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Benny

2:27 AM

cnet.com/news/spacex-space-x-beresheet-moon-mission-israel

Nathan Osman

2:52 AM

Given the choice between a Radeon RX 580 and an Nvidia GTX 1060, which should I spring for?

Fabby

7:09 AM

@NathanOsman gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB-vs-AMD-RX-580/…

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8:34 AM

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Q: Colors disappeared in Ubuntu bash terminal in Windows when trying to save variables, how to fix it?

I have Windows 10, and installed Ubuntu 18.04 WSL. I wanted to keep variables saved. I used file explorer, and on my home directory home/username I added a new file named .profile, and inside the file I just put this file: export x=100 Then I closed and re-opened the Bash. What just happened...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:50 AM

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Q: Network user access to folder

I mount a folder on a NAS file server on my ubuntu machine using cifs and the NAS account and it mounts the server folder and I have full access to it. Now I run a program which uses a folder on the mounted folder but at the same time it accesses the python on the local disk and then I get the er...

ubuntu permissions mount python nas

karel

1:03 PM

I need one more close vote from a reviewer to close this question: error with release file when updating from 17.10 to 18.04 for the right reason, instead of for the wrong reason, because as the OP commented it is indeed a duplicate question.

dessert

there you go

Videonauth

1:18 PM

Ubuntu: The End of an Era?

►

Uh oh, he talks about some things which are really worrying, that they plan to drop apt in favor of snap and some other things

TheWanderer

1:31 PM

snap is so not ready for production though

like filesystem access is just completely broken, even on apps that are supposed to have the permission

Videonauth

1:43 PM

well in the worst case i switch to either debian or to arch

on th eother hand i just fored up a VM to install 19.04 to have a look around my self as i not trust messages i only got from youtube and since he failed to link his sources he shows there its hard to confirm his facts or to dismiss them

Rinzwind

2:02 PM

@Videonauth sure. but not before the next lts. or even 1 beyond that. AND you can expect fedora and suse to follow

Zanna

4:34 PM

@Videonauth terribad

Videonauth

:) yeah i just checked and gnome 2-26 itself seems to be a snap as itis in 18.10

Zanna

:O

Videonauth

tomorrow ill try to remove all those snaps and make the system running from apt instaled packages alone

curious how it will work out

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 How do I configure sendmail to intercept incoming SMTP traffic in a virtual private networking?

Sorry if this is not a particularly compelling question but my very limited networking background & experience has left me quite lost in what I need to do to create this very simple (at least I imagine it's simple) test environment. I have a virtual network with a Windows active domain controlle...

ubuntu dns tcp sendmail active-directory

terdon

@Videonauth Manjaro might be worth a try. It has become insanely popular lately. 2.5 times more popular than Ubuntu according to distrowatch.

Videonauth

4:48 PM

@terdon naj before i go manjaro i go arch pure

running an arch VM already since over a year

still not feeling that confident with pacman as i do with apt tho

terdon

@Videonauth Yeah, me neither and I've been using arch for around 3 years now. I think it's basically because it works so well, you rarely need any of the many options it has.

Videonauth

yep thisis for sure true i had only once having an update fail

but on the other hand i have a lot stuff installed on ubuntu which i not installed on the arch vm

what i greatly miss on pacman is some equivalent of apt-cache search .

unless you not know the proper package names it is really hard to find stuff and then AUR, never used it yet

Charles Green

I've been toying with arch too.

Videonauth

5:05 PM

yeah, arch is nice tho still i stuck to ubuntu becasue i know my way around in it properly

Charles Green

That's what's really holding me back too. But I seem to get sucked into the arch wiki whenever I'm really looking at something obscure

user280247

Hi Guys :)

Charles Green

hello

user280247

I'd like to ask you about the login loop, would it be possible?

user280247

(I'm not sure if it is a general issue, or particular of my installation)

Videonauth

5:13 PM

login loops have happened in the past pretty often in connection with graphic drivers

so feel free to ask

terdon

@Videonauth pacman -Ss ?

Videonauth

@terdon yeah kind just that the outpur is not pretty save to grep :D

user280247

Fine. I've installed ubuntu 18.04, i think the drivers were installed during the process, but it seems not. The problem is that the system starts looping when loading ubuntu (before entering my password)...

user280247

But sometimes the systems initates well, so I'm quite puzzled

Videonauth

@santimirandarp you have a grub screen turning up after the BIOS post?

if not pres left shift quickly when bios post ended

terdon

5:18 PM

@Videonauth how so?

Videonauth

then you chose alternative options for booting ubuntu and there recovery

user280247

I think it is, I'll restart it to check

Videonauth

@terdon it outputs everything as multiline output as apt search does which is aswell not script safe

apt-cache search on the other hand outputs for each item a single line

terdon

@Videonauth I don't see the problem, could you give an example? I mean, it's pretty easy to parse.

Videonauth

gedit-plugin-bookmarks/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Bookmarks plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-bracket-completion/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Bracket Completion plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-character-map/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Character Map plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-code-comment/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Code Comment plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-color-picker/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Color Picker plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-color-schemer/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64
  Color Schemer plugin for gedit
gedit-plugin-commander/bionic 3.28.1-1 amd64

terdon

5:21 PM

@Videonauth Yes, and what would you grep for?

Videonauth

that is taken from apt search gedit | grep gedit

you get hits in every line

terdon

@Videonauth apt search?

Videonauth

thats apt search on ubuntu yeah and the same output scheme happens on pacman -Ss

terdon

$ pacman -Ss gedit | grep -P '^\S.*gedit'
extra/gedit 3.30.2-1 (gnome) [installed]
extra/gedit-plugins 3.30.1-1
community/gedit-code-assistance 3.16.0+4+gd19b879-1 (gnome-extra)
community/gigedit 1.1.0-4 (pro-audio)
community/qxgedit 0.5.2-1 (pro-audio)

Videonauth

perlregex :D

terdon

5:23 PM

:)

Videonauth

$ pacman -Ss . | grep obs
Foomatic - Foomatic's database engine generates PPD files from the data in Foomatic's XML database. It also contains scripts to directly generate print queues and handle jobs.
An obsolete configuration database system
A DAV protocol implemention with KJobs
A tool for managing print jobs and printers
A beach ball game with blobs of goo
A DAV protocol implementation with KJobs
A library to help create and query binary XML blobs
community/obs-studio 22.0.2-3
A shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

terdon

$ pacman -Ss . | grep /obs
community/obs-studio 22.0.2-3

Videonauth

sure i could have used pacman -Ss obs

maybe im simply dabianified already :D

still trying as well to make sense out of pacman.conf and the contents of pacman.d

user280247

@Videonauth there is a grub screen

user280247

which allows me to choose between Microsoft and Ubuntu

Videonauth

5:31 PM

@santimirandarp from there you can always boot into ubuntus recovery mode and find out where it failed

user280247

Interesting. Thanks. But how?

Videonauth

there aouc as well can drop into a root shell

there should be an entry as well for advances options for ubuntu

there you can chose the entry which end in (recovery)

user280247

Fine, and then what should I do to fix the issue?

Videonauth

are you in the root prompt ?

user280247

No, the system sometimes starts normally, and now I'm logged

user280247

5:34 PM

To enter in recovery mode I should restart it @Videonauth

Videonauth

no need you can use journalctl -xb to check what was going wrong

no need to restart it when you actually logged in

you can as well check the /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/syslog for error messages where the loginloop occured

user280247

journalctl -xb outputs something but no idea what it means @Videonauth

Videonauth

sudo apt install pastebinit

and then use journalctl -xb | pastebinit

user280247

It returns a website link

Videonauth

exactly it uploaded the output to a pastebin service

paste.ubuntu.com

user280247

5:40 PM

Yes...

Videonauth

you can share that link and we all can have a look at

user280247

paste.ubuntu.com/p/XwvsFWdbzv @Videonauth

user280247

Any idea?

Videonauth

what graphics card do you have inside this machine?

user280247

uhmm I do not remember, let me see.

Videonauth

5:53 PM

inxi -G

if inxi is not installed install it, does not hurt

user280247

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics @Videonauth

Videonauth

have alook into how to install the latest driver for that, i know it for nvidia as i am mainly use nvidia cards but not so sure aout amd cards

user280247

why isn't this drievr installed autoatically?

user280247

It's being exhausting :(

Videonauth

new to linux and ubuntu?

we all have been there at some point, whats essential is to not give up

user280247

6:01 PM

Thanks..I'm quite new...Maybe I should read a manual or smth like that...

Videonauth

linuxconfig.org/… read from the point 'Add the PPA'

its mostly the more failsafe option to install the driver

user280247

I'll try those steps and restart it. Thanks...@Videonauth

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:17 PM

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Q: How to add an entire folder of wallpapers in KDE plasma 5

When changing the wallpaper in KDE plasma 5 (on Ubuntu 18.04 if that matters) there's a button that says "+ Add Image...". Which is cool if you want to add a wallpaper, but I have hundreds in a folder in Dropbox to sync to all my devices. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add an enti...

ubuntu kde plasma5

Byte Commander

7:42 PM

Can edits be converted to answers somehow semi-automatically with diamond-powers? askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/925914

terdon

@ByteCommander Nope.

Byte Commander

too bad

terdon

Nothing can be converted to an answer. In fact, the only conversion possible is answer->comment

Byte Commander

hmm, guess that makes sense

terdon

@ByteCommander Why? That seems like a great edit.

Byte Commander

7:43 PM

Should it not rather be a separate answer instead? Seems like a very substantial addition to me.

terdon

@ByteCommander Why is that bad? Assuming it is correct, and it seems so, that takes an obsolete answer and makes it relevant again.

A new answer would start at 0 score, and likely languish in obscurity.

And now we have one, accepted answer that works for both old and new versions. Yay!

Byte Commander

Not bad, necessarily. I wouldn't have rejected the edit and risked the content to be lost. But I'd personally have seen a new answer covering this at least as appropriate as that edit.

terdon

I mean, a new answer wouldn't be bad or the wrong thing to do or anything, but that edit seems to me to be a great improvement.

Byte Commander

Okay

I can live with both :)

terdon

Yeah :) It's nice when all available choices are decent :)

Terrance

7:54 PM

OK, I am afraid to ask "why?" on this one askubuntu.com/q/1120462/231142 They seem to be amazed that no one else here has done that. I don't even know what to comment.

terdon

@Terrance That's a pretty cool idea, actually. Why does it seem so strange to you?

I am assuming the OP wants to mount it compressed, not uncompress and mount at boot, so it would be a nifty way of saving space. Not that /usr will be particularly compressible, but hey.

Terrance

@terdon I can see it for limited resources like what you get in like a Linksys router or something, but on a desktop you are taking away the amount of RAM that could be used in more system hungry apps.

Mounting compressed adds on more CPU cycles.

terdon

@Terrance But if disk space is your limiting factor, that won't be an issue. And how do you know that's a desktop anyway?

@Terrance Sure, but again, if your objective is to save disk space, that could be a price you're willing to pay.

Terrance

@terdon We don't, since OP didn't specify.

terdon

Exactly. But I don't really see why it would be relevant to the solution (if it's even possible, I have no idea!).

Terrance

8:01 PM

Maybe I don't like the "It's unbelievable no one of you ever compress /usr." comment.

terdon

For all we know, the OP is setting up a custom Ubuntu install for some specialized hardware where CPU and RAM are not an issue but space is. Who knows?

@Terrance Ah. I hadn't even read that far. Let me just remove that.

Terrance

@terdon Those are all good points. Good thing I don't have to answer if I don't wanna! :)

terdon

Indeed you don't! Although if you can, I'd love to hear about it. I'm intrigued by the idea.

Terrance

Sounds fair enough to me. =)

I actually do have this type of setup on my router.

I will do some puttin stuff together here and see if I can come up with something good.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: 4 servers each w/ 4 NICs into 4 switches into 1st router to a 2nd router: can not ping 2nd router

BACKGROUND: Servers numbered 100, 101, 102, and 103. NICs numbered 20, 30, 40, and 50. For example, second server third NIC has address 192.168.40.101/24. First router addresses are 254 for each port supporting each of the four networks, plus another for upstream to second router. Servers running...

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Benny

10:50 PM

Hey everyone, can you help me to remove the comment of @Eng.Fouad from my answer, because is not work, and if you will try to use apt instead of apt-get it will not work =/. here is my answer thanks: askubuntu.com/a/846968/538619

Fabby

:49171755 Flagged that comment for moderator attention as It's no longer needed. This comment is outdated, conversational or not relevant to this post.

Yeah, no pinging to say hi, huh?

:D

@Benny Did you flag it already as well for the same reason???

And what are you doing up at this ungodly hour???

user280247

11:27 PM

Hi Guys!

user280247

Do you know if there is a way to switch from english to spanish keyboard in ubuntu 18? I've tried but I couldnt

user280247

(in settings, region & language)

Fabby

11:39 PM

@santimirandarp [super][Space]

user280247

@Fabby ?

Fabby

@santimirandarp [Windows key][space bar]

user280247

I know but it doesnt work @Fabby

Fabby

Ah.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Why can't I create a physical volume?

I was wondering why I can't create a physical volume? Every settings are default for lvm just installed. Is it because of "Failed to start lvm2.service: Unit lvm2.service is masked"? Thanks. $ sudo lvmdiskscan /dev/sda1 [ 512.00 MiB] /dev/sda2 [ <465.26 GiB] 0 disks 2 partitio...

ubuntu lvm

user280247

11:47 PM

the keyboard responds the same (and im switching between spanish and english, which are really different)

Fabby

@santimirandarp Looks weird. Post a question on the site...

user280247

Fine, I'll do it

user280247

@Fabby it seems I cant ask more questions, but thanks anyways

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