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| _furycd001 | Used ubuntu netinstall to create a minimal xubuntu setup on my laptop. Wifi runs slow even though I'm pretty close to the router. Any ideas on how to speed up internet ?? | 12:39 |
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| _furycd001 | Internet runs slow on normal ubuntu/xubuntu installs also. Laptop is an early 2009 macbook. | 12:40 |
| === Zren_ is now known as Zren | ||
| ericzhill | I've got an old Toshiba laptop that Xubuntu 32-bit installs and runs fine on. The 64-bit live USB try-before-install works great, but installed 64-bit won't boot with a failure to find init. Any thoughts? | 13:44 |
| pmjdebruijn | ericzhill: sounds very funky | 13:59 |
| pmjdebruijn | both on BIOS/CSM not UEFI? | 13:59 |
| ericzhill | Yes, machine is too old for UEFI. | 13:59 |
| pmjdebruijn | does it properly support 64bit? | 14:00 |
| pmjdebruijn | is there anything like dual boot going on, that might complicate things? | 14:00 |
| ericzhill | The processor datasheet says it supports 64-bit, but I'm not sure how to tell. The live 64-bit works great. | 14:00 |
| pmjdebruijn | well if the live cd works, it should be fine I guess | 14:01 |
| pmjdebruijn | but then again, do you have anything like dual boot? | 14:01 |
| ericzhill | No dual-boot. I've flattened and reinstalled about 6 times, with and without LVM to see if that made a difference. | 14:01 |
| pmjdebruijn | did you reformat the partition before reinstalling? | 14:01 |
| pmjdebruijn | oh | 14:01 |
| ericzhill | Yes, wiped the partition clean and repartitioned. No luck. | 14:01 |
| pmjdebruijn | with simple MBR paritioning? | 14:01 |
| ericzhill | I'm not sure what the "automatic" does, but I manually tried GPT and MBR partitioning with the same results. | 14:02 |
| pmjdebruijn | something like sda1 /boot ext4 2GB; sda2 swap swap 4GB; sda3 / ext4 20GB; sda4 /home ext4 *GB ??? | 14:02 |
| pmjdebruijn | ericzhill: GPT is mostly intended for UEFI (not entirely true, but for most practical purposes it is) | 14:02 |
| ericzhill | Current partition setup is sda1 /boot ext2 1GB; sda2 / ext4 300GB; sda3 swap | 14:03 |
| ericzhill | I did double-check the disk UUID matches with /etc/fstab. I saw some posts on AskUbuntu that indicated those might not match correctly. | 14:04 |
| pmjdebruijn | can you post an actual screenshot (via phone??) somewhere, where we cna see the entire sccreen? | 14:04 |
| pmjdebruijn | message context might give us a clue | 14:05 |
| pmjdebruijn | which xubuntu version btw? 16.04.1? | 14:05 |
| ericzhill | I'm in a meeting for another hour or so, then yes, screenshots inbound. Xubuntu 16.04.1 | 14:05 |
| ericzhill | Picture of the panic: https://goo.gl/photos/NcQjyETGuLSro3La6 | 14:44 |
| ericzhill | pmjdebruijn: I can get you a video if that would help, but not much scrolled past before that screen. | 14:45 |
| pmjdebruijn | that's incredibly funky | 14:47 |
| pmjdebruijn | especially found /bin/sh but couldn't execute it | 14:48 |
| pmjdebruijn | I would boot a live cd, mount the partition and check if the files are okay | 14:48 |
| pmjdebruijn | ericzhill: if you in a chroot, you can apt a tool called debsums, which you can then use to verify all the files are okay | 14:48 |
| ericzhill | Booting into live now. | 14:48 |
| ericzhill | debsums is trawling through files at this point. All ok. | 14:53 |
| ericzhill | (So far) | 14:53 |
| pmjdebruijn | can you do | 14:53 |
| pmjdebruijn | file /sbin/init | 14:53 |
| pmjdebruijn | file /bin/sh | 14:54 |
| pmjdebruijn | see if they are proper 64bit binaries | 14:54 |
| ericzhill | file /sbin/init -> symlink to systemd -> ELF 64-bit | 14:55 |
| ericzhill | file /bin/sh -> symlink to dash -> ELF 64-bit | 14:55 |
| pmjdebruijn | sounds good | 14:57 |
| ericzhill | Just deleted all the partitions, and created a new msdos partition table with parted. Going to try the install again.... This can't be that complicated. Right? | 14:58 |
| Artemis3 | ericzhill, did you run memtest on that laptop? | 16:19 |
| ericzhill | No. I'll try that shortly. | 16:25 |
| Artemis3 | first thing to do when seeing kernel panics | 16:26 |
| ericzhill | Even though 32-bit works great and the 64-bit live works? | 16:27 |
| Artemis3 | you never know... | 16:27 |
| Artemis3 | bad ram lurking could be the problem | 16:27 |
| ericzhill | Fair enough. I'll get memtest started and let it run for a while. | 16:28 |
| jones641 | Hello everyone! | 17:29 |
| jones641 | Anybody know how to tell lightdm not to turn of my screen when locking the computer? | 17:32 |
| xangua | Did you try light locker settings? (Last tab in power settings) jones641 | 17:52 |
| jones641 | @xangua yes, but that only gives me the option to tell it when to lock it, but nothing on screen poweroff | 18:14 |
| ericzhill | FWIW, memtest went fine. I'm starting to think this machine is allergic to 64-bit anything. Ubuntu 64-bit won't boot, live or otherwise. | 18:42 |
| ericzhill | Follow up - mint 64-bit installed and boots fine. Can't get live Ubuntu 64-bit to boot. 64-bit Xubuntu boots fine but won't boot after install on HDD. <shrugs> | 20:13 |
| glitchd | can someone please help me figure out how to disable the feature pinch to zoom? its driving me nuts, every 'time i try to scroll with 2 fingers it zooms the screen | 20:58 |
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