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RolandiXor

00:19

My hat makes me look like James Brown

Congrats @Oli

3

Seth

oi. Congrats Oli!

4

RolandiXor

Gonna have to drop out of Gnome Shell D:

I like the Ubuntu set up, but gosh this thing is sluggish

TheWanderer

yayyy

got Adaptive Brightness working

terdon

00:42

@Videonauth Sorry, no idea what comment you mean.

TheWanderer

00:58

the one from that U&L post

aquí unix.stackexchange.com/questions/411896/…

terdon

@TheWanderer Oh. Well, that is what the OP is asking for.

TheWanderer

apt purge ... will remove apt

terdon

Yes.

Nov 30 '16 at 17:59, by terdon

> It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.

TheWanderer

No

OP wants apt to remain

terdon

@TheWanderer Oh! Good heavens, that isn't supposed to be taken literally. Or, at least, that's not how I took it. It just means the "solution" is to use apt purge. You mean they're actually suggesting apt purge ... with the dots? I thought that was an ellipsis.

TheWanderer

01:03

nope

OP is taking it literally

terdon

OH well. You've left them a comment. And they want to crash their system anyway. But OK, I'll delete.

Gone.

TheWanderer

woosh

terdon

So, for that matter, am I. G'night!

TheWanderer

alright

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

01:53

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Q: Ubuntu 16.04 - Stuck at login screen

So I know there are a ton of questions that have been answered about this, but a lot of those answers don't seem to work for me. To start off, what led up to this was that my alarm was going off, and in my rush to turn it off, I must've done something to the plug and the pc turned off (Yikes). ...

alhelal

02:44

I followed this askubuntu.com/questions/507371/…

But not works for me. Could anybody help me?

I have Teletalk modem with teletalk sim and I am in Bangladesh.

muru

03:22

Not sure what to do with this: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/787768 ... on the one hand, I'd usually reject a edit comment with profanity in it... but the poop is going to remain in the post history anyway.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

04:48

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Q: Why does SSH kill the colour in my /etc/update-motd.d/ script when force_color_prompt=yes is set in ~/.bashrc?

I have an MOTD script installed in /etc/update-motd.d that works properly, however it seems that SSH bleeds out the colour. SSHD Look: Output when running the script once logged in: Actual script: cat /etc/update-motd.d/20-logo #! /usr/bin/env bash echo ""; echo "$(tput setaf 2) .::::...

ubuntu ssh motd

Nathan Osman

06:03

Anyone know which timezone Steam uses for releasing games?

There's a game coming out on the 20th and I'm not sure which "midnight" I have to wait for :P

Journeyman Geek

06:16

man, that's the worst

Nathan Osman

I see reviews starting to pop up.

But it's still waiting to be released here.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: How to deal with "un-appreciated" answer?

User A ask question. User B came across the question, he knew the answer to question. User B answer the question provided by User A. User A view the answer. But.. User A doesn't: Give any feedback to the answer; e.g. comment on answer. Upvote/Downvote the answer. (Possibly) abandon the answer...

discussion asking-questions

Videonauth

10:45

morning

dessert

11:02

@Videonauth hi!

Videonauth

:)

in Raiders of the Lost Downboat, 59 secs ago, by Videonauth

Bläck Fööss - Kaffeebud 2013

►

:D

dessert

11:35

@Videonauth I don't know what to say…

Videonauth

why ? :P

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How I can remove multiple files with similar prefix and different suffix?

GRIBFILE.AAD GRIBFILE.AAE RIBFILE.AAF I am using shared linux workspace?

ubuntu

Byte Commander

12:17

WTF, something is wrong here...

My 16G RAM are full plus another 6GB swapped out o_O

This machine seems to have been busy over my lunch break

Videonauth

uhhm nautilus too being a memory hog? that does not seem right somehow.

Byte Commander

12:33

Especially hud-service

Killed both now before running out of swap

System breathes again.

Videonauth

hehehe still that treats the symptom, but not the cause, do the logs give away anything?

Byte Commander

Any specific log?

Videonauth

i would start with syslog

anything caused them to grow this exponential

not sure if the logs give away something but since you can narrow down the timeframe within this happened you might be able to get some information if they logged their activity

Byte Commander

Syslog is indeed full with rabbitvcs exceptions...

I guess I should purge that again

It's a git extension for Nautilus, which doesn't seem to work well with many huge repositories in the file system...

Videonauth

:) theres the cause

Byte Commander

12:39

Heh, thanks for getting me to investigate instead of ignore :P

Videonauth

you're welcome

maybe bug report it on the extension if it is from the main repos, so it can be fixed

ubuntu-bug <package-name>

Byte Commander

Eh, if anything then manually

a) purged already, b) I dunno what kind of info ubuntu-bug publishes, and this is a company machine

Videonauth

you can mark bug reports that might contain sensitive information, then only a specific group will have read rights on that report. but ok

you can preview the information which gets attached tho, but i understand your concerns

is the history command a shell built-in?

history is a command that cannot be run with sudo, since it's a shell builtin, and not an external executable at all. You should look up auditing instead of this. — muru 46 secs ago

nvm

Byte Commander

of course

cl-netbox

13:08

Hello :)

Videonauth

hello @cl-netbox, good day to you

cl-netbox

Warning : Ubuntu 17.10 Breaks the BIOS on Some Lenovo Laptops | Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem | Ubuntu 17.10 Corrupts the BIOS of Some Lenovo Laptops

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Videonauth

well if they would have stuck to legacy BIOS systems this would not even be a problem ;)

cl-netbox

@Videonauth Good afternoon to you ! :) Have you seen the warning I posted ?

Videonauth

@cl-netbox yep i did

cl-netbox

13:13

@Videonauth unbelievable - right ?

Videonauth

@cl-netbox not unbelievable when i think of lenovos latest innovation to lock some of their laptop models to be only used with windows

surely a mess up in their hardware, even a EFI bios should not corrupt hardware

cl-netbox

@Oli Congratulations from me too for reaching 200K reputation ... cool - great job ! :)

3

@Videonauth Well, I think no system ever should be able to damage a machine completely ... it could happen even to the most professional users ... not funny at all !

Videonauth

@cl-netbox well i have grown up in a time where not parking your HDD did screw you up bad times ;) and where no safety measure where taken to not act on hardware

Byte Commander

Does everyone pinging @Oli get a star now? (congrats btw. :D )

2

Eh...

It isn't even 200k yet, actually

199,968

Oli ♦, England, United Kingdom

200k 74 503 719

command-line bash server apt 12.04 scripts networking

Only the rounded version says 200k

Journeyman Geek

nice

Videonauth

13:28

@ByteCommander he was at 200.008 before midnight UTC

cl-netbox

Then let's give him the rest @ByteCommander @Videonauth ... serial voting required ! :D :D :D

Byte Commander

Ah... bountied something?

Videonauth

guess the upvotes @Rinzwind casted got reversed

Byte Commander

cough cough pls no

Let's not summon our friend Shoggy, kay?

Journeyman Geek

ehh

@Oli can do it!

2

Also, its an essential part of any milestone to be one rep short, and wait agonisingly for it to happen

4

RobotHumans

13:36

Yeah. Never sit down and say "I'm going to get 200 rep today" or something. You'll want to claw your eyeballs out in a few hours.

Videonauth

13:49

uhm is there a way of easily telling how many lines are in a file? (ascii)

Journeyman Geek

there's a command for that..

wc -l I think

Videonauth

to late the question got already two answers :/

Videonauth

14:02

well posted my answer anyways but i don't think it will be seen

@ByteCommander gnah this question stinks ;) he first accepted my answer then switched :P

Byte Commander

/shrug

dessert

@ByteCommander it was 200,008 when I checked yesterday…

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to combine local and iscsi disk in multipath?

I use two Ubuntu 16.04.03 under VirtualBox environment to test the possibility of local + iSCSI exported disk multipathing (e.g. to make multipath redirect IO in case one SAS cable is broken). I have real disks with SAS ports from both sides (which is easily emulated in VirtualBox by connecting o...

ubuntu virtualbox iscsi multipath-storage

dessert

@Videonauth Is there a special reason you escape %? Is doesn't need to be quoted normally…

Videonauth

@dessert yeah there is and i got used to it, when you use date inside crontab you need to escape it

so i got used to escape it anywhere :)

cl-netbox

14:18

Good afternoon @dessert ! :)

dessert

@Videonauth And again I learned something. :)

Videonauth

yes but true normally you not need to escape it, i simply got used to it somehow :)

dessert

@cl-netbox hi!

@Videonauth well it does no harm, I just wondered…

Videonauth

00 07 * * * /bin/tar -cPaf /home/michael/backup/wordpress/"$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d)"-wordpress.tar.gz /home/server/videonauth.dyndns.org 2> /dev/null

00 07 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump wp_production_db > /home/michael/backup/wordpress/"$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d)"-wp_production_db.sqldump

can you imagine how many headache those two lines caused me at the beginning? :)

Rinzwind

14:39

@Videonauth D:

terdon

It was actually. He lost 60:

cl-netbox

Hi terdon :)

terdon

o/

There. I just pushed him to 200k.

2

cl-netbox

@terdon good idea ... well done ! :)

now he's back where he was before :)

dessert

@terdon We need THIS starred!

dessert

15:50

Is it possible to combine X Forwarding and screen to let a GUI application run on the server and get the GUI back when connecting with the remote machine again later?

Ah, this seems to speak about it: blog.nelhage.com/2010/05/using-x-forwarding-with-screen – but the code is eight years old…

terdon

16:03

Virtual Network Computing

In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network. VNC is platform-independent – there are clients and servers for many GUI-based operating systems and for Java. Multiple clients may connect to a VNC server at the same time. Popular uses for this technology include remote technical support and accessing files on one's work...

Use a vnc, it's designed for precisely this.

dessert

@terdon thanks, I'll look into it!

Zanna

16:39

kind of thinking this question should just get answered

(or maybe the current answer is "really good" as it claims haha)

Videonauth

@Zanna the only one really good at perl I think is @terdon

Zanna

well feel free not to use Perl imho

Sergiy knows Perl well, as does Eliah Kagan afaik

terdon

Riiight, cause using whatever's new is "really good code".

Why wouldn't be answered? Are people voting to close as off topic again?

Videonauth

@terdon well yes :P

TheWanderer

Zanna

16:43

but maybe it is not very clear... I mean, we can sed the "value" after rock= trivially, but do they want everything between = and the next non-word character, or do they need a solution that can do math? IDK, so I'm not going to post that trivial sed answer

Videonauth

must ... resist ... to coment: :D

terdon

I pushed it out of the review queue. If people want to close as unclear, they should vote accordingly.

Zanna

@terdon annoyingly yeah "homework is off topic" kinda votes. I am going to come up with some awesome temptatious questions that everyone will want to answer and write <sub>btw, this is my homework</sub> at the bottom and see if they get closed

Videonauth

true that

TheWanderer

@Zanna MANIPULATION

terdon

16:45

heh

dessert

@Zanna How did this guy get to 4k rep with answers like that?

Videonauth

@Zanna oh dear :P playing advocati diaboli here?

TheWanderer

Yes "playing" >:D

Videonauth

@dessert you can ask him in chat in about 12 days or so when is suspension runs out :P

dessert

@Videonauth no thanks…

Zanna

16:47

@TheWanderer :P XD

terdon

OK, answered.

Zanna

thanks :D

TheWanderer

@Videonauth wat

Videonauth

@TheWanderer he got suspended from chatting for 14 days because he was not behaving ;)

I'm actually trying to wrap my head around a problem I'm facing right now i want to make a script which packs up log files in an archive (thats the easy part) but i want to name the archive according on the first and last line in the log. But can't wrap my head around it how to get the information I want from that lines.

Benny

wow terdon, well done Perl

Videonauth

16:54

┌─[15:32:55]─[michael@NEXUS-THREE]
└──> ~ $ head -n1 /home/server/log/access.log.1
84.1.11.243 - - [21/Jan/2017:14:53:49 +0000] "GET /index.php/2016/05/26/tutorial-how-to-install-ubuntu-and-other-debian-based-distributions-via-debootstrap/ HTTP/1.1" 200 18413 "https://www.google.hu/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36"
┌─[16:54:02]─[michael@NEXUS-THREE]
└──> ~ $ tail -n1 /home/server/log/access.log.1
71.3.17.120 - - [20/Dec/2017:16:17:50 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 27639 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident…

terdon

@Benny Nothing beats perl for text parsing.

@Videonauth What do you want from those lines?

Videonauth

expected archive name: logfiles-2017-01-21-14:53:49-til-2017-12-20-16:17:50

maybe i should write a question on Ask Ubuntu

Zanna

maybe I can post an answer about lnav :) (but atm I don't understand what you want...)

Videonauth

ok writing a question, hope i can make it clear enough

chaskes

@cl-netbox I set up a really nice Centos with minimal + mate. Boots to 380k ram, instead of of 1.5G that gnome was using.

terdon

16:59

@Videonauth Does it really need to be 2017-01-21 or will 21-Jan-2017 do?

Both are possible

What do you prefer?

Videonauth

its both fine, currently writing it as a question on AU

terdon

$ name=$(printf '%s-til-%s' $(date -d "$(head -n1 logfile | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/| |g; s/:/ /')" +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S) $(date -d "$(tail -n1 logfile | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/| |g; s/:/ /')" +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S))
$ echo $name
2017-01-21-14:53:49-til-2017-12-20-16:17:50

There you go. Nice and simple!

Zanna

O.O

terdon

>:)

Videonauth

oh wow ....

terdon

17:04

AH, sorry, forgot the "logfiles"

Videonauth

well im nearly done with my question writing so you might want to put that as an answer.

terdon

$ name=$(printf 'logfiles-%s-til-%s' $(date -d "$(head -n1 logfile | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/| |g; s/:/ /')" +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S) $(date -d "$(tail -n1 logfile | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/| |g; s/:/ /')" +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S))
$ echo $name
logfiles-2017-01-21-14:53:49-til-2017-12-20-16:17:50

Yoran Jansen

can someone help me with askubuntu.com/questions/988081/qt-fails-at-everything

terdon

Any sufficiently advanced shell one liner is indistinguishable from line noise.

@YoranJansen Please remove the SHOUTING!?!?!?!

Yoran Jansen

ok

done

@terdon Done

terdon

17:07

thanks

Could you also fix the various typos etc.? It reads as though your question was "vomited" by the same process you are complaining about. Then, explain what you are trying to do, what exactly gives the errors and when, what version and flavor of Ubuntu you are running etc. As it stands, I don't really understand what the poroblem is.

Are those errors what you see when running vlc?

Does vlc actually run or not? Can the errors be ignored?

Yoran Jansen

y7es

yes*

terdon

Also show the output of dpkg -l | grep ^qt so we can see what you've installed.

Yoran Jansen

everything including qt .. as mentions sudo apt install qt*

terdon

Excellent. Thanks.

@YoranJansen Yes, but we need to see what that did.

Yoran Jansen

sure?

terdon

17:09

For example, you question mentions q5* and I have no way of knowing if that's a typo, or if you actually tried to install q5* or what.

Yoran Jansen

qt5*

terdon

@YoranJansen That's why we need to see the dpkg output. The apt output might also have worked but that's harder to get to.

Yoran Jansen

ok please wait

terdon

Is this running in a virtual machine?

Yoran Jansen

no

terdon

17:11

OK, so the virtualbox is something else that complains about qt?

Videonauth

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Q: How to get specific information from two text lines and assemble a filename from that

I am currently writing a script to archive a couple log files and want them combined in a single archive which is named according to the first and last lines date and time in one of the log files (i.e. access.log). But for the best of me I can't wrap my head around how to get this information fr...

command-line

Yoran Jansen

yes

the entire output is excatly: ""

hello?

@terdon hello?

terdon

@YoranJansen You're a bit pushy, aren't you?

@YoranJansen The output of what, exactly?

Ah, that's because I gave you the wrong command, like an idiot!

I meant this:

dpkg -l | grep -P "^i.*\sqt"

Yoran Jansen

@terdon because i need these apps

ii libkf5dbusaddons-bin 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 class library for qtdbus
ii libkf5dbusaddons-data 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 all class library for qtdbus
ii libkf5dbusaddons5:amd64 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 class library for qtdbus
ii qt-at-spi:amd64 0.4.0-5 amd64 at-spi accessibility plugin for Qt

terdon

Yeah, doesn't look like you have the qt libraries installed. Add all this to your question and I'm sure someone will be able to help.

cl-netbox

17:19

@chaskes cool ... that's impressive :)

Yoran Jansen

i will try to do the apt again?

terdon

Not me though, I have to rush and do last minute xmas shopping. sigh.

Videonauth

@terdon i let the question stand for a bit, maybe it gets a few more answer :) +1 from me anyways already (will accept the best one in about 24 hours)

Seth

how the heck did that get messed up like that Yoran o_O

Yoran Jansen

i dont know

i think ubuntu 17.10 has a bit of aids coming to the installations, talking about qyt and the bootlaoder

Seth

17:23

you said this is a freshly installed system?

Yoran Jansen

yes

Seth

17.10?

how did you install vlc?

Yoran Jansen

sudo apt install vlc*

Seth

Okay, first thing. Do not use stars in apt commands unless you really really know what you're doing.

Yoran Jansen

but dont i install everything that vlc has so i also get the deps?

Videonauth

17:24

erm is this about VLC from daily-master?

i.e 4.0.0 ?

Yoran Jansen

it is from standard?

VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c)\

Seth

@YoranJansen no.

Yoran Jansen

?

Seth

you install every package that starts with vlc. Probably harmless in this case, but it can get really messy fast. e.g. your qt* commands would totally muck things up in all likelyhood (which is probably why you got errors)

Dependencies are pulled in automatically on a per package case.

Yoran Jansen

i also tried doing sudo apt purge qt* and sudo apt install qt-sdk but no difference

cl-netbox

17:27

@YoranJansen it should have been : sudo apt install vlc

Yoran Jansen

i just did sudo apt install qt* and now

dpkg -l | grep -P "^i.*\sqt" is:

ii libkf5dbusaddons-bin 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 class library for qtdbus
ii libkf5dbusaddons-data 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 all class library for qtdbus
ii libkf5dbusaddons5:amd64 5.38.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 class library for qtdbus
ii qt-at-spi:amd64 0.4.0-5 amd64 at-spi accessibility plugin for Qt

Seth

@YoranJansen facepalm. That was a really bad thing to do.

Yoran Jansen

and virtualbox i just did sudo apt install virutalbox virtualbox-guest-additions

-sio*

iso*

@Seth what do you mean?

Seth

@YoranJansen Lots of things need qt libraries and you just tried to purge them all.

Yoran Jansen

i will do sudo apt purge vlc and do sudo apt install vlc

cl-netbox

17:28

@YoranJansen why do you always add a star ?

Yoran Jansen

oh yea.... wayland is dead too :)) didnt even use it

@cl-netbox to be sure i get the deps

an the features

Seth

I don't think 17.10 comes with many (any?) installed by default, so you might have gotten lucky.

@YoranJansen yes, try that.

No stars. Just vlc.

Yoran Jansen

i ran vlc after the no star an it says:

VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c)
[000055dd4de4b9d8] core libvlc: Vlc draait met de standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
[000055dd4df72ee8] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
[000055dd4df72ee8] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate qt4 dialogs provider
[000055dd4df72ee8] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen completely wrong approach ! don't do that !

Yoran Jansen

core libvlc: Vlc draait met de standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken. means core libvlc: Vlc is running with the standard gui. use cvlc to run vlc withou gui

Seth

17:30

@YoranJansen you just ran vlc alone

cl-netbox

Hi Seth ! :)

Seth

hi!

Yoran Jansen

how do you mean?

sudo vlc?

just kiddin

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen no ! :D

Yoran Jansen

@Seth ???

Seth

17:31

sudo apt-get purge vlc && sudo apt-get install vlc

Yoran Jansen

apt-get?? why

thats more typing :D

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen unimportant - both works

Yoran Jansen

ok

done

and now?

cl-netbox

now what ?

Seth

output?

Yoran Jansen

17:32

Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd
De statusinformatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
De volgende pakketten zullen VERWIJDERD worden:
vlc*
0 opgewaardeerd, 0 nieuw geïnstalleerd, 1 te verwijderen en 0 niet opgewaardeerd.
Na deze bewerking zal er 219 kB schijfruimte vrijkomen.
Wilt u doorgaan? [J/n] j
(Database wordt ingelezen ... 216443 bestanden en mappen momenteel geïnstalleerd.)
vlc (2.2.6-6) wordt verwijderd ...
Bezig met afhandelen van triggers voor mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

and vlc:

VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c)
[0000564fec94c9d8] core libvlc: Vlc draait met de standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
[0000564feca73ee8] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
[0000564feca73ee8] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate qt4 dialogs provider
[0000564feca73ee8] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella

i did CTRL + C on the >

Videonauth

yoran, you know if you type LC_ALL=C in terminal it will convert output to English? (I might be able to read it, some people here too with a bit of efford)

Yoran Jansen

and how do i get it back to normal after?

Videonauth

close the terminal and reopen it

Yoran Jansen

ok

Videonauth

or restart the computer

this is a non permanent change

cl-netbox

17:35

@Videonauth or reinstall the system @YoranJansen ... :D :D :D

Yoran Jansen

it didnt change anything

@cl-netbox no

so?

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen hahaha ... was a joke ... though maybe it's necessary because you might have messed up too much ... :D

Yoran Jansen

because when i installed the system and installed vlc and vbox it started with those errors

so it wont work

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Q: Please don't approve edit-suggestions where code-format is used for emphasis

Today I saws a new user suggesting edits where he mainly used code for emphasis e.g. pcname + mac filtered WIFI - not able to connect I edited one suggestion and rejected another but the saw that he has got approved suggestions with the same pattern. Please help to educate new users to not fal...

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cl-netbox

@YoranJansen maybe the stars you used messed up the basic installation.

Yoran Jansen

17:38

no because i installed everything aending with qt now so i have everything i removed

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen does vlc launch or not ?

Yoran Jansen

no

VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c)
[00005626ff35c9d8] core libvlc: Vlc draait met de standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
[00005626ff483ee8] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
[00005626ff483ee8] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate qt4 dialogs provider
[00005626ff483ee8] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen have you seen this : hint: compile the qt4 plugin ? do you have qt4 or qt5 installed ?

Yoran Jansen

boty

both*

and vbox? with: VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQt5Core.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and what of qt can i remove after this because i have like 44 new qt icons :I

@cl-netbox ?

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen To be honest, if that was my system, I would start over from scratch ... you messed up too much - better you make a fresh install of ubuntu. :)

Yoran Jansen

17:43

but here it is like almost midnight so i dont have time (actually i am to lazy)

but the problem started raw so that doesnt make any sens

sense*

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen fixing the mess takes more time than a clean installation ... :)

Yoran Jansen

so

if i reinstall vlc nor virtualbox will work because those are the reasons i did use qt*!

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen you like stars - right ? :D :D :D

Yoran Jansen

:I

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen when you install the system and the apps in a correct way everything will work fine. :)

Yoran Jansen

17:45

@cl-netbox 1

no because i now have qt* so it has its libs and deps and when i do vlc without * it still DOESNT WORK

@cl-netbox !

cl-netbox

when you run sudo apt install vlc on a fresh system, all dependencies that are needed will get automatically installed alongside. :)

Yoran Jansen

and when i purge vlc it well

woops enter

and when i purge vlc it will get removd so a vfresh vlc should work, also i have this problem on my other pc without qt* also 17.10

cl-netbox

not necessarily

Yoran Jansen

yes because i do not use starts on there

@cl-netbox 1

cl-netbox

I have no further ideas then ... sorry @YoranJansen ... all I can say is that I never had any problem to get vlc or vbox working in years.

Yoran Jansen

17:50

i also didnt

until now

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen also : what does this "1" mean ?

Yoran Jansen

i press enter before i typed a !

and when i dod @cl-netbox you will get a message

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen that works without the "!" as well ... simply type @user-name ... :)

Yoran Jansen

ok

@cl-netbo

@cl-netbox

cl-netbox

@YoranJansen Do yourself a favor and reinstall the system ... :)

Hey Rinzy ! :) When do you pass the 200K @Rinzwind ? :D

Zanna

18:09

Is this question being reopened so that it can be closed as a dupe? If so, might be easier to mod-flag it... always difficult to find enough people to vote to close since re-openers can't vote to close even for a different reason

@AskUbuntuMeta +1!

Videonauth

@Zanna already acted on this one

Zanna

@Zanna I'll flag it

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox I need 25k ( a bit less already and we still got 1.5 week to go) and made 30.1k this year so it might happen in october next year

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind I think it won't take that much time ... :)

Videonauth

19:03

@RolandiXor why not simply start the terminal directly with a command like this: gnome-terminal -- htop

terdon

19:49

This legit?

The "confirm email" link points to whoisaccuracy-portal.networksolutions.com/…

And the sender is [email protected]

Seems as legit as it could but seriously? We need to confirm email addresses now?

Oh. Apparently I also got one in 2015. Not new then :)

Videonauth

@terdon mhmm be carefull I would say (don't trust the rabbit), it somehow smells like a scam, or is that your hosting company?

if yes you should be able to simply go to their website and log in, i ususally tend to not use links provided in emails

terdon

@Videonauth It's network solutions, the domain registrar. They used to be the domain registrar.

If I remember correctly, you used to have to buy domains from them back in the 90ies.

Videonauth

@terdon weird, i never heard of em and theeir website does not look like a registrar authority networksolutions.com

terdon

Network Solutions

Network Solutions, LLC is an American-based technology company founded in 1979. The domain name registration business has become the most important division of the company. By January 2009, Network Solutions managed more than 6.6 million domain names. In addition to being a domain name registrar, Network Solutions provides web services such as web hosting, website design and online marketing, including search engine optimization and pay per click management. == History == Network Solutions Inc.(NSI) started as a technology consulting company incorporated by Gary Desler, Ty Grigsby, Emmit J. McHenry...

Videonauth

and i have several .com and .de domains

so i would know if i would have to verify my information on them

terdon

19:56

@Videonauth You won't be with them unless you've had them for many many years. Or not necessarily. They were the first, I think, to offer .com but that was in the 90ies.

> In 1992, NSI was the sole bidder on a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop the domain name registration service for the Internet. In 1993,[3] NSI was granted an exclusive contract by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be the sole domain name registrar for .com (commerce), .net (network) and .org (organization) Top Level Domain (TLD) names, a continuation of work NSI had already been doing.

NSI is Network Solutions.

So yeah, back in the day, if you wanted a .com, .org or .net, you had to go through them.

Videonauth

well use their website if they are your registrar you should find the same option to verify on their site if they do their buisness right

i have most of my com adresses since 2002 or so

terdon

Yeah, but that assumes I know the login details I used to set up my mother's professional website in the late 90ies. . . :P

Videonauth

and .de TLDs go through DENIC solely

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Videonauth

20:33

my actually rarest hat

Kaz Wolfe

@terdon ICANN has gotten weird at cracking down on domains recently.

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