[08:10] Morning all [08:11] To answer the question, we still have 100's of dot matrix's still in use unfortunately, customers still wanting to buy them [10:10] morning boys and girls. [12:19] morning [12:19] oh, afternood no [12:19] now* [12:32] :) [13:05] Seems like Radio 4 news can use "shithole" in the daytime when quoting the US president [13:05] * Laney goes faint and gets the smelling salts out [13:05] think of the children [13:05] lol [13:05] Laney: you crack me up [13:07] about time someone appreciated me [13:07] hey czajkowski! [13:09] Laney: ello ello [13:09] Laney: coming to fosdem ? [13:09] oui [13:10] grey and grim brussels here we come~~~~ [13:10] should go there in the summer one year [13:11] you'll just have to keep cheerful with chocolate and stroopwafel [13:11] oh there will be waffle [13:12] but warm gooey stroopwafel over tea or coffee.... [13:30] much waffles [13:30] and frites [13:33] mayoooooooooooo [13:34] I always get super messy from the food cart food [13:34] face / hands covered in chocolate sauce [13:34] oh fosdem [14:49] I've not been to Brussels in years, but I do miss the waffles! [19:44] hi all, I have an initramfs error, it says /dev/sda2 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY [19:45] fsck exited with status code 4 [19:45] it's the black screen of death! [19:47] ruh roh [19:47] hubby's gonna get it! [19:47] what are you booted into right now? [19:55] lol i am on the laptop [19:55] but on the failed machine, is it still sat at a shell? [19:55] yes [19:57] probably best to boot a live session from a USB flash drive if you have one handy [20:00] okay, i am doing that [20:04] i'm gonna assume sdb is a mechanical drive and sda the SSD [20:05] all loaded, fired up a terminal [20:05] is it online? [20:05] yes [20:05] internet working [20:05] sudo apt update && sudo apt install smartmontools pastebinit [20:05] sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb | pastebinit [20:11] http://paste.ubuntu.com/26373796/ [20:11] daftykins that's my desktop [20:11] hrmm does it only have the SSD - and so sdb is an external disk? [20:12] sudo parted -l | pastebinit [20:12] yes [20:12] only have a SSD [20:13] oh i'm an idiot, i misread your first line [20:13] sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | pastebinit === kk_ is now known as kkk === kkk is now known as kkous [20:16] Failed to contact the server: [Errno socket error] The read operation timed out [20:16] that's what I got [20:16] hmm seems like it lost the connection already === ubuntu-mate is now known as safiyyah-desktop [20:16] give it another go [20:17] http://paste.ubuntu.com/26373820/ [20:17] or... "sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | nc termbin.com 9999" [20:18] 320 unexpected power loss count xD that's a lot [20:18] http://termbin.com/bj61 [20:18] 4 reallocated sectors, nasty [20:19] sudo fsck -y /dev/sda2 [20:20] all the things which say fix? had yes as an answer [20:21] time to reboot? [20:21] depends what the output said toward the end, did it say it repaired things successfully? [20:22] it said [20:22] file system modified [20:23] heh, well that's worth a try then - sure, give a normal boot a try [20:23] are you folks still repeatedly hard powering it off when it won't shutdown normally? [20:23] https://paste.ubuntu.com/26373846/ [20:23] no they stopped hard powering, it is crushing when watching streaming video [20:24] crashing? oh dear [20:24] yes mid vid... just freezes [20:24] did you check pastebin? [20:24] is it time to reboot? [20:24] yeah [20:25] not a very healthy looking situation, but give it a reboot and see what it does [20:26] it has rebooted normally [20:27] what needs to be done to help revive the thing? [20:28] got no idea what's causing the issues [20:28] it also refused to update... i forgot to mention that the update says it has a serious problem [20:28] i think that SSD is a bit unhappy and could probably do with some time spent trying to provoke it, too [20:28] ah, messy [20:29] lol [20:29] shall I just leave it? [20:30] at least we are back on [20:30] for now, but it sounds like it needs some real attention at some point [20:30] you might want to back up any data it might have on it [20:31] you know the processor is really really old [20:32] i forget which [20:32] grep -i model /proc/cpuinfo [20:32] shall I run the lspci? [20:32] that won't show the CPU [20:35] https://paste.ubuntu.com/26373899/ [20:35] i am pretty sure it is about 10 years old [20:35] we have updated the motherboard and SSD over the years but that is an ancient piece [20:36] i will agree it is a museum piece (like you said last time) [20:36] :D [20:36] yep time to retire that one [20:36] i give away better than that these days [20:37] and with zero chance of a bug fix from intel at that age... [20:37] lol [20:37] okay so will buy a new processor sometime within the next month and put it in [20:37] no no [20:38] dump the whole box [20:38] seriously???? [20:38] anything that'll go in the same motherboard will be equally a waste of time [20:38] ^this [20:38] you can get something so many generations newer for <£300 [20:38] okidok [20:38] www.dell.co.uk/outlet [20:38] a rasp pi3 might run rings around it... :-) [20:38] this was a self build [20:39] browse there regularly and you'll find a bargain machine for cheap [20:39] argos have a new catalog out so will be shoving a few bits out cheap too... worth a look [20:39] zmoylan-pi, what is a rasp pi3? [20:40] what about another self build? don't hang your heads!!! [20:40] waste of time [20:40] a small sbc (single board computer) https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/ [20:41] lift the curse of your desktop by starting anew :D [20:41] buy a whole new curse instead... :-) [20:41] you could keep the SSD buuuuut it's got some problems that might not be fixable [20:41] zmoylan-pi: a faster curse ;) [20:41] there was a little system in currys the little compact desktops for £180 [20:42] small is typically bad [20:42] small is slow... usually [20:42] okay we will start having a look around [20:43] and list the curse! [20:44] okay got to feed this baby [20:44] thank you so much [20:44] goodnight! [20:44] o/ [23:18] boo [23:30] * m0nkey_ poops his pants [23:30] * diddledan been currying with popey [23:31] apparently he really is a real boy [23:31] no strings or anything! [23:33] might be a glove puppet...