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Braiam

00:04

also, if you don't know what's is really going on, is almost impossible to find the dupe

why dupes were voted as opinion based?

Mateo

:)

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Q: How can we help make developer.ubuntu.com better?

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karel

00:34

@Braiam @Mateo Please review your close vote on this question: askubuntu.com/questions/354970/…. I translated it, so it is no longer unclear IMO.

InkBlend

01:28

Hello everyone! Um, I have a small problem with X, would someone mind attempting to help me out?

InkBlend

01:44

Hello?

Nathan Osman

What's up?

InkBlend

I have a small problem with X.

Nathan Osman

What is it?

InkBlend

I am running Lubuntu 13.04. I can log in to the LXDE interface using any user but my normal one.

If I use my normal login, it accepts my password but boots me back to the login screen.

Any suggestions?

I wasn't doing anything unusual before the last time I rebooted.

And I can login through a virtual terminal perfectly fine.

Nathan Osman

You might try running this in a terminal when logged in as the problem user:

ls -a | grep -i x

Run that in the home directory to list all files that contain 'x' in it.

Sometimes a stray X config file in your home directory can cause problems.

InkBlend

01:54

All that I got was .Xauthority and .xscreensaver

Nathan Osman

Hmm... those shouldn't cause problems.

InkBlend

Come to think of it, I did remove .xsession-errors earlier, but that shouldn't have been a problem, right?

Nathan Osman

Right.

My next suggestion is to switch to a virtual terminal (usually you can do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1) and log in as the problem user. Then type "startx" to attempt to start X.

If it dumps you back to the terminal or displays the login screen, then you can switch back to the terminal to check for error messages.

InkBlend

OK, thanks, I'll try that next.

I ran sudo startx, and didn't get anything terribly unusual.

startx by itself gave me a permission error.

Nathan Osman

When you ran sudo startx, did everything work?

InkBlend

02:00

Well, it put me into a root-owned lxde environment that didn't have the Lubuntu re-skin.

Nathan Osman

Hmm... this is strange.

InkBlend

I could give you a data dump from starting sudo startx through tmux, but it would be pretty large.

Nathan Osman

That's okay.

InkBlend

Do you think that I should just create a new user and migrate everything over?

Nathan Osman

One last idea.

What happens when you run:

ls ~/.config/autostart

(That will list programs that run on startup.)

InkBlend

02:02

Just Dropbox, nothing else.

Nathan Osman

Have you asked on Ask Ubuntu yet?

InkBlend

Again, the really weird thing is that I am running on the computer right now, on the GUI, under another user, and that works fine, but my normal user doesn't.

Nathan Osman

Someone more knowledgeable than me might be able to answer.

InkBlend

No, I haven't.

It's not really worth it;

It's probably just a bug.

Nathan Osman

But it might help future users with the same problem.

@InkBlend I suppose that's a possibility.

InkBlend

02:04

I suppose that I could post it, but I need this computer for work, and so I have to find a solution soon.

So, the fastest way to do that would be to create a new user.

Then the problem would be gone, but then I couldn't provide any info about it.

Oh, well.

Thanks for trying to help!

Nathan Osman

@InkBlend No problem.

InkBlend

See you!

Braiam

do we really need window-placement tag? shouldn't it be absorbed by window management?

same user profile... it could be absorbed by user?

ra_htial

guys how to set /etc/sudoers permission back to 440 in EC2 ?

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Q: EC2: how to set /etc/sudoers permission back

I was trying to edit the /etc/sudoers on my EC2 instance and decided that i have to change its permission before editing, i changed the permission to 744 and now i can't set it back to 440, i read some articles but all talked about recovery-mode and i'm not sure if i can do this in amazon EC2. w...

ubuntu sudo

penreturn

02:46

hi all, what is the different between gksu n gksudo?

Braiam

@penreturn if that would have been a question in the site, I would absolutely downvoted it...

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Q: What is the difference between gksudo and gksu?

Is there any difference between the behavior of gksu foo and gksudo foo? Can they be used interchangeably?

gksu

penreturn

ait thanks

Matt_2.0

03:05

is askubuntu a good place for custom user permissions or should I post the question on server vault?

Seth

You should be fine here I think.

Matt_2.0

ive searched a ton of documentation on how to deploy custom user privileges and I cannot find a solution.

Matt_2.0

03:25

question asked

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03:41

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Q: How can I see my rejected tags?

Very simple. I added a description to several tags on askubuntu, and now when I try to edit more, it says: Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days. It shows the accepted tags on my profile, but not the rejected ones. How can I see my rejected tags?

support tags editing tag-wiki profile-page

Braiam

@NathanOsman @Seth I'm gonna kill you! :P askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/166751 that's a tag wiki and is exactly the same as the excerpt

Nathan Osman

But I didn't approve the excerpt.

I only approved the wiki!

Braiam

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/166752

@NathanOsman you were colateral damage :P

I only added Seth at the begging...

btw spam askubuntu.com/a/355164/169736

more askubuntu.com/a/355165/169736

D:

penreturn

04:03

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Q: how do i root my n7102 via ubuntu 13.04

I am new to ubuntu and dont know my way around the OS.I dont know the technical terms you guys use,but I would really like to root my n-7102 Chinese version.can someone,please ,help me in the most lamen term for ubuntu as possible.

installation

Nathan Osman

5 more close vote reviews and I get a badge!

penreturn

@NathanOsman why cannot use gksu on wireshark?

Nathan Osman

@penreturn You can but it's a security risk.

Any undiscovered vulnerability in WireShark could expose all traffic on your network to attackers.

penreturn

ohh i see... orite thanks

Rishee

04:28

Hi guys need help with to upload a log file which is in .pcap extention

in the question.... is there a way to do it?

hello any one here?

?

Nathan Osman

Is it a large file?

Rishee

no but it is with the extention .pcap

it is firewall logfile

Nathan Osman

You should be able to open it in a text editor.

Then you can upload it to a public pastebin.

Rishee

not it need a sapareate pcap file editor

**separate

Nathan Osman

Ah, it's a binary file. I see.

Rishee

04:34

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Q: How to use specific IP with vsftpd?

Here is the scenario: 1) We have one AWS Ubuntu server Server 2) This server is working as ftp client 3) Now when we try to connect to XYZ companies ftp server using this AWS server as client, it is sending it's local LAN IP while connecting to the ftp server, because of which listing of ...

configuration services ftp vsftpd pure-ftpd

this is the question

and want to add that file here...

Nathan Osman

You'll need to find a website that can host your file. DropBox might help in this case.

Rishee

k thanks and if you know any way to solve my question please feel free to let me know... thanks again

Nathan Osman

05:28

Gotta love Launchpad's ~~wonderful~~ Git integration:

Import fails when submodules were used in a previous commit

I am attempting to import the following Git branch into Launchpad: https://github.com/nitroshare/libnitroshareutil.git However, I received the following error from bzr-git: Unable to import branch because of limitations in Bazaar. The repository you are fetching from contains submodules, which are not yet supported. I completely understand this limitation - however, my project isn't using Git submodules. I did have a .gitmodules file in the repository at one point in the past (commit 2544ba) but it was removed. I see no reason why bzr-git shouldn't continue with the import since HEAD does not contain this file.

Bazaar Git Plugin

Undecided / New

Amith KK

08:32

wat(@Oli)

looks like spam :P

Oli

@AmithKK It is. That was a little while ago, wasn't it?

Amith KK

Yep

Oli

Yeah not sure what happened but password changed, all third party logins revoked. Hopefully that's the end of it.

At least Firefox blocks the domain

shookees

10:18

Hey everyone

I've got a question about disabling workspaces on external monitor

This answer was given for 10.10 (askubuntu.com/questions/43019/…)

and it's been a while, tho I did not notice anything else in this topic for unity

fossfreedom

similar question here was ask but no answer just yet: askubuntu.com/questions/339250/…

might need a bounty to give it more visibility

Ask Ubuntu Meta

13:00

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Q: Should we allow links to fundraising and the like in questions?

Today, 355273: How to Install 0 A.D on every version of Ubuntu and contribute to its indiegogo page caught my eye. The question contained (in both question and answer) various links to the indiegogo fundraising campaign for 0 A.D. and an installguide wrapped around it. For one, this was crosspos...

discussion flagging questions

Braiam

13:58

any mod around?

fossfreedom

ducks

jokerdino

@Braiam nope

Oli

Delivery tracking needs to be uninvented.

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Braiam

I found another user that might not review as is intended... also MOD'S ASSEMBLE?

Oli

We were already here, just in the mod room having a secret sexy party

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Braiam

14:02

.... not going to comment about that

Oli

jokerdino

@Oli Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.

Braiam

lol, so, should I leave the links here?

well, here it goes...

jokerdino

Hold on.

→ 2 messages moved to Leave your shoes outside

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Alaa

15:38

Hey guys, I have a question that I want to post, although people might consider it "too broad" and close it, so I thought I'd just make sure here. It's a good question though...I think =).

The question is: what files should be cleaned out from my Home folder if I'm going to do a fresh reinstall of Ubuntu, when I have /home on a separate partition.

I'm planning on reinstalling Ubuntu when 13.10 comes out, but it go me thinking.

There are many hidden files under my home folder that contain cached information, like .config and all those other files. If I reinstall Ubuntu, those files will still be there, correct?

Which means that I won't get an actual clean install. I have some bugs and weird stuff happening on my Ubuntu, so maybe something in /home is causing this, but it won't be deleted =/.

I want a complete, fresh install of Ubuntu, but the actual data I have in my Home folder stays there, like documents, music, or (most importantly in my case) the vmware folder containing VMs and all.

So can I ask this? Or is it too broad? Too broad because one can't simply ask "what files can I delete from under my /home folder", because answers could be too long, or maybe there is no specific answer.

Braiam

@Alaa that's XY, you may say what are exactly the bugs you are experiencing

jokerdino

15:54

@Alaa IMO, it is a clean install. You just have a old /home.

Alaa

@Braiam not it's not. Just forget I said anything about those bugs. My main aim is just to have a clean install, but there are still some cached files under /home. This will probably conflict with stuff later on. Like I know there's a cache for Chromium. If I install Chromium on my new Ubuntu, it will probably use that cache, or give an error. I want to avoid that.

@jokerdino yeah, but just like that Chromium example, it might use the "cache". Yeah it's a clean install of Ubuntu per se, but it's not a "start over with everything clean" kind of a thing.

Braiam

I copied most of my .config from debian to Ubuntu and I didn't have any weird quirk nor anything so I think that between versions of Ubuntu it will be a-OK

actually, I'm using the same cookies/session in both Debian and Ubuntu

interesting to read:

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Q: Why is Linux's filesystem designed as a single directory tree?

Can anyone explain why Linux is designed as a single directory tree? Whereas in Windows we can have multiple drives like C:\, and D:\, there is a single root in Unix. Any specific reason there?

mount directory-structure

Crake

17:39

How would one make a project in gedit, in functions?

I mean

Let's say I have my main document main.f95 and used a function there, called prog, which is in the file notmain.f95

How would I go about compiling that?

nvm, I think I did it

Braiam

@Crake maybe you like a real IDE instead of a text editor

Crake

I find gedit pretty nice tbh

But what would you reccomend? geany?

jokerdino

Vim with NERDTree.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Crake

Naah, no Vim

hbdgaf

20:35

@Crake Sublimetext ftw if you don't need it on OSX or BSD. Otherwise, I hear good things about fgeany. (says the Former eclipse user that still uses it sometimes for really specific things)

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