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pittiGood morning05:35
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seb128good morning desktopers07:37
Laneyhey hey!08:01
Laney25/06 00:13:10 -queuebot:#ubuntu-release- New binary: chocolate-doom [amd64] (wily-proposed/multiverse) [2.2.0-1] (no packageset)08:01
* Laney wonders what that could be08:01
seb128hey Laney08:02
Laneyhey seb128!08:08
Laneyhow's it going?08:08
seb128good!08:08
seb128you?08:08
seb128had a drive longer that expected yesterday though08:08
seb128they are redoing some highway and changed the road to be 1 line in one way and 2 in the other08:09
Laneyyeah good, did some planting out in the garden last night08:09
seb128I was on the 1 line direction, and apparently a truck had issues and got stucked08:09
Laneyone day i'll get some food out of this thing08:09
seb128blocking everything for 1.5 hours...08:09
Laneyhad like 3 potatoes so far08:10
Laneyoh man, that sounds dire08:10
seb128hehe08:10
seb128well, I had my laptop, so I just debugged a bit that snappy image offline while stucked :p08:10
seb128but it sucked being stopped in the middle of the road in the sun08:10
seb128what did you plant in the garden?08:11
Laneysome tomatoes and rocket08:14
Laneyand some other things got upgraded to bigger pots08:14
seb128watch out for the slugs ;-)08:16
Laneygrr!08:17
Laneyi hope that letting things get quite big in the pots first should help08:17
Laneythen putting them in the ground after08:17
seb128I guess it should help08:17
seb128still they might eat your food :p08:17
seb128bah08:17
seb128is one supposed to be able to "upstart --user" from a vt or ssh?08:18
LaneyI took a picture the other day...08:18
seb128xnox, ^08:18
seb128Laney, to prove you had vegetables because having nothing left? ;-)08:18
xnoxseb128: eh.... no.08:18
seb128talk with pitti about beer traps :p08:18
xnoxseb128: you can "join" existing graphical session though.08:18
Laneyhttps://goo.gl/photos/877B43UqAHsaM4Dq708:19
LaneyAAAAAAHHHHHHHH08:19
seb128oh, snails, nice ;-)08:19
xnoxseb128: export `cat /run/user/upstart/*.session` or some such, and then initctl --user should do the right stuff.08:19
xnoxseb128: in theory launching `upstart --user` from vt/ssh should do the right thing, in practice it tries & fails to launch gui things.08:20
seb128xnox, thanks, in fact that's on a snappy image and upstart-event-bridge seems to not like it according to .xsession-errors so I was trying to start it by hand to get debug info08:21
seb128the log only says it exit 1 and is retried and fail the same way08:21
Laneyseb128: you want to try to get wps & friends migrated?08:23
seb128Laney, sure, but you need to tell me what to do because I didn't follow the details ;-)08:23
seb128xnox, hum, with the export, it's better, it complains about not being about the connect to system Upstart, which is normal, that's a systemd system ... why is it trying to use the event bridge?08:24
Laneyseb128: I think demote-to-proposed zygrib (FTBFS with new gda) and remove mapnik from wily-proposed should do it08:24
seb128oh, in fact .xsession-errors has the same issue on my normal laptop08:25
Laneythat's what you need to do, then I should be able to copy back the old version08:25
seb128so I guess that's a redherring08:25
seb128Laney, ok08:25
Laneymaybe sync blacklist mapnik?08:26
xnoxseb128: yes, i have a patch to do event-bridge under systemd, but i don't think it landed last cycle (cause phone was not a priority)08:26
xnoximho i could land a few more things and then slowly start kicking upstart from the user session out.08:26
xnoxpatriciadavila: ipv6 - respect!08:26
LaneyI wonder why I'm not on via v608:27
seb128xnox, that would be nice ;-)08:28
seb128though user session might be way out08:28
Laney25/06 09:28:49 [Freenode] -!-  hostname : 2001:ba8:1f1:f1ab:216:3eff:fe14:af00 2001:ba8:1f1:f1ab:216:3eff:fe14:af0008:29
xnoxseb128: heh. well, between james and I, i'm sure we can cook something up =)08:29
xnoxLaney: you have ipv6 too, or what's going on?08:29
seb128Laney, ok, done the demoting&deleting from proposed, unsure about the sync blocking ... what is going to happen if it's synced back to proposed after the migration?08:29
Laneyxnox: yeah but I was connected over v4, guess that is preferred still08:30
Laneyseb128: I'm worried the broken transition will start again if they do another upload before it is ready08:30
seb128Laney, let's see, worth thing we remove it again?08:31
LaneyI guess we could deal in the same way if necessary08:31
Laneyit's going in \o/09:47
seb128\o/09:47
seb128k, so recovery mode works on a normal install in wily09:48
seb128seems like another snappy image specific issue :-/09:48
Laneydoes this stuff work (exist?) on snappy core?09:49
seb128"stuff"?09:49
seb128I've no idea how recovery works, it's that by having "friendly-recovery" installed?09:49
Laneyrecovery, other problems that you have, do you compare?09:49
seb128the boot entry has "recovery"09:49
seb128compare what with what?09:49
Laneysnappy core09:50
seb128oh, core, sorry I misread before09:51
pittiseb128: friendly-recovery, yes09:51
seb128I did compare some stuff, not for that one09:51
pittibut I don't think that makes much sense on snappy09:51
pittiif you ever land in it, you'll do more harm than good09:51
pittiand with the A/B partitions this Should Not Happen™09:51
seb128well my first motivation was that sudo was screwed and I needed a way to get a root prompt09:52
seb128and if it's not useful it should not be listed in grub09:52
seb128hum, friendly recovery is installed09:53
seb128k need to go for lunch but I'm going to look more after that09:53
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Sweet5harkdpm: fyi, libreoffice is already way ahead on the size issue: https://twitter.com/samtuke/status/61402155667568230811:19
dpmSweet5hark, I might need some more context though: he's throwing a bunch of figures, but I'm not sure exactly what they mean11:20
dpmoh, msoffice11:21
dpmok, you were comparing sizes11:21
Sweet5harkdpm: right -- MS will have lots of fun cutting that monster back down.11:22
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mitya57Who is responsible for compiz packaging these days?12:02
* mitya57 wants a review on his https://code.launchpad.net/~mitya57/compiz/switcher-plugins-in-default/+merge/26251812:03
seb128mitya57, bregma&co12:10
mitya57thanks!12:11
seb128yw12:11
mitya57bregma, ↑ — can you please review that?12:11
Sweet5harklol@ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=114113712:36
ubot5bugzilla.redhat.com bug 1141137 in systemd "systemd sends SIGKILL imediately after SIGTERM during shutdown" [Unspecified,New]12:36
Sweet5harkah, pitti is even in on the party ...12:37
pittiSweet5hark: we got that patch reverted in Debian and Ubuntu, does it affect us still?12:38
Sweet5harkpitti: no, just saw it fly by on social media (someone requesting a systemd project maintainer attitude readjustment tool)12:41
seb128bregma, hey, I saw you discussing with brandon about u-s-c, are you guys debugging issues with it?15:01
seb128bregma, I'm having problems with unity8 on the snappy personal image15:02
bregmaseb128, well, our problems is we're trying to use it in a way it was sort of designed to prevent :)15:02
bregmaseb128, the log you posed looked like it had a bad library and that's what was preventing Unity8 from running15:03
seb128bregma, the symbol error?15:07
bregmaseb128, yeah15:08
bregmalooks suspcious to me15:08
bregmaseb128, was that log from Unity8 or from USC?15:08
seb128bregma,  that's bug #145868915:09
ubot5bug 1458689 in mir (Ubuntu) "[vivid-overlay] input-stub.so fails to load on i386" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/145868915:09
seb128but removing the .so doesn't change anything15:09
seb128bregma, http://paste.ubuntu.com/11773781/ is usc15:10
seb128bregma, http://paste.ubuntu.com/11773784/ unity8.log15:10
bregmaseb128, the USC log looks normal:  it's just sitting there waiting for U8 to ack its start, which never happens15:11
bregmaseb128, it looks like the nested Mir server in qtmir is not starting for whatever reason15:12
bregmaat this point I usually resort ot using gdb in batch mode15:12
seb128on what process?15:13
bregmacopy /usr/share/upstart/session/unity8.conf into ~/.config/upstart and replace the exec line with a gdb command to run unity815:14
seb128there is no way to get debug info in a log on why the nested mir server doesn't start?15:15
bregmaseb128, you might be able to turn on the LTTNG loggin from Mir15:16
seb128you would think some people did that before and it's documented ;-)15:16
bregmaMir?  documented?15:16
seb128lol, one can dream, no? ;-)15:16
seb128bregma, when you gdb, do you usually b/stop on something?15:17
bregmaseb128, I spent a lot of time using "catch throw" to stop when exceptions are thrown and get a backtrace15:18
bregmamay not help in your case15:18
bregmaseb128, looking at the qtmir code involved, it's all wrapped in threads and ends up just calling into the Mir libraries, I thing using LTTNG might be your most productive approach15:22
seb128bregma, how do you do that?15:25
bregmaseb128, you might want to ask the Mir devs, but you could start at http://lttng.org/docs/#doc-tracing-your-own-user-application and add commands to ~/.config/upstart/unity8.conf15:28
bregmaI have a vague recollection of doing just that15:28
seb128bregma, thanks15:30
seb128that's less trivial that what I was hopping for there15:30
* mitya57 wonders why bregma ignores him15:51
bregmamitya57, I'm not ignoring you, I'm working through plenty of backlogs15:52
bregmaalways backlogs15:52
bregmamitya57, I'm not sure if we want to move that plugin into the core plugins or just have compiz-gnome depend on compiz-plugins instead15:55
bregmaI need to discuss it with other devs15:56
mitya57bregma: The latter won't much help because the session has TryExec=compiz, and thus it will show every time when compiz is installed.15:57
mitya57If moving switcher plugin to -main is not an option, then I'll have to split compiz session to a separate package (which I don't want to do).15:58
mitya57bregma: So please discuss it and let me know the result :)15:59
bregmamitya57, we'll comment on the MP when we have a conclusion16:00
mitya57Thank you!16:00
chrisccoulsonwhen starting unity 8 desktop, is anything meant to set QT_QPA_PLATFORM, and if so, what sets it?16:00
bregmachrisccoulson, /usr/bin/lightdm-unity8-session sets it in the unity8-desktop-session-mir package16:04
chrisccoulsonbregma, unity8 desktop doesn't run on my system, and never has done. I get this crash on startup: https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/a111aea4-1b52-11e5-af4a-fa163e5bb1a216:05
chrisccoulsonwhich looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORM isn't set16:05
bregmachrisccoulson, yeah, you should never see references to xcb16:06
bregmachrisccoulson, the alternative is you need to install the desktop graphics stack because Mir no longer pulls it in as a dependency16:06
chrisccoulsonbregma, what exactly do I need to install?16:07
bregmait gets seeded in the desktop-next ISO but it was only recently added as a dependency to the unity8-desktop-session-mir package16:07
bregmachrisccoulson, try manually adding the mir-graphics-drivers-desktop package and see if it helps16:08
chrisccoulsonbregma, it looks like I've already got that installed16:09
bregma:(16:09
bregmachrisccoulson, are you running on Intel hardware?16:15
chrisccoulsonbregma, I am16:15
bregmahmm16:15
bregmawily or vivid?16:15
chrisccoulsonbregma, vivid16:16
bregmavery odd16:18
bregmachrisccoulson, does it happen with unity8 or just unity8-dash?16:18
chrisccoulsonbregma, I have a crash report from unity8 at the same time - https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/94721788-1b52-11e5-b837-fa163e75317b16:19
chrisccoulsonalthough, it doesn't look like there's a stack trace there16:19
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chrisccoulsonbregma, how is the session meant to be started? In my lightdm.log, I see "Running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session lightdm-unity8-session"17:34
bregmachrisccoulson, unity8-desktop-session-mir provides the file /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/55-unity8.conf that tells LightDM what to do, which is basically run /usr/bin/lightdm-unity8-session17:36
bregmathat script just sets some environment variables and runs upstart17:36
chrisccoulsonbregma, oh, I bet this is because lightdm hasn't been restarted since that file was installed17:37
chrisccoulsonbrb17:37
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chrisccoulsonbregma, so, I can log in to it now. Only, I can't get past the first run bit because I can't pull the launcher out17:44
chrisccoulsonOk, I can do it with the mouse. Just not my touchpad17:46
bregmachrisccoulson, yes, that's a tragic limitation to the new Unity design17:57
* bregma expects it to be fixed by the time it ships officially17:57
chrisccoulsonheh, I hope so17:57
bregmaall my laptops have touchscreens17:58
chrisccoulsonbregma, yeah, I don't have a touchscreen on my laptop18:02
chrisccoulsonIt's sort-of ok with the mouse, but unusable with the touchpad. The cursor actually wanders across the screen when I put my finger on the touchpad18:03
chrisccoulsonright, so, webbrowser-app works on desktop-next again :)19:43
chrisccoulsonwell, locally anyway19:45

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