[03:18] <Croran> my system seems to fail the rtings.com chroma test
[03:18] <Croran> any tips on getting 444 chroma on ubuntu with nvidia?
[04:13] <LnxTen> Where can I get rtorrent config file Ubuntu mate 20.04?
[05:30] <Ginalo> Hi. Does anyone know of a utility that helps taking screenshots of scrollable windows?
[06:47] <rfm> Ginalo, do you maybe want good old "script"?
[06:48] <Ginalo> rfm, would be better, actually.
[09:38] <Ali_nz> anyone about to help me get my ubuntu booting again
[09:38] <Ali_nz> I have got recovery shell
[09:38] <Ali_nz> but when I try to boot I get black screen before login
[09:58] <tarzeau_> Ali_nz: nvidia bin drivers?
[09:59] <Ali_nz> tarzeau_: its a Elitedesk Mini - so prob only Intel on board graphics
[10:00] <tarzeau_> screen is attached? no console text mode at all?
[10:00] <Ali_nz> I am in recovery mode
[10:00] <Ali_nz> and updating
[10:00] <Ali_nz> and have reinstalled ubuntu-desktop
[10:00] <Ali_nz> that has not fixed it so far
[10:01] <tarzeau_> check $HOME/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.0*
[10:01] <Ali_nz> if I boot normally I just get stuck after the HP/Ubuntu logo on a black screen
[10:01] <Ali_nz> cat those files?
[10:01] <tarzeau_> press esc when it's stuck there
[10:01] <tarzeau_> should show systemd doing stuff
[10:03] <Ali_nz> ok, so those files I dont see any sinister entries
[10:03] <Ali_nz> this all started by the way when I followed the instructions at the answer in https://askubuntu.com/questions/1096052/vmware-15-error-on-ubuntu-18-4-could-not-open-dev-vmmon-no-such-file-or-dire and it said to reboot
[10:04] <tarzeau_> Ali_nz: you got 20.04?
[10:06] <Ali_nz> yes 20.04
[10:06] <Ali_nz> esc does nothing
[10:07] <Ali_nz> its a pure black screen
[10:23] <jeremy31> Ali_nz: If you need proprietary graphics driver, you likely need to disable secure boot
[10:28] <chovy> cron doesn't appear to use system timezone
[10:28] <chovy> is it always UTC?
[10:35] <chovy> ffs. sudo service cron restart doesn't do anything
[10:46] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[10:50] <kirk781> BluesKaj, hello
[10:50] <BluesKaj> hi kirk781
[11:31] <Guest4939> hi
[11:41] <Macer> so ubuntu on the macbook air (circa 2015) seems rather clear cut. it works well at least.
[11:41] <Macer> i was actually surprised how well it worked... other than the trackpad being an absolute pain to configure
[11:43] <BluesKaj> heh, track/touchpads are a pita for me so I spent 20bucks on a wireless mouse
[11:45] <wodim> hello, regarding the ubuntu live usb, can you install new packages in it? new ppas maybe?
[12:12] <dylan_> hello world
[12:51] <bodiccea> I have a few ecryptfs partitions. Since 21.04 (or maybe 20.10 ?), when I mount them, I am asked "Select key type to use for newly created files: 1) tspi 2) passphrase". I must select (2) before entering my passphrase. I did not have to do this before (it asked directly the passphrase). Is there a mount option or a configuration which would make these partitions mount without having to select the key type ?
[12:57] <ioria> bodiccea, if you run the man page (ecryptfs), you should find some examples and mount options (maybe use it with a launcher) :  https://linux.die.net/man/7/ecryptfs
[13:15] <bodiccea> thx ioria. parameter is "key=passphrase". I wonder when this changed: I checked an old backup of my system (2018), and the man already had this option. But by default the mount was with passphrase. Nerver mind, I just made the change in fstab.
[13:21] <Nitrigaur> Can someone help me troubleshooting an Ubuntu 21.04 multiboot install ? I think I may have chosen the wrong partition while installing the boot loader.
[13:21] <Nitrigaur> The result is an empty Grub Boot screen
[13:26] <Nitrigaur> It's an install on a UEFI laptop, using an extra efi partition, 2 LUKS encrypted partitions, one of them contains the /boot partition (using luks1) and the other partition contains an LVM volume group containing the root and home partitions.
[13:31] <guiverc> wodim, if the *live* media is written with persistence, you can add/change things.. a normal write to media has it as read-only media (copy-on-write done on changes to ram only)
[13:39] <Guest6> hi everyone
[13:40] <Guest6> I have this problem: when I make a - sudo apt-get upgrade
[13:40] <Guest6> Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
[13:40] <Guest6> Creando árbol de dependencias
[13:40] <Guest6> Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
[13:40] <Guest6> Tal vez quiera ejecutar «apt --fix-broken install» para corregirlo.
[13:40] <Guest6> Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas: give me this error, How can I solve it?
[13:42] <valderen> Guest6: I think there's a spanish Ubuntu channel.
[13:42] <valderen> You'll most likely get better support there :)
[13:43] <Guest6> ok thanks I'll try to change to this channel
[14:01] <Nitrigaur> How can I reactivate a lvm volume group from a live USB system? vgscan does not show any volume groups?
[14:05] <leftyfb> Nitrigaur: lsblk -o +type -e7 | nc termbin.com 9999
[14:05] <Nitrigaur> nvm, I forgot to issue a partprobe after decrypting my luks volume
[14:06] <Nitrigaur> leftyfb ^
[14:07] <Nitrigaur> leftyfb, thx anyway.
[14:08] <Nitrigaur> Can someone help me troubleshooting an Ubuntu 21.04 multiboot install ? I think I may have chosen the wrong partition while installing the boot loader. I' m currently within a live session on the machine, since I got an empty Grub screen after rebooting
[14:11] <jeremy31> You normally install grub to a drive not a partition
[14:16] <coconut> Nitrigaur, grub goes to the mbr or gpt of the disk. You basicly cannot even change that, so there probably should be something else going.
[14:17] <coconut> *on
[14:18] <Nitrigaur> coconut, but the installer gives you an option to install the boot loader on a different partition?
[14:19] <coconut> Nitrigaur, no it doesn't
[14:22] <eoli3n> Hi
[14:22] <eoli3n> i'm sysadmin, and i use preseed to deploy nodes
[14:22] <eoli3n> on some, ubiquity ubiquity/reboot boolean true does not reboot the host
[14:23] <eoli3n> any idea ?
[14:23] <eoli3n> it just hangs
[14:24] <composite_higgs> So I have to use X11 rather than Wayland because I can't share my screen with Microsoft Teams at work on Wayland.
[14:24] <composite_higgs> However, for some reason my palm detection settings for my touchpad are ignored on X11
[14:24] <Nitrigaur> coconut, the installer gives you the option to choose the "Device for boot loader installation" When I click on the drop-down menu, I can select a specific partition.
[14:24] <composite_higgs> Which makes the touchpad almost unusable.
[14:24] <composite_higgs> Anyone have advice for how to fix this?
[14:26] <Nitrigaur> coconut, to be precise, I got the following options: /dev/mapper/boot (encrypted luks1 volume, already opened) or /dev/nvme0n1p6 (a newly created efi volume for Ubuntu)
[14:30] <coconut> Nitrigaur, night well be but grub does not go to an partition...
[14:32] <Animortis> Anyone debootstrap and the chroot into it only to get an "I have no name!" prompt?
[14:32] <Animortis> That's what I'm experiencing right now. I'm at a loss. I feel the fix isn't hard though.
[14:34] <nicolas_> Olá Kububuntu é aqui também ?
[14:34] <ioria> Animortis, probably a  /etc/passwd  issue
[14:34] <lotuspsychje> !es | nicolas_
[14:35] <nicolas_> fuí para ubuntu-es
[14:39] <nicolas_> Hello there,
[14:39] <nicolas_> I am very new to kubuntu ... about 3 days, I have searched but I cannot find how to make the menu show me 'grade' or 'grid' of icons, as well as in favorites instead of seeing a tiny icon and text I prefer the ones bigger icons, do you know if you can do that configuration?
[14:40] <Animortis> ioria: is there a generate command for this? Copying from the live environment removed the error, but now it can't find apt
[14:42] <ioria> Animortis, check the path
[14:42] <ioria> Animortis, echo $PATH
[14:48] <Animortis> ioria: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/9NmZ9Mvk3f
[14:49] <Animortis> That includes the copy of /etc/passwd and /etc/group from the live CD to the chroot directories
[14:50] <ioria> Animortis, ls /usr/bin/apt-get
[14:51] <Animortis> No such file. Debootstrap said it was adding it but maybe it wasn't.
[14:52] <ioria> Amaranth, probably then env has not been correctly built
[14:53] <Animortis> Yeah debootstrap failed.
[14:56] <ioria> Amaranth, i'd start with this : https://www.binarytides.com/setup-chroot-ubuntu-debootstrap/
[15:01] <Animortis> ioria: I'll give it a shot. I've succeeded in getting debootstrap to work in the past, just not this time. The extra instructions won't hurt.
[15:01] <ioria> ok
[15:01] <coconut> nicolas_, i do not use kubuntu, but checked it with gnome-boxes>kubuntu21.04 for you.... and settings are, i think, under right click on menu>Configure Application Launcher.
[15:02] <Animortis> In fact, this is a debootstrapped debian sid system. :)
[15:40] <Nitrigaur> I get an empty Grub screen after installing Ubuntu 21.04 to my laptop (Multiboot). I'm using SecureBoot and I've Enrolled the MOK after installation using the same password as I entered during my installation
[15:44] <Nitrigaur> My partition setup (created before installation) is as follows: /boot within a luks1 encrypted partition, /, /home and swap within a luks2 encrypted partition
[15:48] <Nitrigaur> I could not use the partitioning system included in ubiquity, since it does seem to offer an option with lvm on a luks encrypted volume.
[15:50] <tomreyn> ubiquity does not offer encrypting /boot (i assume that's what you mean).
[15:51] <tomreyn> secureboot adds enough complexity that i'd recommend testing this setup without the other complexity of the custom installation first of all.
[15:52] <tomreyn> and what does an "empty grub screen" look like? entirely black, or a grub menu without any options, or the grub CLI, or something else?
[15:55] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, I have indeed encrypted /boot . With empty grub screen I mean the Grub Cli, without any of the usual menu to choose an OS to boot.
[15:56] <tomreyn> so grub shim probably failed to find / access the large / custom / template generated grub.cfg
[15:57] <tomreyn> does it have its cryptdisk module?
[15:58] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, that could indeed be the case. Should the cryptdisk module be visible as boot option in the cli?
[15:58] <tomreyn> i mean "cryptodisk", had a typo there
[15:59] <tomreyn> i think you would see it listed in the cli as an autocomplete option.
[15:59] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, not cryptodisk, but I do see cryptomount as an option.
[15:59] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, Could that be the option you are referring to?
[16:00] <tomreyn> let me try that on a VM which has a similar setup
[16:01] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, I could send you a literal screen shot using my mobile phone using a picture pastebin?
[16:02] <tomreyn> that would be an option. i'm not sure whether this would convey more information than you did so far by rtext.
[16:03] <tomreyn> *text
[16:03] <tomreyn> hmm, i seem to have destroyed that vm since
[16:05] <tomreyn> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Full_Disk_Encryption_Howto_2019 and https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html should help you, though
[16:06] <tomreyn> i assume "GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y" is what you may have been missing
[16:09] <tomreyn> (followed by   sudo update-grub   )
[16:12] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, I hope I can perform the steps mentioned after " Continue Testing " and thereby restore my system to bootable order without having to reinstall Ubuntu again. Thank you for the links. I expect them to be key to solve the issue I'm currently experiencing.
[16:14] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: sinc eth einstallation is not currently bootable, you'd need to boot from live iso and chroot mount the installed system.
[16:15] <tomreyn> but that's effectively what this describes, yes
[16:18] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, of course, but that's exactly what the mentioned articles describe. Thank you again. I seem to have forgot the time chatting to you and my girlfriend is a bit annoyed that I did not start cooking yet. I'll get back to this channel later and I'll tell you how it went.
[16:18] <tomreyn> good luck
[16:19] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, Thanks :-)
[17:27] <Lantizia_> Hey what Ubuntu ISO (latest LTS) would be the closest to Debian's netinst ISO?  i.e. absolutely the most minimal packages... normally I don't even install any "tasks" either.
[17:29] <Lantizia_> this? http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso
[17:38] <ravage> thats even smaller that the netiso
[17:38] <ravage> but yes that will work
[18:15] <islandmonkey> Hi there, I have a problem with my Xubuntu 21.04 system that is preventing me from setting any sort of timezone. The timezone is stuck at UTC and I can't load date time settings to change it. When I load time-admin via the terminal it spits out the message 'Could not open */usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab' and refuses to load. How do I get this file
[18:15] <islandmonkey> back so that I can set my TZ again?
[18:16] <islandmonkey> I have already tried to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata but that does not solve the problem
[18:17] <pavlos> sudo timedatectl set-timezone your_time_zone
[18:18] <pavlos> ex. sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
[18:19] <pavlos> islandmonkey: ^
[18:20] <islandmonkey> Failed to set time zone: Invalid or not installed time zone 'Europe/London'
[18:21] <islandmonkey> When I do timedatectl list-timezones both are showing up
[18:21] <sarnold> is this a docker or cloud host thing or something similar? I wonder if you might have some dpkg-divert commands in place to try to save storage space
[18:21] <islandmonkey> Nope just my personal computer
[18:23] <pavlos> islandmonkey: do not use tick marks, sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London
[18:23] <islandmonkey> not using tickmarks
[18:24] <sarnold> islandmonkey: maybe debsums -c tzdata  ?
[18:24] <ravage> i would just try to reinstall the tzdata package first
[18:25] <islandmonkey> yeah a few things are missing according to that command
[18:25] <islandmonkey> https://pastebin.com/BgUAMeGj
[18:26] <islandmonkey> Alright I'll reinstall
[18:27] <pavlos> islandmonkey: dpkg -l | grep tzdata
[18:27] <pavlos> if you dont have the pkg, install it
[18:27] <islandmonkey> ii  tzdata                                     2021a-1ubuntu1                                                       all          time zone and daylight-saving time data
[18:28] <sarnold> does dpkg-divert --list   show anything that looks related?
[18:29] <islandmonkey> https://pastebin.com/7L1LDkBX
[18:30] <islandmonkey> Doesn't look like it
[18:31] <sarnold> dang, I liked that idea.
[18:32] <islandmonkey> The trouble with uninstalling tzdata it seems is that apt is threatening me that it will remove a lot of important along with tzdata, like xorg, all of xfce, plymouth, loads of python stuff
[18:32] <pavlos> do you have files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ ... there's a dir Europe which points to ../GB
[18:33] <sarnold> islandmonkey: okay, next guess :) try grep -r path-exclude /etc/dpkg/
[18:33] <islandmonkey> It exists but somehow it is a broken symlink
[18:34] <islandmonkey> Actually, it looks like there are LOADS of broken symlinks
[18:35] <islandmonkey> @sarnold returns nothing
[18:35] <sarnold> islandmonkey: dang. I liked that idea too :)
[18:35] <islandmonkey> Can't I just dpkg remove tzdata and then reinstall without breaking/uninstalling anything
[18:36] <sarnold> islandmonkey: oh! that's hard-mode..
[18:36] <sarnold> islandmonkey: apt install --reinstall tzdata
[18:36] <islandmonkey> dpkg won't let me
[18:36] <sarnold> islandmonkey: pastebin the command and errors/
[18:37] <islandmonkey> https://pastebin.com/5KjzDp49
[18:37] <islandmonkey> Okay everything is working now, cheers all!
[18:38] <sarnold> ah, yeah, that's why the --reinstall option is there :D
[18:38] <islandmonkey> Just needed to know which package to reinstall without burning the whole PC down it seems :P
[19:52] <rooster[m]> Hello?
[19:52] <matsaman> hi
[20:46] <Guest59> how to set different controller for VGA
[21:59] <sudorm> hi
[21:59] <tar_xvf> yo
[21:59] <sudorm> I'd like to have a ubuntu as fast as possible to boot in a VM, with more or less just Firefox
[21:59] <sudorm> no dialog "Do you want to try or do you want install" on boot
[21:59] <sudorm> Something very fast that directly boots to the desktop
[21:59] <sudorm> Is there such a Ubuntu ISO?
[22:05] <oerheks> sudorm, one could create a minimal install with firefox
[22:05] <oerheks> or search for open VM depositories.
[22:06] <sudorm> oerheks, i'm looking for something prebuilt, without to create an ISO myself
[22:06] <sudorm> oerheks, which openVM repo?
[22:07] <oerheks> tons of them, osboxes/virtualbox
[22:08] <oerheks> ubuntu itself does not host those
[22:08] <cornfeedhobo> im used to rpm distros. can someone tell me how to best incorporate only a few packages from a PPA for a newer release? in short, I want some of the hirsute packages, but not everything
[22:11] <oerheks> if that ppa gives sourcecode, build it yourself?
[22:11] <tomreyn> cornfeedhobo: normally, you should not mix packages for different releases, because this can cause dependencies not to resolve, or just library incompatibilities. if you know it's safe, though, you can do apt pinning to only whitelist specific packages from specific spt sources.
[22:11] <tomreyn> spt -> apt
[22:11] <tomreyn> !pinning
[22:12] <cornfeedhobo> that's exactly what i needed. thank you.
[22:13] <oerheks> pinning would require hissuite repos to be added, good luck ..
[22:48] <linsux> i have so many W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_pfp.bin for module amdgpu
[22:51] <Nitrigaur> I'm trying to reinstall grub from a live USB session for Ubuntu 21.04 using chroot, but the usual rbind mount commands that must precede the chroot fail with "mount point does not exist", even though the /target mount point does exist
[22:51] <tomreyn> linsux: that's usually fine, unless something doesn't work?
[22:52] <oerheks> linsux, lots of answers to find, https://askubuntu.com/questions/1124253/missing-firmware-for-amdgpu
[22:52] <oerheks> git clone https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
[22:53] <oerheks> Nitrigaur, copy the commands used in a pastebin?
[22:53] <oerheks> maybe just a typo
[22:54] <tomreyn> also the output of those commands
[22:54] <Nitrigaur> oerheks, tomreyn, I will, just a sec.
[22:58] <Nitrigaur> !pastebin
[23:00] <Nitrigaur> !pastebinit
[23:01] <tomreyn> yet another option is:   somecommand --some-option 2>&1 | nc termbin.com 9999
[23:01] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, thx for the hint
[23:03] <cornfeedhobo> tomreyn: i like that the wiki includes a directive that it doesn't document
[23:04] <cornfeedhobo> ubuntu is classy like that
[23:04] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, oerheks this is the command: for n in proc sys dev run etc; do mount --rbind /$n /target/$n; done
[23:05] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, oerheks, this is the output I got: https://termbin.com/g3u7
[23:05] <tomreyn> etc? seems wrong
[23:05] <Muli> hey fellas, I've a centralized SAN that I'd like to give a shared LUN across multiple Ubuntu VMs,
[23:05] <Muli> mount of the SAN LUN would be via iSCSI, what file system would I be looking at for this shared LUN across this Ubuntu cluster?
[23:06] <Muli> would I be looking at utilizing Gluser FS?
[23:06] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: are you following some how-to there?
[23:07] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: did you mount a file system to /target, or did you just mkdir /target ?
[23:08] <tomreyn> Muligan: try #ubuntu-server
[23:08] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, etc should not have been in that set, but even when I omit it, I get this output: https://termbin.com/4hbh   | I mounted the root system of the new install to /target and that file tree is acccessible
[23:08] <tomreyn> with much patience
[23:09] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: so there is a directory /target/dev ?
[23:12] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, I am following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Full_Disk_Encryption_Howto_2019 | to answer your second question: No, there is no /target/dev, there is a /target/@/dev though. My mount command to mount the installed root was: mount/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-lvroot /target
[23:13] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: so that's a btrfs file system?
[23:13] <James1138> 8
[23:13] <James1138> Hello from Indiana and tricky question. Over all these years of Linux - has anyone found a way to remove protection from WMA files?  The reason I ask is I found some old USB with music from the days I still was into Windows XP but the music is WMA format.
[23:13] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, yes it is
[23:14] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: i'm not too familiar with those. you might need to mount it differently then
[23:14] <oerheks> James1138, in short: no.
[23:17] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: you will probably need to indicate the btrfs subvolume (-o subvol=...) while mounting
[23:18] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: here's an example https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-chroot-a-system-that-uses-btrfs-subvolumes/14963/2
[23:18] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, it seems that I am compounding the difficulty with my choice for btrfs, but it is so convenient for snapshots... I' ll umount /target and look up the proper way to mount that btrfs volume.
[23:20] <tomreyn> right, /target was not mounted properly, youdidn't specify the subvolume there, so unmount it, mount it again but specify the proper subvol (maybe "root" or "top") and then do the rbinds again
[23:53] <Nitrigaur> tomreyn, I' ve read the link, but the root subvolume is not detected, nor is the main partition detected as btfrs using the btrfs subvolume list <device> command. The install itself went without a hitch. O have looked up the fstab within the etc directory on the target directory. The subvolume appears to be @
[23:59] <tomreyn> Nitrigaur: i'm afraid i have no further suggestions