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12:17 AM

How to format/partition SD card? http://bit.ly/k5RHJe #kubuntu

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 23, 2011 at 12:12 AM

Kevin Maghuyop

1:03 AM

did anyone managed tog et a usb monitor working on 11.04?

Marco Ceppi

1:55 AM

I'm surprised no one has asked this question yet

0

Q: Show running windows in launcher quicklist?

I love the quicklist for launchers, and that it shows if multiple windows are open via the arrow indicators. However, it doesn't seem to list the running in the quicklist interface. Is there anyway to have the Unity Launcher list the running windows?

Marco Ceppi

3:06 AM

Chromify-OSD 2.3.0 is out. Everyone's current copies should be updated soon

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3:18 AM

How to really-really rescan media library in Banshee? http://bit.ly/kBATAd #banshee

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 23, 2011 at 3:12 AM

George Edison

5:08 AM

@MarcoCeppi Hooray!

Lol... Chrome updated it already all by itself while it was running.

launchpad.net/jsstudio/+index

^---- New project.

htorque

5:54 AM

good morning

Achu

6:05 AM

morning @all

after running fsck and when i reboot, i get blank purple screen. even can't login any tty. any advice?

Octavian Damiean

morning

Achu

@OctavianDamiean morning!

I'm on live CD now how can i fix this?

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

6:20 AM

Desktop edition to Server edition and support http://bit.ly/kDtIQc #server

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM

Takkat

morning all :)

Octavian Damiean

@Takkat morning o/

already testing absorbers? :D

Takkat

waves back on monday may 23

absorbers are in the waiting position

Octavian Damiean

heh yea I know that today is the 23 :D

George Edison

6:41 AM

Night all.

Takkat

good night @GeorgeEdison

Achu

7:02 AM

@Takkat Good morning

Takkat

waves @Achu :)

Achu

@Takkat my laptop doesn't work i get blank purple screen. i'm on live CD now

Takkat

this is too bad - what have you done to it?

Achu

i was running fsck to fix some broken file system

htorque

morning @all

Takkat

7:06 AM

what broke your files?

Achu

i tried my things but no luck

Takkat

hi @htorque

Achu

i don't know exactly, but after i run fsck my default login was tty2 i can't login to tty5

i was trying to fix the system file then installing some fixed packages

Rinzwind

morning \o

Achu

now i get only blank purple screen can't switch tty

@Rinzwind morning

can i fix this using live CD? since I'm unable to login any tty @Takkat

Rinzwind

7:11 AM

@Achu your tty's are inside /etc/event.d/

more tty1
# tty1 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on stopped rc2
start on stopped rc3
start on stopped rc4
start on stopped rc5

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1

htorque

no, they are in /etc/init

Rinzwind

?

htorque

/etc/init/tty[1-6].conf

Rinzwind

hmm they changed it somewhere in a release?

htorque

/etc/event.d is rather old

that was upstart's old job dir

Rinzwind

7:13 AM

oh I got some old machines here >:D 1 even with hardy _O-

Achu

so what do you think guys my problem is? souled i reinstall xorg?

Takkat

sry, had the super-absorber here

morning @Rinzwind

Achu

sry?

Rinzwind

heya @Takkat and @htorque >:D

Takkat

sorry I was absorbed

htorque

7:17 AM

@Rinzwind hi

Rinzwind

made my 1st bounty y-day \o

Takkat

@Achu can you get into Grub menu (holding shift)?

Rinzwind

@Achu does
ps -ef|grep tty1

show a getty running?

Achu

@Takkat no that doesn't work even when i try to reinstall the grub on live CD i get "fatal error" message

Takkat

@Achu so Grub (and other stuff) may be bricked :/

@Rinzwind congrats!

Achu

7:21 AM

@Takkat so since i can't login any tty how can i fix this

Takkat

@Achu can you see your files from the live session at all?

Achu

@Rinzwind where should i run ps -ef|grep tty1

@Takkat i can see my files from live CD

Takkat

@Achu on 11.04?

Achu

@Takkat yes

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ps -ef|grep tty1
root 2825 1 0 06:56 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/login -f
ubuntu 2912 2825 0 06:56 tty1 00:00:00 -bash
ubuntu 3947 3890 0 07:23 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto tty1

@Rinzwind

Takkat

@Achu how did you try to reinstall Grub? Root-Directory or chroot method?

Achu

7:28 AM

@Takkat no there is an option on live cd "reinstalling grub" after login "rescue broken file system"

Takkat

@Achu never tried that - so I can't tell how this works :/

Achu

@Takkat okay should i try reinstall chroot method?

Takkat

@Achu not sure about that. Generally if a file system error occured you don't know what files are affected.

In these cases you may be on the safer side to reinstall Ubuntu.

There is an option to keep you data and applications when you do so.

Achu

hummm reinstalling....

Takkat

It says "Upgrade 11.04 to 11.04" or so

you made backups?

Achu

7:33 AM

noop

Takkat

I'd do that for /home at least!

You don't know if your drive is ok...

Achu

i have a backup of my files but not my whole backup like image backup including my configuration files

Rinzwind

reinstall would be best I think. 1 thing: if you format the whole disc: make a seperate /home as a partition (you do that with the manual option ;) )

(that is if you do not have that yet ;) )

next time you can just add /home during install and alll your settings will be back up with the new system.

Takkat

@Rinzwind you can keep /home if you do not format in recent installers.

Rinzwind

ah :D

Takkat

7:37 AM

But I have /home on a separate partition as well ;)

Rinzwind

well that's cool too :D

Takkat

I plan to put / on SSD as soon as I have spare bucks

no space for /home on SSDs

Achu

i have /home on a separate partion too

Rinzwind

I have someone here who has an ssd (he's a windows man). Installing software that would take 2 hours on the old one took 19 minutes with the ssd :D

Takkat

exactly

so for us it will be 2 minutes instead of 19 :P

Rinzwind

7:39 AM

Oh and just to add: my Desktop is a symlink to /discworld/Desktop so I can even reformat home if I want to

my 1720 can have 2 disc (it has 2x160 now) but it can have a ssd + 320. I was thinking of buying that with next month holiday payout )

Takkat

@Rinzwind holiday payout? That sounds great...

They abolished that here years ago. Now only some pocket money

Rinzwind

@Takkat in Holland everyone is taken 8% of his salary each month and it is payed out end of May.

12*8=96% so 4% ends up in tax :X

Takkat

sure they take it from you elsewhere

Rinzwind

it's payed out in May so every working person has money at the start of their holiday.

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Q: Can I control which session I want to login at Grub loading?

Is there a way by which I can choose if I want to login to ubuntu(unity) or ubuntu classic at grub loading it self. I have autologin enabled and I want to choose the session at the starting. Or is there a way where I can change the script which is needed to load kernel and run other scripts whi...

grub grub2 gdm

How to gently disappoint this guy?

Achu

okay guys thank you very much for your advice. i'm going to try takkat's advice "Upgrade 11.04 to 11.04" or so wish me luck i have many configured projects (zend and ...) and i don't wana losseeee everything!!!

htorque

7:44 AM

@Rinzwind: it's not impossible, it's just a script away - but i don't wanna write it :P

Rinzwind

@Achu as the Japanese say "ganbatte!"

Achu

@Rinzwind :) hope that mean good luck ;)

Rinzwind

@htorque that's not very helpful :D

@Achu it means "fight til you drop" ;)

htorque

money motivates me, though :P

Achu

@Rinzwind lol a good one!!

Rinzwind

7:45 AM

can I pay in rep? >:D (since you said rep = money)

Takkat

@Rinzwind I made an answer on custom sessions - let me do a search

Rinzwind

@Achu it's usually accompanied with this facial expression:

lol

Achu

lol

Takkat

lol

Achu

i'm out see you guys after i'm "ganbatte!"

i don't have another machine to keep you guys

htorque

7:49 AM

i'm sure you can write up some upstart job that scans /proc/cmdline and sets the session with a little sed-magic

Rinzwind

a true Linux dude has more than 1 computer ;)

3

or at least a hacked phone where he can chat on au >:D

Rinzwind

8:01 AM

LOL panic in Holland

Police got called for an emergency: hamster was seen floating in the air hanging beneath a parachute

Octavian Damiean

rofl

Lekensteyn

nu.nl/opmerkelijk/2521542/… :p

(dutch)

Rinzwind

is that the actual hamster? >:D

Lekensteyn

I was going to post that img :p

Rinzwind

:D

goede morgen Lekensteyn :)

Lekensteyn

8:07 AM

Goedemorgen Rinzwind :)

That hamster could look like:

(tctubantia.nl/regio/twente/8742771/…)

Takkat

is fighting absorbers :(

Rinzwind

@Takkat you so need a bigger sponge.

htorque

/etc/gdm/custom.conf isn't used anymore :(

tried to answer that

0

Q: Can I control which session I want to login at Grub loading?

Is there a way by which I can choose if I want to login to ubuntu(unity) or ubuntu classic at grub loading it self. I have autologin enabled and I want to choose the session at the starting. Or is there a way where I can change the script which is needed to load kernel and run other scripts whi...

grub grub2 gdm

cool, /etc/init/gdm.conf already does for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline)

Rinzwind

lol now for a ARG in /proc/cmdline >:D

htorque

at the end it does exec gdm-binary $CONFIG_FILE

Takkat

8:22 AM

@htorque don't tell me - too bad. Post deleted. Grrr

htorque

so what's to do: find and store the supplied session in the for loop, find out where $CONFIG_FILE is and sed-replace the session with the supplied one

there just seems no way to get all possible (=installed) sessions

Rinzwind

damn @htorque is good :-D

$CONFIG_FILE should be gdm.conf (?)

htorque

so you'd do: case "${ARG}" in gnome|gnome-classic|blabla) and then check if that session exists in /usr/share/xsessions (or something like that)

go, get free rep - i already told you what to do, i got no time :D

Rinzwind

and I have nothing to do? >:D

htorque

hey, who hits the rep cap every day? :D

Rinzwind

8:29 AM

not me :-D

I made 295 y-day and you? >:D

htorque

only 234 :P

Rinzwind

good enough ;) anything 200+ is excellent :D (I had 50 from a bounty so those do not count ;) )

Octavian Damiean

those are pretty cool applications

omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/…

htorque

8:59 AM

if anyone wanna try to solve that problem above: defaultsession is in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, but this will only be used if the user never chose a session himself, else it's in ~/.dmrc - so you gotta replace the key there (of course it's a mess when an init script changes user config files -.-)

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

9:17 AM

persistent notification for Unity launcher icons http://bit.ly/l4VbsM #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM

Rinzwind

9:34 AM

Khartick87 always has the weirdest problems :-D

Lekensteyn

Now talking about that SSH question?

Rinzwind

Specifically yes but it was more in general ;)

Rinzwind

10:44 AM

2 more needed for closing: askubuntu.com/questions/44656/…

Takkat

1 more

Rinzwind

heya Takkat! since you are here... how do I search topics I answered on the word "home" >:D

Takkat

user:15811 home

got it @Rinzwind

or user:15811 [tag]

Rinzwind

11:01 AM

thanks found it! askubuntu.com/questions/44258/… see my edit \o/

Takkat

too bad I can't upvote again once an edit was done :P

Rinzwind

:D

I am not doing it for the rep \o/ I already have the accepted answer ;-)

Takkat

editing old anwers is sometimes an urgently good idea

I never do it for rep but some answers won't fit any more to my increasing standards.

(I admit however that I don't care too often)

htorque

@Takkat user:me is easier :P

Takkat

@htorque indeed - didn't know yet :)

Rinzwind

11:07 AM

@htorque thanks though you act like AskUbuntuTwitter answering after the fact ;)

htorque

sry, was having fun inhaling some calories :P

Rinzwind

I did that 1 hour ago :D

oh care to close this one? askubuntu.com/questions/44656/…

we need 1 more >:D

Takkat

had my chocolate (unfortunately not swiss)

htorque

@Rinzwind done

Rinzwind

Dutch chocolate is better \o I had an aunt that had a chocolate shop :D :D

htorque

11:11 AM

belgian chocolate is better

Takkat

oh noes: I hear absorbers approaching :O

Rinzwind

hide!

Takkat

ducks

htorque

hit the <kbd>boss</kbd> key!

:D

Greg

11:25 AM

Hi all!

Rinzwind

hello @Greg

Takkat wil not respond. He's hiding :D

Achu

hi

Oli

hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi

Achu

i was trying takkat's advice but can't found

Greg

Can anyone recommend the best way I can run a personal free git server? (hosted online)

Takkat

11:28 AM

only peeking Hi @Greg @Oli @Achu

Achu

@Takkat hi

Rinzwind

good afternoon @Oli :D

Achu

@Takkat i was trying upgrade from 11.04 to 11.04 like you said but i can't found any option

Oli

From 11.04 to 11.04? I imagine that's a short process.

Achu

hi Oli

my system was broken

Takkat

11:30 AM

@Oli that's the new upgrade option when installing from CD

Rinzwind

@Oli not if things are messed up ;)

Takkat

it's supposed to say update from 10.10 to 11.04

but if you do an install on 11.04 I have seen upgrade from 11.04 to 11.04

Achu

so could you tell me how to do that?

I'm on live CD but can't found it

Rinzwind

@Achu click the installer icon on the desktop(?)

Achu

ok

Takkat

11:34 AM

only that it says 11.04 to 11.04

Achu

just a sec

Rinzwind

@greg searching for something like this: git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting

Greg

@Rinzwind ah cool thanks

Rinzwind

Indian seconds take some time :-D

Greg

@Rinzwind btw, are you in any way todo with DIV/Fenix ?

Rinzwind

11:41 AM

@Greg nope :)

Greg

aha never mind then!, thought I recognised your name from somewhere else

Rinzwind

It's the Dutch version of Rincewind. Terry Pratchett, Discworld >:D

Achu

@Takkat here is mine

the wired part is when i check my system partition /etc is empty

Takkat

@Achu o.k. so you can't do that. It's not even recognized as Ubuntu :/

Achu

also there is no /var directory

Rinzwind

11:45 AM

no /etc and no /var is a broken system for sure. Just use the 2nd option to replace it

Takkat

so system seems completely messed up by a disk failure.

Achu

ohhh noo...

Takkat

I'd go for a fresh install and replace /home from backup.

Achu

i really need /var/www directory

Takkat

try recovery with photorec

Achu

11:47 AM

i have a backup of my projects but they are not updated

i use bzr for them

Takkat

@Achu backup is for cowards :P

5

Rinzwind

@Achu since /var is empty acc. to your previous post... that's going to become a problem.

Achu

@Takkat i wish i smile but i can't

Takkat

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A: All files erased after installing Ubuntu 11.04 alpha 3

After a partition table has been accidentally overwritten you will need Data Recovery Tools to restore the remainders of your data. Mind that the likelihood for successful recovery decreases with every write access to your harddisk. Therefore best advice is to run these tools after booting from a...

Achu

@Takkat can i use photorec from live CD?

htorque

11:50 AM

yes, just download and unpack

cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Achu

@htorque thanks

Takkat

hides again

Achu

@htorque i have downloaded and extracted the read me don't have info reagrding on live CD could you guide me how to do that

Takkat

@htorque @Achu: photorec is in the repos (in the testdisk suite)

hides

htorque

@Takkat yeah, but the wrong version

@Takkat afaik 6.11 doesn't support ext4

probably not a problem with photorec, though

@Achu hm?

Takkat

11:58 AM

@htorque ext4 is supported from 6.11

htorque

extract the testdisk-6.12 folder and run sudo ./photorec (or sudo ./testdisk to try to repair the partition)

Greg

Has anyone worked out a way to add Netbeans or Eclipse to the Unity launcher yet?

Takkat

there are a lot of new file formats for photorec in 6.12 though

htorque

@Takkat rly? why didn't anyone tell me?

i always used 6.12-WIP

Takkat

These nasty absorbers nag: needs to hide again

htorque

12:00 PM

@achu, here's a step-by-step example on how to recover lost partitions: cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

@Achu but it's probably better to just let photorec harvest whatever it can find first, and then try to fix partitions

2

gotta go. no absorbers, but work. :P

Achu

@htorque ok thanks i't trying

htorque

just try to work slowly and read everything carefully

doing things in a hurry can make thinks worse (like "nothing-can-be-recovered"-worse)

Achu

@htorque :) ok

Takkat

is still around but maybe has only verry little time

Rinzwind

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Q: All of my files have disappeared from ubuntu one

I had photographs and documents stored online but everything has gone, I have logged into the website in my browser but there is no sign of anything. Its not a problem as I backed up 99% of the files to dvd but I am a bit concerned about how safe this service is before commit to it, are the file...

ubuntu-one

oh oh >:D

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

12:18 PM

git and emacs in Ubuntu 11.04 http://bit.ly/m7vtWv #emacs

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 23, 2011 at 12:12 PM

James Gifford

12:31 PM

stdin : error 0

oh crap.

Greg

12:45 PM

what does cd !$ achieve?

James Gifford

cd exit

htorque

0

Q: How to Add a Shortcut On Desktop

I am new to Ubuntu and I am not quite familiar on how to add Shortcuts on the Desktop. I an experienced Windows user and my intuitions didn't help to achieve this.

desktop shortcuts

is there any "send to desktop (link)" nautilus script?

Marco Ceppi

@Greg !$ repeats the last command run and then executes it. Why you would pair that with cd is beyond me

It's the equivalent of !!

Greg

@MarcoCeppi ah, I'm following a git tutorial... it tells me to do this: mkdir MyRepo.git && cd !$ && git --bare init

Marco Ceppi

A lot of times when I'm not root I'll run /etc/init.d/httpd restart so instead of having to either retype it with sudo or press up arrow, home, sudo I can just type sudo !!

Whoa, off topic for a second, Type @@ in the chat window! It shows you a user selection screen

htorque

12:54 PM

@@

Greg

@@

Marco Ceppi

@Greg Yeah, just do mkdir MyRepo.git && cd MyRepo.git && ...

htorque

not in opera :P

Marco Ceppi

No no, wait for the pop up

Greg

not in Chrome

htorque

12:54 PM

no popup

James Gifford

Not working for me.

htorque

moderator goodie

Octavian Damiean

I could wait till tomorrow :D

Marco Ceppi

I guess it's another dumb moderator feature

2

Greg

cool

Octavian Damiean

12:55 PM

lucky you :D

it might also be because my chat window looks different

Marco Ceppi

It's no fun when no one else can do it because no I just look dumb for being all excited :P

Octavian Damiean

I don't have your head to the left of it :D

James Gifford

Why is that a mod feature?!

Marco Ceppi

Maybe if everyone changed their gravatar to mine - we could fool the system

htorque

i don't think !$ is equivalent to !!

Greg

12:56 PM

I'm having difficulty getting a personal git server working ... on the server I've installed git-core and initialised an empty directory, but how do I add that as a remote?

htorque

[14:55] ~ $ cd ..
[14:55] /home $ !!
cd ..
[14:55] / $ cd ~
[14:55] ~ $ cd ..
[14:55] /home $ !$
..
..: command not found
[14:56] /home $

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi sounds like a smart plan :D

Marco Ceppi

@JamesGifford It's probably a new feature. Moderators kind of become testing pigs for new features

htorque

!$ just seems to repeat the last argument

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Yeah, my bad

James Gifford

12:57 PM