[00:00] qwebirc56993: if you have an android phone: https://github.com/Streetwalrus/android_usb_msd === sinner is now known as Guest9121 [00:04] What exactly am I to do with the link you sent me? I'm confused. [00:05] qwebirc56993: the idea there is that you download the ubuntu installer to your android smartphone, install this application on your phone (install the free software f-droid app repository first), use it to mount the ubuntu iso file you downloaded, connect your phone to your computer and and boot your computer off it (with your android phone acting as a usb stick). [00:05] this way you can do a clean ubuntu installation you can trust. [00:07] Oh cool! Is it self explanatory? [00:07] qwebirc56993: the app should be. the whole thing maybe not. [00:08] Ok let me try [00:09] qwebirc56993: if you prefer to try to bring this existing non-default (ubuntu + wicd) installation whoever made with whatever (malicious?) configurations online, you can try this instead (but i would not recommend it unless you know you can trust it): http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man5/wicd-wireless-settings.conf.5.html [00:10] Yeah I'm attempting to download USB mountr now [00:11] Will i need root access? [00:12] and keep in mind, for the future, that you should always have a way to boot from something similar (to your hard disk installation) and unbreakable (such as read-only media). i.e. once your usb stick arrives, be sure to keep the ubuntu 18.04.2 installer stored on it as a bootable installer. [00:14] i don't think usb mountr needs root on android, but that's far off topic here. [00:14] Yeah, sorry about that. Lemme see what I can do. [00:15] Yeah I'm just going to wait on the USB drive. [00:15] Thanks for your help guys. [00:15] there's #fdroid and #android here also [00:18] Can someone please clarify the difference between ubuntu minimal install CD with xfce chosen as gui vs xubuntu? [00:19] aside from the selection of pre-installed packages [00:19] minimal22: The preinstalled packages is the only difference [00:19] so ubuntu minimal install is esentially ubuntu without a gui, and I can choose to install xfce as the sole DE? [00:20] the former installation wont have the xubuntu-desktop package installed, i think [00:20] "mini" in "mini.iso" refers to the size of the iso file. [00:21] minimal22: The mini.iso is meant to allow for the installation of Ubuntu using the online package repositories instead of having to download the entire ISO image. All Ubuntu flavors are provided as an option. [00:22] pragmaticenigma: with the minimal install of ubuntu, are you prompted to choose a DE during the installation process? [00:22] you would see the whole list [00:23] minimal22: Yes, You will see all official flavors of Ubuntu as options [00:23] minimal22: No, with a minimal install, all you get is a booting kernel amd a wired internet connection, What else is installed is at your option. [00:24] pragmaticenigma, so mini.iso would require an internet connection? [00:24] minimal22: that is correct [00:24] ok [00:24] is it a gui install guide? [00:24] https://ahelpme.com/public/media/tutorials/netinstall-Ubuntu16.04-step-35--68d3998b8e.png example [00:25] minimal22: It is a command line style gui. You are presented with a series of prompt screens to make choices, add the initial user and a few other settings [00:25] basically I just want a minimal base system with xfce. So I am thinking the mini.iso is a better way to acheive that than xubuntu or xubuntu "core" [00:26] minimal22: consider then ^ : http://xubuntu.org/news/introducing-xubuntu-core/ . [00:26] xubuntu gives xfce .. [00:26] oerheks: thanks [00:27] oerheks, xubuntu applies their own theming to xfce, I prefer the more 'retro' default xfce [00:28] of course I can change those things after install, but would be easiest to install regular xfce I think [00:30] if I'm looking for stability/security, is the LTS release going to be more beneficial, compared to 18.04 [00:30] 18.04 is a LTS [00:31] I meant 18.10 my bad [00:31] stability, certainly. [00:31] minimal22: If you're looking for stability and longer term support, I'd recommend 18.04 LTS [00:32] alright, thanks [00:36] i seem to be unable to install xubuntu over lubuntu. I've created a usb drive with the installer, place it in the lubuntu machine's usb port, and restart, but it doesn't boot into xubuntu. are there common mistakes people make when doing this? [00:37] i want to completely replace the lubuntu os with xubuntu. [00:37] Anyone familiar with packaging for ppa? [00:38] ninebits, perhaps #xubuntu may be more helpful [00:38] ok [00:38] ty [00:39] pnwise, can you be less vague? [00:40] I wonder how to pass arguments to cofigure for building/compiling package [00:42] pnwise: A ppa is not used for compilation of software. It is a method for developers to provide their software to other users, with out requiring inclusion in Ubuntu's own repositories. Usage of PPAs is considered "At your own risk" [00:43] https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA pretty complete howto [00:44] Yeah, but packages get compiled om the servers, they are not pushed as binaries [00:44] I know that page [00:44] Color emojis. 16.04 LTS. How do? [00:44] by default it creates binaries for x86 andAMD64 ....you may also request builds for arm64, armhf, and/or ppc64el [00:45] Seems I need to "override_dh_auto_configure" in debian/rules [00:47] pnwise: Are you working with Ubuntu or Debian? [00:48] ubuntu [00:51] Am I SOL for color emojis on 16.04 LTS? [00:52] I've done it on Arch with the fonts-noto-color-emoji package, but I see it offered for 18.04 LTS and not 16.04 [00:54] pls help ;-; [00:55] nevodka, try installing fonts-symbola [00:55] ze internet says there is no color for this one [00:56] can you upgrade to 18.04? [00:57] This is my work environment and I cannot [00:57] :/ [00:57] I suppose I can live without color emojis, but what kind of life will that be [00:59] I dunno man, probably very hard [00:59] and pointless [00:59] you might as well just kill yourself without the emojis [01:00] Or if you are brave enough watch the movie [01:00] I'll just coerce my boss into upgrading everyone to 18.04 and nobody will find out it was so I could have color emojis [01:00] nevodka, I don't see any dependencies to create issue, why not wget & dpkg -i? https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/fonts-noto-color-emoji [01:04] This breaks my emojis ;-; [01:05] nevodka: you can install fonts in a user local directory. that's your best option. === deathonater is now known as Smeef [01:19] nevodka: ryuo: Full color emoji's are not a limitation or need of a specific font. The software used to render the font's must be able to interpret the color codes within the font definition. That piece of software is not available in 16.04. It was added in 18.04 [01:20] f [01:22] That is why Full color emoji's was listed in the release notes as a new feature of 18.04 [01:22] back to plan b [01:22] convince entire dev team we need to switch to 18.04 [01:24] nevodka: best of luck [01:34] I have another problem, c'est la vie. Starting google-chrome-stable in terminal just hangs, no stdout/stderr, the processes all start, except no X window appears. [01:35] Purging and reinstalling does nothing. Deleting ~/.config/google-chrome fixes it, until I close chrome.. same issue upon reopening. [01:35] I recall having this issue a few years ago but can't recall the solution. Something to do with locks or caches maybe. ( : _ :) [01:37] that is a serious issue .. why start chrome browser from tty? [01:38] Force of habit? [01:38] It's just aliased to google-chrome-stable &> /dev/null & [01:38] (Obviously I am running it without redirecting stdout/stderr while I am trying to debug) [01:40] nevodka: does it work opening it from an icon/menu? [01:40] Nope. [01:41] maybe there is an update waiting? [01:41] Nothing in journalctl either. [01:42] Followed the official install instructions. https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome?dist=stable [01:42] nevodka: journalctl is for services. Not really a desktop application [01:42] Oh, right. [01:43] nevodka: are you signed into your google account in chrome? [01:43] It may be a bad extension running, I'll try to isolate them. [01:43] Yeah. [01:43] that's what I'm thinking [01:43] bad extensions will get you every time [01:43] nevodka: see if it runs for a while without being signed in [01:44] nevodka: if so, then it will be a game of trial and error tracking down which addon is causing it [01:44] pkill google-chrome [01:44] Yep.. [01:47] Oof.. disabling all extensions and it didn't help. Turned off sync entirely and didn't log in and it works. [01:48] extentions, plugins, themes [01:49] might just want to purge all chrome settings [02:00] aaaaaaaaaa [02:01] I wiped everything from my chrome sync [02:01] It seems just being logged in prevents chrome from opening again [02:01] :| [02:01] there's got to be something particular about your account [02:03] May I ask for assistance? I did a software update using the updater and now my encrypted drive won't recognize my password. [02:04] If I leave chrome sync off it works [02:04] I'm a noob, but was able to get my system started again using the usb however I still can't access my encrypted files. [02:05] Despite wiping everything in the google chrome section under sync [02:20] qwebirc37662: is this ecryptfs ('encrypt home dire4ctory' option on installer) file system encryption of dmcrypt-luks full disk encryption ('encrypt disks' option on installer)? [02:20] if it's the latter and you'll still be around in 45 minutes (and nobody helped you until then), i'll help. [02:22] oh, Lordy. I have no idea. I'm a real noob. It's a laptop with 18.04 installed. I can see the encrypted drive [02:23] OH! Yes, I believe so, actually. I encrypted it when I upgraded to 18.04 from 16.04. [02:29] qwebirc37662, how did you upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04? via `do-release-upgrade` (which I cannot see changing your system from unencrypted to encrypted) or a re-install from media? [02:31] I think I reinstalled it. [02:35] I had been able to get into everything up and including Friday night. I did a software update using the updater and on Saturday morning my passphrase wasn't recognized. [02:36] I tried searching the problem out on the forums and some mentioned going back to an earlier kernel, so I did try that but I still got sent into the busy box. [02:37] I don't know how to change kernels manually. [02:37] I used the options screen. [02:37] (does that make sense?) [02:37] I'm really new with linux. [02:37] qwebirc37662, sorry I can't help; not good enough at encryption; i've had an issue with prior do-release-upgrade where a package was needed but it's not your issue. (select another kernel at grub screen when it boots) [02:38] thank you. [02:50] help needed: I just edited a script in /etc/init.d/, but when I restart the service it keeps reverting to the old version. How do I update systemd to use the modified script? [02:51] none of the stuff I found on google works [02:52] klab, what script did you amend, and what release of Ubuntu? [02:53] ubuntu 18.04, it's a little embarassing, but I changed the user field in transmission-daemon [02:55] klab, have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TransmissionHowTo - it refers to conditions which will cause scripts to be overwritten, and places to amend .. (I don't know it sorry) [02:56] qwebirc37662: i'm back, reading what you wrote now. [02:57] Question: Ubuntu Cinnamon, high rez screen -> really tiny icons / menu. Figured how to increase text size, but everything else still tiny. Please advise. [02:57] hi, does "guioptions: s" ring any bell? [02:57] editting the transmission-deamon.service file .. https://askubuntu.com/a/861516 [03:00] OerHeks: you were sent by Zeus himself, thank you kind sir. I guess /etc/init.d is obsolete [03:00] did I explain it so it's understandable? I'm guessing at some of. the stuff I'm doing (while I'm doing it!) [03:03] qwebirc37662: yes, you did fine. to switch between installed kernel (you can have several versions installed side by side), you need to bring up the grub menu before you boot, so after powering on / rebooting. [03:03] qwebirc37662: you need to either hold down the shift key or repeatedly press the escape key at this time to bring it up. [03:04] qwebirc37662: once there, you select "Advanced options for Ubuntu", and then you can see the full list of kernels installed and select which one to boot. [03:04] ok, hold on a moment, please. I've got to change my bios back to boot from the computer rather than the usb. [03:04] grub main menu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=grub2_default_menu.png [03:05] I only have 4 listed. a kernel 46, a kernel 46-generic, kernel 45, and a kernel 45-generic. [03:05] all of them should say "generic", but just every secind should say "recovery mode" [03:05] I figured 46 was the most recent, so I tried 45-generic (I read to do that in one of the forums, I think.) [03:08] ah. Ok, I have 4.15.0-46-generic (same thing w/ (recovery mode) and 4.15.0-45-generic (and again, the same w/ recovery mode). [03:08] qwebirc37662: in case you end up in busybox again, please type: echo $REASON [03:08] ....and tell us what the output is, if any. [03:09] shall I try recovery mode for the 45? [03:09] what happened when you tried 45 non-recovery? [03:10] or did you not try it, yet? [03:10] one thing I do notice is that when I get the errors it wants to unlock sdb5_crypt. I think the usb showed the file as sda5_crypt. [03:11] I tried it. I'm on a black screen w/ really BIG font. [03:11] I get error messages telling me: "failed to connect to lvmetad. falling back to device scanning. [03:12] this message is normal [03:12] volume group "ubuntu-vg" not found. [03:12] cannot process volume group ubuntu-vg [03:12] also what you pointed out you noticed above can be normal, disk identifiers can change depending on how you boot (off internal disk or usb) [03:13] then it asks me to unlock the computer. and when I put my pass word in I'm told no key available with this passphrase. [03:13] is the volume group message before or after password prompt, or is there noe? [03:13] ok [03:14] hmm this really suggests it's the wrong passphrase, or the keyboard is configured differently than it used to be. [03:15] it went to "sleep for 60 seconds" says done. begin running /scripts/local-premount... Waiting for suspend/resume device. and is again requesting my passphrase. [03:15] qwebirc37662: you did not receive this disk unlocking prompt when booting into the newer kernel, or did you? [03:15] I did. [03:16] then it would send me to (I may not be remembering this right but...)(imitrams)? [03:16] this one hasn't done that yet. [03:16] were you able to unlock the storage from the live usb? [03:17] no. [03:17] ;( [03:17] what was the issue then? [03:18] I'm afraid I don't remember the exact response. It asked for my password, I entered it and it said something along the lines operation was cancelled. hold on. I"ll do it again. [03:19] ok [03:21] silly question while I'm waiting on this machine. what is flip_done timed out? [03:22] i'm not familiar with this message [03:22] oh. I have a lot of them. lol. [03:23] but it's a really old laptop. I upgraded the hard drive to a terabyte but that didn't seem to help much. [03:23] it's just a bit slow. [03:24] apparently "flip_done timed out" was a bug on intel graphics processing units, but it was assumed to have since been fixed from what i can find. [03:25] Hi [03:26] oh! I remember that. that was a couple of years ago. [03:26] I want to make a Windows USB bootable thumbdrive, how can I do that? [03:26] I tried diskmanager thing several times it failed again and again and again [03:27] qwebirc37662: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398424 suggests it may be possible to work around the flip_done issue by setting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBootParameters describes how) the following kernel parameter: video=SVIDEO-1:d [03:27] sorry for the delay. [03:27] bugzilla.redhat.com bug 1398424 in kernel "*ERROR* [CRTC:26:pipe A] flip_done timed out" [Medium,Closed: nextrelease] [03:28] ok, It's back. [03:29] Arash_: there is a utility called "woeusb" which should be able to create a windows installation usb from an ISO file, on ubuntu. [03:29] when I enter the passphrase, it says: unable to access location. error unlocking /dev/sda5: failed to activate device: operation not permitted. [03:29] That gives me an irrelevant error [03:29] Even though the USB stick is NTFS is says I cannot install on Fat32 :/ [03:33] I've checked the keyboard layout and it's US English. [03:34] i got disconnected off the chat, this is the last i read / wrote: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/X9nJr9BCrx/ [03:35] qwebirc37662: i assume the reason you can't boot normally is actually that you have - in addition to the actual encrypted disk - an encrypted swap partition and the system is trying to decrypt it, but it was encrypted with a random key which you cannot know. [03:35] oh! but it's not exactly like my keyboard. the keyboard layout shown has a number pad which mine doesn't. [03:36] oh, dear. [03:36] The file manager in Ubuntu 18.04 keeps prompting me to enter a user name and password for an NAS device. I've been repeatedly clicking the 'remember' option. This hasn't worked. Is there a way to get it to remember? [03:37] oh. sorry, yes, I have internet access [03:38] I've got the terminal up. [03:38] Ahh damn [03:38] Nothing works [03:45] I see why now [03:45] Ubuntu is installed on Fat32 so the file won't read into the application [03:45] An external harddrive for iso file does the job [03:47] qwebirc37662: looks like my isp is doing maintenance tonight, i missed anything since you said "oh dear" [03:47] Error: File "/media/woeusb_source_1553572061_6510/sources/install.wim" in source image has exceed the FAT32 Filesystem 4GiB Single File Size Limitation and cannot be installed. You must specify a different --target-filesystem. Refer: https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB/wiki/Limitations#fat32-filesystem-4gib-single-file-size-limitation for more info. Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1553572061_6510"... [03:48] oh, I do have internet access and had my terminal up but the computer froze up on me. I'm rebooting it now. [03:48] ok [03:49] you shouldn't have said anything about your isp. I thought you were out saving the internet. :) [03:49] Arash_: you should first delete the partition table on the usb stick (thus also deleting any data stored on it), and point woeusb against the raw device with --target-filesystem ntfs [03:50] ok wait [03:50] qwebirc37662: i switched to another one now, should be more stable [03:56] alright, the computer is once again connected to the internet and my terminal is up. [03:56] sorry about the long pauses. [03:57] qwebirc37662: no problem, but does it always take so long to boot off usb? type this: sudo lsblk | nc termbin.com 9999 [03:57] post the url then [03:58] https://termbin.com/iifr [03:58] qwebirc37662: so this is a 4 GB USB stick? [03:58] might be 8 gb. [03:59] Thanks its now installing via terminal [03:59] Thank you so much [03:59] I know it doesn't have a lot of space. I have a few smaller ones and then one that is 356, I think. [03:59] qwebirc37662: i assume sda5 is your encrypted partition, sda1 is /boot [03:59] yes. [04:00] qwebirc37662: the usb size is frine, just trying to tell things apart [04:00] are you looking at stuff? [04:00] cool. [04:00] qwebirc37662: sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda5_crypt [04:01] and tell me what it says [04:02] asks for the pass phrase. I enter it and it tells me no key availabl [04:02] with this pass phrase. [04:02] then prompts me to reenter it. [04:02] try a few times [04:03] this is the passphrase for the encryption and not the second (user) password, correct? [04:03] try typing the same passphrase in another terminal window and see if it comes out as expected [04:03] correct [04:03] yes, it's the one I use. [04:04] try entering it again [04:04] ok, it continued telling me no key and has now brought me back to ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ [04:05] which ubuntu version is this installer usb exactly, do you know? [04:05] 18.04.2 [04:05] does "lsb_release -ds" confirm this? [04:05] I just loaded it this evening. [04:06] Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS [04:06] and your on-disk installation is 18.04, too, right? [04:06] yes. 18.04 LTS [04:07] not sure which version of it though. [04:08] but this all happened when I used the software updater on Friday night, so I'm assuming it updated to the most current version.? [04:09] qwebirc37662: yes, it must have. but i think that something else must have happened. are you sure you told me everything? you didn't play with any partitioing tools lately? [04:11] no. I don't understand portioning, so I wouldn't touch that. [04:11] qwebirc37662: okay, what's the output of: sudo file -s /dev/sda5 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999 [04:11] I'm willing to take some chances but only ones I think are safe (or that I have some understanding of.) [04:12] cool, you seem entirely reasonable. there are other people who come here for support and would try not to mention such 'unimportant' things, so i had to ask. [04:12] https://termbin.com/y2bb [04:13] well, before I do anything really silly (which I have!), I always do a back up. haven't done one now in about 2 months and it was on my mind but hey, who has time for that? [04:13] ugh. [04:14] I should have done it (and in the future will) before any more updating! [04:14] qwebirc37662: do you have an english language keyboard there? [04:14] yes. English (US) [04:14] you may have to restore thisold backup, i'm out of ideas now. [04:14] the only difference between what they show me and mine is a number pad on the side. [04:15] I'll lose some of my files, won't I? [04:15] thats because its a laptop [04:15] oh, dear. [04:15] let me review some of what you wrote earlier quickly. [04:16] I sort of figured. the laptop keyboard does have a number pad on the keys but I've never used it. ok. [04:18] qwebirc37662: right, that's just to save some space. [04:19] qwebirc37662: i have one more idea of what we can look at: [04:19] !mart | qwebirc37662 [04:19] !smart | qwebirc37662 [04:19] qwebirc37662: smart is Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, a monitoring system for hard drives. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools [04:20] can you please run: sudo apt-get -qqy update; sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends smartmontools [04:21] then, unless there were errors above: sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999 [04:21] oh, dear. I clicked on the link and typed in the first sudo thing. told yes, install. should I have not done that? [04:22] this is to ensure the disk is still physically in good condition [04:22] yes, you should have installe,d that was fine [04:22] you're only changing the live usb overlay, which is all in ram, anyways, though === energizer_ is now known as energizer [04:23] oh. I just killed that. I'll be a bit more patient. should I type in sudo apt-get -qqy (etc) first? [04:24] you can copy and paste this as is: sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends smartmontools [04:24] oh, I'm using 2 different computers. mine and my godson's apple laptop. [04:25] you can spawn another webbrowser and connect here on the computer we are inspecting then. [04:25] https://webchat.freenode.net [04:26] ah, you just way above my head. :) [04:26] spawn? [04:27] i'm suggesting that you start a web browser on the computer you are trying to fix, and currently running the live usb system on. [04:27] then on this web browser, type https://webchat.freenode.net into the address bar and press enter [04:28] then make it join the "#ubuntu" (no quotation marks) channel using a unique nickname of your choice. [04:28] this way you will be able to copy commands form the chat directly to the temrinal [04:28] Hi, Tom. This is qwebirc37662. [04:28] hi [04:28] I'm on the "broken" laptop now. [04:29] ok [04:29] you can copy and paste this as is: sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends smartmontools [04:29] then, unless there were errors above: sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999 [04:30] no, everything appearred to go in well. [04:30] let me try the next one. [04:30] keep in mind you can also copy and paste the url form the temrinal to the chat now [04:31] https://termbin.com/u3z4 [04:31] a bit less typing [04:31] I did. [04:31] hmm something didnt work on the first command line. can you look for errors again? [04:34] I'm getting pretty much the same problem. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 189 not updated. [04:35] Lorraine_: okay, that's not a problem. [04:35] Lorraine_: let's do it again, and capture the output: [04:36] oh! It's saying: Ign:1 cdrom:// etc. is it trying to update the usb? [04:36] Lorraine_: that's oky, too [04:37] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -y update Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20190210) bionic InRelease Hit:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20190210) bionic Release Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-update [04:38] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 189 not upgraded. [04:38] Lorraine_: sudo /bin/true && sudo apt-get -y update &> /tmp/apt1 && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends smartmontools &> /tmp/apt2; nc termbin.com 9999 < /tmp/apt{1,2} [04:40] mmm... I just cut and pasted that whole thing; should I have broken it somewhere? the response is: [04:40] ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /bin/true && sudo apt-get -y update &> /tmp/apt1 && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends smartmontools &> /tmp/apt2; nc termbin.com 9999 < /tmp/apt{1,2} bash: /tmp/apt{1,2}: ambiguous redirect [04:40]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /bin/true && sudo apt-get -y update &> /tmp/apt1 && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends smartmontools &> /tmp/apt2; nc termbin.com 9999 < /tmp/apt{1,2} bash: /tmp/apt{1,2}: ambiguous redirect

[04:40] Lorraine_: my bad. please run this now: cat /tmp/apt{1,2} | nc termbin.com 9999 [04:40] oops. nm. [04:41] https://termbin.com/0xfw [04:41] !pastebin | and for the future, Lorraine_, please [04:41] and for the future, Lorraine_, please: 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. [04:42] my apologies. [04:42] okay this looks good, now the second command again: sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999 [04:42] https://termbin.com/gw1y [04:46] so according to this, your laptop hard disk, a "HGST Travelstar 7K1000", has been running for a total of 4698 hours, and has seen 993 reboots. it's now running at 29 °C, which is fine. and it doesn't look like it's dying anytime soon. [04:46] Lorraine_: ^ [04:46] i suspected disk corruption might be a reason why your decryption passphrase is not accepted. [04:46] but this really brings us to the point where i have no ideas left [04:46] I replaced the hard disk (and fan) this past summer. [04:47] Hello all, I've integrated Google Breakpad with my Qt application to analyse crash. I've configured and the dump file is created and the crash symbols are exported to a txt file. I would like to know how to use this text file to analyse the crash. Any help is highly appreciated. [04:47] well, I do appreciate your help. Thank you so much for your time and patience with me. [04:47] so, I lose a few files. I'll have a clean computer with a new install. [04:48] thank you so much. [04:48] Lorraine_: you're welcome, i'm just sorry i have no idea how to help you now. :-/ maybe ask again later, see if someone else has another idea. [04:49] I may try that again tomorrow. It's late and I need to get some sleep now. have a good evening. [04:50] Lorraine_: the relevant facts we know are that when booting normally from hdd you first get the disk decryption prompt, where you enter your passphrase, and the systemresponds that no such passphrase is known, then the system says it will sleep for one minute, which it does, and then asks you for another passphrase, supposedly that of an encrypted swap (based on the accompanying messages about "resume" you quoted). [04:51] Lorraine_: the other relevant fact is that an attempt to mount the encrypted partition from an 18.04.2 live usb also shhowed the passphrase prompt, and your passpharse was again not accepted there. [04:52] Lorraine_: good luck. [05:15] heya [05:33] hi guys, running ubuntu 18.04 server on VirtualBox. Works great - first interface works out of the box incl. dhcp. Second interface is having issues though - I have to manually ifup+dhclient it to get it working. I've been googling to no avail as to how to have that interface come up automatically on boot. [05:33] if anyone has some suggestions or can google better than I can that would be awesome :) [05:35] host is what [05:36] gnomethrower: vbox is notorious for networking issues. [05:37] anyone here? [05:38] aarobc : I'm not sure it's a vbox issue though [05:38] as I can see that interface and it works fine, it's just not enabled on boot [05:38] that's bizare. [05:39] windows host? [05:39] macOS 10.14.3 [05:41] aarobc: I managed to solve it. [05:41] what was it? [05:41] I'm still not sure. [05:42] per https://www.redpill-linpro.com/techblog/2016/08/17/systemd-network.html I created /etc/systemd/network/extra.network [05:42] and set match on the name of the iface and dhcp=both [05:42] didn't bother with routemetric. now it works on boot [05:42] I'm not thrilled as I think there is probably more elegant ways to do this but it solved my issue for now and this is just a test lab so it isn't hugely important :) [05:43] I have three VMs on a NAT network, then I needed a second interface to allow me to SSH in to one of the VMs [05:43] neat [05:43] also, use docker [05:43] I really don't want to [05:44] it makes all of this mess soooo much easier [05:44] I need "real" machines. I'm creating a Ceph lab and a Lustre lab and I want it to be closer to reality than Docker is. [05:44] indeed [05:44] I understand the draw of Docker and Kubernetes but for my use case they are not appropriate [05:44] otherwise I'd be using them for sure ;) [05:44] anyways thanks for the help/sounding board [05:44] I do my best being a rubber duck [05:44] i use a virtual netowrk for my VM net [05:45] and run openwrt on one of the vms to be the router [05:45] then 2 nics on the virtual router, with firewall rules to not allow access to my hardware net [06:06] #has anyone perhaps got mysql 8 working with php 7 on ubuntu 18? [06:15] has anyone perhaps got mysql 8 working with php 7 on ubuntu 18? [06:24] hi [06:40] has anyone got mysql 8 working with php 7.3 on ubuntu 18? [06:43] hi [06:43] hello [06:43] hello [06:43] hello [06:44] hi jame [06:44] hi jack [06:44] hi aaaa [06:44] hi jamesrc [06:44] hi aaaa [06:44] hi jack [06:44] hello #ubuntu [06:45] actually, I didn't use ubuntu for a long time. [06:45] i use it [06:45] see jack i likje ubuntu but they really need to push mysql 8 [06:46] jamesrc: what happen when you are using mysql? [06:47] mysql 8 is ready to come out? [06:48] oh no... [06:48] jack, i can use mysql 5.7 fine, but 8 has more security that is starting to work with php but its very hard to obtain on ubuntu (ive tried to follow guids but it pukes) [06:49] jamesrc: which verisons is your ubuntu? I may try it [06:49] 18.04 [06:50]