| Quantos | So I'm having an issue with my second internal HDD | 01:17 |
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| Quantos | It automounts on boot, but I can't seem to access it | 01:18 |
| Quantos | It has my music collection on it, I need tuneage | 01:18 |
| ianorlin | Quantos: what filesystem is on it? | 01:21 |
| ianorlin | also what format is the music | 01:22 |
| Quantos | The music is in various formats | 01:22 |
| Quantos | Okay, just located it in GParted, it's an ext4 | 01:23 |
| ianorlin | Quantos: did you have mulitple user accounts on that intenral hdd | 01:25 |
| ianorlin | also might be a permissions issue | 01:25 |
| ianorlin | or probably is | 01:26 |
| Quantos | No, I haven't | 01:26 |
| Quantos | How do I check the permissions of a drive? | 01:26 |
| ianorlin | no of the folders on the drive | 01:26 |
| ianorlin | or is the drive encrypted? | 01:27 |
| Quantos | It shouldn't be encrypted | 01:27 |
| ianorlin | does it mount in pcmanfm? | 01:27 |
| ianorlin | does it appear in /media/ | 01:27 |
| Quantos | It shows up in the folder of Medai | 01:28 |
| Quantos | Media even | 01:28 |
| ianorlin | can you change to that folder | 01:29 |
| Quantos | Nope | 01:29 |
| Quantos | Keeps going back to home | 01:29 |
| ianorlin | Quantos can you try unmounting that folder? | 01:30 |
| ianorlin | and then maybe try mounting it in pcmanfm | 01:30 |
| Quantos | It won't seem to unmount | 01:30 |
| ianorlin | or is this on KDE ? | 01:30 |
| Quantos | This is KDE | 01:30 |
| ianorlin | this is #lubuntu | 01:30 |
| wxl | ianorlin: he's the madman using kde in lubuntu | 01:31 |
| Quantos | Yeah, | 01:31 |
| wxl | if it won't unmount it's probably a permissions issue | 01:31 |
| Quantos | It actually won't work in Gnome either | 01:31 |
| wxl | i'd open it all up with the can opener (terminal) | 01:31 |
| Quantos | Okay, I'll just partition it and restore from backup | 01:32 |
| ianorlin | Quantos: check the backups have it first | 01:33 |
| Quantos | They do | 01:33 |
| Quantos | They were made before I installed | 01:33 |
| Quantos | I'm religious about that | 01:33 |
| Quantos | Ah, got it to unmount, but it throws an error when I try to mount it | 01:34 |
| Quantos | Hmm, it gave me ext3 as a default option on the new partition | 01:36 |
| Quantos | Not ext4, would that have been the problem? | 01:37 |
| wxl | what error specifically? | 01:38 |
| Quantos | Oh, just that it wasn't able to mount it | 01:38 |
| Quantos | No error code or anything | 01:38 |
| Quantos | That's a sound that I haven't heard in a long time, the HDD is spinning | 01:39 |
| Quantos | Well, I can access it now, going to try putting some files on it | 01:40 |
| Quantos | Okay, now I get an error, it says permission denied when I try to copy a file | 01:42 |
| wxl | check permissions | 01:44 |
| wxl | check permissions | 01:44 |
| wxl | etc. | 01:44 |
| wxl | . | 01:44 |
| wxl | . | 01:44 |
| wxl | . | 01:44 |
| Quantos | It won't let me change them | 01:44 |
| wxl | sheesh | 01:45 |
| Quantos | LOL | 01:45 |
| wxl | what are the permissions that you know you want to change them? | 01:45 |
| Quantos | I opened the file manager and click on the drive, mount it and then right click the folder | 01:46 |
| Quantos | It won't let anyone but the owner copy files to it | 01:46 |
| wxl | yeah you should try doing this all in terminal | 01:46 |
| Quantos | I'm not sure why I'm not the owner | 01:46 |
| Quantos | And I do that in term how? | 01:48 |
| wxl | ls -alh /path/to/mountpoint ought to be fairly telling | 01:48 |
| wxl | to unmount: sudo umount /path/to/mountpoint | 01:49 |
| wxl | and to mount: sudo mount /path/to/device/file /path/to/mountpoint | 01:49 |
| Quantos | ls can't acess /path/to/mountpoint | 01:50 |
| wxl | um | 01:50 |
| Quantos | I'm not sure what I'm supposed to change that value too | 01:51 |
| Quantos | to even | 01:51 |
| wxl | to the place where it's mounted to | 01:51 |
| wxl | you can use the `mount` command to figure that out | 01:51 |
| wxl | as an example, i on my machine, i have a secondary drive | 01:51 |
| wxl | whose device file is /dev/sdb1 | 01:51 |
| wxl | mounted on /foo | 01:51 |
| wxl | if you need to find out the device files, you can use `sudo fdisk -l` | 01:52 |
| Quantos | Mines sdb2, but I still don't know the mount point | 01:52 |
| wxl | mount | grep sdb2 | 01:52 |
| wxl | that should find it | 01:52 |
| Quantos | No return | 01:52 |
| Quantos | No error either, but no return | 01:53 |
| wxl | then either: | 01:53 |
| wxl | it's not mounted | 01:53 |
| wxl | the device file is not sdb2 | 01:53 |
| wxl | just run `mount` | 01:53 |
| Quantos | Hmmm | 01:54 |
| Quantos | In file manager it shows it mounted | 01:55 |
| Quantos | I don't see anything in term stating it is though | 01:55 |
| wxl | then it's probably lying if it's not reported by `mount` | 01:55 |
| wxl | remember all GUIs are a front end to those terminal tools | 01:55 |
| Quantos | Yeah, I know that | 01:55 |
| wxl | so if they don't agree, i would not trust the file manager | 01:55 |
| wxl | you can manually mount it yourself though | 01:56 |
| wxl | first make a directory somewhere | 01:56 |
| wxl | you could even do it in your home folder if you wanted | 01:56 |
| wxl | `mkdir ~/foo` | 01:56 |
| wxl | then mount it | 01:56 |
| wxl | `sudo mount /dev/sdb2 ~/foo` | 01:56 |
| Quantos | jas, brb | 01:57 |
| wxl | welp, i'm headed home | 01:57 |
| Quantos | Sorry about that, my pills make me sick sometimes | 01:59 |
| Quantos | Okay, it's letting me access it now | 02:07 |
| Ascavasaion | Whoop whoop... installed Lubunto onto an old Athlon 900MHz, 256Mb RAM, 32Mb Graphics, and 20GB HDD. Runs at a nice speed once booted which takes a minute or two. only beef I have now is that the screen resolution is 640x480, and there are no other options available. Now I know for a fact that that graphics card and monitor can do up to 1024x768. any ideas? | 19:56 |
| Unit193 | I'd stop x/lightdm and run x -configure to generate an xorg conf file. | 19:57 |
| Unit193 | !xorgconf | 19:57 |
| ubottu | The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is deprecated, but sometimes may still be needed to pass values to specific drivers. See `man xorg.conf` for file structure and syntax. | Generic xorg.conf generation: http://ubottu.com/y/xorgconf | ATI proprietary driver specific: http://ubottu.com/y/atiamd | Nvidia proprietary driver specific: http://ubottu.com/y/nvidia | 19:57 |
| Ascavasaion | Unit193: how do I stop the X? | 19:59 |
| Unit193 | Switch to a TTY, `sudo service lightdm stop` | 20:00 |
| Ascavasaion | Unit193: Taking forever to do anything after I authenticated | 20:06 |
| Ascavasaion | Unit193: Okay, that did nothing... and now nothign works. | 20:08 |
| Unit193 | Ascavasaion: After that returns to the prompt, sudo Xorg -configure and it'll give you a new file that you can edit and/or drop to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. To get the GUI back, sudo service lightdm start | 20:09 |
| Ascavasaion | Unit193: Does nto go to command prompt... it just freezes. | 20:11 |
| Unit193 | Did it actually turn off anything? ps aux | grep lightdm | 20:13 |
| Unit193 | Ctrl+c it and try to flip back to tty7. | 20:13 |
| Ascavasaion | It froze, I had to hit reset | 20:13 |
| Ascavasaion | Even the mouse froze | 20:13 |
| Unit193 | ...Did you open a terminal and type that rather than switching to a TTY? | 20:14 |
| Ascavasaion | yes | 20:14 |
| Ascavasaion | oops | 20:15 |
| Unit193 | Also, you can change the boot options in grub adding 'text' to get to the same text prompt. | 20:15 |
| Unit193 | Yep, that's the rpboelm, | 20:15 |
| Ascavasaion | I presumed TTY was terminal; | 20:15 |
| Unit193 | Erm, problem. | 20:15 |
| Unit193 | !tty | 20:15 |
| ubottu | To get to the TTY terminals 1-6, use the keystroke ctrl + alt + F1-F6 respectively (Alt+F7 will get you back to your graphical login). To change the resolution for your TTY, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ChangeTTYResolution | 20:15 |
| Ascavasaion | TTY? | 20:15 |
| Ascavasaion | Okay, thank you. | 20:15 |
| Ascavasaion | x-configure gives command not found | 20:18 |
| Ascavasaion | x -configure I mean | 20:18 |
| krytarik | Ascavasaion: Look again at the command given. | 20:20 |
| Ascavasaion | Unit193: "x -configure" | 20:26 |
| Unit193 | X or Xorg | 20:27 |
| genii | !xorgconf | 20:27 |
| ubottu | The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is deprecated, but sometimes may still be needed to pass values to specific drivers. See `man xorg.conf` for file structure and syntax. | Generic xorg.conf generation: http://ubottu.com/y/xorgconf | ATI proprietary driver specific: http://ubottu.com/y/atiamd | Nvidia proprietary driver specific: http://ubottu.com/y/nvidia | 20:27 |
| Ascavasaion | Sigh, no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 | 20:32 |
| Ascavasaion | i had this once before... when I tried dual monitors with two graphics cards... I eventually just gave up. | 20:33 |
| genii | If you did the x -configure, the xorg.conf file will be in the dir you ran that | 20:33 |
| Ascavasaion | genii: thank you :) | 20:34 |
| Ascavasaion | Let the Googling begin hehe | 20:35 |
| Ascavasaion | no luck... hehehe | 21:02 |
| Ascavasaion | this is beyond me... maybe it is just past my bedtime. Will try agai tomorrow. As it is no I have bombed it completely. Deleted the xorg.conf file in home directoy and in /etc/X11, and startx does nothing. *sigh* night night | 21:03 |
| Ascavasaion | sleep well. | 21:03 |
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