[01:17] <Quantos> So I'm having an issue with my second internal HDD
[01:18] <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
[01:21] <ianorlin> Quantos: what filesystem is on it?
[01:22] <ianorlin> also what format is the music
[01:22] <Quantos> The music is in various formats
[01:23] <Quantos> Okay, just located it in GParted, it's an ext4
[01:25] <ianorlin> Quantos: did you have mulitple user accounts on that intenral hdd
[01:25] <ianorlin> also might be a permissions issue
[01:26] <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
[01:27] <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/
[01:28] <Quantos> It shows up in the folder of Medai
[01:28] <Quantos> Media even
[01:29] <ianorlin> can you change to that folder
[01:29] <Quantos> Nope
[01:29] <Quantos> Keeps going back to home
[01:30] <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
[01:31] <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)
[01:32] <Quantos> Okay, I'll just partition it and restore from backup
[01:33] <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
[01:34] <Quantos> Ah, got it to unmount, but it throws an error when I try to mount it
[01:36] <Quantos> Hmm, it gave me ext3 as a default option on the new partition
[01:37] <Quantos> Not ext4, would that have been the problem?
[01:38] <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
[01:39] <Quantos> That's a sound that I haven't heard in a long time, the HDD is spinning
[01:40] <Quantos> Well, I can access it now, going to try putting some files on it
[01:42] <Quantos> Okay, now I get an error, it says permission denied when I try to copy a file
[01:44] <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
[01:45] <wxl> sheesh
[01:45] <Quantos> LOL
[01:45] <wxl> what are the permissions that you know you want to change them?
[01:46] <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
[01:48] <Quantos> And I do that in term how?
[01:48] <wxl> ls -alh /path/to/mountpoint ought to be fairly telling
[01:49] <wxl> to unmount: sudo umount /path/to/mountpoint
[01:49] <wxl> and to mount: sudo mount /path/to/device/file /path/to/mountpoint
[01:50] <Quantos> ls can't acess /path/to/mountpoint
[01:50] <wxl> um
[01:51] <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
[01:52] <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
[01:53] <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`
[01:54] <Quantos> Hmmm
[01:55] <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
[01:56] <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`
[01:57] <Quantos> jas, brb
[01:57] <wxl> welp, i'm headed home
[01:59] <Quantos> Sorry about that, my pills make me sick sometimes
[02:07] <Quantos> Okay, it's letting me access it now
[19:56] <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?
[19:57] <Unit193> I'd stop x/lightdm and run  x -configure  to generate an xorg conf file.
[19:57] <Unit193> !xorgconf
[19:59] <Ascavasaion> Unit193: how do I stop the X?
[20:00] <Unit193> Switch to a TTY, `sudo service lightdm stop`
[20:06] <Ascavasaion> Unit193: Taking forever to do anything after I authenticated
[20:08] <Ascavasaion> Unit193: Okay, that did nothing... and now nothign works.
[20:09] <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
[20:11] <Ascavasaion> Unit193: Does nto go to command prompt... it just freezes.
[20:13] <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
[20:14] <Unit193> ...Did you open a terminal and type that rather than switching to a TTY?
[20:14] <Ascavasaion> yes
[20:15] <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] <Ascavasaion> TTY?
[20:15] <Ascavasaion> Okay, thank you.
[20:18] <Ascavasaion> x-configure gives command not found
[20:18] <Ascavasaion> x -configure I mean
[20:20] <krytarik> Ascavasaion: Look again at the command given.
[20:26] <Ascavasaion> Unit193: "x -configure"
[20:27] <Unit193> X or Xorg
[20:27] <genii> !xorgconf
[20:32] <Ascavasaion> Sigh, no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11
[20:33] <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
[20:34] <Ascavasaion> genii: thank you :)
[20:35] <Ascavasaion> Let the Googling begin hehe
[21:02] <Ascavasaion> no luck... hehehe
[21:03] <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.