, but I have "d-i netcfg/get_hostname string foo" in my preseed file.  Thoughts?
[23:30] <BrianH> This is for 13.10 btw.  13.04 works fine with my keyboard.
[23:31] <BrianH> Or if you know how I can get my USB keyboard to work, I can do the installation manually
[23:33] <BrianH> It seems to disable my keyboard once I start "Install Ubuntu Server" from the grub menu.