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DonRichiewhere are systemd's journal logs stored? In /run/systemd/journal there is nothing which looks like data files and /var/log/journal/ does not exist04:19
DonRichieI think i found the logs via "lsof | grep journal" :) The seem to be located at /run/log/journal04:24
DonRichieCan somebody tell me why Ubuntu 15.04s default behavior is to save the systemds journal logfiles not reboot safe?04:49
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lordievaderGood afternoon.10:48
histohola10:52
lordievaderHey histo10:53
histolordievader: hello10:54
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Onepamopaguys, need some help12:59
lordievaderOnepamopa: Please ask your questions.13:00
Onepamopainstallex xfce4 (all packages), however, startxfce4 returns: "X: exec of /usr/bin/Xorg failed" "xinit: giving up" "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused"13:00
Onepamopaany ideas ?13:00
lordievaderOnepamopa: Not really server related (more Xubuntu related), but have you installed an X server?13:02
OnepamopaIm not sure it's xubuntu related, Im using this on a dedicated server running Ubuntu Server 14.1013:03
Onepamopaxserver-xorg is already the newest version.13:04
lordievaderOnepamopa: Not many people run X on their servers ;)13:04
Onepamopawell, I need to run a java profiler on it so ... no choice13:04
Onepamopathat means gui + vnc13:05
OnepamopaI chose xfce4 since it's lightweight13:05
lordievaderUgh, vnc.13:05
Onepamopayeah yeah ...13:05
lordievaderAnyhow, does /usr/bin/X exist?13:05
Onepamopacan I paste ?13:05
lordievaderPaste what? This was just a yes or no question.13:06
Onepamopa# stat /usr/bin/X13:06
Onepamopa  File: ‘/usr/bin/X’13:06
Onepamopa  Size: 10192           Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file13:06
OnepamopaDevice: 902h/2306d      Inode: 12133       Links: 113:06
OnepamopaAccess: (6755/-rwsr-sr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)13:06
lordievader!paste | Onepamopa13:06
ubottuOnepamopa: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://imgur.com/ !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic.13:06
Onepamoparight, next time :)13:06
lordievaderI take that as a yes ;)13:06
lordievaderEdit your ~/.xinitrc to start xfce and run 'startx' as a user.13:07
Onepamopano .xinitrc file present at all13:07
lordievaderOnepamopa: Edit/create, whatever ;)13:09
gartral|2hey all, got a bit of a pickle here, I have a server that's running 13.10.. I really want to upgrade it... how do I do this?16:58
gartral|2>.>17:00
maxbthat sounds just business-as-usual, not a pickle?17:03
maxbOh, *13*.1017:05
maxbhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/ seems relevant but somewhat dated17:05
maxbThe core fact you'll need is that there exists http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/17:06
gartral|2ok, so add that to my sources and go from there?17:07
maxbI'd probably start by changing sources.list to point there, and then seeing if the normal upgrade procedure works17:08
gartral|2ok, so next stupid question... should I comment out the existing entries?17:10
gartral|2maxb: ^^^17:11
maxbAn interesting question, and I'm not sure how the upgrader is going to respond, given that your upgrade target is *not* on old-releases since it's still supported17:13
maxbI'd give it a go with _just_ http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lines active in sources.list, and see if the upgrader is smart enough to move you back to a normal mirror during the upgrade17:13
gartral|2well.. I can try both ways... I have a good backup so I'm not going to be *too* mad if it goes belly-up\17:13
maxbIf it is not, the worst it's going to do is fail early before changing anything of significance, and roll-back sources.list17:14
gartral|2hrrm..17:15
gartral|2Seveas over in #ubuntu gave me a good alternative.. change all the sources to the target and do the updates/upgrades, following up with autoremove and debfoster17:17
SeveasTry the do-release-upgrade thing first though17:17
Seveasit /win 1017:17
maxbIt's a practical alternative, though seems a shame to not get the all-in-one tidyness of do-release-upgrade, which is one of Ubuntu's nicest improvements over Debian17:18
Seveasas a long-time user of Ubuntu, before do-release-upgraded existed, I'm feeling fairly meh about it17:18
Seveasthen again, I tend to do crazy things like skipping 5 releases in an upgrade17:19
maxbAs someone about to have to hack together a basic equivalent for a bunch of Debian servers at work, I'm very enthusiastic about it :-)17:19
gartral|2maxb: backport do-release-upgrade and send a push request upstream to the Debian folks.. though they really are purists..17:20
gartral|2hm hm hm... checking for new release17:21
gartral|2nope...17:21
gartral|2"Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore."17:21
gartral|2do-release-upgrade is a jerk17:21
* maxb agrees :-)17:22
maxbWhoever thought up that error message was _not_ writing good UX17:22
gartral|2UX?17:23
Seveasfancy word for UI17:24
gartral|2ah, I was going to backronym it to "User eXplination"17:24
maxbeXperience17:24
SeveasUser eXcrement17:24
maxbi.e. how pleased/furious the user is after using the UI :-)17:24
gartral|2ah, like windows explorer (HAAAAAAAAAAATE)17:26
gartral|2whoever over at Microsoft designed that PoS needs to be found; then Hung, Shot, Quartered, Electrocuted, Crucified and burned.17:27
gartral|2ooook on my way to upgrades17:31
gartral|2Seveas: should I do the standard upgrade then dist-upgrade?17:31
Seveasneh, just dist-upgrade17:31
* gartral|2 blinks 17:32
Seveasotherwise your system may get into a fairly weird state17:32
gartral|2ok.. glad I double-checked17:32
bekksgartral|2: Whats "PoS"?17:32
Seveasbekks: piece of solid-human-waste...17:32
gartral|21264 upgraded, 213 newly installed, 18 to remove and 0 not upgraded.17:33
Seveassounds about right17:33
Seveasautoremove will remove more later17:33
gartral|2bekks: depending on context, either "Point of Sale", "Position of Star", or "Piece of S***". in my context, the 3rd one17:34
maxbThe upgrade then dist-upgrade thing is just a way to enforce a different ordering on the package upgrades. The 'weird state' is that once you've started that kind of upgrade, you're committed to following up with the dist-upgrade right after, or your system _will_ be in a weird state17:35
gartral|2I love my internet. almost 2000 packages in about 30 minutes17:35
gartral|2doo-dee-doo17:37
maxbI'm guessing the upgrade then dist-upgrade thing came about either because it helped apt steer around some dependency resolution problems it had difficulty solving right, or possibly because it divides the upgrade into "less likely to interfere with people trying to simultaneously use the system" and "more likely to interfere ..." portions17:37
gartral|2maxb: considering under *normal" usage dist-upgrade tends to upgrade kernels/thing that require a reboot, I'm going to say the latter17:38
gartral|213:38 -!- Jarvis2 [~java@host86-139-75-0.range86-139.btcentralplus.com] has quit [Excess Flood] <--- phhht... bot17:39
bekksgartral|2: Or just a bouncer running wild.17:39
gartral|2my * hurts >.<17:39
gartwitchyay... terminals craashed17:52
gartwitchoh wow17:55
Seveasgartwitch: long live screen/tmux :)17:56
gartwitchtelnet towel.blinkenlights.nl17:56
gartwitchSeveas: oh yea. I use byobu17:56
gartwitchis it bad that I can hear my server's hard drive from the next room, when the thing is in my bedroom closet?18:00
dasjoeWell, it might be bad. Depends on the noise18:03
lordievaderTime for a smart check, I'd say.18:03
dasjoeI'm using a small script to check my SATA disks' SMART values, https://gist.github.com/dasjoe/a7252e3f737ec36de36f18:04
gartwitchit was a joke question , it's just the brand of HDD...18:05
Patrickdkhmm, smartmontools does that automatically18:06
Patrickdkreally should use it instead of a script18:07
Patrickdkrealtime notification, scheduled disk smart test runs18:07
dasjoePatrickdk: I prefer doing it manually before and after a run of "badblocks -svwe 3" so I can compare outputs. Also, I only want to see the stats I'm interested in, like http://paste.debian.net/191119/18:09
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Patrickdkduring a disk test is different18:10
PatrickdkI mean more for production usage18:10
Patrickdknot randomly for disk checks18:10
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gartral|2Seveas: what was that command... debfiller?18:13
gartral|2Seveas: should i reboot before or after the autoremove/debfoster?18:32
Seveasgartral|2: reboot after dist-upgrade has finished, but ONLY if it finished without errors. If there were errors, pastebin them.18:33
gartral|2Seveas: understood18:34
gartral|2you know what apt needs?18:46
gartral|2apt needs a way to show an estimate on the amount of your life wasted by babysitting it, measured in time.18:46
gartral|2uuuughh19:19
gartral|2Seveas: looks like it completed without error19:45
gartral|2uh oh...19:49
gartral|2Seveas: great... it's giving me connection refused when trying to ssh back in19:50
gartral|2Seveas: then agin, it really helps when I type the damn address right >.>19:50
gartral|2Seveas: autoremove or debfoster first?19:53
gartral|2bekks: hey19:55
gartral|2maxb: you around?19:56
maxbhello19:56
gartral|2do you know if I should autoremove or debfoster?19:58
maxbThese are mainly tidying-up operations. Wise for the long term sanity of your installation, but not immediately critical20:05
Seveasgartral|2: autoremove. debfoster takes time and you'll want to study its manpage before running it.20:09
gartral|2Seveas: sudo seems to be throwing an odd error: "no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory20:21
gartral|2seems to be samba related, meh20:25
Seveasgartral|2: I'm afraid it's bedtime here, so I can't help any further20:30
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devster31hi, what's the preferred way to get python 2.7.9?21:09
lordievader!info python221:09
ubottuPackage python2 does not exist in vivid21:09
lordievader!info python21:09
ubottupython (source: python-defaults): interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version). In component main, is optional. Version 2.7.9-1 (vivid), package size 133 kB, installed size 680 kB21:10
lordievaderdevster31: What version of Ubuntu are you running?21:10
devster3114.04 unfortunately21:10
devster3114.04-2 server21:11
lordievader!info python trusty21:11
ubottupython (source: python-defaults): interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version). In component main, is optional. Version 2.7.5-5ubuntu3 (trusty), package size 130 kB, installed size 671 kB21:11
lordievaderdevster31: The Ubuntu Toolchain PPA has an Python 2.7.9 available for Trusty: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/ppa21:13
devster31oh, nice21:15
tyler_wylieHas anyone setup an ubuntu-server VPS as a VPN endpoint? I am having issues with ISP's backbone routing trying to enjoy games and am tempted to roll my own VPN via VPS22:21
Locke2002I can't find the right way to google my problem. What are the right key terms I should search for: I already have a mail server and I want the other hosts on my domain to use the mail server for their mail?22:55
Patrickdkdunno, that is very undefined22:55
Patrickdkwhat mail software are you using?22:57
Locke2002sendmail22:57
Patrickdkwhat exactly is meant by other hosts on my domain22:57
Locke2002just other ubuntu servers. I don't know if it's a stupid thing to want, but I want to use alpine from any of my other servers for the same inboxes22:57
Locke2002I guess that's a side point. What I really want in the long run is to be able to have the other hosts send mail to/through my mail server22:59
Locke2002and I guess that just means reading and understanding more about relaying?22:59
PatrickdkI guess you just want your server to act as a msa then22:59
Patrickdkgoogle how to configure sendmail as an msa23:00
Patrickdkand how to setup your other servers to use it23:00
Locke2002Thank you, I will look into that :)23:00
Patrickdkgenerally to simplify things, you would setup a nullmailer on the other machines23:00
Patrickdkrather than use a full mailsystem on them to relay to that one23:01
Locke2002ah ok23:02
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