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Tooniis

06:03

@Fabby superuser.com/q/1451233/862944

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Q: What directions, initiatives, and innovations the Ubuntu Project as a whole pursuing as of 2019?

My perspective on things (You can skip) My initial draw to Ubuntu had to do partly with the enigmatic character and vision of Mark Shuttleworth. I really bought into his vision, code of conduct, and was excited for all the things he wanted to innovate upon. Ive been with him pretty much 100% of ...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

07:58

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Q: Am getting the error when i tried to start the python server in collectd servcie in ubuntu machine?

I installed collectd in my ubuntu machine. Python server is installed by default. I need to push all my system metrics to browser using collectd. For that i need to run python server. But when i tried to run am getting the error. Please help me. Below is my code #!/usr/bin/env python import C...

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Fabby

@Tooniis Someone gave you an Ubuntu way of doing it without EFI shell.

If that works: great!

if it doesn't: ping me again.

Benny

08:12

Good morning @Fabby

=)

Fabby

@Benny Good afternoon...

Benny

:) yea

Fabby

:-) Good morning here though... ;-)

Kulfy

09:00

@Fabby Nice answer +1. I had to dig up my past low quality posts review history to see the post (PS: Still a <10k rep. user :/).

You might like to add terdon's comment for context.

@Fabby See questioner is here (@JJoao)

Fabby

@Kulfy Huh? Which comment where?

P.S. Minty question got re-opened and answered, but already had another 3 close votes against it...

Kulfy

@Fabby from here to here

Fabby

@Kulfy added reference below his question for clarification.

Thank for the tip!

Kulfy

I'm not sure if it would be legit but I'll suggest adding link of the review instead of answer so that <10k rep. user can also have a look

JJoao

@fabby, just to tell that although I hate deleters, I love Yoda quoters.

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Kulfy

09:14

@JJoao IMO they should be hated if they delete something without any canonical reason.

JJoao

@Kuffy, my answer is not important: go ahead and delete it. But in fact it works,

And it has a (poor) tentative of explanation.

And IMO the system should at least send a message saying that your answer has been deleted.

Journeyman Geek

@JJoao I think its been asked for and .... somewhat unlikely to happen

Probably might poke around main meta for an explaination if I have the energy.

Fabby

@JJoao Starred!

And you were afraid you lost your answer so fear lead to hate...

:D:D :D

@JJoao A lot of people agree, (as do I) but the Stack Exchange people don't want to.

Having said that, there is a way to see all your deleted questions / Answers by using SQL once you reach 20K rep.

By then you've stopped worrying about it.

Journeyman Geek

actually

you can always see a post you posted if its deleted

and there's a recently deleted post page in your profile?

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek yes.

Is there?

Like I said: I stopped worrying about it: had a look once when I had access to the data stuff.

@JJoao What does your avatar mean???

(Tower of basilica in Braga???)

Tooniis

09:27

@Fabby It had no effect. It completely ignored it. I've already commented on the answer so OP knows

Fabby

@Tooniis OK, so you need to dig down into the bowels of EFI.

are you comfortable with command-lines?

Tooniis

sure

Fabby

OK, so you need to install rEFInd: that is an EFI Boot Loader.

rodsbooks.com/refind

Tooniis

will do that

I have it installed on my other laptop

Fabby

Then you also need to install an EFI shell:

JJoao

09:31

@fabby, almost there tradicional portuguese Clraraboias: pinterest.pt/pin/689332286688290410

Fabby

@Tooniis wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/…

and rEFInd will recognize it and add it to its boot menu

then just use the EFI shell commands to move GRUB to the first position and reboot from the EFI shell.

@Tooniis and that's it!

Not rocket science, but not for the leyman neither.

If you post your own answer, I'll come back and upvote.

@JJoao Pinterest doesn't like no cookies

@JJoao but Wikipedia doesn't care

And it's called a Skylight in English

So basically your avatar is an Ubuntu-themed skylight!

Cool!

Tooniis

09:51

@Fabby in the EFI shell, bcfg boot dump -v shows rEFInd as first in the sequenc, followed by ubuntu then Windows Boot Manager

yet it still boots straight into Windows

that site you provided has some troubleshooting methods for this specific issue so I'll try those

Tooniis

10:17

none of those worked

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Setup .pkla rule for polkit

I'd like to start a systemd service using DBus in one of my apps which is run as non-root user myuser. For that I need to set up a PolicyKit where I'm using polkit 0.105 and added the following .pkla file to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d Identity=unix-user:myuser Action=org.freedesktop...

ubuntu systemd d-bus polkit

Tooniis

I tried to replace /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi with /efi/Boot/bootx64.efi, but it just went into a boot loop

I undid my changes already

Fabby

@Tooniis OK, seems like you have a problem I've never encountered.

Seeing what you did already and are capable of doing: 2 last straws I can throw to you:

Upgrade EFI firmware from Lenovo (you probably did this already)

On my Acer, I had to enable a superuser password to be able to do advanced stuff.

After I turned it off, the advanced stuff I did stuck though.

Tooniis

yes I di the upgrade akready

already*

Fabby

@Tooniis And that's it: no further great advice: I'm stumped now

File a bug at Lenovo???

Tooniis

10:27

Possible

Maybe I should wait for an answer on the question I put in superuser

there's already someone asking for additional input

Fabby

Unless he's called Rod Smith, I think you're out of luck: there are very few people who know a lot about UEFI.

But: I wish you luck anyway!

Journeyman Geek

Rod Smith hangs out on SU sometimes

Fabby

0:-)

@Tooniis Did you try adding a supervisor / admin / ... whatever it's called on Lenovo password?

Tooniis

11:02

@Fabby you mean the password I can set in the UEFI settings? I didn't try to do that, and I don't know how it would help, but I'll try it anyway

Tooniis

11:25

@Fabby someone posted an answer that fixed it for me

it was about replacing bootmgfw.efi with grubx64.efi

Fabby

12:18

@Tooniis Cool!!!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Slow ethernet, fast wifi

I'm running a Lenovo Legion Y7000P with Pop OS 18.04. My ISP is AT&T. My WiFi tests at about 20Mbps down, 5Mbps up, but my ethernet-over-power set, which is rated for 600Mbps up/down, only gets 10Mbps down, 6Mbps up, and my other laptop can easily reach 30Mbps down, so I doubt it's the network of...

ubuntu networking ethernet

Kulfy

16:06

@JJoao I didn't know about that. I used to think that OP is notified by an automated notification. Sometimes SE is strange.

Kulfy

16:36

Any idea why there are so many Pop!_OS questions posted in recently?

traducerad

Hi, why is it that when I do gcc foo.c -o foo

and then readelf -a foo

it says the type is shared object and not executable?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: What's the best way to accomplish receiving an stream and keep it going 247 but have a fail over solution?

I want to use a small Linux machine to receive an icecast stream from the internet and play out through a usb sound card. I can do this easy enough with several programs. The problem is that I want to be able to monitor that there is audio being played and if the stream goes down or the network g...

ubuntu streaming

Fabby

19:40

@Kulfy System76 used to be Ubuntu, but they've createted their own OS but still tell their end-users to come here for first-line help.

#27 on DistroWatch

@traducerad Because you haven't linked yet.

.C-->.obj-->.elf

@EliahKagan You seem to be very active on AU lately...

Are you having a vacation and doing fun stuff???

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Got stuck in Emergency mode with ACPI Error

I am using ubuntu 16.04. I probably have done sth which damaged the system file. After reboot, I am stucked in emergency mode. The error is about ACPI like below. I am not sure what is wrong here. Could anyone offer me some suggestion? I really need some help.

ubuntu filesystems root-filesystem system-recovery

overexchange

22:40

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Q: GPG error - Cannot build openjdk:8-jdk image on ubuntu 16.04

Am trying to create a automated build system with epheremal jenkins slaves as generic build containers Amidst creation of an image from below Dockerfile: FROM openjdk:8-jdk # This is FROM openjdk:8-jdk RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ bzip2 \ ...

apt docker debian openjdk

Fabby

23:12

@overexchange Are you running Debian or are you running Ubuntu?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

23:26

@Fabby Happy Friday

Fabby

@WinEunuuchs2Unix It is indeed!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Fabby BTW I went with Sunday as the week ending date like you suggested. Just found out my BASH script can crash the whole desktop such that only the mouse pointer can move.

Fabby

@WinEunuuchs2Unix :D :D :D Fork Bomb!!!

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I forgot you North Americans start the week on Sunday!

;-)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

LOL... yeah but my Sunday backup is at 4:00am so it really my Saturday work anyway.

Fabby

Indeed!!! :-)

Don't you have anything better to do on a Friday-evening???

I just came back home from going out.

AFK. BRB.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

23:36

@Fabby I'm taking vacation next month. Tonight I'm just relaxing at home after week of work. Writing the gmail backup program believe it or not helps me relax at home.

Fabby

Yeah, true: your line of work is so different from programming, that: Yes, I believe you!

;-) 0:-)

And now I'm going for a smoke!

BRB

back.

overexchange

23:57

@Fabby am running ubuntu

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