[00:34] <UUSSEERR> sorry to bother you guys but I cannot change my backround. It seems to be dconf messing it up. This is my first install without mate being packaged into the distro. (I love mate!!!)
[00:41] <YankDownUnder> UUSSEERR, Have you tried installing the "dconf-editor" to see if that resolves the issue - and have you also tried any other means to change the wallpaper?
[00:48] <UUSSEERR> I have but I just deleted the xml and now I have blackscreen. I want to use appearance preferences :(
[00:50] <UUSSEERR> the dconf editor is what was keeping the default background
[01:36] <intel> hola
[01:36] <intel> alguien q me ayude con los drivers de una compute stick intel
[01:38] <UUSSEERR> google linux compute stick there is a write up
[01:40] <intel> ya busque instale lo q pude y nada funciona
[01:40] <intel> no se mucho de linux
[07:40] <dawid> hi
[07:40] <dawid> i have problem my ubuntu freezes in random moments for 20-30seconds
[07:43] <alkisg> Anything in `dmesg` after that happens?
[07:59] <dawid> exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0x6 frozen
[08:02] <alkisg> It doesn't mention which app did that?
[08:05] <dawid> you mean failed command: WRITE DMA EXR?
[08:05] <dawid> EXT*
[08:07] <alkisg> If you pasted them, we would know :)
[08:07] <alkisg> We can't guess
[08:07] <alkisg> That sounds like a broken disk there
[08:07] <alkisg> !pastebin
[10:32] <caoyuan> 还好，有这么多人用。。
[16:44] <harald> hello, speak german?
[17:34] <stratact> Yesterday I tried installing Ubuntu MATE but at the end I ran into issue with Grub failing to install. Even after selecting to the right device it still ended up always failing. Is there something I can do to solve this?
[17:34] <Akuli> sure
[17:35] <Akuli> what do you have now? is the installer running or did it install and fail?
[17:35] <stratact> I don't have the installer currently running
[17:35] <Akuli> so you have a system that is there but can't boot?
[17:36] <stratact> Yeah
[17:36] <Akuli> are you running from the usb stick now?
[17:36] <Akuli> i mean is the computer running :D
[17:36] <stratact> The computer isn't running at the moment.
[17:36] <Akuli> ok, boot from the usb stick so we'll try to fix this
[17:38] <stratact> Alright the computer I'm working on getting Ubuntu MATE on is upstair, so I will need to come back and forth a lot ;)
[17:38] <Akuli> is one of your two computers a laptop? walking back and forth would probably be annoying
[17:38] <Akuli> we can also get this done faster if we don't need to do that
[17:39] <stratact> No, both systems are desktops unfortunately.
[17:39] <Akuli> do you have a smartphone?
[17:39] <Akuli> hmm
[17:39] <stratact> I do
[17:39] <Akuli> i guess typing on a smartphone can't be slower than running up and down the stairs
[17:40] <Akuli> can you come here with your phone?
[17:40] <stratact> I can try
[17:40] <stratact> I came here via the web irc
[17:40] <Akuli> yeah if it doesn't work there are irc clients for smartphones too
[17:40] <Akuli> i don't actually have a smartphone so i know nothing about them
[17:42] <stratact> Alright, I got my phone in
[17:43] <stratact> Just so you know, I did wipe the drive that had Ubuntu MATE on, so I would have to reinstall it again
[17:43] <Akuli> oh :(
[17:43] <genericman> Will 1.18 not work with 16.04?
[17:43] <Akuli> genericman, mate 1.18? i have no idea
[17:44] <Akuli> im still on ubuntu 14.04 with mate 1.8 :)
[17:45] <stratact> Akuli, I'm going to attempt to install it again and let you know via the phone, when I run into the issue what should I do?
[17:45] <Akuli> leave it there as is, cancel the installation if it lets you
[17:45] <Akuli> i'll probably be here tomorrow about an hour earlier than this time
[17:46] <Akuli> are you sure the hard drive is ok? usually installing goes pretty smoothly if there are no problems with it
[17:48] <stratact> It's and SSD and yeah I'm sure it works just fine.
[17:48] <stratact> *an
[17:48] <Akuli> weird
[17:49] <Akuli> i think i had some problem with installing 16.04 too, but that was like a day after it was released
[17:50] <stratact> I don't understand why it failed to do the grub-install either
[17:50] <Akuli> if rest of it is ok we can just install grub with the terminal
[17:50] <Akuli> or even try some other boot loader
[17:51] <stratact> sure thing
[17:52] <stratact-phone> Testing
[17:54] <stratact-phone> Okay I'm attempting the install right now
[17:55] <Akuli> ok
[17:55] <Akuli> probably won't take too long with the ssd
[17:56] <Akuli> i still remember my first time with an ssd, a computer about 8 years old and ran reeally fast
[17:56] <Akuli> crazy fast
[18:05] <stratact-phone> Alright I got to the point where it failed to install grub and cancelled the installation. I guess I'm in the live environment atm?
[18:05] <Akuli> yeah nice
[18:06] <Akuli> open a terminal, ctrl+alt+t is an easy way
[18:06] <Akuli> from now on if i type "$ blabla" i mean "type blabla to terminal and press enter"
[18:06] <Akuli> $ lsblk
[18:07] <stratact-phone> So yeah the sdg device is the one I want to install grub on
[18:08] <Akuli> ok
[18:08] <Akuli> $ sudo grub-install /dev/sdg
[18:10] <Akuli> hmm
[18:10] <Akuli> does it work like that or do we need a chroot?
[18:10] <stratact-phone> grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of 'aufs'
[18:10] <Akuli> i think we need a chroot
[18:10] <Akuli> $ lsblk | netcat termbin.com 9999
[18:10] <Akuli> it'll display you a link, i want the last 4 characters of it
[18:12] <stratact-phone> netcat: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
[18:12] <Akuli> can you get an internet connection?
[18:13] <stratact-phone> Yeah I seem to have a connection.
[18:13] <Akuli> hmm try again
[18:14] <stratact-phone> Okay it worked this time
[18:14] <Akuli> whats the end of the link
[18:14] <Akuli> actuallyu
[18:14] <Akuli> you can come to irc using your computer too
[18:15] <Akuli> open hexchat from the menu
[18:15] <stratact-phone> http://termbin.com/xnom
[18:15] <Akuli> i think it joins here automatically
[18:15] <Akuli> $ ls /target
[18:15] <Akuli> i want to know what you have
[18:16] <Akuli> ok gr8 :D
[18:16] <stratact2> Okay this one is from my ubuntu live environment
[18:16] <Akuli> $ ls /target | nc termbin.com 9999
[18:17] <stratact2> http://termbin.com/5zow
[18:17] <Akuli> your ssd is huge
[18:17] <Akuli> oh wait
[18:17] <stratact2> should be 256GB?
[18:17] <Akuli> what are sda to sdf?
[18:17] <Akuli> yeah
[18:17] <stratact2> those are 1TB ssds each
[18:17] <Akuli> ok :D
[18:17] <Akuli> $ sudo chroot /target
[18:18] <stratact2> done
[18:18] <Akuli> $ grub-install /dev/sdg
[18:18] <stratact2> Installing for i386-pc platform.
[18:18] <stratact2> grub-install: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
[18:19] <Akuli> yeah we need to do some other stuff
[18:19] <Akuli> open another terminal, lets call this 2$ from now on
[18:19] <Akuli> lol
[18:19] <stratact2> Sure, heheheh
[18:19] <Akuli> 2$ sudo mount --bind /dev /target/dev
[18:19] <stratact2> done
[18:19] <Akuli> try the grub-install again
[18:20] <Akuli> in 1$
[18:20] <Akuli> if someone is following this and happens to remember which devices need to be mounted let us know :)
[18:20] <stratact2> paste incoming
[18:20] <Akuli> how long?
[18:20] <Akuli> use dpaste.com if >3 lines
[18:20] <stratact2> 11 lines
[18:20] <Akuli> yeah
[18:21] <Akuli> dpaste or termbin, both work
[18:21] <Akuli> e.g. $ echo ' (paste your stuff here) ' | nc termbin.com 9999
[18:21] <stratact2> gotcha, thanks
[18:22] <stratact2> actually can I type in a different command to get the paste for you?
[18:23] <Akuli> i would just use termbin.com
[18:23] <Akuli> eeh
[18:23] <Akuli> dpaste.com
[18:23] <stratact2> $ grub-install /dev/sdg | netcat termbin.com 9999  ?
[18:23] <cyrus_> is anyone there that would like to help me with my problem?
[18:24] <Akuli> stratact2, oh the internet might not work in chroot
[18:24] <Akuli> cyrus_, sure, whats the problem?
[18:24] <cyrus_> I just tried to install Open suse leap 42.2 and it said probing edd
[18:24] <cyrus_> the thing is it wouldn't say ok like the videos i whathed did
[18:25] <stratact2> http://dpaste.com/3WP0PZT
[18:25] <cyrus_> the curser would just blink
[18:25] <cyrus_> I waited for what felt like an hour
[18:25] <Akuli> stratact2, i think we need to mount /proc too
[18:25] <cyrus_> nothing
[18:25] <cyrus_> any thoughts?
[18:26] <Akuli> cyrus_, nothing displays but the cursor?
[18:26] <cyrus_> correct
[18:27] <cyrus_> this happend with antergos a few weeks ago too
[18:27] <cyrus_> I was hoping it was antergos' fault but it wasn't
[18:27] <Akuli> stratact2, lets mount /proc and try one more time
[18:27] <Akuli> 2$ sudo mount --bind /proc /target/proc
[18:28] <stratact2> done
[18:28] <Akuli> try again now
[18:28] <Akuli> cyrus_, are you sure your hard drive is ok?
[18:28] <cyrus_> ?
[18:28] <cyrus_> umm
[18:29] <cyrus_> well I had manjaro then installed ubuntu and ever sence I have been having this problem
[18:29] <stratact2> http://dpaste.com/37H5Y34
[18:29] <Akuli> stratact2, weird i think we're still missing something
[18:30] <cyrus_> i didn't know about it ubtil like a month ago, and I've had ubuntu for what feels like three months
[18:30] <cyrus_> until*
[18:30] <Akuli> stratact2, 1$ update-grub
[18:31] <cyrus_> Is there a command to see if my hard drive is ok?
[18:31] <stratact2> http://dpaste.com/2Y45BYM
[18:31] <cyrus_> or am I screwed
[18:33] <cyrus_> Akuli?
[18:33] <Akuli> cyrus_, tbh i dont know, if nobody else knows here you can try asking in #ubuntu
[18:33] <cyrus_> oh
[18:33] <Akuli> stratact2, there we go :D we're missing one more mount
[18:33] <cyrus_> well I also have another problem
[18:33] <Akuli> stratact2, 2$ sudo mount --bind /sys /target/sys
[18:34] <Akuli> stratact2, 1$ grub-install /dev/sdg
[18:34] <Akuli> stratact2, 1$ update-grub
[18:34] <cyrus_> It's the whole reason why I want to install open suse
[18:34] <Akuli> sorry stratact2 the first command should have /target/sys at the end
[18:34] <cyrus_> I deleted my top panel accedentely
[18:34] <Akuli> cyrus_, tell us more :)
[18:34] <Akuli> oh
[18:34] <Akuli> did i help you with this yesterday?
[18:34] <Akuli> open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t, mate-panel --reset
[18:34] <cyrus_> and now ubuntu is really hard to use
[18:35] <cyrus_> no applecations drop down menu not even a clock
[18:35] <Akuli> cyrus_, did you try my terminal command?
[18:35] <stratact2> looks good now? http://dpaste.com/1V30FA6
[18:35] <Akuli> stratact2, very good
[18:35] <Akuli> stratact2, $1 exit
[18:35] <cyrus_> Akuli_, what terminal command?
[18:35] <Akuli> cyrus_, mate-panel --reset
[18:36] <stratact2> done
[18:36] <Akuli> stratact2, reboot into your new system :)
[18:36] <stratact2> thanks Akuli, you have been a great help, I'll let you know how it goes
[18:36] <cyrus_> OMG
[18:36] <Akuli> cyrus_, my ubuntu mate 14.04 doesn't even let me delete the panels
[18:37] <Akuli> i'll ask the developers about this
[18:37] <cyrus_> I'm on 16.10
[18:37] <cyrus_> Thank you extremly Akuli!
[18:38] <Akuli> no problem :)
[18:38] <cyrus_> still though I want open suse :(
[18:38] <cyrus_> But thank you
[18:38] <Akuli> sure, go ahead and install it
[18:38] <Akuli> its your system
[18:38] <cyrus_> remember the error though?
[18:39] <Akuli> the thing is, deleting all panels shouldn't be possible
[18:39] <cyrus_> not all of them
[18:39] <cyrus_> it makes me keep one
[18:39] <Akuli> oh you can add the existing one back easily
[18:39] <cyrus_> but your right it shouldn't have let me
[18:39] <stratact2> looks like it booted just fine
[18:39] <Akuli> cyrus_, right-click the top panel, add new panel
[18:39] <Akuli> stratact2, great :D i have no idea what was wrong but nice that it works :)
[18:40] <cyrus_> no your command worked
[18:40] <Akuli> cyrus_, yeah but you wouldn't have needed even that
[18:40] <Akuli> i actually have nothing but a top panel, but it has stuff that yours doesn't
[18:40] <cyrus_> but I already had added it back and it was a usless panel
[18:40] <cyrus_> just black
[18:40] <stratact2> although with grub, when I booted it up I got a blank screen for a while but was I suppose to get a menu to select kernels to boot into and so forth?
[18:41] <Akuli> it doesn't give you a menu if you only have one os
[18:41] <cyrus_> btw anyone who has not switched to wicd network manager is lame
[18:41] <Akuli> stratact2, if you want or need it anyway hold down left shift while the computer boots
[18:41] <stratact2> I see
[18:42] <Akuli> cyrus_, i use wicd on my laptop, but it doesn't support mobile broadband connections so network-manager here for now
[18:43] <cyrus_> ok well in that case it's fine
[18:43] <cyrus_> still do you have any ideas on the whole edd probing thing?
[18:44] <cyrus_> It did say I could set edd to off, do you know how to do that?
[18:44] <Akuli> no idea :( try #ubuntu
[18:44] <Akuli> type /join #ubuntu here
[18:44] <cyrus_> ok bye
[18:49] <stratact2> I just want to say thanks again, Akuli
[18:50] <Akuli> no problem :)
[18:54] <genericman> You are very smart, been a pleasure watching you all troubleshoot.
[18:59] <skeleton1ey> has anyone else in here had trouble using Backups?
[18:59] <Akuli> i just copy my files to an external hard drive
[18:59] <Akuli> you can copy settings too, show hidden files in the file manager and you'll see all settings in your home folder
[19:00] <skeleton1ey> Akuli: I am trying to automate the process for my parents computer
[20:02] <cyrus_> opensuse
[20:32] <cyrus_> how do I set edd to off?
[20:55] <Guest31245> Hello
[21:01] <dem_> hello?
[21:01] <dem_> is anyone here able to/willing to help me?
[21:02] <dem_> see, I have a problem setting up an external monitor to my laptop that ubuntu is running off of
[21:03] <dem_> where whatever I do it just sets it up so that the secondary monitor is inside the first, and every time I try to change it the model of monitor position just messes up heavily
[21:03] <dem_> anyone?
[23:17] <Anonym0us> hello
[23:17] <Anonym0us> how do i disable network on boot?