[02:55] <pikurasa_> Hello US world! Does anyone want to entertain a problem that I need help with? Would much appreciate it :)
[02:56] <pikurasa_> And, yes, I have tried everything I could imagine already trying to fix it.
[02:57] <pikurasa_> If you live in MA I will bake you cookies LOL
[03:02] <pikurasa_> Basically, I cannot seem to open the Sound Settings or Pulse Audio Volume Control.
[03:02] <pikurasa_> For that matter, I cannot even open Gparted!
[03:02] <Unit193> If you open them via terminal, what happens?
[03:03] <gs> ss
[03:03] <gs> d
[03:03] <pikurasa_> Haven't tried. What is command? I tried "pulseaudio" in CL a few days ago, but that is something different, right?
[03:03] <Unit193> pavucontrol
[03:04] <gs> where i am?
[03:04] <pikurasa_> This is error for gparted: /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangomm-1.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[03:04] <pikurasa_> pavucontrol: error while loading shared libraries: libpangomm-1.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[03:04] <pikurasa_> Am I missing a library?
[03:05] <pikurasa_> Synaptic hasn't reported any missing libs or broken packages...
[03:06] <pikurasa_> I look at Synaptic and it is there...
[03:06] <pikurasa_> libpangomm-1.4-1 is installed.
[03:06] <pikurasa_> This is what I think caused the problem...
[03:07] <pikurasa_> I installed the gnome-shell a while back along side the US desktop environment.
[03:07] <pikurasa_> It was a theoretically brilliant idea.
[03:07] <Unit193> You're on wily.  Run updates.
[03:07] <pikurasa_> On wily?
[03:08] <pikurasa_> I should be on Trusty...
[03:09] <pikurasa_> Everything looks like it is on Trusty...
[03:09] <pikurasa_> I update all the time.
[03:11] <Unit193> Strange, figured it was the rebuild of stuff, but you could perhaps be just missing that.
[03:11] <Unit193> !find libpangomm-1.4.so.1 trusty
[03:11] <Unit193> !find libpangomm-1.4.so.1
[03:11] <Unit193> !find libpangomm-1.4.so.1
[03:12] <pikurasa_> What I imagined the problem to be is that Gnome and xfce are sharing some of the same config files.
[03:12] <pikurasa_> Actually, where I am now is a lot better than a week ago. I couldn't even access the desktop a week ago.
[03:12] <pikurasa_> lightdm became broken
[03:13] <pikurasa_> So I had to go to TTY and uninstall and reinstall it.
[03:14] <Unit193> apt-cache policy gparted | pastebinit ?
[03:24] <pikurasa_> https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/pikurasa/m/having-trouble-with-gparted/
[03:33] <pikurasa_> Do you also want to see the one for pavucontrol?
[03:33] <pikurasa_> I tried doing sudo install --reinstall gparted a few days ago when I became fed up with the problem...
[03:33] <pikurasa_> to no avail.
[03:39] <pikurasa_> Could this have caused a problem... When I was trying to fix my problem to run the GUI desktop environment...
[03:39] <pikurasa_> I did run xfce as root a couple of times.
[03:40] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, why?
[03:40] <cfhowlett> why run root?
[03:40] <pikurasa_> I don't think that I had the problem before then... but then again. I had a crippling problem at the time and I was just trying to fix it.
[03:41] <pikurasa_> I ran as root because the desktop environment wouldn't work AT ALL.
[03:41] <pikurasa_> So I just started trying stuff.
[03:41] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, that's ... not the way to fix.
[03:41] <pikurasa_> And running as root loaded the GUI.
[03:41] <cfhowlett> so ... no xfce works perfectly, right?
[03:42] <pikurasa_> XFCE works now because I uninstalled lightdm and then reinstalled it.
[03:42] <pikurasa_> from the TTY
[03:42] <pikurasa_> after I ran XFCE as root and searched the internet for solutions.
[03:43] <pikurasa_> I noticed that running as root did screw with some of the config files.
[03:43] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, exactly
[03:43] <pikurasa_> I have restored from a backup, which fixed the configs.
[03:44] <pikurasa_> But now I need to get pavucontrol, gparted, and the gang up and running again.
[03:45] <pikurasa_> Is that possible with my current situation?
[03:46] <Unit193> Did you ever  apt-get --reinstall install libpangomm-1.4-1  ?
[03:46] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, I'd normally say yes, but root introduces a whole bunch weirdness into the equation.  Personally, I'd get a md5sum verified .iso and reinstall rather than chase the tail of residual problems.
[03:48] <pikurasa_> Unit193 It worked!!!
[03:48] <Unit193> Still would be interesting to know why you got random breakage.
[03:49] <pikurasa_> and GParted works!
[03:49] <pikurasa_> and pavucontrol!
[03:49] <pikurasa_> Its all back again!!!
[03:49] <Unit193> 'Welcome.
[03:49] <pikurasa_> I am still a computer idiot, but at least the problem on the surface is fixed... LOL
[03:50] <pikurasa_> And now I know to never start xfce as root.
[03:50] <pikurasa_> Like, now I REALLY know.
[03:50] <pikurasa_> I will be telling my grandkids about it.
[03:50] <Unit193> Pretty much.  Wonder if the perms on the authority files just got messed up.
[03:51] <pikurasa_> I wonder why the GUI wouldn't start that one day...
[03:52] <pikurasa_> oh the mysteries of free software...
[03:53] <pikurasa_> Okay, I was not serious about the cookies, but...
[03:53] <pikurasa_> HERE ARE SOME AWESOME VIDEOS!!!
[03:53] <pikurasa_> Check this out!
[03:53] <pikurasa_> https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/pikurasa/collection/music-blocks/
[03:54] <pikurasa_> This is software I helped guide the development for. Its MusicBlocks, a SugarLabs project.
[03:54] <pikurasa_> Made the videos with Ubuntu Studio!
[03:55] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, include "made with ubuntustudio" in the credits and/or encode a US watermark.
[03:55] <pikurasa_> Thank you! Wife says to go to bed now.
[03:56] <pikurasa_> How do you do the watermark?
[03:56] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, I used ffmpeg but you could also use avconv or even the gui video apps
[03:56] <pikurasa_> Also, I had trouble putting meta data in with Pitivi.
[03:57] <pikurasa_> I used Pitivi because KDen Live was too complex for this simple project.
[03:57] <pikurasa_> I have used ffmpeg2theora before...
[03:58] <cfhowlett> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17410394/how-to-render-a-watermark-with-transparency-into-a-video
[03:58] <pikurasa_> I have yet to try the newer builds of Pitivi which may work better. I used the Pitivi that was in main repo.
[03:59] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, I suspect openshot is the least complex video editor
[04:00] <pikurasa_> Pitivi worked great but the version in repos is "buggy" and meta data was non-existent from what I could tell.
[04:00] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, tried to view your videos, but the Great Firewall said "no way"
[04:01] <pikurasa_> What?
[04:01] <cfhowlett> I'm in China.
[04:01] <pikurasa_> First time using Media Goblin, but...
[04:02] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, China blocks a whole list of websites.  for some reason MG and Dropbox are not allowed
[04:02] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, ah!  false!  just took awhile to get through
[04:04] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, not bad.  suggestions:  clean up your voice audio.  audacity > sample a non-speaking section > remove noise.  then amplify, compress and equalize.
[04:07] <pikurasa_> Okay. Non-speaking section means the sound from browser software synth?
[04:07] <pikurasa_> Also, I added "Videos made with all free/libre software, GNU/Linux operating system, and Ubuntu Studio distribution (http://ubuntustudio.org/)"
[04:07] <pikurasa_> as a quick credit hack.
[04:08] <pikurasa_> Okay, if I don't stop making typing noise over here I will see divorce papers.
[04:08] <cfhowlett> pikurasa, another time then.
[04:08] <pikurasa_> Thanks for the guidance!
[04:08] <cfhowlett> happy2help!
[10:27] <manh> hi, my first time using Ubuntu Studio and I got no sound after starting JACK server, can anyone help me a little?
[10:31] <manh> Is anyone available?
[10:59] <zequence> manh: !ProAudio
[10:59] <zequence> !proaudio
[10:59] <zequence> hmm
[11:00] <zequence> !ProAudio
[11:00] <zequence> I was trying to get this link up https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/ProAudioIntro
[11:01] <zequence> Specifically https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/ProAudioIntro#UbuntuStudio.2FProAudioIntro.2F1204.Starting_Jack
[21:44] <bluzeo> hey guys - i am looking for a why to install libre office to 5.01
[21:44] <bluzeo> i meant way
[22:50] <billy_> hello