Guest70234 2017-01-29 13:46:48
Trying to install Ubuntu onto an external harddrive. Doing so to see if my friend's bluescreens is a virus or a hardware problem. Anything I should know about it or is it simply 'plug and play'?
Guest70234 2017-01-29 13:52:17
Nevermind, found a guide on the Ubuntu page.
amitu 2017-01-29 14:00:40
trying to install libinput-gestures in ubuntu 14.04 but first it requires me to add my user to the 'input' group which doesn't seem to exist /etc/group
amitu 2017-01-29 14:00:55
should i just create the group?
amitu 2017-01-29 14:00:58
using groupadd?
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:01:57
if it doesnt exist already then create it with groupadd
amitu 2017-01-29 14:04:50
ok did that but /dev/input/* is still owned by root:root. i guess i need to reboot, and maybe the existence of input group will cause it to add permissions to that
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:10:44
hi all. my SO is having a problem with her ubuntu desktop where the system refuses to start up. it hangs after the startup menu with the recurring messages "created user slice", "started session", "removed user slice", over and over again. could this be related to a recent system update or the new wayland desktop? please help i've not seen this before and troubleshooting it has gone a bit beyond my ken...
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:11:40
daniel331: ubuntu or any of the flavors dont use wayland yet. what system is that exactly?
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:13:02
its ubuntu gnome. I wasn't sure about wayland since I am actually a fedora user. google seemed to think it might be something to do with wayland, glad we can rule that out... :-)
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:15:00
do you see the login screen? or when does the boot stop?
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:15:36
no, no login screen. it freezes before X loads...
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:16:12
can you change to tty1 and start the gdm service from there? sudo service gdm start /restart
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:16:52
no, no access to TTYs. we have access to root shell via recovery mode tho !
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:18:47
we're not sure what preceeded the problem. i suspect an update..
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:19:41
can you look at the logs from recovery? because that output seems to be gnome related and not very specific
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:20:55
maybe worth a shot is to make sure "WaylandEnable=false" is set /not commented on /etc/gdm/custom.conf or similar.
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:21:49
aye, we just did that. i'll try to bring up the logs. which ones in particular are worth paying attention to? x.org.log?
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:22:10
yes, xorg and syslog
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:22:17
will do
grantwu 2017-01-29 14:23:23
Does anyone know what these logs might mean? http://lpaste.net/8600874754171207680
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:27:15
grantwu: its a log of those programs telling apparmor to not be bothered by it.
grantwu 2017-01-29 14:27:55
k1l_: Any idea why it might appear? The server is only running a weechat instance, which segfaulted around that time. I doubt weechat is touching apparmor and the server isn't doing anything else
k1l_ 2017-01-29 14:29:13
grantwu: that should not be related. but that might show that there was some network issue/change when dhcp clients get activated
grantwu 2017-01-29 14:29:22
I see
daniel331 2017-01-29 14:37:49
hmm both syslog and xorg.log seem to have stuff related to the succesful boots to recovery mode. is there anything in particular I should / be grepping for?
hoverflow 2017-01-29 14:40:47
Hi, quick question guys. Shouldn't I get prompted for passphrase when sshing to a server if my private key is stored encryped? It used to prompt me for the passphrase to decrypt my private key when sshing but not it stopped and I can't ssh to my server.
hoverflow 2017-01-29 14:40:53
Can this be the problem?