User1: 4.8 is a weird choice
User2: I want to change the color of the windows (default is black) in mate, but don't know how to do this
User3: hello
User4: I spent all last night installing UM 17.04 on a friends laptop but it failed right at the end and didn't boot - GRUB doesn't show
User4: There was a vague error right at the end was something like "Some packages failed to install or be removed. Install can continue but you will have to re-install these later" something like that
User4: It didn't say which packages
User4: It was a UEFI laptop running Win 10. I disabled secure boot first and I chose to install it alongside Windows 10 bootloader
User4: Is a UEFI laptop
User4: Anyone else had a similar problem?
User4: I was watching the console as it insalled and it looked like GRUB installed without error but there was no trac of a GRUB boot meu after install
User4: If if manually install a bootloader, I expect it will boot but thats not the point of th installer
User4: I think this is the first time I've trie setting up dul boot with Win10 where w10 was already installed. This should work, right?
User4: I manually resized the Windows partition to make way for a (XFS) Linux partition. Maybe it was me choosing XFS that caused it to fail?
User4: Maybe ext4 would've worked?
User5: I'm not sure if grub supports xfs or not,
User5: but since this issue isn't related to the desktop environment that you're using, you could ask in #ubuntu where there are more users
User5: You can boot with a live cd and fix grub; if it boots after than, then xfs shouldn't have been an issue
User5: *that
User4: alkisg, Do you think a `sudo grub-install /dev/sda` or whatever will do it?
User4: alkisg, GRUB does defo. support XFS, I've used it for years
User4: There may be a bug in the installer that fluffs the GRUN install if you use XFS root on UEFI?
User4: or maybe not as GRUB SEEMED to install without error, but evidence says otherwise
User5: User4 the proper way to answer that would be to pause when you saw the installer errors, and then report them, attach them etc
User5: Now just making speculations won't help much in solving the underlying bug
User4: I should also mention I saw 1000's of the same error/warning during install, something about memory
User5: Now, booting with a live cd and running grub-install or chroot'ing to the installation and dpkg-reconfiguring should help, yes
User5: If you have hardware issues, that would also explain errors :)
User5: Try running a memtest as well
User4: When I say memory error, it was unlike any I've seen
User4: It looked like it could be a 'feature'
User5: Precise messages help
User4: "balancing memory"?
User4: I can't remeber the eact wording
User5: So, now you need to actually start doing things, and report them as you see them
User5: OK; what's done is done
User5: You can either retry installing, or try to salvage the existing one
User6: hey guys.. i'm trying to find out where do you guys have installer strings for translations
User4: but it showed it after synaptic/dpkg or whatever 'installed' every package
User5: But there's no point in talking about what you remember happened
User6: i can't find it on transifex
User5: User6 by installer, you mean ubiquity, and not ubuntu welcome?
User5: Ubiquity is not specific to ubuntu mate, so I would expect it not to use transifex but launchpad
User6: alkisg hmm.. thats a good point! thanks :)
User5: np
User6: good point..but no luck :( ubiquity strings are translated
User6: http://shrani.si/f/1T/133/3IdvdCrK/priprava-na-namestitev.png i'm looking for english strings in this screenshot
User5: User6 can you post a screenshot of what you see that's untranslated?
User5: This is not specific to mate
User4: The "memory error" was ubiquity "balancing RAM" or something, after installing almost evety package. Ring any bells? I've never seen 'buntu do that
User5: Are you talking about the mp3 line?
User5: Eh sorry the "This software..." line?
User6: alkisg yea.this software bla bla bla
User5: User6 ok, yes that would be ubiquity in launchpad then
User4: It seems to be a new flaw/feature of ubiquity/apt/dpkg but I cant help but think it slows install down. The laptop I was installing on has 4GB RAM
User5: User6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1625567
User7: Launchpad bug 1625567 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "string without spanish translation on YY's "Preparing to install ubuntu" screen â .pot- files missing?" [Undecided,Confirmed]
User5: User4 never heard of it, no. If you want to try reinstalling, pause at the point when it does that, and join irc from there.
User6: alkisg yea its a bug.. the string has been translated for over a year now and it wasn't included in the release.. thanks for your help
User5: np
User5: Mention in the bug that it affects other languages too
User8: Deeply impressed by Ubuntu Mate, - I get the feeling my distro-hopping days are over, after a couple of days of tests, I'm struggling to find anything of note that's wrong with 17.04 Mate.
User8: Huge thanks to Popey for that initial decision to pull Mate into Ubuntu and setting this all off.
User9: User8 Yuo obviously haven't worked out the major drawback with it... everytime you turn your machine off, the desktop is gone!  ;-)
User9: Fortunately it seems to recover ok (for some unknown reason) every time you turn your machine back on :-D
User8: That's odd.. - don't have that issue, - is it consistent on every boot for you?
User8: I'll give it another test on that front and check journalctl
User9: lol
User8: Super that's possibly the most dad-level joke ever.. ;)
User9: ;-)
User10: Sorry to ask again but will there be an iso for 17.04 for the Raspberry Pi 3?
User11: hello, german mate users here ?
User12: hello, beutifull peoples!
User8: hi!
User12: any ones knows what is the best operating system for Raspberry PI2?
User8: I'd say Ubuntu-Mate? More so given we're in the same channel.. :)
User12: OTHER?
User8: Other OS? Raspbian would be the default and a good starting point.
User13: wow
User14: Is 17.04 no longer in beta? If so, do I need to install it again? I'm currently using beta 2.
User15: no , you dont need to install again . only let update
User14: do I type "let update"?
User14: okay thanks
User16: PlainDave, i don't think that's what Mikelevel meant
User16: typing let update to a terminal does nothing
User17: Hi, may I ask question about linux and torrent to use?
User17: I just switched over to ubuntu/linux and i have iptorrents. Is Bitorrent the recommended torrent for Linux?
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