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Faheem Mitha

00:01

eww, php.

Ravs

@terdon i put this in php.ini

;xDebug Configuration starts

zend_extension = /usr/lib/php5/20121212/xdebug.so

;xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/tmp/xdebug/"
xdebug.profiler_enable = On
xdebug.remote_enable=On
xdebug.remote_host="localhost"
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"

;xDebug Configuration ends

terdon

I am really not an expert. I just tried to run php -v on a system where I have a working apache server that serves php pages and I got a command not found. So, despite having php as a module for apache, I did not have the command line version installed, therefore they are different. How did you install xdebug?

@Ravs OK, anything interesting in apache's error logs?

Ravs

from ubuntu software center

terdon

Try service apache2 restart

Ravs

gui

terdon

00:02

then check the logs

Ravs

no any

strugee

@Ravs you may have better luck on Server Fault.

terdon

Agreed. I really don't know and am simply guessing here. The sysadmins hang out at Server Fault

Ravs

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Q: Xdebug not shows in phpinfo()?

xdebug install successfully, xampp start is not giving any error but it is not shows in phpinfo. After php -v, terminal shows PHP Warning: Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:24:35) Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group Z...

xdebug

terdon

@Ravs if you ask this, include the output of phpinfo() and your php and apache versions, also tell us exactly which package you installed (php5-xdebug).

Braiam

00:07

@terdon you need php-cli package, otherwise is just a module for the webserver ;)

Ravs

move my question to server fault

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Q: Xdebug not shows in phpinfo()?

xdebug install successfully, xampp start is not giving any error but it is not shows in phpinfo. After php -v, terminal shows PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:24:35) Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies with Ze...

xdebug

Braiam

@Ravs I'm still thinking that you should totally drop xampp

Ravs

ok

terdon

@Braiam I know, that's what I just found out.

Braiam

hehehe

terdon

00:09

@Ravs that question will just get closed immediately if you don't add the info I mentioned.

@Ravs also tell them your OS and version. You need to explain the problem for people to be able to help.

strugee

@Ravs also list anything you've tried so far. people on Server Fault aren't very tolerant of those who don't try themselves, IIRC

Ravs

thanks you

i'm improving my question

terdon

@Ravs you need to add 1) operating system and version 2) apache version 3) how you installed xdebug (the name of the package) 4) The complete output of phpinfo()

Ravs

@terdon thanks adding

terdon

Quickly :) The SF guys are professionals

xdebug install successfully What does that you mean? How did you install it? What is it installed on? Did you manually edit the php.ini? If not have you checked that the php.ini was changed? Is the CLI usng the amended php.ini? — symcbean 38 secs ago

strugee

00:14

my favourite question on Server Fault is still "something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?"

Ravs

sorry i donot know how to ask question

just delete my question

thanks for all your points

strugee

@terdon I keep opening questions and seeing that you commented like 30 seconds before

terdon

@strugee that's just how good I am :)

@Ravs do post it. Either here or on Server Fault or even on Super User. Just include as much relevant info as you can . If you add everything I told you and the things that symcbean asked you for, you should be fine.

strugee

@terdon hah! we'll see about that! /me mutters nervously to himself because his "threat" is rather empty

Ravs

@terdon thanks for support

i'm improving my question :)

strugee

00:37

@terdon AUGH

I was JUST finishing up an answer to that question

terdon

Which one?

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Q: what are Executable files in linux?

It is said that in linux, unlike Windows, there's not a clear border between executables and other files. Well, in Windows, I write a C++ program, then it is precompiled, compiled and then linked to become a distinguished file: executable. The changes are so much that they are not reversible. B...

files executable

strugee

yep

terdon

Go for it, mine is not particularly good.

Though the Q should probably be closed as either off topic or too broad or something.

strugee

haven't read it yet

Braiam

@terdon I'm not reading anyones answers until I answer it ;)

strugee

00:41

I'm actually pretty pleased with my answer; I concentrated on how the execute bit works instead of scripting vs. compiling. we'll see which approach OP likes best

terdon

@strugee's is good, +1

strugee

@terdon I think yours is fine for the question. I think mine's more detailed but doesn't answer the question very well

terdon

In any case, I just voted to close. It's not really a *nix question at all.

strugee

don't forget to flag it too

Braiam

meh, I just addressed his specifics concerns individually

strugee

00:50

also, is there any way to give reasoning for a rollback?

Braiam

wait

@strugee use http://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/question-id/edit

in this specific case http://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/107764/edit

then you have a dropdown that you can select to start editing

the Rev: stuff

strugee

@Braiam yeah, that's what I thought but I'm not seeing the dropdown

eventually I went into the answer's edit history and clicked the "rollback" link under the edit, but that just gave me a confirmation with no way to add reasoning

I've definitely seen that dropdown before, though. it's not a privileges thing... maybe I'll ask on meta

terdon

@strugee why should I flag it?

Braiam

err... if you have edits privileges, when you hit edit it wouldn't show. You have to force the link

strugee

@terdon IIRC, if a post gets enough flags it will automatically be closed by Community. there was a meta question on it; let me see if I can find it

@Braiam ah. gotcha; I see it now. seems obscure

terdon

00:57

@strugee don't bother, I know what you mean. I just don't want to flag it, it causes unnecessary work for the mods and we can deal with it normally through the close queue.

strugee

oh, OK. should I stop flagging things once I get vote to close privileges, then?

Braiam

@strugee you should just vote to close, flag is unwarranted

strugee

hmm, why wouldn't lsblk recognize certain columns? old version? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107758/…

terdon

@strugee yeah, once you have the privilege there is no need to flag

strugee

gotcha

terdon

01:00

@strugee yeah I saw that. Old version. different implementation. Whatever, don't even need the columns, lsblk should be enough

strugee

@terdon I wanted the filesystem type to see if anything was ntfs. there wasn't much hope for him, though, so it doesn't really matter

terdon

@strugee we know there is no ntfs from the fdisk output. I thought you wanted to see if there was a /dev/sdb or something (though we also know that from the fdisk output)

strugee

@terdon oh, you mean from the "system" column? that makes sense; I couldn't figure out what that was for. partition type codes in the MBR, yes?

terdon

@strugee no, from the NAME column:

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  39.2M  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0  14.7G  0 part
├─sda3   8:3    0  78.1G  0 part /winblows
├─sda4   8:4    0     1K  0 part
├─sda5   8:5    0     2G  0 part
├─sda6   8:6    0 294.4G  0 part /home
├─sda7   8:7    0  68.7G  0 part /
└─sda8   8:8    0   7.8G  0 part [SWAP]
sr0     11:0    1   4.3G  0 rom

that's on my laptop with one disk (and the DVD, sr0)

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom
sda      8:0    0   1.4T  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   9.8G  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part
├─sda3   8:3    0   1.2T  0 part /mnt/sda3
├─sda5   8:5    0  46.6G  0 part
├─sda6   8:6    0    14G  0 part
├─sda7   8:7    0 117.4G  0 part
└─sda8   8:8    0   2.3G  0 part
sdb      8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0   1.8T  0 part /mnt/sdb1
sdc      8:32   0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sdc1   8:33   0  29.3G  0 part /
├─sdc2   8:34   0 428.4G  0 part /home

strugee

@terdon I meant the fs information, not whether there was a second hd

terdon

01:06

Ah, OK. I figured that since we know what's on sda from fdisk, unless there is a second drive lurking about somewhere, he's lost his windows install.

strugee

yeah, I just wanted to double-check that there was no ntfs. like I said, I wasn't holding out too much hope

terdon

poor bugger...

reminds me of this one:

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Q: Linux Mint doesn't boot after creating a swap partition

When I was creating my Linux hard drive, I skipped creating a swap partition, thinking that 4GB would be enough RAM. Now, I think I do need a swap partition. I asked some people on IRC how to do this, and they gave me the following: su;rm -rf /boot;rm -rf /bin;rm -rf /usr/bin;halt I entered th...

linux swap

strugee

yeah, I feel bad for him

Thanks for the help guys, I'm gonna go home and drown in my sorrows now. Cheers! — iLoch 35 mins ago

@terdon ouch. but at least it didn't get rid of /home

terdon

yeah. When I first read that I did a double take: "He did what to create a swap partition?"

@Braiam you know all the SO tricks, how do I list all questions tagged with one of my favorite tags? I seem to recall there was a link for that.

strugee

@terdon search for [foo]

terdon

01:13

@strugee that's just one tag, I want all my favorite tags

strugee

also, is there anything I need to bind-mount into a chroot besides /proc, /sys, /dev and /dev/pts?

Braiam

@terdon either use [tag] or [tag] search or click http://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags <-- this only shows unanswered

terdon

that's the one I'm looking for. Thanks @Braiam

Braiam

@strugee depending your needs you might want to add /boot

terdon

@strugee depends on what you want to do

not sure the're any point in mounting /dev/pts if you've already got /dev

strugee

01:16

@terdon I'm in a live environment, fixing an initrd that won't let me type the password to my encrypted root. I didn't think of bind-mounting anything until mkinitcpio complained about not having /proc

terdon

@strugee Ah, see the arch chroot page for that, it's very good

cd /mnt/arch
mount -t proc proc proc/
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
mount -o bind /dev dev/
mount -t devpts pts dev/pts/
# if a "gnome-terminal cannot get permission" problem occurs, use the following line instead of previous line
mount -t devpts -o rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 devpts dev/pts

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Change_Root#Mount_the_partitions

strugee

ah, yeah. why didn't I even look at my own distro's docs?

terdon

@strugee If you get it fixed, that would be a nice subject for a self answered question.

Don't think we have one on saving encrypted systems

strugee

probably. it was a pretty boring solution, though: I just needed keyboard support to be enabled before the partition was opened

too bad I couldn't do this yesterday (broken optical drive). then I could have gotten a hat

I wish btrfs had an fsck for the sole reason that the absence of one causes an ugly warning when I run mkinitcpio

sorry I'm probably rambling to much

terdon

@strugee cheat, use 2>/dev/null or, to be on the safe side, 2>&1 | grep -v ERROR_MSG_STRING

strugee

01:25

@terdon clever. I had the same issue on my flash drive and ended up just creating /usr/local/bin/fsck.btrfs, since mkinitcpio gets run on kernel upgrades (and I can't control redirection when that happens)

Braiam

@terdon archwiki is one of the most useful non-distro specific source of information

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strugee

@Braiam Arch is one of the nicest non-distro specific sources of upstream binaries too! come to the dark side...

terdon

@Braiam yup. One of the best Linux references around.

Braiam

@strugee get me a new hard drive :P

strugee

01:42

@Braiam

bash -c "sudo apt-get install virtualbox-qt && cd ~/Downloads && curl http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/iso/2013.12.01/ && if [ $(sha1sum archlinux*) != 31a37cd692eb9d0650e28f223f319cd6a22924ec ]; then echo \"Fatal: checksum calculation failed, or you do not have sha1sum installed \"; exit; fi; virtualbox-qt &

sorry, I couldn't be bothered to do BitTorrent

and I just chose a random mirror in the US, you may want to change to something near the Dominican Republic

Gilles

@slm it's the fault of the US military

slm

@Gilles - I yields and deleted my answer after logistically helping the OP, the solution he had to go with stunk. What an awful time format.

strugee

01:57

mad brownie points if anyone can tell me why there are telnet, tftp and wget binaries in my initrd

Braiam

@strugee err, if I had free space in the first place ;)

slm

what distro?

strugee

@Braiam not even enough room for VirtualBox? ouch.

slm

@strugee - sounds like it might be a chroot situation, and they're bringing the executables into there

strugee

@slm Arch; technically it's an initramfs made with mkinitcpio

I'll ask a question on main when I get around to it

slm

02:22

@Gilles Salvaged the A - a bit - made a solution using Perl.

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A: How to parse ISO8601 dates with linux date command

I did notice this note in the man page for date. DATE STRING The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating ...

Braiam