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oerhekshttps://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/ gives basicly all you need, #launchpad channel for user questions, #launchpad-dev for development00:02
mindofmateoMy laptop on 18.04 won't wake after going to sleep.  The led shows it is still "on" but I can't turn the keyboard backlight on or off, and plugging my phone into the USB port doesn't trigger the "Would you like to give access to this device?" message, it only charges at a very low voltage.  Is there anything I can try to recover?00:04
mindofmateoAs far as I can tell the screen is off, as in, the display is not even powered on.00:05
sarnoldparrotlover: also consider ubuntu core and snaps; they're designed around doing this kind of bespoke hardware uspport00:07
sarnoldrobertparkerx: welcomeback, any luck?00:07
sarnoldrobertparkerx: I don't see anything wrong with the screenshot you sent :/00:07
parrotloverI also need to ship software with00:10
parrotloverwith features to use this coprocessor card instead of CPU or CUDA, which it was designed to replace completely00:10
parrotloverlike all the AI/ML frameworks need to be available with added support for my hardware so people can get software that uses the coprocessors instead of CPU, CUDA, or TPU00:11
parrotloveri have them packaged, i made all the packages, just need to host them all00:12
sarnoldparrotlover: aha, so it's a bit late to look at doing your own branded snapstore, hehe00:15
parrotloversarnold, I just do things on impulse while manic or high and it always works out and makes big money... I've mastered the art of pulling off completely insane00:15
parrotloverI have no idea how I run successful businesses, but I do00:16
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/eDu9dqNj00:18
parrotloverI do hope those torrents are legally distributable content if you're on a linode node00:18
robertparkerxvultr and they are00:18
robertparkerxThis is personal00:18
robertparkerxThis is a personal server00:19
sarnoldparrotlover: hahaha, that's awesome :D00:19
parrotloverI use torrents too, but I don't pirate with them, I use them to share things with low bandwidth usage on the server00:19
sarnoldrobertparkerx: what's in journalctl when you try to start the rtorrent service?00:20
parrotloverlike custom linux ISOs, data sets from academic sources for AI work... anything that I am hosting on a low budget system or vps, I use torrents and offer an option which I ask not to use for direct download00:20
parrotloverI don't do it really that much, but sometimes, every couple months maybe00:20
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/Jru7rdzq00:21
parrotloverMy friend started torrenting a album of music on my nanode and I lost it on him and made him promise nothing illegal until I start hosting a server for him at home where I don't care00:21
robertparkerxI notice now lot of failed password for root.00:23
sarnoldrobertparkerx: if it's an sshd live on the internet, there's *constant* username/password guessing attempts00:24
sarnoldrobertparkerx: OH. I think I heard %h was *removed*00:24
sarnoldrobertparkerx: try changing WorkingDirectory=/home/rtorrent/   instead00:24
robertparkerxI think that worked00:26
robertparkerxI had to systemctl daemon-reload00:26
robertparkerxI don't see rtorrent in ps aux00:28
sarnoldjournalctl again?00:28
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/8LuwLRJA00:28
sarnoldrobertparkerx: heh, the root login attempts pushed the useful stuff off screen00:29
robertparkerxwait00:30
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/2NurNg5q00:31
robertparkerxThis is right above it00:31
barghi, i plugged a usb stick into my laptop and it is not recognizing it00:32
robertparkerx killall[1365]: /usr/bin/rtorrent: no process found00:34
bargi tried lsusb but it still isn't showing when i look at file manager00:34
sarnoldrobertparkerx: if you use sudo -u rtorrent -s   to start a shell, then run cd /home/rtorrent ; /usr/bin/screen -d -m -fa -S rtorrent /usr/bin/rtorrent   does screen seem to run okay?00:34
sarnoldbarg: does anything show in dmesg?00:35
bargsarnold: yes! sdc100:35
bargi will experiment with mount00:35
oerheksbarg, what filesystem, exfat?00:36
bargyes00:36
robertparkerxsarnold killall[1321]: /usr/bin/rtorrent: no process found00:37
oerheksthen you need exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, and restart nautilus00:37
robertparkerxThe process /usr/bin/screen could not be executed and failed00:37
sarnoldrobertparkerx: don't worry about killing the thing just yet :) you have to figure out why it isn't starting first..00:37
bargthanks i'll look into that00:37
robertparkerxThose are the errors I see sorry sarnold00:38
sarnoldrobertparkerx: alright how about just this then? sudo -u rtorrent -s   to start a shell, then run cd /home/rtorrent ; /usr/bin/screen -d -m -fa -S rtorrent bash00:38
robertparkerxnothing00:40
sarnoldrobertparkerx: "nothing" as in the bash worked perfectly? or "nothing" as in "it failed"?00:43
robertparkerxI don't know. Nothing happened.00:43
robertparkerxwait00:46
robertparkerxI see three of these in ps aux00:46
robertparkerx400:46
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/eDu9dmng00:46
thenoriDo y'all know a way to remount a ro root partition as rw without a reboot?00:46
sarnoldthenori: remount -orw,remount may do it00:47
thenorisudo mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/sda6 doesn't work for some reason00:47
oerhekssudo mount -o remount,rw /partition/identifier /mount/point00:47
sarnoldrobertparkerx: oh good now you've got a few of those to kill :) "killall SCREEN" *might* do it00:48
robertparkerxyeah I killed 3 of them00:48
robertparkerxShould I kill the other too?00:48
thenoriwhile you're at it, is there a faster way to check ro/rw than refreshing gparted? actually I could just try to copy something right00:49
thenoriyeah I guess 'touch test' works just fine00:50
thenorityvm00:50
sarnoldrobertparkerx: yeah kill all those screen/bash sessions :)00:57
robertparkerxdone00:57
robertparkerxsarnold https://termbin.com/aeb001:02
sarnoldrobertparkerx: alright, try this series of steps again: sudo -u rtorrent -s   to start a shell, then run cd /home/rtorrent ; /usr/bin/screen -d -m -fa -S rtorrent bash01:03
sarnoldrobertparkerx: then try 'screen -RAD' and see if you attach screen to that session or not01:03
robertparkerxsarnold I'm looking at a blank screen now01:05
robertparkerxjust with a prompt in the middle01:05
sarnoldrobertparkerx: alright, try: echo $$  ; ps auxw | grep   <whatever number you got from the previous command>01:07
robertparkerxsarnold I don't understand what number you're talking about.01:08
sarnoldrobertparkerx: echo $$ shows the current shell pid01:08
robertparkerxsarnold https://termbin.com/r1ek01:09
sarnoldhumph. I was hoping to see the screen i nthe thing. oh well. try pstree -h and see if your shell really looks like it's running inside screen?01:10
robertparkerxsarnold https://share.getcloudapp.com/E0uEkG5401:11
robertparkerxit says "screen bash pstree"01:11
sarnoldrobertparkerx: cool cool; so, next step, lets try rtorrent :) run /usr/bin/rtorrent01:12
robertparkerxrtorrent: Error in option file: ~/.rtorrent.rc:13: Command "peer_exchange" does not exist.01:13
sarnoldYAY01:14
sarnoldfinally01:14
robertparkerxhttps://termbin.com/j2bh01:14
robertparkerxthis is my rc01:14
robertparkerxshould I not have 'no'01:14
sarnoldI'd try just commenting that line out01:15
robertparkerxwow this config was bad01:18
robertparkerxI got another error01:18
robertparkerxHAHAHAHA it's working!01:19
robertparkerxsarnold, you're the best!01:20
robertparkerxThank you for taking the time with me to figure it out.01:20
robertparkerxI truly appreciate it.01:20
sarnoldrobertparkerx: whoohoo!01:20
robertparkerxnow I have to figure out flood01:21
robertparkerxI'll do that later though01:21
sarnoldyikes, that starts with "run this shell script as root"01:25
sarnoldI hate those01:25
robertparkerxIt seems those config settings were just deprecated https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/rTorrent-0.9-Comprehensive-Command-list-(WIP)01:28
sarnoldcripes that's a lot of things removed01:30
robertparkerxIt would have been nice to see those errors from the start01:30
sarnoldno kidding01:30
sarnoldit'd be nice to have a real torrent daemon rather than "well you can kinda run this torrent client in screen"01:31
oerheksinstall the transmission webgui thingy ..01:33
nshirehow does known-hosts work? will the fingerprint itself change if the ip changes?01:52
nshiretrying to figure out why I'm getting a fingerprint error01:52
crablabno. but if the IP address changes it won't have a fingerprint associated with it01:53
crablabit sounds like the IP address may have changed to something that you already had in your known-hosts. that or you are getting MITM'd01:54
nshireI'm on LAN which is why I'm confused01:57
nshireI'm looking at known_hosts and I don't see any entries that have an IP associated with them01:58
crablabIs the IP you're getting an error for on the LAN?01:58
nshireyes01:58
nshireit's been assigned a static private IP for a year and I *think* I've connected to it that way before01:59
nshireis there a way to try logging in without checking it against the ip?01:59
nshirejust see if the fingerprint matches anything in known hosts01:59
robertparkerxhas anyone used flood with rtorrent? I have the process running but I cannot connect. 'err_connection_refused' this site can't be reached02:00
crablabwell you can just delete the offending record02:00
nshirecrablab, idk which one is valid02:00
nshireI'm trying to verify that the server hasn't been changed somehow02:00
crablabI think ssh-keyscan is what you want :)02:02
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nshirelooking into it02:05
nshirethx crab02:05
openfacehow can i set UTC to local02:06
openfaceetc?02:06
crablabSettings02:08
crablabopenface02:08
Jakethepythonhey room has anyone had problems w/ dell dockign stations? mine won't let me run any USB through it02:08
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cgihas anyone here used fpm to build a deb file?02:30
oerheksfpm is not in our repos, one could use ruby for that https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-fpm-to-easily-create-packages-in-multiple-formats02:33
parrotloverI use checkinstall to build packages because I don't care about being proper and conforming when I just need to share packages I develop or build from source... Like, I need to make a proper package for my kernel with custom modules for custom new hardware, but I don't think checkinstall will update grub and initramfs and such02:34
parrotlovercheckinstall is great for installing from source, but isn't proper for making packages to distribute, as you mostly all already know02:35
sarnoldI think I recently learned checkinstall fails badly if there's a symlink in the 'package'02:36
cgilooking at checkinstall02:37
parrotloversarnold, I have known for a long time that installing packages in ways other than the package manager can break your install in a way that is so time consuming to track down and successfully recover from that I keep a seperate home partition and when I do something that causes such a state I do a fresh install keeping the old /home folder02:38
parrotloverIf you try to install newer or older versions of software over top of ubuntu's packages, and the package manager can't maintain the package the package manager can under many conditions refuse to do anything with no way to fix it besides manually undoing everything you did02:39
sarnoldheh, I haven't screwed up a system that bad for over two decades..02:39
parrotloverUbuntu is great if you just want easy install and setup and the best repo package selection around, but trying to modify upgrade, or replace things it depends on without the package manager can break things02:39
parrotloverI love Ubuntu, I'm not complaining, just pointing this out02:39
cgicheckinstall needs sudo - wish it would do that without installing and just give me a deb file to install02:43
parrotloverWell, you can always be stupid and run everything as root02:44
parrotloverkek02:44
cgiparrotlover, checkinstall gives this error: mv: cannot move '/usr/sbin/nginx' to '/usr/sbin/nginx.old': Permission denied02:46
parrotlovercgi, use sudo, and try again. if still an issue, I'm not sure what you should do02:47
sarnoldapt purge nginx before trying to install the new version?02:48
cgisarnold, thanks02:58
SlywEvening. Anyone have a moment for a stumper?03:02
SlywWhat might be tying up permissions on a folder that would supercede the traditional chmod settings?03:03
SlywI have a folder that reads 755 but even as root I cannot change it to anything nor can I browse the contents03:04
sarnoldSlyw: apparmor or selinux or other MAC system; seccomp controls to prohibit syscalls for enumerating directory contents; hardware error or filesystem corruption03:05
sarnoldSlyw: what errors do you get? do you see anything in dmesg or /var/log/audit/audit.log (if you have auditd installed)03:06
Slywdon't have auditd installed ... and no error other than Operation not permitted03:06
Slywdon't believe I have selinux or apparmor installed (at least not intentionally)03:06
SlywI didn't think filesystem corruption (because I am blindly optomistic that I am not going to lose my music collection)03:07
sarnoldall ubuntu users have apparmor installed by default03:08
Slywah, okay.. let me have a looksee03:10
robertparkerxHas anyone used flood with rtorrent? I have rtorrent installed and the process is running. I installed flood and the process is runnning but stops. I get connection refused in the browser when ps aux shows it running.03:19
Slywsarnold - alas, got auditd installed and no messages when I chmod or sudo chmod - both return Operation not permitted03:21
SlywI am leaning toward filesystem failure03:21
Slywbetter get to backing up03:21
sarnoldSlyw: how about dmesg?03:22
Slywnothing obvious (to me) ... audit type=1305 but am uncertain if that is my chmod effort03:25
sarnoldit sure could be03:26
sarnolddmesg | grep DENIED would be most illuminating03:26
Slywoperation="open" profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld" ...03:27
sarnoldand comm=? does it show the denials are your mysql server? or your shell?03:31
Slywsorry sarnold - comm="mysqld"03:32
sarnoldso if your mysql server can't access something, now you know why :)03:33
sarnoldif it's something else, well, you'll have to keep digging03:33
SlywHeh.. indeed. spun up mysql many moons ago for S&G ... haven't messed with it ... I am guessing filesystem. Had corrupt blocks a few years ago... laptop itself is closing in on 10 years old03:34
nshireanyone familiar with ssh-keyscan? I'm trying to have it compare the key received from a server to some I have on file03:35
nshireI'm using the -f switch followed by the address and then it says no such file or directory03:36
sarnoldnshire: try an ls -l on the file you told it to open03:40
nshirerw r r03:42
nshiresarnold, but the problem is It's getting file not found on the address I'm trying to read from03:43
nshireI've probably got it wrong03:43
nshirelaptopssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa,ecdsa,ed25519 -f 192.168.1.10 -p 22022 | sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts03:44
nshireand I cded into the /.ssh/ directory beforehand03:44
sarnoldnshire: and what's ls -l 192.168.1.10   ?03:44
nshirelaptopls -l 192.168.1.1003:45
nshirewow wrong window03:45
nshire..ignore that03:45
nshirecannot access, no such file or directory03:45
sarnoldthere we go :)03:45
sarnoldwhere did you put that file?03:46
nshirethat is an ip address03:46
nshirehrm03:46
nshirethe manpage says to use -f before the address03:47
sarnoldhmm, which release are you on? I'm on focal and it has:03:49
sarnold     -f file03:49
robertparkerxI want to say my problem with flood is http:// but I don't know. znc is on https://03:53
robertparkerxit's listening on port 400003:53
nshiremaybe I read it wrong03:53
sarnoldrobertparkerx: does it show up in sudo ss -tlnp output?03:53
robertparkerxno it doesn't03:56
robertparkerxwait03:56
robertparkerxIt's there as 'node'03:56
robertparkerxI got it03:58
robertparkerxchanged 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.003:58
sarnoldcareful, that opens it up to all hosts on the network, not just localhost03:59
robertparkerxshould I use my IP03:59
robertparkerxI mean the IP of the server03:59
parrotloverokay, realized that make deb-pkg is a thing\03:59
robertparkerxYea that worked04:00
sarnoldrobertparkerx: that probably opens it up to everything on the network *except* for localhost04:02
robertparkerxWhat if it's a private ip04:02
robertparkerxit won't run with localhost04:03
sarnoldit's up to you to know what that means and if it's good enough :)04:03
robertparkerxsudo ss -tlnp has two rtorrent. They're different ports too. I need to enter my rtorrent host and port to flood.04:06
nshireI found out the source of my SSH problems, I was used to connecting from outside of the network so the address associated with known_hosts was different04:06
robertparkerxShould I use 127.0.0.1:5000 or 127.0.0.1:5000004:06
robertparkerxIt has two entry for those04:07
sarnoldnshire: aha! yeah that'll give you a new entry message04:08
sarnoldrobertparkerx: either's fine04:08
robertparkerx5000 worked04:12
robertparkerxI <3 you guys04:12
sarnoldyay :)04:16
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nCoV_frenI got popped by my ISP last week, for having an old torrent seeding. What was the name of the program that monitors who is sniffing around? I remember there was both a GUI and a version that ran in the Shell. But I remember seeing “ Sony pictures” and “Paramount Studios” being some of the snoopers ... I forget the program04:39
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subfjhttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/think-workstations/thinkstation-p-series-towers/ThinkStation-P520/p/33TS3TPP52006:45
subfjshipping with ubuntu06:45
RonaldsMazitishello, I have libreoffice on (k)ubuntu, but there is problem saving files on desktop07:39
RonaldsMazitisError saving the document:Object not accessible.The object cannot be accessed due to insufficient user rights.07:40
RonaldsMazitisI have given 755 for desktop folder07:40
RonaldsMazitis777 also does not work07:41
rdzhey all. I cannot change screen resolution on a Lenovo T490s with Ubuntu 18.04. It seems to be fixed to the native resolution 2560x1440. I had a T470 before where a bunch of modes was available. Is that a hardware thing?07:47
rdzNot being able to lower screen res on a hidpi is pretty limiting07:48
RonaldsMazitisxrandr -s07:48
rdzRonaldsMazitis, XXXxXXXX not found in available modes07:48
RonaldsMazitisthen it's not available07:48
rdzI tried: xrandr -s  1920x108007:48
RonaldsMazitisbad07:49
rdzRonaldsMazitis, who or what defines what modes are available?07:49
ducasserdz: you might be able to add the mode you want07:49
rdzi can change the resolution of any attached screen, just not of the built-in one07:49
rdzducasse, ok.. i'll try07:50
rdzducasse, you mean also with xrandr?07:50
ducasserdz: calculate it with cvt and add it with xrandr07:50
rdzducasse, thanks. i'll try07:51
RonaldsMazitis2560x1440 seems so big07:51
ducasserdz: you could also try to set scaling07:51
rdzducasse, yes., but the grid is way too coars07:52
rdz100%, 200%, 300%07:52
rdzwhy can't we scale only by full integers?07:53
rdzthat doesn't make sense to me07:53
rdz100% looks good tough, with large text enabled in "universal access"07:53
rdz200% is way too big07:53
rdzhowever, some applications don't deal well with hidpi and it would be much more confortable to use a lower screen res07:54
ducassesome desktops can scale with fractions, iirc07:54
rdzducasse, RonaldsMazitis, amazing. adding a new mode and using it, worked!!07:57
rdzducasse, thanks a lot07:57
ducasseyou're very welcome07:57
rdzi must say i'm pretty happy about this.. i was beginning to think the new hardware wasn't that usable after all..07:58
ducasseglad you got it sorted :)07:59
RonaldsMazitisif Your hardware supports such a large res, it can't be bad07:59
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mmantaHi! What is the best channel for ask questions regarding Ubuntu installation in a laptop?08:25
ducassehere, probably08:26
mmantaSo I have a new Alienware, and the different guides I tried yesterday don't quite match my BIOS options and it seems I can't boot from the USB with UEFI and I can't see the disks partitions with the RAID0 setting, however, since I would like to have a dual boot installation, I can't make Windows 10 work at the same time. Are these parameters (UEFI08:29
mmantaand the RAID0) the ones that are really preventing me to install Ubuntu? Are there an install that could work with those parameters?08:29
ducasseyou should be able to install in uefi mode, but you will probably have to switch from raid to ahci. use mdraid if you want raid08:32
ducassemmanta: you also need to turn off intel rst, iirc08:34
ducasse!uefi | mmanta see this08:34
ubottummanta see this: UEFI is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. It is meant as a replacement for the BIOS. For information on how to set up and install Ubuntu and its derivatives on UEFI machines please read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI08:34
mmantaah, I didn't changed that08:34
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toffeHi guys, I've just did a clean install of ubuntu 19.10 as the previous one was "outdated" and needed upgrade. Doind the upgrade crashed everything so I did a clean install. After the install I always get a lot of "Sorry, ubuntu 19.10 has experienced an internal error" do you guys also see 19.10 as really unstable?09:01
toffeAlso i see "Architecture" is amd64 even though I have I709:02
toffeBootlog: Error 13 permission denied /var/log/boot.log09:02
Triffid_Huntertoffe: amd64 is correct for modern intel chips, there's a fun bit of history there if you're interested09:03
toffeShoot ! :D09:03
EriC^^toffe: try to press on details to see what the error is about09:03
EriC^^toffe: there might be some info in /var/crash about them too09:03
toffeI'll do that on the next, another problem I have which I had in 18.04 and the earlier 19.04 I think. When I login after boot. The login screen appears again. So I have to login minimum two times..09:04
toffeIt was fixed the two - three first reboots then it came back. Really annoying. Also when I start IntelliJ software my two external screens freezes, the laptop screen is on but i cannot click anything. Doing CTRL+ALT+3 opens the terminal going back to tty2 gives the screen again and after a while gnome crashes. Aswell as the "CPU Throttle messages in dmesg I think Ubuntu hates Thinkpad L580!09:07
toffehttps://imgur.com/a/SeFPz0B - Wee here, why is all the throtteling happening :P09:13
wingedrhinoHi! Does Ubuntu publish official USB images that can be burnt into a USB drive and used straightaway, with something like an initial boot screen where the user sets their username and password? Assuming it'd be a persistent installation.09:32
ducasse!persistence09:36
ubottuTo have some persistent storage when using a Live CD, follow the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence09:36
EriC^^wingedrhino: there's the OEM install, but i dont think it's burnt straight away,you'd have to install it first then run something so on the next boot the user sets his username and password09:40
EriC^^!oeminstall | wingedrhino09:40
ubottuwingedrhino: Ubuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - See also !automate09:40
EriC^^i suppose you could install once and then make an image of that to dd to other pc's09:41
wingedrhinoI'll be giving these away to interns who bring their own laptops to work. Any way to ensure that all images have drivers for all popular graphics cards and the like?09:42
wingedrhinoI tried installing Ubuntu Studio 18.04 on a Pavilion 15-ab522tx and it just stayed at the third party drivers stage of the installation process for an hour before I gave up. But the Live USB version just boots fine.09:43
wingedrhinoOn that subject, what's a good 32GB or 64GB USB drive to buy for this purpose? Thinking about ordering a whole bunch. Needs to be durable while still somewhat affordable.09:49
wingedrhinoAnd it sounds like the name of a project already. Ubuntu Dev Bootcamp Edition :D09:50
daedelothi broke my digitalocean droplet :(10:01
EriC^^wingedrhino: i think that's difficult cause many laptops different gpu and it needs a particular driver and sometimes it can need tweaking to get right, but you could put something that runs "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall" after they turn it on or so, so that it installs the recommended driver (which may or may not work)10:03
EriC^^*have different10:03
wingedrhinothere's a command like that? :O10:03
EriC^^(they'll need an internet connection obviously)10:03
ducassedaedeloth: if you want help fixing it, please provide details10:03
EriC^^yeah wingedrhino10:03
wingedrhinoI'll add it to my setup script. Dang!10:03
EriC^^wingedrhino: you also might need to have some repos enabled, such as multiverse, not sure10:04
daedelothducasse, yea sorry about that :D right after stating my problem i got into grub shell and now i'm trying to see if I can boot from there :)10:04
wingedrhinoEriC^^, already did that in my scripts to setup my own laptop. I just need to add the driver thing at the very end I suppose!10:04
wingedrhinoI didn't realize how painful non-Intel GPUs are to setup10:04
wingedrhinoUntil I had to fix a friend's HP with nVidia :x10:05
wingedrhino(10:05
EriC^^wingedrhino: seems the nvidia stuff is in the "restricted" repos fwiw10:05
EriC^^wingedrhino: yeah, sometimes it can need a little work to get running i guess10:06
wingedrhinoAnd this will _probably_ need to run on those skinny new macbooks.10:06
ducassewingedrhino: amd gpus mostly have the right drivers available on a standard install, not true of nvidia10:07
wingedrhinoducasse, that's good to know! My next laptop might be a Ryzen10:07
ducassewingedrhino: certain nvidia gpus need drivers from the graphics-drivers ppa, you might need to take that into account10:09
wingedrhinoducasse, aah! okay10:09
wingedrhinoducasse, this one? https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa10:12
ducasseyep, that one10:13
wingedrhinoalso, does that ubuntu-drivers program have something like an -y option?10:14
wingedrhinoI assume I need to enable that PPA before running that autoinstall command?10:15
EriC^^i'm not sure it would take the ppa one into consideration10:15
yuradochello. what's wrong here. I did install some very outdated package successfully: "dpkg -i --ignore-depends=python-central xxx.deb", but system stop update with that: Unsatisfied dependencies. Try “apt --fix-broken install” without specifying a package name10:16
ducassewingedrhino: no -y option that i know of, but it can create a package list. you could use that to install with apt10:16
yuradocwhen i do "apt --fix-broken install" it removes package10:16
EriC^^wingedrhino: autoinstall might not ask for confirmation before proceeding too, test and see10:17
wingedrhinoducasse, guess I'll shove that command at the very end for now!10:17
yuradoci don't need fix broken package, course it's work  for me10:17
yuradoci need possibility to make apt upgrade10:18
ducasseyuradoc: you'll just screw up apt if dependencies aren't satisfied10:18
yuradoci'm sure with that depandancy. it's very outdated and not supported10:19
ducasseapt still needs them to be happy10:20
Harm133Hey guys, is this the correct channel for microstack questions ?10:20
yuradocapp works without it10:20
ducasseapt doesn't10:20
yuradoccan i make apt ignore that package dependancy?10:21
yuradoci know what i'm doing10:21
ducasseno. you could install it outside of apt entirely, though10:22
daedelothhm so i am able to chroot into my system from a digitalocean recovery disk10:22
yuradoci already did: dpkg -i --ignore-depends=python-central xxx.deb10:22
daedelothbut now i need to figure out how to fix the boot sequence10:22
yuradocit's installed outside apt10:22
ducasseyuradoc: i mean install from source or similar10:23
yuradochm, so it's not possible?10:23
ducasseyuradoc: using dpkg will register it in the package database, and apt will require dependencies10:24
EriC^^daedeloth: after chrooting try "grep efi /etc/fstab" to see if it's uefi or legacy installed10:24
yuradocbut dpkg has --ignore-depends... that's means someth10:24
yuradocand it helps me to get app work10:25
EriC^^yuradoc: you could modify the status file10:25
EriC^^and erase the dependencies from Depends:10:25
ducasseyuradoc: it will only help you install the package, dependencies in the database will still be broken10:26
EriC^^yuradoc: /var/lib/dpkg/status10:26
ducasseor just unpack the .deb and copy files into place10:26
yuradocok, thanks, i'll check10:26
EriC^^yuradoc: you could unpack it in /usr/local and add that to your PATH10:27
EriC^^that way nothing will overwrite it's files or conflict in the future, and apt is happy10:27
ducasse /usr/local/bin is in the PATH by default10:27
RonaldsMazitisI cann10:28
EriC^^ah right, nice10:28
daedelothLABEL=UEFI /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 010:28
EriC^^daedeloth: ok so it's using uefi, type "dpkg -l | grep grub"10:29
yuradocEriC^^: thank you! I did remove package depandancy here: /var/lib/dpkg/status10:29
EriC^^daedeloth: also see if the current session is in uefi mode, type "ls /sys/firmware/efi"10:29
yuradocnow working10:29
daedelothno such file or directory10:29
EriC^^yuradoc: cool, no problem10:29
daedelothpackages seem to be installed (ii)10:30
EriC^^daedeloth: ok, so it's booted in legacy mode10:30
EriC^^daedeloth: that'll hinder you from editing the uefi list of the motherboard10:30
yuradocwhy there is no cli possiblity to ignore dep... weird10:30
daedelothit's a digitalocean droplet10:30
ducasseyuradoc: because it's entirely unsupported10:31
EriC^^daedeloth: well the virtual motherboard :D10:31
EriC^^daedeloth: which grub packages are installed?10:31
EriC^^daedeloth: if you have internet connection in the chroot you can do "dpkg -l | grep grub | nc termbin.com 9999" to upload a pastebin10:32
daedelothhttps://termbin.com/5dby10:33
daedelothas for context, i think this was an ubuntu 17.10 droplet that was upgraded to 18.0410:34
EriC^^daedeloth: type "apt-get purge grub-pc grub-pc-bin"10:34
daedelothand i guess that failed months ago, but i just now rebooted it10:34
daedelothdo i want to have all grub 2 files removed from /boot/grub? :)10:35
EriC^^daedeloth: is it asking that?10:35
daedelothyes :)10:35
ducassei didn't think their droplets used uefi, mine doesn't10:35
daedeloththat might be the problem? :D10:35
daedelothok purging those files, right?10:35
EriC^^yeah, thought it's pretty odd, but it's present in fstab10:36
EriC^^daedeloth: yeah, the line in fstab for /boot/efi wasn't commented out, right?10:36
daedelothno10:36
ducasseyeah, but will loading efivars work?10:36
EriC^^ok10:36
EriC^^ok, let's confirm more, daedeloth type "sudo parted -ls | nc termbin.com 9999"10:37
daedeloth /etc/fstab => http://termbin.com/16zc10:37
daedelothhttp://termbin.com/cilt10:37
daedelothwith a warning: unable to poen /dev/s0 read-write ...10:38
EriC^^well that's not what i'd like to see10:38
daedelothand error: /dev/sr0: unrecognized disk label10:38
EriC^^it's using gpt, has an ef partition, but also has a bios_boot for legacy grub to work with gpt10:38
EriC^^daedeloth: my guess is that maybe it started as efi, since it has it in fstab, then at some point was converted to work with legacy?10:39
EriC^^that'd explain the 2 grub packages, efi in fstab, and it being gpt in the first place10:39
daedelothhonestly i have no idea, i think i started out from a default image and then ran upgrade to 18.04 but i don't remember doing that10:39
ducasseother way around, i think10:39
ducassepretty certain they use legacy by default10:39
EriC^^but then again, the partition table looks made well and not mmodified later, i think it was designed to work with both grub efi and legacy10:40
EriC^^ducasse: yeah, i think it was initially setup with both, i guess he should go for grub legacy package since the live session got booted in legacy mode, likely it boots in that mode10:40
EriC^^daedeloth: type 'apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc grub-pc-bin'10:41
ducasseit's not like it would need uefi for anything10:41
EriC^^true10:41
daedeloththere i go :)10:41
daedelothbad system call: core dumped doesn't sound good10:42
EriC^^add  "2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999" to the command10:42
daedelothit's still going10:42
daedelothnow it's asking me on what tdevice to install, i only have /dev/vda10:43
EriC^^yeah go for that10:43
daedelothgrub failed to install10:43
EriC^^did it say why?10:43
daedelothno, wait, I'll do a pastebin10:44
EriC^^a question on their site from 2016 about uefi says their instances are not uefi capable, btw10:44
daedelothah yes with those prompts piping all content to termbin probably wasn't a good idea :)10:45
EriC^^daedeloth: type "script /tmp/aptlog"10:46
EriC^^run apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub-efi-amd64-bin- grub-efi-amd64-signed-"10:47
EriC^^notice the "-" at the end of the last 2 packages (it instructs apt to remove them rather than install)10:47
EriC^^once it's done if anything fails, type "exit", then "cat /tmp/aptlog | nc termbin.com 9999"10:48
roryhow come the mkpasswd command is provided by "whois" package?10:49
daedelothhttp://termbin.com/bvnvq10:50
daedelothit's not getting at the dialogs anymore10:50
daedelothah it's not being reinstalled either so that's normal :)10:51
EriC^^seems there's problem with mandb10:51
ryuorory: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=11626010:51
ubottuDebian bug 116260 in whois "whois: Why does it include mkpasswd?" [Wishlist,Open]10:51
daedelothreally confused on how i managed to get such an f'ed up system, it just ran a webserver10:53
EriC^^daedeloth: try "strace -o /tmp/straceapt apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc grub-pc-bin"10:55
EriC^^daedeloth: then cat /tmp/straceapt | nc termbin.com 999910:56
EriC^^this guy's in a similar boat, turned out to be some anti-malware system https://askubuntu.com/questions/1092281/bad-system-call-core-dumped-usr-share-man-man1?rq=110:56
EriC^^eset file security10:57
daedelothhttp://termbin.com/gdlh10:58
daedelothcould it be related to the fact that i'm chrooted into the system?10:58
daedelothshould i run the reinstall with MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP=1?10:59
bonfirehello11:00
daedeloththat seems to have worked11:01
EriC^^daedeloth: i dont think so, yeah i was about to say that it doesnt show the previous error in the log xD11:01
daedelothi'll give rebooting a try :)11:01
EriC^^daedeloth: type 'dpkg -l | grep grub' are they all "ii" ?11:01
daedelothgrub-efi-amd64 is rc11:01
EriC^^daedeloth: maybe run "grub-install --recheck /dev/vda && update-grub"11:02
EriC^^then type 'exit' and try rebooting11:02
daedelothfailed to get cannonical path of 'overlay'11:02
EriC^^daedeloth: did you mount bind /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys ?11:03
daedelothmight not have11:03
daedelothi need to leave chroot right?11:04
EriC^^yeah, type exit11:04
EriC^^then 'for i in /dev /proc /sys; do sudo mount -R $i /mountpoint$i; done'11:04
EriC^^(replacing mountpoint with where you mounted it)11:05
daedelothnow that sounds overly complicated to mount 3 directories ;-) But done & going back to chroot11:05
EriC^^ok, try grub-install first, see how that goes11:06
daft_dutchI cant start chromemium browser11:08
daft_dutchbrdi@step-cmdb:~$ chromium-browser11:08
daft_dutchTrace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)11:08
daft_dutch[ 1352.868175] Chrome_IOThread[4424]: segfault at 50 ip 00007ff21dbd1fa0 sp 00007ff207ffe978 error 4 in libpthread-2.27.so[7ff21dbc8000+1a000]11:08
daedelothno errors reported11:08
EriC^^daedeloth: awesome, try update-grub11:09
daedelothwarning: failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling bck to device scanning11:09
daedelothi can't upload pastebins for some reason11:09
daft_dutchi can run chromium-browser as root. (but thats not what i want)11:09
daedelothbut it did find 3 linux images and 1 initrd image11:10
EriC^^daedeloth: no worries, did it pick up a kernel and initrd?11:10
daedelothyep11:10
EriC^^daedeloth: cool, exit then try rebooting11:10
daedelothalas, no luck11:12
daedelothhttps://i.ibb.co/h9gpGTV/Screenshot-from-2020-02-04-12-11-39.png11:12
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netcrashHello, is ubuntu now randomizing mac address on the wifi ?11:27
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RonaldsMazitisnetcrash that's unfortunate11:27
netcrashRonaldsMazitis: I'm asking11:28
RonaldsMazitismac address ain't supposed to change11:28
RonaldsMazitisit's mac address11:28
RonaldsMazitisatleast that's what they tough me in school11:29
crablabNo. iOS and Android now randomise them though11:29
netcrashRonaldsMazitis: It's changing now.11:30
netcrashEverytime I connected to the wifi it changed the mac address11:31
crablabnetcrash which version of Ubuntu?11:31
tatertotsnetcrash: the OS is not doing this, the most likely is that the user(s) have done something to do this and you may not be aware if the system is used by multiple users11:34
ace_meRonaldsMazitis: If is a cheap card or device... it happen. It happend with a MEDIA device I bought from somewhere far :) It randomised eve4ry time it started /reset the mac which does not allowed me to filter that device in Firewall allow list11:37
jeremy31I think 17.04 was the last Ubuntu version that would randomize MAC address and it caused many wifi issues11:39
daedelothafter netsplit & lunch... I'm back :)11:39
red_p1xelHello, I need help. There were issues with drivers of video adapter [GeForce GTX 550 Ti]. After the system upgrade I have incorrect screen resolution. I can't set this because `nvidia-driver-390` does not work properly. How I can resolve this problem?11:39
tatertotsit's an anomaly until netcrash provides more details including but not limited to filing a bug report11:39
daedelothso after reinstalling grub i still end up at https://i.ibb.co/h9gpGTV/Screenshot-from-2020-02-04-12-11-39.png11:42
daedelothmaybe now is the time to start making db dumps and just launch a new droplet?11:42
EriC^^daedeloth: it looks like root= in the grub config is off11:48
EriC^^daedeloth: what's /mountpoint/boot/grub/grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub have?11:49
EriC^^might just need to let it use uuid as usual11:49
daedelothhttp://termbin.com/qck8l11:51
daedelothhttp://termbin.com/s2fmo11:52
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: was this on a recent update?11:53
red_p1xellotuspsychje Yes11:57
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: does your system show more available drivers for your card? ubuntu-drivers list to check11:57
red_p1xellotuspsychje I try to install `ubuntu-driver-400` but this driver work only two days.12:00
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: what gives: lsb_release -a plz?12:01
lotuspsychjelsb_release -a12:01
red_p1xellotuspsychje12:02
red_p1xelNo LSB modules are available.Distributor ID:UbuntuDescription:Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTSRelease:18.04Codename:bionic12:02
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: the -release guys are currently working on it, seems likes there are issues with the nvidia drivers12:03
red_p1xelI have next available drivers `ubuntu-drivers list` nvidia-driver-390nvidia-340nvidia-driver-440nvidia-30412:03
daedelothuuid in grub.cfg seems to match the one i get from blkid12:03
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: nvidia also recently wiped the 340 driver12:04
lotuspsychjered_p1xel: try 440 perhaps, till things got sorted12:05
red_p1xellotuspsychje thanks for your answers12:09
DarkchaosDo you guys know a way to get apt into a verbose mode? I am stuck at "Waiting for Headers" and I suspect a repository is about to timeout, but I don't know which12:12
Darkchaosoh, this time I got a connection failed, but for de.archive.ubuntu.com (141.30.62.22)12:13
lotuspsychjeDarkchaos: could it be a glitch on your side?12:14
Darkchaoslotuspsychje: Could well be, though said IP is pingable but doesn't load in the browser either (times out)12:14
lotuspsychjeDarkchaos: come join #ubuntu-mirrors please12:15
DarkchaosOthers on the same Hostname work well, though, so maybe it's just one host12:15
u0_105hi all12:25
lotuspsychjeDarkchaos: tnx for reporting & testing12:28
netcrashcrablab: tatertots ... 18.04 version12:28
Darkchaoslotuspsychje: no problem :)12:29
daedelothstill stuck at "vfs cannot open root device "vda1" or known-block(0,0)"12:43
daedelothi think i'll try to get my data out by using chroot12:44
crablabnetcrash thanks - that doesn't sound like an Ubuntu issue tbh. As tatertots says, it could well be other software12:52
netcrashcrablab: network manager?13:01
EriC^^daedeloth: pethaps you need to remove grub-legacy-ec2 package? it mentions handling update-grub for ec2 instances, which i think is only amazon?13:03
EriC^^daedeloth: this is the bad line in grub linux.......root=/dev/vda113:04
EriC^^i'm pretty sure the standard update-grub is not running cause in /etc/default/grub this is commented out #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true13:05
EriC^^(usually it needs to be uncommented for grub to not use uuid in that linux line)13:06
daedelothit was commented, but i'm currently experimenting with uncommenting it? :)13:06
EriC^^daedeloth: you want it commented13:06
EriC^^daedeloth: try to remove the package grub-legacy-ec213:07
daedelothdone :) rebooting13:07
EriC^^hold on..13:07
daedelothnot rebooting yet :D13:07
EriC^^daedeloth: :D13:07
EriC^^daedeloth: type 'grep linux /boot/grub/grub.cfg'13:08
EriC^^does it say root=UUID=................ in those lines13:08
daedelothno13:08
daedeloth        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-76-generic root=/dev/vda1 ro  console=tty1 console=ttyS013:08
daedelothit does say so on older kernels though13:09
daedeloth                linux   /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-44-generic root=UUID=08dd41c5-b149-4ce0-8458-39e929819aef ro recovery nomodeset13:09
littlekimmywhat's the way to timestamp sth13:10
EriC^^daedeloth: odd, what about if you run sudo grub-mkconfig | grep "76.*root=UUID"13:12
EriC^^does it show the right line?13:12
daedelothhttps://paste.ubuntu.com/p/G6kmWvS9Rp/13:14
daedelothmaybe if i purge & reinstall grub itself? :P13:16
EriC^^daedeloth: it's pretty odd, cause i think the same file compiles it in /etc/default/grub, it's using vda1 for the first one, then uuid as it should for the 2nd13:16
EriC^^daedeloth: what does ls -l /etc/grub.d/10_linux*13:17
EriC^^give for the sizes?13:17
EriC^^sorry ls -l /etc/grub.d/*linux*13:18
Boyettehi13:18
Boyettei have a problem13:18
Boyettehopefully someone can help me13:18
EriC^^mine's 12512 for linux13:18
daedeloth1269313:18
EriC^^and 11082 for linux xen13:18
daedeloth1129813:18
EriC^^aha13:18
EriC^^maybe that's it13:18
EriC^^daedeloth: which ubuntu version was this?13:19
EriC^^apparently grub-common is responsible for those files13:19
daedelothit started out at 17.10 and now i don't know what it is :)13:19
EriC^^daedeloth: type "cat /etc/issue"13:20
daedelothUbuntu 18.04.1 LTS13:20
EriC^^!info grub-common xenial13:20
EriC^^!info grub-common bionic13:20
ubottugrub-common (source: grub2): GRand Unified Bootloader (common files). In component main, is optional. Version 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.23 (xenial), package size 1664 kB, installed size 11632 kB13:20
ubottugrub-common (source: grub2): GRand Unified Bootloader (common files). In component main, is optional. Version 2.02-2ubuntu8.14 (bionic), package size 1730 kB, installed size 12064 kB13:20
EriC^^daedeloth: in any case, i guess doing "sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-common grub2-common" won't harm13:21
EriC^^seems the versions are different between yours and mine13:21
EriC^^try the apt command, then give grub-mkconfig | grep "76.*root" another chance and see it if shows the correct root=UUID format13:22
daedelothfiles didn't change13:22
EriC^^oh13:22
EriC^^daedeloth: well, you could create your own grub entry if you want13:22
daedelothmaybe purge it? or will that cause undesirable effects/ :P13:23
EriC^^daedeloth: what i'd do right now is get the system fully updated, i think you should be at 18.04.3 or so13:23
EriC^^nah purging would remove the other grub stuff too (grub-pc etc)13:23
EriC^^try sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade13:23
EriC^^that should get it up to date13:23
EriC^^then i guess we can make a custom grub entry in /etc/grub.d/40_custom13:24
daedelothhm wait, this is starngem i don't think i have an ubuntu repo in my sources13:24
daedelothhttps://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N85m8qZnHN/13:24
EriC^^yeah digitalocean might have their own repo i guess?13:24
daedelothah yea mirror.digitalocean.com/ubuntu13:24
EriC^^it looks good13:25
daedelothbut dist-upgrade tells me everything is up to date13:25
EriC^^!info linux-generic bionic13:25
ubottulinux-generic (source: linux-meta): Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers. In component main, is optional. Version 4.15.0.76.78 (bionic), package size 1 kB, installed size 15 kB13:25
EriC^^hmm it seems so13:25
EriC^^daedeloth: ok, let's make the custom grub entry13:26
EriC^^daedeloth: type 'sudo nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom'13:26
daedelothyep am there13:26
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EriC^^daedeloth: paste these below what's already there https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/KFFxK5fsf8/13:29
EriC^^i removed "ro" from the line since that makes it boot in read-only, also no idea why it's there13:29
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EriC^^oh actually it's supposed to be, derp13:30
EriC^^daedeloth: use this one instead https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4dkCT9T9SJ/13:30
daedelothokay, done :) and now update-grub?13:31
EriC^^yup13:31
daedelothdoes that mean it's default now? i've never been able to see the blue menu13:31
EriC^^nope not yet13:32
daedelothah i found the file that sets grub_timeout to 013:32
daedelothset it to 6013:33
daedelothgoing to try to reboot now :)13:33
EriC^^i set13:33
EriC^^1 sec13:33
EriC^^daedeloth: type 'sudo nano /etc/default/grub'13:34
EriC^^set GRUB_DEFAULT="Ubuntu-76"13:34
EriC^^then update-grub13:34
imiis there a way to figure out from commandline whether a given block device/partition is in use? e.g mounted, used as a lvm physical volume, used by LUKS, or any other way?13:36
daedelothok, and now reboot, right? :)13:37
daedelothok well update-grub is working apparently, but: VFC: cannot open root device "UUID=08dd41c5-b149-4cd0-8458-39e929-819aef" or unknown-block(0,0)13:38
daedeloth:(13:38
EriC^^daedeloth: does the 44 kernel work by any chance?13:39
daedelothfor some reason the menu doesn't show up13:39
EriC^^daedeloth: try GRUB_DEFAULT="Advanced options for Ubuntu>Ubuntu, with Linux 4.15.0-44-generic"13:40
EriC^^update-grub and see13:40
Boyetteon ubuntu 18.04 , I tried to install icaclient with gdebi, when installing this my system crashed or something and got to the login welcome screen.. everytime i tryto install ica client it happens again, when i try to apt-get upgrade now i get dpkg was interrupted error, if i try to -configure -a i also crash to mainscreen again seems installation of icaclient is still pending.. how to cancel this permanently?13:41
daedelothno, same error, it's like that block device simply doesn't exist :/13:47
EriC^^daedeloth: odd13:56
daedelothhm13:58
daedelotheuh, it booted :o14:03
daedelothwth14:04
daedelothi was tryin gto get the boot menu to show by commenting out GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET14:05
daedelothand GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=114:05
daedelothrebooted and... it just worked14:06
daedelothbut only the old kernel14:07
daedelothrunning 4.15.0-44-generic14:07
beaver,14:26
lotuspsychjecan we help you beaver ?14:26
Boyette@lotuspsychje14:28
Boyettecan you try to help me?14:28
lotuspsychjeBoyette: the volunteers will listen, when you ask your question14:29
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Boyetteon ubuntu 18.04 , I tried to install icaclient with gdebi, when installing this my system crashed or something and got to the login welcome screen.. everytime i tryto install ica client it happens again, when i try to apt-get upgrade now i get dpkg was interrupted error, if i try to -configure -a i also crash to mainscreen again seems installation of icaclient is still pending.. how to cancel this permanently?14:40
BluesKajHowdy folks14:46
markus_4x4Hi. I've got a 18.04 Ubuntu Server running on a remote VPS at a provider. I now want to create an image and store it locally. I've got foll access via SSH. What is the best way to achieve this?14:48
markus_4x4I've read about dd but in my case it didn't work, surely because I've entered syntax wrong.14:50
roryi don't think you can achieve that, markus_4x4, not from the running machine itsself14:50
roryyou can back up the filesystem contents using tar or similar14:50
markus_4x4the providers offers a rescue mode with the possibility to mount the volume seperately14:51
markus_4x4would it then work?14:51
roryyeah but you'd need some storage space to store the image14:51
roryrescue mode will probably be very minimal and not enough space for an entire copy of the root FS14:51
markus_4x4that's why I want to store it locally14:51
rorybut at the time you are making the image using dd, you need space on the machine to store it14:52
roryyou can't run dd over the internet14:52
roryif your provider lets you rent an additional drive you can mount in rescue mode, that might work14:52
markus_4x4ah, I see the point14:52
roryyou could mount some kind of network storage14:53
roryit all depends on what can be done in the recovery mode.14:53
markus_4x4so first step would be to check out how many storage the rescue mode provides14:53
markus_4x4would rsync help, as an alternative?14:54
roryrsync works on files, so that would be backing up the filesystem *contents*14:54
rorywhich may be perfect for you.14:54
roryyou may not need an image at all. your call.14:54
markus_4x4theres running gitlab and I wanted to download the server with the ability to reactivate it on another machine later on.14:55
markus_4x4is file downloading with rsync sufficient for this?14:56
roryyou won't be able to just take an image of a running gitlab server, bring it up somewhere else and have it carry on running as if no time passed14:56
roryit sounds like you should back up the entire / directory of your VPS (with rsync), then set up gitlab fresh on the new server, and copy the configuration from the backup.14:57
roryyou can copy the entire gitlab data directory etc and it might work OK but check their docs for any migration steps14:58
rorytrying to migrate an entire OS from a VPS to another machine is only going to cause you headaches and heartbreak later on14:58
markus_4x4ok. so rsync is the way to go. As a background: at the moment I don't need the server any more but want to backup the content for the unlikely case needing it later for legal reasons15:01
roryyou absolutely want rsync / tar or similar. you care about the filesystem contents being backed up. an image is overkill.15:01
roryhey maybe your VPS provider has a way to image a machine and store it for you to download?15:02
rorybut an image will be more annoying to deal with in future, compared to a flat file archive15:03
markus_4x4I've already asked at my provider. In my plan there is no chance to get images. But as you said, I'm completely fine with the content and will try the rsync option15:04
rorystop gitlab before taking the backup, if possible.15:07
markus_4x4yes, I'll reboot in rescue mode and then rsync15:07
markus_4x4how can I enter the path in ssh to my local machine?15:08
tatertotslol you're going to attempt to image a running system while it's running?...15:10
tatertotsaww15:10
markus_4x4no I don't. I'll reboot in rescue mode, where the server is not running any more. I then (hopefully) will have direct access to the harddisk and try to rsync all files to my local machine15:12
parrotloverIf I make a modified Ubuntu ISO using a chroot method to modify the live image, simply to make a purpose driven live boot media with packages and software not included in the release and with lots removed and changed... can I distribute that, is that alloweD?15:14
markus_4x4but I'm a terminal noob and so I'm not sure about how to enter the correct syntax for downloading the files to my local machine15:14
tatertotseven in rescue mode certain OS files are "in use" ..meaning rescue mode is NOT equal to a system in a "Cold" powered "off" status/state.....but good luck with that15:14
markus_4x4Once rescue mode has been activated, your instance’s data will be attached as an additional disk. You will now need to mount it, by taking the following steps.15:16
markus_4x4First, establish an SSH connection to your instance. Once you’re connected, verify the available disks with this command:15:16
markus_4x4This is copied from the provider15:16
markus_4x4It seems that the rescue mode shuts down the server completely so that I have to mount the volume manually15:17
markus_4x4@tatertos do you think this is kind of a cold status?15:18
tatertotsthe part that says "your instances data will be attached as an additional disk"15:25
tatertotsin order for the image to be bootable when restored later...not only just "data" but the entire OS would need to be included in the image...when you restore this..you'll probably only have your "instances data"15:26
sveinseI have a Lenovo P51 laptop with hybrid graphics, working fine in 18.04. I installed 19.10 and discovered that it is unable to use the external screen, regardless of nvidia drivers or not. So I just installed 20.04 daily, and the problem prevails there. So what can I do? I will assume that it is a willingness to get it up and running as the Lenovo P51 is one of the machines "certified for pre-install for15:27
sveinseUbuntu"...15:27
tatertotsso to me it's designed to be restored back to their environment...not a portable image that you are free to restore to any bare metal server/system15:28
tatertotssounds like you can back it up and restore it back to the same VPS provider at a later time if you wanted15:28
nikolamWhy thid freaking VLC in Ubuntu 19.10 is freezing all the time? When I start playing some of the movie files with it, it sometimes just freezes and only kill -9 can kill it..15:36
lotuspsychjenikolam: anything usefull in your journal logs, start vlc from termina aswell?15:55
lotuspsychje*terminal15:55
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Boyetteanyone can help me?16:31
Boyetteered that it is unable to use the external screen, regardless of nvidia drivers or not. So I just installed 20.04 daily, and the problem prevails there. So what can I16:31
Boyetteon ubuntu 18.04 , I tried to install icaclient with gdebi, when installing this my system crashed or something and got to the login welcome screen.. everytime i tryto install ica client it happens again, when i try to apt-get upgrade now i get dpkg was interrupted error, if i try to -configure -a i also crash to mainscreen again seems installation of icaclient is still pending.. how to cancel this permanently?16:32
tomreyn"ered"?16:33
ioriasounds a borked copy/paste16:33
tomreynyes, something seems to have gotten lost there in at least one direction, Boyette16:34
ioriaBoyette, i can't find this icaclient in repos (citrix ?); so i assume is an external pkg; you can run   dpkg -l | grep -vE "^ii|^rc"   to check if something has broken16:36
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Boyetteicaclient_13.3.0.344519_amd64.deb16:56
Boyettei used16:56
Boyettehttps://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/linux/receiver-for-linux-latest.html16:56
Boyettehttps://pastebin.com/SvQfj0ib17:00
tomreyntry getting support from citrix on this, refer to their documentation.17:00
Boyetteoutput for dpkg -l | grep -vE "^ii|^rc17:00
Boyettei dont need the ica client anymore17:00
Boyettebut my system is broken now17:00
Boyettebecause upgrade function is broken17:00
Boyetteand also something is wrong with my graphic drivers17:00
sveinseHow should I approach it when I have problems using multiple screens in 19.10 and 20.04? It works in 18.0417:04
pragmaticenigmasveinse: 20.04 isn't released yet, so support here will focus on 19.10. What are you experiencing when you attempt to use multiple monitors in 19.10. Provide as many details as you can please17:05
tatertotsjust use 18.0417:05
tatertotslol17:05
ioriaBoyette, so sudo apt purge icaclient fails, right ?17:05
tatertotsthat's how i would approach it ...personally lol17:05
tomreynBoyette: providing this can be a good first step (it doesn't amke any changes):   sudo /bin/true && cat &>/tmp/aptlog < <(sudo apt-get -y update 2>&1; apt-cache policy 2>&1; sudo apt-get -syV full-upgrade 2>&1;); nc termbin.com 9999 </tmp/aptlog && rm /tmp/aptlog17:06
Boyettepurge icaclient gives dpkg was interrupted17:06
sveinsetatertots: sure, but at one point 20.04 will be released, and I expect it is interesting to figure this out17:06
sveinsepragmaticenigma: yeah, I assume the issue on 20.04 is the same as 19.10. It was based on an earlier reccomendation to try something newer. As for details:17:07
ioriaBoyette, please highlight the person you're talking to;  sudo dpkg -P icaclient17:08
tatertotssveinse: if 18.04 is a LTS release, i wouldn't even worry about it being "interesting" until the year 202317:08
Boyettehttps://termbin.com/6rez17:08
sveinsepragmaticenigma: I have a Lenovo P51 laptop with hybrid graphics, working fine in 18.04. I installed 19.10 and discovered that it is unable to use the external screen, regardless of nvidia drivers or not. There is no more than one display in "Displays"17:09
Boyetteok17:10
Boyettei was kicked out of my session17:10
Boyettehow to highlight?17:10
Boyettedpkg -P icaclient17:10
Boyettekicked me out of my session17:10
Boyetteand when i login17:11
Boyettei get17:11
Boyettesystemproblem detected17:11
ioriaBoyette, just include the nickname17:11
Boyetteioria ok17:11
ioriagood17:11
Boyetteioria, ok17:11
Boyette@tomreyn https://termbin.com/6rez17:11
Boyettetomreyn https://termbin.com/6rez17:12
ioriaBoyette, i see a bunch of ppa ; wine 5, graphic driver, gcc, even your Destop Env17:12
tomreynBoyette: you really, really, should not mix apt sources for different ubuntu releases.17:13
ioriaBoyette, i'am not surprised you're system is a bit unstable17:13
Boyetteok17:13
Boyetteat least we found something17:13
parrotloverbuilding from kernel used to have a meta package to install all tools and deps, what happened to that?17:13
Boyettehow to fix this?17:13
sveinseIs there anywhere to get support with the graphics setup, where you're at the level of "it doesn't work"? I can of course abandon 19.10 for now, and wait for 20.04 and cross my fingers that it is fixed by release. Yet there is a motivation of getting newer tools and version that leads me to the newer distros in the first place...17:17
tomreynBoyette: don't do it in the first place.you can now remove incompatible and unsupported PPAs and downgrade and purge packages from there as needed, but i don't feel like guiding right now. the immediate issue, which is about the icaclient package not installing, needs to be fixed first, though. output from     dpkg --configure -a     may hint on what would need doing.17:17
ioriaBoyette,  paste the errors from  sudo apt full-upgrade17:17
Boyettedpkg -- configure - a17:18
Boyettei already tried17:18
Boyettei get kicked out to the login screen17:18
Boyettemy session is lost17:18
Boyetteand i get a message17:18
Boyettesystem error detected17:18
tomreyn!enter | Boyette17:18
ubottuBoyette: Please try and keep as much of your info as possible on ONE line - easier to follow for everyone.17:18
ioriawe got that17:18
Boyettei dont need the ica client anymore just want to remove it17:18
Boyetteubottu ok17:18
ubottuYou're welcome! But keep in mind I'm just a bot ;-)17:18
ioriaBoyette,   sudo dpkg -P icaclient17:18
Boyetteioria i already did this17:18
ioriaand ?17:19
Boyettethen i get a blackscreen, a few seconds later im on the login screen, i need to login again, my session is gone, and i get a message on my desktop SYSTEMERROR DETECTED17:19
ioriaBoyette,   are you logged right now in session ?17:20
Boyetteyes17:20
ioriaBoyette,   sudo dpkg -P icaclient17:20
Boyetteim using the same desktop17:20
Boyetteas i use to type here17:20
Boyetteit will probably cut the chat again17:20
ioriaBoyette,  it would be weird17:21
Boyettesudo dpkg -p icaclient , i already did this, it justdoesnt work17:21
Boyetteit makes my session crash17:21
ioriaBoyette,  please, the output17:21
Boyettei cant see the output becuase my session crashes17:21
tomreynyou can run commands in a tty17:22
tomreyn!tty17:22
ubottuTo get to the TTY terminals 3-6, use the keystroke Ctrl + Alt + F3-F6 respectively. Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-F1 will get you back to your graphical login (Ctrl-Alt-F7 on 16.04). To change TTY resolution, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ChangeTTYResolution17:22
Boyetteif i do that its like i type reboot17:22
ioriaBoyette,  logout, ctrl+alt+f1 , stop your DM, and run the cmd17:22
tomreynthen it's maybe too late for this system and you should just reinstall17:22
ioriaBoyette,  ctrl+alt+f317:22
ioriaBoyette,  hard to believe you can run an irc client and cannot use dpkg17:24
Boyettein tty3 it seemed to work17:25
Boyetteand it purged17:25
ioriaBoyette,  dpkg -l | grep -vE "^ii|^rc"  | pastebinit17:26
Boyetteioria https://pastebin.com/BXAddyR117:27
ioriaBoyette,   sudo apt full-upgrade17:28
Boyetteseems to work now17:28
ioriaBoyette,   sudo dpkg --configure -a17:29
ioriaBoyette,  when has finished,  i mean17:30
Boyettedone17:30
ioriaBoyette,   sudo dpkg --configure -a17:30
Boyettewithout errors executed17:30
ioriaBoyette,  uname -r17:30
Boyette5.3.0-28-generic17:30
ioriaBoyette,  ls -al /var/crash | pastebinit17:31
Boyettehttp://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W7yxS887my/17:32
ioriaBoyette,  marco , iirc, is the DM of mate ? correct ?17:33
NelsonMinarIs there a way still to upgrade an Ubuntu 18.10 system to either 19.04 or 19.10? I looked for solutions online and tried advice involving using http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu, but that didn't work for me.17:34
ioriaBoyette, cd /var/crash  and remove thos files17:35
ioria NelsonMinar if you have backups; you can edit /etc/apt/sources.list ; replace cosmic with eoan and update and full-upgrade and pray17:39
NelsonMinarThat's a little more.. uncertain than I'd like. I think the files to upgrade 18.10 to 19.04 are still around, but when I try to do the upgrade via old-releases I get an error "The repository 'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file."17:40
EriC^^NelsonMinar: why did it not work?17:40
NelsonMinar(details on what I tried and failures here: https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/cant-upgrade-ubuntu-18-10-to-19-10/17:40
EriC^^reading17:40
ioriaBoyette, then reboot (i suggest to check that arfull ppa ~samoilov-lex/aftl-stable )17:41
EriC^^NelsonMinar: cosmic is still in the normal repos ( http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ )17:41
NelsonMinarThis advice about using old-releases mostly seems to come from the Ubuntu 12/14 era, no idea if I should even expect it to work.17:41
EriC^^NelsonMinar: set the sources.list back to archive.ubuntu.com17:42
Boyettexorg crash file is locked17:42
EriC^^NelsonMinar: dont forget the security.ubuntu.com one17:42
NelsonMinarEriC^^: yeah, I put my sources.list back to the way it was before. but then do-release-upgrade wants to leap to 19.10 which doesn't work.  how do I run the version of do-release-upgrade that upgrades to 19.04?17:42
ioriaBoyette, you need sudo17:42
CarlFKThe repository 'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic Release'  <- Release looks weird.17:42
EriC^^NelsonMinar: then type "grep -i prompt /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades"17:43
ioriaNelsonMinar, 19.04 is eol17:43
CarlFKNelsonMinar: try  'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic main'17:43
NelsonMinarioria, I know! but I think I have to go 18.10 -> 19.04 first. there's no 18.10 -> 19.10 direct path.17:43
NelsonMinarEriC^^: Prompt=normal17:44
ioriaNelsonMinar, not sure if is dead17:44
EriC^^ok, that's not what you want i think17:44
EriC^^NelsonMinar: nevermind, actually it is17:44
Boyetteyes done17:45
ioriaBoyette, isit clean ?17:45
EriC^^NelsonMinar: did you update the system prior? type "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"17:45
NelsonMinarEriC^^ I agree that's probably right. But the 18.10->19.04 upgrade is gone now because both versions are EOL. Yes, I did update already.17:45
NelsonMinarCarlFK: that suggestion about "cosmic Release" is encouraging. this sed command I used to swap URLs may have done something wrong. will explore.17:47
ioriaNelsonMinar, you can try 2 things: 1) use old-release and upgrade temporary to 19.04 2) edit sources.list and try to get eoan 19.1017:47
ioriaNelsonMinar, if you paste sources.list you can have a look togheter17:47
EriC^^NelsonMinar: it seems you might have to change the cosmic to eoan in the sources.list and apt update & dist-upgrade17:48
NelsonMinarEriC^^: yeah but that's a straight 18.10 -> 19.10 upgrade, skipping 19.04. will that work? I worry there's some magic shell script that updates config files for 19.04 that it won't run17:48
EriC^^NelsonMinar: oh17:49
EriC^^!19.0417:49
ubottuUbuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) was the 30th release of Ubuntu, support ended January 2020. see !eol and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2020-January/005263.html17:49
EriC^^NelsonMinar: you could replace cosmic with disco17:49
ioriaNelsonMinar, why are you talking  about 19.04 ?17:49
EriC^^upgrade to that, then upgrade to 19.1017:49
EriC^^!19.1017:50
ubottuUbuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) is the 31st release of Ubuntu, supported until July 2020. Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes17:50
Boyetteback17:50
NelsonMinarioria: because I have an 18.10 system. my understanding is do-release-upgrade only ever upgrades one version at a time. 18.10 -> 19.10 is explicitly not supported. "An upgrade from 'cosmic' to 'eoan' is not supported with this tool."17:50
Boyettehttp://paste.ubuntu.com/p/qJC2KfBSx3/17:51
ioriaNelsonMinar, in general yes, but 19.04 is dead17:51
NelsonMinarThis is the old-releases version of my sources.list that doesn't work. CarlFK, it doesn't have any bad line like you suggested, but that's still the error I get. https://gist.github.com/NelsonMinar/a5d7ef7256ff37e15132f5d5a400b74a17:51
NelsonMinarE: The repository 'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file.17:51
NelsonMinarioria: right. so what's someone with an old 18.10 system supposed to do? am I just out of luck?17:52
pragmaticenigmasveinse: I would try running the Live disk of 19.10 and see if the problem is there as well.  If it doesn't happen there, then that points to a driver issue. Which means you might need to make sure the proper driver is actually installed. nVidia drivers in the main Ubuntu repo sometimes aren't fully tuned. I use the Graphics Teams PPA personally, which I have found better stability with.17:52
ioriaNelsonMinar, you waited too much17:52
EriC^NelsonMinar: replace cosmic with disco, leaving archive.ubuntu.com17:52
NelsonMinarEriC^: and just hope that "apt upgrade" works without running "do-release-upgrade"?17:53
EriC^NelsonMinar: why dont you fresh install though, typically it's better even than using the upgrader17:53
pragmaticenigmaNelsonMinar: See this document for help upgrading releases that are past their support cycle: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades17:53
NelsonMinarclassic problem: my system has grown a bunch of barnacles of custom cron jobs, systemd units, etc. yes yes I'm a sloppy sysadmin. just surprised that being two weeks late to upgrade might mean your system is orphaned forever.17:53
EriC^you could backup your stuff, needed programs list, have them reinstalled17:53
tomreynNelsonMinar: cosmic is still on http://archive.ubuntu.com apparently, see http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/17:54
EriC^i dont remember it being like this, i remember people sometimes upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 and stuff17:54
NelsonMinarpragmaticenigma: are those docs still relevant? I tend to ignore Ubuntu pages with instructions on how to manage 15 year old Ubuntu systems.17:54
EriC^i dont see a technical reason why the upgrader would refuse your request17:55
ioriaBoyette, told you to clean that directory17:55
NelsonMinarEric^: those were LTS releases though, they have special support17:55
EriC^NelsonMinar: i also think non lts was done, 7.04 etc17:55
NelsonMinarI feel like I'm wasting everyone's time now. was hoping someone just knew a solution. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll probably just end up reinstalling.17:55
pragmaticenigmaNelsonMinar: I saw nothing on that screen to indicate anything about 15 year old ubuntu systems... and the page I referenced was updated in 2018... so It's being managed and updated17:55
EriC^NelsonMinar: i mean there's really no technical reason behind it, the files are there, even in the archive.ubuntu.com repo17:55
NelsonMinarEriC^: I know!17:56
EriC^NelsonMinar: could you run an strace on it, just to see what it might be up to "behind the scenes" ?17:56
ioriaboth inregular and in old-release17:56
EriC^sudo -i17:56
EriC^strace -o /tmp/upgraderlog do-release-upgrade17:56
NelsonMinarI think it's really simple: do-release-upgrade only now supports upgrading 19.04 to 19.10. i need to somehow manage to run the old tool that upgrades 18.10 to 19.04.17:57
NelsonMinarand that old tool exists in repos, but I don't know how to convince Ubuntu to run it17:58
EriC^NelsonMinar: interesting, it seems they stopped support at some point, see here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/Jaunty17:58
EriC^NelsonMinar: there is an alternative upgrade path in a link there, as well as a workaround17:58
NelsonMinarwell, there was in 200917:59
EriC^so?17:59
ioriaNelsonMinar, you can edit one system file '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py' and change some lines  ir order to bypass the release check17:59
pragmaticenigmaNelsonMinar: See this document for help upgrading releases that are past their support cycle: This is still valid: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades18:00
ioriaBoyette, but these are just hacks; the official answer (as i said) is that you  waited too much before upgrade18:01
NelsonMinarthanks pragmaticenigma. those seem to rely on trusting apt-get dist-upgrade to do the full upgrade. is that reliable? or does do-release-upgrade do more than that?18:01
pragmaticenigmaNelsonMinar: Those instructions are the manual process that the automation tool does for you.18:02
NelsonMinarbut it's not like do-release-upgrade also has some special migration script baked in that modifies config files, etc?18:02
pragmaticenigmaNelsonMinar: The problem is the automation tool relies on a part that is no longer available. Which is the approach everyone here is trying to send to you18:02
pragmaticenigmaThe do-release-upgrade tool validates package dependencies, to offer warnings about packages that are no longer compatible with the next Ubuntu release.18:03
linelevelHi, I flashed Ubuntu 18.04 on my USB drive using the official instructions, and it works! But when I insert the USB drive into an already-booted Mac, it says it's unreadable. Why is that, given that the USB drive is formatted as FAT (not ext3/4)?18:03
EriC^NelsonMinar: according to here the packages themselves config and make assumptions on old formats, take it with a grain of salt though as usual https://askubuntu.com/questions/34430/can-i-skip-over-releases-when-upgrading18:05
EriC^(btw that's from the "2009 link" you were too lazy to read)18:05
tomreynlinelevel: probably because it has a special "hybrid" (both BIOS and UEFI bootable) partition table18:05
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EriC^NelsonMinar: the other link goes over the workaround18:05
NelsonMinarnot too lazy, EriC^. I did read it. I've been burned by outdated Ubuntu docs many times, which is why I asked.18:05
EriC^NelsonMinar: you read it in the 5secs it took you to respond, ok18:06
NelsonMinarI've taken too much time here already. I think I have two options. Either a full reinstall. Or else try ignoring do-release-upgrade and just use apt-get dist-upgrade to manually upgrade to 19.04 first.18:06
lineleveltomreyn: Is there any way for me to read the content of this drive from within OS X? I'd like to pull some files off of it without rebooting. I have used OSXFuse in the past to read ext3/4 drives, but I'm not sure if that applies here.18:06
EriC^i dont care anyways18:06
ioriaNelsonMinar, nope, you still have another option, if you want18:07
tatertotslinelevel: you could have just extracted the content of the ISO file directly or mounted the ISO file18:07
biebI am in a similar situation as Nelson.. I have a 14.04lts server with WordPress. I need to upgrade to PHP5.6 or higher for gravityforms. Is there anything I should watch for on the WP front when doing the upgrade to 16.04? or later?18:07
NelsonMinarioria, what'd I miss? your suggestion to disable the checks about the upgrade not being supported?18:07
lineleveltatertots: No, I've booted into this drive and saved files to the Ubuntu OS on the drive. I want to extract those files now.18:07
ioriaNelsonMinar, yes, :þ18:08
NelsonMinarioria: ok thanks.18:08
tatertotslinelevel:  strange a second ago you claimed to be booted to MacOS/iOS and have it plugged in to the USB while booted to MacOS18:08
NelsonMinarand thanks to everyone for the help, even you EriC^. Appreciate you caring for awhile. Ciao!18:08
ioriaNelsonMinar, i think this is you : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1205947/how-can-i-upgrade-from-ubuntu-18-10-to-19-1018:09
tatertotslinelevel: so you've made a LiveDVD/LiveUSB with "persistence" correct?18:09
lineleveltatertots: My phrasing was poor. In the past, I have booted into Ubuntu using this USB drive and saved files to my home directory. Now, I'm booted in OS X and would like to read those files from the drive.18:09
EriC^NelsonMinar: lol i cared, but you didnt want to even read the link on why they switched, or the workaround18:09
lineleveltatertots: Yes, exactly.18:09
EriC^hilarious18:09
NelsonMinarioria: that question is not me, but I did write a comment.18:09
ioriaok18:09
NelsonMinar(love how they closed it as already answered. none of the linked answers work, at least not for me.)18:09
EriC^NelsonMinar: there's a huge line between wanting to be spoonfed, and actually needing help, that's all18:10
tatertotslinelevel: if it is fact that you created a LiveUSB/LiveDVD with "persistence" you should save any data to the cloud/icloud/dropbox/google drive or to a USB mass storage device to later use when booted to MacOS/iOS18:10
EriC^i handheld a lot, but laziness and only-child syndrome, no thanks18:10
ioriaback to work18:10
tomreynlinelevel: i don't know enough about os x to answer your questions. good luck.18:10
tatertotslinelevel: path of least resistance18:10
lineleveltatertots: Yes, that is a potential solution. But I'd like to avoid needing to reboot every time I want to access a file that was perviously persisted to the home directory.18:11
linelevelI guess I'm being too ambitious.18:11
deadromhi18:12
tatertotslinelevel: if you want more resistance than what i said above I'm going to echo tomreyn18:12
linelevelOkay. Thank you both for your help.18:12
tatertotslinelevel: sorry don't know MacOS enough to help ya18:12
linelevelNo worries. I'll keep googling. tomreyn's response about the hybrid partition table gives me new avenues to look into, so this conversation was still useful.18:13
pjsanyone have any ideas as to why cairo and pangocairo are suddently not being found when running configure for i3? Never been an issue before and they are installed with the latest version.18:14
tomreynlinelevel: there may well be some os x support channel here on freenode where you could potentially get help with accessing this file system from that other OS (not really an ubuntu support topic). something else you could do is to try to identify a file system both OSes support and create that on another storage which both OSes can then access18:14
jnewti'm connected to an ubuntu machine via ssh.   apparently i'm not in the sudoers file, how this happened, I have no idea.   is there any way for me to get full access without physically being at the machine?18:14
sarnoldpjs: did you install the development headers too? build-essential?18:14
sarnoldpjs: btw why are you rebuilding i3?18:14
jnewti built the computer and installed ubuntu probably 2 years ago and it probably needs security updates (and who knows what else).18:15
pragmaticenigmajnewt: No... that would defeat the purpose of the all the protections in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening18:16
pragmaticenigmajnewt: The only remote way around it is to find someone else with an acocunt that is part of the sudoers list18:17
jnewtpragmaticenigma, there's only one user account that I know of.18:17
pragmaticenigmajnewt: then physical access will be required... so you can drop the machine in to the necassary mode so you can add yourself to the sudoers list18:18
deadromLogitech H600 headset (USB dongle) on 18.04, no idea what changed, but sound playback used to be A-ok and now has weird little glitches and stutters. could use some help narrowing down the error. I think it's a a/v sync issue, which supports my theory that the issue arose when I went from "nvidia native" to "intel+nvidia". Dell M4800.18:19
pragmaticenigmadeadrom: I would attempt to go back to just the "nvidia native" state to see if it resolves18:19
sarnoldjnewt: any chance it's got an ubuntu account or similar?18:19
sarnoldjnewt: grep sudo /etc/group   # p[robably will do the job18:20
deadromI just remembered that an nvidia dev once showed me an article on intel-nv syncing on laptops and how it's done and how a better sync option will come on 19.04 or 19.10.18:21
pjssarnold: Oh yea. I've build i3 several times. I usually do it twice a month lol18:23
pjssarnold: I run i3-gaps18:23
sarnoldpjs: aha!18:24
pjsruh roh18:24
pjsproblem?18:24
bieb have a 14.04lts server with WordPress. I need to upgrade to PHP5.6 or higher for gravityforms. Is there anything I should watch for on the WP front when doing the upgrade to 16.04? or later?18:24
sarnoldno, it just makes sense now why you build it yourself ;)18:24
pjshah18:24
jnewtsarnold: output is two lines from that: sudo:x:27:sudotemp    and    sudotemp:x:100718:24
sarnoldjnewt: can you log in as the sudotemp user?18:25
sarnoldbieb: doublecheck if apache's access controls changed between those versions18:25
sarnoldbieb: you may need to invest some time in changing apache configs, but I can't recall which version upgrade caused that change18:25
jnewtsarnold, logged in successfully18:25
sarnoldpjs: can you pastebin where you're stuck?18:25
sarnoldjnewt: yay :) now you add your user account to the sudo group -- or be happy to use this account instead18:26
biebsarnold: thanks... you think its better to go 16.04 or 18.0418:26
pjssarnold: sure, thanks: http://dpaste.com/3ASRFSW18:26
biebwould the short path avoid major changes?18:26
sarnoldbieb: the supported upgrade path from 14.04 forward is to 16.04; if you want to keep going, then you'd do another round of upgrading to 18.04 next18:27
sarnoldbieb: I think it'd be worth the double-upgrade, just beacuse 16.04 is going to EOL in ~13 months, you'll want to upgrade sooner or later..18:28
biebsarnold: that makes sense too18:28
lordcirthbieb, I would seriously consider making a fresh server with 18.04 and moving your site to it18:28
lordcirthupgrading should work, but it never ends up quite the same18:28
bieblordcirth: thanks18:29
sarnoldpjs: try apt install libcairo2-dev  libpangocairo-1.0-0   and see if you get further18:30
pjssarnold: same18:32
sarnoldoh hah I managed to overlook that libpangocairo-1.0-0 was already installed. man this is going to be a long day..18:33
pjshah yea. I thought maybe uninstall and reinstall but a lot of deps and don't feel like troubleshooting that crap all day18:34
sarnoldoh strange. apt-file search /usr/share/pkgconfig/*pango* and /usr/share/pkgconfig/*cairo* don't find anything on my system18:35
pjssarnold: well at least I learned of apt-file :)18:41
ioriapjs, sudo apt install libxcb1-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libpango1.0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libyajl-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libev-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev autoconf xutils-dev libtool libxcb-shape0-dev18:42
pjsioria: wow, did the job! thank you!18:46
ioriapjs, ok18:46
sarnoldhaha18:47
sarnoldnice :D18:47
Boyetteioria my main problem is solved only my video performance is terrible18:48
pjssarnold: lol yea most of those I had latest version but libpango1.0-dev (and a few others) I didn't.. weird it always worked. Maybe I accidentally removed it getting rid of something else18:48
sarnoldpjs: I'm glad ioria knew the secret sauce :) I wish I knew where exactly I went wrong..18:48
pjssarnold: all good.. thank you for your help as well.18:53
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Harlinanyone else's graphics go bad after latest update? I've a x1 thinkpad and now my games are terrible and can't figure out why.19:16
pjsHarlin: I have an x1c6 but things seem normal. However, I don't game so maybe?19:17
robertzaccourhowdy19:29
robertzaccourWhere are the config files for snaps?19:29
wingedrhinorobertzaccour, ~/snap/appname/current19:31
robertzaccourwingedrhino Ok thanks. I'm having performance issues with a snap and I want to copy the .config file to the repo config after installing it.19:33
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sukilanybody knows how to go back to the gui with chvt command? (I can't use ctrl+alt+function keys for some reason, they do weird things, they never render consoles)19:42
sukilversion 18.04.319:43
ioriasukil, try with 219:46
ioriasukil,  sudo chvt 219:47
sukilthx19:56
sukilthough i think this is buggy, chvt 1 returned me to the same session19:56
sukilunless i misstyped my password somehow19:57
ioriasukil,  1 should be gdm19:57
cybertruck2077Hey guys19:58
cybertruck2077I updated my vulkan/mesa drivers19:58
sukiloh, then that was expected19:58
ioriayep19:58
cybertruck2077I have 2 displays one connected to ATI card and one connected to onboard intel graphics19:58
sukilthx very much19:58
cybertruck2077Now the Intel monitor is not displaying nor showing up in Settings19:58
ioriano prob19:59
cybertruck2077when I do a hwls -C display I can still see both, though19:59
Sven_vBis there a way to throttle "apt update"? my xinetd feels required to block the proxy connection attempts "Deactivating service bpcd due to excessive incoming connections." even if I set its limits to allow 2500 simultaneous connections and connection attempts 512000 per second.20:15
Sven_vB(I have that xinetd in front because my regular proxy cannot handle that kind of traffic spikes.)20:16
Sven_vBusing xenial20:16
Sven_vBerr service name is not bpcd, just copied the error message from related https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.10001685720:17
Sven_vBunfortunately their "solution" of increasing conns per sec didn't work for me20:17
bargwhen I run vnc4server or vncserver it starts new vnc servers.. how do I kill all vnc servers?20:18
Sven_vBbarg, if you're lucky, each one starts its own process so you can "kill" or "killall" them as usual20:19
bargthanks20:20
eelstrebori just did a fresh install of ubuntu 18.04.3 on a desktop but whenever i select system settings from any menu the screen locks instead of bringing up the system settings gui - a web search didn't bring up anything about this - anyone know what is causing this?20:41
Sven_vBon another note, another xenial problem: is there a way to disable support for the internal soundcard? or make pulseaudio pretend it doesn't exist?20:42
tomreyneelstrebor: could it be lack of ram?20:42
ioriaeelstrebor, start gnome-control-center from terminal ; if there's nothing, check kern.log ; probably a graphic driver issue20:45
tomreynSven_vB: i can think of three options to disable a certain device OTOH: (1) disable hardware in bios (if possible), (2) use vfio module to make Linux not use a given PCI device (by VID:DID), (3) blacklist any driver supporting it.20:46
Sven_vBright, I should have mentioned BIOS doesn't have an option for it.20:47
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Kali_YugaHello I have an issue installing an Nvidia driver on an older machine which had 16.04 installed before where the nvidia driver worked flawlessy is there anything I can do to get it back running? https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mjZPmYdgyx/21:03
Kali_YugaIt has 18.04 on it now...?21:05
Sven_vBKali_Yuga, what have you tried so far?21:07
Sven_vBoh maybe I should read the link21:07
tomreynC73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] sounds oooold, i bet nvidia no longer supports it21:08
Sven_vBKali_Yuga, try sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall21:08
Kali_YugaSven_vB: I will I'll be back in a few minutes gotta go somewhere quick...21:09
Kali_YugaSven_vB: Post Office21:10
Sven_vBhehe. no worries, I'm gonna stay and lurk as long as the freenode servers allow.21:10
tomreynif the newer drivers in  bionic (>= 340.107) don't work, there's a 2017 build of 304.137 (which is EOL) at https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=bionic21:16
tomreynand then there is nouveau21:16
eelstrebortomreyn, the pc has 8 GB of memory21:27
eelstreborgnome-control-center locks the screen also21:27
octav1aI saw a little ad for https://multipass.run/ on my server ssh session. I was severely disappointed that there was no fifth element reference on the website.21:29
tomreyninteresting, i've never heard of this. maybe check what was logged,a nd your keyboard shortcuts (if you're using any there)21:29
tomreyneelstrebor: ^21:29
eelstrebori'm not using keyboard shortcuts but i'll take a look at the logs.21:32
Kali_YugaSven_vB: autoinstall didn't work either21:43
Kali_Yugasame message21:47
Kali_Yugahttps://paste.ubuntu.com/p/CKbPjCBv3B/21:49
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eelstrebori don't know which fixed the problem but i updated the kernel (from mainline) and firmware (from git)21:55
eelstrebornow it works fine21:55
wendicoHello, i installed wine-stable several times from Ubuntu Software and running sudo apt-get install command but i dont see wine on the installed software and i cant run exe files. On the ubuntu software i see wine as installed. Any clue? thank u21:57
Ben64wendico: you need to run exe files with wine, like "wine notepad.exe"21:58
wendicoBen64 Thank you, i went to downloaded folder and runned wine +program and worked21:59
bargWhen I try to VNC to ubuntu I get this grey screen with 3 checkboxes https://i.imgur.com/NBN5R1A.png22:47
barg(to ubuntu via VNC)22:47
bargI have tried some suggestions I read online but one doesn't change anything, I still get the grey screen and 3 checkboxes, one gives me the grey screen without the three checkboxes, and one gives me a grid!22:48
barglike https://i.imgur.com/Xb2LF66.png22:49
bargthat's following various suggestions on how to amend vnc's xstartup file22:49
oerheks'various suggestions'.. interesting22:51
bargwell, I can elaborate22:52
bargi'm trying to set up vnc, this is my xstartup file, https://pastebin.com/raw/AfF2bqxQ   I think that's the default one.. I get the same error as mentioned  at these links22:53
barghttps://askubuntu.com/questions/172384/vnc-grey-screen-and-start-on-boot-12-04  and https://askubuntu.com/questions/800302/vncserver-grey-screen-ubuntu-16-04-lts and https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/vnc-viewer-showing-only-grey-screen-with-3-checkboxes-899386/22:54
bargso I start the thing  https://pastebin.com/raw/qYJePvxF then on the windows side  I run vncviewer from realvnc22:55
bargI connect to my IP:5901  or IP:1 and  I get this grey screen with three checkboxes https://i.imgur.com/NBN5R1A.png "accept clipboard from viewers", "send clipboard to viewers", "send primary selection to viewers"22:55
sarnoldLog file is /home/ubuntu/.vnc/ubuntu:1.log22:55
sarnoldwhat's in that file?>22:55
barghttps://pastebin.com/raw/7YCHiDgq22:57
sarnoldhmm. I was hoping there'd be *some* kind of explanation why that terminal didn't start..22:59
oerheksis this on 16.04 or 18.04?23:00
barg18.04.0323:01
bargthere's a suggestion here that I haven't tried yet https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51415427/whats-wrong-with-my-vncserver-setting23:01
oerheksadd the last 4 lines 14-17 on your xstartup, and restart vnc https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/remote-desktop/install-vnc-on-ubuntu-18-04/23:05
tripelb18.04 HP laptop realtek wifi. It hardly saw any wifi. I did some method and now it seems none. There is THIS https://askubuntu.com/questions/1058379/wifi-signal-is-weak-in-ubuntu-18-04-with-rtl8723be suggested method.  BUT what if I upgrade to 18.10? Will that just reload them? (better ones?)23:06
tripelbSeems >> sees23:06
bargre that stackoverflow 51415427 link that gives a grey screen with no checkboxes..23:06
bargoerheks: will try your suggestion..23:07
bargoerheks: i'll try the whole xstartup from there 'cos i've changed my xstartup a number of times so probably safer that way23:08
sarnoldtripelb: try 19.10 instead, 18.10 hasn't received any updates for ~nine months23:08
oerhekstripelb, you could try !hwe , but first, that rtl is a known troublemaker, did you add "options rtl8723be ant_sel=1" to the boot config?23:08
oerheks!hwe23:09
ubottuThe Ubuntu LTS enablement stacks provide newer kernel and X support for existing LTS releases, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack23:09
sarnoldtripelb: go with oerheks's suggestion first :)23:09
tripelbIf I go to 1910 then I erase the partition (bitch bitch groan)23:09
tripelbNo I didn't but I did some stuff from a source ¡I cannot find again! .. I wrote it all down on a card I can't do d either so it has been munged.23:11
tripelbI do declare it is a mess. I need home wifi.23:11
tripelbI am thinking to go over to UCLA tonight and find Ethernet.23:11
bargoerheks: I get a grey screen with no checkboxes, and the log says https://pastebin.com/raw/7tDKcagX23:12
tripelbAdds option to boot config anyway... Just a sec and I will reboot. (I am on a phone here)23:12
sarnold/home/ubuntu/.vnc/xstartup: 15: /home/ubuntu/.vnc/xstartup: gnome-settings-daemon: not found23:12
sarnoldat least it's nice to know that file is *doing* something :)23:13
tripelbOops I am on the recovery menu. What do I choose to edit the boot menu?23:14
sarnoldfrom the grub screen, 'e' to edit an entry, that's the easiest way to test something once23:16
tripelbWhich is the grub screen windows Ubuntu Ubuntu recover choices sarnold?23:17
sarnoldtripelb: I think that menu is about twelve seconds too late :) you may need to hold down left shift or something similar when booting23:18
Miles8of9what kernel is used in ubuntu 20.04?23:36
Miles8of9wrong chan!!! i know sorry23:36
tripelbI had made a bunch of partitions. I want to go to disk utility to name one and use it for backup. I don't see it in the application tree. I am not sure which de I have. I have 4 workspaces.  How do I find disk utilities. Search gives no results. There IS ah MATE disk usage analyzer, disk usage analyzer, and startup disk creator. (I feel so dumb)23:48
johnjayis the proper course on ubuntu 18 to install "steam-installer" as opposed to steam?23:58
johnjaythat's what this QA says to do: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1031136/steam-crashes-on-launch-18-0423:58

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