[00:03] <agile_prg> I want to send ctrl alt shift r all at the same time from the command line to gnome, anyone know how I do that?
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[00:29] <john_rambo> Just installed EASYTAG .... I added info on the Album field then opened the mp3 with both VLC & SMplayer but the Album info is not showing ...Any ideas ?
[00:50] <BlueEagle> agile_prg: Do you want to send ctrl+shift+R or do you want to start the screen recording?
[00:51] <BlueEagle> oh wait, that is alt+ctrl+shift+r
[00:52] <BlueEagle> wait, you did have an alt in there, so I guess it is to start the screen recorder.
[00:54] <BlueEagle> agile_prg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61596274/how-to-start-gnomes-built-in-screen-recorder-via-command-line
[00:54] <BlueEagle> agile_prg: Some times it is better to try to start the action rather than try forcing some shortcut keys.
[00:55] <BlueEagle> agile_prg: Also there is the tool xdotool
[01:30] <mdh> I have an Ubuntu 16.04.7 install that I would like to upgrade to the latest LTS. To do this, would I just upgrade sequentially from this version to the each of the versions in-between?
[01:30] <BlueEagle> !upgrade| mdh
[01:30] <ubottu> mdh: For upgrading, see the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes - see also http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
[01:31] <Maik> mdh: do a fresh install, it's faster
[01:32] <Maik> also 16.04 uses Unity as desktop, the newer versions use Gnome 3 since the 17.10 release
[01:53] <arooni> trying to build drivers from scratch on https://eveobt5driver.pages.ontraport.net/ ;; linux drivers;; but when i try building "https://gist.github.com/arooni/6c8f569b0e06a51835d69e4736918f70 ... any ideas?
[01:59] <oerheks> i love spaces in foldernames, makes the make file happy
[02:01] <km0201> lol
[02:04] <greisean> how do I add keys for apt? apt-key is deprecated apparantly
[02:05] <oerheks> no, apt-key is not depreciated, what keys for what ubuntu version?
[02:06] <oerheks> or what guide do you follow?
[02:23] <greisean> "Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8))."
[02:33] <miguel2013> why gparted fails to load
[02:34] <Bashing-om> miguel2013: On the liveUSB ? (as in the installed system is removed after the install completes)
[02:34] <oerheks> how do you start gparted?
[02:35] <oerheks> one cannot shrink an active partition, so you need a live session for that :-P
[02:35] <miguel2013> Bashing-om, from a ssd 128gb
[02:35] <miguel2013> not removable
[02:36] <miguel2013> oerheks, i forgot
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[02:40] <Bashing-om> miguel2013: Do not operate on a mounted file system - is a moving target - which is why gparted is made available on the live environment.
[02:42] <miguel2013> Bashing-om, right on
[03:49] <Zythyr> Need help with booting from an encrypted LVM. I am manually setting up LVM on LUKS. I managed to properly configure the LVM and install Ubuntu. The /boot partition is NOT encrypted and NOT part of the LVM. However, I can't figure after installing Ubuntu what I need to do so that on boot I am ask for the password to decrypt and mount the LVM. I am following this guide as a reference but this
[03:49] <Zythyr> guide is slightly different becasue the author also encrypts the /boot parittion which I am NOT doing. Further the guide is kind of comfusing because it uses advance bash script to do all the configuration which is difficult to digest for beginners. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Full_Disk_Encryption_Howto_2019
[03:51] <Zythyr> I know the default Ubuntu 20 installer gives the option to automtically setup the encrypted LVM. But I don't want to do it automatically. I want to manually do it so i can learn. Furthermore the default Ubuntu 20 installer doens't give me the option to create logical volumes in teh LVM for /home /swap etc...
[05:44] <guiverc> Zythyr, you haven't said if you mean 20.04 desktop (installer is ubiquity) or 20.04 server (installer is subiquity); I don't know about Ubuntu Core 20 (I thought it was just an image)
[05:46] <Zythyr> Its ubuntu 20.10 desktop. I currenlty figured it out. I need to edit the /etc/crypttab file and then call "update-initramfs -u -k all". However, alot of the guides make this improtant step so vauge and don't explain why "update-initramfs -u -k all" needs to be called
[05:54] <guiverc> the initial ram disk (fs) is loaded pre-kernel & needs to know about encryption so it can read further to boot system & it seems clear to me in help.ubuntu.com guide you posted (prior to the reboot..)
[05:55] <codebam1> is there a channel I can join for ubuntu on arm support?
[05:55] <guiverc> codebam1, generic Ubuntu questions can be asked here..
[05:56] <guiverc> codebam1, there is a #ubuntu-arm channel I note (don't know more sorry; it's from channel list)
[05:58] <codebam1> okay well on my odroid xu4 my hard drives are reading very slowly and they lockup if I try to do heavy I/O. I was able to fix it on a previous release by disabling UAS but that didn't seem to help this time
[05:58] <codebam1> is there something I should check? I can send a dmesg if someone wants to look
[05:59] <Zythyr> guiverc So does this mean everytime i modify the /etc/crypttab i need to call "update-initramfs -u -k all" ?
[05:59] <codebam1> the drives are using BTRFS RAID1 with LUKS and I never had issues with I/O due to FDE in the past
[05:59] <codebam1> 2 x 5TB drives
[06:00] <guiverc> Zythyr, I'm no expert in encryption or boot, so can't advise sorry
[06:01]  * guiverc on sees a reference to my swap file in my own /etc/crypttab but opinion isn't fact
[06:01] <guiverc> s/on sees/only sees
[06:05] <Zythyr> no problem thank you
[06:07] <lotuspsychje> !arm | codebam1
[06:07] <ubottu> codebam1: ARM is a specific (RISC) processor architecture used in a variety of applications such as handhelds and networkdevices. For more information see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM . For ARM specific support, stop by the #ubuntu-arm channel.
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[06:25] <wings> I've got an interesting problem... I can't run graphical programs as root through Remmina RDP.
[06:25] <wings> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :10 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/Gtk2.pm line 126.
[06:25] <wings> for example that's gprename
[07:17] <coconut> Anyone knows whether there are ubuntu super keys for thinkpad laptops?
[07:24] <Deyaa> How to use printf but without printing ? Is there any alternative functions?
[07:41] <JohnDoe_71Rus> hi. tooday update 20.04 and get sddm-greeter[1267]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007ffd36383ac8 error 14 in sddm-greeter[564c15469000+17000]
[07:41] <wyoung> nice
[07:41] <wyoung> Good work.
[07:41] <JohnDoe_71Rus> i use lubunu 20.04 but i think problem is common
[07:42] <unixbsd> hello
[07:43] <unixbsd> which software might allow with command line to derivate / integrate functions (math)? Like x**2 => 2*x, 2*x => 2,....
[07:43] <JohnDoe_71Rus> but sddm run and i can login in recovery mode
[08:11] <m4rtin_> hallo, is there a linux youtube player or firefox addon that blocks all youtube adds and the demand to login? Thanks!
[08:26] <hmmp> I use ublock with firefox and never see adds. 18+ rated videos you still need to login though or use youtube-dl to download them
[08:27] <hmmp> i think you can also pipe video from youtube-dl to mpv or some other player
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[11:25] <nbusrone> May I know ,  how do I check for repository default application ? I try to search a browser apps like midori or vivaldi but non of them show up.But on Software center search does shows up while synaptic doesn't.
[11:40] <nbusrone> What is the different between Snap , Flatpak , AppImage ? why does application a divided to all unknown distribution compare to ppa ?
[11:40] <lotuspsychje> !discuss | nbusrone
[11:40] <ubottu> nbusrone: Want to talk about Ubuntu, but don't have a support question? /join #ubuntu-discuss for non-support Ubuntu discussion, or try #ubuntu-offtopic for general chat. Thanks!
[11:41] <nbusrone> lotuspsychje : thanks
[11:44] <Hash> Hello. I have made a snapshot image of my vps ubuntu 18.04. I wanted to upgrade to 20.04 but I wanted to test it out on a copy of the server to make sure it would go ok. What is the proper instruction for this?
[11:45] <tomreyn> Hash: are you asking how to start the release upgrade?
[11:46] <Hash> That is correct, however, I would like to know how to do it properly, what all I need to keep in mind or do before I start the do-release-upgrade command
[11:49] <Hash> https://bpa.st/G7LQ <- here are the only non Ubuntu 20.04 package repositories I have used in the past on 18.04
[11:49] <Hash> I assume I should disable these repositories
[11:50] <Hash> or do you think that they would be okay with --allow-third-party
[11:57] <tomreyn> Hash: i couldn't make a good guess on whether it would work with --allow-third-party. it's maybe worth a try if you have a rollback strategy (your snapshot) and are planning on keeping those after the upgrade
[11:57] <Hash> I am testing on a snapshot restored server. If it works there, I'll run it on my main one.
[11:58] <Hash> It is probably wise to remove the repositories and perhaps even purge those packages before upgrade. I can always get them again.
[11:59] <Hash> I'll try some stuff out. Thanks.
[12:01] <tomreyn> !ppa-purge | Hash
[12:01] <ubottu> Hash: To disable a PPA from your sources and revert your packages back to default Ubuntu packages, install ppa-purge and use the command: « sudo ppa-purge ppa:<repository-name>/<subdirectory> » – For more information, see http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html
[12:01] <Hash> Oh. Interesting
[12:01] <tomreyn> Hash: the supported approach would be to downgrade all packages to ubuntu release versions, and remove any third party software.
[12:02] <tomreyn> that is, you're back in the supported domain once you reliably achieved that
[12:03] <tomreyn> after using ppa-purge, use the apt-forktracer utility (and apt package) to identify additional deviations
[12:09] <tomreyn> Hash: something you may want to consider regarding 3rd party packages is whether you intend to keep ondrej sury'S PHP distribution, or want to revertt to the (upgraded) php version ubuntu provides when you upgrade.
[12:10] <tomreyn> i'm not recommending one over the other, but this choice has implications for how you'll prepare for the upgrade, i guess.
[12:34] <isomari> greetings, can I downgrade my outdated eoan to bionic by replacing "eaon" with "bionic" in source.list then updating/upgrading?
[12:37] <jeremy31> isomari: That is likely to be ugly
[12:38] <isomari> jeremy31: damn. Is there any essy way to upgrade from my eol eaon that went eol during the lockdown?
[12:39] <jeremy31> isomari: isn't the upgrade show in Software&Updates?  It is best to make a backup of what you have now
[12:41] <isomari> jeremy31: I don't see anything pointing to an update in the update tab.
[12:42] <jeremy31> isomari: you could probably upgrade to focal changing the sources file, it could be a bumpy ride
[12:44] <lotuspsychje> isomari: did you keep running your eol release connected to internet?
[12:49] <tomreyn> isomari: the default ubuntu mirror servers (which your apt configuration will still be pointing to now) no longer host package archives for the eoan release: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
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[12:51] <tomreyn> however, http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ does keep an archive. so you'd need to edit your apt source configuration to point to this mirror instead. this would enable you to install the latest eoan packages, before it went eol (right now you probably have an older eoan package state).
[12:55] <isomari> tomreyn: how do I use them?
[12:55] <tomreyn> using apt update and apt full-upgrade, you'd update eoan to the latest state this way. then you'd edit apt configuration again, pointing apt sources back to the mirror servers for supported releases, so http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu or one of its many mirror servers. and you'd replace all occurrences of "eoan" by "focal", and disable 3rd party apt repositories. next steps, with apt sources pointing to 'focal' is "apt update", "apt upgrade",
[12:55] <tomreyn> "apt full-upgrade". you should then end up on ubuntu 20.04.
[12:56] <tomreyn> isomari: if these instructions are insufficient, then i suggest you instead do a fresh installation instead, which may be the better approach anyways (backup first).
[13:22] <coconut> tomreyn, just a question over question of isomari: why do you advise apt over do-release-upgrade here?
[13:22] <coconut> <- still has to learn :)
[13:40] <coconut> Just curious here
[13:44] <scientes> how do i run a program with graphics acceleration (i have optimus)
[13:49] <BluesKaj> Hi folks
[13:54] <veesh> hey all
[13:55] <veesh> i'm on 20.04, dell xps 13 9310, and I get artifacts on my screen when using X, but not when using Wayland
[13:55] <veesh> I tried turning off all the settings mentioned in the arch wiki about the i915 module, but none helped
[13:56] <veesh> and I can't use wayland, b/c my time tracking software can't tell that I'm typing
[13:58] <veesh> any ideas how I can stop getting screen problems? I'm happy to post more info if needed
[14:01] <veesh> also, is there a problem with multitouch screens in 20.04?
[14:02] <veesh> i can't seem to get any multitouch recognition on this screen
[14:15] <tomreyn> coconut: do-release-upgrade is not designed to upgrade from EOL releases whose apt repositories are no longer present on official archive mirrors, i.e. which have been moved from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/  to  http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/
[14:15] <tomreyn> that's the case for eoan
[14:20] <tomreyn> veesh: does    apt list i965-va-driver     say that it is "[installed]"? if so, try    sudo apt purge --autoremove i965-va-driver   and reboot and see whether it helps.
[14:21] <veesh> yeah, it's installed, will try without
[14:27] <tomreyn> if it doesn't help, make sure you reverse this step by running   sudo apt install i965-va-driver
[14:27] <coconut> i see :)
[14:32] <FreeBDSM> `apt update` and `apt list --upgradable` say I have docker-ce upgradable. But `sudo apt -y upgrade` results into: `the following packages have been kept back: docker-ce` without any explanation of why it is so.
[14:34] <tomreyn> because of thje difference between "upgrade" and "full-upgrade" most likely
[14:40] <cloudcell> hello, I just installed ubuntu on my VNS and need to install midnight commander, should I install it under root or should I create a user and place it under sudoers?
[14:42] <cloudcell> basically, is it safe to install anything while being root?
[14:43] <jeremy31> cloudcell: Is it in the repos?
[14:44] <cloudcell> jeremy31: yes
[14:44] <cloudcell> i'm just concerned about security
[14:44] <jeremy31> cloudcell: Then you likely have to install using sudo
[14:44] <cloudcell> i created an account but i still have to add that user to sudoers
[14:44] <jeremy31> cloudcell: just don't run commands as root or using sudo if you don't have to
[14:45] <cloudcell> thanks jeremy31
[14:50] <tomreyn> cloudcell: to run    apt install mc    you would need to 'sudo' (or be logged i as the root user, but this is not recommended)
[14:51] <tomreyn> once installed, the restricted user can run midnight commander using    mc
[14:51] <cloudcell> thanks tomreyn , I just added myself to sudoers and installed mc under that other user
[14:51] <cloudcell> not under root
[14:52] <tomreyn> sounds good to me.
[14:52] <cloudcell> I am setting up a VNS from scratch, kinda tough doing all of this the first time
[14:52] <tomreyn> what is a "VNS"?
[14:53] <cloudcell> virtual private server, sorry, vPs, not vNs
[14:53] <tomreyn> i see.
[14:58] <leftyfb> cloudcell: it sounds like you're logging in remotely as root since you say your user isn't part of the sudoers group yet. That itself is insecure. Disable logging in as root remotely(SSH) and disable logging as root by disabling it's password
[14:59] <cloudcell> thanks leftyfb
[15:22] <multifractal> I'm trying to wipe a laptop hard drive by booting into ubuntu live USB and running `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M`. It's been running maybe a couple hours already, but I'm still able to navigate to the hard drive and browse it in Files. Is that normal, or have I made a mistake?
[15:32] <Maik> multifractal: why not format the HDD with Disks?
[15:38] <BlueEagle> multifractal: If you're able to browse it then it was mounted when dd started and I am not sure that dd will write to a mounted volume.
[15:45] <BlueEagle> multifractal: Also it might be that /dev/urandom is too slow, so I would find another way.
[15:49] <veesh> tomreyn: it didn't help
[15:49] <tomreyn> ah, sorry, then
[15:50] <veesh> that driver had gotten replaced by i965-va-driver-shaders
[15:51] <veesh> should I try without that?
[15:53] <veesh> nope, it's even worse without
[15:56] <woenx> Hi. I noticed some weird behavior in Ubuntu 20.04, fresh install. I created three users (for me and my parents), and for some reasons, one of the users takes much longer to log in than the other two
[15:56] <woenx> it usually takes around 6-8 seconds to show the desktop icons in a normal session, but it takes exactly 33 for the third user.
[15:57] <veesh> are they on wayland? wayland loads a lot slower than x for me
[15:57] <woenx> At first I noticed that it had an Online account configured, but I removed it and restarted and the problem persists. I don't know what could be happening, since it's practically new
[15:57] <woenx> I don't know, it's just a default installation
[15:57] <woenx> does wayland comes by default?
[15:57] <cloudcell> I'm setting up a web server (based on this article https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-20-04/ ) my problem is that I have to keep changing ownership of the folder to "www-data". how can I avoid writing into that folder (/var/www/) as root and keep changing ownership to www-data ?
[15:57] <veesh> no, you have to select it
[15:57] <veesh> in the bottom right of the login screen
[15:58] <woenx> then no, it's the default gnome desktop. It seems to be nautilus' fault, but I don't know how to find a log file or anything that could lead me up in the right direction
[15:58] <veesh> tomreyn: i switched to the non-free intel driver, and now the artifacts only flash for a second
[15:58] <woenx> I mean, I might as well delete the user and re-create it again
[15:58] <woenx> but it bothers me
[16:00] <compdoc> woenx, what sort of online accnt? Do you think its just Chrome?
[16:01] <Kurozen> Hi
[16:01] <Kurozen> I'm trying to feed clang-format a list of files
[16:02] <Kurozen> a text file with many paths*
[16:02] <woenx> compdoc, no, the online accounts you set up in gnome settings. She set her google account
[16:03] <woenx> https://i.stack.imgur.com/yZcyV.png
[16:03] <compdoc> how long has she been using it? was it ok in the beginning?
[16:05] <woenx> Mmm, no, it was aways like that, at least since the second or third reboot, earlier this week
[16:05] <woenx> I'm gonna delete her user account and create it again
[16:06] <qdb> i have seen a strange thing, on lenovo laptop, nearly 15 minutes ago, it has also been on dec18: screen has become zoomed and did not fit into display. but when i moved mouse cursor to edges of display, screen automatically scrolled into display, to be visible. on dec18 i thought maybe i turned on magnus by mistake and uninstalled it. but today it
[16:06] <qdb> happened again. on dec18 and today i fixed it with lightdm restart. on dec18 i did not try to check magnus because screen was zoomed in very much. today it zoomed in only about 110%.
[16:06] <arooni> how do i make my bluetooth keyboard auto reconnect when it turns on? already paired it with bluetoothctl and trusted it... but when i turn it on i have to manually reconnect it. ideas?  ubuntu 20.04
[16:16] <samthewildone> trying to create a tar ball file excluding directories but, the process fails with "tar: myBackup.tar.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory" and "tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors".
[16:17] <samthewildone> I'm running "tar --exclude='directory' --exclude='directory2' -cfpz name.tar.gz . "
[16:18] <sonOfRa> samthewildone: iirc the "-f" (file) argument has to go next to the file name
[16:19] <sonOfRa> try -cpzf
[16:19] <sonOfRa> The invocation you have there is trying to tar to a file called "pz" the directories/files named "name.tar.gz" and "."
[16:20] <samthewildone> sonOfRa, thank you.
[16:21] <samthewildone> no wonder a bunch of pz files were created
[16:22] <qdb> intel graphics
[16:36] <qdb> i am going to quit. you can write to qdinar@gmail.com
[16:41] <dreamon> I have a isse using remmina 1.4.7 on ubuntu 20.04. I cannot connect to my external ssh server. locally it works. But I can connect in terminal by ssh command without issue.
[16:47] <arooni> unrelated question: on ubuntu 20.04 sometimes my t420 laptop can't seem to resume and come back from suspend; or rather it can and i can enter my password to login/unlock but it just seems to do nothing.  in the past i've tried sudo killall gnome-shell -9 ; but that doesnt seem to reset the GUI and i end up having to restart.  is there a better way?
[17:01] <Maik> arooni: afaik suspend has always been causing issues on linux, it's not ubuntu specific
[17:02] <Maik> best to search for bug reports on launchpad on the matter
[17:56] <Gnummus> Test-1-2-3. Can you hear me :D ?
[17:56] <Maik> no
[17:56] <Maik> !aks | Gnummus
[17:57] <Maik> heh
[17:57] <Maik> !ask
[17:57] <ubottu> Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-) See also !patience
[17:57] <Maik> also
[17:57] <Maik> !discuss
[17:57] <ubottu> Want to talk about Ubuntu, but don't have a support question? /join #ubuntu-discuss for non-support Ubuntu discussion, or try #ubuntu-offtopic for general chat. Thanks!
[18:00] <Gnummus> Ok understood! I have a really big problem i messed up my Xubuntu20.04 install on my old Macbook and i want to save the data. I'm sitting infront of my laptop and im logged into Ubuntu20.04 Live USB and i double clicked my harddrive and decrypted the drive. Now i tried to copy the files to my Ubuntu live install to save them but it says "permission denied" to all files even though im in the Drive and can see my Files. Any
[18:00] <Gnummus> suggestion?
[18:00] <Sven_vB> In Ubuntu focal, how can I simulate xinetd setting "rlimit_as = 512M" ("Address Space resource limit")? I tried: bash -c "ulimit -l $(( 256 * 1024 * 1024 )); exec env - sudo --user=proxy --set-home /bin/helloworld" but bash: line 0: ulimit: max locked memory: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
[18:01] <Gnummus> I can also post my reddit post if that's not a problem here
[18:01] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, copy the files as root. or even better, pack them with tar
[18:01] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, it seems you have permission to see the files but not read them
[18:01] <Gnummus> Exactly.
[18:02] <Gnummus> can you tell me how i copy as root? (unfortunately im really a noob at this)
[18:03] <Gnummus> Googling it as we speak aswell.
[18:03] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, first, open a shell in the folder where you want to copy data from.
[18:03] <oerheks> files to my Ubuntu live install ?? that is not possible, read only iso
[18:04] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, oh right, you need a writeable target directory
[18:04] <oerheks> use a 2nd usb for storage
[18:04] <Gnummus> ah ok
[18:04] <Gnummus> wait lemme try :)
[18:04] <Sven_vB> I tend to forget that nowadays casper-rw is off by default
[18:06] <oerheks> mkusb can do that, even for UEFI
[18:06] <oerheks> https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/03/create-persistent-storage-live-usb-with.html
[18:06] <Gnummus> It shouldn't be a problem doing this with a NTFS system correct?
[18:06] <Sven_vB> I just add the kernel params in GRUB
[18:07] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, yeah NTFS should be ok
[18:07] <oerheks> jups, ntfs is available in live iso AFAIK
[18:07] <Sven_vB> Gnummus, only caveat is that the drive must be in clean state, i.e. windows has to be properly shut down.
[18:07] <Gnummus> Ok, trying it right now. Brb.
[18:08] <Gnummus> Well i do hope that this is the case !
[18:08] <Sven_vB> you need "fast startup" disabled for that
[18:09] <Sven_vB> on 2nd thought, that might only be a problem for the system drive, not others.
[18:10] <Gnummus> Now i just copied my "Documents" folder from the "broken" HDD in the laptop to my External Seagate SSD and it promts me with this error: "Error splicing file: input/output error"
[18:14] <Gnummus> I can even open pictures that are on the drive.
[18:15] <Gnummus> I just can't copy them to my external harddrive
[18:15] <Gnummus> maybe copying them with sudo does work?
[18:17] <oerheks> maybe files are corrupt?
[18:17] <Gnummus> sudo cp DIRECTORY1 DIRECTORY2 ? would that be sufficient?
[18:17] <oerheks> try a tool like ddrescue or something for disaster-backup
[18:17] <Gnummus> oerheks, But i can open them!
[18:18] <BlueEagle> Gnummus: Depending on how the target is mounted, copying as super user should work. you will likely have to change owner on the system they are being restored to anyway.
[18:19] <Gnummus> i just tried to "sudo cp folderdirectory1 folderdirectory2" when i do this i get: " cp: error reading ......: Input/output error"
[18:21] <oerheks> hmm if the target is ntfs, sudo might be the issue then, do it as user
[18:22] <oerheks> ntfs is not posix
[18:22] <oerheks> if that does not help, there are more hardware issues then
[18:23] <Gnummus> oerheks, how do i do it as user? just leave out the sudo? also: aren't the permissions only nessecary in the Linux environment because the NTFS is just the target destination?
[18:24] <oerheks> yes, just leave out sudo
[18:25] <Gnummus> oerheks, i'm getting the same input/output error when leaving out sudo
[18:25] <Gnummus> for now i just tried to copy small movie file
[18:27] <Gnummus> Ok i tried to watch some videos. I don't get a picture.
[18:27] <Gnummus> Some pictures for example load though.
[18:28] <oerheks> it is a live iso, no prop multimedia plugins installed
[18:28] <Gnummus> I tried to copy a picture. That works.
[18:28] <Gnummus> Seems like i can transfer files which are not broken. It just worked by drag and dropping it
[18:29] <Gnummus> And now i opened a folder with only mp4 videos in it and i can't open them it says "You are not allowed to open this file"
[18:44] <Gnummus> Ok. Is there a way i can set permissions and transfer condition in a way i can save my 500GB drive to my external NTFS SSD with all the errors it has? Because now if i transfer it will just tell me it doesn't work. But when i transfer the files which are not broken it works. So maybe i can just backup the whole 500gb drive as a whole, be done with it?
[18:54] <tomreyn> Gnummus: dd_rescue is hwo you do this.
[18:54] <tomreyn> actually ddrescue
[18:55] <tomreyn> package is gddrescue
[18:58] <oerheks> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
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[19:09] <tomreyn> veesh: sorry, got no other suggestions. also, i'm not aware of a proprietary intel graphics driver.
[19:24] <Etua> Hello, I have some directories with music and cover arts under folder.jpg for each album/directory. My goal is to scan through them and make a cover.jpg symbolic link in the same directory that the original file is in. I know I could use find for that and tried something like find . -name 'folder.jpg' -type f -exec bash -c 'ln -s "$1" "${1/\/cover.jpg/}"' -- {} \; but it did not work. I don't really know regex, how can I get this command to do what I described
[19:25] <oerheks> there is a dedicated #bash channel here on #freenode too
[19:27] <Etua> I'll try there then, thanks.
[19:29] <Gnummus> Is there a way to select all the text in a given terminal and output it into a text file?
[19:40] <Gnummus> tomreyn, are you still here?
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[19:52] <veesh> tomreyn: i ended up installing the newest drivers from the oibaf/graphics-drivers ppa, and now it's fine
[20:28] <pudgybuns> Hello. I am a bit new to irc. setting up a name and joining a channel is all there is to it right?
[20:30] <oerheks> pudgybuns, yes, and for help with that, join #freenode
[20:30] <oerheks> have fun!
[20:30] <oerheks> * we allow unregistered users, to keep things smooth
[20:30] <pudgybuns> Noise
[20:31] <pudgybuns> So, uh... I actually came here cus I have a question about my Ubuntu virtual machine
[20:32] <pudgybuns> I clicked shutdown instead of restart on the environemnt and now it's just on root terminal black screen... is there anything to do to get it to boot back to the graphical user interface?
[20:33] <oerheks> restart the vm, i guess?
[20:34] <pudgybuns> oh it's a full enviornemt not a vm i forgot.
[20:34] <pudgybuns> but yeah I retried that. it returns to that.
[20:35] <RoseBus> what's the best way to install applications on a ubuntu image from the dockerfile?
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[20:40] <pudgybuns> just ot make sure i'm restartring it correctly, how do I restart the environment fully?
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[20:41] <pudgybuns> well the entire machine really not just the environment.... if there's a differrene.
[21:06] <BlueEagle> pudgybuns: You've booted an ubuntu installation and expected a graphical interface to be present, but all you got was a command line?
[21:07] <BlueEagle> pudgybuns: Or rather a text mode login screen
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[21:51] <arooni> any reason why i seem to to have to disable/enable my ufw to get the ssh rule to work?  i run this everystartup;   sudo ufw disable; sudo ufw enable; sleep 5; securesynergy $argv;
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[22:31] <Mysia> does anyone know a good working way to install a sock5 or shadow socks server and a good cleint for ubuntu 20.04
[22:40] <oerheks> Mysia, dante snap perhaps? https://snapcraft.io/dante
[22:41] <Mysia> https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/shadowsocks-libev-proxy-server-ubuntu
[22:41] <Mysia> i found this
[22:41] <Mysia> seems to be what i want
[23:11] <codebam1> wireguard is faster than shadowsocks and has it's own kernel module
[23:19] <ldiamond> +1 for wireguard (Mysia) if that's actually what you're trying to do.
[23:32] <tomreyn> Mysia: the easiest (but also not scaling) approach is to    ssh -D 127.0.0.1:1080 -l remote-user-name -p 22 remote-ssh-server-where-remote-user-can-login-to
[23:34] <tomreyn> then you have a socks5 proxy on your own computer (where the ssh client runs from) at 127.0.0.1:1080 which passes through the remote server ()and is seen with its ip address on the internet)