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NoskcajAre any of the debian developers here are to sponsor https://mentors.debian.net/package/testdrive ?00:03
xnoxinfinity: apw: cjwatson: does xfs_* kernel errors in ubiquity ring a bell? http://paste.ubuntu.com/6608596/ or (badly formated) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1261745/comments/400:11
ubottuUbuntu bug 1261745 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "Cannot create JFS partition" [Undecided,New]00:11
xnoxdidn't we have similar crash signature, for something unrelated during one of the releases....00:12
xnoxI think I remember that. Wasn't it that "partman needs more hacks and waits between writting and reading partitions or some such"00:16
infinityxnox: I thought the XFS stuff was a red herring the last time we looked into it, and it was just the usual fallout of trying to guess filesystems while probing/mounting.00:22
xnoxinfinity: yeap.00:22
slangasekxnox: xfs_* kernel errors just mean "it tried to mount something as xfs that wasn't, and the xfs driver politely objected"00:22
xnoxpolitely objected..... with vomit.00:22
infinityxnox: Not that the filesystem driver isn't obviously buggy here for vomiting an oops, but it doesn't seem to actually harm anything.00:22
sarnoldinteresting though, there is a xfs_sb_quiet_read_verify() right next to xfs_sb_read_verify() that is supposed to be useful for probing filesystems..00:23
xnoxslangasek: i guess there is only so many systems that have yaffs, zfs and xfs modules =)00:23
ice9I'm getting my first steps on ubuntu dev through the harvest bugs, but i'm running 13.10 and there are bugs for 11.04 am I still able to fix them on my system?00:27
sarnoldice9: 11.04 has been out of support for a year; if the bug still exists in 12.04 or 13.10 or trusty, it'd be worth fixing, but if 11.04 was the last release to have the bug, you might as well move on to the next bug. see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for EOL dates00:28
NoskcajAre their instructions for applying for motu via email? I won't be able to attend a meeting till later february00:30
Noskcaj*irc meeting00:30
ice9anybody have some time to make give me kind of mentoring on getting a simple bug to fix?00:45
Noskcajice9, Sure00:45
ice9thanks Noskcaj00:46
NoskcajWhat package is this on?00:46
ice9actually I'm still looking for something to work on, i'm checking http://harvest.ubuntu.com/opportunities/ is it the right place?00:47
Noskcajon of them00:47
ice9where else?00:47
ice9actually all the bugs i found there are very old01:06
ice9i don't know where else to find simple bugs01:06
Noskcajice9, bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu has all ours01:07
Noskcajhttp://www.debian.org/Bugs/ also has a few, and any package's upstream bagtracker01:08
NoskcajWhat programming languages do you know?01:08
ice9C, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript01:09
Noskcajyou beat me on every level then01:09
ice9not a must01:09
NoskcajAre there any areas or packages you want to try and work on?01:09
ice9i'm open to anything but i need something simple to start with01:10
Noskcajmaybe try bugs with the tag "bitesize"01:12
Noskcajthey area normally easier01:12
NoskcajOr any bug listed as a papercut https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs01:13
ice9Noskcaj, oh man i see bugs from 2006 :D01:17
Noskcajice9, that happens. Try the "number" button, that will order by newest01:18
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ice9Noskcaj, alright, i found something https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/124837301:20
ubottuUbuntu bug 1248373 in gedit (Ubuntu) "gedit "Save as..." is disabled when file is opened read-only" [Low,New]01:20
sarnoldice9: not a great candidate since it appears difficult to replicate; can you get it to happen?01:22
Noskcajice9, first step is check if you can confirm it locally01:22
Noskcajlol, dat timing01:22
sarnoldhehe yeah :)01:22
ice9sarnold, yes just set any text file to read-only and open it with gedit you will see save as disabled01:23
sarnoldice9: sweet. I wonder why seb 128 and jeremy-list had trouble reproducing.01:23
ice9it's importance status is 'undecided', who can change it?01:23
NoskcajA bug triager01:24
NoskcajIt's not a requirement to fix the bug01:24
ice9so how can i help?01:24
Noskcajfix it01:24
Noskcaji mean "you don't need a priority to fix the bug"01:24
NoskcajYou're trying to fix it in gedit anyway, papercuts is just a tracker of easy bugs01:25
ice9ok i'm going to fix it, so from where should i start now?01:25
sergio-br2hello01:25
sergio-br2i'm doing some tests in trusty, and i saw that apport is disable in /etc/apport/crashdb.conf. It was not to be enabled?01:26
Noskcajice9, Use bzr branch lp:ubuntu/gedit to get the source01:27
ice9ok01:27
sergio-br2Noskcaj, did you know?01:28
Noskcajsergio-br2, no, sorry01:29
NoskcajDid you use the alpha's installer?01:29
Noskcajor a daily?01:30
sergio-br2no, i'm see an update system01:30
sergio-br2i used daily, 1 or 2 days ago, in a VM01:31
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NoskcajIf you installed via a release iso, you'll have apport disabled01:33
sergio-br2yes, in release ok, but in daily iso?01:35
Noskcajnot ok01:37
ice9Noskcaj, is there a difference between these branches?  lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gedit/ubuntu  and  lp:ubuntu/gedit01:52
Noskcajice9, no01:52
ice9i'm fetching the code on slow connection01:53
Noskcajcorrection, yes. Use the ~ubuntu-desktop one01:57
NoskcajIt is actually up to date01:57
ice9and i have to set the ubuntu release too?02:00
NoskcajTo fix the bug, all you need to do is make a patch. You can use bzr or apt-get source PACKAGE to get the source-code02:01
Noskcajrbasak, Mind if i merge gnome-system-tools?02:06
ice9d/c02:09
ice9lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gedit/ubuntu doesn't has the source code, its just checked out conf files02:11
ice9_Noskcaj, that repo doesn't has the code02:19
ice9_and its very old02:19
ice9_however it's the one here also apt-cache showsrc gedit02:19
Noskcajok. Maybe just run apt-get source gedit02:20
Noskcajit's the most reliable way. (if you're on trusty)02:20
ice9_i'm on Saucy02:21
Noskcajrun "dget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/gedit_3.10.2-0ubuntu1.dsc"02:23
NoskcajThat will get you everything you need02:23
ice9_Noskcaj, alright, got it with apt-get source02:28
NoskcajIf it's not 3.10 that apt-get source downloaded, send the patch to me before you submit it so i can update it02:29
ice9_Noskcaj, its 3.8.302:29
ice9_same as reported in the bug02:29
ice9_ok02:30
ice9_so now i can compile normally with make and make the fix?02:30
Noskcajice9_, yep.02:30
NoskcajApply all of ubuntu's existing patches first though.02:31
Noskcajuse "quilt push -a"02:31
ice9_it depends on many other packages that aren't installed yet02:35
ice9_ah02:35
sarnoldice9_: if you just want to fix this, you could install the "build-deps" for this package using apt-get build-deps gedit02:38
ice9_sarnold, and apt-get source gedit  -t <release> ?02:38
sarnoldice9_: if you intend to do this more in the future, it is nice to not rely upon the packages in your system -- they could be too old, too new, or different, or whatever -- and it is wonderful to have a whole build environment set up to help make reproducable builds.02:38
sarnoldice9_: check this out... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleSbuild02:38
NoskcajMaybe not yet though02:39
sarnoldyeah02:39
sarnoldit's a process02:39
Noskcajsarnold, Isn't pbuilder-dist easier though?02:39
sarnold:)02:39
ice9_build-dep is great :D02:39
sarnoldNoskcaj: dunno. I want something that matches the buildds as closely as possible.02:39
NoskcajMakes sense. I've never lost anything because of pbuilder-dist, and it does make it that little bit easier02:40
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ice9_very strange, now i can't reproduce that bug again03:01
sergio-br2Noskcaj, are you sure that that behavior is the expected?03:21
sergio-br2it's a little weird... Rhythmbox does not do it03:22
Bluefoxicyheh03:23
BluefoxicyI'm surprised nobody has figured out to chattr +T /home /var/log on install03:24
Bluefoxicyexcept now with btrfs it's irrelevant03:24
Bluefoxicy(and /var/log as a TLD is questionable)03:24
lifelessBluefoxicy: what does +T do?03:31
lifelessoh, I see03:34
lifelessBluefoxicy: why would you do that to /var/log?03:34
sergio-br2Noskcaj, that bug annoys me since saucy :P03:37
Noskcajsergio-br2, Which one?03:37
sergio-br2Noskcaj, gmusicbrowser crazy jump03:37
Noskcajunderstandable03:38
NoskcajDo you think i'm right with why it happens?03:38
sergio-br2dunno03:38
Bluefoxicylifeless:  it's questionable for /var/log03:38
Bluefoxicylifeless:  the argument there is that multiple processes have subdirectories and are writing logs independently.03:38
sergio-br2Noskcaj, i think it is ramdom03:39
Bluefoxicybasically, when Apache tries to write in /var/log/httpd, it shouldn't seak all over the place because allocations are interleaved with allocations from /var/log/squid or /var/log/proftpd03:40
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Bluefoxicythe argument for /home is that a user's activity is going to look in /home/$USER, so will be mainly grouped together on disk03:40
sergio-br2Noskcaj, all the musics begin with uppercase03:40
Noskcajsergio-br2, look at the second letter though03:40
Bluefoxicythe argument for /var/log is similar, except the system is doing all that stuff in any case so the benefit would be questionable.03:41
Bluefoxicybtrfs doesn't support marking a directory as TLD though03:41
NoskcajBa, Gu, AC03:41
sergio-br2Noskcaj, second letter, i tried it now: e - o - h - i03:42
lifelessBluefoxicy: if so you'd want the logs close on disk right? Avoid seeks.03:42
NoskcajIt puts the entire lower case section ahead of the upper case ones if i'm right03:42
sergio-br2hum, let me see03:42
lifelessBluefoxicy: if the other processes are all writing at once, you want the total range of teh disk that seeks occur over to be minimised03:43
Noskcajor maybe upper case first03:43
Bluefoxicylifeless:  yeah, that's why i said it's questionable03:43
lifelessBluefoxicy: +T would maximimise it03:43
lifelessBluefoxicy: ack03:43
Bluefoxicythe concept is that the subdirectories of a given directory are unrelated03:43
NoskcajThe only method i'm sure of is that it's artist that is the first part03:44
Bluefoxicylifeless:  I actually use +T for the parent directory of all HTTP document roots for a web server housing hundreds of web sites03:44
BluefoxicyI did that because performance was utterly slow because it's gfs2 and has 3 nodes accessing it.  It was taking 1 second per file to run rsync on any given directory, because every allocation would exchange locks on a resource group shared between a dozen sites.03:45
Bluefoxicydidn't help directories already populated of course03:45
Bluefoxicylifeless:  file system tuning is an esoteric topic :)03:46
sergio-br2AC, Of, AC, Of, AC here03:48
Noskcajstrange.03:48
NoskcajBut does the artists list still go the expected way?03:49
NoskcajTry caning to the list view to make it easier to see what's what03:49
Noskcaj*changing03:49
NoskcajIs it ok to have both a .inti and a .upstart file in a package? (both provided by debian)03:54
NoskcajWe used to replace the init with the upstart, but now debian have both03:54
sergio-br2Noskcaj, Guns (Album: Use Your Illusion I, music: Double Talkin' Jive), ACDC (Album: Blow Up Your Video, music: That's The Way...), Guns N' Roses (Album: G N' R Lies, music: One In A Million), Oficina G3 (Album: Ao vivo, music: Pirou), Oficina G3 (Album: Indiferença, music: Glória Instrumental)03:55
NoskcajI'm out of ideas03:55
apwxnox, that is just xfs being very loud about trying and failing to mount he partition as xfs.  fat, isofs, squashfs, ext2, have all whined about it just before, just they limit themselves to one line09:32
apwxnox, oh if i had read on ...09:33
infinityapw: We all know that's just XFS being stupidly noisy.  It scares the crap out of users, though (and confuses someone in an installer report as a red herring at least once a month).10:43
infinityapw: I don't suppose there's any way we can shut XFS up a bit on that score, to be the same 1-liner as ext* prints?10:43
infinityWell, not the same, but similar.  ext's are also stupid, since it loads from bottom to top, and yells at you about missing "features" that mean nothing to normal people.10:44
infinityapw: Will that go away if/when we disable ext2 and ext3 and let the ext4 driver handle all three?10:44
infinityapw: Or will it still give the three lines of "feature not found" vomit?10:45
apwinfinity, we should just take that "ooops like dump" out, it carries near no information for a failed mount10:50
apwinfinity, ext234 maybe, the trusty kernel has it though already so it depends what he is testing10:51
infinityapw: Yeahp, agreed.  Or bump the printk prority on it to debug.10:51
infinityapw: If the trusty kernel already has ext4 handling all three filesystems, then my complaint isn't fixed. ;)10:52
infinityEXT3-fs (sda): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)10:52
infinityEXT2-fs (sda): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)10:52
infinityEXT4-fs (sda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)10:52
infinityapw: But that noise is nothing compared to XFS, so meh.10:53
apwan odd order as well10:57
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ice9how to build a source package for debugging?11:59
xnoxLaney: added ppc64el to the transition tracker, not sure if anything needs doing to enable that arch.13:00
ice9what is the dev channel for gnome projects?13:22
maxiaojunice9: upstream GNOME channels are on GIMPNet I guess13:24
maxiaojunhow to request package removal in ubuntu?13:52
infinitymaxiaojun: File a bug on the package and subscribe ubuntu-archive to the bug.13:53
infinitymaxiaojun: Which package, and why?13:53
maxiaojunactually 213:54
maxiaojunone is pptview, i've asked the debian maintainer and maintainer agreed to remove in debian (as i checked, already removed in sid)13:55
infinitymaxiaojun: Ahh, removed from Debian is enough reason for me, pptview gone.13:56
maxiaojunanother is ack, it is a japanese encoding conversion program last updated in 1994, it should be pretty useless today according to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=66211413:59
ubottuDebian bug 662114 in ack "ack: non-ative upstream and there is nkf" [Normal,Open]13:59
maxiaojuna much more popular program need the name "ack" (currently named ack-grep) http://beyondgrep.com/14:03
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Laneyxnox: added it to the runner, should appear at next run19:06
pc-world13.10. I did apt-get source unity and then "dpkg-buildpackage -j8 -nc", fails near the end in check-headless with "Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":16192"." Ideas? http://pastebin.com/TtqGJw7Y19:25
infinitypc-world: I suspect the segfault is the important part of that log, not the missing GLX. :P19:32
pc-worldinfinity: I figured the segfault was a result of the GLX error, though I don't know why it would want GLX to build Unity, and my graphics driver should support GLX19:33
infinitypc-world: It's not building, it's runinng a testsuite.19:34
pc-worldinfinity: well, can I disable tests but still be able to use dpkg-buildpackage?19:34
infinityIf unity respects DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck", sure.19:35
infinity(It should)19:35
alkisgGuys we have the following things caring about the keyboard layout: keyboard-configuration, xorg (those 2 play fine so far, and then the breaking starts), accountsservice, lightdm, gnome, ibus...19:36
alkisgIt's been 3 years now that we can't type Greek by default because all those programs just don't know how to handle multiple keyboard layouts, and they don't let xorg do its job. So an xterm session works fine, but all other sessions (unity, gnome-flashback, gnome...) don't...19:36
alkisgHere's one of the many bugs filed against lightdm, accountsservice etc: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/101640919:36
ubottuUbuntu bug 1016409 in lightdm (Ubuntu) "Default XKBLAYOUT is not used, so new users only have "en" layout" [Undecided,New]19:36
yoritomohello all19:37
alkisgAnd now in 14.04 ibus made even manual configuration not working...19:37
pc-worldinfinity: with -nc, it didn't help, will try without19:38
alkisgI had to purge ibus, reset-recursively my gsettings, fall back to recovery console, delete the accountsservice settings, put my .dmrc back to where it was, and enable autologin in lightdm to be able to type [us,gr]19:38
yoritomoi would like to know why in Qt-creator UTF8 after setting in not set in my project i still can't display any french accentued characters on my program19:38
alkisgAnd after all that, the keyboard indicator applet isn't working in 14.04 like it did in 12.04...  it assumes I'll be using win+space from ibus instead of alt+shift defined in xorg19:39
yoritomoi am under 12.04 i forgot to mention it19:42
Phantomasalkisg: I can confirm what you are saying, I'm having these issues too with the input language. And I can't see any reason why these bugs still exist after 2-3 years, especially when input language changing was working almost fine with older ubuntu editions.19:44
pc-worldinfinity: nope, DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck" doesn't help, even without -nc.19:44
alkisgThe problems started when lightdm was introduced :(19:45
PhantomasMaybe there is no bilingual developer in Ubuntu? Since English works we are good to go. :P19:47
yoritomoin some tutorials i could find for QT creator it looks fine for french characters maybe a typic linux problem19:54
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pvl1hello everyone! is there a difference between glib and gtk? im very confused22:21

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