[02:31] <ball> What's a sensible alternative to Gnome Boxes (a desktop hypervisor)?
[03:05] <ball> How can I list the packages that are installed?
[14:43] <kedihacker> what is the pgp key and how to get it (i mean link to pgp key i konow pgp just gimme the key)
[15:06] <hansh> how do i upgrade a 18.04 to 20.04 ?
[15:07] <hansh> do-release-upgrade ?
[17:42] <manu1511> why are mkv files played so slow on my computer?
[17:42] <manu1511> i've an amd a4 5300b
[17:45] <pmjdebruijn> mkv doesn't say anything really
[17:45] <pmjdebruijn> mkv is just a container which can container almost any codec
[17:46] <pmjdebruijn> manu1511: i'm guessing it probably has h265 in it or something
[17:46] <pmjdebruijn> you can check using ffprobe my.mkv
[17:46] <pmjdebruijn> you may need to apt-get install ffmpeg
[17:47] <pmjdebruijn> and/or of course 4k files in general
[17:47] <pmjdebruijn> as in 4k resolution, which can be heavy on older cpus, even in h264
[18:06] <hansh> how screwed am i? do-dist-upgrade ended in https://paste.debian.net/1165671
[18:07] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: do you have a full filesystem?
[18:07] <pmjdebruijn> either / or /boot
[18:07] <pmjdebruijn> probably /boot
[18:08] <hansh> yeah /boot only has 33 mb free
[18:08] <hansh> im guessing that's what went wrong
[18:08] <pmjdebruijn> just delete something from there, and then resume with apt-get install -f
[18:08] <pmjdebruijn> or dpkg --configure -a
[18:08] <hansh> ... come to think of it, why doesn't do-release-upgrade try to make som educated guess as to whether or not you have enough space in / and /boot before... starting
[18:09] <pmjdebruijn> good point
[18:09] <pmjdebruijn> how large is your /boot anyhow?
[18:10] <hansh> .. 276M according to df -h
[18:10] <pmjdebruijn> in total?
[18:10] <pmjdebruijn> that's tiny
[18:10] <hansh> yeah in total
[18:10] <pmjdebruijn> in your case, any education guess would almost always error
[18:10] <pmjdebruijn> kernel+initrd is like 100megs
[18:11] <pmjdebruijn> did automatic partitioning make it 276M?
[18:11] <hansh> .. dafuq, and it's using extended partitions for /
[18:11] <pmjdebruijn> is your install on a tiny eMMC or something?
[18:11] <hansh> no
[18:11] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: that's fairly normal IIRC
[18:12] <hansh> i never use extended partitions on gpt, what's the point, maybe it's mbr
[18:12] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: no to the automatic partitioning or tiny eMMC
[18:12] <hansh> oh it really is mbr
[18:12] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: gpt doesn't have extended partitioing
[18:13] <pmjdebruijn> but with a /boot _that_ small I'd probably recommend reinstalling anyhow
[18:13] <pmjdebruijn> but if you need to fix this anyhow, remove something from /boot
[18:13] <hansh> i know there's no reason to use extended partitions on gpt, but is it really not possible at all?
[18:13] <hansh> kk
[18:13] <pmjdebruijn> but given how tight your /boot is, that might prove tricky, and you might render your system unbootable anyhow
[18:13] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: the concept of extended partition doesn't exist in GPT, why would it
[18:14] <pmjdebruijn> extended partition are a workaround for a design limit in the original MBR scheme
[18:14] <pmjdebruijn> GPT is a new design
[18:14] <pmjdebruijn> hansh: if you can spare the spare I'd probably go with 1-2G for /boot
[18:14] <hansh> an extended partition is basically just a fake filesystem entry, isn't it possible to make the same fake filesystem entry in gpt?
[18:14] <hansh> doesn't really matter xD
[18:14] <pmjdebruijn> it's not a fake filesystem entry
[18:16] <pmjdebruijn> if anything you're probably confused by the protective MBR some partitioing tools generate, where both MBR and GPT coexist on the same disk, having the same entries, mapped to each other
[18:16] <pmjdebruijn> which means you might see extended partitions, but they still don't exists as a concept in GPT
[18:16] <pmjdebruijn> it's just another partition
[18:16]  * pmjdebruijn it's entirely sure on the exact details though
[18:17] <hansh> > An Extended partition is a special type of partition that contains "Free Space" in which more than the four Primary partitions can be created
[18:17] <hansh> (random quote from help.ubuntu.com )
[18:18] <pmjdebruijn> yes
[18:18] <pmjdebruijn> it's basically russian nesting dolls with partition tables
[18:18] <pmjdebruijn> but it's not fake in any way