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BurniDoes anyone know if there is a difference in the installed version of lubuntu when using standard or alternate download options?00:54
wxlthe alternative installer and the desktop installer should give you the same end result00:55
Burniso the lower ram version / alternate is just for lower ram usage during install.00:56
wxlexactly00:56
Burniok, thanks. gonna try setting up dual boot next to xp and mint00:57
wxlew xp?! why? don't connect that to the internet00:58
Burniyah, i know... still have some really old crap that works fine on xp and the machine is that old...00:59
wxlyou should just run xp in a vm00:59
wxlor use wine00:59
Burnimachine 's probably not powerful enough for that.00:59
wxlit's worth a try01:00
wxlespecially with wine01:00
wxl!wine01:00
ubottuWINE is a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on GNU/Linux - More information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine - Search the !AppDB for application compatibility ratings - Join #winehq for application help - See !virtualizers for running Windows (or another OS) inside Ubuntu01:00
wxlnote it's NOT an emulator01:00
wxl(that's what wine stands for)01:00
Burnii'll proably try that when i get a more current machine.  the old p4 is rather taxed as it is.01:01
wxlit's probably because of all the malware running on it XD01:02
Burnihoped lubuntu would keep it going for a while.01:02
wxlit will for sure01:02
Burnik01:03
Burnithanks01:03
wxlno prob01:03
EleanorEllisWould LXDE be a lighter weight faster environment than XFCE? I am running Ubuntu Studio on an old laptop with only 8GB of RAM and it slows down a lot. I am wondering if I could improve things by changing to LXDE. I do some video and audio editing and processing plus recording and photograph editing, plus desktop publishing. Thanks. For example I have a problem when I my partner is watching video on one screen and I and looking up03:24
tsimonq2EleanorEllis: It would be a bit more lightweight03:24
EleanorEllistsimonq2: Thanks03:25
Dominic___is there any way i can install Lubuntu X86 from Windows10 without using a DVD or USB05:52
Dominic___i am a noob so i dont know if this is the right place to ask this05:53
tsimonq2Dominic___: It would be difficult to, and I don't have the time to show you right now (I'm about to go to sleep) but yes, it is possible.05:53
Dominic___ok05:53
tsimonq2Dominic___: If you want to send an email to the lubuntu-users mailing list linked in the topic, they will be happy to help you there :)05:53
Dominic___thanks05:53
tsimonq2Thanks for choosing Lubuntu05:54
tsimonq2Have a nice night05:54
Dominic___you too good night05:54
azizLIGHTim trying to install lubuntu in a vm. vmware asks me to install vmware tools and then asks about kernel header paths. where are these kernel header paths so i can specify it correctly. here is what im asked: Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" appears to be a valid path to the 4.10.0-19-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [no]08:49
leszekazizLIGHT: you need the kernel headers for this to be installed08:55
azizLIGHTi dont have kernel headers installed?08:56
azizLIGHThttp://paste.ubuntu.com/24987686/08:57
azizLIGHTseems that i do08:57
leszekwhy are you asking me ?08:57
leszekah so you have it installed08:58
azizLIGHTi shouldnt be asking you?08:58
leszekthen vmware fails to autodetect it08:58
azizLIGHTmaybe so. what is the dir location for hte kernel header path08:58
leszekthe path should be in /usr/src/linux-headers-<YOURVERSION>08:59
azizLIGHTi see. thank you09:06
Gent71I can not get on the internet. Says can not find servers15:08
AmalcorHey, i can't find anywhere what does the character code "[[20~" correspond to ? It randomly appears in the terminal, i don't know why ...16:15
wxlAmalcor: does this persist after a reboot?16:25
Amalcoryes. It's a laptop, and when i boot or open a terminal with the built-in keyboard connected, the lubuntu logo flicker during loading, like when you spam "esc", and many [[20~ appears in the background. When i only plug in another keyboard and disconnect the built-in one, nothing like that happens.16:32
wxlso what about if you open a virtual terminal (e.g. ctl-alt.f1)?16:36
wxlyou know `infocmp | grep 20` shows a sequence for f9. that may be the problem.16:40
MattcttnHi, i'm well connected to wifi but firefox has no internet18:06
MattcttnAny solution?18:06
wxlrestart it. sometimes it gets grumpy if the network connection changes while it's running18:07
MattcttnDone but not better18:14
MattcttnIt seems like a driver problem18:14
wxlthen your wifi shouldn't work at all :)18:14
wxlhow do you know it's working?18:14
MattcttnOthers pcs work, my phone works...18:15
wxlah so you mean to say the wifi access point works, but you DON'T mean that your computer is connected to it18:16
wxlcorrect?18:17
MattcttnYes it's connected and usually works away but i'm not home every devices work here but not my pc18:17
wxlwell i must say i'm still not clear on your problem, but let's assume it's the driver18:18
wxli need to know some information18:18
MattcttnAsk me18:18
wxlnamely, the driver PCI ID and the kernel modules available/in use18:18
wxlto do this, ideally you would enter the following in a terminal:18:20
wxllspci -nnk | grep -A 3 Network18:20
wxli don't have a wifi card, so this returns just my ethernet card but you may get both18:21
wxlhere's an example of what i get:18:21
wxlhttps://paste.ubuntu.com/24990760/18:21
wxlwere we discussing my ehthernet card, i would want to know the 8086:10bd (that's the PCI id)18:21
wxland i would also want to knoe that e1000e is the driver in use18:21
wxlyou MAY see another line that says "Kernel modules available," in which case, i'd want to know all of those18:21
MattcttnSo i get the kernel rtl8723be18:22
wxlthat's in use or available or both?18:22
MattcttnBoth18:22
wxlare there any other available modules?18:23
MattcttnYep the ethernet one which is r816918:23
wxlyeah i'm not worried about that18:24
wxlwhat's the PCI ID of the wireless card?18:24
MattcttnIm looking for, thx18:25
wxlshould be in the first line18:26
wxlin square brackets18:26
Mattcttn0280 ?18:29
MattcttnOr 10ec:b72318:29
wxlit should be [xxxx:xxxx]18:34
wxlthere's often two. i want the first one18:34
MattcttnSo it's 10ec:b72318:35
wxlok and just to be sure, do you get any response if you `ping google.com` in the terminal?18:37
MattcttnI've already tried and it doesn't work18:39
wxldoes it ever show wifi connections?18:39
wxllike perhaps when you first turn it on?18:39
MattcttnYes but it was the connection i used to install lubuntu18:41
wxli do see that other people have had issues with the connection dropping18:41
wxlthere's a bunch of solutions here https://askubuntu.com/questions/635625/how-do-i-get-a-realtek-rtl8723be-wireless-card-to-work18:42
wxlthis is common fix echo "options rtl8723be fwlps=N ips=N" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf18:42
wxlsadly there's not one CLEAR answer to the solution, but that's probably better supported than using a ppa, grabbing the git repo and building the module, etc. if it works.18:44
MattcttnAh you found the tip i was looking for! Thanks my friend18:44
MattcttnI have to leave, I really thank you18:46
Guest1__I have allmost 1GB free disk space and still get an error message when i try to install the updates. It tells me there is not enough disk space even to install only the last updates who need only 7 MB. I allready used apt-get clean. What more can i do with this problem ?21:15
wxlGuest1__: let's see the full error message. pastebinit up, please.21:19
Guest1__I use 2 computers here.. will try..21:19
Guest1__brb21:19
Guest1__How can i copy the error log ?can not mark it.21:24
wxlyou can do `command | pastebinit` if you have pastebinit installed21:27
wxl!pastebinit21:27
ubottupastebinit is the command-line equivalent of !pastebin - Command output, or other text can be redirected to pastebinit, which then reports an URL containing the output - To use pastebinit, install the « pastebinit » package from a package manager - Simple usage: command | pastebinit21:27
Guest1__I have a one way drive sign.21:29
Guest1__It say my disk is full.21:30
Guest1__And you want me to install even more ?21:30
wxlwell you can certainly copy/paste21:30
Guest1__Full disk with 1GB free.I dont understand it.21:31
Guest1__It tell me i have one broken package.21:33
wxli thought you said the disk was full, not that you have a broken package21:34
Guest1__I have both messages.21:39
Guest1__When i come here it is rare peoples understand the problem and it is complicated to get help.21:39
Guest1__I have the same before..21:40
wxlit's probably because you're not clearly stating the issue21:40
Guest1__Full disk..21:40
wxlwhat EXACTLY is reported when it says the disk is full?21:40
Guest1__1GB free.21:40
Guest1__broken packge.21:40
Guest1__one way drive sign.21:41
Guest1__shud be understandable for peoples in here.21:41
wxldo this:21:41
wxldf | grep " /$" | awk '{print $5}'21:42
wxlwhat does it say?21:42
Guest1__I think i write that in terminal ?21:42
wxlyup21:42
Guest1__91%21:43
wxlthat means your disk is 91% used21:43
wxlare you saying you have a 1TB drive?21:43
Guest1__No..21:43
wxlwell then you can see how much space you have available with:21:43
Guest1__I have 8GB drive and 1GB free.21:44
wxlsorry, not true21:44
Guest1__The porogram disks say 1GB free.21:44
wxlmathematically that doesn't work out21:44
wxl9% of 8GB is not 1GB21:44
Guest1__I can read.21:44
wxli assume you're using synaptic to install packages21:45
wxlit's not always really clear21:45
wxlyou can try to do your update in terminal with apt21:45
wxlsudo apt update && sudo apt update21:45
wxlor sudo apt install <package>21:46
wxlthat might give more clear messages21:46
wxlbut i assure you, you are very low on disk space.21:46
Guest1__The program disks say this: 7,5 GB — 1,0 GB free (86,3% full)21:46
wxlthe "installed size" reported by the package manager may be the final size and not the size required to actually perform the installation21:48
Guest1__sudo apt update && sudo apt update.  why two times and the && ?21:49
wxlthe second one should be upgrade21:49
wxlthe && is syntax that says if the previous command succeeds, run the next one21:49
Guest1__i will try.. I be back.21:50
Guest1__wx|: It is done.. but i am not sure what is fixed or not.21:57
Guest1__wx|: i am back.22:12
Guest1__I have run the command..22:12
Guest1__Still it install something but still errors here.22:13
Guest1__The package system is broken  Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems. Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f22:14
Guest1__I guess i can reinstall because it will free some space again.22:16
Guest1__nobody here.22:26
nistonceI've been following https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1205397 ("encrypted install fails because unsafe swap (zram) is detected" in Lubuntu for a whlie and it doesn't seem to be making any progress. What are Xubuntu, etc doing differently here installerwise?22:38
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1205397 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "encrypted install fails because unsafe swap (zram) is detected" [Medium,Confirmed]22:38
wxli'm pretty sure they're not using zram22:39
nistonceAh, thus ubiquity not addressing this more, I guess, if only more niche distributions are hitting it as a result of needing to combine zram and ubiquity.22:40
wxlyuup22:41
nistonceI'm sure this has been thought of, but is it even vaguely reasonable to run without that just for the installer (not the live environment), and/or disable swap somewhere in the installer or before it?22:44
wxli know of folks that have done that22:45
nistonceas a default thing -- e.g., what https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1205397/comments/8 suggests22:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1205397 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "encrypted install fails because unsafe swap (zram) is detected" [Medium,Confirmed]22:45
wxlgetting things implemented in ubiquity can at times be difficult22:46
wxlsince we are not ubuntu proper, we've kind of got the short straw22:46
wxlthey're often disinclined to accept sweeping changes22:46
nistonceNot surprised, alas22:46
nistonceWhat about before launching ubiquity, or is this just a misunderstanding of when/how ubiquity is run? There seems likely to be something the Lubuntu project's in control of between those points.22:47
wxlwell, ubiquity should be the place, really. we'll keep pushing on getting it fixed22:48
nistonceAnd, to be clear, I'm happy to try to help make this happen, if that's a feasible thing and it hasn't just run up against a wall of conflicting constraints in other projects22:48
wxli think the biggest problem we face is that we're a very small team and mostly busy with lxde things. when it comes to core infrastructure, generally ubuntu ends up taking care of it. this is one of those cases where that's not true22:49
wxlthat said, if you want to take that on as a project, feel free!22:49
nistonceSounds reasonable. Is it possible to even before ubuity from the boot medium, e.g., turn swap off? I get that the right fix is, as you say, for ubiquity to fix it, but since they evidently place a very low priority on this...22:51
nistonceOr for the broad distribution media, is it not considered acceptable to even run the installer sans swap?22:51
wxlwell there's the problem. we don't want to turn it off for all22:51
wxlespecially considering the limiting factor on most lubuntu users will be memory, so swap is pretty crucial22:52
nistonceOkay, good to know at least.22:52
wxlwe're a special case is what the problem is22:52
wxlit's our claim to fame and our greatest curse :)22:52
nistonceYeah, makes sense. My use case is mostly that I want a 'bare' Ubuntu-ish installer that functions adequately as a live environment to recover, etc with.22:52
nistonceAnd Lubuntu, precisely because of what it is, is the best for that except for this one thing22:53
wxlyou want the installer or you want an installation that's bare?22:53
nistonceSo instead I keep Xubuntu boot media around.22:53
nistonceBoth, the ability to either repair or reinstall22:54
wxlah22:54
nistonceBut I just remove any default windowing environment, etc and install my own22:54
wxlyou could build your own system up, one that doesn't have zram at all22:54
wxlbase it on ubuntu-core or whatever it is and add what you wnat22:54
nistonceYeah, that might end up working best. It can be nice to have some kind of GUI to browse the web with in a live environment to look things up, which is why I've not just done the super-minimal server/more core things, but maybe that's the right approach.22:55
nistonceLubuntu's just so close to being exactly what I'm looking for, thus my questions here.22:56
wxlthe problem with doing that is that you have to figure out all the things you want to install22:59
wxlbut that's also a benefit because then you can trim the size way down22:59
wxlon the other hand there are others who have essentially created their own thing out of lubuntu. you might want to ask Kamilion about what he does22:59
nistonceYeah, I basically do tha already. I tend to closely track what packages I have installed, I've gone through and made sure that exactly the ones I want are manually selected vs automatically installed (and thus removed with auto-remove), etc.23:00
wxlyeah i think starting from scratch would be a good way to go23:00
nistonceAnd that's another reason I like to start closer to minimal -- the installation procedures seem to mangle the auto/manual information23:00
nistonceso I have to retroactively reconstruct it with aptitude etc23:00
wxlhuh interesting23:01
nistonceYeah lots of 'manual' packages which I don't really believe were manual in any meaningful way23:01
wxltbh i haven't played with it too much personally except on vms that i just wiped out, so i don't really have a lot of experience23:01
nistonceWhich combined with dependency loops (foo-utils depends somehow on foo depends on foo-base depends on foo-utils, some of which are weak deps such as suggests or recommends) means that teasing out what should have auto(-removeable) automatically becomes a bit tedious23:02
wxlright23:03
wxli could certainly imagine the many implications of that one little problem23:03
nistonceDo you know why https://github.com/Distroshare/distroshare-ubuntu-imager/commit/b01e6540b249c7178f5b57d624d2869d49ecd541 and https://github.com/Distroshare/distroshare-ubuntu-imager/commit/467590c5542ba6a32c3a9c55e1e6c109132a2633 didn't seem to go anywhere in upstream ubiquity? They suggest the patch is pretty local and low-risk.23:27
nistonce(Also, that people have been actively trying to fix it for at least 2 years now.)23:27
nistonce(They do just swapoff --all, which maybe ubiquity didn't like, rather than actually fixing ubiquity, which may be the issue, and which you said Lubuntu didn't want to do in general.)23:29
wxlnot sure they tried23:29
Kamilionyo?23:31
KamilionI have zram removed for the liveISOs I generate, yes.23:32
nistonceOh, hi Kamilion -- wxl suggested I ask you about that23:32
Kamilionlubuntu's aimed at lower spec machines, where compressed swap makes more sense.23:32
wxlthat's not necesarily nistonce 's use case, so that might be a good idea23:34
nistonceYeah, no zram works fine for me23:35
KamilionAlso, since I'm building appliance-style images that get replaced after a reboot, ubuiquity isn't generally on my radar. The few times I've tried it, it's sorta worked, but I've done enough in the initramfs so attempting to boot an installed version is probably going to be pretty broken23:35
nistonceLooking at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/changes/6536?start_revid=6536 and it's not the most active project23:35
nistonce(aside from being on a dead DVCS...)23:35
Kamilioncanonical loves going off the beaten path for some reason23:36
Kamilionnever understood that myself.23:36
wxlme either23:36
nistonceThey dropped Mir and their own DE at least/at last23:36
Kamilionand upstart.23:37
Kamilionand just about every other project they've started, gotten bad press about, banged on, and given up on after ~7 years23:37
nistonceIt's too bad in a way. The Ubuntu phone/tablet was a neat idea23:37
wxli think they saw red hat innovating and said "we can do that!"23:37
Kamilionand then demonstrates exactly the behavior we all worry about23:37
Kamilion"well, mir's toast, chuck it in the bin, we're done here"23:38
wxlexcept that their idea of innovating was reinventing the wheel23:38
nistonceBut a lot of things were just pointless copies of other projects, yeah23:38
Kamilion<MATE> Wait, wait, we still think it's useful as a wayland shim!23:38
Kamilion"Nope, too bad"23:38
Kamilion¯\_(ツ)_/¯23:38
nistonceAnd, worse, for some of them they got 3rd parties (Nvidia) to commit to putting resources to their own display solutions and giving Nvidia yet another excuse to ignore wayland23:39
* Kamilion shrugs23:39
nistonceSo looking at ubiquity, I still don't understand why it cares about the installation environment's swap at all?23:39
nistonceI don't care if that's encrypted23:40
KamilionHm, I've never been able to rely on ubuntu's installer to get encryption right23:40
wxlsome people would not agree with you, nistonce23:40
Kamilionerrybody's got different ideas on "how secure it's gotta be"23:40
wxlyuup23:40
nistonceXubuntu's works okay for me. I don't agree with all its defaults, but it's reasonable in my experience, the full disk encryption at least23:40
Kamilionmy view is "break in all you want, after a reboot, you'll be flushed anyway like everything else"23:41
nistonceSo it just has to make sure to keep key material, etc off swap23:41
Kamilionpretty much what you see out of container lifetimes these days... Average of about 2-3 days then destroyed23:41
* Kamilion nods23:42
nistonceAnd some cloud providers pushing for even more ephemeral, yeah23:42
Kamilionyeah, I make one of those.23:42
Kamilionhttps://github.com/kamilion/kamikazi-core23:42
Kamilioneverything lives in tmpfs, thanks to casper's TORAM=Yes23:42
nistonceNeat23:43
Kamilionfinds named btrfs volumes and mounts them on it's own under /mnt/btrfs/<volumename>23:43
nistonceCollapses a lot of the management GUI into something open source, etc23:43
nistonceAnd that's still not widely available as your readme notes23:43
KamilionI just use lubunto for the management UI, along with X2Go23:44
Kamilionalthough I do support grabbing the ajenti-core packages once the system comes online, I can't distribute them due to their dumb licensing23:44
Kamilionthere's not many other reasonably secure panels out there23:45
Kamilionajenti's python; so it is automatically out of the PHP-crapware trend23:46
nistonceOh, they do one of those almost-free but if-you're-not-evil-it's-FOSS licenses23:46
nistonceWhich yeah are dumb23:46
Kamilion"Embedding Ajenti Core in a commercial product requires a license."23:46
KamilionBullshit, it's FOSS or it's not.23:46
KamilionRequires, my left foot.23:46
nistonceThey do seem to be trying to get the good PR of FOSS disingenuously23:47
Kamilionand even though I don't charge anything for kamikazi, I'm not going to close the door on that, as I do tend to make some $$$ from supporting it for various installations23:47
KamilionI net at least ~$200/mo off support retainers for a couple gameserver providers23:48
wxlyou should add it to the list of type-1 hypervisors on wikipedia :)23:48
Kamilionwho were sick of paying for solusvm23:48
Kamilionthey use kamikazi's "Roles" system to specialize the image on boot.23:49
KamilionSadly, again, I'm stuck with control panels I'm not allowed to redistribute >.<23:49
Kamilionright now I'm sort of at a loss with what I'm going to do next23:50
nistonceIt's counterintuitive to me at least that kubernetes and similar software; distributed configuration management; etc actually see substantial open source support, but what seems like a conceptually more straightforward problem, managing a bunch of more-or-less opaque-to-hypervisor VMs, seems to have less mature/available FOSS solutions23:50
KamilionI still want to stick with 16.04, but with xen 4.9, I don't really know how deep the rabbit hole of shoving newer xen sets into my PPA for 16.04 is going to go23:51
Kamilionand most of them were for xen3 and never got forward ported to libxl23:51
Kamilionyeah, I had the same problem. The ones left are all mostly PHP crapware23:51
Kamilionor some plugins FOR some PHP crapware (like WHM Complete Solution)23:52
nistonceWhy 16.04 specifically? LTS I get, but is there anything wrong with how 17.10 (and thus likely 18.04 LTS) are shaping up for your purposes?23:54
nistonceIs there a reason http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mlock.2.html isn't the solution to https://launchpadlibrarian.net/145919591/unsafeswap.png ?23:56
KamilionEh, they've had a lot of issues I've sidestepped by staying on 16.04 LTS23:57
nistonceI ask partly because from everything I've seen of the reasons behind this so far, it's not some deep technical insight required for the fix, but different people and projects with conflicting priorities23:58
nistonceXen or Lubuntu?23:58
Kamilionlike https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/29/systemd_pwned_by_dns_query/23:58
Kamilion*buntu, in that case.23:58
Kamilionsystemd-resolved isn't used in 16.0423:59

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