[00:02] hi i was wondering how i might help, i can't code but i can type :D [00:03] !contribute | zenguy [00:03] zenguy: To contribute and help out with Ubuntu, see http://community.ubuntu.com and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu [00:03] thank you Jordan_U :) [00:05] zenguy: You're welcome. Thank you for your future contributions :) [00:06] :D [00:34] Evening [00:45] Anyone here know if theirs software to allow custom install of programs to diffrent dir then home when using deb files?? [00:47] what are the additional software packages for languages that I am getting notifications about? [00:50] CrazyEarner: When using a deb file, you will never have a program installed in /home ... You will find the relevant files in /usr/lib and /usr/bin or similar folders... [00:54] minimec am wanting to install to seprate location than where my distro is on like my storage drive [00:54] CrazyEarner: What is your end goal? Is your root filesystem running out of space? [00:56] Yeah I need to install bunch of things and my ssd root is like 120 gb and want to install stuff to 3tb drive like [00:56] bit like i had on windows all programs under big drive and ssd for minimul programs [00:59] CrazyEarner: The deb file itself contains all informations about dependencies (other nedded packages) and installation targets. You cannot chage them. The installation target follows the unix standard. So executable files for launching the program will be located in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or /opt/. These folders are defined in a default 'path'. See /etc/profile. [01:00] CrazyEarner: If you compile software yourself, you can noramlly choose the folder you want to place them. [01:01] compile myself not good with but am sure can try to like but need learn basics first got most it working to where need to be. Just need time to learn it all [01:01] CrazyEarner: You can always make symlinks from your root filessytem, for example if I decide that armagetronad is taking up too much space I can make /usr/share/games/armagetronad/ a symlink to /external/armagetronad/ and those files will actually live on the external drive. === Inception is now known as Incepti0n [01:02] Jordan_U how do I create them like as that link posted I dont understand any of it or what to do [01:03] was reading this https://askubuntu.com/questions/843740/how-to-create-a-symbolic-link-in-a-linux-directory/843741#843741 but dnt understand [01:05] CrazyEarner: What is one program whose data you want to move to your external drive? [01:06] its Ethereum wallet [01:08] CrazyEarner: this takes like 22 GB alone, doesn't it? [01:08] CrazyEarner: For a basic primer on creating symlinks via the terminal, say you have a file /home/crazyearner/real_file and you want it to be accessible from the path /home/crazyerner/symlink . You could do that by running "ln -s /home/crazyerner/real_file /home/crazyerner/symlink". Then any time you or any program opens /home/crazyerner/symlink it will actually open /home/crazyerner/real_file . Does that [01:09] make sense? [01:09] Takes aprx 122gb or more for full chain data [01:09] blockchain on bitcoin is getting long too [01:09] a good candidate for moving off the ssd then [01:10] unless oyu'll read it ofen [01:10] its Ethereum not bitcoin got bitcoin sortyed as can get light wallet for it lol ethereum pain in my ass lol [01:10] kind of makes sense like [01:11] CrazyEarner: OK. At what path is your ethereum wallet currently? [01:14] current location is /home/crazy/.config/Ethereum Wallet [01:16] and location where want everything to sit in /media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum [01:20] CrazyEarner: so move '/home/crazy/.config/Ethereum Wallet' to '/media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum' and do 'ln -s /home/crazy/.config/Ethereum Wallet /media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum' [01:22] do that in terminal right [01:23] CrazyEarner: for the 'ln -s' command... yes [01:24] CrazyEarner: oh it should be the other way around... 'ln -s /media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum /home/crazy/.config/Ethereum [01:24] CrazyEarner: oh it should be the other way around... 'ln -s /media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum /home/crazy/.config/Ethereum Wallet' [01:26] so what one to use lol [01:27] minimec: Not perhaps my place to say .. but " Ethereum Wallet ' : need to verify that name and escape that space . [01:27] this one 'ln -s /media/cryptocrazy/Storage/Ethereum /home/crazy/.config/Ethereum Wallet' [01:27] it has a space in it on the system [01:31] seems like the program creates the folder with the space in it [01:33] CrazyEarner: Indeed. In the console it would be '/home/crazy/.config/Ethereum\ Wallet' So you have to add a '\' in before the space. [01:33] hi everyone, is it generally ok if I uninstall, default desktop environment of ubuntu, beause of resource usage, I am trying to only use lxqt [01:33] I also don't want tools like gedit, disks, or such to disappear, [01:34] hi [01:34] campitor, install a second environment and pick it when you log in at the top right [01:34] do you know a repository for ubuntu 11.04 ? [01:34] i need to install build-essentials [01:34] and some other stuff [01:35] doug16k: I know, I really want unity to go, because I am using it on a usb disk, and there is not much space on it [01:35] I want to totally replace unity with lxqt [01:35] ok think its done it [01:35] CrazyEarner: Cool. ;) Hope it works... [01:36] normally I am only on unitym no problems, but now I really need to limit things ;( [01:36] campitor: You will find that to build up is much better than tearing down . Minimal to have exactly what you want . [01:36] Bashing-om : so it is better not to touch it, is what you suggest. right? [01:37] campitor, are you asking whether it will kill the install if you uninstall unity? I'd guess it will survive but ymmv [01:37] campitor: Not at all . imstall the minimal ( core install ) and add what you want; with out the unwanted overhead . [01:38] well nothing can 'kill' linux :) but I am afraid if some tools might stop working if I remove the default desktop environment [01:38] so is it ok to run 'sudo apt-get purge unity' ? [01:39] minimec it makes it but it dont change the actual folder I need it to change as it makes the syslink with EthereumWallet not with the space [01:41] when fpartx says "loop0p1 : 0 30720 /dev/loop0 2048" then on the next line says, "loop deleted /dev/loop0", is that its cryptic way of saying it failed? D: [01:43] I end up with nothing in /dev/mapper [01:43] campitor: It is not that easy ; see for example: https://github.com/aysiu/purebuntu . I hve not tested and can not vouch for it . [01:44] have not** [01:44] do you know a repository for ubuntu 11.04 ? [01:44] trasckore, thats long eol [01:45] trasckore, why would you need that [01:45] bazhang,, yeah, but i know there are old releases [01:45] Bashing-om: you are a magician, exactly what I needed, thanks [01:45] Thank you [01:45] bazhang, old device shit is not compliant with newer releases [01:45] trasckore, why would you need that [01:45] no cursing here trasckore [01:45] i'll be careful with it ;) [01:45] already answer [01:46] -ed [01:46] trasckore, give us the full info, which exact devices [01:46] campitor: Yhe author of the script is the magi . Me, I just been around a bit :) [01:47] ah I found the problem, I have to do fpartx -a fulldisk.img [01:47] bazhang, gcc [01:47] i need an old version of it to compile an old version of uboot for arm [01:47] trasckore, thats not a device [01:47] the device is the old dev board [01:51] @minimec Solved it [01:51] I just renamed the folder it made for it xD and put the sapce in seems to work [01:58] if I fsck.vfat a disk image that I just created with `truncate --size=15360K fatpart.img && mkfs.vfat -R 16 fatpart.img`, fsck.vfat complains that the FATs are not the same D: [02:00] doug16k: works here [02:01] Ben64, really? thanks, maybe something else is causing it (I'm automating a build of a disk image) [02:02] Ben64, yeah you're right, this worked for me: `truncate --size=15360K fatpart.img && mkfs.vfat -R 16 fatpart.img && fsck.vfat fatpart.img`. pebkac [02:02] that helped [02:03] looks like you're doing some weird stuff though [02:04] I'm creating a disk image to test booting an OS project I'm creating. I'm patching in an MBR and VBR with dd. I had it fully working when it boots from MBR but I'm expanding it to support coexisting with other OSes using chain boot [02:05] where "chain boot" means, MBR relocates itself to 0x600 and loads the partition first sector to 0x7C00 and jumps into it with SI pointing to partition table entry and DL=drive [02:08] I am having problems with udev on ubuntu server 16.04, it is missing certain files and I am getting confused trying to fix problems [02:09] this is the bigger picture of how I'm building the disk image: https://gist.github.com/doug65536/73d393357c5115c49573a62aee34b816 mbr-bin is the MBR (512 bytes) and bootfat-bin is the ~24KB bootloader at start of partition [02:10] I have reinstalled multiple times, I am going to try reburning the disk, I also verified the ISO with a hash === mundus2018 is now known as mundus [02:17] waffl3x: What files are missing? [02:20] found the problem: I was reserving 16 sectors (8K) for the VBR instead of 64KB [02:20] ...and was trashing the FATs [02:22] so, ubuntu 17.04. btrfs on /. Newest kernel 4.10.0-35 does not boot (cannot mount root). But the oldest kernel in grub 4.0.10-21 boots just fine [02:23] usually to fix this i would just build a custom kernel with btrfs compiled in, but... i pronbably should know the ubuntu way to fix this [02:24] @jordan_u /lib/udev/write_net_rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules atleast [02:25] waffl3x: I have nether on my Ubuntu 17.04 installation. Why are you sure they should be there? [02:26] based on trying to troubleshoot internet not working, and later the logical name of the adapter not being eth0 [02:27] I was directed to the latter file to configure that, and it was missing [02:27] Kobaz: Are you dropped to an initramfs shell with busybox when it fails to boot? What is the error message at boot? [02:27] waffl3x: the name of the interface wouldn't make you not have internet [02:27] waffl3x, is it something like enpos3 [02:27] something like that [02:27] Jordan_U: nope, just epic fail on mount root, and it's not failing in btrfs code, just general mount-root code [02:28] @ben64 yeah I know, internet is working now [02:28] Jordan_U: cannot mount root unknown block [02:28] waffl3x, thats simply the systemd re naming, not an actual block [02:28] Jordan_U: looks like btrfs modules didn't load in initrd [02:28] Kobaz: Does that kernel have an initramfs image at all in /boot/? [02:28] im just confused because it didnt configure right the first time, so I reinstalled, and then these files were missing so I am concerned other things might be going on [02:29] @bazhang the former file is supposed to be a script (I think?) to generate the rules file [02:29] I wasnt too concerned about the rules file missing as a couple pages I read just gave the write_net_rules file to generate it, but that one being missing was confusing [02:29] Jordan_U: yeap... probably maybe rebuild initrd? [02:30] it it just likely I was reading outdated information? [02:31] poooooo [02:32] Jordan_U: got it... new initrd didn't fit on /boot [02:32] a 250MB /boot just isn't enough these days [02:33] Jordan_U: is there an option for how many backup kernels to keep around? === mundus is now known as Mundus [02:35] Kobaz: Not that I'm aware of. But you can just not bother with a separate /boot/ partition. Grub can read btrfs. [02:37] Kobaz: One can set autoremove in unattended-upgrades to only keep 2 kernels . === Mundus is now known as mundus [02:39] I'm going to go forward assuming the information I was reading was outdated, so my new question is, is it important to configure the logical name for my network adapter to be eth0, and if so, how do I do that [02:43] Jordan_U: not with the 17.04 installer [02:43] Jordan_U: grub can handle it just fine, but whatever the installer is doing... i haven' looked into it, but it will not install grub to a single btrfs / [02:43] it just dies [02:44] waffl3x: no it isn't important [02:44] okay, thank you [02:44] thanks for the help [03:13] what's an equivalent to rdp for ubuntu? vnc seems really slow === xrandr_ is now known as ordertochaos [03:26] if you havd a ssh connection, you could set up a remote X session [03:26] aloo_shu, how? [03:26] also, i'd like to be able to jump in from multiple platforms [03:27] ooof, not so easy to say in one line. you could study the man pages of X , Xserver , Xorg , realies [03:28] lol [03:29] but there is something else, dunno pkg name, some 4 letter things with x? k? , a search in synaptic or software manager w/ remote desktop should reveal [03:29] xrdp? [03:31] could be it. server and clent had different names, i seem to recall [03:31] *client [03:37] hi [03:38] i have a running process that i really need to kill but nothing does it [03:38] i tried kill -9 9007 [03:38] which is its pid [03:38] killall -9 [03:38] and as root [03:38] many times [03:38] sudo cat /proc/9007/syscall [03:38] running [03:39] the parent is 1 ... [03:40] my user is the woner. the stat is R [03:40] can someone help me? [03:45] mandje: If a process isn't killed after kill -9 then either it's a zombie process, meaning it's dead but its parent hasn't reaped it yet, or it's stuck in a system call in which case there's usually nothing that can be done (there is sometimes, rarely, a way to cause the system call to fail and exit rather than blocking for certain sytem calls and situations). [03:46] oh no [03:46] mandje: And now that I see that you said the parent is PID 1, we know it's not a zombie :) [03:46] how to check if its a zombie? [03:46] yeah [03:46] i cat the proc/pid/syscall file and it says running [03:46] and the parent is 1 [03:47] mandje: What is this process? [03:48] hashcat [03:49] must be too stoned <--- ignore, please [03:51] mattfly: I don't know much about /proc/pid/syscall, but I wouldn't expect it to output just "running". Are you sure that's the file you're reading? [03:52] yeah [03:52] im pretty sure [03:52] hi there [03:53] status show more [03:53] the state inside status output show R (running) [03:54] what if i remove the process folder ? [03:54] if thats even possible [03:54] anything that would make it just crash and disappear is ok [03:55] just thought the same, but don't know the answer [03:56] interesting [03:56] okay i will sudo remove it [03:56] lets see [03:56] yeah thats when root gets permission denied [03:57] mattfly: Ahh, I think "running" means that it's not executing a syscall. Which means that we now know that it can't be either of the kinds of unkillable process... [03:58] mattfly: Did you run kill as root? Did kill give any error message? Are you sure you didn't mistype the PID? [03:58] nothing kills it [03:59] yeah im oding it [03:59] kill doesnt give any error [03:59] im gonna do a infinite loop killing it [03:59] okay now im running a infinite loop killing it as root [04:00] with sigkill signal [04:00] i think only rebooting will solve [04:01] mattfly: Wait. If you don't mind, I'm curious now :) [04:04] mattfly: please post the output of "ps aux | grep 9007 | grep -v grep" [04:04] okay [04:05] # ps aux | grep 9007 | grep -v grep [04:05] matheus 9007 99.6 0.2 177692 8712 ? R 00:13 50:43 /home/matheus/programs/hashcat-3.6.0/hashcat64.bin -m15700 $ethereum$s*262144*8*1*29834h908e3f093e4ruhg098w540gw059854nj9g489n6c2e60*7d838b7059bb5bed8053578d63cc1eb6e9f4f6a4419b5aceef17f77798d0a4e2*94d7644ce6aud9n0a8s9fdn089asdnf089ashb0df8as9dfhb08a9s7afg34IEDITEDTHISXDc3b316f1 out.txt --status --status-timer=5 -w3 -r /home/matheus/programs/hashcat-3.5.0/rules/hob064.rule -w 1 [04:06] so my user is the owner, the start is R [04:06] state* [04:06] the program is hashcat [04:06] which wasnt gracefully exited for sure [04:06] what i did was ctrl +C [04:07] and then force respawned my tmux pane it was on [04:07] even tho not being able to kill it in any way is weird [04:07] i renamed the file it was taking as input [04:08] and the values for the wallet there are edited lol... before someone ask [04:09] any way to kill this jordan_U ? :/ [04:10] mattfly: And from the same terminal you recieved that output, "sudo kill -9 9007" produces no output? [04:10] not output [04:10] no output* [04:11] mattfly: No containers, network namespaces, or anything like that? [04:11] while true; do kill -9 9007; done [04:11] i let it run for 30 min [04:11] is my laptop [04:12] nothing virtualized [04:12] nothing really [04:12] can that be a ubuntu bug or maybe hashcats... [04:12] no but would be ubuntu [04:12] or the kernel [04:13] interesting [04:13] mattfly, please dont use enter as punctuation [04:13] sorry i got this... weird mania thing sorry [04:15] # uname -a [04:15] Linux matheus-laptop 4.4.0-93-generic #116-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 21:17:51 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [04:20] mattfly: Please pastebin the output of "dmesg". [04:20] okay now i use a pastebin [04:21] oh [04:21] okay i got a bunch of 514488.333725] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device [04:21] i have a ncidia card [04:21] hashcat uses it probrably [04:22] was kt considered a security feature if the process wouldn't listen for any signal? to protect data, or prevent half-encrypted partitions, e.g.? [04:22] *it [04:29] here it is jordan_U: https://pastebin.com/YAxxMtMU [04:30] this is interesting: [513140.570725] ptrace of pid 9007 was attempted by: cat (pid 9710) [04:37] man hascat to learn about possible peculiarities? [04:37] would it be unable to kill? [04:38] this is probrably a hardware bug or kernel bug [04:38] look this thing is using 100% of my cpu... is probrably doing something [04:39] mattfly: Try attaching to the process with gdb: "sudo gdb attach 9007" [04:40] it says attach: file or directory not found [04:40] and then attaching to proccess 900 [04:40] 9007 * [04:41] and i dont get the shell [04:41] oh and ctrl+c dont quit [04:41] ctrl+z did stop it [04:41] mattfly: Don't try to ctrl+c. Please pastebin all of the output from gdb. [04:41] okay but it didnt work [04:42] hey i god the gdb shell now [04:42] mattfly: Is process 9007 still using 100% cpu? [04:42] yes [04:43] and do you know what [04:43] i have another unkillable gdb process [04:44] this other one returned adb shell after saying warning: process 9007 is already traced by process 11868 [04:44] gdb* [04:44] the gdb output of the first one didng work at all [04:45] just got stuck after saying it was attaching to proccess [04:45] before this was just the gdb standart initial messages [04:45] oh the first gdb process is killed now jordan_U [04:46] im in another one now [04:51] can't expect lighning speed w/ 100% cpu in use [04:51] *lightning [04:51] hi back [04:51] have i missed something? i wasnt online the last 5 min [04:52] kno [04:52] no [04:53] so i have this gdb stuck... [04:53] what is the right thing to do when a proccess like this is stuck? [04:54] sigstop? [04:56] mattfly: I'm all out of ideas. This doesn't make any sense to me unfortunately. [04:56] okay :/ [04:56] is there any way to use nice for decreasing the cpu usage at least? [04:56] that would do until i have to reboot [04:57] kill -9 [04:57] yeah [04:59] mattfly: Actually, while we're at it. How much RAM is this process using? [04:59] almost nothing [04:59] 0.2 % [04:59] of my 4 gb [04:59] oh [04:59] mattfly: Shame. I was hoping that the OOM killer might be able to vanquish it. [04:59] :/ [05:00] i think restarting my X session will do it [05:00] this thing uses nvidia drivers and didnt run without it [05:00] without the X server i mean [05:00] I am using i3 window manager? [05:01] so is there a way to restart Xorg withou loosing all thats running?? [05:01] mattfly: If you're going to do that, try rmmoding the nvidia modules after killing X too. [05:02] now you got me [05:02] mattfly: No. Your X clients will all die, no way around it. (If you had used xpra to start them in the first place then maybe). [05:02] do you mean remoding? [05:02] oh okay (about the X clients) [05:03] mattfly: No, rmmod is the command to unload kernel modules. [05:03] so i could do this? [05:04] isnt there a way to just reload or restart while running X session? [05:05] mattfly: No, the nvidia module can't be unloaded while X is using it. [05:05] if i force remove all will crash [05:06] okay how to know the nvidia module name? [05:08] mattfly: "lsmod | grep nvidia" [05:08] okay, nvidia_drm [05:12] hi, can i upgrade an ubuntu 14 within its os to ubuntu 16.04? [05:12] short on cd-r and the install from external drive doesnt work [05:13] but i got this ubuntu 14 install cd. wondering if i can just upgrade it to 16.04lts [05:14] dekatch: it's possible, but easier to install 16.04 fresh [05:15] dekatch: do you not have a working internet connection? [05:15] If so, you can simply do-release-upgrade [05:16] hateball: the way i understand it, ubuntu isn't installed yet [05:16] Ben64: Oh. I only saw the line about "upgrade" which would suggest it is [05:16] yep not installed yet sry :) [05:16] i have the latest 16.04 on an external drive and when i try to boot into it says "no operating system found" [05:17] Then it has not been put onto the external drive properly [05:17] guess its an ntfs issue [05:17] thats also possible [05:17] You can't simply boot an ISO off an NTFS drive, if that's what you're trying to do [05:18] no, i did setup this partition properly. i can for example boot windows setup with it [05:19] what i meant with ntfs issue is that the drive where ubuntu is supposed to be installed is set as ntfs [05:22] and the ubuntu .iso i extracted lol [05:22] Yes, which is the incorrect way to go about things [05:23] You need to copy GRUB into the MBR of the drive, otherwise it wont find anything to boot [05:23] !usb [05:23] For information about installing Ubuntu from USB flash drives, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick - For a persistent live USB install, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent [05:23] uhm ok, how shoul i do it? [05:23] From Linux, "dd if=/path/to/iso.iso of=/dev/sdb" assuming sdb is your external device [05:24] On Windows... well the links above should show you [05:25] thanks. i didnt copy GRUP to anywhere [05:25] ill check that link. installing ubuntu as a secondary OS [05:25] Well it's not a manual operation, but the MBR is in the first bytes of the ISO [05:41] Hello everyone [05:58] Hello all, I'd like to ask a question about X.org not behaving correctly in my copy of Ubuntu from time to time. Is this the right place? [06:00] dieomesieptoch yes [06:00] It appears about every other time I boot up the PC, I don't see the login screen. Then I reboot to custom boot in Grub, select low graphics mode, and it will once again go back to a black screen. [06:01] However in this situation, I can ctrl-alt-f1 in to the terminal [06:01] where I can ctrl-c and see a message 'waiting for X to die' (or something to that effect [06:01] and then I'll get to the low-res login screen [06:01] I've googled so many times but I can't find someone else reporting this problem [06:02] I have a picture of the exact message: https://i.imgur.com/0eS6UVk.jpg [06:03] so it appears that X keeps 'losing' the config file? [06:05] Anybody? [06:05] dieomesieptoch: What chipset/driver are you using? [06:05] I know nvidia blob can have issues with encryption, and it looks like you're using that in the screenshot [06:06] Still, it's X itself erroring out so... hmmm [06:06] Switching back and forth between ubuntu and closed source, it's an AMD graphics card [06:07] So even if you remain on the kernel provided driver, it will error like that? [06:07] I mean if you do multiple reboots [06:07] yes [06:07] but then *sometimes* when going through failsafe graphics mode [06:07] I'll log out and turn off the computer [06:08] and the next time it *will* work fine [06:08] but usually only untill the next boot [06:08] Also, are you supposed to use nomodeset with AMD driver? [06:08] I only use nvidia/intel myself so I don't know [06:08] No clue [06:08] I've tried adding it, removing it [06:08] just no dice [06:09] So what chipset is it? [06:09] Radeon 6850 it seems [06:09] I'm thinking if it's so recent you'll need to use a newer MESA from PPA [06:09] That shouldnt be the case then [06:10] Is that card even supported by amdgpu-pro ? [06:10] Or are you on 14.04 using fglrx ? [06:11] I'm on 17.04 [06:11] what is amdgpu-pro ? [06:12] It's AMD binary blob for the latest chipsets, stuff they havent yet moved to the open source driver [06:12] the RX series etc [06:12] I dont know if it is even used now, as I said I am not an AMD guy [06:15] well the thing is, I get the feeling X.org is fucking up rather than the card / drivers [06:16] hang on, going through failsafe graphics mode etc., could it be that a good xorg.conf is being generated, but duly overwritten? dpkg-reconfigure worth a try in that case [06:17] but would I have to run that every time as well [06:17] It's almost as if after every update Ubuntu has (big or small) X resets and I have to go through the routine again [06:17] pfff, or write-protecting the config file as a dirty fix first [06:18] dpkg-reconfigure is also in the grub boot options menu, right? [06:18] no idea [06:18] new to me [06:19] also, in /etc/X11/ there is no xorg.conf :) [06:19] there *is* a xorg.conf.failsafe [06:19] rename? a copy of it [06:22] I think that's how it works today, Xorg always intelligent guessing its config on the fly, but if a xorg.conf file is found, it will be used, an xorg.conf.failsafe only in failsafe mode, my 2ct [06:23] That's it [06:23] Unless you need to use specific options etc, there is no xorg.conf [06:23] ah ok [06:23] sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe /etc/X11/xorg.conf would persist failsafe settings in that logic [06:24] ya I tried to create a config using "Xorg :1 -configure" [06:24] which at some point will error out and say "(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting" [06:24] brr [06:25] man Xorg and you'll know why :) [06:27] try my cp suggestion, then log out and in or reboot. should bd easily reconvertible by deleting xorg.conf if it doesnt give expected results [06:27] I'll give that a go [06:30] I can't switch into two different languages in ubuntu zesty, unity shell. === r0Oter is now known as r00ter [08:21] <[worksti]> im looking for a way to thin out old backups - keep dailies for two weeks, keep one per week for six months, keep one per month forever, something like that, does ubuntu already come with a tool to manage something like that ? [08:21] <[worksti]> seems like itd be a common requirement [09:20] hi, thanks to hateball i was able to install ubuntu from an external drive. win32-disk-image-cloner to the rescue. however. now i can not boot to all my OP's that are installed. [09:21] i have windows 7, 10 and ubuntu 16.04 installed. and i preferably would use that more lightweight windows 10 loader. trying to figure out how to add linux to easyBCD bootload manager [09:22] i mean, i really can boot in all of those. but not in a convinient way [09:23] for example if i wanna boot into windows 7, i have to choose windows 10 bootloader from grub menu, and that opens the windows 10 bootloader where i can choose win 7 or 10 [09:24] i would kinda like to have these 3 entrys (ubuntu, win7, win10) available to begin with. not to mess around with loading different bootloaders [09:24] is that possible maybe? [09:31] my ubuntu install boots quite slow, despite being on an SSD and a modern i7... stackexchange suggested to check for gaps in dmesg, but it doesn't look too weird to me: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/danslo/d7a1b4e85f3c8fbf5a52797cff1d4c14/raw/3d4c303845d80563fecb1ae8a7976c753c181e4d/gistfile1.txt [09:31] any suggestions on how to debug slow startup times? [09:35] systemd-analyze blame [09:35] 21.541s plymouth-quit-wait.service [09:37] anyone familiar with a 200+ partition issue? vast majority of which, erroneous [09:37]