Ask Ubuntu General Room

Fabby

19:00

thank you

no number 2?

kprovost7314

Nope. 1 partition.

Fabby

Is that the USB you booted from?

kprovost7314

I'm trying to boot Kali from it. But that requires over 2.8GB.

Fabby

OK.

kprovost7314

I don't have enough space to copy the mounted iso files.

Fabby

19:02

just to ensure that I don't make things worse...

No worries!

I can delete the entire thing, right?

kprovost7314

What do you mean?

Fabby

Can I erase everything on the USB?

(to make it 4GB)?

kprovost7314

There's nothing on the SD.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Progressing from a novice hobbyist to an intermediate Linux user

This question hopefully gives novices a place to start with progressing with Linux. I am an accompished Windows developer on the .NET stack. I know the network administration, registry and the services in place etc etc. In other words, it's time to spread my wings and fly. I have started usi...

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Q: About Back Track question

Hi all I just joined these forums. I have never used a Linux OS before I installed the Ubuntu sever using vmware (version 10.0.0) the installation completed successfully, but my issue is when it reboots after the install and then goes to black screen then asks me to login I'm able to type in m...

ubuntu vmware

Fabby

Thank you.

Mateo_

19:04

well, to make it around 3.7 of actual usable space...

Fabby

@Mateo_ resize is going to take more time then rm and mkpartfs

@Mateo_: you agree?

kprovost7314

As long as it's in terminal.

Mateo_

because of the unit conversion:

Fabby

@kprovost7314: yes

Mateo_

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Q: Why does Windows 7 recognize a 4 GB SDHC card only with 3.68 GB? How to format/get 4 GB?

I have a Kingston SDHC card 4 GB speed class 4, but on Windows 7 it's recognized only with 3.68 GB space available. I've already formatted the card and I get only 3.68 GB. How I can get 4 GB space available on the card?

windows-7 memory formatting format sdhc

Fabby

19:07

yeah

kprovost7314

The actual space is 3.8.

Fabby

rm /dev/sdb1

kprovost7314

OK.

Fabby

rm /dev/sdb1

kprovost7314

Next?

Fabby

19:10

the next one is the difficult one

let me caclulate

mkpartfs MBR EXT4 1 38911

kprovost7314

mkpartfs command not found.

Fabby

version

kprovost7314

Ubuntu version?

Fabby

what happens if you type version

Mateo_

command not found

kprovost7314

19:15

version command not found

Fabby

Let's start again

hit Ctrl+C

sudo parted[Enter]

what do you see?

kprovost7314

GNU Parted 3.2

Fabby

2.3

kprovost7314

?

Fabby

or 3.2?

kprovost7314

19:17

3.2

Fabby

What OS did you boot?

Ubuntu?

kprovost7314

Ubuntu 14.10

Rinzwind

see comment

Ok, thank you. I don't know how it is related to Ubuntu because I have no idea what Ubuntu is. I just needed to ask a question and this site said ask anything. So I did. Sorry if I was mistaken, I am just trying to look for some help but I am not so tech savvy. Thank you for your time none the less. — Caro 51 secs ago

Fabby

OK

Rinzwind

(and ... lol)

Seth

19:18

@Rinzwind wat

kprovost7314

...

Rinzwind

oops

Fabby

@kprovost7314: what is above 3.2

using???

Rinzwind

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Q: Can being located on 2 servers effect a sites performance?

About a year ago my webhost switched my website over to another server because of a more advanced program needed to run certain areas of the site. Since then the site has never worked perfectly. It sends out usernames and passwords which sometimes get sent and sometimes not but there is no consis...

webserver

kprovost7314

?

Rinzwind

19:18

see comment @seth :D

Seth

@Rinzwind yeah.. Some people..

Fabby

@kprovost: it says gnu parted 3.2

and below that?

kprovost7314

Yes. Under that is says the free software stuff.

Fabby

it doesn't say "using /dev/sda" ?

kprovost7314

It does... Should it be sdb.

*?

Fabby

19:21

no I'm asking...

OK

type list

kprovost7314

Ok

Fabby

sorry 2 windows open

a bunch of stuff

don't worry

print list

type the above

do you see sdb?

kprovost7314

It gives me the possible command choices like version.

Fabby

"print list" (without the quotes)

kprovost7314

Wait a minute.... It says Disk 4075MB, which is close to 4GB but size at bottom says 2988.

Fabby

19:25

Does it give you 2 disks or one disk?

kprovost7314

1.

Fabby

Did you boot from a CD?

kprovost7314

Should I delete this partition and make a new one?

No.

Fabby

the disk, is it "/dev/sdb"?

kprovost7314

Yes.

Fabby

19:26

OK now type:

rm 1

kprovost7314

OK.

Fabby

now type:

mkpart P1 ext4 1MiB 38911MiB

kprovost7314

1: P1 invalid token, 2 Start?: y Invalid number.

Fabby

mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 38911MiB

kprovost7314

You requested a partition from 1049kb to 40.8GB. The closest location is 1048kb to 1048kb.

Fabby

19:33

mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 37000MiB

kprovost7314

Can't create anymore partitions. Again, I'm using /dev/sda

Fabby

I just asked if you were using /dev/sdb?

print list

kprovost7314

I know. And I said /dev/sda too.

Fabby

OK.

can you do again:

print list

How many disks?

kprovost7314

4 in /dev/sda 1 in /dev/sdb.

Like always.

Fabby

19:38

quit [enter]

parted /dev/sdb[Enter]

kprovost7314

OK.

Fabby

I hope I haven't deleted your MBR on /dev/sda

What do you see now

kprovost7314

Ooohhh. OK. My MBR is coocoo. Grub is taking over Windows (even though windows was first)

I see /dev/sdb.

Redo the commands above?

Fabby

yes

kprovost7314

OK.

Fabby

19:41

hold on!

do a list first!

print list

do you see /dev/sdb?

kprovost7314

Yes.

Fabby

select /dev/sdb

what did it say?

kprovost7314

Using /dev/sdb

Fabby

good

rm 1

kprovost7314

Should it me unmounted?

Fabby

19:45

Does parted tell you that?

What do you see?

kprovost7314

They were unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/there are in use.

Fabby

Huh?

What is the output of "rm 1"?

OK I see

Error: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sde have been written, but we have been unable to
inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a
result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before
making further changes.
Ignore/Cancel? i

kprovost7314

Yep.

Fabby

press C for cancel

kprovost7314

I pressed I.

Fabby

19:48

quit

Henry Fleminger Thomson

Hi you lot. The crisis is over. "still
[19:45:56] wolfboyft: i'll go and say that the crisis is over,
[19:46:11] wolfboyft: and the leviathan seed has been destroyed by intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran"

@Toroidal REAL Toroidal, sorry (this is for publicity, roboduck, we no care) for wanting to slap you with my face.

Fabby

then you have to reboot.

I'll do the same.

kprovost7314

Ugh. OK.

Fabby

See you in 5 minutes.

kprovost7314

You're PC must be slow.

Henry Fleminger Thomson

19:49

*temptation explosion*

Your! :D :(

Everyone!

Listen! my friend, real @Toroidal's account has been suspended. Mods, please unsuspend him.

PleasE?

kprovost7314

Just a side note, do you know how to fix CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED in Windows 8.1.

I'm rebooted.

Henry Fleminger Thomson

@Seth @SmokeDetector @Oli look up boys please.

Fabby

me too

OK;

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind Another question about inkscape. :-) Probably you could give a good answer: askubuntu.com/q/574849/148451

Fabby

@kprovost7314 I'm logged on as root

@kprovost7314 sudo parted /dev/sdb

You there?

@kprovost7314 send a message to @Fabby when you're there

@IonicăBizău: Is this your normal machine?

Or a customer's?

Mateo_

20:06

ranting user, good edit rollback alert: askubuntu.com/questions/574848/…

Seth

I don't see any suspension @HenryFlemingerThomson. At this point I'm thinking you are just trolling.

Mateo_

@Seth he got chat blocked for 2 hours the other day, came in attacking Toroidal

Seth

yeah I saw that.

Fabby

@Mateo_ : saw the post change before my eyes!

Damn you're good!

Hi @Seth!

Seth, you're a moderator, right?

q:

I'm trying to get a meta.stackexchange.com thing through....

Is at "allowed" (I never said this is going to be "tasteful") to now go to all the users I've helped and ask for a favour back?

(that is: upvote my stackexchange.com question)?

Rinzwind

@Mateo_ lol

Henry Fleminger Thomson

20:10

toriodal is no longer suspended.

come in, toriodal.

user136984

I'm in.

Henry Fleminger Thomson

Hello.

user136984

Hello

Fabby

@Toroidal: what happened?

Henry Fleminger Thomson

You roboduck anymore? No, I should think.

Do something human, which you are.

now.

Mateo_

20:11

well, the command removes the meta package "ubuntu-desktop", might be good to start there if anyone wants to try on that one...

Henry Fleminger Thomson

you are.

not, now, as in, NOW, Do It now

now, as in, you are human now

wait..

Rinzwind

@IonicăBizău fonts... the more ...

Henry Fleminger Thomson

Apparently he's been suspended for 2 hours? I thought he wasn't? Oh... dear. Crap. runs off

Fabby

@Mateo_ : you forgot to edit the title!

user136984

@Fabby: What do you mean?

Fabby

20:13

You were gone...

without saying bye

user136984

Oh, I was listening to Classic Rock! :D

Fabby

Ah...

And what do you call "classic rock"?

Elvis Presley? The Alan Parson's project???

:P ;-)

user136984

►

user136984

:D

Fabby

Good one!

(playing now in the background!)

user136984

20:16

:D

hbdgaf

I liked this version a little better youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8IWqic0U

user136984

:D

Fabby

:D

Mateo_

@Fabby woo, alan parsons!

Fabby

Woo = boo or woohoo?

Mateo_

20:20

woohoo, \o/, yeah, awesome!

Fabby

@hbdgaf : I'm going to download that one!

(that clip, off course!)

hbdgaf

It's a good movie. The soundtrack is interesting for all the double entendre without sexual innuendo.

Mateo_

like his mix of darkside of the moon better, there is a quadraphonic -> dvd version floating around somewhere

not the retail dvd, they just centered everything on that one

Fabby

You into symphonic rock, @Mateo_ ?

Mateo_

? I just like what music I like.

hbdgaf

20:23

this one is even better ;) youtube.com/watch?v=UrENw_6te78

Fabby

You too?? me too!

Mateo_

I don't try to put things into categories

user136984

I love this one!: :D

Fabby

You're not a DB admin then! :D ;-)

user136984

►

Mateo_

20:24

Rinzwind

@IonicăBizău here you go askubuntu.com/questions/574849/inkscape-starts-extremely-slow

user136984

How about: youtube.com/watch?v=Eusn2Y24-g8

Fabby

@Mateo_ what country are you in?

USSR?

Mateo_

- 2 characters

hbdgaf

hahaha. Yeah, Mateo is US domestic.

Ionică Bizău

20:26

@Fabby Yes, my laptop.

Rinzwind

SR? so Serbia

:-)

Mateo_

they are getting closer with all the health insurance stuff though

hbdgaf

>.<

user136984

Anyway, can anyone view the video?

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind Oh, I installed all Google fonts... It makes sense. :-)

Fabby

20:27

I'm seeing Queen

Rinzwind

@IonicăBizău ooooooh that might be a problem _O-

Fabby

"I want to break free"

user136984

Good! :D

hbdgaf

@Toroidal What country are YOU in. I'm sure I could watch it through a proxy ;)

Rinzwind

that's a lot of fonts :S

user136984

20:27

I'm in the UK.

Fabby

I'm using a Russian ISP and a Swedish DNS server... Best of both worlds!

user136984

@hbdgaf Yep, there are lots of proxy services out there.

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind Is there a way to get updates from the latest dev versions of inkscape?

Rinzwind

@IonicăBizău hmm dunno :-X Ill have a look

Mateo_

my inkscape loads in 5secs

Ionică Bizău

20:29

It's a powerful tool, I like it a lot. I create logos for my projects. :-)

Rinzwind

@Mateo_ yeah download all the google fonts and try again ...

@IonicăBizău PPA for developers: launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/trunk

Mateo_

that is also a case for font manager

Rinzwind

@Mateo_ but not for gimp :P

Mateo_

you can load/unload fonts in sets

Rinzwind

yay maxed out rep for today :)

Mateo_

20:31

font manager doesn't work with gimp? or do you just need to restart the program on changing fonts

Rinzwind

gimp does not load fonts while loading. it caches them as you go

Mateo_

ah, that is cool

user136984

Just interjecting some more Queen:

user136984

►

user136984

:D

ByteCommander

20:32

@Toroidal Queen? really? I hate them to be honest...

user136984

Then get out!

user136984

:D

Fabby

@ Toroidal: youtube.com/watch?v=6EefPcht54c

@ByteCommander: try mine! ;) After 2 Queen songs something else entirely!

hbdgaf

I liked the preview song more than the underlying song youtube.com/watch?v=-QlqqhzLVFo

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/trunk, then apt-get update and when I do apt-get install inkscape I get inkscape is already the newest version.. That means I didn't get the newest dev build, right?

Fabby

20:35

This is not a chat room any more but a music discovery!

user136984

:D

hbdgaf

that's what lucio always uses it for... but i digress

ByteCommander

@Fabby Gema keeps me from watching. Don't want to set up a proxy tonight.

Rinzwind

@IonicăBizău maybe the dev channel is not open?

Ionică Bizău

Hmm...

Fabby

20:37

@ByteCommander: youtube blocked in Germany?

Rinzwind

0.91 should be the new version and not 0.48

Fabby

(or only music videos?)

ByteCommander

Want to listen to some great Hard Rock? youtube.com/watch?v=9yevop8obVk

Fabby

@hbdgaf: not bad!

ByteCommander

@Fabby No, youtube just wants to avoid conflicts with gema (association that collects money for artists)

Fabby

20:39

Ah...

ByteCommander

So what kind of music do you all enjoy? maybe I have some secret tips for you...

Fabby

@ByteCommander: Listening to yours now

user136984

Just for those of you who have the regional block: digitaltrends.com/web/…

Fabby

@ByteCommander: do you know "Kraftwerk"?

Nathan Osman

o/

hbdgaf

20:41

if you link to it on dailymotion, you almost never get a regional block... just saying.

o/ @NathanOsman

Rinzwind

afk @IonicăBizău if you need more feel free pm ;=)
hey @NathanOsman AND bye for now NathanOsman

ByteCommander

@Fabby yes, but i dont like them

Nathan Osman

3 hours ago, by Rinzwind

@HenryFlemingerThomson kermel is C++, Ubuntu C++ and python

hbdgaf

Warriors from Imagine Dragons is also really good.

Nathan Osman

The kernel is most definitely not written in C++.

4

Linus would have a fit :P

Oliver Schöning

20:41

Hehe..

user136984

:D

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind Thanks for help. I was trying to compile it, but I guess it's too much effort. :-)

Oliver Schöning

That's such a great flame email :p

xD

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman The kernel is C. There is an effort in India to rewrite the entire kernel in C++, but that's a different thing.

user136984

If you google: Linux kernel written in which language

user136984

20:42

You get:

user136984

I assume that there are multiple languages for each and obviously I know the Linux kernel is written in C. I'm totally guessing here that Mac OS X contains a lot of Objective-C code as it is Apple's language derived from NeXT. Windows, I have heard contains C, C++ and Intel Assembly.24 Feb 2009

Fabby

►

Nathan Osman

Dear Linus,

I have a patch for the kernel source code that rewrites everything in C++.

- Nathan

user136984

That is the google definition thing it gives.

Nathan Osman

...and then wait for the fun.

user136984

20:42

So that is probably where it is from.

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind Oh, wait. Probably instead of inkscape I need inkscape-trunk?

Fabby

So the wikipedia...

Oliver Schöning

I'm not using Ubuntu at the moment. I am Mint. But do you guys have any favorite Icon themes? I'm playing around making my desktop look like windows XP :p But I might want some other icons

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman Oh it's intentionally a fork. They're not trying to commit upstream.

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf Oh, I know.

user136984

20:43

Apparently it is linking from: stackoverflow.com/questions/580292/…

Fabby

@Oliver: I'm strictly Steampunk...

Oliver Schöning

Hehe

Ionică Bizău

^- @Rinzwind That's awesome and speedy! :-) It takes about 1 second to start. And it starts maximized, exactly what I was needing! :-)

Oliver Schöning

o_o

Fabby

(home-brewn theme)

Nathan Osman

20:44

Haiku OS is written in C++, though.

Fabby

orange as +Unity is kind of orange)

CP/M was written in Assembler and took half a second to boot!

Anyone better?

:P

Nathan Osman

Haiku comes pretty close to that.

It takes 1-2 seconds in a VM.

ByteCommander

@Fabby What genre is this? If you want to excite me, give me a good piece of heavy metal!

Ionică Bizău

@Rinzwind +50 from me. :-) Thanks for help!

Fabby

@ByteCommander: New Wave....

Let me look up another music style: acid house!

hbdgaf

20:47

@ByteCommander it's not metal exactly, but here youtube.com/watch?v=fdkOaG6lk48

ByteCommander

@hbdgaf says not available

hbdgaf

No remorse spawn soundtrack. You should be able to find it locally.

Oliver Schöning

o_o no one uses custom icon themes?

ByteCommander

@hbdgaf only find things with at least 1hour

Fabby

Acid house: youtube.com/…

hbdgaf

20:50

@OliverSchöning I don't reskin any more. It's a waste of my time. I could make it sexy, or I could just use the sexiest thing I find can ootb and be productive

@ByteCommander hold on. i'll look

Fabby

@Oliver: Custom-built for me

Oliver Schöning

ok :) two very different opinions ^^

I would like to make a gtk 3 theme at some point. And icons

something like low poly icons..

Fabby

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander what about this one youtube.com/watch?v=ytPOSx5ef8w

Oliver Schöning

ok.. some error brb

hbdgaf

20:52

@Fabby eeew, unity.

Fabby

yup.

Standard.

It works.

And I can RTFM on the Canonical site...

What more do you need?

It's a UI and gets things done...

hbdgaf

i run xubu, i'll run pyqt on top of kwin on next lts. i'm just plain weird though.

user136984

By the way guys I am having a little big of a problem with Language Support, so could someone take a look at this at some point please:

user136984

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Q: Cannot get new language support working on Ubuntu 14.10

I am running Ubuntu 14.10. And at the moment I have got Russian and English (UK) installed on my computer. I installed them through System Settings > Language Support. But now I want to add Korean and that is where the problem has come up. So I go into the Language Support settings and click In...

14.10 language-support input-language

user136984

:)

Fabby

20:55

You can read Korean???

Oliver Schöning

I love tweaking things :D Its the reason I picked Mint anyways. Tweaking for dummies :)

ByteCommander

bye guys, still have to do some offline work. Will be back tomorrow I think, but don't expect me before noon ;D

Fabby

Bye! @ByteCommander

Seth

@Fabby no no, not a good idea.

Fabby

@hbdgaf: The only thing I didn't like in Unity was the File manager

Oliver Schöning

20:56

ok lesson learned. dont let wine run on wow.exe instead of installing it with it :P ..

Seth

Upvotes should be given in good faith for quality, not because you helped someone.

Fabby

@Seth: thanks for the reply

user136984

@Fabby: I cannot at the moment, but I am trying to learn Korean at the moment.

Fabby

Ah!

user136984

And being able to type in Korean would be helpful.

Fabby

20:56

@Toroidal: I need top take a system back-up before I try this one... Takes 10 minutes...

(not now)

@hbdgaf So I've got Nemo now...

All the rest is plain vanilla Ubuntu (with a few Icons changed) and another desktop WALL PAPER

user136984

Go to go now! Pizza is ready! :D

user136984

Bye!

user136984

:)

Fabby

@Toroidal Bon Appétit

I know there are tons of window managers out there, but why should I? This works for me...

Can @hbdgaf send a screenshot?

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