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pauljwno go Bashing-om, vlc opens and immediately crashes.00:48
daftykins:O00:49
daftykinstried running vlc from a terminal to see if it spits out any output?00:49
daftykinsi don't know if that's how it works mind, i don't use it over in Windows land00:49
Bashing-ompauljw: Yuk ! Sorry no experience with VLC .00:51
pauljwdaftykins,   yeah, and it spit out quite a bit.00:51
daftykins:D00:51
tsimonq2!info vrms yakkety00:52
ubot5'yakkety' is not a valid distribution: kubuntu-backports, kubuntu-experimental, kubuntu-updates, partner, precise, precise-backports, precise-proposed, stable, testing, trusty, trusty-backports, trusty-proposed, unstable, utopic, utopic-backports, utopic-proposed, vivid, vivid-backports, vivid-proposed, wily, wily-backports, wily-proposed, xenial, xenial-backports, xenial-proposed00:52
tsimonq2gosh darnit00:52
* tsimonq2 finds the source code for the bot00:52
daftykinssurely you need someone else to hassle the bots :)00:52
tsimonq2how so?00:53
tsimonq2I clone the thing, grep for the distros listed above, then add it00:53
daftykinsnevermind.00:53
tsimonq2:)00:54
daftykinsi thought you were talking about modifying the actual one00:54
pauljwBashing-om, daftykins it's looking for nvidia stuff and my system is intel, but most of this is probably due to being a vm.  will have to pick at for a while and see what i can come up with.00:54
daftykinspauljw: hmm, "dpkg -l | grep nvidia" should return nothing?00:54
daftykinsi guess it (VLC) could be trying to use a bad renderer00:56
pauljwthat's what it returns, nothing00:56
daftykinsgood good, no irrelevant packages present00:56
TJ-pauljw: are you talking about 'vlc' output in terminal?00:57
pauljwvirtualbox driver may not be up to the task00:57
pauljwTJ-, yeah00:57
daftykinsare you mounting a real DVD drive to the VM and trying to play it? can't think of an issue there00:58
TJ-pauljw: as I recall, vlc does a dynamic scan for libraries that support VDPAU, OPENGL, etc., so warnings are fine.00:58
pauljwyes, using the host dvd00:58
TJ-pauljw: if the libraries aren't there because the hardware is different, the warning is just saying that it didn't find it00:59
pauljwlibvdpau is in the output00:59
pauljwok00:59
daftykinsah probably just looking for nvidia to enable VDPAU or such like00:59
daftykins;D00:59
TJ-yeah, libvdpau and libvaapi I think it checks for01:00
pauljwbut i'm getting this at the end of the terminal output:  xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor01:00
pauljwSegmentation fault (core dumped)01:00
daftykinsoh that might just need the prog run in the terminal with an X viewport so it knows where to run? TJ- will know how ;D01:02
TJ-pauljw: right, that's due to there being no suitable X output device01:02
tsimonq2daftykins: it has to be server-side, asked in #ubuntu-irc and I was pointed to the right person :)01:02
daftykinstsimonq2: i didn't need that info01:03
TJ-pauljw: are you using an X terminal to start vlc (which you should do), or using a plain VT console (outside of X) ?01:03
tsimonq2daftykins: FWIW I thought I would let you know, sorry :P01:03
pauljwTJ-, just opening a terminal window and running it01:04
pauljwTJ-, well, i switched gears and went with videos and after it installed a bunch of gstreamer stuff, it's now playing 'Star Trek' quite nicely...01:32
Bashing-ompauljw: When you are good, yopu are good :)01:36
pauljwheheh, well, i wouldn't say i'm good, persistent perhaps.  :)01:37
pauljwhope TJ- isn't sitting in a dark corner somewhere trying to figure out my non-issue... :(01:38
Bashing-omdo not think that TJ- Is ever in the dark .01:39
pauljwtrue that!01:40
Bashing-omhe reads the source, Luke .01:41
pauljwlol01:41
TJ-ha! I'm about to crawl into the dark, under the doooooveeet01:46
TJ-just realised that since installing on the T300chi, it no longer has touchscreen (but did with the ISO Live)!01:46
pauljw:)01:47
pauljwyou have a good night and maybe i'll see ya tomorrow.  i'm outta here too.01:48
lotuspsychjegood weekend to all05:06
lotuspsychjemorning davido05:21
EriC^^hey lotuspsychje09:16
lotuspsychjehey EriC^^ morning mate09:16
EriC^^morning :D09:16
lotuspsychjemorning TJ-10:20
TJ-hiya10:20
TJ-did you install 1604 from the Live ISO?10:24
lotuspsychjeTJ-: no upgraded the daily why?10:24
TJ-I've been sorting out the issues on the T300chi and jsut noticed its left 'casper' installed :s10:24
lotuspsychjeme and blueskaj had final, before final went out officially :p10:24
TJ-!info casper10:24
ubot5casper (source: casper): Run a "live" preinstalled system from read-only media. In component main, is extra. Version 1.376 (xenial), package size 43 kB, installed size 228 kB10:25
lotuspsychjeby updating it daily10:25
TJ-That's the package that runs the Live env, no need for it on an installed system10:25
TJ-This stupid Asus has real hot-key input problems. The Fn+F5-F7 that control the backlight brightness aren't linking to the actual brightness control. I've been checking their key codes with 'evtest' and they're generating EV_REL (relative i.e. touchpad) events with the sub-type REL_MISC (miscellaneous I guess) so nothing recognises them10:27
lotuspsychjeweird10:28
TJ-yeah, the vol-down/up/mute work fine generating 'proper' keyboard events, but those 3 and a couple others generate some weird events10:32
BluesKajHi folks11:38
lotuspsychjehey BluesKaj :p11:38
BluesKajhey lotuspsychje11:38
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: im testing some snap stuff :p11:38
BluesKajdunno why I'd use snappy11:40
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: could be usefull for tablets on unity811:40
BluesKajwell, it's an ubuntu thing which seems to be taking ubuntu away from the dpkg and deb repos11:57
lotuspsychjesurely alot of stuff happening11:58
TJ-it's a good idea from the point of view that users can install the very latest versions of an application, along with dependencies that may be newer than the system libraries, and its all self-contained and doesn't affect the rest of the system12:10
TJ-It's a 'wrapper' around the application containers concept basically12:10
lotuspsychjeTJ-: well at the start of ubuntu-touch, i found it pitty i could not get like nmap on terminal apps12:11
lotuspsychjenow this all we be possible12:11
TJ-I've not touched ubunt-touch... although just this minute discovered all its package names whilst trying to get touchscreen gesture support working on the t300chi12:12
TJ-thought i'd found a solution until I realised there were far too many packages named 'touch' for that to be the solution for me :D12:12
lotuspsychjewell unity8 is comming to all of us in the future12:12
lotuspsychjehi pauljw12:14
pauljwhey lotuspsychje12:14
pauljweveryone12:14
BluesKajhey pauljw12:22
pauljwmornin' BluesKaj12:22
lotuspsychjeoh man...what an upgrade nightmare we having in main12:22
pauljwsure is lotuspsychje12:22
lotuspsychjelets hope nobody will choose non-lts anymore lol12:23
BluesKajwhat's up this morning, pauljw?12:23
BluesKajlotuspsychje, really? what 's the nightmare?12:24
pauljwnot much here, i've only been up for an hour and on my second cup of coffee so the world is still a blur... :)12:24
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: alot of different stuff from wily ==> xenial upgrades12:24
BluesKajyeah, same here, my allergies are acting up so it takes my eyes a while to gain focus after getting up...strange but true.12:25
pauljw:)12:25
TJ-if you watch the -devel channel over the dev cycle you'll see there's not much attention paid to anything desktop related. It's all core, server, cloud, touch12:26
pauljwouch TJ-12:26
TJ-been like that for the last 3 releases12:26
TJ-and as canonical pays the devs and those are where the money is, thats what gets the focus12:27
TJ-the desktop was just the publicity front-end to get the brand well known and get people to adopt ubuntu for other uses, which is why server is now so predominent12:27
BluesKajTJ-, then it's not my cuppa tea ...ubuntu going in a very different direction than kubuntu12:27
pauljwpity because it's the lowly enduser that will give the distro bad reviews12:28
TJ-non paying end-users don't pay for a staff of ~50012:28
TJ-the money is in server/cloud support12:28
pauljwvery true12:28
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: thats the beauty of flavors, diversity12:28
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: but under the hood we all 16.04 right12:29
TJ-lotuspsychje: until the 'core' decisions break the flavours, as has happened quite a bit. things like changing underlying libraries to suit Unity and breaking KDE services12:29
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: can you test snap find from terminal?12:29
BluesKajubuntu is definitely going down the enterprise road12:31
TJ-for kubuntu that doesn't help at all since kubuntu's packaging stance is only to ship the vanilla upstream code, without kubuntu-specific patches, so there's no procedure to workaround such things12:31
lotuspsychjewell i better trust ubuntu, then MS for it12:31
lotuspsychjeso many different distro's found their way into something else12:32
pauljwwhat they usually find is that free doesn't pay the bills12:33
BluesKajlotuspsychje, don't think I'm going to install snappy12:33
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: you dont need to, its already part of 16.0412:34
lotuspsychjetry snap find12:34
BluesKajubuntu-core-snappy is not installed here12:34
lotuspsychjeah12:34
lotuspsychjekk12:34
lotuspsychje!info ubuntu-core-snappy12:36
ubot5Package ubuntu-core-snappy does not exist in xenial12:36
BluesKaj!snappy12:42
ubot5Ubuntu Core is a rendition of Ubuntu with transactional updates using "snappy". For discussion and support, please visit #snappy and see http://www.ubuntu.com/snappy/12:42
lotuspsychje!info snap12:44
ubot5snap (source: snap): location of genes from DNA sequence with hidden markov model. In component universe, is extra. Version 2013-11-29-1ubuntu2 (xenial), package size 366 kB, installed size 2685 kB12:44
lotuspsychjeextra12:44
BluesKajsnap is different , snappy is the word12:45
lotuspsychjeBluesKaj: not installed by default on kde?12:47
BluesKajnope12:47
lotuspsychjeit is on desktop12:47
* lotuspsychje needs a big coffee12:50
BluesKajthe application called "snappy" as a single word is a media player12:51
lotuspsychjeyeah12:51
lotuspsychjesnappy player12:52
BluesKajthe devs should have researched the name choices before deciding12:54
cfhowlettbdfl does the naming12:54
BluesKajsnappy sounds lightweight for such an important change12:54
cfhowlettoh, wait, maybe that's distro only12:55
lotuspsychjehttps://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/0448222/turns-out-that-snaps-are-not-secure-in-ubuntu-with-x1112:57
lotuspsychjewb13:24
BluesKajdesktop froze, FF is still leaking memory ..the API for amd cpus is a problem as wel13:34
lotuspsychjeoO13:34
BluesKajno problem on my intel cpu laptop13:35
BluesKajwith 16.0413:35
lotuspsychjewb13:49
EriC^^thanks13:49
lotuspsychjehi baizon14:02
baizonyo yo yo lotuspsychje14:03
lotuspsychjehard day work, while we on irc drinking coktails? :p:p14:03
lotuspsychjebbl guys going for shaorma and movies after14:33
EriC^^haha14:34
EriC^^sahtein14:34
EriC^^(bon apetite in lebanese)14:34
lotuspsychjemmmmmm14:34
lotuspsychjewith extra strong sauce14:34
EriC^^:D14:34
* lotuspsychje likes spicy14:35
pauljwlater lotuspsychje14:36
lotuspsychjelaterz14:36
ldshHi, I was wondering, couldn't it be possible to ease the deployment (and reduce costs) of updates and upgrades by merging the good bandwidth of the depots servers and technologies like torrents?15:17
ldshI've already done the upgrade to xenial on one of my computer, and I'm doing it on a second computer now. With a torrent like technology, it would be possible to have a direct transfert (by local network) of files that are common to theses two upgrades, thus saving costly bandwidth for Canonical and a way faster download for me.15:20
OerHeksldsh, something like this? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rsyncmirror15:26
BluesKajid just use the closest mirror to your location15:26
BluesKajldsh,^15:26
BluesKajOerHeks, does the ubuntu package manager gui have a " find fastest mirror" option available , muon on kde does.15:29
ldshThe idea would be a more automated way, this would work for any update/upgrades, with a temporary saving of the files on the personal computers. The main goal would be to use the power of torrents to boost the bandwidth on the few days after an update/upgrade realease.15:29
OerHeksBluesKaj, it does, i am still on 15.10, seeding http://i.imgur.com/cdkQAHV.png15:30
OerHeks:-D15:30
BluesKajOerHeks, you're a good linux cictizen :-)15:31
BluesKajcitizen even15:31
ldshThat way would also speed up the first update (I currently have 100Mbit connection), than allows to feed to all the others wanting to update (I have 100mbit on upload too).15:31
OerHeksFUP fair use policy, so i guess i can give it away, at least over this weekend15:32
BluesKajldsh, no data cap ?15:33
ldshBluesKaj, Not that I heard about. It won't last however as I'm here only for 3 more month.15:36
BluesKajldsh, ok15:37
ldshSo, what do you think of this idea to use torrent technology to ease deployment of updates?15:41
cfhowlettldsh, standard and preferred practice15:41
cfhowlettor you could set up a custom mirror and deploy the upgrades via netboot setup15:42
ldshcfhowlett, sorry, I don't understand what you mean by your first sentence (there is no verb, I understand the words, but not your meaning).15:47
cfhowlettto upgrade multiple systems without repeatedly downloading 16.04, you have a couple of options15:48
cfhowlettset up a personal software mirror or15:49
cfhowlettuse the netboot method to install to multiple machines simulataneously15:49
cfhowlett!netboot15:49
ubot5Ubuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - Don't want to use a CD? See http://tinyurl.com/3exghs - See also !automate15:49
ldshcfhowlett, This is not exactly the purpose of the idea I try to express here (maybe I'm not expressing myself well enough).15:50
cfhowlettldsh, eh, ignore me then.15:50
ldshThe idea is to have a system that would ease the deployment of updates (particularly upgrades), to every ubuntu users, and automatically. Not a specific action for a particular user.15:51
ldshBasically, on the user side, an option at first install asking if you agree to participate seeding, and a bandwidth cap. Than, the update manager would handle everything automatically.15:53
ldshthen*15:53
pauljwwb15:58
BluesKajthanks pauljw15:59
pauljw:)15:59
BluesKajtrying to track down a serious memory leak16:00
pauljwooh, not good16:00
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pauljwhi Bashing-om17:33
Bashing-omHry hey .. looks like the fang is all here . less TJ- .17:35
nicomachushttp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/yakkety/17:38
nicomachusalready out. wow.17:38
pauljwnice nico17:39
pauljwhave you installed it yet?17:39
BluesKajI changed my sources.list with sed to yakkety from xenial and ran an upgrade, surprised that 7 packages showed up. That was yesterday..today I had 5 more, so I changed my hostname too.17:47
BluesKaj19 more jusat showed up now17:48
pauljw:)17:51
BluesKajgoing to keep Xenial on the laptop tho, at least for now17:55
Cedarathe .1 release would be out in July, right?19:32
Cedarahi, btw19:32
Bashing-omCedara: Yeah .. Per the release notes .20:13

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