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IrcsomeBot<paculino> alkisg, I have successfully removed all of grub, but I cannot do anything to the protected package shim-signed04:23
alkisgpaculino, why, what's the error message?05:08
IrcsomeBot<paculino> "this is a protected package; it should not be removed"05:11
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Muon does not say it is locked, but it does say it is broken (since its dependencies were removed)05:22
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Would just reinstall it with apt with -f option be sufficient?05:22
alkisgpaculino, use apt, not muon05:28
alkisgWhat's the output of: sudo apt purge shim-signed05:28
alkisgDon't press enter if it says it's dangerous or it'll remove more stuff05:29
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I am not using muon; I was using dpkg05:29
IrcsomeBot<paculino> E: Unmet dependencies05:29
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IrcsomeBot<paculino> aptitude does not want to do anything since os-prober and ubiquity need grub-common05:30
alkisgpaculino, please pastebin your whole screen with the output of apt purge05:31
alkisgubiquity is the ubuntu installer, it shouldn't be used in an installed system05:31
IrcsomeBot<paculino> https://pastebin.com/nYqLn8sf05:32
alkisgpaculino, today I don't have much time. Do you mind sharing a terminal to finish this sooner?05:33
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Should I uninstall ubiquity? I didn't think I would ever need it, but did not want to uninstall it and it end up being useful05:33
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Sure, but I'm afraid you'll have to walk me through sharing the terminal05:33
alkisgubiquity isn't installed in ubuntu. Only linuxmint has it because of a bug they have05:33
alkisgsudo apt install epoptes-client05:33
alkisgAnd then: /usr/share/epoptes-client/share-terminal 81.186.20.005:34
IrcsomeBot<paculino> It wants to reinstall grub before doing that05:34
alkisgOK let it reinstall grub05:34
alkisgYou have broken packages now05:34
alkisgThat's what I want to solve but it'll take a lot of time via irc/pastebin, while it'll be fast with terminal sharing05:35
alkisgYou have half jammy sources, half kinetic sources05:36
alkisgSo I'll also fix your installation now, it's completely broken, half 22.04 and half 22.1005:37
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I am aware of mixed sources; someone told me to do that for a certain package05:37
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Should I no longer follow their tech advice?05:37
alkisgHrm, you actually have more 22.10 than 22.04 now05:38
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I had a failed update before adding the kinetic sources for a certain package; at the time it appeared it did not go through05:39
alkisgSo since you actually have 22.10, the correct kernel for you would be 5.1905:39
IrcsomeBot<paculino> My plan was to get 5.15 then try to redo the update05:40
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Well, not get, but revert05:41
alkisgI was advising 5.15 because I thought you had 22.04; that's not true though, you have more 22.10 than 22.0405:41
alkisgYou shouldn't have 5.15 with 22.1005:41
IrcsomeBot<paculino> lsb-release said I had 22.04, so I thought 5.15 was correct rather than 5.19; in any case, the 5.19...longnumber was not correct05:43
alkisgcat /etc/os-release to see your version05:44
IrcsomeBot<paculino> That also said 22.04 the last I checked05:44
alkisgWhat was the initial installation? Please be honest about that part, did you e.g. start from popos  or linuxmint and now it ended up to be kubuntu 22.10?05:45
alkisgYour os-release says 22.1005:45
alkisgThat answer will help us avoid pitfalls05:46
IrcsomeBot<paculino> PopOS, then I tried to reinstall/overwrite over it with Kubuntu 22.04, and it appeared to have no issues initially05:46
alkisgDid you reinstall kubuntu over it, or did you try to upgrade to kubuntu?05:47
alkisgI.e. was the initial popos supposedly wiped completely?05:47
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I did not wipe it since I thought it would just be overwritten05:47
alkisgOK. So the problem is that popos has a mix, they e.g. ship the 5.19 kernel while they're mostly 22.0405:48
alkisgI would strongly recommend a reinstallation while keeping ONLY home05:48
alkisgSo you can't upgrade popos to ubuntu without having to undo all their modifications05:48
alkisgThese glitches will haunt you for a lot of time, you'll have to be an ..un-developer of popos to remove them05:49
alkisgAll these small forks of ubuntu do not do proper packaging05:49
alkisgThey just go around in the file system and touch whatever they want05:49
alkisgSo upgrades cannot fix what they manually mess with05:49
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I will keep home, make a new boot partition, and fresh install on that partition as soon as possible, only keeping this original boot partition as a back up in case of any errors.05:49
alkisgIf you want me to quickly fix your grub issue, I can do that, but I strongly suggest that you download an ubuntu 22.04 and reinstall while keeping home, and not waste time in upgrading popos to ubuntu05:50
alkisgYou can keep all your dirs in a subdirectory05:50
alkisgE.g. I put them in /srv/popos05:50
alkisgSee they even have casper installed, this is the part that boots live CDs05:51
alkisgThey didn't implement the "uninstallation" part of the ubuntu installer correctly, so any popos installation has bad packages installed by default05:51
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I cannot borrow live installation media until Tuesday or Thursday at the earliest; could I just have grub in the meantime?05:51
alkisgOK05:52
alkisgpopos is still injecting systemd-boot05:53
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I will never again trust an installer or anything to totally overright something when I want it to.05:53
alkisgI haven't used popos nor systemd-boot, so I do not know how to remove that05:53
alkisgI believe you should NOT be using grub against popos wishes, and you should stick with your distribution defaults05:53
alkisgNow e.g. you'll install grub but it won't even take effect because popos will inject systemd-boot instead05:54
alkisgWell now supposedly grub has taken over from systemd-boot05:55
alkisgBut I can't be sure, this now is neither popos nor ubuntu, it's chaos05:56
alkisgYou may cross your fingers and try to reboot...05:56
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Okay, thank you and please forgive me for the horrible mistakes I made.05:57
alkisgYou should have been honest about popos. It's not that we don't want to help. It's that when we give ubuntu help (e.g. fix grub or restore 5.15. kernel) to popos users (that have systemd-boot and 5.19 kernel), chaos happens05:58
alkisgUsers thing "based on debian, eh, they're all the same". That's not true, advice for one distribution will break another distribution05:58
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I thought pop was overwritten05:58
alkisgYou can't switch distributions by upgrading. Only with clean installations.05:59
alkisgIf you had installed ubuntu over popos, instead of trying to upgrade, then it would have indeed been overwritten05:59
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I am in grub now05:59
alkisgIt would have warned about "formatting /", you'd have said "yes" and you'd have no more popos05:59
alkisgOK, does it boot?06:00
IrcsomeBot<paculino> It gave me a list of commands06:00
alkisgNo boot menu?06:00
IrcsomeBot<paculino> It is bash more or less06:00
alkisgset root=(hd06:01
alkisgWrite that, then press tab twice, then screenshot06:01
IrcsomeBot<paculino> https://irc-attachments.kde.org/299a7f3f/file_61448.jpg06:01
alkisgwrite 1, then tab twice, then screenshot06:02
alkisgset root=(hd1,   and then two tabs to list the partitions06:02
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I believe that is the internal : https://irc-attachments.kde.org/3ab1b573/file_61449.jpg06:03
alkisgIndeed, go back and write hd0, then two tabs and photo again06:04
IrcsomeBot<paculino> https://irc-attachments.kde.org/3d991b0a/file_61450.jpg06:04
alkisgSo that also clears up the question about "popos wasn't seeing your internal disk", I guess it's some udev rule they add for "security"06:04
alkisgset root=(hd0,gpt4)06:05
alkisgconfigfile /boot/grub/grub.c06:05
alkisgand that point press tab06:05
alkisgDoes it autocomplete the grub.cfg filename?06:05
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I think I was prompted about seeing the internal disk. It does not autocomplete06:06
alkisgThen the problem is that you remove and/or reinstalled grub without running `update-grub`, so the grub.cfg isn't there06:06
alkisgType: linux /boot/vmli06:06
alkisgand press tab, does it autocomplete? Don't press enter06:06
IrcsomeBot<paculino> It does06:07
alkisgOK, this is the whole line: linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda406:07
alkisgAnd then: initrd /boot/initrd.img06:07
alkisgAnd then: boot06:07
IrcsomeBot<paculino> It works06:10
alkisgWhen it boots, share a terminal once more: /usr/share/epoptes-client/share-terminal 81.186.20.006:10
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Alright06:15
alkisgpaculino, it's so slow because you're using a usb2 port06:21
alkisgpaculino, if it's a usb3 case, put it in a usb3 port06:21
alkisgAnyway it's ready, you may reboot06:21
IrcsomeBot<paculino> I know it is slow because of the port/cord06:21
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Would you a free art commission or something? I'm broke right now but if you have a kofi or something I can repay your for the help once I finish and get reimbursed for my current commission.06:33
alkisgThank you paculino, don't worry about it. If I understood you correctly, you're able to do some art? I may ping you if I need a logo for one of my open source projects :)06:35
IrcsomeBot<paculino> Alright (I can do traditional, digital 3d, 2d raster, or 2d vector). Thank you again. I have learned at least. I will try to keep the next learning experience to be mostly from dumb mistakes.06:37
IrcsomeBot<Omar> What is the problem? : https://irc-attachments.kde.org/2feed544/file_61451.jpg06:41
alkisgIt's stuck there? If so, try to reboot, press "e" in grub to edit the command, remove the "quiet splash" part, and press f10 then to boot with a detailed screen output06:46
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IrcsomeBot<Omar> No it is not stuck07:41
IrcsomeBot<Omar> It just shows up when i turn it off07:42
IrcsomeBot<Omar> What does it means?10:29
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IrcsomeBot<lord chencho> Hi there!11:17
IrcsomeBot<lord chencho> Why my kubuntu 22.04 instalation takes 25 sg to boot up?11:17
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oerhekswhy is 25 sec bad?12:32
IrcsomeBot<lord chencho> Used to be faster Im thinking that's because I have one HDD, one SDD and one nvme :- S (re @IrcsomeBot: <oerheks> why is 25 sec bad?)13:30
BluesKajHi all14:06
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^Gecko^hey.  trying to install kubuntu 22.04 lts on an older laptop.  thing boots fine but once xwindows loads it seems to just stop doing anything.  can I run the install from the shell?21:13
^Gecko^(It's not locked up, I can still log in to the shell with ctrl+alt+f2)21:13
valorieyou could try `plasmashell &`21:14
valorieand see if plasmashell starts21:14
valorieif not, at least you would get some error message21:15
valorie^Gecko^:  ^^21:15
^Gecko^this is to say that xwindows doesn't really finish loading, afaik.  all I see it the mouse and the desktop background21:16
^Gecko^plasmashell & gives me an error about "could not connect to the display"21:16
^Gecko^https://photos.app.goo.gl/HSmRR48BFLw5e8mG821:17
valoriehmmm, your old lappy might be too old21:18
^Gecko^rofl, maybe.  core solo21:18
valoriethat said I run the newest on my travel laptop, which is perhaps 8 years old21:19
valorieand this one is .... 4 or 5?21:19
valorieSysinfo for 'valorie-Oryx-Pro': Running inside KDE Plasma 5.25.5 on Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) powered by Linux 5.19.16-76051916-generic, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz at 2800-3576/3800 MHz, RAM: 11904/32054 MB, Storage: 297/1143 GB, 244 procs, 90.65h up21:19
^Gecko^https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-XT-Series.18625.0.html21:19
valorieI'm no hardware expert21:20
^Gecko^this came out in 2007'ish I think21:20
valoriewhat did that laptop run before?21:20
^Gecko^it's got win7 on it right now21:20
^Gecko^not great though, heh21:20
valorieis it 32-bit?21:21
valoriebecause we don't provide that anymore21:21
^Gecko^looks like the core 2 solo is 6421:23
valorieI dunno. Plasma is really light, compared to what it was years ago21:26
^Gecko^https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/31789/intel-core2-solo-processor-u2100-1m-cache-1-06-ghz-533-mhz-fsb/specifications.html21:26
valoriebut it seems something isn't correctly detecting your display21:26
valoriehow about putting something like Lubuntu on a thumb drive and seeing if that will boot?21:26
^Gecko^lubuntu21:28
^Gecko^oops21:28
valorieI would suggest asking in #kde but it's Sunday and evening for Europe, so you might get not many answers21:28
valorieright, you might try #lubuntu21:28
^Gecko^i meant to type that in the browser, lol, but yeah I'm doing that now21:28
valoriebest of luck! I love saving old lappys with linux21:33
^Gecko^weird hard drive in this thing, a 1.8" parallel ata ZIF21:43
^Gecko^only 80gb21:43
^Gecko^ok lubuntu loads ok21:47
^Gecko^trackpad is super glitchy. :(  lower set of buttons don't work at all and tap to click doesn't work.  touchscreen works though22:30
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mybalzitch^Gecko^: do you need to borrow a ps2 mouse?23:17

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