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