@Takkat lol OK...

@Mitch maybe that would be better for his other verry similar questuon

@mateo_salta Should this be close as a DUP of that, or the other way around?

not sure, seems like the other was asked based on a misunderstanding, and runing "sol" will still give him regular solitare without the second part of your answer.

Anyways, upvote from me, probally one shold be duped/merged

I vote for closing the older one, as now he has good answers on the newer.

@mateo_salta Thanks

@Takkat I agree

Well I now have an Ubuntu machine which hangs on boot. So much for making progress! :-/

Is it a complete hang? (Like a kernel panic?) Or is the display just frozen?

The boot process is frozen. I can SSH in, so the machine's not dead, but it hangs at "starting mDNS/DNS-SD daemon"

I wonder if there is some command that will re-download and install all packages on the system.

What's funny is before it would boot, but I had tons of aptitude issues and couldn't get LDAP working. WHile messing with dpkg I must have broken something such that now it won't boot (even though all my packages are happy now)

I'm considering rolling back to how it was before I started and trying to fix it again. That's likely my best course of action at this point

The machine boots from an NFS mount, which is why I couldn't just reinstall as @RolandiXor was advising

(and why I am working inside a chroot)

Hmmm...

Oh, I am such an idiot

lmao

There's always dpkg-reconfigure...

In order to fix dpkg I symlinked /sbin/initctl to /bin/true. I forgot to remove that aftearwards! lmao

no wonder it's hanging on boot, LOL

:P

I certainly hope it boots now.

Nice! When I actually do things right, it works

So it boots?

It boots perfectly now! Apache running, everything's working except LDAP

which was the original issue I was trying to solve, but was blocked by all the apt issues

Thanks again for your help @Nathan!

This is an NFS root for a cluster of network-booted web application servers. They're all running 11.04 now, trying to get them up to 12.04

It doesn't feel like it right now, but normally this setup is great

I can test new system changes on a small test cluster, and when approved, roll it out to the production cluster

@JoshGitlin No problem!

Welcome to the "I seriously broke Ubuntu" club, @Ashley! :-)

@AshleyNunn You don't need to back anything up if you don't want to.

@JoshGitlin Try deleting libc6.so and then recovering :)

I think she's asking if she can reinstall over top of the old install and not reformat (right?)

@NathanOsman ouch!

@AshleyNunn Are you using LVM? And if so, is /home a separate lvol?

@AshleyNunn Reformatting is much faster.

Simply writing a filesystem table vs. deleting a million inodes.

@AshleyNunn Ah, OK, sorry! :-) Ummmmm... I haven't used Ubuntu 13 so I don't know what would happen if you just reinstall and do not format. I would strongly advise making a backup first!!!!

Are you able to get to your files to make a backup copy? (Or do you have a recent backup?)

Great! The Ubuntu installer is much more sophisticated these days so it might be able to reinstall and preserve old data, but that way if it can't, you can reformat and install

Guys, when you see a spanish/french question, feel free to message me about it. I will translate it correctly.

woah mod party

/me sees a wall of blue-text-color users o.o

Haha. I'm not a mod on AU. Just an Ubuntu user :-)

yes, but on SE you're a mod

whether you're an AU mod or not

you have bluetext

On SE chat, yes!

/me throws a stick at @LuisAlvarado to make sure there's at least an Ask Ubuntu mod still around

I'm a pro-tem mod on Cognitive Sciences

Heh - I'm on Stack Apps :)

@NathanOsman Yeah, I knew that one

yawn

bleh, so i learned a good lesson: DON'T stay up to 4AM studying for a final

... and apparently I learned that Comcast hates Linux :/

@TheLordofTime That somehow does not surprise me :-)

Me: Yes, I'm trying to debug why I can't use Linux to maintain a connection with a modem provided by you.

Comcast: Our hardware does not support Linux.

/facepalm

Me: What about Mac OS X?

Comcast: We don't support that either on the modem we sent you.

@NathanOsman support chat.

so two valuable lessons:

(1) comcast needs to be slapped for not accepting two-thirds of the major OSes.

(2) comcast corporate headquarters is going to receive a lot of complaints from me

Somehow I think I could have timed that one better.

@TheLordofTime I am at a loss for words

Seriously though... I'm not surprised. When setting up the modem our ISP provided, I had trouble even on Windows. (No surprise there.)

@JoshGitlin After that support chat, let's just say I spent three hours at the gun range getting rid of my annoyance.

hahaha

... and of course as a result of firing almost two-hundred rounds of .45...

I kid you not, they used an ActiveX control in IE to install a ton of bloatware before the modem would work.

@NathanOsman geez.

(Bloatware == antivirus stuff, support stuff, etc.)

@NathanOsman I guess I am odd for expecting cable modems to be typical ethernet devices and therefore OS-agnostic?

@JoshGitlin Well... no. See it wasn't the device itself - it was getting the whatever-it-is on their end that provides the Internet connection set up.

If I have to install anything to make a cable modem work, I need a better cable modem :-)

@NathanOsman ahhhhh

-1 to that!

So thankfully it didn't matter since I use Ubuntu anyway.

Tip: a clean Windows install isn't usually that bad. The thing is... anything you buy from a retail store isn't a "clean Windows install".

@NathanOsman ProTip: Windows from MSDN/MSDNAA/OEM disk is clean.

... i just realized what I said... can someone slap me please? :/

Would kicking you work?

@NathanOsman No, that'd probably make me go back to the gun range and spend another $75 on ammo

... it's been a weird day, let's just leave it at that.

Aw... I've always wanted to see what happens when I click that button...

@NathanOsman you should've lurked around when the pony flood happened.

in the sandbox.

WOO HOO, I think LDAP is working again!

Now if I can just remember what I did to make that happen :-p

xD

hi all

@AryoAdhiWibisonoLegopermono Hello there

o/

@TheLordofTime Yes?

@LuisAlvarado good you're still alive.

well fighting a disease that makes my body grow old

... when I said "still alive", I immediately thought of the Portal ending music... o.o

best game ever!

No, sorry. TrackMania Nations Forever is the best game.

@NathanOsman no Team Fortress 2 is the best game ever.

...and that's why we don't allow list questions on the site :P

wow i'm arguing with myself now

geez :P

Zork. End of Story.

@FEichinger LOL

Make up your mind:

@TheLordofTime This is why you can't win this.

@NathanOsman well we allow lists sometimes if you're just asking what software exists for a certain purpose.

@NathanOsman but asking for the best software and then getting argumenttime is not.

Like, if I asked a question asking for a list of all software that would allow me to examine active memory data, but don't ask which is the best for my purpose, that could be either-or

What choices do I have here ?

lol, nvm It worked :-s

I allllllmost have my system fixed!!!

LDAP works, authentication is broken still

so close I can taste success

VICTORY!

...might have spoken too soon...

@JoshGitlin enjoying the proverbial slap to the face by your system, there?

:P

haha! It was working great then suddenly stopped responding

But I rebooted it and now it seems A-OK. If it survives the night I will declare victory

But now, dinner!

@JoshGitlin and if it doesn't, here's a taser, you can zap your computer to /dev/null