| basilarchia | mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdXXX | 00:21 |
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| aLaix | Hello guys, how are you doing? I normally don't ask for help in IRC (because i always look in the forums) but just like 5min ago my touchpad stopped working, it's weird since i can click and right click using the touchpad, but the cursor won't move. I looked into dmesg i couldn't find any error there, so I would like to ask, how can somebody debug | 02:42 |
| aLaix | a touchpad issue? | 02:42 |
| aLaix | Ok i did "sudo evtest /dev/input/event7" and i can see all the events there, where should i look next? | 02:45 |
| aLaix | it's a pity, ok have a nice night guys. | 02:54 |
| ubuntuM8 | anyone awake tonight? | 05:18 |
| ubuntuM8 | i wondering how to mount my current ubuntu mate distro from a live usb session n login to terminal? | 05:24 |
| ubuntuM8 | searched around but idk the keywordz | 05:25 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: You're on the Live session now? | 05:29 |
| ubuntuM8 | yes | 05:29 |
| ubuntuM8 | i was having issues with amdgpu freezing X so i need to switch back to radeon | 05:30 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: You haven't installed it to hdd yet? | 05:30 |
| ubuntuM8 | no ubuntu 16.04 is installed to ssd | 05:31 |
| ubuntuM8 | ubuntu mate ofc | 05:32 |
| ubuntuM8 | i suppose i could boot up then switch to ttyl | 05:32 |
| ubuntuM8 | tty1 | 05:32 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: So you need to change driver on the ubuntu 16.04? Nothing will be saved when you shut down the Live session | 05:33 |
| ubuntuM8 | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze | 05:33 |
| ubuntuM8 | yeah well i tried my best to install the amdgpu driver as amd website instructs, and it boots without error | 05:34 |
| ubuntuM8 | but seems to freeze after 10-15 minz | 05:34 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: Trying to understand what you did. You're in Live session and you installed the amdgpu driver? | 05:36 |
| ubuntuM8 | no lol | 05:36 |
| ubuntuM8 | the live session runs find on the built-in radeon driver, the install i did last week is unstable because of the amdgpu driver | 05:36 |
| ubuntuM8 | for some reason the advance boot options are blank | 05:37 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: So you need to go back to the radeon driver in Ubuntu 16.04 ? | 05:37 |
| ubuntuM8 | seems that 'amdgpu-pro-uninstall | 05:38 |
| ubuntuM8 | would the trick | 05:38 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: There won't be any additional drivers in the Live session | 05:38 |
| ubuntuM8 | i suppose i could boot into the ssd again, with 15 minz of time i could easily remove it | 05:39 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: Yes, unselect the proprietary driver in the installed session and reboot | 05:40 |
| ubuntuM8 | the only reason i cam in was because i remember once login to a user account (on disk) from a live session | 05:40 |
| ubuntuM8 | that is possible right? | 05:41 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubuntuM8: It's possible to chroot into the installed session to repair or re-install Grub from a Live media | 05:54 |
| ubuntuM8 | only for grub? | 05:54 |
| ubuntuM8 | chroot i'll look it up | 05:55 |
| ubuntuM8 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery | 05:56 |
| ubuntuM8 | yeah that's more like it | 05:56 |
| ubuntuM8 | well i'm going to try the 'easy' mode | 05:57 |
| ubuntuM8 | boot into the ssd n got to tty1 | 05:57 |
| ubuntuM8 | will be back if it still crashed on radeon | 05:58 |
| Sum1lson18 | ubergoose: chroot - ing to the installed session you should be able to perform any root command on it | 06:09 |
| Sum1lson18 | Sorry ubergoose , other user left | 06:09 |
| ubuntuM8 | well 16 minz uptime on radeon from the ssd boot | 06:20 |
| ubuntuM8 | so far so good | 06:20 |
| ubuntuM8 | now the fun part beginz debugging | 06:20 |
| ubuntuM8 | some comments said something about gcc packages from 14.04 left in the 16.04 install | 06:21 |
| ubuntuM8 | i'll look into that | 06:21 |
| ubuntuM8 | https://askubuntu.com/questions/889346/amd-gpu-on-ubuntu-16-04 | 06:27 |
| ubuntuM8 | ah | 06:31 |
| ubuntuM8 | amd64-microcode wasn't enabled | 06:31 |
| infid1castr0 | if anyone has any ideas to help a very elementary problem... Just wiped my disk and installed mate, but whenever I reset the only option I have to boot is from the liveusb, unsure what I can do to remedy | 06:32 |
| ubuntuM8 | have u tried ejecting the usb or changing bios boot order? | 06:33 |
| infid1castr0 | when I launch without the usb, screen states no bootable drive, and when I go into launch options, it only shows the usb, even though it is fifth in boot order | 06:33 |
| ubuntuM8 | hmm, just one hdd ? | 06:34 |
| infid1castr0 | yes that is correct | 06:36 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: are you currently booted from the usb? | 06:38 |
| infid1castr0 | haha yes, was searching the wiki and got on the chat, I can get on from another computer in a bit though | 06:39 |
| alkisg | From the usb, what's the output of this command? sudo lsblk --fs | 06:39 |
| infid1castr0 | @alkisg can I just copy that output here? | 07:03 |
| alkisg | !pastebin | 07:05 |
| ubottu | For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use https://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use https://imgur.com/ !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 07:05 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: ^ | 07:05 |
| infid1castr0 | cheers | 07:06 |
| infid1castr0 | https://paste.ubuntu.com/25908962/ | 07:06 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: why "mmcblk0p1"? Is that an sd card? | 07:08 |
| infid1castr0 | I am not sure why, but no sd card here... just an old acer laptop that I wiped and the usb with MATE on it | 07:08 |
| infid1castr0 | sorry I am of little help | 07:08 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: and the output of `sudo parted -l` ? | 07:10 |
| alkisg | Sounds like your *stick* is sda, and your disk is mmcblk0, which should be the opposite :D | 07:10 |
| infid1castr0 | that gave me an error actually: | 07:11 |
| infid1castr0 | https://paste.ubuntu.com/25908968/ | 07:11 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: the internal disk, is it ssd? | 07:13 |
| alkisg | or some internal memory? | 07:13 |
| alkisg | or is it a real rotational disk? | 07:13 |
| infid1castr0 | oh wow just realizing this, | 07:14 |
| infid1castr0 | eMMC actually | 07:14 |
| alkisg | Well, it's possible it's been worn out, broken | 07:14 |
| alkisg | Did you see disk errors while installing? | 07:15 |
| infid1castr0 | none while installing, wasn't until I had wiped and installed I had this problem | 07:15 |
| infid1castr0 | and I still get through the installation, it says restart now, then it just loads me back into the live usb | 07:16 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: in `dmesg`, do you see io errors? | 07:16 |
| infid1castr0 | yeah these two at the bottom | 07:18 |
| infid1castr0 | https://paste.ubuntu.com/25908986/ | 07:18 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: so, it sounds like your emmc is broken and ubuntu can't write to mbr | 07:23 |
| alkisg | So the bios then doesn't see the boot code | 07:23 |
| infid1castr0 | oh wow what a shame, that would explain it though | 07:24 |
| alkisg | You can try from the live cd | 07:24 |
| alkisg | Unmount everything, and go to gparted, and create a new partition table, formatting everything | 07:25 |
| alkisg | If that can be applied, all is well, if not, the disk is broken | 07:25 |
| infid1castr0 | is that different from using the live usb? | 07:25 |
| alkisg | Sorry, I meant live usb | 07:25 |
| alkisg | But you'll erase everything on the disk while trying that | 07:25 |
| infid1castr0 | ok I will try that, I can always burn the iso again if that will help too | 07:27 |
| alkisg | I think I didn't express myself correctly | 07:31 |
| alkisg | You don't need a cd | 07:32 |
| alkisg | You don't need to re-create or format the live usb | 07:32 |
| alkisg | You only need to format the emmc, to test if it's writeable or not | 07:32 |
| alkisg | If you can, then you reinstall ubuntu to the disk, and it's ok | 07:32 |
| alkisg | if you can't, you need to replace the emmc | 07:32 |
| infid1castr0 | alkisg I completely understood after I replied haha, I am formatting the emmc as we speak | 07:32 |
| alkisg | Cool | 07:33 |
| infid1castr0 | thank you very much for your help, I apologise for my naivety | 07:33 |
| alkisg | Don't worry, you're doing fine | 07:33 |
| infid1castr0 | alright I unmounted and formatted the whole drive, now I cannot seem to find gparted though | 07:39 |
| alkisg | How did you format without using gparted? | 07:40 |
| infid1castr0 | just using the ubuntu disks utility tool I guess | 07:40 |
| alkisg | Ah. Try Alt+Ctrl+T to open a terminal, and there type: sudo gparted | 07:41 |
| infid1castr0 | that did it, and you said to create a new partition table? Is that only on the emmc drive? | 07:42 |
| alkisg | Yes, don't touch the usb drive at all | 07:42 |
| alkisg | Do you still see the partitions? | 07:42 |
| infid1castr0 | yes there are four of them, one of which is fat16, would that make a difference? | 07:43 |
| infid1castr0 | well three partitions and one unallocated | 07:43 |
| alkisg | If you formatted using the disks utility, and you're still seeing partitions, that's a bad sign | 07:44 |
| alkisg | You unmounted everything, including swap, right? | 07:44 |
| infid1castr0 | I might have done it incorrectly actually, I formatted each partition individually I am realizing | 07:45 |
| infid1castr0 | so although there are three, they are all individually formatted | 07:46 |
| alkisg | OK using gparted create a new partition table | 07:46 |
| alkisg | Then close gparted, open it, and see if it's still empty | 07:46 |
| infid1castr0 | msdos? | 07:46 |
| alkisg | Yes | 07:47 |
| infid1castr0 | new partition table done, and now there is nothing there | 07:48 |
| infid1castr0 | just one unallocated | 07:48 |
| alkisg | OK close gparted, and open it again | 07:48 |
| infid1castr0 | done, same thing - 1 unallocated | 07:48 |
| alkisg | That's good, any recent io errors in dmesg? | 07:48 |
| jrj | Pouring myself a strong coffee | 07:49 |
| jrj | $WORK is upgrading to Win10 today | 07:49 |
| infid1castr0 | same ones, but with more lines after | 07:49 |
| infid1castr0 | https://paste.ubuntu.com/25909120/ | 07:49 |
| infid1castr0 | that is after I just reran the dmesg | 07:50 |
| alkisg | That's good | 07:50 |
| jrj | Lord have mercy on my damned soul | 07:50 |
| alkisg | Now proceed with ubuntu reinstallation, and when it finishes, don't reboot, but write here | 07:50 |
| infid1castr0 | ok, I will just follow the installation wizard from the desktop? | 07:51 |
| alkisg | Click "continue using ubuntu" and run `sudo gparted -l` and see if everything is ok now | 07:51 |
| alkisg | Yes | 07:51 |
| infid1castr0 | ok thanks again mate, I will be back in a bit | 07:51 |
| alkisg | np | 07:51 |
| infid1castr0 | and jrj, good luck with that, I am finally starting to make the full switch to Linux after getting sick of Windows in general | 07:52 |
| jrj | infid1castr0: The work laptop i have no say in what running on it. Privately im running Linux for the part ~2 years | 07:52 |
| infid1castr0 | alright I did that, so when I ran sudo gparted -it said it cannot be located | 08:13 |
| infid1castr0 | but when I just run sudo gparted, the partitions seem normal | 08:13 |
| alkisg | gparted -l | 08:13 |
| alkisg | not -i | 08:14 |
| alkisg | Any recent io errors in dmesg? | 08:14 |
| infid1castr0 | not looking good ((( | 08:15 |
| infid1castr0 | https://paste.ubuntu.com/25909230/ | 08:15 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: indeed :/ | 08:15 |
| alkisg | infid1castr0: btw, there might be a bios option "prevent writes to sector 0" | 08:16 |
| alkisg | If you're lucky, then that's it; otherwise you need a new disk | 08:16 |
| infid1castr0 | alright, where would I find that? | 08:16 |
| alkisg | First of all try rebooting, see if it works | 08:17 |
| alkisg | If it doesn't, press del to enter bios (setup), and search there | 08:17 |
| infid1castr0 | alright will do, cheers again mate | 08:18 |
| infide1castr0 | no luck on that one mate, same problem | 08:23 |
| alkisg | New disk then :) | 08:30 |
| petete | hi there! | 08:31 |
| infide1castr0 | shame, but thanks for helping me out man, I appreciate it | 08:31 |
| alkisg | np | 08:31 |
| petete | I have to do reboot or shutdown twice for the system to do it | 09:22 |
| petete | stranhe | 09:22 |
| josephluo369 | hi? | 11:27 |
| michael__ | hi | 12:30 |
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| Guest55469 | memes | 13:09 |
| fdg | hm | 13:11 |
| nemo | hm? | 13:12 |
| biggie | hi | 13:13 |
| nemo | bye | 13:22 |
| vimmer | Hi, I've been wrestling with this problem and was wondering if someone could help me figure out what is going on. I have downloaded and ./configure 'd vim into a folder in a user's /home/vim directory. Then using sudo I have run checkinstall as well as debian -i {.deb file}. Doing either places the vim binary in /usr/local/bin and it is usable for | 13:46 |
| vimmer | a time. But it seems after shutting down (more than once?) something happens where the binaries are removed from the directory and I now have vim 7.4 on it again. | 13:46 |
| vimmer | I have uninstalled 7.4, purged it, and it still comes back. Which is one thing, but then I don't get why my binary gets deleted from /usr/local/bin | 13:47 |
| nemo | is it an older vim? | 13:47 |
| vimmer | Compiled one is 8 | 13:47 |
| nemo | that you are trying to install? | 13:47 |
| nemo | ok | 13:47 |
| nemo | gonna tentatively suggest #ubuntu instead of #ubuntu-mate where there's a bigger crowd | 13:48 |
| vimmer | Like if it was just that 7.4 was getting installed, I feel like I could modify my path or make an alias so that the /usr/local/bin one is the one that gets used, but I can't do that because something is removing it | 13:48 |
| nemo | well, my guess was the package management was removing it due to version conflicts | 13:48 |
| nemo | so if you really wanted both maybe don't use the .deb | 13:49 |
| nemo | or use version pinning | 13:49 |
| nemo | but... I didn't think that happened automatically for newer to older, just older to newer | 13:49 |
| nemo | so hopefully #ubuntu knows more | 13:49 |
| nemo | I guess if I was in your shoes of wanting both, I wouldn't use package management for my build tho | 13:49 |
| vimmer | I wasn't trying to keep 7.4, I was just using checkinstall because the compile guide suggested it for easy uninstall | 13:50 |
| nemo | well. I guess version pinning might fix this, but could screw up rest of your system tho | 13:50 |
| vimmer | Thank you for trying, though | 13:53 |
| learner_ | ds | 15:06 |
| learner_ | sup lads | 15:06 |
| learner_ | ANSWER ME | 15:06 |
| nemo | yeesh | 15:08 |
| nemo | so glad I didn't answer him | 15:09 |
| ergosomnic | No, you should answer ME!!!!! | 15:36 |
| nemo | heh | 15:40 |
| BubuIIC1 | Hey! I upgraded to Ubuntu Mate 17.10 and now all my windows have an annoying fade-out/fade-in time. | 16:06 |
| BubuIIC1 | Using Marco GPU compositor | 16:06 |
| BubuIIC1 | I didn't find a setting for this anywhere | 16:06 |
| BubuIIC1 | Any idea where I can find further information/the appropriate bug-tracker? | 16:07 |
| BubuIIC1 | "Enable Animations" in MATE Tweak - Windows is already disabled | 16:07 |
| mate|2107 | hi i am blocked in the installation in step 3 | 16:49 |
| mate|2107 | someone can help me please | 16:49 |
| ergosomnic | mate|2107: please tell us what "installation in step 3" is and how are you blocked. | 17:04 |
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| biggie | hi | 22:37 |
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