[02:36] <Nothing_Much> OMG Nvidia's gonna support Mir 100%!
[08:14] <lordievader> Good morning.
[08:19] <elfy> hey lordievader
[08:20] <lordievader> Morning elfy, how are you doing?
[08:20] <elfy> good thanks - watching the world go by today though - how are you?
[08:22] <lordievader> Having breakfast and coffee, can't complain.
[09:23] <vitimiti> Hi
[09:25] <lordievader> Good morning vitimiti, how are you doing?
[09:25] <vitimiti> Hi, lordievader, fine, thanks :)
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[12:21] <BluesKaj> hi all
[16:49] <knittl> hi guys. anybody else using gnome 3.14 from gnome-staging ppa?
[16:50] <knittl> gnome-shell won't start since 3 days ago :(
[16:51] <knittl> but I'm not finding any evidence on the internet that this is happening to anybody else
[16:51] <knittl> how can I find out why gnome-shell fails to come up?
[17:23] <knittl> where is everyone?
[17:34] <dreamcat4> hi. any chance we can have a way to re-install grub / re-scan boot partitions from the .ISO ?
[17:35] <dreamcat4> the installer seems to do that. i mean for to repair a bad grub (so not to have to re-install the whole ubuntu OS again)
[17:35] <dreamcat4> many thanks for any consideration
[17:38] <lordievader> knittl: Is your ~/.xsession-errors filled with errors?
[17:38] <lordievader> dreamcat4: That is already possible, just invoke the installed manually.
[17:39] <dreamcat4> lordievader: sorry, can you please clarify? That would be very useful to me right now
[17:39] <knittl> lordievader: no, not really. although it has errors (not sure if related to this very problem)
[17:40] <knittl> openConnection: connect: No such file or directory and cannot connect to brltty at :0
[17:40] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Load a live-cd/usb, mount /boot run "sudo grub-install --boot-directory=<mount-point-of-/boot> /dev/<your-drive>
[17:41] <lordievader> knittl: It is able to start X (after login).
[17:41] <dreamcat4> thanks lordievader! but will that re-scan my HDD for the windows and linux boot partitions and create a new grub.cfg ?
[17:42] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Hmm, for that you can also use update-grub2, but yes.
[17:42] <knittl> lordievader: I guess … no mouse yesterday, but mouse today. I can start firefox from tty with DISPLAY=:0 firefox
[17:43] <knittl> but without window decorations
[17:43] <knittl> so it looks like that gnome-shell or gtk is not running properly
[17:43] <lordievader> knittl: Surely sounds like that.
[17:43] <lordievader> Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Gnome3.
[17:44] <knittl> alright. thanks anyway
[17:45] <dreamcat4> lordievader: will that install grub onto my existing MBR partition ? i don't want to muck windows up
[17:46] <knittl> dreamcat4: you said you wanted to re-install grub
[17:48] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Yes, well part will go the the MBR. How else do you want to do it?
[17:48] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Are you running Utopic?
[17:48] <dreamcat4> lordievader: no that's fine. i'm just being paranoid i guess
[17:49] <dreamcat4> recently upgraded from 14.04 -> 14.10. by usb key is still 14.04 though
[17:50] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Running a development release might not be the best option for you.
[17:51] <dreamcat4> hibernate mode is why. that didn't work properly for me on 14.04 LTS
[17:51] <lordievader> Not to be offensive, but installing/updating a bootmanager is, i.m.o., part of the basic skill set you need if you are going to run a development release.
[18:05] <dreamcat4> don't worry i'll be ok. to rephase my original suggestion - maybe provide a graphical way to run those 'grub-install' or 'update-grub2' commands
[18:05] <dreamcat4> you know, for noobs and people like me who aren't as knowledgable
[18:06] <dreamcat4> because when i go to this web page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
[18:06] <dreamcat4> the recommended graphical boot-repair tool is A) 3rd party download B) didn't work anymore
[18:07] <lordievader> Pff, no idea. I trust CLI tools more anyways.
[18:14] <knittl> dreamcat4: gui tools are rarely available when it comes down to system and boot level stuff
[18:14] <knittl> using dev releases and "there should be a gui tool for noobs" doesn't go well together :)
[18:15] <lordievader> +1
[18:15] <dreamcat4> sorry - i'm not sure why my suggestion is a bad one. clearly i've had massive issues today
[18:16] <lordievader> dreamcat4: What issues?
[18:17] <dreamcat4> just getting grub re-installed / repaired. i'm not the only guy who has had these sorts of problems either
[18:18] <knittl> how did your grub get broken?
[18:18] <lordievader> dreamcat4: You are running a development release, breakage is to be expected. Besided when you aare running a development release repairing grub should be a piece of cake, else don't run a development release.
[18:19] <dreamcat4> i think next month it's going to be released, right ?
[18:19] <knittl> yes
[18:19] <knittl> but right now it's still in development
[18:20] <dreamcat4> so i downloaded the nightly ISO, will re-install from scratch. problem solved.
[18:20] <dreamcat4> then upgrade it next month to the proper release
[18:20] <knittl> I don't understand what you are trying to achieve
[18:20] <ObrienDave> neither does he
[18:21] <dreamcat4> well a re-install from scratch will find again my windows boot partition - so at least i will be able to boot back into windows again
[18:21] <lordievader> Nighlty still sounds like development.
[18:21] <lordievader> Nightly*
[18:21] <dreamcat4> b/c hibernation doesn't work on 14.04...
[18:22] <ObrienDave> dreamcat4, do you have a swap partition?
[18:22] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Did you investigate why it didn't work?
[18:22] <knittl> dreamcat4: but since you have already installed it, why don't you just re-install grub?
[18:24] <dreamcat4> i believe it's just a lot easier way since ubuntu doesn't have any official grub-repair tool
[18:24] <dreamcat4> i know that grub didn't work because my 'grub.cfg' file disappeared entirely
[18:25] <knittl> dreamcat4: I assume with "any official grub-repair tool", you mean a graphical one? because the official canonical way to repair grub is to simply reinstall it with "update-grub"
[18:26] <penguin42> dreamcat4: Is your /boot full?
[18:26] <dreamcat4> knittl: doesn't work from usb key. there's a web page about it. i got the same error message as other people on serverfault
[18:26] <dreamcat4> too much hassle
[18:26] <knittl> sure it works from usb key. I've done it multiple times in the past
[18:26] <dreamcat4> penguin42: no it's probably fine. but since i have to *move* my linux partition anyways i might aswell install fresh
[18:27] <penguin42> dreamcat4: OK, it's just not uncommon on Ubuntu to sometimes fill /boot if you have a separate one and that generally causes chaos
[18:28] <lordievader> dreamcat4: What was the exact command you used to try and repair your grub?
[18:29] <dreamcat4> lordievader: sorry i've since rebooted 14.04 usb key. so can't go back to check up on which cmds i used
[18:29] <knittl> let's see if ppa-purge fixes my gnome mess
[18:29] <knittl> dreamcat4: sure, you could mount your home partition and look at the contents of your .bash_history file
[18:30] <dreamcat4> well.. i'm also about to overwrite that usb key with a 14.10 desktop ISO img
[18:30] <dreamcat4> knittl: and not sure if i can mount ext /home on mac os x ?
[18:31] <dreamcat4> well - maybe with some 3rd party tool or something
[18:32] <lordievader> dreamcat4: Again I advice against installing Utopic at this time, wait a month for it to be released.
[18:32] <knittl> you are running a live system, right? so you can mount your partition. and before you said something about windows. I'm very confused about your system configuration
[18:32] <ObrienDave> in about 2.5 weeks
[18:32] <dreamcat4> anyway, lordievader this was the error i got: http://askubuntu.com/questions/254491/failed-to-get-canonical-path-of-cow
[18:33] <dreamcat4> it's a common enough issue from the usb stick
[18:33] <knittl> I don't have a graphical environment right now, I cannot click your link
[18:33] <lordievader> knittl: elinks!!!
[18:33] <dreamcat4> knittl: curl , wget :)
[18:33] <knittl> lordievader: yeah, I used elinks a lot to search for bugreports
[18:34] <knittl> but I don't have a screen instance running, so it's very annoying to get that link into my elinks
[18:35] <lordievader> Debootstrapping is made a whole lot harder if you cannot pull in that one meta package that pulls in all the necessary bits... :(
[18:35] <knittl> besides, I want to fix my own problems first :)
[19:08] <labsin> Does anyone know since when systemd was the default in Utopic?
[19:10] <labsin> or why it runs on the latest daily image
[19:12] <knittl> wooohooo, I think I fixed it
[19:12] <knittl> after purging all ppas
[19:12] <knittl> and rebooting several times :]
[19:12] <knittl> labsin: afaik utopic still runs on upstart
[19:13] <labsin> knittl, I just did a new install and when I do 'ps -aux | grep systemd' I get: /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon and /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon
[19:14] <knittl> labsin: what does ls -ld /sbin/init print?
[19:14] <labsin> upstart
[19:15] <knittl> so it still uses upstart as init system. no idea what systemd-udevd is for
[19:15] <labsin> nevermind then
[19:16] <labsin> My desktop stopped booting and I saw a bunch of systemd lines in syslog
[19:17] <knittl> labsin: ubuntu gnome?
[19:17] <labsin> knittl, No standard
[19:18] <knittl> hm. no idea then. my gnome started working two days back
[19:18] <labsin> I had to reïnstall. It was something with the graphics. On a fresh install, it still doesn't boot on the mesa drivers :S only on fglrx
[19:18] <knittl> nice touch on that reïnstall :]
[19:19] <labsin> knittl, Sorry, it's in my local language :)
[19:20] <knittl> I like it! (and it makes sense)
[19:20] <labsin> I now installed with btrfs and install apt-btrfs-snapshot to see if it could come handy sometime
[19:57] <labsin> Anyone know what package the aditional packages installantion in system settings is from?
[19:58] <labsin> Cause it doesn't remove fglrx-updates-core when switching to xorg drivers
[19:59] <genii> Not sure why but latest dist-upgrade wanted to install a crapload of libmir things even though I have only Kubuntu installed.
[21:12] <labsin> anyone else that can't login with radeon drivers (I think after the mesa update)