lol

it's summer

tryouts are in the beginning of next year

isn't summer vacation ending soon?

yep

so then ask your teacher when school starts. it is not reasonable to expect us to know what is needed to get on your school's science olympiad team.

i was hoping some science olympiad team coaches would know

so i could know before hand

the tests should be quite uniform for qualified school teams, because they look for the same things

i am not trying to be mean, so don't take it the wrong way, but does it look like we have olympiad team coaches here?

no, i'm sorry for asking here

i didn't know ubuntu was a OS

now i am not sure where you should ask your question, but this is definitely the wrong place

as stupid as it sounds i thought it was some random name and this was a chat where u can ask any thing

i guess not

so see you

good luck

@ByteCommander OP wants to meet you :/

IM DEAD XD

How do you like quote those?

just copy and paste the link

link?

wont that just link the q?

the time stamp itself is a URL to the comment

.

nope

what are you trying to link to? a comment?

ye

go to any comment and copy and paste the URL pointed to by time stamp

there we go

there

@edwinksl replied. If he still does not manage to come up with the requested output, he should sell his computer and make sure not to reproduce...

@ByteCommander awesome, let's hope OP can calm down and provide actionable information

I just found this again XDD

woah this may be the most number of comments to a question i have seen so far askubuntu.com/questions/817804/…

holy Crappp

This is strange

I cant capitalize p

Is <kbd>Shift</kbd> <kbd>p</kbd> a thing

also yes

I know that wont work

I have to try

i am not sure what html tags work here tbh

same

For all those interested in a +50 bounty and knowing how to solve my lo network interface problem:

@Serg Can it be that your powerflow indicator is spamming my /var/log/syslog ?

I have huge sections in there looking like this:

Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: 8.51
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: message repeated 3 times: [ 8.51]
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: 8.436
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: 8.436
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: 8.6876
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: message repeated 2 times: [ 8.6876]
Aug 29 03:09:26 BC-AlkaliMetal gnome-session[6212]: 8.8652

is 80 rep possible in 3 hours?

you posted on a pretty popular question. i would say yes

well, let's go then!

if you can answer byte's question, you will probably get 75

50 bounty + 25 accept+upvote

Yup, that would be nice :)

commented

and i would throw in another upvote to make it 85

^~^

The other one about cryptswap is also still open and will be bountied as soon as the lo network interface is fine again.

@KazWolfe this:

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
iface lo inet static
   address 127.0.0.1
   netmask 255.0.0.0

just to humor me... get rid of address/netmask?

or better yet...

replace anything of lo with:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Hmm...

I wonder how those settings got there...

trying.

posted, i'll withdraw it if i'm being an idiot.

did i brick byte's computer?

lmao

put that on my resume.

he ded

Let's not pull a Terdon here.

@NathanOsman /r/OutOfTheLoop

i think i just did actually break his networking

:'(

@KazWolfe nope, it's fine :)

Just wanted to reboot twice to make sure

@KazWolfe Start reading here: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22337577#22337577

It's an interesting story :D

Ouch.

oh lord terdon

Yeah.

From that point on, we adopted the phrase "pulling a Terdon" to refer to irreversible loss of data.

:)

And I tried to enable cryptswap again before the 2nd reboot to see if it conflicts... It did not, but cryptswap is still broken and needed 1:30 min to time out.

oh my god.

rm -rf /etc/askubuntu/users/terdon

To be fair, it was a lesson we all learned that day.

@KazWolfe Accepted and upgoated, but the bounty needs another 22 hours before it's ripe enough to get harvested...

@KazWolfe so close to 10k

@ByteCommander commented on your other problem

I saw. And no, I did not mkswap afterwards, that was never mentioned anywhere. It looked like the crypttab setting should take care of that. @KazWolfe

well, try it lol :D

and you'd think that but this is linux

mkswap on /dev/sda4?

i'm pretty sure that it needs to be mkswap'd.

if that's the one where the swap is

verify just to be sure

oh nevermind i am stupid

swap does run the mkswap command

But if I mkswap the partition, that would be meaningless because it should get overwritten with the encrypted swap partition file system...

but try it anyways.

shrug

Someone else said it works

also i'm assuming you're not using LUKS?

But that only worked because there was already an encrypted drive. I have nothing in my /dev/mapper except a "control" device.

i see that.

just a wild guess really on my part

And about LUKS... No idea, I use what I described in my question... Dunno what exactly that is behind the scenes.

you may need to specify a cipher

but yeah do try mkswap

and add ,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 after the swap command in crypttab

i wish i still had my encrypted box to look at.

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ ll /dev/mapper
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      60 Aug 29 04:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root    4780 Aug 29 04:10 ../
crw-------  1 root root 10, 236 Aug 29 04:09 control
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ cat /etc/crypttab
# <target name>	<source device>					<key file>	<options>
cryptswap	UUID=36e5bdad-3600-4140-aad2-60a6c0c1fe45	/dev/urandom	swap

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ sudo mkswap /dev/sda4
[sudo] password for bytecommander:
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 7,6 GiB (8095002624 bytes)
no label, UUID=67cad2f7-bc02-4610-bb95-56a80e8f68a8
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ sudo service cryptdisks reload
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ sudo service cryptdisks-early reload
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ ll /dev/mapper
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      60 Aug 29 04:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root    4780 Aug 29 04:10 ../
crw-------  1 root root 10, 236 Aug 29 04:09 control

Nothing, so far.

swapon -a?

Swap on, Swap off, The Swapper

I can't swapon as long as the encrypted device is not there.

oh, right.

update-initramfs -u and reboot maybe?

i'm not sure where the crypttab is parsed in the boot order

What has initramfs to do with that?

answer to this question, just going with it

Guessing in Linux is okay as long as you never type rm!

let's try adding the cipher first...

or that :D

no change yet.

now initramfs

er byte

Did I screw it up?

i think you want cryptdisks restart

or cryptdisks_start cryptswap

Argh!

Your mkswap changed sda4's UUID!

yes?

oh. lol ^^

forgot it did that

editing all config files again... :-/

just the one

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ sudo cryptdisks_start cryptswap
 * Starting crypto disk...                                                                                                           * cryptswap (starting)..
 * cryptswap (started)...                                                                                                    [ OK ]
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ ll /dev/mapper/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      80 Aug 29 04:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root    4800 Aug 29 04:32 ../

Oh!

Why did nobody tell me that earlier!?

dm-0?

do... wha?

trying if it survives a reboot...

do let me know.

Huh?

What happened now?

O____O

?

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ reboot
Failed to reboot system via logind: Transaction is destructive.
Failed to start reboot.target: Interactive authentication required.
See system logs and 'systemctl status reboot.target' for details.
Failed to open /dev/initctl: Permission denied
Failed to talk to init daemon.
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ systemctl status reboot.target
● reboot.target - Reboot
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

^--- old Motorola television

sudo reboot

16.04 allows using reboot/shutdown etc. without sudo, usually...

> Failed to start reboot.target: Interactive authentication required.

it couldn't grab auth for some reason

@ByteCommander From CLI?

Unity / Gnome use a D-Bus daemon IIRC that brokers this on behalf of the user.

@NathanOsman This is what we in the business call engineering!

Circuit boards weren't invented soon enough.

@NathanOsman Yes it does.

@ByteCommander interesting.

@KazWolfe Did not survive the reboot, it timed out 1:30min again and the /dev/mapper is empty.

hrm...

is the service starting?

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ systemctl status cryptsetup.target
● cryptsetup.target - Encrypted Volumes
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cryptsetup.target; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd.special(7)

Aug 29 04:42:51 BC-AlkaliMetal systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Encrypted Volumes.
Aug 29 04:42:51 BC-AlkaliMetal systemd[1]: cryptsetup.target: Job cryptsetup.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ systemctl status cryptsetup-pre.target

Does not look so.

Uh oh?

hm?

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ sudo cryptdisks_start cryptswap
[sudo] password for bytecommander:
 * Starting crypto disk...                                                                                                           * cryptswap (skipped, device /dev/disk/by-uuid/67cad2f7-bc02-4610-bb95-56a80e8f68a8 does not exist)...                      [fail]
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ lsblk -f /dev/sda4
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda4

oh

Why does sda4 have no UUID?

ohhhhhh.

cryptswap gives it a new uuid each time

Let's see what gparted thinks of that...

try hard-referencing it? (/dev/sda4 intead of uuid?)

But all the docs and tutorials do it with UUIDs!

And they claim using /dev/sdXY is unsafe because if it changes, data partitions might get overwritten.

true.

gimme a sec to make dinner and i'll think

or install one on a vm or something

Take all the time you need, 5AM is late enough for me to go to bed finally...

Good night...

gn. i'll think and post something if anything comes to me

Thanks.

Did you use cryptsetup?

I.... what.

wut?

VLQ

low-quallity apple

hi, edity

hellow

My name was based off Editey :P

editey.com

and my name is based off of my alias and the common name of an awesome species

wolf?

And my name is based off my birth certificate :P

:P

yes, and I thought you were George Edison?

His name I made up.

:P

ah okay.

grrrr. 43 rep needed...

patience

patience is a virtue

but i want new post hammers

banhammer

achivement unlocked: you have been banned

@KazWolfe 13

10K BABY!

what superpowers do you get

A for effort for this Q&A askubuntu.com/questions/817931/…

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I can see deleted posts now :D

And vote to delete questions. And access to informative mod tools. Me likey.

Oh, and be a serious mod candidate (lolno). And now I get to try for 20k!

#kazforpresident

I would either make a great mod or a horrible one.

No in between.

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@KazWolfe enjoy your 200+ bounty in 8 hours, probably? :D

@Zanna i am surprised someone actually wants to disable colors. they are pretty damn useful

I'm lost without ls colors

same

@KazWolfe 10K is kinda the point where being a high rep user gets fun ;p

the first thing I do in my empty .bashrc is add alias ls='ls --color=auto'

did you add an alias for ll?

i think i use ll more often than other variants of ls

maybe they have some kind of sight disorder though and the colours just make it hard to see for them

I never use ll

I don't find the file type symbols useful

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I add one for my favourite switches

alias lm='ls -lAtr'

ls -Al?

ah close, 50% right

and one for hidden files & directories

alias l.='ls -d .*'

well the tr are just for obsessive people right? hehe

i can't recall the last time i wanted/needed to use -t hmm

I find it useful sometimes :)

hahaha I've just seen "can't install Kumbuntu" XD

i like colors so much i made a git alias for diff --color-words :P

that's a good one!

it is very useful because i have no restrictions on number of characters per line in my latex files

so i need to do word diff with colors

very cool :)

think i gonna get some hate from 80-char-for-everything people :)

OP saying they commented the aliases and they still have colour o.0

pfff

I find that part in .bashrc about "uncomment for colored prompt..." hilariously sanctimonious

@Zanna Actually I know nothing (compared to Gurus). Need to learn a lot

good morning people

"uncomment for a colored prompt if you are a mere child toying with the command line"

morning || afternoon || evening

meh, modesty @Anwar but the more you learn the more it seems like there is still

how to format quote? I still cannot do

just sourcing wouldn't work?

@Zanna just copy the link and paste it here

sourcing has to work

must have mistyped it

when I copy the link and pasted it before, didn't work

aha

^ it works

needs time

^_^ thanks

you're welcome :)

haha he accepted your answer even though force_color_prompt was already commented @Anwar

@JourneymanGeek Oh?

i am actually confused why anwar's answer was accepted

@KazWolfe in my opinion anyway

don't know. I was thinking he will accept your's

Well I'm still new, so point me towards the fun things

really he should have!

it is not wrong but OP already commented out force_color_prompt

no @edwinksl more than that, he had never uncommented it

may be because of my comment "exit terminal and start again" :)

it is commented by default

@Zanna ah yeah that was what i meant :P

I am just clarifying, I know you know

alright let me play the bad guy here and ask OP

@edwinksl don't :)

So there's a +500 question.

meh, no worries, cheap points in any case... but I think my answer did what he actually wanted

^ I agree

he never had a coloured prompt to uncolor hahaha

how do i know? because he said he did many things to turn if off

i am merely asking from a neutral POV and i want to understand why OP did what he did

kk

true :)

but i really should go to bed

haha I love that, it's so true

did James undelete his answer? I think I just lost one point

hmm i haven't lost one point yet

maybe what I've lost is count....

what 1 point?

hey my rep is doing weird stuff...

no now it adds up... maybe I'm hallucinating or maybe I got accept and then unaccept too fast for it to show up

sounds like you need coffee/tea

That arun haven't reply yet @edwinksl

very likely :) I'm drinking vegan chocolate milkshake with some chocolate green superfood powder junk in it, maybe that's the explanation

"superfood powder junk" 0_0

also vegan how? soy?

@Anwar i am gonna let you take good care of arun :)

oat milk @JourneymanGeek

:)

ah yeah found a window where my rep is ??81 but it went down to ??66 so it wasn't the wacky oat milk

@ByteCommander I started my power-flow indicator and started tail -f /var/log/syslog. I don't see /var/log/syslog change as the indicator changes. Also, it says "gnome-session" , were you using it on gnome ? Perhaps they have some mechanism that records panel information and throws it into syslog. If this was just label itself , it would also include the "W" for watts or mA for milliamps . I don't it's my indicator but it could be some other utility.

I mean I am running tail -f /var/log/syslog right now as i type this , and it doesn't change at all

is this on topic? askubuntu.com/questions/818075/…

why don't we have bash-on-windows?

@Anwar ooh lemme create a tag...

there is ubuntu-on-windows

it is more than bash but also not quite full ubuntu

^ that one is confusing imo

I can run ubuntu on windows with VM

i prefer calling it WSL

seems like m$ is also calling it WSL nowadays

@Zanna created one :)

they named it long ago. i remember there was an option in win7

I am writing tag info now haha

they are popularizing it now

bash on windows is misleading too

how?

it is clearly more than just bash

so i shouldn't write tag wiki?

hmm.. i haven't used them

don't know