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goddardso02:11
sarnoldyup02:11
crankharderdid some ubuntu updating. 22.04.2 updated all packages and rebooted.  seems like all network-type requests are defaulting to ipv6?  `ping google.com` shows PING google.com(lga34s34-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4006:80b::200e)) 56 data bytes and never gets a response, but `ping 8.8.8.8` works fine. any updates what could've changed?02:19
crankhardernot just ping, everything, but using that to test02:19
crankharderthought it was dns at first, but seems like dns is up and running and I get valid IPs back,  or, at least, `nslookup google.com` (and other domains) looks the same as it does on my OSX-laptop02:20
goddardalright boys i finally got steam to show02:23
goddardgot rid of everything and just downloaded the deb from the steam website02:24
goddardeven had to delete the .steam folder02:24
goddardnew steam UI is way better for proton games02:25
sarnoldcrankharder: is there any chance you put something like disable_ipv6=1 into your grub.cfg and it was overwritten when kernels were installed?02:25
Bashing-omgoddard: :D // https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/valve-gives-steam-its-biggest-update-and-redesign-in-years/ .02:26
goddardyeah its nice02:27
goddardlike you can now just select a "non-steam" game from the UI and easily launch and install it02:27
goddardi was getting the exact same FPS with Diablo 4 as i was on Windows02:28
crankhardersarnold: unlikely.  looking...02:28
goddardkicker is Linux is using way less memory02:28
goddardso my 16 gigs of memory was getting all eaten up by windows and stuff02:28
crankhardersarnold: well, i guess it's not there now.  but i really doubt I edited anything boot-related on this system02:28
sarnoldcrankharder: well, dang, it was always a bit of a long shot02:30
sarnoldcrankharder: from within a networkmanager connection editor, there's an ipv6 settings tab; you could change the 'method' from automatic to disabled; that'd probably do the trick02:33
crankharderubuntu-server, no ui02:33
sarnoldaha02:34
xarcrankharder: /etc/gai.conf; look for "precedence ::ffff:0:0/96"; also $ man gai.conf and familiarize yourself with RFC 348402:36
sarnoldcrankharder: I thought about suggesting what xar suggested, but wasn't sure if it'd be better to just not get ipv6 on the interfaces at all; try dhcp6: false and accept-ra: false  from https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/netplan-yaml/ as needed02:47
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ducassemorning07:18
vagamenteHi all.07:41
vagamenteI've got "odbcinst: symbol lookup error: odbcinst: undefined symbol: iniOpen" error installing msodbcsql17.07:41
vagamenteTried many different packages but didn't work07:41
vagamenteDifferent versions, I mean07:41
vagamenteunixodbc is installed07:42
vagamenteAnd it works07:42
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LartzaIs the live media just gonna refuse to boot if it can't mount the system drive? :/09:04
LartzaOh no nevermind just took a while and it tried to run an fsck for no good reason09:04
LartzaSo now I think ubiquity is just kind of completely stuck "Sahtop09:22
LartzaSaving installed packages and top isn't really showing any activity, does it need to run as root even though it doesn't ask for it?09:23
LartzaIs there a better way to install Ubuntu to an existing partition and try to get it to boot semi-manually?09:24
ravageLartza: maybe start by telling the room what exactly you are trying to achieve. what you did so far and what are the problems/errors you see?09:24
LartzaI'm trying to install Ubuntu into an existing GRUB system, LVM inside LUKS, started ubiquity with ubiquity -b and didn't tell it to format the volume (it was already ext4) and now it's kind of just sitting. I mostly see errors as "Home directory not accessible"09:27
LartzaAPT is aparently locked though I can't install iotop... it could be super slow?09:27
ravagethe installer shpuld be able to create an encrypted luks system during the install process09:28
ravagewhy this complicated way?09:28
LartzaBecause the system already has Arch09:28
LartzaDual boot09:28
ravagei dont think that is a supported combination09:29
LartzaWell no, of course not realistically, but I don't know why the installer wouldn't just install regardless09:29
ravagebecause you use it in a away it was not tested for09:29
ravageso errors and bugs can happen09:30
LartzaI mean I'm telling it to install to a partition that it sees, and it's not09:30
LartzaBut yes, in a way sure09:30
LartzaI'll test what happens if I do tell it to format the volume09:30
LartzaIs there a supported dual boot scenario? Install Ubuntu first then shrink the LUKS and create another LUKS for Arch?09:31
ravagethe installer only supports encryption as a single boot system09:33
ravagethere is the manual partitioning that you tried. but thats not tested of course because it includes endless test cases09:34
LartzaYeah so basically the answer is "yes", I can't really get the installer to do anything crazy and will have to manually install Arch next to Ubuntu :)09:34
LartzaWell yes to the latter question, not necessarily that it's still "supported"09:34
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ravageyou can spawn a shell at any time and try to fix the steps yourself09:35
LartzaYeah if I can figure out what is going wrong with ubiquity, I have opened the luks so it does see the partitions just something goes wonky09:36
ravagethis is just another unsupported way but: i do my jammy installs via debootstrap atm :)09:37
LartzaI mean it wouldn't be the first time I did something like that, I once installed Arch from inside a running Debian VPS :P09:38
LartzaAnd Arch install likely is already somewhat similar to debootstrap, haven't looked09:38
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LartzaUbiquity actually claims it installed, now I just need to figure out how to boot it or look into alternative methods :O09:50
howarth_heh11:32
howarth_solved my nvidia-driver-530 issues under secure boot on lunar11:32
howarth_turns out that if you use the Software & Updates preference panel's Additional Drivers pane to install the 530 drivers, it properly recognizes that the installed linux-signatures-nvidia-6.2.0-23-generic package has the 530 kernel modules sigs11:34
howarth_Whereas if you attempt to install it manually with 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-530' that isn't properly recognized and it wants to install dkms to rebuild the nvidia kernel modules and manually sign them11:35
howarth_Actually, I think I may have seen this before11:36
howarth_where, under secure boot, upgrading between nvidia releases on the command line doesn't always honor the presence of the sigs for the nvidia kernel mods11:36
JimBuntusuper-cool howarth_ ! Thanks!11:37
howarthWeird that it made a difference12:06
howarthOne would have thought that the software and update panel would just effectively do a simple 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-530'12:06
howarthInstall: libxnvctrl0:amd64 (510.47.03-0ubuntu1, automatic), libnvidia-common-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-fbc1-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-gl-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-extra-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), nvidia-compute-utils-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), nvidia-driver-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2),12:10
howarthlinux-modules-nvidia-530-6.2.0-23-generic:amd64 (6.2.0-23.23, automatic), libnvidia-encode-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), linux-modules-nvidia-530-generic-hwe-22.04:amd64 (6.2.0-23.23), nvidia-utils-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), linux-objects-nvidia-530-6.2.0-23-generic:amd64 (6.2.0-23.23, automatic), pkgconf:amd6412:10
howarth(1.8.1-1ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-decode-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), nvidia-kernel-common-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), nvidia-prime:amd64 (0.8.17.1, automatic), screen-resolution-extra:amd64 (0.18.3, automatic), nvidia-settings:amd64 (510.47.03-0ubuntu1, automatic), pkg-config:amd64 (1.8.1-1ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-cfg1-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic),12:10
howarthpkgconf-bin:amd64 (1.8.1-1ubuntu2, automatic), nvidia-kernel-source-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic), libpkgconf3:amd64 (1.8.1-1ubuntu2, automatic), libnvidia-compute-530:amd64 (530.41.03-0ubuntu2, automatic)12:10
howarthhistory.log in apt shows that12:11
howarthmy guess is that the command line installation might not be automatically installing linux-modules-nvidia-530-generic-hwe-22.04:amd6412:11
howarthhence the attempt to use dkms to rebuild the kernel modules12:11
howarthwhen 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-530' is used instead12:12
howarthwhich might make sense as I don't think the hwe stuff is as carefully integrated12:13
howarthdependency wise12:13
howarthActually, it is odd that they are still on 53012:15
howarthas I think 535 become a stable release from that already and 530 got left as beta12:15
howarthhttps://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/nvidia-linux/1392385-nvidia-535-54-03-linux-driver-released-with-vulkan-updates-dma-buf-v4-wayland-protocol12:15
howarththey haven't added 535 to mantic yet12:16
howarthbut it is on https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa12:16
vershanhi there people. I have a theme applied on ubuntu 22.04. can this not be applied system wide. for example, the theme is not applied to firefox and software centre12:24
ravagevershan: maybe this is helpful. im not sure it is the latest information but you can continue from there: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/change-snap-app-theme12:28
vershan@ravage, will have a look thanks12:29
bahamatIs there a command I can use to automatically and programatically remove all old kernels?13:12
bahamatOr do I have to make a whole bespoke script to detect which version I'm running, which ones are installed, and then remove the old ones?13:13
ravagebahamat: on a default installatipn "sudo apt autoremove" will keep the active kernel and one version before that13:17
bahamatravage: Nope, that doesn't work.13:17
ravagethen you manually installed kernel packages without the meta package that takes care of removing the old ones13:18
bahamatI never explicitly installed a specific kernel version.13:19
lotuspsychjebahamat: pastebin dpkg --list | grep linux-image please13:28
bahamatlotuspsychje: linux-image-5.4.0-144-generic and linux-image-5.4.0-152-generic, but that's all13:29
bahamatHere's what I've done so far:13:29
bahamatinstall system, dist-upgrade, remove linux-headers-generic, linux-headers-*, linux-firmware13:30
leftyfbbahamat: you only have 2 kernels installed and you want to uninstall 1 of them? The default in ubuntu is to keep the last kernel as a backup13:30
leftyfbbahamat: what release of ubuntu is this?13:30
bahamat20.0413:30
leftyfbwhy did you just install 20.04 over 22.04?13:31
leftyfbalso, why are you removing the headers and linux-firmware?13:31
bahamatIs it not still LTS?13:31
bahamatBecause I'm building a cloud image and 99% of deployments won't use either of them.13:31
bahamatAll the hardware is virtual, so it doesn't need any firmware13:32
leftyfbbahamat: 20.04 is still LTS, but why install it over 22.04 which will give you longer support and more modern kernels and software13:32
bahamatand almost nobody will be doing kernel development or compiling anything that needs to link against the kernel. The few who do can install it manually.13:32
TomyLobocause it has hitler's birthday right in the version number13:32
lotuspsychjeplease dont TomyLobo13:32
leftyfbTomyLobo: please take that mess elsewhere13:33
TomyLobooof, what a reaction to a joke13:33
bahamatBecause I'm creating cloud images and my users need all available LTS versions.13:34
TomyLoboyeah that's a better reason than mine :)13:35
bahamatIf ubuntu-18 was still LTS, I'd create one of those too.13:35
TomyLobowhat are you using to create your cloud images btw?13:36
TomyLobolast time I used packer and I was wondering if there are other tools for the same purpose13:37
bahamatWell, since autoremove won't work, bespoke script it is.13:45
leftyfbbahamat: autoremove works. By default it keeps the last kernel, which is the exact state you're in13:46
TomyLoboby last you mean latest or the last one that booted?13:46
leftyfbTomyLobo: the previously installed kernel13:47
lotuspsychjei agree with leftyfb , ubuntu keeps the last few kernels and you got only 2?13:47
bahamatAny way to modify that behavior?13:48
lotuspsychjebahamat: whats your endgoal exactly? only keep 1 kernel active?13:49
bahamatFrom the experience of my users, there's no "previous" kernel. They get an image with a currently working kernel. That's the "first" one. They won't need a previous one, and if they do for some reason they can install it manually.13:49
lotuspsychjethats not how the ubuntu system works, and pretty unsafe situation if you dont have previous kernels to fallback to13:49
bahamatAnd purging the old kernel saves 300MB in the image size. That will reduce the image size by about 25%, so it's worth it.13:50
TomyLobolotuspsychje, read up, bahamat is making cloud images. the fallback is not needed13:50
TomyLoboand it's invalid anyway, since the machine is fresh there is no "known working" kernel to fall back to13:50
bahamatlotuspsychje: It's a base image for a cloud environment. If the installed kernel is broken I'll fix it before publishing the image. There's no need for a fallback kernel at all.13:51
leftyfbbahamat: so just write a script that deletes the non-running kernel13:51
leftyfbbahamat: also, install the hwe kernel13:51
bahamatleftyfb: Yeah, that's what I ended up with.13:51
TomyLoboyou'd need to reboot in the middle, though, so you're not running the kernel you're about to throw out :)13:51
TomyLobojust to be safe13:52
TomyLobomight be optional13:52
TomyLoboprobably should make this your last stept13:52
TomyLobo-t13:52
bahamatWhat's the difference between hwe and hwe-*-edge?14:04
ravagea pre-release of the coming hwe kernel14:06
ravagecurrently there should be no difference14:06
bahamatravage: There's not, which was what confused me.14:06
lotuspsychjein some cases it can be handy to test out HWE earlier14:07
lotuspsychjespecialy if you need a specific HWE kernel number/series14:08
bahamatYeah. But in my case, I won't need that.14:08
bahamatLooks like this will do the trick for me: apt-get -y purge $(dpkg --get-selections | grep ^linux-.*-5.* | grep -v $(uname -r) | awk '{print $1}')14:10
bahamatDoes 22.04 have an hwe kernel yet?14:11
ravageyes14:12
ravagecurrently 5.1914:12
TomyLobowhy not grep -E '^linux-.*-[0-9]+.*'15:16
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zeratulhow do I change the resolution of the login screen?16:22
alkisgzeratul: xorg or wayland? and you want it to be lower or higher?16:29
zeratulalkisg, xorg and I want to change both the resolution and the aspect ratio16:44
zeratulfrom 1024x768 to 1920x108016:48
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jhutchinszeratul: I think that's controlled by gdm.  At one point it was configured by a gdmrc file.17:02
alkisgzeratul: what's the output of: xrandr | nc termbin.com 999917:23
martynhi all17:25
martyni am having a problem connecting to webpages just wondered if anyone can help17:26
alkisgWhat kind of problem?17:26
martyni click on a webpage and it just buffs and i dont get the page that with wifi and ethernet17:27
alkisgSo you can't access any internet page at all, with any browser?17:27
martynno17:28
alkisgIs that pc connected over ethernet now? Are you on that pc, or in another one?17:29
martynafter awhile it comes up with try again. as it times out17:31
alkisgWhat's the output of this command? host www.google.com17:32
alkisg(run that in a terminal,in the affected pc)17:32
BardonHello, if I set up cron jobs with `sudo crontab -e`, they will be executed by root, right?17:38
BardonBecause I have a cron job that does `git pull` at some point. I get the error "fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at", whereas if I `cd` that directory then `git pull`, it doesn't complain17:39
BardonSorry, if I `sudo git pull` it doesn't complain, if I just `git pull` it complains17:39
alkisgBardon: yes, but why not do the opposite, run `crontab -e` and make everything owned by the user, not by root17:41
BardonBecause I wouldn't have the permissions to do what I want. (This script pulls from some git repo, that corresponds to a static website that I host, builds it, then moves it to the folder where nginx loads it)17:44
Bardonalkisg: But if jobs created with `sudo crontab -e` are run by root, then why does it not complain when I `sudo su` then `git pull`?17:44
zeratuljustache, where is the gdmrc file located?17:45
Bardon(It wasn't `sudo git pull`, but `sudo su` then `git pull`, my bad, even though I'm not sure it makes a difference)17:45
alkisgBardon: because then everything is owned by root. The problem is mixing root with non-root17:46
BardonI'm sorry I don't understand. At what point am I missing root and non-root?17:48
alkisg"fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at" sounds to me like you created the git repository as user, not root17:49
alkisgWhy do you need to run git as root,why don't you want to run everything as the user?17:49
Bardoncorrect, I created it as a user, not root17:51
BardonWhat I don't understand is when I'm logged in with that user, I sudo su, then git pull and it doesn't complain!17:52
BardonAnd I don't run everything as the user because the user can't move the generated website to the folder that nginx expects17:53
Bardonand I guess I can't use sudo for only one command in this script because it'll ask for a password, which I can't provide safely since it's run by cron17:53
alkisgUsually nginx runs as www-data. You can run a cronjob and clone from git as that user, www-data. Not the "bardon" user.17:54
BardonI suppose I could give write permission to that user, but I thought it was safer to only allow root to write in that folder17:54
Bardonalkisg: Right, that would be a solution :)17:54
BardonBut still, this bugs me, why does the script, when run by sudo crontab gives a warning when gut pull from the root account doesn't!17:55
alkisgMeh, matrix receives the messages after a while, I guess the bug at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1724 is still unresolved ... :/17:55
-ubottu:#ubuntu- Issue 1724 in matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc "Silent message drop since the last maintenance" [Open]17:55
alkisgBardon: to discover what's different, at the top of your script, run: ( env; pwd ) >/tmp/script-$$.log18:00
alkisgYou'll see that some environment variable is different, e.g. HOME not set or different cwd18:00
socketHi18:01
Bardonalkisg: Ah ok, I see :)18:04
elias_aalkisg: Καλησπέρα!18:06
socketI got lost in grep. I have a file and more less it looks like this: https://pastebin.com/tjub8K3B  Basically it contains answers to a test. It's usually a single answer (one letter) like on the first line in the link. But sometimes it shows answers to multiple choice question like in the second line. Here's what I did: cat second_step.txt |awk {'print $2" "$3" "$4"  "$5'}. I only need those letters. Using awk I18:10
socketeliminated line numbers and now I wanted to use dots to distinguish single from multiple (separated by a coma). I'm looking for grep (or anything) that will give me this: cat second_step.txt |awk {'print $2" "$3" "$4"  "$5'} |grep everything until it hits the dot.18:10
socketSorry for the off topic, but I tried so many things....18:11
socketI mean if someone can come up with the idea to do it leaving the first row and omiting the first dot(the one after line number) that's even better, but not that important.18:16
alkisgsocket: send a bigger example e.g. 10 lines of your initial and final files18:17
socketalkisg, I had to edit it out. But those lines all look the same. The might have more text (hence awk up to fith comlumn), but it's everything up to the first dot in each lines that I need and the rest needs to disappear.18:22
tomreyn| cut -d. -f118:23
tomreynbut i think you mean the second dot18:23
tomreynthere's also #bash btw, and similar channels for other shells18:24
sockettomreyn, exactly that!!18:26
socketwhat's f1 here?18:26
socketI mean if you have any idea how to do this output: 29. A, B or 29(no dot) A, B18:27
socketthat's even more interesting.18:27
alkisgIt's `29 <optional dot> A, B <always dot>` ?18:28
tomreynsocket: -f1 selects the first "field". the "field" ends where the delimiter character (given by '-d') is found. see the man page, it's simple enough.18:30
socket29<optional dot> A, B <no dot>18:30
tomreynoh that first dot is optional, then cut isn't useful there.18:31
alkisgprintf "28. A, B. Text.\n29 C. More text.\n" | sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][.[:space:]]([^.])./\1/'18:31
alkisgThat gives "A, B" for the first line, and "C" for the second, not sure if that's what you want18:31
alkisgprintf "28. A, B. Text.\n29 C. More text.\n" | sed 's/^[0-9][0-9]*[.[:space:]]*\([^.]*\).*/\1/'18:32
tomreyn"not sure what you want" is certainly the main issue here18:32
alkisgResending as matrix probably borked it :)18:32
socketI got what I wanted, I appreciate it, guys. The rest of it is at this point academic (for me) and I asked out of curiosity. The original line starts with a number and the dot follows that number. I "awked it out" because I didn't know how to omit the first dot to use the second one as a delimiter where I finish the line.18:35
hsiktas[m]for an old Intel MacBook Air, should I install Ubuntu in EFI or old Bios/MBR mode? The old method should not require an EFI partition but does it also has some drawbacks?18:38
hsiktas[m]Ubuntu would be the only OS on it, so no dual boot with macOS or Windows18:38
rboxwhatever works18:39
rboxit doesnt matter one way or the other18:39
hsiktas[m]there are no implications for signed kernels etc.?18:40
hsiktas[m]afaik this device does not have secure boot :)18:40
rboxwell you cant verify signatures on BIOS18:41
rboxwell if it odnst have secure boot18:41
rboxthen its irrelvent18:41
alkisgAnother small thing is that UEFI can do firmware updates. Not sure if that applies to MacBooks, I've never even seen one of them :)18:45
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Guest60Hi, I'm a new user who installed ubuntu on an old Windows laptop last week. It was working until today. No matter what I do, my laptop won't load ubuntu. I tried running a boot repair by following instructions here: https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-22-04-not-booting-troubleshooting-guide20:38
Guest60It ran the boot repair but when i restarted my laptop was still not booting20:38
Guest60I have a pastebin url. Adding it here now20:38
Guest60https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Yj73M6RKNV/20:39
Guest60Is this chat the correct place to get help?20:40
jeremy31Yes20:40
Guest60thanks jeremy3120:40
Guest60what do you recommend I do to fix the boot?20:41
Guest60More details: it's an old Toshiba laptop that I bought in 2014. I wiped Windows during my ubuntu installation20:42
Guest60When I try to boot up, I just see the Toshiba screen forever. Before when it was working properly, I would see the ubuntu icon on the bottom of the Toshiba screen20:43
Guest60Right now it shows no ubuntu icon20:44
jeremy31I am not a boot issue expert20:44
Guest60darn, you're the only person replying tho20:45
Guest60should i try Askubuntu.com?20:46
p0indexterhow long did you wait for it to boot before giving up?20:46
jeremy31Guest60: Is there any setting in the BIOS to select an UEFI file to boot?20:47
Guest60I have uefi selected already. I tried changing it to csm once and that failed, so I changed it back to uefi20:47
p0indexterfirst boot could take a while w little ram20:48
EriC^^Guest60: if you hold shift do you get grub?20:48
Guest60will try that now20:48
EriC^^if you hold it right after you power the pc on20:48
Guest60holding shift doesn't do anything. First it takes me to a setup screen with BIOS settings. When I exited, I tried holding shift but it just took me to the Toshiba screen20:52
Guest60i tried holding shift before the bios screen too20:52
Guest60didn't do anything20:52
Guest60Normally ubuntu loads within a few minutes, but today it just stayed stuck on the Toshiba screen for 20 minutes20:53
Guest60I had to force shutdown or unplug it to try again20:53
EriC^^Guest60: try tapping 'esc' instead of shift20:53
Guest60ok20:53
Guest60same result20:54
EriC^^if that doesnt work try pressing f12 for the one time boot menu and see what's there and if there's an option to browse for an uefi file20:55
syphyrwith newer versions of ubuntu, is firefox only a snap package now?21:00
Guest60tried to upload a pic but i guess it doesn't work21:01
xanguaUbuntu repositories only offers Firefox in snap, yes syphyr21:01
syphyrhm thanks21:02
EriC^^Guest60: imgur.com21:02
Guest60f12 took me to a screen with options USB, HDD/SSD, ODD, LAN, and a settings icon21:02
EriC^^Guest60: ok, do you have a live usb you can boot to troubleshoot further?21:02
xanguaBut it got faster start-up time in recent updates if that's what worries you syphyr21:02
syphyryeah, i was thinking it would be slow21:02
Guest60does this link work? https://imgur.com/a/CmVC1JA21:03
syphyrand require a lot more disk space21:03
Guest60I have my bootable usb that i used to install ubuntu21:03
Guest60it was what I used to try the boot repair tool21:04
Guest60but boot repair didn't fix the issue :(21:04
Guest60I got the screen saying it was repaired but the laptop still wouldn't boot up21:04
EriC^^Guest60: ok, boot up the live usb21:07
Guest60do i click 'Try or Install Ubuntu'?21:10
teearheh21:15
teearClick compile kernel21:15
syphyrweird, the default firefox installed with a deb file shares the same config as the version of firefox installed by snap21:15
syphyrall the same plugins are thre21:16
teearHow do you keep ahold of what is snap and what is apt etc21:16
Guest60EricC^^ I'm not on this screen: https://imgur.com/a/kuGH64x21:16
Guest60Do I click 'Try Ubuntu'?21:16
Guest60*now21:16
teearWhatdo you wanna do21:17
teearWipe your hard drive and install it, or try it and keep your data?21:17
Guest60I wanna try fixing my boot before i reinstall21:17
Guest60cuz my installation was working for a week21:18
teear All your precious data is in /home?21:18
teearBackup home and format your hard "fucking" drive and do a clean install21:18
teearAs long as your important files are safe21:19
Guest60i don't have much saved here. It's just that I expect to eventually run into the same issue if I reinstall the same way i did before21:19
teearok21:19
Guest60i already did a full wipe during this installation21:19
SIMP_KingWhats the issue21:19
Guest60my laptop won't boot up. It gets stuck on the Toshiba screen21:20
Guest60It used to have an ubuntu icon on the bottom, so I knew it was loading that21:20
Guest60now it doesn't anymore21:20
teearBIOS-settings?21:20
Guest60Here's my pastebin url from my boot repair tool: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Yj73M6RKNV/21:21
teearYou need to be logged in to view this paste.21:21
Guest60repasting my earlier msg: I'm a new user who installed ubuntu on an old Windows laptop last week. It was working until today. No matter what I do, my laptop won't load ubuntu. I tried running a boot repair by following instructions here: https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-22-04-not-booting-troubleshooting-guide21:22
teearUse some fuckin' pastebin that works21:22
Guest60It ran the boot repair but when i restarted my laptop was still not booting21:22
Guest60it's an old Toshiba laptop that I bought in 2014. I wiped Windows during my ubuntu installation21:22
Guest60When I try to boot up, I just see the Toshiba screen forever. Before when it was working properly, I would see the ubuntu icon on the bottom of the Toshiba screen21:22
teearok21:23
Guest60idk how any of this works. I'm new to ubuntu21:23
Guest60boot repair offered to post stuff to a pastebin and gave me that link21:23
teearUbuntu works like magic, just rm -rf /, everything21:23
SIMP_KingWhat is the problem u are having21:24
teearHe already told us basically21:24
SIMP_KingOk so just re-install the Linux21:25
teearDid you change something, before the Ubuntu-icon disappeared?21:25
SIMP_KingOn such an old device, I reccomend a lighter-OS DE, such as Ubuntu-mate21:25
Guest60i only updated the desktop screen21:25
teearWhat does that mean21:25
teearWhat did you do exactly21:26
Guest60the desktop image. I updated it from the default jellyfish to another image that's in the ubuntu package21:26
teearok21:26
teearWell that's not your problem then21:26
teearSo does Ubuntu still work like normal21:27
Guest60laptop isn't loading ubuntu at all. It's defaulting to the Toshiba screen21:27
SIMP_KingReinstall a lighter OS21:28
EriC^^Guest60: yes, try ubuntu21:29
Guest60ok21:29
SIMP_KingUbuntu isnt light21:29
SIMP_KingIts a lag-hog21:29
SIMP_Kingdue to the GNome environment or Unity or whatever21:29
SIMP_KingTry xubuntu21:29
SIMP_Kingbe elite21:29
EriC^^Guest60: once it loads open a terminal and type 'sudo efibootmgr -v | nc termbin.com 9999' and share the link it gives21:30
teearYou really don't know your actual problem and we specialists don't now either21:30
teearIf an icon disappears from a desktop, it sounds like Windows21:31
SIMP_Kingdude are you serioues21:31
SIMP_Kingliterally thousands of Linux OSs have desktop icons21:32
SIMP_Kingfuck! are people devolving or something21:32
teearWe are deratarding21:33
SIMP_Kingflouride confirmed21:33
Guest60yea, this was an old windows 8 laptop. I wiped windows to install ubuntu21:33
teearthousands of Linux OS have desktop icons, but only in Windows do they disappear like so the user believes he should be in a mental institution21:34
Guest60Eric^^ - I got the url https://termbin.com/hcq921:34
Guest60ugh, so this happens often to ppl who install ubuntu on Windows machines?21:35
SIMP_Kingwhat the fuck21:35
SIMP_KingGuest, I suggest a light Linux OS21:36
SIMP_KingUbuntu is kinda heavy21:36
ravage!language | SIMP_King21:36
ubottuSIMP_King: Please avoid any language that may be considered offensive, including acronyms and obfuscation of such - also see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines || The main channels are English only, for other languages, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList21:36
teearwhattepussulickinfuck21:36
SIMP_King@ignore teear21:36
SIMP_King!ignore teear21:36
ravageand this room is for Ubuntu support questions. if you want to discuss other topic use #ubuntu-discuss for Ubuntu related topics. everything else in #ubuntu-offtopic . thaks21:37
Guest60i wanna see if there's a fix here first before I try installing a different os from scratch :/21:37
ravageGuest60: give EriC^^ a moment21:37
ravagefrom what i see the bootorder looks wrong21:38
teearWhat distro you installed?21:38
Guest60the version?21:38
jeremy31Guest60: why the zfs?21:38
Guest60ubuntu 22.04 LTS21:39
ravageGuest60: try "sudo efibootmgr -o 0,1"21:39
Guest60I put in a boot order of usb first so it'd actually read my bootable usb21:39
ravagemaybe that already fixes it21:39
ravageif not come back :)21:39
teearheh21:39
jeremy31Guest60: the boot repair info shows the hard drive is using zfs21:39
Guest60should I wait for EriC before I try that?21:40
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ravageyes you can wait if you are not in a hurry21:40
Guest60i'll try what he comes back with first21:41
syphyrIs there a correct way to fix this warning? "Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 10: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected"21:41
EriC^^Guest60: can you or someone upload the boot-repair log to some pastebin, it's asking me to login to view the paste21:41
EriC^^https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Yj73M6RKNV/21:41
EriC^^it would save alot of time to see everything in one place21:41
Guest60how do i do that?21:42
ravageEriC^^: https://dpaste.com/H2QQRN33N21:42
EriC^^thanks ravage21:42
EriC^^Guest60: type "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt"21:43
oerheksthis fixes most font errors: sudo fc-cache -f -v21:44
Guest60i typed that in but idk what it did21:46
EriC^^Guest60: then "sudo mkdir -p /mnt/efi/microsoft/boot"21:46
Guest60terminal just took me to the next line21:46
teearfuckin' Microsoft21:47
EriC^^Guest60: then 'sudo cp /mnt/efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /mnt/efi/microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi'21:47
Guest60done21:50
Guest60there's a space between .efi and /mnt, right? That's how i entered it21:51
jeremy31Yes21:51
EriC^^Guest60: also run ravage 's command, "sudo efibootmgr -o 0000,0001,0002,0004"21:51
EriC^^Guest60: then reboot, and try to hold shift to get grub so we know at least grub is booting, if it doesnt work try f12 again and choose the hdd/ssd option21:53
Guest60ok21:53
syphyrthanks, oerheks, but that did not fix it21:55
Guest60i'm now on a screen that says "grub>"21:57
EriC^^nice21:57
EriC^^type 'normal' and hit enter21:57
Guest60click 'ubuntu' or 'advanced options for ubuntu'?21:58
EriC^^ubuntu21:58
Guest60it's loading ubuntu now21:59
EriC^^great21:59
Guest60will i have to hold 'shift' and type 'normal' every time i turn it on?21:59
EriC^^no21:59
EriC^^when it boots, try running 'sudo update-grub' for good measure22:00
syphyroerheks, the issue is line 8 and 9. https://pastebin.com/TNMbF0K322:02
syphyrlike maybe create two separate familys?22:03
Guest60updating grub now22:04
ravagesyphyr: you can try to reset the file to defaults22:04
ravagesudo -- sh -c 'mv /etc/fonts/conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf /root/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf.bak; wget -qO /etc/fonts/conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf https://termbin.com/glso'22:04
Guest60EriC^^ Done. Do I restart again now?22:05
EriC^^Guest60: sure give it a shot22:05
EriC^^no shift this time22:05
Guest60it's loading ubuntu normally now22:08
Guest60tysm EriC^^ :D22:09
EriC^^Guest60: no problem22:10
syphyrthanks ravage22:10
syphyrthat file looks like its fixed22:10
theZoMBiEwhen i do gpg --list-keys i can see my key that i used to encrypt this file.... now when i do gpg --decrypt file.txt > decrypt.txt its telling me: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key22:10
syphyrthat was exactly what I needed, just had to expand it out into two separate <match></match>22:14
Guest60I have an even older Windows computer that i installed the same version of ubuntu on. Hopefully this one doesn't end up with the same prob22:17
Guest60I've saved the code so i can try that out if this other machine has problems booting22:17
Guest60EriC^^ you are a lifesaver22:18
EriC^^Guest60: does the other computer still have windows? dont just run the code if it does cause it would overwrite its bootloader22:20
Guest60the other computer was installed the same way. I wiped windows and installed ubuntu with the same bootable usb22:21
Guest60i'm typing on it now22:21
EriC^^really the problem wasn't windows itself, toshiba's uefi seems finicky, what's the other pc's make?22:21
Guest60this is an HP computer22:21
EriC^^oh ok22:21
Guest60i think we bought it in 201122:22
EriC^^ah hp also have finicky uefi, for those, i get by with disabling the windows entry and not the bootmgfw.efi workaround thing22:22
EriC^^you'd run sudo efibootmgr -v  and get it's number e.g 0004 for windows boot manager blabla, then run 'sudo efibootmgr -A -b 0004' for instance to disable it, then ubuntu should boot22:23
EriC^^-a -b 0004 makes it active again in case you ever want to revert22:23
jeremy31Install Ubuntu in BIOS mode on something from 201122:26
Guest60ah, ok. I'll save this and try it if the hp comp has a problem22:26
Guest60i have no clue what mode it was on when I installed it :/ Hopefully it's ok22:28
Guest22hi i am running an old (19.10) ubuntu live usb and trying to write either 18.04 ubuntu or 20.04 ubuntu to a dvd but "disk image writer" application shows the dvd burner (destination) as greyed out and not selectable. can anyone help please?22:43
jeremy31Guest22: brasero might be what you need22:52
syphyrI've also just noticed this error when starting snap's firefox: https://pastebin.com/Pjf79Z04  Firefox still starts up and seems to work ok.  Is this an issue with my custom 5.15 kernel? This command works fine "systemd-run --user --scope echo hello"22:53
syphyrolder threads mention a grub boot parameter: systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=122:55
syphyrbut legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller is not in my kernel source22:55
syphyrmaybe i can just ignore?22:56
syphyrI dont think the log I posted was complete.  here is a better one: https://pastebin.com/DV0MbuuG23:06
syphyrit looks like it fails with permission errors, but then afterwards the kernel accepts it23:07
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oerhekscustom 5.15 kernel?23:46
syphyryeah i built my kernel with latest lts23:57
syphyrbut i dont think its kernel related23:57
syphyrfrom that log, it looks like systemd initially fails with permission errors, but right afterwards the kernel allows it23:59

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