[02:00] <therethere> hi there
[02:01] <therethere> i am trying lubuntu 16.04 long term release version
[02:01] <therethere> after i had some problems with 17.04
[02:01] <therethere> this lts version is working fine
[02:01] <therethere> but there was one more video player app in 17.04
[02:01] <therethere> could someone tell me which that app is and how do i get that for lts version?
[02:04] <therethere> anyone?
[02:09] <therethere> ??
[02:20] <Felix_Amore> Hi all, I'm trying to mount a partition on a usb and the option to mount it is greyed out in gparted
[02:20] <Felix_Amore> And various other things I've tried haven't worked either.
[14:07] <agentx04> hi, anyone online here?
[16:40] <flappyjonson> hello
[16:40] <wxl> wut up
[16:44] <flappyjonson> can someone help me with openvpn on lubuntu? I have wifi dongle that is used to connect to the internet and now I want to make sure that this wifi connection is always connected to vpn. I did try to set automatically connect to VPN using this connection with preconfigured vpn connection but this never work and instead wifi does not want to connect at all (when I untick it wifi dongle connects to network).
[16:45] <flappyjonson> So i did try to do it classic way that is connectin in terminal by using command openvpn server_address and yes it works ok but if the connection crashes it will not reconnect by itself and I will not know if it even crashed
[16:45] <flappyjonson> any ideas?
[16:52] <flappyjonson> Ah in the first one I meant I did try to use network-manager but it is broken and does not work
[16:55] <tsimonq2> flappyjonson: Try #ubuntu if you don't get an answer here :)
[16:56] <flappyjonson> sure, thanks :)
[17:08] <wxl> flappyjonson: you get it figured out yet?
[17:08] <flappyjonson> depends
[17:08] <flappyjonson> I am reading about openvpn config files becase I gave up on crappy network-manager
[17:09] <flappyjonson> its should be killed with fire
[17:09] <wxl> ah
[17:09] <wxl> well i had it working in nm-manager fwiw
[17:09] <wxl> i don't have my machine in front of me, though
[17:09] <flappyjonson> now if I only could somehow check if vpn is connected
[17:10] <wxl> i think there's a vpn connection section that you want to make auto run or associate with a particular connection
[17:10] <wxl> and then in the connection you require the vpn or something of the sort
[17:10] <wxl> you could check your ip to see if you're connected
[17:10] <flappyjonson> I plan to make simple script that would check vpn every 1 second and if it is not alive then to turn off eth0 and when it goes back on to turn eth0 on
[17:11] <flappyjonson> its hard to to if it is dynamic ip
[17:11] <wxl> not really
[17:11] <wxl> your vpn should provide a block of ips, so you can check against them
[17:13] <flappyjonson> hmmmm
[17:13] <wxl> and i think you can curl to checkip.dyndns.com to get your ip
[17:13] <flappyjonson> I do not want to spam them so much :D
[17:14] <wxl> that's why they made that, admittedly
[17:14] <flappyjonson> made what ?
[17:15] <wxl> checkip.dyndns.com
[17:15] <flappyjonson> Ok but I doubt they would ignore machines that ask for op every 1 second or even less
[17:15] <wxl> maybe, but you could rate limit your software
[17:17] <flappyjonson> true but I want to do it infinitely
[17:17] <flappyjonson> it would be better to somehow ask openvpn if it is connected but still great idea I will use it if there will be no other way
[17:19] <wxl> ooh better
[17:19] <wxl> dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
[17:20] <flappyjonson> for sure faster
[17:21] <wxl> STUN FTW tho https://askubuntu.com/questions/95910/command-for-determining-my-public-ip/683488#683488
[17:22] <wxl> bonus points on that for doing it entirely with simple bash utilities XD
[17:25] <flappyjonson> this is what I hate in linux sometimes :)
[17:26] <flappyjonson> instead of simple dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com people post answers with 100 lines of commands to do one single thing
[17:26] <wxl> yes, because everything else never fails (not)
[17:26] <wxl> there's more than one way to do things. that's not a negative.
[17:27] <flappyjonson> sure there is but if something can be done in simple way then why to hammer 100 doors?
[17:27] <wxl> depends on the situation. it's not easy to generalize.
[17:28] <wxl> in the windows world, you get one option and there's no changing or customizing it to your liking
[17:28] <wxl> in the os x world, kyou don't get the option because apple already decided you don't want it
[17:29] <flappyjonson> maybe :)
[17:29] <flappyjonson> now I need to permanently turn off ipv6
[17:29] <wxl> oh that's fairly easy
[17:31] <wxl> https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/disable-ipv6-on-ubuntu
[17:35] <flappyjonson> yup this one was easy :)
[17:35] <wxl> i admit it's easier in freebsd (just a one liner) but that's ok :)
[17:38] <wxl> flappyjonson: don't forget not to use chrome (webrtc leaks ips). you can at least turn it off in firefox.
[17:53] <flappyjonson> thanks a lot now I have everything I need :)
[17:53] <wxl> yay
[17:55] <flappyjonson> I now write small script that will be in infinite look checking if there is device tunX (made by openvpn when connected) by grepping ifconfig if there is then does nothing and if there is not then turn off eth0. Now openvpn configuration is set to autoconnect when disconnected so when it reconnect and script finds tunX then it will bring eth0 online. Not too beautifull but hopefully will work and I will not ddos dyndns :)
[18:13] <pentiumM> Could I get help here with pae?
[18:14] <pentiumM> I'm trying to boot Lubuntu on an old Pentium M laptop.. looking to install it there.. but found no support for pae..
[18:21] <krytarik> !pae | pentiumM: Try the 'forcepae' boot option
[18:54] <pentiumM> thank you, yes, found that. it worked.
[18:58] <pentiumM> Now I'm stuck at booting into the LiveCD..
[18:58] <pentiumM> Lubuntu does not seem to have an option for this. Only "Install.." and "Rescue.."
[19:01] <pentiumM> Neither leads to any obvious way to get into a GUI or shell environment where I can create and image backup of the hard drive.
[19:01] <wxl> if you're using the alternate version, there's no such option. you'd need to use the desktop version
[19:01] <pentiumM> There does not seem to really be a live boot option with this distro.
[19:02] <wxl> s/distro/version/
[19:02] <pentiumM> Yes, alternate because of only 500 MB RAM in this old machine.
[19:02] <wxl> that's required only for ubiquity, the installer
[19:02] <wxl> if you don't need a GUI, i'd just use finnix personally
[19:03] <wxl> although tbh i don't know what their PAE support is like
[19:03] <wxl> you might be better off just using a USB to SCSI/SATA adapter on the hard drive and just using a less crippled machine :)
[19:05] <pentiumM> Ah, it belongs to my mom, and trying to move her to a different machine just it's an option now.
[19:18] <pentiumM> Thanks for the tip on Finnix. Seems like just the thing to live boot and backup. Seems that it does not require pae as of version 102 with no mention since.
[19:20] <shakary> Ciao a tuti
[19:21] <wxl> !it | shakary
[19:21] <shakary> lubuntu = stile e leggerezza
[20:08] <dddd> d