| wxl | pleia2: hope it went well! | 04:39 |
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| rww | it did :) | 04:41 |
| wxl | how many people did you have? | 04:41 |
| rww | about 12 | 04:41 |
| wxl | (perhaps we should take this to -offtopic since it's not necessraily support related) | 04:41 |
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| fishcooker | http://picpaste.com/Selection_065-HOIco0J9.png too many battery indicator | 11:54 |
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| cinimoon1 | Trusty. GeForce 8400 GS. seconds after GUI loads horizontal squiggly lines pixels to 3 centimeters long appears and computer freezes. There is enough time to login and load the desktop sometimes. Freeze can be avoided by switching to virtual terminal. | 16:41 |
| Dirkson | Hey all. Whenever lubuntu asks for a password (gksudo??), it allows you to select a user - And displays the wrong user. How do I change which user it defaults to? | 18:20 |
| wxl | Dirkson: more specific example, please. what steps are necessary to reproduce the problem? | 18:23 |
| Dirkson | wxl: Near as I'm aware, have more than one user and try to do anything gui-related that requires superuser permissions. | 18:24 |
| wxl | Dirkson: like opening synaptic, for example? | 18:24 |
| Dirkson | Yup, that'll do 'er : ) | 18:24 |
| wxl | i don't remember it showing a user | 18:25 |
| wxl | the user should be YOU | 18:25 |
| Dirkson | Well, I do have more than one user on the system. It does not appear to default to the currently logged in user. | 18:25 |
| wxl | it sure should | 18:25 |
| Dirkson | That would be fine, if it could be made to do that : ) | 18:26 |
| ianorlin | waht would the bug be filed against? | 18:26 |
| wxl | it should be a default | 18:26 |
| wxl | ok i see where it asks for the user | 18:26 |
| wxl | mine defaults to the standard user | 18:26 |
| ianorlin | I think it is in alphabetical order | 18:26 |
| wxl | what version are you running? | 18:26 |
| Dirkson | wxl: 14.something? Freshly installed | 18:27 |
| wxl | Dirkson: lsb_release -a | 18:27 |
| Dirkson | wxl: 14.04.1 LTS | 18:29 |
| Dirkson | ianorlin: My list is currently "Dirkson" and "Andy", and it defaults to "Dirkson" | 18:30 |
| ianorlin | hmm might be by user number then | 18:30 |
| Dirkson | Andy is user 1000, dirkson is user 1001 | 18:31 |
| Dirkson | Andy also comes before dirkson in /etc/passwd | 18:31 |
| wxl | i have user foo (1000) and user bar (1001) and foo (currently logged in user) pops up | 18:34 |
| wxl | i.e. i cannot reproduce | 18:34 |
| Dirkson | wxl: Well, does whatever this tool is have a configuration I could be editing? | 18:40 |
| wxl | Dirkson: not that i'm aware of, but i'm investigating further | 18:40 |
| wxl | ah | 18:41 |
| wxl | so i used my other user and it defaults to the original one | 18:41 |
| wxl | but my user isn't in there either | 18:42 |
| wxl | since i'm not in sudoers | 18:42 |
| Dirkson | wxl: Interesting | 18:44 |
| wxl | ok now i can confirm that behavior | 18:45 |
| wxl | non-sudo users will not show up in the list | 18:45 |
| Dirkson | wxl: I did have to recreate the 'andy' user, because it somehow got corrupted. So it may technically be the 'second' user as far as this thing is concerned. (Although I don't know how it determines that) | 18:45 |
| wxl | but, the default is not necessarily currently logged uer | 18:45 |
| Dirkson | I would really rather keep the dirkson user around, so I can log in remotely and fix things for him. | 18:46 |
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| Dirkson | wxl: Ah! It's the order in which users appear in the 'sudo' group of /etc/group | 18:48 |
| wxl | Dirkson: there ya go. pkexec is doing the heavy lifting, fwiw. | 18:49 |
| Dirkson | wxl: Interesting ^^ Thanks for walking through it with me - I would never have thought to check the groups file if you hadn't mentioned sudoers | 18:50 |
| wxl | Dirkson: as far as pkexec is concerned, i found that by looking at what grep Exec /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop was, which was synaptic-pkexec which is a shell script calling pkexec | 18:51 |
| pleia2 | wxl: the jam wen't quite well! someone even showed up with another G4 Mac! Unfortunately we couldn't get it working in a live session (alternate booted, but he didn't want to install, just wanted to do live testing) and he didn't know the specs of the machine to report the failure :\ | 19:06 |
| wxl | pleia2: trusty or vivid? | 19:07 |
| pleia2 | wxl: vivid | 19:07 |
| pleia2 | my PPC G4 works fine, but it always does since I do testing here and there :) | 19:07 |
| wxl | pleia2: hm. curious. what exactly happened? | 19:08 |
| pleia2 | get to standard boot> prompt in the cd, then black screen forever | 19:08 |
| wxl | pleia2: many thanks for that, by the way. i've got a new ppc machine being kicked down to me and i'm looking to give it to someone (or give them the g5 tower) | 19:08 |
| wxl | pleia2: sounds like graphic issues. did you try opening a virtual terminal? | 19:09 |
| pleia2 | no, just tried using the alternate vo= whatever options in the boot menu | 19:09 |
| wxl | yeah that's probably your problem | 19:09 |
| wxl | basically if you get a blank screen (but not the old flashing cursor), try opening a virtual terminal. if you get one, it's definiately a grpahics issue | 19:10 |
| wxl | wherein the answer lies here somewhere https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Configure_graphics | 19:10 |
| pleia2 | good to know, I'll follow up with him to suggest it, the ctl+alt+f-key way to get to virt terminal? | 19:10 |
| wxl | yeah | 19:10 |
| pleia2 | thanks :) | 19:11 |
| wxl | although i think in mac you have to add a key in there | 19:11 |
| wxl | command or something | 19:11 |
| wxl | it's been a while :) | 19:11 |
| * pleia2 nods | 19:11 | |
| pleia2 | I'll have a look | 19:11 |
| wxl | if the user has further problems, please have them get in touch | 19:11 |
| pleia2 | will do :) | 19:18 |
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