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Nathan Osman

06:23

THIS IS INSANE. I have QoS on this router and the laptop is assigned low priority and the desktop high priority. Both are downloading stuff. So what does the router do? It allocates 95% of the bandwidth to the laptop. ಠ_ಠ

Serg

06:40

time to change the router ?

SQuirel

Hi

Hello everyone

Serg

@NathanOsman are you good at python ?

Nathan Osman

Maybe.

Serg

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Q: pyosd works with interpreter , but not with a script

I am working on a script that would display arbitrary system information on screen. For that purpose I've been trying to use pyosd module. Consider the following 3 lines: import pyosd p = pyosd.osd() p.display("ASKUBUNTU") This works alright with python 2.7 interpreter, however , fails when r...

Nathan Osman

I'll take a look.

pyosd.error: Requested font not found

Hrm...

Serg

06:51

you might need to have it installed

SQuirel

O_o

Nathan Osman

@Serg Have what installed?

Serg

pyosd module

Nathan Osman

I have that installed.

The import works fine.

It gets stuck at the second line.

I don't know if this helps at all but:

>>> print pyosd.default_font
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-360-*-*-p-*-*-*

Serg

Em . . .it doesn't

Like i said, interpreter brings up the string to be displayed just fine

Nathan Osman

06:56

Well, I tried :)

Serg

Thanks Nathan, you are always ready to help, i appreciate that

Nathan Osman

I'm sure I could figure out your actual problem if I could just get the module to work.

Serg

@NathanOsman is there a difference in how interpreter and script work in python ?

Nathan Osman

There certainly shouldn't be.

Serg

07:30

If I can't figure out this python module , i will use osdsh. At least that works

FOUND ET !!!

Nathan Osman

8 GB pagefile. Windows, what is this?

Serg

<.< that has to be Windows trying to compensate for something . . . hmmm, if only I knew for what . . . micro . . . soft . . . .does that imply anything ?

Nathan Osman

07:46

The entire server has 40 GB of storage and it allocated 8 GB for the pagefile.

Serg

09:08

16.04 seems to have removed some of the fonts used in the previous releases

Videonauth

09:55

@NathanOsman pagefile.sys ?

Serg

@NathanOsman @JacobVlijm got the pyosd working in 16.04 after installing x11 fonts, see my edit on the answer

Masi

10:22

@Videonauth I am inside the Live USB Ubuntu session. Can you reconfigure the locales here by dpkg-rekonfigure locales?

Videonauth

so your booted into your stick ?

Masi

Yes

Videonauth

and yes you can do that there its a full blown Ubuntu Instalation

inly thing i have found out the locale wont chaneh in terminal/TTY unless you have rebooted this si why im not sure what i did to solve it

Masi

@Videonauth It works by just doing sudo dpkg-rekonfigure locales! I set this this en.US_UTF-8 as the environment, instead of en.US which may be the cause of the bug. I think it is better to do the full command.

Videonauth

ok then i can add this to my answer

Masi

10:30

Yes, I also make my own notes to the body.

Videonauth

ok added it

Masi

Good!

Videonauth

Well now you have a complete ubuntu on a stick, btw this procedure works for other debian based distros too ;) you just need to find out how the adress is for running debootsrap and how the sources-list file looks like

Masi

10:47

Yes, thank you for the work! There was no thorough manual about the stick creation before. I hope that we get an answer to the other problem to access the whole encrypted Ubuntu HDD here askubuntu.com/q/768916/25388 I just cannot mount the disc. Probably, because I do some steps wrong.

Videonauth

i only saw that there are people already linking to this Q&A for the stick creation :)

i think the usb boot question you asked to day is related to hardware limitations of the USB bus itself while you easily can create a new stick from booting with one stick and making it you might not be able to choose which usb port has the highest priority when it comes to handling boot sectors

@masi

Masi

@Videonauth I would like to understand why.

Videonauth

no clue i bookmarked that question because the answer would interest me as well

Masi

@Videonauth I think the solution can be very useful in electronic development. Think about running two OSes in series :)

Let one system do one operation. Switch. Let the other do the one where it is the best. Switch. ...

Zacharee1

11:07

YES! There's a bootloader unlock for my phone!! :D

Download from Google is at 14.4kB/s

OK up to 500

user3005629

Hey guys, I want to find out what is "pining" regarding package management. Is this the right chat room to ask ?

jokerdino

pinning?

user3005629

Yeah I don't get it either

13

Q: Hold packages back from updates without APT Pin?

I know about pinning packages with Apt. That's not what I want to do. Other questions have been answered with either using pinning or by using pins temporarily. I don't want to do this. What I want to do is keep packages back the same way the kernel has been: # apt-get upgrade Reading package l...

apt

Zacharee1

ah there we go

2MB/s

wow, spotty internet today

Masi

11:23

@Videonauth Do you have any idea how to add whole USB stick encryption to your stick?

Videonauth

Well theris on one side to hold packages which means keeping them from upgrading, then you have the pinning which is a different process where you can pin an package to be downloaded form one ppa etc and you can pin by version and/or location

@user3005629

@Masi you would have to do that already on creation of he stick i think but not sure i never dabbled into this

Masi

@Videonauth The newer BIOS can prioritize USB :)

@Videonauth I can choose the USB :)

Zacharee1

Wow, people really don't want to buy fake passports, huh?

user3005629

So basically Pining is about using a desired version of a package ? (PPA or Ubuntu Repo's)

Zacharee1

@user3005629 jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

user3005629

11:27

Excellent!!

Zacharee1

It seems like selecting the version you want if it's available from multiple sources

user3005629

Ok, I was thinking like with Synaptic you can lock versions.

Pinning seems awesome :D

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 @user3005629 yep thats it pinning you can pin by location and/or version even

Zacharee1

fun

I'm terrified right now

I don't want to break my phone :p

But I really want an unlocked bootloader

user3005629

Pin all the things!! :p

Videonauth

11:30

@masi thats cool sadly not evey bios is able to do this

Zacharee1

@Videonauth I think every BIOS from 2013 onward can

thankfully

So if you have a somewhat modern computer

user3005629

I wonder if there could be a way to make a virtual Bios? But maybe Maurice Moss is yelling "Your crazy it can't be done" somewhere far away that I can't hear.

Videonauth

yep this is what im saying im working here on a compaq 615 :p

Zacharee1

@user3005629 I don't see the point

Videonauth

dual core 3 GB ram

Zacharee1

11:32

@Videonauth lol

Compaq

user3005629

Just derping

Zacharee1

@Videonauth that is so old

Masi

@Videonauth Yes, but it is good to understand it. :) I opened a new thread about whole-media encrypted persistent USB Ubuntu 16.04 here askubuntu.com/q/769305/25388

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 yep but it plays nice with Ubuntu, except the wireless driver which wont come out of the box

but once you know which driver you need its easy

Zacharee1

hmm

Well, if it can run Ubuntu, there's no reason to throw it away :p

Videonauth

11:34

im actually typing on it and it runs 16.04 flawlessly

only thing i have happening are the missing menu bars fromo time to time

but thats an known bug within unity itself and a fix is in the making

user3005629

Is there a list of successful cases about installing Ubuntu Touch on unofficial-cellphones?

Zacharee1

@user3005629 there are a ton of ports and guides for other phones

user3005629

Great! I meant people showing they followed any of those guides and where succesful

I'm checking out some guides now

Zacharee1

So I need a 1GB or greater SD card in my phone for this to work

I only have my 32GB data one

user3005629

I have a spare phone but no so potent I don't remeber if it is Dual core, but I know the cpu is 1Ghz

Zacharee1

11:40

@user3005629 Well there isn't a general guide

Videonauth

im still having warranty time on my note 3 so im not going to root it

Zacharee1

You can't say, "Oh, the Xiaomi Note 4 has Ubuntu Touch on it, so that must mean I can get it on my ASUS ZenFone 2"

@Videonauth how?

user3005629

Yeah I guess when you're hacking you have to go read all over the place XD

Videonauth

towelroot

Zacharee1

@Videonauth no, how do you still have a warranty?

Videonauth

11:41

samsung note 3 ...

well its 3 years warranty i bought it with

Zacharee1

oh

Videonauth

and i have it since 2 years

Zacharee1

that explains it

Videonauth

but to be honest the note 3 is awesome as it is , just give it a different launcher and youre happy with it

Zacharee1

I like my fingerprint scanner on my Note 4

6.5GB left to copy off

blegh

Videonauth

11:43

im not so fond of the fingerprint scanners

Zacharee1

Can someone send me an SD card with half-day shipping? :p

@Videonauth why

I guess it can be hacked with a mold (it's been proven), but meh

I don't plan on making glue molds of my hands any time soon

user3005629

Have you tried "gluing mold" before ? @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

no lol

user3005629

XD

Then why wouldn't you try it out now ? LOL

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 i found them to be very unreliable till now

Zacharee1

11:47

@Videonauth mine's nice

Videonauth

forgetting fingerprints and so on

Zacharee1

it just had to be set up correctly

And the newer ones, like on the G5, don't even need you to turn on the phone

you just touch your finger to the scanner and unlock

1.5GB

almost done

c'mon Kingroot

ROOT

there we go

OK. It's copying to the SD card

YESH

Mattew Developer

Hello

Videonauth

o/

@Zacharee1 O_o askubuntu.com/a/769316/522934

user3005629

12:04

Oh man I can't confidently install Ubuntu SDK in MATE

I had a lot of Black screens in Beta

I'll have to leave this Ubuntu Touch tut for later when I have time to reinstall Ubunut if anything falis

Zacharee1

Copying my stuff back now

@user3005629 if you think the DE is the problem, just install Unity or something

Videonauth

weird andwer it was ? was it ?

i just posted an answer to that

Zacharee1

it was, but the question was also rather idiotic

user3005629

What's your Disk setup ? @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

@user3005629 for my phone?

Videonauth

12:08

yeah but what you'd expect from a newcomer on linux? i mean in windows you dont get an output like this "huh? uninstalled packages???"

:D

user3005629

@Zacharee1 Ok, '/" and Swap is it?

Videonauth

and not everyone is computer savy

user3005629

Isn't there a Network filesystem ?

I haven't used one yet

ZFS ?

Zacharee1

@user3005629 no. it's internal and SD

Android

user3005629

@Zacharee1 mm ok

@Zacharee1 Despite it being said that in Ubuntu you can use different DE's I have always found problems.

Videonauth

12:22

@zacharee i wonder if it would be possible to set up an android system on a normal laptop (beside the fact you might need to compile everything for that plattform)

Zacharee1

There is Android x86

You can setup dual-boot situations, but you need a 32-bit CPU

Videonauth

urgs

i not had a 32 bit cpu since 15 years

Zacharee1

Welp

I have an unlocked bootloader now

Videonauth

congratz

Zacharee1

Essentially the Verizon Developer Edition

But idk what to do :p

Videonauth

12:30

i guess you already did a full device backup? then go and remove the bloatware

Zacharee1

I already have temp root, so I've done that a few times

Right now, I'm going to see if I can install TWRP so I can get permanent root

Zacharee1

12:45

This is a long and tricky process

The KingRoot temp root is really unstable

Replacing KingRoot with SuperSU now...

My battery is going to be toast

Videonauth

O_o then keep it on the charger, you really dont want it to shut down in the process

bricking is not nice :p

Zacharee1

That's the problem

Charging and discharging at the same time is just blegh

Super-Sume is hanging

sigh

OK. Had to hard reboot

Now to re-root

So I can get SuperSu

Then flash TWRP with Odin

Blegh

user3005629

Re-Root all the things!! OK I'll stop now....

Zacharee1

Oh cool. It crashed itself

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: wakeonlan: cannot wake up ubuntu server 16.04

I can wake up ubuntu server 16.04 from my iphone using WOL. I tried to do the same thing from mac osx yosemite. couldn't get it work. first I installed wakeonlan. "brew install wakeonlan" then I ran "wakeonlan -i 192.168.1.166 -p 9 bc:2f:f9:c8:c1:e5". nothing happened and no error message. its...

ubuntu osx wake-on-lan

Zacharee1

12:58

OK let's try this again

well it soft-rebooted

uh oh

Bootloop? Please no

aha we're back

Still rooted somehow

Running super-sume again

wai u no werk

stahp teh hangz

Videonauth

13:19

NOw @Zacharee1 is in a boot loop i guess, he went so quiet

Zacharee1

13:31

lol

no

not yet

Had to take a shower

rooting again

user3005629

@Zacharee1 You'll soon need a snack, The shop called and confirmed you're shipment ETA of a Whale to be cooked after for you.

Zacharee1

wat

ERMAGERD

KingRoot, please stop crashing!

If I get this working, I'll be able to install Cyanogen or something over the summer :DD

user3005629

Charge 300 Mhz, clear!! --> BOOM!

Zacharee1

uh

user3005629

Like paramedics

Zacharee1

13:39

yeah, but that's not MHz

user3005629

Oh ok

Is there another metric that could be confused ?

Zacharee1

?

user3005629

Why would anyone understand other that Hertz ?

from Mhz

Just asking I appreciate the correction indeed

dunno If that's a correct use of "indeed"

Zacharee1

idk what you're saying :P

user3005629

LOL

Awesome hahaha

Can someone evaluate this duplicate marking ? | askubuntu.com/questions/769329/…

Zacharee1

13:44

No, that's a valid dupe

it gives the answer you need

and it's the same desire

user3005629

And what about the "pragmatical/semantical" thing?

Zacharee1

what?

user3005629

As I suspected...

No biggie I'll just make a blogpost about that "pargmatical/semnatic" concept

Zacharee1

14:14

Seems my launcher was an issue

Installing TWRP it seems

flashing

please don't brick

seeing if I can reboot

YES

I have TWRP!!!!

Zacharee1

14:45

Flashed SuperSU

uh oh

bootloop

Let's see if reseating the battery helps

user3005629

Did it start making sandwiches out of control?

Zacharee1

what?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How can I give my username root SFTP write access?

Basically my username when connecting through SFTP cannot edit any files. How can I change this so that I can edit whatever file I want?

ubuntu permissions root sftp

Videonauth

0

A: Instalé Ubuntu 16.04 en mi laptop Acer Aspire E1-431-2474 y no le funciona el touchscreen

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. As this is an English only question website, you need to edit your question to be in English if you wish to receive responses...

Zacharee1

wiped cache and fixed permissions

let's see

Videonauth

14:49

....

Zacharee1

@Videonauth that should be a comment

user3005629

You said : "Uh oh"

Videonauth

yep :p

user3005629

@Zacharee1

Zacharee1

grr still bootloop

user139252

14:50

No hablas espanol.

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 i just wonder this user seems to be a regular on the site seeing his rep and badges

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne that's second person

@Videonauth yeah

flashed new TWRP to install SuperSU

let's see if that works

Zacharee1

15:46

2.1GB download

sigh

400MB to go

200MB

I really hope this download has what I need

100MB

user139252

@Zacharee1 Further proof of my inability to speak Spanish :P

user139252

I need a comic book illustrator

Zacharee1

16:02

you're back

user139252

I have a realllllllly good idea for a super hero, and I've already written out the first story line, but I cannot draw at all :(

Zacharee1

:/

user139252

ANIMAL CROSSING IS COMING TO ANDROID, MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!

Zacharee1

cool

I need to get my phone working before I go back to school today

I want to try out Cyanogen

Now that I have an unlocked bootloader

I could use 6.0.1 :DD

Middle-finger emoji, here I come :p

Downloading CM

It's an unofficial build for the Verizon Note 4 Dev Edition, but I think the only difference between dev and reatil is the bootloader being locked on reatil

and now it isn't :D

But this download's kind of slow

5Mb/s :/

ooh. 1MB/s

Good thing I made a backup, even if it was with SmartSwitch

Mateo

16:35

@TheBrownOne my sister used to draw a bit

Zacharee1

OK. I actually don't want to try CM

I'm going to get back to stock and then try a Note 5 port

user136984

16:47

@SQuirel It only starts to count the rep you have on other SE sites in chat once you have over 200 rep on them.

user136984

Though obviously it counts the rep of the parent site no matter what it is, otherwise until you reached 201 rep on that site it would say you didn't have any here.

Mattew Developer

Hello

user136984

@Zacharee1: You'll reach 9,999 rep and then nobody will ever upvote you again. ;P

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda :(

Zacharee1

17:14

Well I somehow got a virus on Windows 10

So I'll have to fix that some time

Mateo

Woah, these plants have pattents?

Zacharee1

wat

Mateo

signs that say "ppaf unauthrized propagation prohibited"

what is the world coming to...

Zacharee1

wat

c'mon MTP driver, INSTALL

I need my phone to work

user136984

@Zacharee1: What does the virus do?

Zacharee1

17:25

It keeps spawning in processes and recreating folders

it injects ads and prevents Windows Defender from starting

user136984

Oh, well, the first one is rather funny, the ads and AV blocking isn't very nice...

user136984

I actually have a cross-platform virus (well, malware, it doesn't actually spread) on my machine... So when I finally find it again (I lost it), remind me not to run it... :P

user136984

I'm not sure where it is or what I renamed it to... :D

user136984

Buts it's been around for a few years now so...

user136984

Anyway, I would definitely know if I had accidentally run it... There is another more lethal virus somewhere around my machine, but I'm hoping that only did bad stuff on Windows as I haven't found it yet... And no idea what I called it either...

user136984

17:28

I'm hoping that I didn't actually keep it... But I really don't remember! :D

Zacharee1

lol

user136984

They're from my days of malware analysis, I just happened to lose two of the viruses I downloaded... :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

17:40

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Q: wifi driver fails to load firmware on kernel 4.6.0-rc2

Distro - Ubuntu-14.04. For development purposes I built and installed 4.6.0-rc2 kernel. All works well except wifi: % dmesg ... [ 9.092503] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux [ 9.092506] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation [ 9.092771] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: can't disable ASPM...

linux ubuntu wifi drivers firmware

user136984

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Zacharee1

17:59

FINALLY

Odin is letting me flash the stock image

And no @ParanoidPanda, that's the program, not the god

This is gonna take a while

At least it's working and at least I made a backup

@Fabby would be proud :p

failed! :(

user136984

18:17

@Zacharee1: Is there a close vote on this question?

Zacharee1

no

user136984

@Zacharee1: Well, I cast a close vote and then retracted it but it's still in my vote history... So maybe they changed how it works...

Zacharee1

idk

Trying again

Thank God

It went through

It's optimizing apps and whatnot

Then I just need to run Smart Switch

and then I think I'll install TWRP, but leave it there until SuperSu is fixed

Although...

If I do the root before anything's installed maybe it'll work better

We'll see I guess

Hey, my data's all still here

user136984

19:04

Yeah... These were the good times (except for the roboduck accusations I just noticed further up the page :D)! :)

Videonauth

is there a complete dark theme for unity? and if how to obtain it?

o/ ByteCommander

Byte Commander

19:35

@Videonauth Hey! :)

Videonauth

how are you today ?

Byte Commander

Fine, wonderful weather outside! Just had a BBQ.

Videonauth

cool here t summer comes as well slowly

did you try to do apt-get clean and removing openjdk-8 before installing 9 ?

Byte Commander

No, I did not. But those should be able to coexist.

Also, it's colliding with a file from openjdk-9-jdk-headless and nothing related to openjdk-8

Videonauth

well try an apt-get clean maybe this will be enough to redownload the cached package

Byte Commander

19:43

It's not a caching problem, but the package is not correctly created by the maintainers.

Videonauth

gimme a minute ill look into this

theres surely a way around, at least this is linux not windows :)

will dake a moment to download this

Byte Commander

@Videonauth I think I found a way. Have anything installed already?

If not, could you test my set of commands on a virgin machine?

Videonauth

well im just running apt-get install openjdk-9 and my macine is upgraded and heavily customized already

Byte Commander

Well, you could try these commands in that order anyway:

Videonauth

but tell me what you want to test and ill see if i get the test done

Byte Commander

19:57

sudo apt install openjdk-9-jdk
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

I'm not sure about the order of dpkg configure and dpkg install though. I originally ran install, which caused an error, then I configured and installed again which succeeded. So I think it should be fine to first configure and then install, but maybe the install attempt is needed twice?

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