[01:46] <pycurious> how do i run X-server on a remote server and direct its output to my mac? (firefox for example)
[01:46] <sarnold> ssh X11 forwarding is great if you want a single client. try ssh -X remotehost firefox   and see how it goes
[02:07] <pycurious> sarnold: thanks. Let me try that - I think I got into trouble with that last time.
[02:09] <pycurious> sarnold: Error: no DISPLAY environment variable specified
[02:10] <sarnold> pycurious: hmm are you running an X server locally on your mac?
[02:10] <pycurious> sarnold: on the server - i do see /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 running
[02:10] <pycurious> sarnold: I am not - how can i do that?
[02:18] <pycurious> sarnold: I installed XQuartz. Now I get an xterm from which i can fire the ssh. When I run firefox from remote I get "X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication"
[02:19] <sarnold> pycurious: ah! woo. progress. :) bummer it's stuck again already :(
[02:22] <sarnold> pycurious: usually ssh -X does some magic to provide the remote process with XAUTHORITY details, so it can connect to the local server; it's possible Xquartz's startup process doesn't generate the X11 authentication tokens. Normally they're stored in ~/.Xauthority on linux systems..
[02:24] <pycurious> another error while logging in -> /usr/bin/xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /home/ubuntu/.Xauthority
[02:24] <sarnold> hah. okay. maybe this route isn't great.
[02:25] <sarnold> loads of folks use vnc or the other windows-oriented desktop thingy
[02:25] <sarnold> I never got the hang of those, but vnc might be easier than getting X working on macos
[02:27] <pycurious> sarnold: it worked :)
[02:29] <sarnold> pycurious: ooh, which thing worked? :)
[02:29] <pycurious> its crazy slow though. Even when I try to run firefox from a local network ubuntu box.
[02:29] <sarnold> ugh :(
[02:29] <pycurious> sarnold: A few tweaks. Had to remove .Xauthority* on the linux box
[02:29] <sarnold> I haven't actually used ssh -X in two decades. it was a great way to run netscape on a machine with more memory all to itself..
[02:30] <pycurious> seems like the netscape days are back. Firefox is exactly behaving like that :)
[02:30] <pycurious> except it is not 1996.
[02:34] <sarnold> hehehe
[02:43] <JanC> can't do hardware acceleration with remote X...
[03:18] <pycurious> JanC: Does remotedesktop do hardware accel?
[03:44] <JanC> most of all it uses compression & other techniques to limit the amounts of data that need to go over the network...
[07:20]  * enyc meows
[17:26] <kierank> I have a preseed that works for sata disks and I've replaced sda/sdb with nvme0n1/nvme0n2
[17:26] <kierank> Is there anything else I need to change
[17:26] <kierank> I get an error that nvme0n1p3 is missing
[17:49] <TJ-> kierank: does the NVME device exist? is the nvme kernel module loaded?
[17:49] <kierank> yes, seems to be because virtualbox makes the disk defaults too small
[17:49] <kierank> works when you make them larger
[18:12] <kierank> Also why are there files missing from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.5/release/SHA256SUMS
[18:12] <kierank> oh because you removed them
[18:12] <kierank> hmmm