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04:30

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Q: Battery alarm command is not working in LXDE?

I am using lxde desktop for my ubuntu 14.04. I have used synaptic package manager to uninstall some old files of qemu. But after that, I realize that some packages are removed from ubuntu eg: python IDLE,gedit etc. Now the problem is that My Battery ALARM command is not triggering when critical ...

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05:19

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Q: Should we have a "Culture Tour"?

The Welcome Tour takes new users through the mechanics of the SE sites. Should we have an additional tour that explains key parts that are expected of the AskUbuntu community? Things like: (Thoroughly) Search first Be specific in questions (and show how to get output and/or screenshots) Don't...

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Nathan Osman

06:33

@TheWanderer still up: sechat.quickmediasolutions.com

Sidenote: you can monitor its uptime here now :D msm.quickmediasolutions.com

It's a new tool I'm working on.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

07:17

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Q: NFS Service won't start

My NFS Service won't start @server end.

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Fabby

07:37

@Zanna I'm a moderate anarchist...

(you always need some rules but we need as little as possible and limits on the number of rules needs to be baked into the system)

TheWanderer

09:47

@NathanOsman ooh

@Fabby you're anything but moderate :D

Fabby

@TheWanderer I never thought of myself as an extremist...

Please elaborate?

(help me become a better person)

@TheWanderer ;-) >:-) ;-)

(I missed the smiley, sorry!)

TheWanderer

@Fabby I'm conflating words lol

You're eccentric

Fabby

Nah, I'm not rich enough!

TheWanderer

@Videonauth how's the Note 4 doing

Fabby

Poor and weird: crazy

rich and weird: eccentric!

TheWanderer

09:53

@Fabby in that case you're CRRRRRRAZYYYYY

Cookoo for Cocoa Puffs?

Fabby

@TheWanderer Thank you! (I take that as a compliment as crazy and genius are just a step away from one another)

(Is it genius that is just a step away from crazy or crazy from genius??? I forgot! ) ;-)

@TheWanderer Is that an idiom denominating craziness?

TheWanderer

Are you telling me

You don't know the Cocoa Puffs ad?

Fabby

I don't even know what they are... I was googling them.

TheWanderer

Gasp

Fabby

Ah! Breakfast cereal:

TheWanderer

09:57

Ye

Fabby

An industrialised foodstuff made from subpar ingredients in giant extruders

it's bad for you! stop eating it! Have eggs and bacon instead!

(or steak and eggs if you're observing Kosher/Halal food rules)

TheWanderer

I haven't had Cocoa Puffs in years

Fabby

Phew!!! Good man!

TheWanderer

That chemical chocolate does taste good though

Fabby

AFAI can read, it's cocoa with flavour enhancer.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:50

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Q: root_LVM not listed in LVM command output

I am not able to list the root_disk LVM in lvm commands (like pvs, vgs etc.) output. The lvm.conf file does have global_filter and it looks like below - global_filter = [ "a|^/dev/mapper/96005076307ffc6a60000000000001501.*|", "r/.*/" ] 96005076307ffc6a60000000000001501 happens to be my root...

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Pandya

12:34

Has ubuntu Budgie anything to officially do with Ubuntu?

Rinzwind

12:55

@Pandya ubuntu budgie remix has official community flavor status

Here is the official notice: ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting-2/2016/…

Videonauth

@TheWanderer beside the battery litch it works

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

13:51

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Q: how to solve forbidden error while running html file on apache server?

i want to run localhost server on ubuntu. i already installed apache server on ubuntu. i got following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

ubuntu apache-httpd webserver

Aaron Hall

14:14

hey! my wifi doesn't update. It's becoming a big problem. Any suggestions?

Journeyman Geek

"My wifi dosen't update" ._.

is a bit unclear

Aaron Hall

the list of available connections doesn't repopulate in the applet.

TheWanderer

@JourneymanGeek Pixel 3 XL?

Journeyman Geek

That's a bit better....

Aaron Hall

I take my laptop home, it doesn't see my wifi. I get on the subway, it doesn't see TransitWirelessWifi(sp?)

I go to work, it doesn't see my work wifi.

TheWanderer

14:17

solution: get a new laptop

Aaron Hall

I go to a meetup, can't connect.

TheWanderer

:>

Aaron Hall

It's a year-old ThinkPad, don't think the problem is the hardware...

TheWanderer

ThinkPad? That's your problem

Lenovo is not good

Aaron Hall

I can force it to connect by selecting "Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi Network".

(most of the time.)

TheWanderer

14:18

how often do you reboot

Aaron Hall

I rebooted a couple of days ago.

But that shouldn't be the problem.

TheWanderer

and it was a problem before that too?

Aaron Hall

And if it is, whatever process manages this should re-initialize every few days then.

TheWanderer

"shouldn't" is dangerous in computers

because they shouldn't do a lot of things

but they do

@avazula Luci!

Aaron Hall

Or the user should have some way to tell it to via the GUI. I've been researching iw a bit, but the options are hard to decipher and I still don't know what's the right way to reinitialize this without logging out. Why should I have to log out?

TheWanderer

14:21

because things break

stop trying to find a way to not use the best solution available

just because we joke about "have you tried turning it off and on again" doesn't mean it doesn't work

Aaron Hall

Then "fix" them, don't tell me "have you tried turning it off and on again".

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Unable to open a .php file with notepadqq yet no problem when opened with Ubuntu's default text editor

I run a webserver on the Ubuntu machine and I want to edit a page located in /var/www/html. At first I did everything from the default text editor (changes were made without problem) but then I installed notepadqq for better comfort. The problem: when I open a .php file with notepadqq, only a bl...

ubuntu editors

TheWanderer

it might not be something to fix

you can't "fix" random bit flips

just reboot the laptop

if it doesn't work, we go from there

Aaron Hall

You can reload drivers. You can reinitialize programs.

TheWanderer

fine

go ahead and do that

Aaron Hall

14:23

Great. Which program?

TheWanderer

no idea

Aaron Hall

In any case, the above contains my situation. When I get frustrated enough I'm going to start using Arch because Ubuntu is too user-friendly to fix problems that can be fixed by "turning it off and on again".

TheWanderer

sorry, but you don't want to reboot because it's too "user friendly"?

Aaron Hall

If it helps, in the past doing sudo iw wlp3s0 scan trigger has temporarily resolved the issue, but then the applet starts misbehaving...

I tried it just now, "command failed: Device or resource busy (-16)"

TheWanderer

that's a cue to reboot

just reboot

Aaron Hall

14:29

I've got multiple tabs open with ongoing drafts. Rebooting causes a problem for that...

I'm not really interested in performing a work-around. I want to find the direct source of the problem and fix it.

TheWanderer

did this problem only start since the last reboot?

Aaron Hall

No, it's been an ongoing problem.

For the last 5 years probably.

TheWanderer

that's the information I needed

Aaron Hall

It's gotten increasingly worse.

TheWanderer

I asked before and you didn't answer

and 5 years?

you've only had this laptop the past year

what did you have before?

Aaron Hall

14:32

That's right, I had a Dell Studio before. Looked cool, but it was a bit clunky...

TheWanderer

you installed a new instance of Ubuntu on the ThinkPad?

Aaron Hall

Naturally.

well, I'm rebooting now, because I don't have all day, but it really bothers me that this is an ongoing problem that is never addressed.

TheWanderer

I've never even heard of the issue before

and Google doesn't have anything either

Aaron Hall

Yeah, I guess people don't go to the effort to solve their connectivity problems when they're disconnected...

When they can simply reboot.

But that means there are no posts about it.

TheWanderer

someone would've complained if they were getting intermittent issues

Aaron Hall

14:38

I've complained many times in this chat room.

TheWanderer

maybe make a bug report?

it doesn't make sense that it's only you, because it's on two separate machines

but it seems like it's you

are you maybe very north or very south?

or in a place with high radioactivity?

Aaron Hall

I'm in NYC, not a ton of rads...

But there's a tonne of wifi...

avazula

@TheWanderer :D

Aaron Hall

For example, (when it's working correctly) when I'm on the subway, my laptop connects at every station on the same SSID.

And I constantly see a revolving cast of other SSIDs.

TheWanderer

is it possible both laptops have the same WiFi card?

Aaron Hall

14:47

I really doubt it, the Studio was really old.

Aaron Hall

15:00

There should be a button labeled something like "reload wifi stack" that unloads everything, and then reloads it... or so I think.

Maybe my answer is here somewhere: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/…

I think the problem with searching for this issue is that there's not a solid glossary of terms that specifically describe the problem. e.g.: askubuntu.com/q/845335/247661

If I'm an Ubuntu user, I'm just going to search for (or open new questions on) whatever error messages pop up.

The wifi applet demonstrates erratic behavior but there's no error message - it's just malfunctioning.

And there's no way to figure out where it's going wrong. Is the Applet in error (it has been in the past disconnected from the actual behavior of my machine, saying I'm not connected when I am, for example.), or is there a problem with a driver? firmware? hardware? some compatibility layer in between?

where is the source for the applet even located?

Is it directly using "NetworkManager"?

Aaron Hall

16:09

I think the applet I'm referring to is goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-indicator-plugin

but I only recently started using xfce so it's probably a deeper issue.

but if I can explore the source code I can probably figure out what it's using at a high level... but I can't do that right now because I gotta do some configuration work...

Aaron Hall

16:53

ok, I'm blocked on my config work... digging a little deeper...

Ask Ubuntu Meta

18:11

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Q: Question and Answer Plus Rant in question box. Best Practices?

During review I was presented with How to connect to Bigcommerce webdav via 18.04<-- solution At first glance this appears to be just a Question and answer combined and in fact @triplee caught that and commented accordingly. However, the post goes on to rant about the company that they perceive t...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

19:38

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Q: Change owner for files generated by server

is there any possibility to change the default owner of the files when edited by a server? I have a server running in another screen, when I use command on the server, the files I edited through the command sets the owner to root user. But I need to have another user as an owner of the file.

ubuntu

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:40

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Q: Configuring Automatic Login for Ubuntu

When booting up into Ubuntu it has a dialog with the default user and an input field for a password. How do I disable this prompt so the default user is automatically logged in?

ubuntu login

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Q: Touch events not working when Chromium is run in kiosk mode

I'm having an issue wherein touch events do not work on a touch-capable monitor when Chromium is started with the --kiosk flag. If I remove the flag, touch events behave as I'd like them to. Here's the command I'm using to start Chromium: chromium-browser --kiosk \ ...

ubuntu kde chromium-browser

PerlDuck

21:02

Huh?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

21:27

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Q: Why do num key slash, asterisk, minus, and plus not work in > tmux 2.1?

On some of my newer Ubuntus, the number keypad /, *, -, and + keys don't work. If I quit tmux and just use a regular ol' Putty SSH session, they do. Ubuntu 14 tmux 1.8 works Ubuntu 16 tmux 2.1 works Ubuntu 18 tmux 2.6 doesn't work Is there an option I can use in a tmux.conf file to restore th...

ubuntu ssh tmux putty

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

21:59

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Q: Can't download file via TFTP on Ubuntu machine from Windows 7 machine

I tried download file via TFTP on Ubuntu 16.04LTS machine from TFTP server (TFTPD32) running on Windows 7 machine. On Ubuntu every time I got error Transfer timed out. On Windows 7 PC Windows firewall is configured to allow tftp traffic, but I also tried with firewall completely disabled, and An...

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Fabby

22:15

@Wildcard Nice place you live in! ;-)

Wildcard

@Fabby :D

That took me a minute to get; I forgot about putting that in my profile. :)

Fabby

Out-of-the-box-thinker? (all of the time?)

@Wildcard So that was a delayed laugh???

:D ;-)

Wildcard

Yep!

Okay, I realized after coming here that my question really should go on the main site, so I've put it there:

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Q: Best way to report/handle problems with Wine?

I've just started using Wine. It runs my two games fine, but then after like 10-15 minutes it crashes with a "page fault on read access to 0x00e2e000 in 32-bit code". I then have the option to save a backtrace, which I have done. I know this isn't the place for reporting bugs as such, but I ha...

wine crash bug-reporting

karel

22:34

@Wildcard This answer: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/324141/… That you posted at U&L Q&A is under-appreciated and should have been upvoted more. I frequently use it.

Wildcard

@karel thanks for telling me! Glad it's helped you. :)

Which part in particular, the LESS environment variable along with a man command?

karel

I use the whole answer, and it saves me a lot of time.

Wildcard

Cool.

@karel you've inspired me to post publicly an "abbreviated less help" I made for a professional shell training I delivered a while back — gitlab.com/snippets/1762613

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