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5:27 AM

@TheXed Indeed.

16.04 is worth the upgrade IMHO since it includes NitroShare.

@NathanOsman isn't that a tiny bit subjective? xD

I guess so :D

good morning all together

wonderful day, the world is normal, the sun rises in the morning, all is fine, but the people become more and more weird and insane

good morning!

so lets recap this weekend in germany one amok run, a killling and a bombing

5:34 AM

the europeans missed out on nathan's youtube livestream

is there a recording of it ?

if yes, link please :)

OBS Test - Ubuntu Edition

►

that's the ubuntu edition

there was a windows 10 edition before it ;)

5:50 AM

mhmmmm

Docker 1.12 is going to have a HEALTHCHECK command.

@Videonauth Here's the interesting part.

Where I rescue a stalled engine in a Cessna 172.

:)

morning

6:20 AM

been showing my gf some of my diaries, drawings, and pictures

so many memories. . . .too many tearful diary entries though

6:33 AM

hi can anyone help me boot my Ubuntu ? I cannot get a X windows connection thanks !

i am able to get a tty terminal

when i type sudo servide /sbin/lightdm start it is unable to start

@gansub did you install desktop edition or server edition ? Server doesn't have X windows

desktop

sorry I am a Ubuntu newbie

I have Ubuntu 14.04

OK , does starting lightdm give you any error ?

hang on can you wait a second ?

let me start and get back to you

sure

6:38 AM

i typed sudo service /usr/sbin/lightdm start and it says unrecognized service

@Serg I typed sudo service lightdm start

and I get start: Job failed to start

@gansub are you connected to the internet ?

yes I am

i mean your ubuntu

yes my ubuntu desktop is connected to internet

an hour ago i just updated using the command line

Good. Do this: sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

6:41 AM

@Serg - i hope that won't erase my hard drive ?

sorry i am a newbie

It won't . It reinstalls the desktop package, which includes Unity desktop and a few related apps

ok ti is doing it

s/ti/it

@Serg done

That was fast . . . . Try restarting lightdm now

is that sudo service lightdm restart ?

or start ?

sudo service lightdm restart

6:45 AM

@Serg - stop: unknown instance start : Job failed to start

dpkg --get-selections | grep lightdm

What does that say ？

@Serg

it says liblightdm-gobject-1-0 install

lightdm install

Hmm, interesting. So we have lightdm installed, yet no service for it . . . .

so how can I fix this @Serg ?

Does /etc/init/lightdm.conf file exist ?

@gansub not sure yet

6:49 AM

@Serg it does exist

Does sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart have any effect ?

same message

stop: unknown instance

start : job failed to start

Ok. In that case , let's try this: sudo apt-get install gdm

GDM is alternative to lightdm

ok

once it asks you to switch default to gdm , choose that

6:52 AM

so 51 Meg file downlaod

After that , try to sudo service gdm start

or sudo service gdm restart

@Serg over the weekend I installed a lot of graphics software could that be the reason for not able to boot ?

could be. What kind of software did you install ?

vapor.ucar.edu/internal/downloads/source-distributions

assimp 3.1.1
freetype 2.5.3
ftgl 2.1.5-rc5
glew 1.10.0

Also Qt 4.8.6

never dealt with any of those so can't say . . . I'd expect something related to graphics driver to mess up lightdm. Happened once to me. But none of those seem like they could interfere with lightdm

7:02 AM

@Serg I get a display now

asking me to choose between lightdm and gdm

should I choose gdm ?

yes, choose gdm

@Serg done

so now sudo service gdm restart ?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

i'm installing cloudready (chrome os) :D

Yes, do that

gdm start running process 3014

now what @Serg ?

7:05 AM

O_o it just said process started ???

yes @Serg

didn't switch to gui automatically ???

no

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

O_o

OK, try pressing Alt+F7 , usually gui starts on that tty

7:06 AM

I get a blinking cursor that is all

well . . . . this is the weirdest thing i've seen so far

Alright, time for bed.

Goodnight all.

Sleep well , Mr. Osman

:)

@gansub try rebooting

7:07 AM

OK @Serg hang on

serg here will hold the fort in nathan's absence

@Serg it just hangs after the Ubuntu logo

no blinking cursor

@edwinksl i don't have no mod-powers though

but you can admonish people

@gansub well , i don't know what else to tell you. I'm out of ideas. The only other thing I can suggest is to do : startx $(which unity)

probably need sudo for that

7:09 AM

lol

that's all i can offer

lol

lel ?

@Serg you can tattle.

not sure who's on /etc/sudoers...

7:10 AM

I can do whatever i can

within limits of reason

and within limits of my knowledge of course

even to the extent of sacrificing sleep? :P

hmm yet another question about upgrading to 16.04.1

@edwinksl that happens a lot already :p

sleep is for the weak. And when the winter comes, they will be eaten in their sleep by wolves. ;p

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@Serg I got this message

very interesting

@JourneymanGeek wise words :D

7:13 AM

Typical Serg : "Ok, i am gonna go to bed. Oh, wait there is this totally awesome question about python that i can answer and stay up till 5 am"

I typed sudo startx $(whichunity)

it says whichunity: command not found

@gansub which unity . . . . there must be space

/usr/bin/X : error while loading shared libraries : libimf.so

cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory

xinit: giving up

xinit: unable to connec to X server : connection refused

xinit: server error

so it is missing the shared library ??

Very interesting . . . looks like it is missing some library

@Serg that's... right out of xkcd

7:15 AM

find . -name "libimf.so"

not found !!!!

@gansub find / -name "libinf.so" The dot means your current directory

but I am in /

oh

@Serg - found one instance of libimf.so but under /usr/local//MATLAB

so should I reinstall libimf.so ?

how do I do that ?

Not quite sure. I'm looking it up

it's not in apt-get repositories that i have at least . . . but i am on 16.04

7:20 AM

ok

is libimf.so in any used by X ?

it is also under my intel compiler installation

In my .bashrc for root

I do run intel environmental variable setting at login time

@JourneymanGeek wait which xkcd is that?

@Serg - askubuntu.com/questions/519561/…

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

oh that one, i didn't scroll up enough to see which of serg's posts you were responding to xD

@JourneymanGeek totally me

7:25 AM

aren't we all the same in this regard

@gansub is does your machine have intel graphics card by any chance ?

@gansub also, i have seen that post - nothing useful there

@Serg - how do I know if I have intel graphics card ?

I have a Dell desktop vostro 3800

sudo lshw -c display

description VGA compatible controller

product : 4th generation Core processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller

vendor : Intel corporation

physical id : 2

Yup, you have Intel graphics card

7:31 AM

@Serg that is great to know

so this missing libimf.so is specific to intel graphics card, at least that's what i can find from googling. No solution found yet , though.

I understand now

is this a hardware error or software error ?

shared libraries are software

so software error

ok great so I do not have to call Dell and yell at them :-)

Probably not . Try posting a question on askubuntu first , provide all the info we've covered, and maybe someone who knows more about Intel graphics cards will be able to help

7:35 AM

OK will do

thanks a LOT for your help @Serg

is there someway I can compensate you ? :-)

You're welcome, though i wish i could actually solve the problem . Compensations are not necessary - I do this for fun :p

lol

thank you again ! Most obliged for your patience and persistence to solve my problem

and taking time from your precious sleep

solving a rough problem is its own reward ;)

@gansub where's your intel driver from?

@JourneymanGeek - can you explain from ?

I bought it from a DELL

7:38 AM

@gansub ahh. intel has its own 'official' drivers that are more up to date

installing that might make you get a 'clean' or at least more up to date than ubuntu-repo driver

which might help replace that file

I'm guessing tho, I haven't run ubuntu desktop in years.

I found your model on amazon, says Ubuntu preinstalled. amazon.in/Dell-Vostro-V220285IN8-18-5-inch-Desktop/dp/…

WTF, indian amazon loads faster for me than the US one ? O_o

why were you viewing the indian version anyway

Because that's what google returned . . .and i realized it's indian just now

huh, interesting that google would do that

Q: X windows hanging during Ubuntu boot

@Serg it came with Ubuntu 12.04 I installed 14.40 by deleting the old version

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I was able to figure out the cause of this problem I was having Unable to boot Ubuntu 14.04. The X server is refusing a connection. I was able to boot by pressing shift continuously and I was able to boot but it does not open the graphics display of Ubuntu trusty. I tried sudo service lightdm r...

14.04 boot grub2 xorg

@Serg does the question have everything we discussed ?

@Serg I gave credit to you in the question :-)

least I can do

feel free to edit the question as you wish as you have sufficient rep

7:46 AM

@gansub already have edited. Very well . If nobody posts an answer in couple days, come back to chat and let me know. I'll put bounty on your question to attract more attention

thank you @Serg

one thing I have done is

I have ordered a new 1 TB Toshiba internal hard disk

if this does not work

I will have to end up using that

i am surprised to see a intel gpu not work

@gansub hard disk likely doesn't matter in this case. It's your graphics card that might be the issue

@Serg - so contact dell for a new graphics card ?

@edwinksl yeah, i don't see that many intel questions on the site. It's rare

@gansub see if the question has any answers first. If there's none, then contact dell .. You could always order one from amazon yourself

7:50 AM

@Serg mostly about intel CPUs like skylake and power management, but not the GPU

@Serg - I still have warranty

oh, well that's good ! They probably can replace it for no cost

@Serg - the Dell BIOS diagnostics would tell me that the graphics card is malfunctioning ?

Question which is the best IDE for python

it could @gansub never hurts to run a diagnostic

@CodeX pycharm is simple

Personally i just use vim

7:57 AM

@Serg thanks

@Serg just ran the diagnostics test for Video card

it says PASS

So obviously DELL wont give me a replacement based on this test right ?

@CodeX pycharm, if you have to use an IDE

plenty of us here don't use IDEs ;)

hard to tell, probably wouldn't .

Let's see if your post has any answers first before replacing the card itself

\o Rinz

@edwinksl thanks most probably I will use that

that terminal in the bottom right hand corner of jetbrains.com/pycharm is garbage

i can't do evil commands like everyone usually does

8:02 AM

XD of course , nobody would expose a terminal with that capability to the interwebs

we are nice people :)

are we ? evil smile

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

MUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

I'm watching Japanese vines on youtube. I like how some japanese girls have this deep voice laugh , kinda reminds me of my classmates back in high school. They were cantonese though

Youtube you hairy ~~censored~~, stop autoplaying stuff even though i press cancel !!!

8:07 AM

with serg and rinzy in the chat, i predict moar jap music youtube videos coming

Rinz, shall we start spamming ? XD

oh please do...

oh, goodness, last japanese vine had two girls singing in ktv, and i know that damn song, but i cannot remember the name

i hate that

it's probably some vocaloid , i know i've heard it

8:27 AM

potential spammer without disclosing affiliation askubuntu.com/users/572161/selenanita-huang

That's the cuttest spammer we had in a while

you can see the spammer has spammed quora too quora.com/profile/Selenanita-Huang

Promoting Wondershare

lol serg, letting cute pics cloud your judgment...

what ? Spammers can be hot too

8:30 AM

just remember to flag the spam ;)

need a big hammer for this though since we can't flag profiles

flagged for mod attenshon

rip hot spammer

haha I was just thinking 'she may be a spammer, but she's really cute' then read the messages

hi-fives Zanna virtually

^_^

8:37 AM

@Serg @Zanna alright in the name of science, here is who is in the picture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Ye-seul

oooh @edwinksl you should share 'science' links more often ;)

where's my seal of approval ?

lol

@Serg - askubuntu.com/questions/645080/…

@gansub big chunk of those in the answer should be installed already . Also, note whatever says i386 is for 32-bit OS, if you have 64 bit you will probably need to premove :i386 part

8:47 AM

@Serg - how did you guess I had a Intel graphics card and not a NVIDIA one ?

@gansub from the output of lshw -c display

@Serg - no no

you had asked the question before the output of lshw ?

scroll back

Oh, i was looking up on google libimf.so , and on some mailing lists and forums it was suggested that it's intel-specific library . Intel forum also had mention of it

Cansomebody explain why am i drinking cofee at 2:50 am ?

if you are like me, you can still sleep even after drinking coffee

i still can

8:51 AM

^5

not many can

sigh . . . i'mt at the point where nothing helps my sleep issues . . . .

9:14 AM

@Serg yes your indicator was very useful for answering that question... and if/when the indicator is finished I will link to it there... but actually it doesn't work to run it like that, it makes a broken icon unless I run it from the directory it's in, for some reason

@Serg ever been to a sleep center? You'll get contacts on your had for 24 hours, including your sleep time. They can tell you a lot about what happens (or not) inside your brain.

...and if there are important mechanisms, making you fail to sleep.

....head of course, not had...

@Zanna have you pulled latest changes from git ? I fixed icon finding

@JacobVlijm unfortunately i am too poor for that

no I haven't :) i will do that

@Serg Ai, it is not in your insurance?

9:32 AM

There's no such thing as compulsory health insurance in the US.

Most people there don't have one.

@ByteCommander technically there is

i am 26, and if i don't buy my own insurance now , i have to pay fee when we submit taxes at the end of the ear

@ByteCommander Oh dear.

biiiiig penalty

Really?

That's new to me.

yessir . . . .so i will have to find one this year

9:33 AM

@ByteCommander Yeah. That was the best Obama could do since actual universal, state sponsored health care is anathema there.

otherwise , government will kick my a$$

Problem: many people don't have health insurance and can't afford the offensively high prices of medical care. Solution: I know, let's pass a law that makes it illegal not to have health insurance! Yay! Not even the Republicans can object to that!

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And, sadly, that probably is the best that could pass the vote in the US.

basically that ^

Yeah, I remember something like that, but I didn't know it was that bad...

I Germany (and the Netherlands as well, I think), you must have a health insurance. You can only chose which one you want or whether you prefer a private insurance over the compulsory ones. And as teen/young adult you can usually run under the insurance of your parents until your education is over.

9:37 AM

@ByteCommander exactly ^

Success !!! I have made my best friend and my gf friends

@JacobVlijm There are also programs to help those who can't afford it, to be fair.

they're already making plans for shopping together

@Serg Is that good?

they will gang up against you

RIP serg

9:39 AM

@terdon But you probably need to be really poor to get that, right?

Probably.

@ByteCommander i hope it is good. . . .unless they decide to beat me up . . . then i am in trouble

Q: "No protocol specified" when starting Xorg via lightdm, but works when started directly

At least here in Germany, every penny you can get from the state requires huge paperwork.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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To start the X server on boot, use of a display manager such as lightdm seems to be the preferred method. However, if I start X by starting the lightdm service, I get a "No protocol specified" error. If I run the same command that lightdm calls according to ps -ef: sudo /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core ...

ubuntu x11 xorg display-manager lightdm

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Q: How does Wubi pre-configure the installation process?

As the topic stated, I'm curious about the mechanism in it. I'm planning to mod it into a version which can automatically resize the windows partition(which has space available) and install on its next. Can I just simply set the installation target to the real partition in the pre-configuration...

linux ubuntu system-installation system-programming wubi

@Serg - I have had issues with libimfo.so before - askubuntu.com/questions/604470/…

9:49 AM

well . . . .

For the sake of the discussion (and curiousity) , why was my answer here downvoted, for what aspect? meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15800/…

(Assuming it was from some of us)

Wasn't me

speaking of which @ByteCommander thanks for making me a meta post, I felt very special...

( @JacobVlijm I upvoted your answer...)

now , big question. Do i go fix the README.md or do i go take a nap . . . ah crap i need to clean up my bed . . . .maybe i should sleep on the floor today

@Serg take a nap!!

9:54 AM

@Zanna haha, thanks :)

@ByteCommander this morning I undeleted my answer only because I thought of something to add to it... For me it is like a sport never to click anything and every day I open a calc file like this: soffice Dr*/Fi*/Inc* and then I just... open another terminal and leave it, because I'm lazy...

but today I sent it to the background... but I still get all the stupid gtk warnings. I thought. mmm this is annoying...

i only open two things - a web browser and terminal

so I redirected all that junk... and voila! I can use my session and no interruptions. So I added that to my answer & undeleted it :)

aw , the hot spammer was deleted already

"Hot spammer"? Seriously?