[00:03] <enigma9o7[m]> Ya that's a useful setting.  I want the screen off, but the laptop to stay on.  Sometimes cuz I'm walking to an other room.  Sometimes cuz I'm using an external monitor.  I only want the lid to control the screen itself on/off.
[00:05] <oerheks> make sure for on powersupply and for battery
[00:43] <Masterphi57> I have an HDD that I used with USB, now it's connected via SATA. Ubuntu seems to auto-mount it to /media/user. If I add the hdd to fstab, will it stop auto-mounting?
[00:44] <sarnold> yeah I think I'd expect /etc/fstab to take precedence
[00:44] <enigma9o7[m]> Yeah.  Its probably your file manager or desktop or something mounting it.
[00:44] <Masterphi57> what even makes ubuntu decide to auto-mount things?
[00:44] <enigma9o7[m]> Most file managers have a settingfor it.
[00:44] <sarnold> I think the gui desktop things drive udisks2 to do the work
[00:46] <Masterphi57> I'm just using the default "Files"
[00:48] <oerheks> it actually doe not mount it, it just shows as result from a scan
[00:49] <Masterphi57> mmmm I assumed it was mounted. I'll add it to fstab and reboot
[00:49] <Masterphi57> thx :)
[00:49] <enigma9o7[m]> and then when you click on it, it mounts it
[00:49] <enigma9o7[m]> in /meda
[00:49] <enigma9o7[m]> as if its a flash drive or cdrom or something
[00:50] <Masterphi57> :+1:
[01:59] <JerOfPanic> hi
[01:59] <murmel> JerOfPanic: hi
[03:52] <maryo> All of a sudden, getting some GPG error during package installation.. Can someone tell me what might be the issue here? --> https://dpaste.org/Z1Y5N
[03:53] <mybalzitch> key expired
[03:56] <maryo> mybalzitch, how to  have it fixed?
[03:57] <oerheks> if that is your private key, EXPKEYSIG C99B11DEB97541F0 Nate Smith <vilmibm@github.com> ... https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/token-expiration-and-revocation
[04:08] <murmel> lotuspsychje: meh, x or wayland didn't change anything
[04:08] <lotuspsychje> murmel: what about earlier ubuntu releases?
[04:09] <lotuspsychje> i was reading this arch thread about downgrading xorg-server not sure if its your case though
[04:11] <murmel> lotuspsychje: hm good question never tried it. as I went directly to 22.04 (beta at the time)
[04:11] <lotuspsychje> try a 20.04 perhaps murmel
[04:12] <murmel> I wonder if I should even go 16.04 (i know it's eol) but at least thats whats supported by dell (back in the day)
[04:15] <lotuspsychje> i think i saw certified wiki for your model to 18.04 murmel
[04:16] <lotuspsychje> i would go experiment around a bit with releases
[04:17] <murmel> lotuspsychje: the ubuntu page doesn't even list my laptop
[04:17] <murmel> hm
[04:17] <lotuspsychje> !hardware
[04:17] <teddy> Getting ata1.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE EXT... Any ideas?
[04:17] <murmel> what is this list then? https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops
[04:20] <murmel> lotuspsychje: but yes, no list has my laptop
[04:21] <lotuspsychje> allright, well try some releases anyway murmel did you made your bug ID yet?
[04:21] <murmel> no not yet, as I can't post anything except, that it crashes
[04:22] <murmel> but will definitely test out some more releases. I guess 16.04 and then upgrading from there
[04:27] <lotuspsychje> dont do xenial murmel its eol
[04:28] <bokbok44> hi
[04:29] <murmel> lotuspsychje: yeah, but seems like dell never cared https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/Dell-Latitude-5490-not-coming-back-from-sleep-mode-Ubuntu-16-04/td-p/7379803
[04:29] <murmel> so i am out of luck seems like
[04:30] <lotuspsychje> doesnt mean dell says one version, another cant work
[04:30] <murmel> hm, dell doesn't even offer any isos anymore, so I guess i start with 18.04
[04:31] <enigma9o7[m]> why aren't you starting with current?
[04:32] <murmel> enigma9o7[m]: because it doesn't work on 22.04
[04:32] <enigma9o7[m]> what doesnt work?
[04:32] <murmel> sleep/display turns off -> crash
[04:33] <murmel> wow 1h for 2.3 gigs :( damn 600kb/s
[08:40] <alkisg> Hrm. VirtualBox run a jammy VM, dpkg -V => errors. Losetup/chroot into the same VM, dpkg -V => no errors. Wth, virtualbox in jammy is losing bits and bytes?! :D
[08:41]  * alkisg tests with oracle's vbox instead of the one from the repositories...
[08:43] <EriC^^> alkisg: what's the error you're getting?
[08:44] <alkisg> EriC^^: about 5-10 corrupted files, random each time
[08:44] <alkisg> They're not actually corrupted; if I chroot and dpkg -V, they are fine
[08:45] <alkisg> So vbox is corrupting disk reads or ram contents or something
[08:46] <EriC^^> nice, TIL about dpkg -V
[08:47] <alkisg> debsums -s is a bit better, but dpkg is preinstalled
[08:47] <EriC^^> yeah, did not know dpkg can do that out of the box though, pretty neat
[08:47] <EriC^^> no idea about the vm issue though, odd
[08:51] <lotuspsychje> alkisg: i found virtualbox pretty laggy overal compared to a VM in gnome boxes on jammy
[08:52] <alkisg> Disk access does seem rather slower than it was in all the previous versions
[09:01] <lotuspsychje> alkisg: cant see something similar reported yet; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bugs?orderby=importance&start=0
[09:04] <alkisg> Installed vitrualbox from oracle, and without rebooting, dpkg -V is now clean inside the VM. Which means that vbox from the repositories is dangerously broken, it corrupts data.
[09:06] <lotuspsychje> i tryed a jammy iso on jammy virtualbox and it felt real sluggish with even no reach to desktop stuff
[10:56] <iomari891> greetings, is thee a tool to convert absolute links to relative links?
[11:04] <tomreyn> iomari891: are you referring to symbolic links, or URLs, or something else?
[11:17] <iomari891> tomreyn: symbolic
[11:19] <tomreyn> not that i know of
[11:21] <tomreyn> but a web search for it provides does return several hits for me.
[11:25] <tomreyn> my search terms were: ubuntu OR debian OR linux convert "symlinks" OR "symbolic links" absolute to relative
[11:30] <iomari891> tomreyn: thanks
[12:25] <sneed> hi
[12:26] <sneed> hii
[12:30] <samba35> why vlc snap consume lot of cpu ?
[12:31] <lotuspsychje> samba35: contact the maintainer of the snap here; contact:   https://www.videolan.org/support/
[12:33] <samba35> ok
[12:53] <abhishek> hi i install ubuntu operating system and i am trying to recover my all files which store before installing ubuntu someone help me how to recover all data
[12:54] <lotuspsychje> abhishek: you can try running photorec on it and rescue whats left
[12:55] <lotuspsychje> abhishek: best to take the HD you want to recover offline, scan it with photorec and save the recovered files to another media
[12:56] <lotuspsychje> !info testdisk | abhishek
[12:56] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[12:57] <ravage> if you installed Ubuntu on the smame disk you want to revover files from "all my files" is an impossible task
[12:57] <ravage> just saying
[14:46] <brkcore> if i save bookmarks from brave that is snap can I import them back on brave that is appimage
[16:10] <varaindemian> should I download the deb package for Virtualbxo from their website or manually add the repo?
[16:11] <varaindemian> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
[16:12] <tomreyn> the latter
[16:12] <varaindemian> tomreyn: why?
[16:13] <tomreyn> you'll get a free upgrade path, don't need to worry about vulnerabilities so much
[16:14] <tomreyn> plus you get to easily verify the authenticity of what you downloaded.
[16:14] <varaindemian> isn't `dpkg  -i` going to add the repo?
[16:14] <tomreyn> maybe, depends on whether the package you install this way also installs an apt repository configuiration
[16:14] <tomreyn> i don't think it does, but i can be wrong there.
[16:15] <rfm> it doesn't.
[16:16] <tomreyn> note that there are other options besides virtualbox (but then you did not ask about this)
[16:17] <rfm> the other advantage of adding the repo and installining with apt or apt get instead of dpkg is it will automatically run down the dependencies
[16:17] <varaindemian> I see
[16:17] <varaindemian> whato ther options?
[16:18] <varaindemian> tomreyn: ^
[16:18] <tomreyn> varaindemian: qemu-kvm, with one of tits frontends
[16:19] <tomreyn> virt-manager or gnome-boxes for graphical UIs.
[16:20] <tomreyn> there are also web and CLI frontends
[16:21] <varaindemian> Replace virtualbox-6.1 by virtualbox-6.0 or virtualbox-5.2 to install the latest VirtualBox 6.0 or 5.2 build.
[16:21] <varaindemian> this is confusing
[16:24] <rfm> varaindemian, it's telling you how to run an older version if you need to, for example 5.2 was the last version that ran without hardware virtualization
[16:25] <rfm> varaindemian, unless your hardware is ancient use the latest release (6.1)
[16:26] <XoloX> So I get that this is not the correct place to ask for help. But it's the best place I know. It's (I think) not even Linux related. The thing is I got a sunscreen and I lost the remote. Is there some way to bring it back in without remote? It has (i had lol) a Somfy remote with 3 buttons on the front and a small reset button on the back. The remote
[16:26] <XoloX> is in Warsaw. I am in Amsterdam.
[16:27] <tomreyn> XoloX: this is just the right place to ask for help with Ubuntu and its official flavors, though.
[16:27] <tomreyn> (as the channel name could have hinted at, and its /topic, too)
[16:29] <sm_> Hey guys anyone there?
[16:31] <sm_> I'm having difficulty managing my theme
[16:32] <sm_> I just upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and the dark theme isn't being set up correctly
[16:32] <sm_> on Gnome 4
[16:32] <sm_> I'm not sure what to do
[16:33] <sm_> Even on the chat client I'm using currently. Everything is bright white
[16:33] <tomreyn> i think themes are set in 'gnome tweaks'
[16:33] <tomreyn> ("Tweaks" on the menu
[16:33] <sm_> I did do that
[16:34] <sm_> But part of the applications are in dark and rest are this really bright white
[16:34] <sm_> Even menus are like that
[16:34] <tomreyn> maybe the theme you have is not compatible to the very version of gnome-shell you are running now?
[16:34] <sm_> Gnome shell is version 42.4
[16:35] <tomreyn> and your theme is compatible to?
[16:35] <sm_> Even when I use inbuilt themes like Yaru. I'm getting the same results
[16:36] <sm_> The theme is Dracula. it should be compatible. It was updated 3 days ago\
[16:36] <tomreyn> you could create a new system user and login as that and see whether it works there.
[17:03] <bar_> hi
[20:00] <tripp4h> hi! i found this bogus site about converting a jpeg and a .mp3 file to a video format, to upload to youtube: https://www.zyxware.com/articles/5693/how-to-upload-an-audio-file-to-youtube
[20:01] <tripp4h> could you help with ffmpeg, what command line to use to do this conversion?
[20:01] <tripp4h> at least for me that didn't work
[20:01] <jhutchins> tripp4h: Maybe imagemagic, or it's fork?
[20:02] <tripp4h> jhutchins: can't it be done from commandline?
[20:02] <jhutchins> tripp4h: imagemagic is pretty much all CLI.
[20:02] <jhutchins> tripp4h: The "convert" command.
[20:02] <tripp4h> i'm not good with linux.
[20:03] <jhutchins> tripp4h: Keep working with it, you'll get better.
[20:05] <jhutchins> tripp4h: graphicsmagic is the fork.
[20:05] <jhutchins> !info imagemagic
[20:05] <jhutchins> tripp4h: imagemagic is pretty much all CLI.hics
[20:05] <jhutchins> !info grapicsmagic
[20:05] <jhutchins> Oh come on ...
[20:06] <tripp4h> got this error when trying to install graphicsmagick:
[20:06] <tripp4h> Err:1 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 amd64 1.4+really1.3.36+hg16472-1
[20:06] <tripp4h>   404  Not Found [IP: 193.166.3.5 80]
[20:06] <tripp4h> Err:2 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 graphicsmagick amd64 1.4+really1.3.36+hg16472-1
[20:06] <tripp4h>   404  Not Found [IP: 193.166.3.5 80]
[20:06] <tripp4h> don't you think it could be done with ffmpeg?
[20:07] <tripp4h> if yes, that would be excellent!
[20:08] <jhutchins> tripp4h: apt update?
[20:09] <jhutchins> tripp4h: You're not reaching the repo.
[20:13] <bobsmops> Good day everyone! Have I passed the registration? :D
[20:14] <jhutchins> bobsmops: You've successfully joined the channel.  Did you have a support question?
[20:15] <bobsmops> jhutchins: I think I will soon have. Trying my own thins yet.
[20:15] <bobsmops> jhutchins: also am I using this "mention" feature correctly?
[20:16] <jhutchins> bobsmops: Not sure about "mention", most clients allow you to start typing a nick and then hit tab to complete it, a nick followed by a colon (:) will often highlight your post for that nick's user.
[20:17] <enigma9o7[m]> What kinda mention feature are you trying to use?
[20:17] <jhutchins> bobsmops: Your messages to me highlighted here.
[20:17] <rfm> tripp4h, you're getting that 404 because hirsute (21.04) is EOL
[20:17] <bobsmops> jhutchins: ah yeah it works with starting to type and then tab. Thanks! Yeah I was asking whether it's working and highlighting for you.
[20:18] <bobsmops> enigma9o7[m]: I was just trying to do the same thing jhutchins did to highlight their messages to me.
[20:18] <enigma9o7[m]> Ah ok.  Neat.
[20:21] <jhutchins> bobsmops: It can be educational to "lurk" here and see what problems other people have with Ubuntu, and how they eventually solve them.
[20:22] <tripp4h> rfm: ahh. i have imagemagick installed but i can't use it from commandline.
[20:27] <wiley> anyone know what happened to cpuburn and if there's some alternative I should be using to do a hardware stress-test?
[20:27] <jhutchins> tripp4h: Gotta read the man pages and the web pages.  The command you want is  "convert".
[20:28] <jhutchins> tripp4h: I think it can be as simple as convert foo.jpg foo.mp4
[20:28] <tripp4h> jhutchins: i also want to include audio in the video
[20:28] <jhutchins> tripp4h: It can be a lot more complicated, and so can adding audio.
[20:29] <jhutchins> tripp4h: So you're trying to get a still picture with a sound track?  I'm sure it can be done, but it's beyond my knowledge.
[20:30] <jhutchins> I don't know how you get duration on the image.
[20:30] <jhutchins> Hmm, maybe convert the sound file to a video format, then merge the graphic?
[20:31] <tripp4h> i would want to do that with ffmpeg.
[20:31] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: can you explain what you're trying to do?
[20:31] <jhutchins> Oh that was too easy...
[20:31] <jhutchins> https://superuser.com/questions/1041816/combine-one-image-one-audio-file-to-make-one-video-using-ffmpeg
[20:32] <bobsmops> jhutchins: thank You sir, I'm quite informed in that regard. Been there. Although joining an irc chat is an unusual type of experience for me, a bit of hardship every time. ;)
[20:33] <tripp4h> jhutchins: cool, thanks! maybe that'll help.
[20:33] <jhutchins> tripp4h: Let us know how it goes!
[20:34] <enigma9o7[m]> joining irc should not be a hardship.  please elaborate and perhaps that can be resolved.  It should be a joy...
[20:34] <tripp4h> i hated to use some of the video editor software, they had bugs and the conversion took like an hour or more. i have a slow computer. iirc the software crashed before the conversion got finished.
[20:34] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: nightmare
[20:34] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: ffmpeg ought to be a good solution for this
[20:35] <tripp4h> at least i didn't get a good result of it. tried two or three different software.
[20:35] <wiley> FWIW, after some more digging, it seems like both stress and stress-ng are reasonably substitutes for cpuburn
[20:35] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: the absolute best video editor on Linux is DaVinci Resolve, but it needs quite a chunky graphics card
[20:35] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: otoh if you have basically any NVidia card that can do CUDA it'll work, even if it doesn't work well
[20:36] <jhutchins> !info audacity
[20:36] <tripp4h> gordonjcp: i have just some old videocard from about 2005 i think :-).
[20:37] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: yeah that won't do it, I don't think, although I'm using an oldish GTX970 just now
[20:37] <jhutchins> !info avidemux
[20:37] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: it's faster than the cheap crappy GT1030 I was using, on a Core i5-4570
[20:37] <gordonjcp> so fairly potatoey machine for video editing
[20:37] <tripp4h> gordonjcp: what command shows what graphics card i'm using?
[20:39] <jhutchins> tripp4h: lspci?
[20:39] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: lspci, lshw
[20:40] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: maybe "lspci | grep VGA"
[20:40] <gordonjcp> that might help filter it down
[20:40] <enigma9o7[m]> glxinfo, inxi -G, neofetch
[20:40] <tripp4h> gordonjcp: yes, 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
[20:41] <gordonjcp> tripp4h: yeah, that's not going to run Resolve, sadly
[20:54] <jhutchins> When I try to invoke libreoffice help, all I get is an empty window labeled newhelp1.html
[20:54] <jhutchins> The help files are installed.
[20:57] <ravage> here it tries to open it with wine. thats fun too
[20:59] <bobsmops> enigma9o7[m]: it's giving me some hard time because of the bot-oriented authentication system. I think irc wold profit a lot from a standardized protocol for that. :)
[20:59] <EriC^^> here it plays darude sandstorm
[20:59] <enigma9o7[m]> Ohhhh nickserv stuff?
[21:00] <enigma9o7[m]> That makes sense, although registration isnot required for t his channel I don't think.
[21:02] <bobsmops> Actually this time I didn't even try to send a message before registering, confirming and authenticating. So yeah not sure. :D
[21:19] <tripp4h> had to reboot, hope i didn't break something when doing some installings, switching hdmi cables. my motherboard's gpu is newer than the one i use, but i forgot it's hdmi-port is broken.
[21:43] <tripp4h> now i got no audio, fuck
[21:43] <tripp4h> sorry about swearing here :-)
[21:43] <tripp4h> -i've
[21:44] <tripp4h> ahh, got it to work!
[21:45] <tripp4h> had the dac setting wrong from settings/audio/output device.
[21:46] <tripp4h> i got the video made, took just a few minutes compared to many hours with an video editor.
[21:55] <jhutchins> tripp4h: What was the process?
[22:01] <tripp4h> i used this commandline: ffmpeg -loop 1 -i /home/joonas/Downloads/needless-maitohappo.jpg -i Needless-maitohappo.MP3 -c:a copy -c:v libx264 -shortest test1.mp4
[22:01] <tripp4h> thanks for help!-)
[22:01] <tripp4h> i uploaded it to youtube if someone wants to check it out
[22:02] <tripp4h> i don't want to publicly paste it because there are 1000 persons here :)
[22:04] <tripp4h> i have another problem if someone might want to help me! it's a firewall problem with ufw.
[22:05] <tripp4h> i'll paste a few lines if that's ok:
[22:05] <tripp4h> joonas@joonas-System-Product-Name:~/apps$ sudo systemctl status ufw
[22:05] <tripp4h> [sudo] password for joonas:
[22:05] <tripp4h> ● ufw.service - Uncomplicated firewall
[22:05] <tripp4h>      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
[22:05] <tripp4h>      Active: active (exited) since Sat 2022-09-03 23:53:39 EEST; 1h 11min ago
[22:05] <tomreyn> not ok
[22:06] <tomreyn> !paste | tripp4h
[22:06] <Unit193> Seems TheRedQueen didn't like that, in PM it should have given you a link to a paste service instead.
[22:07] <tripp4h> ok, here it is: https://dpaste.com/23ZRNN5Y4
[22:08] <tripp4h> so it says it's active but exited
[22:08] <tripp4h> i tried these instructions but it didn't help: https://devtidbits.com/2019/07/31/ufw-service-not-loading-after-a-reboot/
[22:08] <tripp4h> done some goodling about it...
[22:15] <ThomasCrown2> I have been looking on the net to try to find a fix when upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. I get the following error: AttributeError: 'UbuntuDistroInfo' object has no attribute 'version' Anyone know how to fix this?
[22:18] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: can you post the url returned by:  lsb_release -a | nc termbin.com 9999
[22:21] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, No LSB modules are available.
[22:22] <tomreyn> and     dpkg -V distro-info
[22:22] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, nothing returned
[22:23] <tomreyn> cat /etc/os-release | nc termbin.com 9999
[22:24] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, https://termbin.com/f9ez
[22:25] <tripp4h> i downloaded netfilter-persistent but also it says active (exited)
[22:25] <tripp4h> -googling
[22:25] <tripp4h> above
[22:26] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: can you     sudo apt install lsb-core     and try "lsb_release -a" again?
[22:27] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, executing now.
[22:28] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: was "No LSB modules are available." the only line of output of the  lsb_release -a  command?
[22:28] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, completed : https://termbin.com/59iz
[22:29] <tomreyn> what does    distro_info --lts    report?
[22:30] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, jammy
[22:31] <tripp4h> i tried a few commands but still doesn't work, sudo systemctl enable ufw and systemctl start ufw
[22:31] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: can you post your release upgrade log from /var/log/release-upgrade ?
[22:31] <tomreyn> !paste | ThomasCrown2
[22:31] <WaV> tripp4h:    sudo ufw enable
[22:32] <tripp4h> WaV: tried that too
[22:32] <WaV> tripp4h: what was the output of the command?
[22:32] <tripp4h> Firewall is active and enabled on system startup
[22:32] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, I have no log file for that.
[22:32] <WaV> tripp4h: Ok. What are you trying to accomplish?
[22:33] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: try running the release upgrader again, if it fails again, show all of its output
[22:34] <tripp4h> WaV: i want ufw to work, here's a paste of systemcl status ufw: https://dpaste.com/23ZRNN5Y4
[22:35] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: do a full "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade" before you do the release upgrade
[22:36] <WaV> tripp4h: exited doesn't necessarily mean its not working.
[22:36] <tripp4h> hmm...
[22:37] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, https://dpaste.com/5NV3C4G3D
[22:37] <WaV> tripp4h: ufw's initialization binary exited with code 0 which means it ran ufw-init successfully then closed.
[22:37] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: could it be that you installed the "distro-info" python module on the system through pip or similar?
[22:38] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, I am not sure.
[22:38] <tomreyn> ThomasCrown2: or, maybe i should ask more generally: did you modify the system-wide python installation?
[22:38] <tomreyn> because this looks like it a lot
[22:39] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, I don't believe so.
[22:40] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, distro-info is showing up in the 'pip list'
[22:40] <ThomasCrown2> should I remove it?
[22:40] <tomreyn> which version?
[22:41] <tomreyn> you can     sudo python3 -m pip uninstall distro-info && sudo apt reinstall python3-distro-info
[22:41] <tomreyn> but with your latest output i think it's not just this module that's broken
[22:42] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, completed
 ThomasCrown2: do a full "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade" before you do the release upgrade
[22:42] <tomreyn> had you done this?
[22:44] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, yes I had performed those commands.
[22:44] <tomreyn> did they return warnings or error messages?
[22:44] <tomreyn> were packages installed?
[22:45] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, I have ran the update process again after uninstall and reinstall of "sudo python3 -m pip uninstall distro-info && sudo apt reinstall python3-distro-info" and it seems to be working now.
[22:45] <tomreyn> it might, or you might run into the next problem after the no-way-back point
[22:45] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, thank you very much for the help through this process. What lead you to the fix of "sudo python3 -m pip uninstall distro-info && sudo apt reinstall python3-distro-info" ?
[22:46] <tomreyn> other people reporting similar errors after they had installed, through pipi, python modules globally on their system. something you should never do.
[22:46] <tomreyn> *pip
[22:48] <tomreyn> you can do it for the restricted user, you can do it in a venv, you can do it in a chroot, but don't do it on the system level, because key parts of ubuntu come as python scripts, and need to be those very versions to be compatible to one another.
[22:48] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, so never install pip modules through sudo?
[22:48] <tomreyn> right, there's no use case for this anyways
[22:49] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, thank you for the information and the help. I really appreciate it.
[22:51] <tomreyn> if you haven't started on the upgrade, yet, i would also recommend reading release notes for the target release, cleaning up apt source, uninstalling third party apt packages and unknown source / unknown version / no-upgrade-path / "foreign" apt packages
[22:51] <tomreyn> the latter you can list with apt list --installed | grep ',local\]$' | nc termbin.com 9999
[23:09] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, fully upgraded with no problems. Thanks again for the help!
[23:10] <tomreyn> you're welcome - might still want to look into the abive
[23:10] <tomreyn> *above
[23:18] <ThomasCrown2> tomreyn, will do.