[00:25] <brandon> Hello! I am running xubuntu 16.04 and having issues with my wireless.  I am on a network that has multiple SSID's configured with the same name-- "roaming mode" networking.  My network connection continually drops and I have found that it is due to switching quickly between Access Points (BSSID) very quickly.  Is there a way to change the threshold for switching networks?
[00:26] <brandon> I have run `sudo iwconfig wlo1 | grep "Access Point"` for the past 10 minutes and it has changed BSSID quite a few times
[00:27] <brandon> Any help is appreciated.  I have searched for this issue, but most people have issues with their wireless card switching not agressively enough, whereas my problem is the opposite-- it is switching AP too aggressively.  Thanks
[00:32] <brandon> `sudo iwconfig wlo1 sens 20` is reporting that changing the sensor value is not supported.  Is there a way to manually change this in WPA supplicant?  anyone seen this before?
[01:20] <Gupperino> Hey, could I ask a question about Xubuntu?
[01:21] <knome> yes
[01:21] <Gupperino> Alright, thanks!
[01:21] <Gupperino> So I recently got an old Dell Inspirion Mini 1012 netbook which is in pretty good condition.
[01:21] <Gupperino> It now has 2 gigs of ram and a larger HDD?
[01:21] <Gupperino> *Sorry meant to put in a period.
[01:22] <Gupperino> And I was gonna install Kali Linux on it for Pen-testing.
[01:22] <Gupperino> But I would prefer to use a more general distro like Ubuntu because it would give me some more flexibility and would work better as a general desktop OS, that I could then install specific tools onto.
[01:23] <Gupperino> Unfortunatly I worry that Ubuntu will run smoothly on the netbook, so I tried install Xubuntu
[01:23] <Gupperino> After a long and odd installation everything worked fine.
[01:24] <Gupperino> I ran a few updates from the command line and restarted it to get everything refreshed, only to find that when it booted I got a grub/console message.
[01:25] <Gupperino> It read something like /sda/disk/ #######blocks, ######files and didn't boot up. It might've if I waited but it seems ridiculus to wait that long for a boot.
[01:26] <Gupperino> Keep in mind that that's only a paraphrase of the error and isn't useful info. I can rerun the install and post the actual specific error.
[01:26] <Gupperino> But atm I'm running Kali (with poor performance) and would like to use Xubuntu, but I need to know that it can boot.
[01:26] <Gupperino> Any ideas? Thanks!
[01:28] <knome> that's a normal message happening during the boot, so the actual error is something else than that
[01:28] <knome> do you remember what kind of packages were updated on the last time?
[01:29] <Gupperino> Not really. I just used apt to run pretty basic updates.
[01:30] <Gupperino> I'm probably gonna end up rerunning the installation and see if something different happens. It might have to do with the HDD itself not formatting correctly so maybe trying to reformat that manually would help.
[01:30] <knome> you could try booting with an older kernel (from grub) to see if that helps
[01:31] <Gupperino> I'll give that a shot.
[01:32] <Gupperino> Honestly I'm unsure. I've seen people have this error with regular Ubuntu and Lubuntu but I've never had it with Kali.
[01:33] <knome> well... this isn't kali support channel, but for xubuntu, it's normal
[01:33] <Gupperino> I'll try and install it again tonight and see how it goes. If I still get an error with booting I'll post it here.
[01:33] <knome> the one you mention above isn't an error, it's just a piece of information and nothing to worry about
[01:34] <Gupperino> The machine doesn't boot after that.
[01:34] <knome> sure, i understand
[01:34] <Gupperino> If it does than it would be taking over 2 minutes.
[01:34] <knome> but it's very likely nothing to do with that message
[01:35] <knome> for example, i see a similar message every time i boot my desktop machine, and it doesn't take over two minutes to boot after that
[01:35] <Gupperino> I've done some research on the message and other people have experienced their machine not booting at all. I have a slight feeling it may have something to do with it/
[01:35] <Gupperino> I wouldn't know if there's something else going on in the background.
[01:36] <Gupperino> I may be able to get it to start up if it takes a while and then enable Fastboot in grub or something.
[01:36] <Gupperino> That might help.
[01:36] <Gupperino> It helped speed up the boot in another OS.
[10:46] <te0> Hi All
[12:53] <irishman2020> struggling with setting up kiosk mode in xubuntu 16.04. I added the CustomizePanel=foo line to the /etc/xdg/xfce4/kios/kioskrc file according to https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/kiosk_mode but when I reboot, I still have total control of the panels when I'm in a non-foo user account. anyone familiar with this problem?
[19:09] <xubuntu86w> hey guys i was wondering "sudo gedit ~/.bashrc" how do i run this command on xubuntu system
[19:11] <xangua> Why do you want or think you need to run a graphical app with sudo in your home? xubuntu86w , what's your real goal?
[19:13] <xubuntu86w> Im sorry im very new to this terminal things im trying to learn how to work that command and open the config file in text pad
[19:14] <xangua> Sounds like you don't need to do whatever you're trying to achieve
[19:15]  * genii makes some coffee
[19:21] <xubuntu84w> hello, i have an old hp laptop with non-pae cpu and xubuntu 12.04.4 is installed on it and running smoothly. shall i upgrade to further OS releases? please advise.
[19:26] <flocculant> xubuntu86w: mousepad ~/.bashrc
[19:28] <flocculant> xubuntu84w: I don't believe we support non-pae, certainly our iso's don't
[19:30] <flocculant> and we've not supported 12.04 since 2015, though of course the ubuntu packages have been
[19:33] <xubuntu84w> ok. then i will turn off the OS upgrade and let it update per default settings. what do you think? this must work as i was able to install the latest skype from the terminal