DanW58's questions

I've added 3 partitions I want to mount on boot, but the advice I found elsewhere on the new fstab syntax only agrees with one of the TWO styles present already in my fstab, which makes me very confused. The advice I found elsewhere was,

Entry in /etc/fstab:
<UUID> <mount directory> <FS type> <mount options> <dump> <pass>
Example:
UUID=5caaee32-c3d3-429e-bad7-2898cf923805  /data  ext4  defaults 0 0

But the contents of my /etc/fstab read,

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/disk/by-uuid/42301925-9786-4ab8-b56c-a3252accf5ef / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/F759-075A /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/df063034-c8da-4f14-b1c8-52cdccecc06f /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=da0ad11a-8fd7-431a-a49a-d883037aa2c8 /LamaSpace ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4acdc978-c30b-4b3f-bbf6-0b7b99094463 /home ext4 defaults 0 2

Note that only my /LamaSpace partition uses the syntax given above; the other partitions use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ... otherwise identical syntax. Are these two equivalent idioms?

Extra info: I'm in Ubuntu 24.04. All my partitions are in a single 8 TB Barracuda HDD:

 $ blkid
/dev/sda3: UUID="42301925-9786-4ab8-b56c-a3252accf5ef" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="1f981653-4a7f-48ff-958e-d9e7ec1de51e"
/dev/sda1: UUID="F759-075A" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="91e5f592-dc00-455a-af9a-90c3ba7e914b"
/dev/sda2: UUID="da0ad11a-8fd7-431a-a49a-d883037aa2c8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="fdcdf7ad-c10b-4a98-b730-7a20db907e91"
/dev/sda4: UUID="4acdc978-c30b-4b3f-bbf6-0b7b99094463" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7e2715ef-3ae8-44da-8581-bbcc8c59b9a8"
/dev/sda5: UUID="c2bd1f6c-67af-4ea8-98ef-a9c88d92f433" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="c703710a-6545-49c2-8845-8be9dfc53e2e"
/dev/sda6: UUID="30DD-1315" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="SpareEFI" PARTUUID="eccf77e6-ee55-4f01-bd05-abf9b9dcc24a"
/dev/sda7: UUID="df063034-c8da-4f14-b1c8-52cdccecc06f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="NEWTEMP" PARTUUID="c752818c-9dd4-453c-9892-fac0db4a2b4a"
/dev/sda8: UUID="89de958a-8997-44e3-92e0-122e1272675c" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Virtual" PARTUUID="bc89cc7e-0798-4ff7-90cd-cfd36aa9cc6e"
/dev/sda9: UUID="73e18c48-92d7-4f37-b55b-da655f461824" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Sandbox" PARTUUID="5e210dd0-d9fa-4968-a27b-a2753e9c0476"

(My three new partitions are sda6, sda8 and sda9, which I mounted manually, but are not yet present in /etc/fstab.)

The plib package for game-engines is only distributed as sources, and I'm following the instructions to a T, I believe; got all the dependencies, or I thought so, but when I run ./configure it says there is no working GL.

This is very odd to me, because I got libglut-dev AND libglut3.12 already installed, as well as freeglut3-dev and all the mesa packages.

Below is the full output:

danw58@danw58-MS-7E12:~/Downloads/zip/plib/plib-1.8.5$ ./autogen.sh
Running aclocal
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
Running automake
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in:14: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For more info, see:
configure.in:14: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.in:34: installing './compile'
src/fnt/Makefile.am:9: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
src/js/Makefile.am:11: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/net/Makefile.am:11: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/psl/Makefile.am:15: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/puAux/Makefile.am:23: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/pw/Makefile.am:9: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/sg/Makefile.am:11: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/sl/Makefile.am:15: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/ssg/Makefile.am:32: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/ssgAux/Makefile.am:34: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
Running autoconf
configure.in:14: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2434: AC_DIAGNOSE is expanded from...aclocal.m4:429: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.in:14: the top level
configure.in:309: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.in:309: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:704: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.in:309: the top level
configure.in:377: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_COMPILE' is obsolete.
configure.in:377: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2847: AC_TRY_COMPILE is expanded from...
configure.in:377: the top level
configure.in:377: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_COMPILE' is obsolete.
configure.in:377: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2847: AC_TRY_COMPILE is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:692: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:699: AS_IF is expanded from...
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2823: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2839: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2847: AC_TRY_COMPILE is expanded from...
configure.in:377: the top level
configure.in:394: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
configure.in:394: You should run autoupdate.
======================================
Now you are ready to run './configure'
======================================
danw58@danw58-MS-7E12:~/Downloads/zip/plib/plib-1.8.5$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/danw58/Downloads/zip/plib/plib-1.8.5/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/home/danw58/Downloads/zip/plib/plib-1.8.5/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
includedir changed to ${prefix}/include/plib libdir is ${exec_prefix}/lib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C++... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for X... libraries , headers 
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
checking for glNewList in -lGL... no
checking for glNewList in -lMesaGL... no
configure: error: could not find working GL library
danw58@danw58-MS-7E12:~/Downloads/zip/plib/plib-1.8.5$ 

lubuntu 20.04 Alacarte menu editor doesn't work for me. The changes I make are not saved, or not as I make them. For example, I added a link to alacarte itself in the main menu, but the link appeared in the Other submenu. Same thing with any other app links I create; they all end up in Other. Code::Blocks, I created a folder C++ under Programming and put the CB link there, but it appeared directly under Programming. Also, invoking Alacarte from the menu doesn't work; only typing its name in a terminal does, and I get a message,

[code] Gtk CRITICAL: 28:13:52.528: gtk accel label set accel closure : assertion 'gtk accel group from accel closure (accel closure) != NULL' failed [/code]

Which, as a programmer myself I recognize as an assert that should not be present in software compiled for release. Anyways, maybe lubuntu is forcing its will on the menu... I suspect it's some bad setting; maybe it's accessing the wrong menu file. But the program has NO preferences or settings of any kind. Any idea how to make it work? Sorry I can't figure out the text formatting here.

EDIT: I've just been informed I'm running an incompatible program. I honestly have no idea what qt5 is, or LXQt for that matter. I assumed anything Synaptic showed me would work in my system. I guess this changes my question to ... how do I edit my menu?

total newbie here. My old XP box died last week; bought a used HP 6000 Pro with integrated VGA. Decided to go single boot Ubuntu, had a cd made for me. All was going well. Partitioned the disk as follows:

sda1: 32G primary swap
sda2: 32G primary / ext4
sda3: Extended
sda5: 8G logical /tmp
sda6: 28G logical /var
sda7: 100G logical /usr
sda8: 200G logical /home
sda4: 100G primary /dos

Installed standard from cd, then

sudo apt upgrade all

Then installed Synaptic, added multiverse and restricted repos, Cinnamon, gcc, g++, blender...

And there I hit a snag: blender refused to run withou a gpu. Now, I intended to buy a Radeon and a wide screen with FreeSynch, but I don't have the money yet (unemployed), so I figured why not move the videocard from the XP box.

I tried the card first, see if it would auto-detect. The card is 4.5" format; my new box is 3.5" format, so I had to bend some metal to get the card to plug in. The bios did detect it, and I changed IRQ5 from Intel VGA to Nvidia. Ubuntu was booting until user screen, then froze. So I figured it needed a driver. My old box is Dell Dimension 9200. I believe the videocard is Nvidia GT230 or GT250. Either way, the right package for the driver seemed to be 430.108, so I installed it, and all its dependencies.

When Synaptic finished I got a message that I had to fix something with resume. I had that problem before and managed it by fixing the UUID of my swap partition, sda1; but this time the number was correct. I checked fstab and panicked to see the order of my partitions changed, with comments sayin they were different during installation. I worked hard at restoring the original order of the partitions. Maybe it's not relevant? All the tutorials say fields are separated by a space or tab; nobody clarifies whether multiple spaces or tabs are acceptable. Are they? At the end of the day, I don't think I changed anything important, but when I try to boot with the video card I get a black screen regardless if I'm booting from disk or CD.

Without the videocard I can boot from install cd; but trying to boot from disk I see very fast text messages on the screen, the last of which I think mentions sda1, and then a black screen with a flashing cursor top left.

With the videocard in place, CTRL-ALT-F4 doesn't work for me. Tried it on two consecutive boots. The first boot I hit the 3 keys as the Ubuntu logo came on, and it showed a bit of VGA tex, then went black. Second time I booted it never got to the logo. After a millisecond flash of text it went black and the 3 keys do nothing. Now, without the videocard, the only diff the 3 keys make is going from logo directly to flashing cursor, instead of having to wait a few seconds. I noticed the heatsink on the gpu has a bit of play. I'm willing to give up on using blender. Just want it to work again