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Mateo

12:25 AM

What are you running that it is so important not to restart?

hbdgaf

chromium. at least that's where the memory leak that makes my system non-responsive is located.

Tim

@Mateo: an time consuming OCR program, and many text editing in emacs running in gnome teminal

Journeyman Geek

@hbdgaf lucasarts/Tim Shaefer (sp?) Same guy as broken age.

hbdgaf

relevant to the previous conversation.

Mateo

@JourneymanGeek watch the YouTube ;)

Tim

12:30 AM

@hbdgaf: I am running firefox, not chromium. Do you mean kill it in a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) may help? If it doesn't, I won't be able to run firefox to ask question then?

Mateo

He ment that is what usually kills his system :p

hbdgaf

I wasn't commenting on your question particularly. I just know that on my system, my web browser eventually swells to consume everything and make the system unresponsive and I reboot.

Mateo

killing lightdm will that stop programs too - like logging out?

hbdgaf

that's possible if the DE is a child process. it could work. i just trust a full restart more.

Mateo

Is there a way to force a switch user? That might help

Otherwise I would monitor the OCR with top(htop) wait till that is done and hope emacs has autosave :/

hbdgaf

12:35 AM

^^ that sounds JUST LIKE something flackbot would say.

Tim

@Mateo My OCR is runing in Windows runing in Virtualbox. I can't find the OCR program in top

Any way I can try to switch between programs' windows?

Mateo

Ah @jrg maybe you have some command line tricks to get a useable desktop for him?

Hm, what if you installed a lightweight wm and ran that on top of this?

Tim

You mean install some other wm now?

install and then run it will kill my running programs, right?

Mateo

Nah, just something like metacity instead of compiz

Then maybe a panel program

7

A: How do I disable compiz and enable metacity with the command-line?

Running metacity --replace from a virtual console doesn't work because it doesn't know which X11 display to attach to. The default behavior is to attach to the display it runs in...and a shell running in a virtual console isn't on any X11 display. Instead, you must manually specify the display. ...

29

Q: How do I use the GNOME Panel in Unity?

I really need to use the GNOME Applets, is there a way to do it?

I think you can still install gnome-panel

DISPLAY=:0 gnome-panel

After installing it

Tim

12:57 AM

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

then where to put DISPLAY=:0 gnome-panel?

Mateo

In your tty, Ctrl+alt+f1

Or 2-6

Then once it starts go back to 7

Tim

I will try gnome-panel later. I just run "gtk-window-decorator & disown" from a console (ctrl--alt-F1), but I seem to need to associate it with the desktop. how can I do that?

Is it "DISPLAY=:0 gtk-window-decorator & disown"?

Mateo

DISPLAY=:0

@Tim worth a shot

Tim

what does DISPLAY=:0 mean?

Mateo

Just to send it to your GUI

You can you run more than one x display

Then those will have numbers assigned to them

:0 is default on Ubuntu

hbdgaf

1:03 AM

if he's trying to get unity back up, that won't fix it since unity is a compiz plugin. just a thought.

Tim

"DISPLAY=:0 gtk-window-decorator & disown" doesn't solve the problem

Mateo

Yeah...

Tim

@hbdgaf do you mean gnome-panel?

Mateo

Try installing metacity

Tim

One problem: It takes 1 or 2 min to switch from 7 to 1 by ctrl-alt-F1, but immediately from 1 to 7 by ctrl-alt-F7. Can I make the switch from 7 to 1 faster?

Mateo

1:07 AM

You can only ask so much of a broken system, we will be lucky to get any desktop going to save your work before restarting...

Tim

Is it right to run:
sudo apt-get install metacity
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
DISPLAY=:0 gnome-panel?

Mateo

First do

metacity --display=:0 --replace

After installing it

Tim

that is all? How about installing and running gnome-panel

Mateo

Then gnome panel

Hopefully that should be enough to access the different windows

TheX

@RPiAwesomeness around?

Mateo

1:16 AM

Yeah fog machines!

TheX

how do you ping a local computer on Ubuntu?

Mateo

ping IP

TheX

what if I want to do it indefinitely?

like on Windows is it ping -t x.x.x.x

Tim

Thanks Mateo. Metacity and gnome-panel are now running. But I lose track of my gnome terminal program' window where I am running emacs.

$ ps aux | grep terminal
t 4593 0.0 0.5 682764 44864 ? Sl Mar27 3:37 gnome-terminal

Mateo

Hm interesting...

Journeyman Geek

1:19 AM

@TheX does it by default iirc

Mateo

ping -f

Tim

I have some programs' windows back but some not

Mateo

Then -I to change the interval?

Journeyman Geek

Can do cool stuff too. My work desktop pings a system at work hourly to see if it is up :p

Mateo

Erg autocorrect... "-i"

Tim

1:22 AM

can I bring the window of gnome terminal back, given that its pid is 4593?

Mateo

What happen if you try to bring compiz back now?

Andrew

Is it possible to install a .ISO file onto a partition of a USB Flash Drive?

Tim

@Mateo: without stopping or killing metacity? do "compiz --displace :0 --replace & disown" in a gnome terminal or a console (by ctrl-alt-f1)?

$ compiz (core) - Warn: Unknown option '--displace'

compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: :0
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to load plugin: :0

The above is run in a gnome terminal while under metacity. After running it, I am still in metacity not in compiz.

Mateo

spell check

Replace/displace

Tim

$ compiz --display :0 --replace & disown
[1] 9086
compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Stopping plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Unloading plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: ccp
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: ccp
compizconfig - Info: Backend : ini
compizconfig - Info: Integration : true
compizconfig - Info: Profile : default

The above is run in a gnome terminal under metacity. Now the windows lose their menu's and toolbars

I am still in metacity, not in compiz

Mateo

1:39 AM

no that was replaced if the window bars ate gone

Did your terminal you use come back?

Otherwise I think I'm out of ideas

Tim

do you mean metacity is replaced with compiz? From the look, it seems that I am still in metacity, and the "Application" menu is gone after I run compiz.

TheX

Where can I get help with a minecraft server?

Tim

The window of the gnome terminal I run previously in compiz is not back.

does unity run in metacity? What desktop environment runs in metacity?

Mateo

unity uses compiz, it is just is a plug in for it

which makes it hard when this happens because all the working parts go down at once

Seth

Anyone wanna help me test my answer here?

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A: How can I get a notification using Notify-OSD when the charger is inserted/removed?

With a little experimentation (and a little help) I found a slightly better way than I originally intended by using a udev rule. Create a script with the following contents: #!/bin/bash if [ "$POWER" == "on" ] then DISPLAY=:0 /bin/su USER -c '/usr/bin/notify-send "Power cable plugged in....

Spent all my free time for the day so far on it xD

Mateo

1:47 AM

@Seth oh, that sounds fun

Seth

It was :D

Mateo

I'm going to add icons ;)

2:07 AM

Nice!

I thought about that but I couldn't remember if notify-send supported them and I was too lazy to check :P

Are those stock?

Mateo

yeah, in the gnome theme folder

Seth

sweet!

Tim

2:09 AM

I have rebooted. @Mateo

Mateo

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$POWER" == "on" ]
  then
  DISPLAY=:0 /bin/su mateo -c '/usr/bin/notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/devices/ac-adapter.png "Power cable plugged in."'
elif [ "$POWER" == "off" ]
  then
  DISPLAY=:0 /bin/su mateo -c '/usr/bin/notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/status/battery-full.png "Power cable unplugged."'
fi

Seth

That's a great idea @Mateo.

Tim

what DE runs in metacity?

Seth

Mind if I borrow it? :)

Mateo

go ahead @Seth

@Tim gnome-classic

Tim

2:10 AM

gnome2 not gnome3?

Mateo

well... that is a long story

or was it called gnome-fallback... I don't remember.

Tim

if gnome-classic is gnome2, is it already stopped delevoping?

xiaodongjie

Hi everyone,

who knows about enlightenment?

Tim

Is it worth to switch from compiz to metacity?

Mateo

@xiaodongjie I'll have one with everything ;P

oh, bad hotdog joke...

Tim

2:12 AM

Is compiz (with unity) much more buggy than metacity (with gnome-classic)?

Mateo

happy 1st!

xiaodongjie

@Mateo which company is enlightenment 17's back?

Deepin? or

any Other?

Mateo

@xiaodongjie that is a good question

xiaodongjie

yes

Do you know?

Mateo

samgsung?

jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/10/…

@Seth I better star that so I can remove them once they get annoying :) but for now I really like - upvote for you

xiaodongjie

2:16 AM

@Mateo Thank you very much.

Now I got correct information i want. Best thanks.

Mateo

but looks like a small team, that gets funding here and there

xiaodongjie

yes, I think so.

And enlightenment is very fast, but it has many bugs.

anyway, it's a great idea.

Tim

2:41 AM

Is Enlightment less buggy than unity and compiz?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Is it possible to access opened gnome terminal session in text console?

I am running Ubuntu 14.04. My desktop environment (compiz and unity) sometimes becomes frozen, which makes it difficult to save my work including text editing in emacs running in gnome terminal. After I switch to a text console by ctrl-alt-F1, I know I can't access the running programs with GUI....

ubuntu emacs console gnome-terminal

Seth

2:51 AM

@Mateo Thanks :)

Nathan Osman

3:30 AM

@Lucio and @Seth: it's not quite there yet, but here's this.

Soon it will be able to host the FlackBot JavaScript. It's just not quite there yet.

Nathan Osman

3:43 AM

I have an idea for the new logo too:

And there's this:

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uʍop ǝpᴉsd∩

Proposed Q&A site for sǝƃɐssǝɯ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ǝdʎʇ oʇ ǝʞᴉl oɥʍ ǝldoǝd

Closed before being launched.

Seth

3:57 AM

@NathanOsman Sweet!

@NathanOsman I will never understand some people..

Nathan Osman

The Code Golf people have a bot going now.

Seth

Do they? Ugh. IMO this whole april fools thing turned ugly.

backfires are funny. Did you hear @Nathan how SE didn't think through the networking side of the game well enough and DDoSed themselves with all the traffic it used?

Nathan Osman

Yeah, I saw that.

One of the answers on the Meta question hit the nail on the head. Users should only be able to participate on one site.

That would solve almost all of the problems.

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4:45 AM

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6:25 AM

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Q: Package deb dependencies unmet error

I am trying to install deb package in a new AWS 14.04 ami instance, but it fail with the following error - The following packages have unmet dependencies: youtube-snapshot-taker : Depends: firefox (= 35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) but 36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 is to be installed E: Unabl...

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Nathan Osman

6:42 AM

Just so everyone knows, FlackBot is lurking in here. He can't speak.

I'm just doing some testing.

Nathan Osman

6:54 AM

Guys: com.google

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7:10 AM

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Nathan Osman

Also, you can play PAC-MAN on Google Maps.

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Ionică Bizău

9:40 AM

This was hilarious: itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os

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Q: postfix some users can send mail to the (distribution lists) and other users not

How can I do the following things: Some users can send mail to the mailing list (distribution lists) and other users not. For example: the everyone@mycomp.com will be able to send e-mails only for this address: admin@mycomp.com i tired to fallow this http://www.postfix.org/RESTRICTION_CLASS_R...

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10:59 AM

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11:45 AM

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Q: Cant find emails retrieved by fetchmail

So I set up fetchmail to retrieve emails from with IMAP from a remote mail server, I was able to run it. How can I know that it found any emails or not since I did send test emails to the account being polled and havent read them so that they can be detected by fetchmail. Another issue is that I ...

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user136984

Oh dear... Now I've successfully built my project, created my .dsc and my .changes file and signed them both, but now I am unsure of how to upload them to my PPA which has no other packages on it... Do I just upload the .changes file like it says? Because I read somewhere that I should start with the .orig file if it is the first upload of the package. Also the PPA is of a launchpad 'team' so I'm not sure if just anybody can upload stuff there.

user136984

So I'm also not sure about how I would verify if that is the case that it is me uploading the package so it would allow me.

user136984

@NathanOsman: Sorry to bother you again, but would you know? :)

fossfreedom

format to upload is dput ppa:name/project nameofpackage.changes

Mateo

@Toroidal Try pushing it to +junk first if you don't have team access

user136984

11:54 AM

@fossfreedom Yes, I know, but if that is the first time that I have ever uploaded anything to that PPA, is it only the .changes file that I upload?

fossfreedom

yep

dput will then upload all associated files

user136984

@fossfreedom Oh, ok, and so how do I upload it then to a team PPA?

fossfreedom

what's the web link?

user136984

@fossfreedom Web link?

fossfreedom

where on launchpad is the team project?

user136984

12:00 PM

@fossfreedom Well, I've only got the team and PPA, I do not know this 'project' that you talk about. Sorry for my ignorance, I have never done this before.

user136984

Do you just mean the PPA for my team?

user136984

Or my team?

fossfreedom

^^^ both

user136984

@fossfreedom Ooops, didn't mean to remove it, but did you get them? :)

user136984

Or should I post again?

fossfreedom

12:04 PM

you should see a section on the PPA page entitled "Uploading packages to this PPA" - what does it say?

user136984

@fossfreedom It says to just use that command. It also talks about config files with FTP etc...: help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading

user136984

Ah, now I see, it says to edit this file: ~/.dput.cf

user136984

And put this sort of thing:

user136984

[my-ppa]
fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net
method = ftp
incoming = ~<your_launchpad_id>/<ppa_name>/ubuntu/
login = anonymous
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0

user136984

But I'm still a bit confused with that... :(

fossfreedom

12:07 PM

hmm - I've never ever done that - I have lots of PPAs ... I've only every done "dput etc"

user136984

It says:

user136984

Change the first line to whatever name you want to use to refer to your PPA, while retaining the square brackets. Do not use just "ppa" as the name here: that conflicts with an entry in /etc/dput.cf and will cause confusing failures (Could not find person or team named ''.).

If you're uploading to a team PPA, change the ~<your-launchpad-id> to your team's Launchpad name (maintaining the tilde). As you might expect, you must be a member of the team before you can upload to its PPA.

Set the correct <ppa-name>, the default PPA name is ppa, use the specific name for other PPA in the same cont…

user136984

@fossfreedom So do I replace the first line with the name of my PPA in the square brackets, or without them?

user136984

And how do I prove to it who I am? I can't just login with my username, so how will the PPA know it is me?

user136984

Or does it not work like that...?

fossfreedom

12:10 PM

all very good questions ... and this isnt something I have ever done :( sorry about that. Would be a good question on the main site though.

user136984

Oh wait, I'm just being stupid there, it says to put the text in the square brackets! :D But still confused about the rest...

user136984

@fossfreedom Ok, I will try some stuff out and if still stuck will ask on the main site. :)

user136984

Thanks for all your help anyway! :)

TheX

So it begins...

t- 1 hr 15 mins.

fossfreedom

?

TheX

12:17 PM

until I go to work for the first time in 2.5 weeks

RPi Awesomeness

@TheX Nope. I am not. :)

TheX

@RPiAwesomeness me neither, gotta go.

terdon

@Toroidal Change the first line to whatever name you want to use to refer to your PPA, while retaining the square brackets

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth lol, oh no :D

@terdon Nooooo. Don't adult!

terdon

?

RPi Awesomeness

12:25 PM

@NathanOsman I take this is Google's April Fools....

user136984

@terdon Ok, I am now trying to upload the package to my PPA after filling out all that info, but I am just getting an email saying it was rejected.

user136984

How do I get it to see that I am a member of the team and can upload?

RPi Awesomeness

@terdon He has to back to adulting today. Didn't have to work for 2 weeks.

terdon

Back to adulting?

RPi Awesomeness

@terdon Indeed

terdon

12:26 PM

@Toroidal No idea. Presumably you have a username/password

user136984

Yes, but where do I input them? I am logged in on launchpad, but how do I tell dput my username and password?

terdon

Dunno, never tried it.

RPi Awesomeness

Google April Fools jokes 2015

@NathanOsman lol. Love your Twitter post xD

xD xD xD xD xD

Everyone, go to that page I just linked and click play on the first video.

Then, click on the little music note, it says "Add Music".

And wait for it.

Or, any youtube video.

user136984

1:08 PM

@Mateo How do I do that?

user136984

Ok, still stuck, so I have posted about it here:

user136984

0

Q: How to upload to a launchpad team PPA?

I have built and signed a package which I now wish to upload to my launchpad team with dput, but every time that I try to upload it I get this email: Rejected: Source/binary (i.e. mixed) uploads are not allowed. === If you don't understand why your files were rejected please send an email to...

ppa packaging launchpad dput

user136984

Please let me know if I should add any more information to the question. :)

user136984

1:28 PM

Oh dear... Well I hope that somebody answers my question soon as I really need to upload these packages to my PPA! :)

user136984

2:16 PM

Now I've got another problem! :(

user136984

0

Q: Error adding PPA "Error: signing key fingerprint does not exist"

I am trying to add a PPA with (this is my own PPA): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:secretiveppc/main-sppc-ppa But each time I just get this error: Error: signing key fingerprint does not exist How do I fix this and what am I doing wrong?

ppa launchpad

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2:36 PM

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Q: Installing an unauthorized wifi card in a Lenovo thinkpad edge 14

I took out a my Intel dual band Wireless AC 7260 card model number 7260HMW from another laptop. I wanted to install it in my thinkpad. Upon doing so and rebooting, the computer said unauthorized wifi card and I need to remove it. I read that Lenovo does this to force the use of IBM wifi cards. I ...

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Q: A person asks about networking but is using Linux Mint

So there's this question here, which is about wireless, but in the output of his script I can see that the person is using Linux Mint. I do know Mint is off topic here, but how should I deal with a question which isn't explicitly asks about Mint, but rather about one specific aspect of "ubuntu-is...

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user136984

2:59 PM

Oh wait, no it's fine, it fixed itself for I think that it had something to do with my 'PPA key' which was being generated.

j0h

4:39 PM

I found a trivial bug in vlc, and I want to report it,... but i can t figure out where to send it? can anyone help me figure out how to actually submit a bug?

user136984

@j0h Go here and click the "Report a bug" button. :)

j0h

@Toroidal Thank you That will work

user136984

@j0h You're welcome. :)

ByteCommander

5:28 PM

@Fabby Why should I spam you with videos? ;) Hi first of all...

Nathan Osman

5:44 PM

@Toroidal Did you get it figured out?

user136984

@NathanOsman Yes :)

Nathan Osman

Awesome.

user136984

6:01 PM

@NathanOsman By the way, do you know once you have got a PPA with your packages how you would set up a bug tracking system?

Nathan Osman

Do you have a project page on Launchpad?

user136984

@NathanOsman Yes, I've been battling with it for over an hour now and still got nowhere...

Nathan Osman

What's the project URL?

user136984

I will check...

user136984

I seem to have done something odd to it...

Nathan Osman

6:04 PM

Go to this page launchpad.net/anti-sr/+configure-bugtracker and select "In Launchpad". Then you can go to this page to report bugs: bugs.launchpad.net/anti-sr

~~Oh, hang on.~~ fixed a typo

user136984

Strange, my links keep on removing themselves!

user136984

:D

user136984

@NathanOsman Oh, that seems to be already set up, but how do I link my PPA?

Nathan Osman

PPAs aren't linked to projects.

user136984

Oh, so how does it work then?

user136984

6:07 PM

Because I just want a system like a PPA where I can release my code, and a project or something so that I can have a bug tracker.

user136984

How do projects work then?

Nathan Osman

The bug tracker belongs to the project.

The PPA can contain packages for multiple projects.

user136984

@NathanOsman So how exactly do I release my code then?

user136984

Sorry, getting very confused by all this.

Nathan Osman

Don't feel bad.

The Debian packing ecosystem is quite complex at first.

Your code should be committed to Bazaar branches in the project.

user136984

6:14 PM

@NathanOsman Yes, I had a look at that, but it told me that instead of doing that that I should just link my Git repository so I did, and then it started branching and I ended up with loads of branches all over the place, and the ones with the right names did not want to actually import the code, but the rest did, so I ended deleting most of them and now I have just been left very confused. I even tried setting up Bazaar on my machine, but that didn't go so well... :(

Nathan Osman

Well, it's not a requirement, so...

user136984

@NathanOsman So how do I then allow people to install my package?

Nathan Osman

Just point them to the PPA and they should know what to do.

user136984

@NathanOsman Sorry, how do I point then to my PPA? Also, it seems to have deleted my PPA when I was attempting to tell it of its existence... :( Well, I don't know if my PPA was removed because the packages there are still showing in my related packages thing on my page, but I can't access the PPA anyway...

Nathan Osman

What's your username on Launchpad?

user136984

6:20 PM

@NathanOsman Is that the thing in the URL? Or my display name?

Nathan Osman

No, the thing after the '~' in the URL.

I don't see a PPA on your account, I'm afraid...

user136984

I think that it was probably part of the team that I am registered to.

user136984

Which should be this: launchpad.net/~secretiveppc

Nathan Osman

Ah.

They don't have a PPA either.

user136984

Oh... :(

ByteCommander

6:25 PM

Anybody of you using a free 3d CAD program on Ubuntu like SALOME or FreeCAD or OpenSCAD?

Nathan Osman

I tried the CAD programs out of curiosity once and couldn't get any of them to work properly :(

All I wanted to do was design a simple circuit for a home electronics project.

user136984

On a happier note:

user136984

Some more of my spam arrived today! :D

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman I would like to try and design something for our house. We want to buy a handrail for the stairs to our front door and could not yet decide how it could look like...

user136984

6:32 PM

Should I flag this up for something?:

user136984

-1

Q: [Solved - Lubuntu Screen goes dark when switch user]

I just installed Lubuntu. Whenever I switched from the main user to a second user account, the screen when to almost zero brightness. The screen stayed dark until I switched back to the main account. I solved this problem by disabling Lightlocker.

lubuntu brightness

crl

Any idea how to remove the system bar of Firefox, to gain some vertical space?

Nathan Osman

April 1, 2015 - the only day that another room generated more flags than The Bridge.

user136984

@NathanOsman: I am now creating my PPA for my team again, should I create a PPA specially for my application as I will be linking to it, or can it be a more general PPA?

Nathan Osman

Whatever you think best. Just remember that PPAs are limited to 2 GB.

user136984

6:44 PM

Ok

RPi Awesomeness

My internet connection has gone to crap...

AT&T... if this is an April Fools joke .... Ima friggin sue you 'till you have no money left....

Seth

Hmm, Linux 4.0 or April fools?

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Q: People cannot hear me in Mumble

When I talk in Mumble, people cannot hear me. I can hear myself when enabling a server loopback test, so I don't think the problem is with my USB mic. I have looked at my mic in alsamixer and PulseAudio Volume Control, and it seems to be working fine. How may I resolve this?

14.04 sound microphone mumble

lol, coincidence?

RPi Awesomeness

Haven't heard anything about it.

Granted, I don't follow Kernel news much.

Nathan Osman

If anyone is bored, grab some popcorn and visit The Nineteenth Byte.

RPi Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Stuff getting interesting over there?

Nathan Osman

6:55 PM

Flags, accusations, stars... the whole works.

RPi Awesomeness

Oh yeah. Just so y'all know. New Minecraft snapshot was released and they've finally fixed boats.

And no, I'm not joking with you guys, it's not an April Fools joke

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Is it possible to tell `scp` to terminate connection not wait for the user input in case if the host is not known yet?

$ scp -i /identity/file from u@host:/to/ The authenticity of host 'host (1.2.3.4)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Then it blocks waiting for the user input. The question is...

debian ubuntu ssh scp

user136984

@NathanOsman: I have set up my PPA now again and have uploaded the packages there and they say that they are now 'building', so how exactly do I direct people to my PPA on my project page? :)

Nathan Osman

This is what you give them:

ppa:secretiveppc/anti-sr

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness That's just what they want you to think ;)

crl

6:59 PM

Should unity be removed once gnome-shell is installed?

Seth

If you installed vanilla ubuntu then the answer is no.

RPi Awesomeness

DANGIT INTERNET CONNECTION!!!

@Seth I checked it out and it actually worked...sorta.

@NathanOsman What's the drama going on?

Nathan Osman

PPCG is getting hit with restart bots and they are upset.

crl

@Seth ok thanks

RPi Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Oh boo :(

user136984

7:01 PM

@NathanOsman And where exactly do I give that to them? I mean where on the project page? Because I still get lost on my project page and end up doing very strange stuff to it and creating lots of unwanted branches linking to random things, and then it just saves those changes and then I have to spend loads of time finding out what it did and how to undo it... So do I just put it in the description or something? And if so, which description as there are a few...?

Seth

Seeing as the PPCG people seemed to have started the trolling.. I guess all I can say is what goes around comes around? — ɥʇǝS 17 hours ago

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness Anime & Manga have passed them on the leaderboard and seem to be running their own bots.

@Seth Yes, it does sound a bit hypocritical.

RPi Awesomeness

@NathanOsman o.O sooo... Code Golf is being hit by bots? Or they're using bots?

Nathan Osman

Who really knows. Maybe both.

Seth

This is why I gave up on the whole StackEgg thing within an hour of playing with it.

RPi Awesomeness

7:03 PM

@Seth ik. I liked last years better.

Nathan Osman

Actually, it's still fun if you find a site near the bottom that nobody is playing and do it solo :P

RPi Awesomeness

It was more better.

Nathan Osman

I helped RPi.SE hatch their egg.

RPi Awesomeness

And time consuming. Good gracious.

@NathanOsman I tried. But school happened :P

Oh yeah. And squids, given the right trajectory, can now float.

SkyDoesMinecraft's penultimate nightmare has come true

crl

On Chrome I could search directly on the address bar typing the beginning of a site then tab, then the search (worked with Google translate, etc..), does this work on Firefox?

user136984

7:05 PM

Odd, 3 branches that I didn't create... :(

user136984

And they don't want to go! :D

user136984

@NathanOsman: Ok, well I decided to put it in all the descriptions... Is there anywhere else that I would need to put it (ppa:secretiveppc/anti-sr) to direct people? :)

Nathan Osman

That's it.

user136984

Ok, well I hope that the damn thing actually installs now (the software)! :D :P

user136984

It's bean messing me around all day!

user136984

7:09 PM

I'm even starting to write the word "bean" instead of "been" in places with all the stress it's given me! :D :P

user136984

Which is true, as I didn't actually mean to write "bean" above... :P

user136984

@NathanOsman Oh, and by the way, thanks for all your help! :)

Nathan Osman

No problem.

ByteCommander

Erm... I need some free space on my tiny 60GB HDD. Can I remove old "linux-image-xxxx-generic" "linux-image-extra-xxxx-generic" "linux-headers-xxxx-generic" and "linux-headers-xxxx" packages?

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander Yeah, just so long as you don't (obviously) remove the current ones and don't want to down-grade in the future.

ByteCommander

7:23 PM

I would keep the last two versions.

3.16.0-29 and -33

So I have to apt-get purge each package or is there something to fasten this up?

user136984

Oh dear, more problems! :D

user136984

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Q: Build failed LaunchPad "Dependency wait on lgw01-31"

I have got a PPA on LaunchPad and a pack which depends on gawk (>= 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1) (this is set in the control file). But when uploading the .change file to LaunchPad with dput I get this error: So why is the build failing when it doesn't for any of my other packages of this project? And how c...

ppa launchpad

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander Try installing Ubuntu Tweak and using the Janitor feature

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness I need more free space, not more programs... :-/

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander Yeah, but it's fairly small. Plus, it's safer and really useful.

ByteCommander

7:26 PM

okay...

RPi Awesomeness

Less than 4kb

ByteCommander

482113 files and directories installed --> wow.

@RPiAwesomeness Ubuntu-tweak seems not to work with XFCE. It tells me dbus not found.

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander Oh. Well then.

ByteCommander

Think positive: I found another package I can uninstall...

RPi Awesomeness

Yay!

ByteCommander

7:33 PM

@RPiAwesomeness You know the regex to purge all versions starting with 2 (e.g. 24 25 28 29) and keeps 33 and 34?

RPi Awesomeness

I have no idea

ByteCommander

linux-headers-3.16.0-2* ignores the 2 and also wants to purge the 3x versions...

@NathanOsman you know the correct regex for this ^?

Nathan Osman

'*' in a regular expression means "zero or more of the previous entity" which in this case is the digit "2".

And "3" matches that requirement.

ByteCommander

So what do I need to purge all 2x versions with apt-get and keep the 3x versions?

Nathan Osman

"2.*" will match anything that starts with a "2".

(The "." means any character, therefore ".*" means zero or more of any character".)

ByteCommander

7:39 PM

Okay - I think I will have to download a book on this some time...

But thanks, this does the job! :)

Nathan Osman

:)

ByteCommander

How far did you get with sudoku btw?

Nathan Osman

Haven't been able to get at it again. Probably won't have time until the weekend.

ByteCommander

Me too. I would have time, but the motivation seems to be gone most time...

I was so looking forward to do this when I had to prepare for my exams, but now I don't feel like doing it anymore so much...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Mysql exited with status 1 and restarted every 24 hours? How to debug?

After upgrade, MySQL on Ubuntu 14.04 keeps crashing and is restarted every 24 hours according to the dmesg. I would expect to some reason for the failure in MySQL logs, but all are empty. Any ideas how to debug this? [32973.265291] init: mysql main process (944) terminated with status 1 [32973.2...