[00:56] <gmgall> Hi everyone,
[00:56] <gmgall> I recently installed Xubuntu 18.04.2 and everything is working fine. But every time I start a XFCE session, a window with the message "The system detected a problem..." and 2 buttons ("Cancel" and "Report problem") appears.
[00:56] <gmgall> No more details are given. Any ideas about what could be causing this problem?
[01:02] <Bashing-om> gmgall: When you "Report problem" soon your web browser will open and send the file, In this report dialog is a box "details" that depicts what the issue is.
[01:04] <gmgall> This isn't happening here. The window simply closes and appears again when I start a new XFCE session.
[01:05] <gmgall> No more messages, nothing :-/
[01:07] <gmgall> Bashing-om: Are there any log files I could look at to discover the reason of the message?
[01:09] <Unit193> The crash files in /var/crash/
[01:11] <Bashing-om> gmgall: ^^ maybe too /var/log/faillog .
[01:12] <gmgall> I will give a look. Thank you.
[01:22] <gmgall> Bashing-om: my /var/log/faillog seems empty when I try to use cat to see its contents. Opening it with vim or less shows only a giant sequence of "^@". It has 32k in size.
[01:25] <gmgall> Unit193: The only file I have in /var/crash is related with VirtualBox. It doesn't look related to my problem. The window appears every time I start a session and this happens since before I installed VirtualBox.
[01:25] <Bashing-om> gmgall: Well ! "file /var/log/faillog" relates this is a data file .. not human readable :(
[01:29] <Bashing-om> gmgall: The faillog file is not much help in this instance - keeps track of logins and such, See: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/faillog-in-linux-command/ . Where the faillog command is used to read the file.
[01:30] <gmgall> There is a lot of lines like "(lightdm-gtk-greeter:2990): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:56:46.968: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)" in /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
[01:32] <gmgall> Bashing-om: ^ This is the only notable error reported in /var/log
[01:36] <Bashing-om> gmgall: ^ that is but a warning .. not an error condition.
[01:38] <gmgall> Bashing-om: Yes but is the only message that looks different from normal.
[01:40] <Bashing-om> gmgall: Sorry - at this point I do know know further to find what the system is reporting.
[01:41] <gmgall> Bashing-om: Thank you for trying anyway. :-)
[01:41] <gmgall> Its a pretty strange problem. The system works perfectly after I close the window.
[01:42] <Bashing-om> gmgall: Anything of interest in the .xsession-errors file in your home directory ?
[01:43] <gmgall> Bashing-om: This file has some warning/errors.
[01:45] <gmgall> The 2 last lines of the file are:
[01:45] <gmgall> (nm-applet:1958): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:37:50.695: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
[01:45] <gmgall> (nm-applet:1958): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:37:50.697: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
[01:46] <gmgall> I will give a look in what this nm-applet is.
[01:52] <Bashing-om> gmgall: Others can advise the better - but I do not see these as anything critical.
[01:54] <gmgall> Bashing-om: Me neither. But I look everywhere :-/
[10:45] <victor_>  The power of wifi in xubuntu is lower than in windows, and also the speed of the internet, my pc uses a realtek network card. Is there any way to improve the power of wifi?
[10:57] <diogenes_> victor_, look in driver manager for proprietary wireless drivers.
[11:50] <victor_>  RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
[12:51] <xubuntu81i> Qué es no irq handler for vector?
[12:52] <xubuntu81i> Me ha aparecido al arrancar linux. Estoy formateando el pc a xubuntu
[12:52] <xubuntu81i> ...porque no arrancaba
[12:54] <xubuntu81i> esto resolverá el problema de momento. Pero si me vuelve a aparecer ese mensaje cuando actualice xubuntu, qué hago?
[12:55] <xubuntu81i> Cuando arroja ese mensaje de "no irq handler for vector", acaba por arrancar en una especie de consola que pone <initrams> o algo parecido
[12:56] <diogenes_> !es
[12:58] <xubuntu81i> I have a problem when linux updates. It appears the message "no irq handler for vector" and then it goes to a console with the expression <initramfs> in the beggining. You can write commands there.
[12:59] <xubuntu81i> What can i do to prevent it?
[13:01] <xubuntu81i> I have read about following 3 simple steps to add a Kernel-Bootoption to my Grub-Bootloader:
[21:54] <DarkTrick> Hello
[21:55] <DarkTrick> Who desides, whats in an LTS release and what not?
[21:55] <DarkTrick> is it the people in here or the people in ubuntu?
[21:58] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: That depends on if it's a userspace item or if it's a low-level item. Do you have a request or something?
[21:59] <DarkTrick> Eickmeyer, thank you for the quick response.
[21:59] <Eickmeyer[m]> (not here either way, but I can point you in the right direction)
[21:59] <DarkTrick> yes, I'd like to request to update KolourPaint inside the repository
[22:00] <DarkTrick> The current version in the repos is so old, you cannot even file bugs for it anymore
[22:00] <Eickmeyer[m]> That would be a packaging request, and anything that exists in the repos can be worked with.
[22:01] <Eickmeyer[m]> Do you know where the upstream project is located?
[22:02] <Eickmeyer[m]> Nvm, found it.
[22:03] <Eickmeyer[m]> Hmm... it's an official KDE project.
[22:04] <Unit193> 'kolor' didn't give that away...?
[22:05] <Unit193> !info kolourpaint eoan
[22:05] <Unit193> Looks current.
[22:05] <Eickmeyer[m]> Agreed.
[22:06] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: Which version of Xubuntu are you using?
[22:07] <Eickmeyer[m]> Unit193: The K didn't give it away. Example: Gwenview.
[22:08] <DarkTrick> Eickmeyer, Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS says cat /etc/*release
[22:08] <Unit193> Eickmeyer[m]: The k does sort of give it away, they tend to love starting their application names with 'k' if it only swaps out a letter and still makes sense.
[22:08] <DarkTrick> is that the correct information?
[22:08] <Eickmeyer[m]> !info kolourpaint bionic
[22:08] <Unit193> DarkTrick: Yep, which was released at the beginning of 2018.
[22:10] <Unit193> DarkTrick: If you want the latest software, you'll have to use the latest release.  Bionic is stable, it gets security and other fixes like that, but new versions don't tend to cut it.
[22:10] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: The version of Kolourpaint included in 18.04 was released in December 2017. The caviat with staying on LTS is that you don't get the most up-to-date software.
[22:12] <DarkTrick> The currently used version of KP is 17.xx. The bug reporter only allows bug reports for version 18 and up. So I thought, it would be time for an update in the repos.
[22:12] <Eickmeyer[m]> The version of Kolourpaint in the next LTS (20.04) will likely include Kolourpaint 19.12.
[22:12] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: How are you reporting bugs?
[22:12] <Eickmeyer[m]> !bugs?
[22:12] <Eickmeyer[m]> !bug
[22:12] <DarkTrick> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108976
[22:13] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: Ok, that means the bug was fixed in a later version. If you want a later version, you have to upgrade your Xubuntu version to the latest.
[22:13] <DarkTrick> this site is what their official site points to
[22:14] <DarkTrick> is the a way of adding the non-lts ubuntu repos? or is that rather not recommended?
[22:14] <Eickmeyer[m]> No, that's a bad idea. Mixing repos will cause problems.
[22:14] <Eickmeyer[m]> You might as well upgrade.
[22:16] <DarkTrick> Ok
[22:17] <DarkTrick> Eickmeyer, Unit193, Thank you very much for your help
[22:17] <Unit193> Some people would recommend you try and find a 'snap' for it, I personally wouldn't.
[22:18] <Eickmeyer[m]> Though, there is a snap: https://snapcraft.io/kolourpaint
[22:19] <Eickmeyer[m]> And it is version 19.04.
[22:19] <Eickmeyer[m]> DarkTrick: ^
[22:20] <Unit193> I would recommend upgrading over that.
[22:20] <DarkTrick> Yes, I think I'm going with the upgrade
[22:23] <DarkTrick> But thank you for showing me snap. I didn't know about it. Sounds worth to check out
[22:23] <Eickmeyer[m]> There are mixed reviews about snaps, but YMMV.