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Elliot Labs

21:00

@Seth it is also saying that there is an error at line:147
Illeagle option -n
Core dumped

@Seth it is also giving the same error at line 167

@hbdgaf Did you get all of that?

Seth

@terdon I'm not going to search back and find the exact message to reply to, but I don't think you understand the Ubuntu release cycle. If you don't want to upgrade often you should be on the LTS release. The other releases are for more "bleeding edge" people who are going to upgrade every 6 months. You can't really compare non LTS releases to Windows release. It is true we can take the EOL rule too far sometimes (especially since the new change with 13.04)

but that's what you get when you give your users the power to close how they want ;)

@ElliotLabs use -N not -n, like hbdgaf said.

hbdgaf

read -N not read -n

Elliot Labs

@hbdgaf will try

@Seth ok will do

hbdgaf

i'm also SO not running the whole script. you need to highlight somehow lines that are throwing exceptions. i have no desire to have samba not from repo...

Elliot Labs

@Seth @hbdgaf It is still throwing the same error except it is capitalized this time... :-P

ok just look at the mainmenu function and the following command

hbdgaf

21:04

you didn't provide prompt text OR the variable to store it in... nopety nope nope you didn't

Elliot Labs

@hbdgaf ? Sorry I didn't quite understand that... I am still a novice when it comes to BASH scripting

I am primarrily a Windows user and am trying to get into Linux

which I think will replace Windows in the future

hbdgaf

here is a book. it's free and good: tldp.org/LDP/abs/html

Elliot Labs

(market share wise)

I have been reading that and already have it open in a seperate tab

lol

Seth

lets see here.

Lemme pull up one of my uses of read.

fossfreedom

answer was posted with the correct syntax

Seth

21:10

well now I can't find one..

so good.

Elliot Labs

@fossfreedom I tried it but it didn't work

Seth

"Didn't work" isn't very helpful. What happened?

Elliot Labs

I am going to hash my cd ISO and see if it is correct

@Seth I did the same thing nothing diffrent

fossfreedom

@ElliotLabs you should carry on the conversation by editing your question - post a comment on the answer saying what went wrong

Elliot Labs

I edited the question so extra code was removed check it again

fossfreedom

21:13

you've got someone who is interested (he/she posted an answer) - suggest work with them to get an answer

Elliot Labs

I don't have enough rep

I can't comment on my question

it requires 50

hbdgaf

why are you even asking them to press a key then asking for a menu selection. just drop that whole blob and call mainmenu again...

Elliot Labs

I have 40

?

@hbdgaf ?

I don't understand can you please reword it?

Remember I am a noob

hbdgaf

press any key...
read something
mainmenu

there are two superfluous lines in there... and your problem is in them.

Braiam

@ElliotLabs impossible, you can comment in your own question and answers

Elliot Labs

21:15

I can only comment after another user has started comments

hbdgaf

Wow @JorgeCastro - you get another star ;)

Michael Hampton

Oh, oops I accidentally the wrong message.

Elliot Labs

@hbdgaf From what I understand is that i should have it go like this:`mainmenu () {commands in here}
mainmenu
clear
mainmenu
?

Braiam

@MichaelHampton you accidentally what?

Michael Hampton

@Braiam oh, starred the wrong message. That's ok. It probably needed it anyway.

I really came in here to ask: I have seen that you have a feed in here for ubuntu questions posted on U&L. Do you also have a feed for such questions posted on SF?

Oli

21:19

I accidentally once

As was the fashion at the

@MichaelHampton Nope

Michael Hampton

@Oli Eh, too bad. Sometimes we get questions that are on topic at SF but would probably be better answered by the Ubuntu community.

hbdgaf

@ElliotLabs i think you should probably try simple things and play with it a while. don't try to fix it in your main script. break it out and play with it. i'm so not trying to download and compile samba in a vm to answer a bash question...

Elliot Labs

@hbdgaf I have separated the mainmenu module and am trying to get to work. Fortunately the answer has been found.
It turned out to be the -p and -n flags were inverted and the output var was in the wrong spot

check out the page I have marked the answer

hbdgaf

yep. i saw it already.

Elliot Labs

lol

Michael Hampton

21:23

It wasn't me that time!

hbdgaf

How did that get a star??? and not this...

20 mins ago, by hbdgaf

you didn't provide prompt text OR the variable to store it in... nopety nope nope you didn't

Braiam

oh god @MichaelHampton, you broke Oli!

Elliot Labs

@hbdgaf I didn't understand that

@hbdgaf The latest star was for something that is useful that I have already done. Plus what do the stars do for you?

fossfreedom

hmm - we've got a random starrer...

hbdgaf

it's a serial star-er

Elliot Labs

21:27

lol

hbdgaf

feel free to purgify the stars

Elliot Labs

does it give points?

hbdgaf

nope. it's a way to point strongly at something.

Braiam

@ElliotLabs er, no

fossfreedom

stars are there to highlight something interesting

Elliot Labs

21:27

oh ok

I see

Michael Hampton

The stars give me a good sense of the "flavor" of a room especially if I don't visit it often.

Elliot Labs

how do you reply to previous comments?

@MichaelHampton ok

Michael Hampton

@ElliotLabs At the right edge of the text block is an arrow, click it.

hbdgaf

@ElliotLabs chat.stackexchange.com/faq

Elliot Labs

@MichaelHampton Oh I see... lol

@hbdgaf k I got it

Michael Hampton

21:28

@ElliotLabs Almost!

Elliot Labs

memory overload... blork

@MichaelHampton what did I miss?

Michael Hampton

@ElliotLabs At the right edge of the text block is an arrow, click it

Elliot Labs

@MichaelHampton @MichaelHampton I did that already...

Michael Hampton

@ElliotLabs You're getting there :)

Elliot Labs

Whoops doubble @

@MichaelHampton anything else I need to do?

Michael Hampton

21:31

@ElliotLabs Um, write more?

Elliot Labs

@MichaelHampton\ ...

ok will do in a bit I have to go to a young makers meeting

www.theclubhou.se

Michael Hampton

@ElliotLabs Wait, it's not in Sweden?

Elliot Labs

yah you can but the .se from the sweedish government same as .us

it is up to the government to hand out the top level domains for there country

they can say no if they want

but usually that does not happen

gotta go cya!

Michael Hampton

Have fun!

Seth

@MichaelHampton How many Ubuntu questions do you get each day (or so)?

Michael Hampton

21:35

@Seth Maybe 10-15 tagged ubuntu

And a few more where they forgot to tag it

hbdgaf

anyone know if simply having a .edu email address will get you a dreamspark account? like say as an alumnus of school xyz i have a permanent .edu address?

Michael Hampton

@hbdgaf I think if you have a .edu email they don't do any further checking

hbdgaf

@MichaelHampton sweet. free windows test beds for life ;)

Mateo

Michael Hampton

Yeah. Wish I still had an .edu email :(

Mateo

21:39

@hbdgaf so might work

hbdgaf

@MichaelHampton i can give a go here for one semester recommendation if you think you'll make 3k back before the loophole is closed...

Michael Hampton

I got a Websitespark before they killed that program, but it's still active. Doesn't have nearly as much software though it does have free Azure

hbdgaf

heck. i did a BS in half a semester and an MS in one and a half... so, just test out of everything on a sideline get a free degree after that decision. if you're good at testing, you can have a couple of accredited degrees pretty quick if you're paying for it anyway.

Michael Hampton

Maybe I"ll just have my gf sign up for it, she does have a .edu

Seth

@MichaelHampton IMO that's a bit much to be pumping in here along with the U&L ones...

hbdgaf

21:43

@MichaelHampton good call.

Michael Hampton

@Seth Quite possibly. And it's only a few questions that I think really need attention anyway.

Seth

Well feel free to pop 'em in here then :)

Michael Hampton

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Q: Customized 12.04.3 Ubuntu ISO fails to boot in Virtualbox -- getting stuck at the txt.cfg/Ubuntu boot screen

I'm attempting to make a custom Ubuntu installer, but the ISOs that I'm generating fail to boot in VirtualBox 4.1.18. The raw ISO (downloaded here: http://www.ubuntu.com/start-download?distro=server&bits=64&release=lts) will boot in virtualbox, but my custom ISO will not, getting stuck at the ...

Seth

That is on-topic on SF?

Michael Hampton

@Seth Barely. The VirtualBox thing does weigh against him...

Seth

21:47

That's what I figured.

Michael Hampton

If I didn't reasonably believe it was a professional issue, I would have just migrated it already :)

hbdgaf

Off the cuff it looks like providing kernel params 3 times, which doesn't make any sense to me. I'll have to download an ISO to check it and try bumping around the txt.cfg file to replicate the error.

People that ask questions about respins should really post their ISOs in full.

Michael Hampton

My guess is that it's a simple but subtle error.

hbdgaf

probably.

Michael Hampton

And since it's almost certainly Ubuntu-specific...well, here I am :)

hbdgaf

21:52

I think it was in the internetworkexpert CCIE training videos: "It's not that CCIE's don't make mistakes... as currently evidenced. It's that we troubleshoot them really fast."

Can you provide the full ISO that's giving you problems? — hbdgaf 10 secs ago

Braiam

if you didn't know when people explode, I recommend you to read this Q

hbdgaf

@Braiam I' reminded of rise of the triad.

later on people. more playing with pandas.

3

Seth

Pandas.

Seth

22:18

@Braiam Got an answer for this? askubuntu.com/questions/442445/…

Braiam

@Seth 13.04...

Seth

@Braiam So? It says 13.10 in the title anyway.

Braiam

@Seth people sucks at tagging

Seth

yeah, some people do.

Braiam

wow, used all my close votes

I mean... 50 close votes D:

Seth

22:29

cool!

0

Q: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (unmet package dependencies)

I've been running into this error every time I try and update. I have unmet dependencies in my packages, but I have yet to find a way as to how to resolve them. giganticbrain@ubuntu:/usr/lib$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state informa...

12.04 apt packages dependencies

Yikes!

Braiam

@Seth is not even dependency issue, but the ca-certificated package that fails installing

Braiam

22:48

duplicate 279
off-topic 201
unclear what you're asking 88
too broad 23
primarily opinion-based 12

ugh!

Seth

Does anyone, besides Braiam, think that maybe this isn't too broad?

14

Q: best video converter

I need a good video converter software that can convert many video formats from one ot the other. On Windows I found Format Factory to be good. I would like its equivalent or something better on Ubuntu.

software-recommendation video conversion mkv

Mateo

the "best", and nearly two pages already

Seth

"best" is only in the title, but yeah.

Mateo

one of those long list things...

Seth

That's what I figured most people would say, which is why I closed it.

Mateo

22:56

tagged with mkv? is that a format he wants then?

Seth

yep.

Braiam

33 mins ago, by Braiam

@Seth people sucks at tagging

Seth

doesn't really apply there.

Braiam

video conversion when there's video-conversion :(

@Seth can the se team do that?

Seth

Do what?

Braiam

23:02

whenever there's microsoft and office convert it to microsoft-office?

and the likes

Seth

Hum. No, don't think so.

Might be worth a feature request though.

not exactly something that always works though.

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