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ah right

mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt someone linked me to this

I added a comment to my question

well great, you could have edited your question though

12:13 AM

ok I will

so regarding my first question

about nbsp

any idea?

nope

ok

an easier one then maybe? :)

yeah

how to automatically mount an internal drive ?

at boot time

with 12.04

i don't know about that. i never automount anything

12:29 AM

/etc/fstab apparently but I don't know what to put in it

hmm

hmm indeed

12.04 nautilus mount automount

The OP here reports the problem mysteriously went away by itself, so this should probably be closed as too-localized:

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Q: Nautilus volume mounting

My Windows partition is appearing in the sidebar of nautilus under the label of "Devices". Its tooltip is "Mount and Open ". To my understanding, this should mount the volume when i click it. However, nothing happens when I click the onto it. Is this normal behaviour? If no, how can I fix it?

done

Q: Where is the server list in Urban Terror?

Off-topic Terror:

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Where does Urban Terror have its server list? And could someone kindly post the current list here? It happens often that the master server doesn't work...

games

12:40 AM

@izx I agree. Unless Urban Terror is packaged for Ubuntu, this is at best marginally on topic for AU.

Q: Why is there graphics glitches on the dawn of war games

And this should be a bug report, so either OT or too localized:

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I installed steam and downloaded dawn of war, winters assault and dark crusade they installed no problem and the opening cut scenes play ok but when I get the first load screen the graphics go funny the bottom half goes a multitude of pixelated colours and the top half does nothing. Main Menu w...

wine intel-graphics

Power searching with Google; Lesson 1 done.

Some think Ask Ubuntu has the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Google is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

^^^ heresy!

12:44 AM

@izx That's a problem getting something to work with wine, and wine questions are on-topic here. So I don't think I agree that's off-topic.

I think it is a bug.

and it being a problem doesn't mean it is not a bug

If you think it's a bug in wine, then I'd agree it should be closed. But @izx seems to be saying it's a bug in the game. If it's a bug in the game, and the game doesn't officially support wine, then a bug report to Valve would probably be rejected.

@EliahKagan Typically Wine doesn't partially fail, and if it does the errors the OP describes: wireframe models instead of 3D, etc. are usually due to incorrect HW support...

It's a bug in Wine, in that Wine is not an Emulator ;)

;-)

In my long-ago IIRC with Wine and gaming, it either fails obviously (doesn't start, wrong resolution, no sound, crashes halfway, etc.), or works passably. But we'll leave this one be hoping for further details.

12:48 AM

I'm not sure of my position on this, but it seems to me that if the bug report should be filed against wine, then the question should be closed as off-topic with a comment linking to some bug reporting instructions ...but if the bug report should be filed against the game, then that should be posted as an answer (and maybe someone else can post a workaround as an answer).

Comment: If possible, please edit your question to include screenshots of the glitches. These may be easier for someone who has also seen such problems to identify and suggest a possible workaround.

It's a bit convoluted but I'm a bit foggy atm :)

pad.ubuntu.com/PHDShTbnFi ARB is looking for help :)

Any comment more than two lines gets skipped by me.

They are unnecessarily long.

Q: How do I install Ubuntu to another partition from Ubuntu?

So because he doesn't "want to waste a CD", we must engage in this thought experiment:

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Basically what I want to do is install a fresh copy of Ubuntu from Ubuntu. It is an older machine so usb boot doesn't work and I don't see why I need to waste a CD to do it. Currently running Ubuntu 11.10. I have a 1TB drive and a second 500GB drive for backup. The 1TB drive is partitioned as: ...

installation grub2 unetbootin

words fail me

Actually, thats really trivial

You guys going to close it?

1:00 AM

izx needs more rep; so no

lol. IDC, he wants a solution that involves Unetbootin's frugal install, so I'm not going to bother.

askubuntu.com/q/139168/25798 close votes please. the OP thinks it is a different wireless card but it is not

The generic answer to that, for Ubuntu and Debian, is to use debootstrap and be done with it. But I'm not going to write a howto for that either...

DIE BROADCOM DIE!

hmm, actually no, I was thinking unetbootin as well >_>

@JourneymanGeek Please do answer then...(upvote reserved ;)

1:02 AM

naw, at this point the answer is non trivial ;p

He COULD boot the iso off grub...

but ugh, never done it before.

So, no, can't answer it without a little science

Q: booting from Windows boot USB using unetbootin

See, he doesn't want a solution that involves any effort (like a Grub ISO loopback would involve); he wants the "frugal install" to work.

Anyway, moving on...

Should we close this at OT? He's using Unetbootin to create a USB from a Windows ISO and then wonders why it doesn't work...

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it says missing bootmngr or something like that. im on ubuntu 12.4 or whatever, the newest one using the gparted to format to NTSC and then unetbootin to install the bootloader, and the iso, then restart. also, i do not know how to use terminal or code..and im also using an external hardrive beca...

boot usb windows-xp unetbootin problems

Perhaps he could try formatting to PAL or SECAM?

lol

I wonder if anyone ported the windows USB install tool to linux

just for irony's sake

hah

A: virtualbox machine boots to efi shell

Close as localized? OP answered saying problem was he randomly changed one too many settings:

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It turns out that as I was messing around with getting the machine to load (due to Virtualization technologies being disabled), I clicked one too many items on the image settings page. To fix this, go to the "Settings" page for the virtual machine, and click "System". Under the "motherboard" opt...

so where to put a command so that it's executed when the user logs in with ubuntu 12.04?

1:18 AM

@mateosalta: you may want to link Nirmik to my patched notify-send PPA answer if you haven't already....

@bob startup apps

what file is modified when I do that ?

it gets added to a folder IIRC

Q: what's up with all the updates?

Latest rant: close-votes please

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Everyone!!! I use ubuntu exclusively for my job, especially for the fact that everything works and i get the most out of my processor and memory, but you are killing me with updates!!! I just lost a very good opportunity from a client that installed ubuntu but got tired of all the updates. I re...

stable-release-updates

1:33 AM

bug - askubuntu.com/questions/155245/vlc-issue-with-unity

George Edison

#ubuntu-arb on Freenode is, for all practical purposes, dead.

The Interrupter

Can you answer this? How to configure Logitech Marble trackball http://askubuntu.com/questions/66253/how-to-configure-logitech-marble-trackball?atw=1 #inputdevices

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 11, 2012 at 1:34 AM

@GeorgeEdison heh you can try #ubuntu-community-team

We need a canonical Q, with screenshots and detailed steps, for folks who tried Ubuntu via dual-boot but want to uninstall and go back to Windows now.

that should be in SU :p

blueXrider

1:38 AM

@aking1012 I was here now I'm not

NARQ - askubuntu.com/questions/153904/…

@jokerdino I think he just has the compiz blank desktop problem

it is abandoned anyway. the OP never came back

so, where is that liveusb grub fail canon question?

should be a dupe somewhere - askubuntu.com/questions/150499/…

1:57 AM

@jokerdino, I suggested earlier that to lower the unanswered rate, we look for questions that have a zero-voted answer which, in someone's estimation, is good enough for an upvote. Want to join me in Crusaders to consider a bunch of these?

i am already there.

Good morning

George Edison

@RolandTaylor: Flack Overstow now has an API!

...and it looks like I broke the app on the main site...

2:16 AM

What is actually implied by upvoting and accepting? both look similar to me as an OP. meta.askubuntu.com/q/3656/61218

Jorge Castro

you upvote if you think the answer is useful

zzz askubuntu.com/a/161902/25798

but when I accepting an answer, why shouldn't I upvote that one?

@AnwarShah it is personal preference.

i usually upvote but that doesn't mean everyone should

err, do what you think is right.

Yes, me also. But I wanted to learn any other scenario where you should accept, but not upvote.

2:22 AM

@AnwarShah IMO where the answer is a valid answer, but required no or very little effort, it should be accepted but not upvoted. e.g. Is Ubuntu open-source? A: Yes, it is and uses a variety of licenses <link to Canonical FAQ>

Thanks, @izx, see the point now. I want to upvote and accept this one.

Q: Linux Mint: How do I autorun rdp script?

MMMMMints for everyone!

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HI to all my name is Rommel... I'm new to Linux system coz im more into windows, but now i wanna try Linux os. I have this Linux Mint and i installed it on to one of my desktop PC, i have downloaded and installed freerdp-x11 for me to connect into my windows terminal server...The thing that I rea...

scripts rdp

But basically, If I do not know the answer and got an answer, It is a great answer for me. Even if that is a one liner.

Downvotes need: abandoned, partly linux mint, no answers

"sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager" is giving me "E: Unable to locate package activity-log-manager"

Q: How to add ubuntu 12.04 to the linux mint 13 grub 2 boot menu

2:27 AM

Moar Mint:

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I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition, so was now in dual boot with windows 7 through GRUB 1.99, and perfected it, but when I installed ubuntu 12.04, it wasn't automatically added to GRUB bootloader, I tried reinstalling ubuntu with GRUB but it didn't work, it was still the Linux Mint's copy of G...

grub2 bootloader

@Santosh what distro environment?

@jokerdino 11.10

:/

Unity right?

@jokerdino yes

turn on backports and apt-get update

IIRC, there was no activity-log-manager in standard repo

only in backports in 11.10

2:29 AM

@jokerdino backports?

@Santosh yep. that's exactly what i said.

Q: How do I enable the "backports" repository?

It might help.

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How to enable backports to Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10 and more likely 11.04?

package-management software-center software-sources

@AnwarShah thanks

Welcome. .. I was quick to guess the disto version.

anyway, @AnwarShah can you use bzr or ssh?

and are you in university or home?

2:34 AM

in home now

okay. want to submit my patch to Ubuntu devs? it's been in the sidelines for way too long.

but will go to university soon.

where was the patch? I want

Unity shortcut overlay needs to include shortcut for video lens

one sec

The Unity Keyboard Shortcut overlay is currently missing the keyboard shortcut for the video lens SUPER + V which was recently added since Unity 5.4. Screenshot attached. As you can see from the screenshot the keyboard shortcut is missing. ---------------------------------------- Desired solution: - Add shortcut to video lens as specified in "12.04 Unity Shortcuts" spec ( https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1jqeKtIJwqLtl58Wk_fqjr9Rrgxn9zsouCYOo-cZsLSE/edit ) - Contact Rosie or Otto for the updated visual design

unity

Low / Triaged

I want to use one of my Windows key as CTRL key.

@jokerdino currently apt-get update is in process

okay.

remapping win key. hmm

@AnwarShah let me know when you are working with the patch.

2:41 AM

@jokerdino yss

@jokerdino I am bookmarking your link. will go to univ. then i will inform you.

@AnwarShah oh sure. but you need to download quite a bit of packages. is that alright?

@jokerdino actually my keyboard has only one CTRL key and is at bottom-left.

We have very high speed internet in the Lab. so no problem

@AnwarShah okay

@Santosh let me see

2:43 AM

an off-topic. What is the net speed in your pc now.

just for curosity

can reach 100kb/sec

kb or KB, I mean KB

KB

64 KB in my system.

that's pretty decent

2:46 AM

The problem is the cap limit

@Santosh askubuntu.com/a/137456/25798?

I don't understand, How I voted for tag-synonym where I have only 2 upvotes in meta answer?

Here meta.askubuntu.com/users/61218/anwar-shah

@AnwarShah voted for what tag?

Yours one. re-installation

you need to have 5 vote in the actual tag. then you can vote on syn.

2:51 AM

I voted already!

you downvoted?

he he:

it had one upvote last time :/

Because re-installation is not installation. I think

it is still installation.

2:52 AM

but some times, there is unique problem in re-installation, not in installation.

i disagree. but this is beyond crazy. we are off.

Ok, I'll consider again.

but what about the privilege system. I've voted with only 2 upvotes on meta !!

the meta doesn't really matter

but you have made me upset. that is a fact

Ok, I am removing my vote.

i don't think you can and well whtvr

2:56 AM

I did it, and upvote

oh okay. didn't know you would change your mind too fast :P

I am learning the system, so My view may not be the best one.

It has 2 votes now.

thanks but well thanks.

How do I scroll up/down in terminal without leaving the keyboard?

maybe i was just a little too upset. sorry about that.

@Santosh pipe it to less

2:59 AM

Need to go bye.

so, a cat spoiled someone's installation here.

@AnwarShah bye cya laterz

@jokerdino What?

What am I supposed to understand from that what?

@jokerdino okay.

@jokerdino good morning

3:11 AM

@RolandTaylor welcome man!

@msPeachy hi

@jokerdino why thank thee :D!

thou shall go to bed early

Ha!

Early for me is 2:30 :P

that's quite early.

sorta

late is 5:30

3:12 AM

that's uber late o.O

Yep lol

and you wake up around?

It's what happens when you flip the what? 32 channels? we have

Oh that depends on the day...

@jokerdino can you bounty my question pretty please? :P

Some days I wake up after 10 lol

Other days I wake up before 7 :P

3:13 AM

@RolandTaylor omg showoff!! I have like 4 channels here :/

@jokerdino lol don't be fooled...

CBC gives us almost all the same thing :P

@RolandTaylor o.O. i wake up around 9 in holidays. around 6.30 in school days

@RolandTaylor lolol :P i see.

Discovery, Discovery Health, National Geographic...

(To name a few)

@msPeachy which one?

And most of them are mostly in Spanish -_-

3:14 AM

Spanish? lol

Si!

Barbados speaks Spanish?

Los canales asombrosos estan en espanol!

@jokerdino I didn't understand what you meant for "pipe it to less"

@jokerdino lol solo un poco ;)

3:15 AM

@RolandTaylor cool man, no swearing in here

O_o maldito? :D

(There, I did it... for real, en Espanol :D)

Q: hd0 out of disk error results to low graphics mode

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Yesterday, I have reinstalled Ubuntu due to a error: hd0 out of disk on boot. Everything went fine, I've installed apps, perform updates and upgraded the kernel. I've even restarted it a few times just to check if I would encounter boot issues and was glad that everything was working perfectly, t...

12.04 boot

@Santosh <command> | less

@RolandTaylor google translate for the win!

@RolandTaylor hehe

@RolandTaylor i wish i can instantly understand all the languages!

xD me too

@msPeachy need to wait two days in minimum :/

@RolandTaylor :D

3:18 AM

@jokerdino oh okay

@msPeachy it seems that is a common problem (according to Google search results) - I'm looking into it (it might be simple to fix).

failsafe mode.

@msPeachy install gdm.

linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/…

but it looks like your boot sector is messed up?

good find @RolandTaylor

From another link I just read - it seems grub indeed is the problem.

3:21 AM

@RolandTaylor thank you

np

@jokerdino I've just reinstalled yesterday, fresh install, i even formatted the partition, I just don't get it. Back when I was using Oneiric I didn't encounter any of these boot issues

It seems to be a bug in grub :(

Which could be a pretty difficult thing to work around

It's either I downgrade to 11.10 or I'll switch to Mint

@jokerdino You are telling another thing I think.. I want to scroll through terminal, but without touching the mouse.

3:23 AM

@msPeachy @RolandTaylor yeah, seems like a bug.

@msPeachy What is your partitioning like?

@Santosh no. it depends on the command. you give me vague questions, i give you vague answers. we are cool like that.

@jokerdino How is scrolling related to any command? It is related to window management.

try ls | less and let me know

And, before you switch to Mint - we need to determine if it's a hardware issue.

3:27 AM

@RolandTaylor what do you mean like? the fs? I have 2 primary, 1 ext4 for Ubuntu and another ntfs for Windows but for now it is empty it is my reserved partition just in case Ubuntu crashes which it always does. Then I have an extended with 1 ext4 and 2 ntfs logical partitions on it.

Q: GRUB rescue error: hd0 out of disk

Oh, I see. That might be contributing to the issue.

Depends on where grub is installing to

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I was playing a game on my multiboot Windows 7 + Ubuntu laptop. It froze, so I force shutdown the computer. When I load it back up, I get: error: hd0 out of disk. When I do ls, it gives me: (hd0) (hd0,msdos6) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) But when I try to do insmod (hd0,msdos5)/bo...

grub2

:( also unanswered, and this might confirm it's a bug

Maybe you'll need to use Lilo or something :S

(But I can't help there - only ever used grub and burg)

@RolandTaylor what might contribute? the ntfs partitions?

grub 2 error: out of disk. failed to boot default entries. press any key to continue...

Binary package hint: grub2 I recently updated one of my computers to Ubuntu 9.10 and I've been trying to upgrade the bootloader to grub 2. The computer is an Acer TravelMate 240 but the hard drive died some time ago so I've been booting off a USB harddrive, because the computer's BIOS doesn't support USB boot, I'm using the PLoP Bootmanager on CD (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html) to chainload GRUB from the USB drive. GRUB legacy has been working fine like this for months. Now when I chainload GRUB 2 from GRUB legacy I get the following error: error: out of disk Failed to boot default entries. Press any key to continue... When I press a key the message just repeats. In order to boot and access the GRUB legacy menu, I have to do a CTRL+ALT+DEL. Please tell me if you need any more information to complete this bug report. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Nov 7 15:08:55 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4 ProcEnviron: LANG…

grub2 (Ubuntu)

High / Confirmed

epic bug

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/477430/comments/41

possible workaround --^

@RolandTaylor mine doesnt drop to the grub prompt, it just tells me to press a key, if it drops to grub prompt, i might do something about it

@msPeachy apparently yes they might, but if it's a bug then you're better off not removing them.

3:33 AM

@jokerdino It shows this: i.imgur.com/iZQS4.png when I do that, and again pressing q goes back to terminal. Now I don't see any scrolling involved here.

I can reinstall Ubuntu again but I'm afraid it will just be a waste of time coz I'm pretty sure I'll encounter that hd0 out of disk again. I've reinstalled Ubuntu 6 times already because of that.

@Santosh it's because it is too small.

mateo_salta

I think I went as far as I can with the ppa, got this as error,
Not a .changes file.
Please select a .changes file to upload.
Tried to upload: ppa:mateo-salta/testing <libnotify_0.7.5-1_source.changes>

ls /usr/share/applications | less and you will get to move around using a keyboard

@mateo_salta wait a sec

mateo_salta

does | more , work

3:35 AM

@msPeachy did you check jokerdino's suggestion (a possible workaround)?

@mateo_salta which one did you dput?

@RolandTaylor Honestly I didn't understand it...:((

@Santosh superuser.com/q/348385/104400 probably the real solution you are looking for. less is not really for scrolling.

@msPeachy Oh :S

It is a bit... well... a lot... technical :(

Maybe @jokerdino can walk you through it :>

:>

3:44 AM

@RolandTaylor yes cos I'm that not technical :P

so, hopefully @jokerdino can help you out there o.O

@msPeachy Honestly, I'm technical, but that suggested workaround was written very ">_>" to me

<_<

@jokerdino ^=^

Are you on a desktop @msPeachy?

3:48 AM

@msPeachy No vampires are allowed outside of USA.

(:

mateo_salta

 0_o
-v-v-

@RolandTaylor I'm under the desktop :P

haha

ስ_ስ

@RolandTaylor yes i am using a desktop computer

3:51 AM

@msPeachy it might indeed be a problem with the motherboard

as that person who came up with a workaround suggests

I'll install Windows later and see if I encounter any problems there

ሀ_ሀ

Lol you won't get any problems with Windows, I can assure you

Well the LiveCD works and I can mount and access all my partitions

The LiveCD will work fine - but once you install, there will be an issue with grub

so why would it be a motherboard problem? when other OS works? wouldn't that indicate that the problem is with Ubuntu?

3:53 AM

because it is having problems with something on the hard drive.

@msPeachy nope :)

> Ok, I have an ASUS mother,

okay what??1

@msPeachy strongly suggesting grub is at fault here.