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mouse_ download  some thing on firefox browser,   its  looks complete ,but when i try to find the file couldnt find it , who can help me ?04:46
naccmouse_: you want #ubuntu i guess, or really #firefox04:50
mouse_@nacc  actually i had download  One file  "GNS3 IOS.zip"   on firefox .  size 271 MB04:52
naccmouse_: still not for this channel04:52
mouse_   but i couldn't find this file in my system04:52
mouse_ok .... sorry04:52
lotuspsychjegood morning to all05:23
lotuspsychje!wayland05:23
ubot5Wayland is a display server protocol that can be used instead of X. Ubuntu 17.10 uses Wayland by default on systems that support it. For more info, see https://wayland.freedesktop.org/05:23
lotuspsychje77mb bionic updates05:23
Bashing-omlotuspsychje: :) WB .05:27
lotuspsychjehey Bashing-om05:28
lordievaderGood morning07:03
lotuspsychjehey lordievader07:03
lordievaderHey lotuspsychje07:04
lordievaderHow are you doing?07:04
lotuspsychjeall fine here lordievader07:04
lotuspsychjerainy outside07:04
Bashing-omg nite all - pick up the fight on the morrow \o07:05
lordievaderIt is dry here, for a change.07:05
ducassegood morning, all07:32
lotuspsychjehey hey ducasse07:33
lordievaderHey ducasse07:33
lordievaderHow are you doing?07:33
ducassemorning, lordievader + lotuspsychje - how are you?07:33
ducasseall good here, thanks :)07:33
lordievaderDoing good here 😁07:33
lotuspsychjeall good, and you ducasse07:34
ducasselooks cold out, and been snowing all night07:37
jinkMorning. ^__^07:38
lotuspsychjehi jink07:41
ducasse\o jink07:41
jinkI need to reinstall my VPS, since it's 16.10 and I can't do-release-upgrade anymore.  I need to somehow backup my config and data (and try to not forget anything).07:42
jinkI should probably go with LTS, next time. :P07:44
ducassecan't you use old-releases to do an in-place upgrade?07:45
jinkI don't know.  Can I?07:52
jinkducasse: URL?  Or do you want to talk me through it? :P07:54
jinkThanks, I think I got it.07:57
jink(I should probably still make a backup, but whatever #yolo)07:57
lordievader!eolupgrade08:04
ubot5End-Of-Life is the time when security updates and support for an Ubuntu release stop, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for more information. Looking to upgrade from an EOL release? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades08:04
lordievaderjink: ^08:04
jinkYeah, that's the one I'm reading now. :D08:04
ducassei would probably still upgrade, but if you don't use any ppas it should be painless08:06
ducassenot upgrade, backup - sorry08:06
jink!ppa08:06
ubot5A Personal Package Archive (PPA) can provide alternate software not normally available in the offical Ubuntu repositories - Looking for a PPA? See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas - WARNING: PPAs are unsupported third-party packages, and you use them at your own risk. See also !addppa and !ppa-purge08:06
jinkkeybase and nodesource.08:07
jinkBut those shouldn't interfere too much.08:07
jinkDo I need to do that kernel step?  I have a kernel, right?  Which one should I pick?08:10
ducasseas long as linux-image-generic is installed you should be fine08:12
jinkIt is. :)08:12
jinkAnd headers, too.08:13
jink"An upgrade from 'yakkety' to 'artful' is not supported with this tool." :/08:13
ducasseok, that will pull in the newer kernel packages, then08:14
ducasseah, you would need to go via zesty, probably08:14
jinkCan you guess my next question? :D08:15
ducassenot sure if you can convince the upgrader to do that, or if you would need to do a manual upgrade08:16
ducassei've gone from 14.10 to 16.04 via all the intermediate steps, and back then the upgrader just did it08:17
jinkI'm not even sure what do-release-upgrade does that makes it work.  Can I just sed -i -e 's/yakkety/zesty/g' sources.list and then upgrade?08:18
ducasseyou _can_ - in essence that is what the upgrader does. remember to comment out your ppas while upgrading and editing them for the newer release later08:22
jinkGreat stuff.  I'll give that a go.08:22
ducassei'm not even sure you need to go via zesty when you do it manually, or if you could jump straight to artful08:23
jink:D08:23
jinkFlip a coin? :D08:23
jinkThrough old-releases, or just regular sources?08:24
ducasseartful is in the regular sources08:26
jinkYes.  So, I'll just s/yakkety/artful/g on the regular sources, and remove the old-releases sources.08:26
ducassethis isn't the recommended way to do it, so backup first :)08:27
jink:P08:27
jinkI saved /etc /home /root /var/www /var/lib/apache2 /var/lib/mysql* /var/mail  Anything else? :D08:29
ducassesounds good to me :)08:30
jink621 upgraded, 67 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.08:34
jinkErrrrrrrrhm, here goes nothing, I guess.08:34
ducasse:)08:35
jinkAnd updating my phone at the same time.08:38
jinkI'll probably need to reboot, right?08:59
jinkSo far, so good.  Now my postfix won't start.09:08
jinkThe rest seems to've worked, though.09:08
jink(Y)09:08
jinkMuch obliged, ducasse.09:08
ducassenp, glad it went ok. any errors from postfix?09:16
jinkNot that I can tell.09:20
jinksystemctl lists it as "active (exited)"  and netstat -plntW doesn't show it listening.09:20
ducasseif it fails to start there should be something in the logs, try 'journalctl -xe'09:23
jinkThat just claims it's up. :/09:23
jinkI'm currently looking at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877992 but I just started reading, so I'm not sure it applies.09:24
ubot5Debian bug 877992 in postfix "postfix: Postfix does not start services after upgrade to stretch 9.2 and reboot" [Important,Open]09:24
jinksystemctl enable postfix@-  seems to've worked.  Not sure what happened there.09:26
ducassegoodie, then :)09:30
jinkI knew that postfix had trouble starting on boot.  Perhaps because it tries to bind before the interfaces are available, but a normal start after boot usually took care of that.09:34
jinkAnyway, thanks a bunch.  Coffee and some actual work. :')09:34
ducassenp, have fun :)09:38
BluesKajHiyas all12:15
ducassemorning, BluesKaj12:15
daftykinsmorning gents \o12:15
* daftykins is back from the vet12:16
BluesKajHey ducasse,daftykins12:16
ducassehi, daftykins - how did the vet visit go?12:16
daftykinsturns out i'm human and have to go to a normal doctor! ;)12:17
daftykinsnah not too bad, got a stronger form of treatment for on her neck like the usual flea prevention stuff - so hopefully that does the trick12:17
daftykinssadly it won't help me with all the regular cleaning i'll still have to do in the meantime!12:18
ducassehehe, that will keep you busy, i'm sure :)12:18
daftykins;_;12:19
daftykinsi'm glad i have mostly wooden or tiled floors rather than carpet, i'm sure it'd be much worse12:20
ducassei'm sure it would. never had this problem, tbh.12:21
daftykinsno, i was an idiot and didn't apply the prevention stuff regularly enough, so here i am - but oh well, lesson learned12:23
daftykinswhen you have no problems it's all too easy to think it's for nothing, but now i know first hand what it's to stop :D12:24
ducassenever used that, guess i'm just lucky :)12:24
daftykinsreally? do you do no regular treatments then?12:25
jinkWe hardly ever treat our cats.12:25
ducassenever have12:26
jinkOut of 4, only 1 goes outside, about every day.12:26
daftykinshttps://www.advocate-spot-on.com/ this is what i tend to have12:26
jinkWe use Stronghold.12:27
ducassehere goes, luna has discovered the birds feeding outside :)12:32
daftykins:D12:32
daftykinshave you folks had this Scarecrow user in today asking about NFS trouble on a 17.10 digitalocean droplet? (VPS)12:41
daftykinspauljw: \o12:41
pauljwhi daftykins :D12:41
pauljwhi everyone12:42
ducassedaftykins: oh, he's on a vps - he didn't mention that12:43
ducassehi pauljw12:43
daftykinsthey never do :)12:43
pauljwhi ducasse12:43
daftykinsnever used NFS so i'm leaving that one alone, presumably someone is actively assisting12:43
ducassei tried, but have no more suggestions. nfs has always just worked™ for me12:44
daftykins12:35 < Scarecrow> We were advised by digital ocean to upgrade due to the recent Spectre / Meltdown12:45
daftykins                   issues that have arisen12:45
daftykinstalk about taking a user wide mailing the wrong way, they said ensure you're on a current kernel, not upgrade release :>12:45
pauljwi was on the forums over at DO the other night just looking around and man, there are a bunch that have a very big learning curve ahead of them.13:05
ducassewe've got this character in #u that first turned up maybe 4-5 weeks back, completely new to linux and asking really newbie questions, and he's already started piping in with advice to people. most of it is dead wrong, of course :)13:09
TJ-That's be me :D13:10
pauljw:)13:11
ducassehehe, not exactly ;)13:11
BluesKaja little knowledge can be a dangerous thing13:18
daftykinsi think that's how i was snared, turned up to ask something more complex - got no answer, started helping with the basics13:19
ducassethis guy still needs help with the basics, though13:20
daftykins:D13:21
BluesKajhi pauljw , what's DO ?13:53
daftykinsdigitalocean13:53
BluesKajok13:53
pauljwhi BluesKaj, sorry, didn't see your question...14:12
BluesKajnp pauljw :-014:12
BluesKajoops :-)14:13
pauljw:)14:13
BluesKajli took a look a t digital ocean a while back, but realized it was more than i needed14:14
pauljwprobably is for me too, but i felt i needed the experience of setting up my own vpn server.  not that i'm any smarter by doing so, just proved i can follow instructions. :D14:15
jinkhttps://www.transip.nl/vps/   https://www.transip.nl/vps/pro/14:16
jink(Y)14:16
pauljw:)14:18
daftykinsjink: more expensive and doesn't do it any better14:20
jinkCan't judge that.  I don't have DO. :D14:21
pauljwbbl...14:39
TJ-I've put together shell script to automate cleaning up out-of-space issues in /boot/ - it first detects and removes the (large) initrd.img files to create space before calling autoremove.  http://iam.tj/projects/ubuntu/apt-autoremove-old-kernels16:22
naccand skype as a snap reelases16:25
nacchttps://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/02/01/skype-now-available-as-a-snap-for-linux-users/16:25
daftykinsany ideas if it's newer than the ancient .deb they offer for download?16:26
kostkonboth are at 8.14.0.1016:27
daftykinsah sounds like they did eventually move on... in fact come to think of it i remember a desktop Linux using friend complaining about the silly emoticons :D16:29
naccdaftykins: i haven't llooked at it all :)16:32
daftykinsis that of a tinfoil hat nature? :)16:40
naccdaftykins: i don't use skype :)16:41
daftykinsyeah i got that part16:42
TJ-nacc believes in more extreme torture... PHP unit tests :p16:43
naccalso that16:43
daftykinsso, this maintenance task that runs to periodically update snaps... what does it do when they're in use?16:51
naccit's a squashfs mount16:53
naccso the old mount is still held open, but unmounted16:53
naccso a new exec will use the new snap, i think16:53
daftykinsbut if it's a messaging utility, such as Skype, that remains open?16:56
naccdaftykins: i'm honestly not sure16:56
daftykinstotally unrelated but i have this client who is pretty scatter-brained, so leaves email they intend to reply to open - usually about 20 all along the taskbar xD this prevents their office suite ever updating since it thinks it's in use16:57
lotuspsychjegood evening to all17:06
daftykins\o17:08
lotuspsychjehi LtWorf17:31
pauljwhey lotuspsychje :)17:35
lotuspsychjehey pauljw17:36
lotuspsychjehow are you today17:36
pauljwgood thanks, you?17:36
lotuspsychjegreat here17:36
pauljw:)17:36
ducasseevening, lotuspsychje - finished at work?17:38
lotuspsychjehey ducasse yeah17:38
lotuspsychjeyou had a good day ducasse17:38
ducasseall good here :)17:39
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immuhttp://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/install-skype-linux-ubuntu18:05
immudaftykins,  ducasse hi all18:05
daftykins\o18:09
daftykinswhat's new?18:09
immuinstalled skype as a snap and its awesome18:11
daftykinsstill not a fan of the concept of snaps myself :)18:11
immusnaps and flatpack are leading the way18:13
immubut i am for snaps18:13
TJ-leading the way into the past, probably18:19
naccdaftykins: tbh, (and imo only), i think snaps/flatpack are the only way for linux on the desktop to exist18:19
naccs/exist/thrive/18:19
daftykinsthen it's doomed :)18:20
naccheh18:20
daftykinsflatpack? IKEA? :D18:20
TJ-the whole bundling app+libs concept, from a security POV, is seriously flawed. We go from a single version of distro-supported library/application with developers/packagers knowledgeable and focused on them, to multiple 'apps' bundling their own different library versions, packaged by app-devs who probably barely managed to package the bundle, let alone be able to patch bugs or vulnerabilities in the18:25
TJ-libraries. That has to be done for each snap, by it's publishers, so now you're reliant on timely patches and updates across multiple bundles, by people who have little security patching experience.18:26
lotuspsychjebut the good news is, we can use latest packages somehow :p18:26
naccTJ-: that's where parts come in18:26
naccTJ-: and you can specify dependencies for packages18:27
nacc*as* packages18:27
naccand it should dtrt across the distros18:27
nacc(that's my understanding)18:27
TJ-but it's still expecting the work to be done and provided outside of the distro ecosystem, in some ways it could be worse, what if App A depends on Part P, there's a vulnerability in P that affects A, but the publisher of P doesn't fix it?18:30
naccthen you shouldn't use that part18:31
naccit's lilke any package dependency18:31
naccTJ-: tbh, upstreams are *way* faster at doig most of this than the distros18:31
TJ-Right, but how does dev of App A know that in 6 months time Part P is going to have a vulnerability?18:31
naccI don't understand?18:32
naccupstreams do CI18:32
naccthe CI buillds the sanp18:32
naccin any case, that was just my $.0218:32
naccif you want to use linux on the desktop, get used to this model18:33
naccif you want to improve the model, contribute18:33
nacc(TJ-: i know you do)18:33
TJ-I gave up on Linux desktop years ago; too many 'designers' and 'devs' and not enough 'engineers'.18:35
naccheh18:36
naccthere's also $0 i it18:36
nacc*in it18:36
TJ-Right, part of the reason desktop struggles is the lack of stability of features - ripping features out during major-version rewrites (e.g. KDE, Gnome) instead of providing a continuous upgrade path. Users just about get used to finding their way around and !bam! it all changes from under them18:42
TJ-The only thing I use GUI for nowadays is Firefox18:42
lotuspsychjeTJ-: LTS is trying to get the users some sort of stable feeling no?18:49
lotuspsychjeTJ-: i installed xenial on like 50 machines18:49
lotuspsychjeall working like a charm18:49
lotuspsychjei understand your point, but linux is still a good thing right18:52
TJ-lotuspsychje: consider 16.04 > 18.04 ... Unity > Gnome ... despite the massaging there are 'gotchya' differences with hot-keys, discovery, behavior, that we've seen reported for 17.10. Similar to the older KDE4 > 5 transition, and the Gnome 3 > 4 transition. User's have spent years on LTS, become familiar, and then suddenly things aren't working the way they expect18:52
TJ-Linux is fine, the command-line interface has been stable forever :) It's the GUIs that are stuck in a loop or reinventing themselves18:53
lotuspsychjeTJ-: perhaps it feels that way, now were at a crosspoint wayland?18:55
lotuspsychjemany stuff are happening, also mobile world18:55
nacclinux != ubuntu  or any distro, really, to be clear18:55
lotuspsychjealso true nacc18:56
nacci think, all the linux-based desktop distros have been circling for a while18:56
naccthey are finally converginng cross-distro18:56
naccbecause they are all failing18:56
lotuspsychjefedora struggling with wayland aswell18:56
TJ-lotuspsychje: I'm not even considering Wayland, that's like pulling the rug out from under the desktop environments actually18:56
naccyeah it's orthogonal18:57
lotuspsychjeyouve read kde going mobile18:58
lotuspsychjeall sorts of stuff changing18:58
naccyeah, keep in mind, what i mentioned above18:59
lotuspsychjeand i still believe thats a good thing18:59
naccis mobille didn't exist18:59
naccwhen most desktop arches were designed18:59
naccso all distros are realizing they need to work everywhere (in theory)18:59
nacci feel like it's easy to forget that smart phones have nont always existed19:00
lotuspsychjeyeah19:01
TJ-The problem has been, though, that most projects thought they could 'simplify' with one-size-fits-all, but focused on the small/low-resolution displays at the expense of large/high-resolution + multiple displays19:01
naccabsolutely19:02
naccwell, X itself was a problem19:03
nacc*is* a problem19:03
naccyou can't do aythinng remotely modern with X any more19:03
naccand no one would design an graphics system that way :)19:03
lotuspsychjeTJ-: didnt you say once one flavor was perfect for your 6 screens?19:05
TJ-The fast-path on a local client+server is OK, and could have been optimized or an alternate, process-elected, direct path used. And if remote is needed it's there waiting for ssh -X/-Y and so on19:05
TJ-lotuspsychje: yes, xubuntu or lubuntu19:06
lotuspsychjeright19:07
immui am back19:10
lotuspsychjetv time ; )19:38
immui just watched star trek discovery19:46
daftykinswhat did you think? are you familiar with all the old series?19:58
oerhekshggdh, i find it troublesome installing a 2nd De, and removing one ..20:04
daftykinsalways gonna be junk left behind / added :>20:04
immuyou aksing me daftykins ?20:05
immui have watches earlier series20:05
immuwatched20:05
immuand i am following this one:)20:05
oerheksDE as a snap, i wish that fixes such issue20:05
hggdhoerheks: I find it potentially destructive...20:06
oerheksmaybe !purekde factoid is still valid20:06
hggdhbut to each their own. If the OP wants to try... ,shrug/> all we can do is warn20:06
immuresistance is futile20:33
Bashing-omo/ Better late than not at all :)21:41
oerhekshi Bashing-om, you are not late at all21:55
Bashing-omoerheks: /me now has to wonder what I have missed .21:57
TJ-Hiya Bashing-om :)21:59
TJ-You've missed a /really/ weird issue with elichai2 where his system had replaced /bin/dash and many coreutils/cpio binaries with busybox symlinks, breaking almost everything we tried to do to fix the system.22:00
daftykinsO_O22:01
daftykinshow had busybox gotten on there o022:02
daftykinsthat also sounds like it would be a user hiding behind a translator ;D22:02
Bashing-omTJ-: Ouch - I hate when I miss a goody - maybe good nuff to read the logs :)22:02
TJ-daftykins: no problem it being installed, but I've not figured out what re-wrote the symlinks/tools22:02
daftykins:>22:03
TJ-he did use boot-repair but I cannot find any evidence it does that!22:04
TJ-As I understand it, this started out with (simply) wanting to switch a 16.04 install from BIOS to EFI boot with encrypted rootfs. Used boot-repair apparently to try to do it, then after that didn't work, tried to re-install 16.04 over the top using the LiveISO installer. That's probably how busybox took over actually, then ended up trying to fix it via a chroot where most scripts that shebanged22:06
TJ-/bin/sh failed22:06
Bashing-omOne thing about raising a head in support, never can tell where it is going to lead - nor where it will end :)22:08
TJ-yeah, what looks like a 2 minute job turns into a marathon22:09
daftykinswell they found the right helper alright ;)22:10
Bashing-omTJ-: But them the ones ya get brownie points for :P22:11
TJ-I'd prefer just the chocolate brownies :D22:11
daftykinsdon't tell me you added brownies :O22:12
daftykins!cookie | TJ-22:12
ubot5TJ-: Wow! You're such a great helper, you deserve a cookie!22:12
TJ-only one!? pfft :p22:12
daftykinswell we wouldn't want you getting too comfy :D22:13
Bashing-omNow that do sound tempting .. been a while for the chocolate brownies :(22:13
daftykinsput in a request to the management, Bashing-om ;)22:13
Bashing-omdaftykins: once there was a sanyd -- would make sure CCCs were in the irc pantry .22:14
Bashing-omdaftykins: Not a bad thought as an incentitive for support .. A good solve gets a dozen CCCs mailed from "management" :P22:17
daftykins:D22:17
TJ-CCCs? Caonical Cookie Cutters ?22:19
Bashing-omTJ-: Sure that applies .. - context ! - Chocolate Chip Cookies- FTW .22:21
TJ-oooooohhhh! duh22:21
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