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And as I say, every release we get a hundred thousand people asking when it's being released... We should keep something accurate to dupe them against.

Rinzwind

fine fine fine. I conceed >:DDDD

Dan Hulme

@Rinzwind ah. It's no use telling me to see them, then.

Rinzwind

6.5 more upvotes needed >:D

Zignd

Jorge Castro

@Rinzwind are the proforma comments working for you?

Zignd

1:52 PM

What happend with the site layout? The buttons are using a different space compared to the background image.

Rinzwind

@JorgeCastro I tend to re-type all my comments :D

fossfreedom

grrrrr - launchpad is driving me nuts!

Rinzwind

poor mouse :D

fossfreedom

it gets worse everyday - forever getting "timeout - please try later" errors.

and normal service resumes.

Well I suppose the error message is accurate ... "please try later" !!

Rinzwind

that is an advice not an error >:)

Amith KK

1:59 PM

@Zignd ditto to that

Zignd

@AmithKK What "ditto" means?

Amith KK

302

Q: Why does this PNG image display differently in Chrome & Firefox than in Safari and IE?

Check this image out: On Chrome and Firefox it will show as a pear. Now, try to save it and look at it saved on your desktop. Also, try viewing in safari or IE. It will display as an apple! Try clicking the image and moving it around, you will notice the apple appears. I guess my question w...

omg

@Zignd ditto meanssame here

Zignd

@AmithKK humm, sorry I'm not too good with this internet language

Rinzwind

that is not internet language but english @Zignd ;-)

dit·to (dt)
n. pl. dit·tos
1. The same as stated above or before.
2. A duplicate; a copy.
3. A pair of small marks ( " ) used to indicated that the word, phrase, or figure given above is to be repeated.

Amith KK

cmon.. no stars?

3

►

This sounds awesome

Zignd

2:06 PM

@Rinzwind Just saw it on Google Translate

Rinzwind

:D :D

It is not used a lot in English I think. More so in Dutch :-)

Amith KK

4

Q: Make file to detect if its Ubuntu Linux OS

I want to create a makefile that will compile my objects and name them according to the Linux OS (Suse\RedHat\Ubuntu). How can I detect if the OS is Ubuntu or not? can anyone please help me to write this code? Thanks!

makefile

Ask Ubuntu Meta

1

Q: Unaligned Borders

Just noticed the unaligned borders in the navigation bar of the website. In Firefox: Also in Chrome: I don't know if this question fits in meta askubuntu, but is it a bug or just a style?

discussion bug askubuntu

Amith KK

title is funny

Rinzwind

ha! my answer <3

cool amithkk that got me 2 more upvotes >:DDD

4.5 to go >:)

Mahesh

2:12 PM

@Rinzwind to go where? :P

Amith KK

gives @Rinzwind good answer badge

Rinzwind

@Mahesh to reach 200 rep ;-)

Mahesh

@Rinzwind oh the daily limit?

Takkat

@Rinzwind still up for earning Legendary?

Rinzwind

sorry...
11 more for epic >:)

Amith KK

2:15 PM

I never broke the rep barrier

Rinzwind

@Takkat 1st epic than legendary :=D but I have 3 ppl in front of me with Oli fossy and izx :X

fossfreedom

@AmithKK ... then stop hanging around chat ... and get answering :P

Takkat

@Rinzwind you would have nice Epic companions.

Rinzwind

@AmithKK my best was 750 rep _O-

Amith KK

I need to go now

BBL

Rinzwind

2:16 PM

I know a way to scare amithkk off >:)

Takkat

By saying bye we cant earn Mortaboard. Bye @AmithKK

FEichinger

Error found: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/6476/unaligned-borders/6478#6478

Amith KK

I am however watching this chat

Takkat

This was a fake bye then ;)

Rinzwind

lol

a lurkers-bye >:)

Mahesh

2:19 PM

did I say hi?

Takkat

Lurkers watch the chat incognito

Amith KK

Its from a mobile device though

Rinzwind

ROFL

0

Q: Prerequisites for programming. WARNING LONG BACKSTORY!

Let me start off by saying that I learn things in a very unusual way. I started designing a theme for my linux mint desktop and I spent hours trying to figure out from tutorials on how to implement my themes, change colors and shapes of buttons, scroll bars and window controls... nothing helped o...

python xfce programming custom-distributions

just read the last sentence ;)

Takkat

Why read the rest then. They should have hidden it somwhere in the middle of the second paragraph.

Rinzwind

the downvotes are comming in on that one :X

DUPE

he asked this 2 times already

0

Q: Installation of wifi drivers in ubuntu

I have ASUS X55c can anyone give solution to this problem... how to install ralink wifi driver for asus x55

wireless drivers asus

Takkat

2:27 PM

<-- has his spot Mint glasses on: spots Mint even if the wall of text is 3 pages

Jorge Castro

it's offtopic anyway

Amith KK

@Rinzwind Answered it with a comment

Jorge Castro

0

Q: ASUS X55C wifi driver installation

I have ASUS X55c tried with 10.04 and 12.04, no wifi drivers . my network controller is Ralink corp. Suggest how to install wifi drivers in ASUS X55C. Suggest deb packages . . . lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net shows... 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3290] Subsyste...

wireless drivers asus

@rinzwind the link seems to be for the ethernet, not his wireless card

Rinzwind

@AmithKK askubuntu.com/questions/279237/…

Amith KK

@Rinzwind Voted before

Rinzwind

2:30 PM

@JorgeCastro he's been answering questions with that as a question too

Jorge Castro

what do you mean?

Amith KK

@JorgeCastro He posts that question as an answer to other questions

Rinzwind

oh he got about 4 or 5 answers removed where he asked how to fix his wireless

Jorge Castro

what does that have to do with the original question?

I think we're duping this wrong

Rinzwind

wait I know that pne

Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485

Oli

2:33 PM

I've reset the close votes.

Rinzwind

thank oli :)

Jorge Castro

I found another question

with a guy with an X55C

but his has a Ralink

Rinzwind

he probably has an atheros. Those have the most problems in Linux

Oli

Yeah op has just commented that the wireless is ralink

Ralink 3290?

Call me V

Evil list question for paid services or legitimate concern? askubuntu.com/questions/279240/…

Jorge Castro

2:36 PM

yeah

2

Q: Wireless Ralink RT3290 not working on Asus

I just installed ubuntu 12.10 on asus x401u, and after installation there is no list of wireless connection. i didn't have that problem with installation on HP. What i can do to enable wi-fi?

12.10 wireless asus

answer has stupid dropbox DL link though

2

A: Wireless driver - how to load manufacturer's STA file (Ralink 3290)

First, right-click the file and select Rename. Rename it to 2012_0508_RT3290_Linux_STA_v2.6.0.0.tar.bz2; that is, without the leading slash and adding .tar. Now right-click it and select Extract Here. Open the file os/linux/config.mk with any text editor and change the line: HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPL...

Rinzwind

here is is: ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201203-10697/components

ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

darn beaten by Jorge :(

are you posting the link?

Jorge Castro

no

Oli

I like the first one

Jorge Castro

there has to be some kind of correct way to install a 3290

Without wgetting some shady tarball from dropbox

Rinzwind

lol

safety 1st? >:)

Jorge Castro

2:38 PM

Maybe I should bounty it?

Oli

You can sub that for the actual driver from Ralink

rricketts.com/…

Rinzwind

good find oli :)

Oli

But Ralink have merged so their website is in a state.

Jorge Castro

ok so is it an easy fix or should I bounty it?

2

Q: How to enable wireless in a Fujitsu LH532?

I have a Fujitsu LH532 and when I installed ubuntu, the network menu didn't have "connect to hidden network" option nor "create a new network". I am not sure how to check my wireless card since when I enter lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4 in the terminal nothing happens except it opens a new line. Resul...

networking

here's another one

Rinzwind

seems easy if oli's link works :-)

Oli

2:42 PM

It's hard to link to directly because they make you put in a name and email. Seems a bit anti-GPL but anyway, the main download page for Linux is here: mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01_windows.php?sn=501

and they'd need to find the right driver and download it

Jorge Castro

I'd rather have the answer be "go here, put in your email, and then download" than a random wget

I wonder why it's not in the kernel

Need support of Ralink RT3290 wifi support

RT3290 wifi chip is becoming common on consumer notebooks. Its support starts from 3.6 so support on 12.10 may need lbm-cw. commit a89534edaaa7008992b878680490e9b02a665563 Author: Woody Hung <email address hidden> Date: Wed Jun 13 15:01:16 2012 +0800 rt2x00 : RT3290 chip support v4 This patch support the new chipset rt3290 wifi implementation in rt2x00. It initailize the related mac, bbp and rf register in startup phase. And this patch modify the efuse read/write method for the different efuse data offset of rt3290. Signed-off-by: Woody Hung <email address hidden> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <email address hidden>

linux (Ubuntu)

Medium / Triaged

AHA!

Oli

Glad to see it "just working" in Raring, edit Sorry that's 3.9-rc4-raring - no idea if the driver will be backported to the actual raring kernel.

Jorge Castro

hahah man

3

Q: How do I get a Ralink RT3060 wireless card working?

I am new to linux. I was using fedora and now switching to Ubuntu for a try. On Fedora my wireless network card was working OK from the OS install (I didnt had to do anything for it to work) On Ubuntu, with the lspci -v command, I get: Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3060 Wireless 802.11n 1T/...

wireless ralink

so close

Rinzwind

:D :D

Jorge Castro

@Oli can you clean up the comments here? I have some bug info that might help:

2

Q: How do I get a Ralink RT3290 wireless card working?

I just installed ubuntu 12.10 on asus x401u, and after installation there is no list of wireless connection. i didn't have that problem with installation on HP. What i can do to enable wi-fi?

wireless ralink

Oli

2:54 PM

@JorgeCastro Yeah I've done a few edits on that now

Jorge Castro

/me nods

Rinzwind

bbl going home :=D

Nathan Osman

4:55 PM

Hello everyone.

FEichinger

Hello person with a name.

Rinzwind

woei while going home I crossed 200 rep <3 10 more days to go

hey @NathanOsman :-)

Rinzwind

5:14 PM

everybody left? :*(

wow when they die they die in bunches. 1st Thacher. Les Blank and now Sara Montiel too.

Takkat

5:45 PM

<-- still alive

Dan Hulme

@Takkat good show

Rinzwind

takky! did you get my pm friday? >:)

Takkat

Woah PM here? Nope.

Rinzwind

oh we got cake friday for passing the audit.

comments by the auditor .............

they found 19 flaws IN THE AUDIT rules all found by us _O-

Takkat

Oh - yeah now that you say it - I remember. Cake for audit \o/

Rinzwind

5:48 PM

so they going to improve the audit _o-

Takkat

Audit rules are by definition never flawless.

Rules need to change from audit to audit.

To keep us poor people busy.

Rinzwind

plus a bunch of improvements they might add too D:

so we passed 130%. Unlucky for us they lowered that to 100% :X

Takkat

Occupational safety people came to check our workplace today.

5 mins ago, by Takkat

<-- still alive

despite our safety issues.

Rinzwind

someone need easy rep? -> askubuntu.com/questions/279294/how-to-recover-root-user

Takkat

They even found our Bunsen burner hidden in the room where the explosive hazard dwell. So why should I need more rep then. Life is too limited it seems.

Answering dupes is not good for rep in the long run anyway.

Rinzwind

5:53 PM

lol. same here... fire man made a problem of a door that was open and not permanently closed

Takkat

They complained about a door which was locked (with key) because it was meant to be a fire escape here.

Rinzwind

lol

Takkat

No fire no fun. Escape is a spoiler.

<-- is in a bad mood because he had his first working day after 2 weeks off

green7

Have a look at this question: askubuntu.com/q/279294/83046

Is it even possible?

2

Q: How to recover root user

I have accidentally changed the root user from administrator type to basic type in the user account page, and now i have no whatever root previligaes on the system, how i can switch back to administrator type?

root

Rinzwind

@green7 ofcourse... boot live cd and alter the user file to include admin or root group (whatever the group is in that version)

(the live cd will have you mount as root user so you can alter almost all files)

ah sudo group it is

here is a method: tuxradar.com/answers/343

and someone posted a good answer ;)

@green7 your answer can not be correct ( he has no sudo password) ;-)

General solution when troubles with admin: either live cd or grub resque

@takkat have fun today ;-) bb2morriw

Takkat

6:18 PM

will have cu tomorrows @Rinzwind

Call me V

awesome, my (paid for) travel trailer is on a yearly leased (paid for) lot with close broadband. let the games begin ;) and my ex-boss says again that he's going to pay me. we'll see on the latter.

Suhaib

6:43 PM

Is there a way to apply the new settings in Amdcc without restarting my laptop ? i.imgur.com/imjKaqC.png

Seth

No.

Suhaib

argghhh....

Seth

I know ;)

I just changed my driver. That requires a reboot too.

Suhaib

hmm

Seth

I might have to leave Unity.

But now my brightness doesn't work... errgh.

Suhaib

6:47 PM

lol

and switch to ?

Seth

That's the problem...

I don't like any of them XD

Except KDE, but that doesn't like my graphics either.

Suhaib

ya same thing here

Seth

I guess I could rig up Xfce to look nice...

Or I could try all the other drivers on the list..

Suhaib

Have you tried 13.1 ?

the latest one ?

Seth

No I haven't.

Might do that.

Suhaib

6:50 PM

I want to try it but I dont want to end up with a black screen

Seth

Yeah, I know.

What graphics do you have?

Suhaib

I think version 9

Installed it from jockey

Seth

I mean graphics card.

Call me V

I don't want to alpha stuff unpaid. I'ld use alpha as a daily driver if it served my purposes, but it doesn't

Seth

Hmm.

Suhaib

6:51 PM

oh, 6600M amd radeon

Call me V

mobile radeons blow homie. so sorry.

Suhaib

:-)

Seth

I have a Quadro 1000M

Call me V

i'm not a fan of nvidia, but they do have opencl vm, bsd coverage, and mobile more worked out than amd. i'm an amd fanboi, but i honestly understand

Suhaib

WAht about alienware x51. They are using Nvidia right ?

Seth

6:53 PM

I like AMD CPU's.. I don't why. I'm not a fan of AMD graphics though.

@Suhaib Probably.

Jorge Castro

I <3 nvidia

2

Seth

@Suhaib NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 645 to be exact.

Suhaib

/me checking out system76 specs

Call me V

I would love amd cpus if they for sure supported pin. amd gpus have better opencl performance on cheaper gpus. Simple as that.

FEichinger

Intel CPU, AMD graphics.

Seth

6:54 PM

@JorgeCastro Is that 'cause it works best on Ubuntu?

Jorge Castro

yeah, works awesome for me

Seth

@FEichinger Intel doesn't like that :P

Call me V

not knocking the nvidia decision. there's a lot of reasons for it. but i vote with my wallet and i vote with linus

Jorge Castro

for desktops anyway

you're doomed on laptops

Seth

:O

Call me V

6:55 PM

@JorgeCastro i actually have nvidia in my laptop and it works

Seth

I think I've figured that out by now ;)

FEichinger

@Seth I don't give a shit. Nvidia has historically caused way more problems for me than AMD/ATI cards.

Jorge Castro

an optimus?

Call me V

i just don't count laptop video cards as "real"

@JorgeCastro no dedicated. i'm not clinically retarded

;)

Jorge Castro

@FEichinger I've had the opposite experience

Seth

6:56 PM

Well I need to go back to the proprietary driver. My screen is way too bright. brb

Suhaib

lol

Jorge Castro

wait

you're using noveau?

Suhaib

Is it true that they open sourced Tegra driver ?

Call me V

i go back and forth. noveau runs, but runs hotter. binary runs slightly cooler but has opencl support.

and i'm off to walk the dogs...back in a bit, don't feel bad about pinging me. i'll respond

Suhaib

linuxandlife.com/2013/04/…

I am going to restart the laptop so I can have Dual monitors settings applied :-| brb

Seth

7:02 PM

Back.

On experimental now. Seems to work great.

Mahesh

7:21 PM

0

A: How to recover root user

Go to the User Accounts. Then, click on 'Advanced Settings'. Then, tick any boxes you want. The one you want though, is Administer the System. Hope this helps!!

When was the user settings changed to look like that?

* like in the answer I linked.

FEichinger

I'm more interested in why Eliah's name shows up in there.

Seth

@FEichinger Someone stole the pictures from somewhere else.

@Mahesh Those are probably pretty old. Not new.

FEichinger

@Seth I assume so, yes.

Let's try to ping @EliahKagan then.

Mahesh

okay. But that looks better than what we have now.

I mean, a finer control..

Eliah Kagan

8:02 PM

@FEichinger Hi. I remembered posting that image in some answer (not the one you saw it in). I did definitely post that somewhere.

It turns out this is where I posted it:

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A: How to manage users and groups?

This answer was merged from a question about how to make a user an administrator; while it does answer this more general question, making administrators is its focus. Being An Administrator Consists of (Specific) Group Membership Before actually managing users and groups, if you want to make on...

FEichinger

@EliahKagan Just thought you'd like to know.

Eliah Kagan

Since I didn't remember where I had posted it, I dragged the image into the search box on images.google.com. It's handy.

badp

Hey guys. I wanted to upgrade to 13.04 from 12.04. I skipped 12.10 because of its reputation, but if I don't want to reinstall everything I had no choice and now I'm running 12.10; more precisely I'm stuck there

Eliah Kagan

@FEichinger Thx. That version of the image might be considered confusing (and I remember I later used a different version), because it has two users whose names are very similar. People might think that's common.

FEichinger

@badp Aside from the fact that I don't think 13.04's reputation is that much better, but ... go on, what exactly do you mean by "stuck there"?

badp

8:05 PM

The router is configured to use 8.8.8.8 as DNS. dig @8.8.8.8 google.com works. ping google.com gives me unknown host

Eliah Kagan

@badp Upgrading directly from any release other than 12.10 to 13.04 is unsupported, will never be supported, and will always likely cause terrible problems. However, it might be possible to solve your problem. What is the specific problem you are facing right now? Where are you stuck? And how are you stuck?

badp

No no no, I've upgraded to 12.10 using the official route

Eliah Kagan

@badp What does that have to do with being stuck somewhere?

@badp Ah, and you're stuck on 12.10, where you don't want to be, because you prefer both 12.04 and 13.04. I see.

badp

Well duh, DNS isn't working anywhere in the system and thus I can't download any package

Eliah Kagan

Did this DNS problem happen as soon as you booted into your new 12.10 system?

Also, how exactly did you upgrade to 12.10?

badp

8:07 PM

Yes

sudo update-manager

I'm writing from my nexus 7 which is connected to the same router

Call me V

@badp are you running android or ubuphone?

badp

Switching from Ethernet to WiFi doesn't help.

Stock Android 4.2.2

Call me V

:/ I'm thinking about a Nexus7 or Nexus10 in the nearish future. Any thoughts?

badp

I love it. Dumb phone with lasting battery + large tablet with mobile data = bliss

Call me V

I'm looking at no mobile data. Strictly a testing platform with normal Wifi

badp

8:12 PM

Then you'll save 50€

Good on you.

I for one needed mobile data

Call me V

@badp nice to hear a positive review instead of a nitpicker though. let's face it, we could nitpick any product. just looking for an "I have one. I'm not a fanboi. It doesn't suck. KTHX"

fossfreedom

@leejarratt You have appeared to have deleted a number of your own posts today - all appear to be good and valid answers and as such I have undeleted them. Please pop-in to the chat room to discuss if required with a moderator - we can arrange a private room if required.

badp

Nexus 7 received actually positive reviews afaik

Call me V

Yeah. The guys on the Nexus G+ groups are nitpicking it a bit...and Ubu touch a lot.

badp

At least on The Verge or Ars Technics

Call me V

8:15 PM

Moving.A.Long....

badp

I'm running stock because I've been unlucky and had to send the device for warranty already

Last thing I want to hear is you rooted your device, now you're sick with this terrible speaker

Call me V

Oh. I heard you could relock it to restore your warranty. Not so?

badp

No idea

They might still claim that the damage was irreversibly caused by the custom rom

Call me V

Fair. The only reason I would get a Nexus is to have an unlocked from factory device.

It's like the opposite of a Mac

badp

Hm

/etc/resolve.conf, what should it look like?

Call me V

8:19 PM

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

3

badp

I have an automatically generated warning followed by nameserver 127.0.0.1

Which is pretty suspicious

Call me V

that's normal if you have a static dns

badp

But the DNS is set statically on the router

Call me V

mine is dynamic so it points to the router. static bounces through the new dns daemon thing that was forced upon the community as a whole whether we like it or not

dnsmasq is the package/service

badp

dig @127.0.0.1 google.com gives me a timeout

Call me V

8:21 PM

then either a) your dns is pooched b) you had a bad query that dnsmasq is too stupid to flush

badp

The package is installed

dnsmasq is running too. I might want to restart it then

Call me V

yep. that's in one of my answers here. i'm just not a fan.

badp

Uhhhhhhhh. One of its switches is --listen-address 127.0.1.1

I... 127.0.1.1 is an IP that pings

Call me V

the whole 127 network is local so it's not horrible.

badp

Uh, TIL

Call me V

8:25 PM

rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt

badp

I guess if I kill the process it'll be respawned automatically?

Call me V

lots of people think it's rfc 1918 that talkes about 127/8. and they're wrong. including cisco training material. and yes dnsmasq respawns

badp

No it does not

Oh I'll just reboot.

I'm sure that will fix all the things

Right? Right? Right?

Call me V

i'm afk. hope it flushes. abagaday -- Gallagher

badp

Hah. Now Grub just says Ubuntu

After all Windows is just Windows.

Call me V

8:29 PM

grub should say "works or lame" and you have to choose

badp

Well, f*** everything, sudoedit /etc/resolv.conf works for now.

Now to quickly update-manager before the daemons notice

Call me V

►

badp

Sigh. Has the -d switch changed now?

Call me V

I use apt-get.

badp

update-manager is the distribution upgrade tool, right?

I guess the flag is -cd now

Oh, nope, I just have to update everything first.

Call me V

8:35 PM

Sure. That's like saying I should use unity instead of openbox even though it makes my laptop catch fire...just saying

badp

upgrade, not update. To update, I use aptitude.

I understand going from x.04 to x.10 is more than just switching repos.

Call me V

apt-get update. apt-get upgrade. apt-get dist-upgrade. apt-get do-release-upgrade. in order of severity ascending

badp

"No longer needed: idle-python-3.2" okay, if you say so.

Jorge Castro

WHATUP BADP

Call me V

they probs just moved it into python-3.2 core or idle is on 3.x not 3.2

badp

8:38 PM

HI JORGE

I BE EDITIN AUTOGENERATED FILES

Call me V

i shuts up now...

badp

@CallmeV actually that probably makes sense.

Root Access said that if I want to load a TF2 map in less than 20 minutes with my "mere" 4 GB of RAM, I should stop worrying about shitty Windows memory management and just upgrade my goddamn nVidia drivers on Ubuntu already, or hell, even use Nouveau, so that's what's up.

I'm not too hopeful, truth to be told.

What are you up to instead?

Jorge Castro

41

Q: How do I add a DNS server via resolv.conf?

Is /etc/resolv.conf useless in 12.04? I see that DNS server info is stored in Network Manager now. The nmcli command line tool can list that for you. If I want to add one more dns server, will adding it to /etc/resolv.conf by using the resolvconf package help?

configuration network-manager dns resolv.conf

FYI

badp

@JorgeCastro Network Manager does say that the DNS server is 8.8.8.8

as set correctly through DHCP by my router

Jorge Castro

oh

badp

8:47 PM

("ThisIsNotYourRouter+" is the wifi repeater of the same router. Different IP address, the rest is the same.)

Jorge Castro

huh

Seth

crash again.

There. Cleared.

I thought Shog blacklisted it..

Call me V

9:15 PM

@badp there's another question that actually steps through using dnsmasq, but it reads like a paste of the man page (because it is)

anyway, i'm up to app-making and looking for meaningful telecommute work

and replacing my oh so american side-arm ;0

guntbert

if the following is true it makes me wonder if we are approaching the well known Windows situation: reinstall as cure for all

I've reinstalled unity. ATM everything is smooth (5 minutes passed)... But we'll see. If that works, should I post it as an answer or will one of you do that? — cr0kes Mar 31 at 17:17

Jorge Castro

9:48 PM

@Seth I like crash and freeze, if I ever have extra close votes. They're like a nice honeypot.

FEichinger

I love how we still have 500 Qs tagged freeze, while it clearly says questions that warrant that tag likely get closed anyway.

Seth

@JorgeCastro Yeah, usually.

Nathan Osman

o/

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:31 PM

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Q: How can I force a Ubuntu kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the initramfs rescue shell?

I am trying to customize the initramfs rescue environment and would like to force the kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the (initramfs) rescue shell, as opposed to single user mode. How can I do that? NB: I know how to hook into initramfs-tools to achieve the customization steps, but I ne...

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