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biotimoterrivel: XML copy editor is decent, can be found in the repos   http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/00:01
jamcHola hay alguien ahi?00:11
jamcHi, is there anybody there?00:12
jamcHola, me puedes ayudar?00:27
johnjayhola como esta usteded00:51
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alkisgVery interesting... ah, no, it isn't. :)08:33
sergiodrisshol16:51
johnjaypluma... lol ubuntu mate was originally from argentina right?17:13
KTradI think the original developer was17:38
johnjaywikipedia said something like that. maybe i misinterpreted17:39
johnjayit made it sound like ubuntu-mate is mainly a spanish language project17:39
KTradRun by people that mostly speak english now I believe17:42
johnjayeh damn cultural appropriators17:46
johnjayyou start a small thing on github and soon enough it's taken over by a crowd17:46
KTradlol17:46
TomD62Hello all.18:24
TomD62I've just installed amd-gpu on my old laptop and after rebooting Ive found that I cannot use my touchpad or keyboard18:25
TomD62Can anyone help me?18:25
Akulido you have the usb stick that you installed ubuntu mate from?18:25
Akulior any linux usb stick18:25
TomD62I don't but I could possibly grab a new one.18:26
Akuliok, do that and boot from it18:26
TomD62What would be my next steps from there?18:26
Akuliwe'll boot from the stick and chroot to your system18:26
Akuliso we'll be running the kernel and gui and everything from the stick, but / will be your hard drive18:27
Akulithen we can just apt remove amd-gpu or whatever18:27
Akulihmm maybe we don't even need a chroot18:30
Akulimight be easier with a chroot, and we can be sure that it works18:31
TomD62Hey sorry, my phone locked. Just setting up the Ubuntu Mate usb in a bit. Cheers for this18:33
Akuliok :)18:34
Akulisome instructions http://termbin.com/4u1118:34
TomD62Cheers!18:37
TomD62Once I've removed amd-gpu will I have to reinstall Radeon?18:38
AkuliTomD62, i don't know, maybe someone else knows18:42
Akuliif it doesn't work you can always come back and chroot again18:42
Akuliyou need to get internet working in the chroot if you install stuff though... well others know how to help with that18:43
TomD62Thanks.18:47
TomD62My god. This downloaded is estimated to be an hour and I believe it. How could I be so stupid. The laptop wont even use a usb keyboard either18:59
Akulimaybe we don't need that19:00
TomD62I'm downloading the 64bit LTS, is that alright?19:01
Akulidoesn't matter, any linux iso will do19:01
Akulihmm19:02
Akulii'm sure we can find something more minimal too19:02
Akulido you have another computer or something to connect here while you're doing something to the computer?19:02
TomD62I've got this windows10 laptop that I'm borrowing for a moment19:02
Akuliok, are you connected here with that now?19:03
TomD62No but I can switch to that now that you mention it. More convenient than my phone19:03
TomD62Brb19:04
TomD626Ta-Da19:04
KTradwhy not try like tiny core?19:05
Akuligreat :D19:05
AkuliKTrad, i'm thinking of the init=/bin/bash hack19:05
AkuliTomD626, reboot the linux laptop and hold down left shift while it boots19:05
KTradoh ok19:05
AkuliKTrad, maybe it won't work, we19:05
AkuliKTrad, maybe it won't work, we'll see19:05
KTradI just figured if you needed a super light live distro tiny core is only several megabytes and will do what you need19:06
TomD626oohoho Ir for me to the grub boot menu19:06
Akuligreat19:06
Akulinow highlight the ubuntu but don't press enter19:06
Akulipress e like edit19:06
TomD626done19:06
Akuligo down with arrow keys, one of the lines starts with linux19:06
TomD626yup19:07
Akuligo to its end, if it ends with \ go to end of next line19:07
Akuliadd a space, then init=/bin/bash19:07
Akulithere are a couple different ways to continue from here, i think ctrl+x is one way19:08
TomD626hmm it looks like      e-86\19:08
Akuliyes19:08
Akuligo to end of next line19:08
TomD626but then it continues on another line with abi-03f0f.........19:08
Akulioh19:08
Akulijust go to the end of the first line19:08
Akuliit'll jump to the next line19:08
Akulithe \ means that the line is too long to fit on the screen, so it's in two pieces19:08
TomD626right19:09
Akulido you have init=/bin/bash at the end now?19:09
TomD626yup19:09
Akulii think you need to press ctrl+x19:10
TomD626yeah done19:10
Akuliit should boot into a really minimal terminal19:10
TomD626alright I'm in19:10
TomD626class19:10
Akulitype in something like echo hello19:10
Akulidoes it work?19:10
TomD626yeah, this is brilliant19:11
Akuligreat19:11
Akulifrom now on, "$ something" means "type something and press enter"19:11
TomD626okidoki19:11
Akuli$ mount -o remount /19:11
Akuliyou shouldn't get any errors19:11
TomD626yup, done19:11
Akuli$ apt remove amd-gpu19:11
Akulii'm amazed if this actually works19:12
TomD626unable to locate package am-gpu19:12
TomD626amd*19:12
Akulihmm19:12
Akulihow did you install it?19:12
KTradmight not be the name of the package19:12
KTradcan you type amd  and just tab to complete?19:12
TomD626hmmm indeed. I'll try and check my search history on my phone19:12
Akulii think tab completion should work here19:13
TomD626yeah tab completion worke19:13
Akulithere's an apt log too19:13
Akuliif you want to read it, $ less /var/log/apt/history.log19:13
Akuliyou can press q to get out of that19:13
TomD626oh god. Yeah that's an extensive log19:14
Akulithe newest things are at the bottom19:14
Akuliif your laptop has an end key, press that to jump to bottom19:14
TomD626here we go. I installed xserver-xorg-core19:15
TomD626and it removed a load of stuff19:15
TomD626because I'm a moron.19:15
Akulioh well19:15
Akulii wonder if we could set up an internet connection from here19:15
TomD626Sorry I told the laptop to reboot while I went to grab food, so I got my wires crossed there.19:15
Akuliprobably not on systemd, would be really straight-forward with sysvinit19:15
KTradyea not sure how to do that from systemd19:16
TomD626well ping isn't working at least.19:16
* KTrad googles19:16
Akuliif it's possible it's probably not documented19:16
KTradhold on19:16
Akulion sysvinit i would just run "/etc/init.d/networking start"19:16
TomD626worked19:17
Akulithe networking start?19:17
Akuliif it did19:17
Akulithen thats weird19:17
TomD626it outputted * Configurig network interfaces19:17
Akulihmm19:17
Akulimaybe it did work then19:17
Akuli$ ping www.google.com19:17
TomD626ah, uknown host still19:17
Akuliis your internet wifi or a cable?19:18
Akulior mobile broadband?19:18
TomD626I could move to the router for Ethernet19:18
TomD626I'm guessing wifi might not be working at the moment?19:18
Akuliyes19:19
Akulii have no idea how to get wifi to work19:19
Akulibut ethernet may work19:19
Akuliyou can also try $ /etc/init.d/networking restart19:19
TomD626move to ethernet19:21
TomD626Waiting on orders19:21
TomD626still unknown host for google sadly19:23
KTradfrom what I read19:23
KTradone sec let me find the page again19:23
TomD626No worries19:24
AkuliKTrad, i need to go now, try to figure out something :)19:24
TomD626Thanks for the help Akuli!19:24
Akulii think we need internet for downloading whatever was removed19:24
TomD626yeah i'm connected via Ethernet so hopefully we can get something downloaded19:25
AkuliKTrad, if the internet will work, you can easily get TomD626's log:   nc termbin.com 9999 < /var/whateveridontremember19:25
KTradyou need to copy /etc/resolve.conf to /mnt/etc/resolve.conf for it to use DNS19:25
AkuliKTrad, this is the init=bash hack19:25
Akulinot chroot19:25
KTradoh yea19:25
Akulianyway you know what you're doing19:25
KTradforgot about that lol19:25
KTradI'll try19:26
Akulithere are other advanced people too :) i'll be back tomorrow19:26
KTradTomD626: try running telinit 219:28
KTradthat should take you to multi-user with networking mode19:28
TomD626Hey, it says Couldn't find alternative telinit implemtation to spawn19:30
KTradoh cause systemd19:32
KTradsystemctl isolate multi-user.target19:32
KTradthat should take you to what was runlevel 219:33
TomD626Sadly - "Failed to connect to bus: no such file or directory19:33
KTradgrr19:34
TomD626Yeah sorry about this. Catastrophe.19:35
KTradtry it with sudo19:36
TomD626same sadly19:36
KTradI really hate systemd19:37
TomD626Haha, yeah it feels like I'm prolonging the inevitable19:37
deskwizardyeah just get your files and wipe the thing already :P19:37
TomD626So how would I go about doing that?19:38
KTradone more idea19:38
KTradcd /etc/systemd/system19:38
TomD626All I really need to do is grab a novel Ive been writing, and then I'm ready to start afresh19:38
deskwizardlive cd/usb + something to shove it on19:38
KTradif that is the case just use a USB to cp it19:38
KTradwill be a lot easier19:39
deskwizardor boot from live cd, email to yourself19:39
TomD626well, I could copy to my usb and then stick it on this laptop I'm on now19:40
TomD626so cd to it's location, then cp to the usb?19:40
KTradyea probably have to manually mount it though19:40
TomD626qwll19:41
TomD626well*19:41
KTrador the other option is to change the default target ubuntu boots to to multi-user reboot once at terminal uninstall what you did  and reinstall everything else then change the default target back and in theory that should work19:41
TomD626cd'ing to my home folder I've found my user folder - but inside it is "Acces Your Private Data" which is not a directory, and README19:42
TomD626I'm told that it's been unmounted to protect my data19:42
KTradboot up a live disk19:42
deskwizardyou'll need a mate boot disk anyway...19:42
TomD626Okidoki19:43
KTradyup19:43
TomD626Alright lets do this.19:43
deskwizardonce your booted there, the world is you canvas, as long as the world is that computer and the canvas is the GUI19:44
deskwizards/you/your19:44
TomD626That's a world I want to live in.19:44
KTradI want to live in a world that I have a job that doesn't require me to use photoshop. So I can finally nuke OSX on this powerbook and install Linux/BSD19:45
johnjayKTrad: you can dual boot.19:46
deskwizard^19:46
johnjayor something19:46
KTradI do have it dualbooted19:46
deskwizardsomething is even better ;)19:46
KTradBut I want to nuke the OSX partition for good19:46
johnjayisn't there a way to alt-tab between operating systems with like VT-x or something?19:46
KTradOn powerpc?19:46
deskwizardjust for my own personal lolz, what photoshop version runs on that?19:47
KTradComputer has a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 and 2GB of ram. The 64mb video card is the real killer though19:47
KTradCS1 - 4 will19:48
deskwizardOh okay, didnt think it went that high, cool :)19:48
KTradTechnically CS4 doesn't support anything less than a G519:48
KTradbut it works just fine19:48
KTradI use CS2 though as it is the only copy I legally own19:48
TomD626Wow, how old is that?19:48
KTrad2005 is when CS2 came out19:48
KTradOpens up CS6 documents just fine though surprisingly enough19:49
KTradIf I could find a copy of CS3 though I'd be happier because then at least I could get off of OSX 10.4.1119:49
KTrad10.5.8 is a nicer OS overall but CS2 will not run on it for some reason19:49
* KTrad shrugs19:50
johnjayKTrad: i still have ptsd from the last time I tried using a mac19:51
KTradwhy's that?19:51
johnjayDownloaded xcode, took hours. Then it wouldn't compile hello world.19:51
KTradIf it was post 10.7 I can understand19:51
johnjayAsked around on forums and tinkered with it for hours19:51
KTradyea xcode is a joke19:51
johnjayFinally I figured out I had downloaded a version for the newer 10.11 or something19:52
johnjayand it wouldn't work on 10.10 unless i went into some random config menu and changed a release target19:52
KTradHonestly my biggest issue with OSX (besides it being proprietary crap) is that they still haven't gotten multiple monitors right since they broke them in 10.7 and the maximise button takes you to a new desktop completely it is so stupid19:52
KTradcya19:53
KTradgotta go19:53
TomD626Thanks for the help KTrad19:54
ubuntu-matehe's not here!19:54
TomD626HE'S HERE IN SPIRIT19:54
ubuntu-mateyeah.. hovering above us19:55
TomD626So, once I've created this LTS live image, I should be able to boot into my laptop? Hopefully?19:55
ubuntu-matehow do you boot it burn it on CD?19:56
TomD626used rufus and popped it on a usb19:56
ubuntu-matecool19:56
ubuntu-mateyou know there's a boot program that can boot ISO files strait from the HD!19:57
TomD626Gorram it.19:58
ubuntu-matewhat?19:58
TomD626Nevermind, Firefly reference.19:58
TomD626I've fired it up now. So hopefully touchpad and keyboard is working.19:58
johnjayi guess i have to watch Firefly again19:58
johnjayonly show joss whedon made that was any good.19:59
ubuntu-mateand i don't know what is firefly but there are fireworks at 4th of july!19:59
TomD626Hmm, okay so I'm given the option to install Ubuntu mate or Try Ubuntu Mate20:00
TomD626Will I be able to access my files at all using this?20:00
ubuntu-mateyou meen using the program that boots ISO fro HD?20:00
ubuntu-mateit seems that every one i talk to runs away...20:02
johnjayno we're here.20:03
johnjaywatching. waiting for the moment to strike20:03
johnjaywith some internet regulations! muahaha20:03
ubuntu-mateoh that's good20:03
johnjayit's funny i was in another channel arguing about what the official spec said20:04
johnjaybut on ubuntu there isn't really any spec20:04
johnjayso... you can't ever really win an argument about something20:04
TomD626666So just to recap - I accidentally uninstalled a load of packages by installing x.org core package or something?20:04
ubuntu-matesay does anyone here understands in javascript?20:04
TomD626666Upon rebooting I had no use of Mouse or Keyboard20:05
TomD626666So now I've popped Ubuntu Mate on a USB and wish to know how I can fix the situation20:05
johnjayTomD626666: did you use dist-upgrade?20:06
ubuntu-matewell i'm going20:07
TomD626666Nah I used apt-get install and installed something like x.org.core or something.20:07
johnjayapt-get install shouldn't remove packages20:07
johnjayonly dist-upgrade does20:07
TomD626666sorry, it removed files. Asked if I wanted to install and remove things in the process. Naively I said yes.20:08
johnjayi don't think apt-get does that20:08
johnjayunless i'm mistaken20:08
johnjaywere you using apt-get or an xorg installer?20:09
TomD626666apt-get20:09
TomD626666I'll try and find the command, one momento20:09
johnjayok i just checked. apt-get does indeed remove packages20:11
johnjaybut only if you tell it to do so by appending a '-' to the package name20:11
johnjaythat's using "install"20:12
TomD626666Hmm I must have done that20:12
johnjayif you use "upgrade" then it says under no circumstances will it do that20:12
johnjayi think there is a log file20:14
johnjaydo you have a file in /var/log/apt?20:14
johnjayi'm assuming you're on ubuntu-mate?20:14
TomD626666Yeah I checked early, I'm currently tinkering but I'll try and grab it for you20:15
johnjayby the way I tried installing and then removing a package and that shows up in my log file20:17
johnjayso you could try cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep Remove20:17
johnjayand see if you recognize anything20:17
TomD626666Trying to start up in recovery mode, hoping to grab some files and maybe just start from fresh20:21
TomD626666It's getting late and eyes hurt.20:21
johnjaywhat are you on, a pc or a raspberry pi?20:22
johnjayi'm on a pi and seems like a bunch of people are suddenly20:22
TomD626666I'm currently on a Windows10 laptop trying to fix an Ubuntu MATE laptop20:23
TomD626666Feels bad..20:23
TomD626666So it's hung on start up at "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes" which after a quick google seems to be related to my initial problem20:26
TomD626666Pretty sure the thing I installed was something like install xserver-xorg-video-amd20:26
TomD626666or xserver-xorg-core20:28
johnjayah ok20:33
johnjaywell i got to go but i would check that history.log file20:33
johnjaysee what you removed and try to install it20:33
TomD626666cheers20:35
TomD626666Weellll I'm admitting defeat20:36
TomD626666Thank you for all the help everyone20:36
johnjaydoes anybody know a good list of packages to install?22:54
johnjaythe default of ubuntu and debian doesn't even come with emacs22:54
johnjayi'm thinking about making an install script that just auto installs stuff22:55
vagneroii22:58
johnjayi mean vim wasn't even installed. come on22:58
johnjayoh my god23:03
johnjayi think i'm a genius23:03
johnjaygo to askubuntu.com. type in the search box "apt get install XYZ"23:03
johnjayand you will get the apt get command you need highlighted23:03
johnjayYES23:03

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