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2010-12-08T20:24:19.160
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<p>In the various download repositories, there are 10.04.1 ISO images of Ubuntu desktop, alternate and server editions, but I can only find the original ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso, not an updated ubuntu-10.04.1-netbook-i386.iso. Is the latter ISO available somewhere? If no, why doesn't the Ubuntu maintainers create one for this version.</p>
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2012-07-29T03:43:40.743
Where can I find ubuntu-10.04.1-netbook-i386.iso?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Unfortunately, there is no netbook iso for 10.04.1. For some reason, unlike the desktop and server editions, Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 is not considered a <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS\" rel=\"nofollow\">Long Term Support (LTS)</a> release. Though, all hope is not lost. If you install from the original ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso and apply all the updates, you will effectively have Ubuntu Netbook 10.04.1. If you look at <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/10.04.1\" rel=\"nofollow\">10.04.1's changelog</a>, it includes many netbook fixes even though it is not a LTS.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-08T20:42:22.953", "id": "16677", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-08T20:42:22.953", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "570", "parentId": "16672", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
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2010-12-08T21:25:09.670
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<p>I have a problem while using transmission. I don't know where it comes from because it doesn't occur every time.</p> <p>Sometime while downloading a torrent, I cannot browse on the internet with a browser. Or if I can it is extremly slow.</p> <p>I opened the correct port on my router. I limited the upload download to a reasonable amount (50/5, my upload is very bad). I don't not allow transmission to use PnP and NAT-PMP. And this doen't seem to be related to the download speed of a particular torrent: before limiting download I could download at 800ko/s and have no problem and sometime the problems occurs with download at 3ko/s.</p> <p>Is anyone else having this problem?</p> <p>I really don't understand, isn't opening the correct port and disabling plug n play suppose to make transmission not interfere with http?</p>
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2014-05-25T01:01:35.963
Using a bittorrent client slows down internet connection
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The problem, in your case, is probably not the data rate but the number of connections. Many internet gateways can't handle <strong>many connections at the same time</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>You can Limit your maximum amount of simultaneous connections in the Transmission preferences like so:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/ikeuP.png\" alt=\"Preferences → Network → Maximum Peers per torrent\"></p>\n\n<p>Try to keep these values very low at first. 5/10 is a good starting point. And increase them slowly as you find it working.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Note: Especially new torrents can show this behaviour. If you wait until there are enough seeders for a torrent, it'll be slowing down your browsing much less.</p></li>\n<li><p>Note also: You shouldn't have to limit bandwidth. This is handled by the TCP/IP stack, no problem, in <em>most</em> cases. It tries to schedule packet delivery fairly.</p></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-08T21:44:45.667", "id": "17800", "postId": "16681", "score": "0", "text": "Hello, thank you. I indeed had 60/200 which was much bigger than 5/10. I'll try that, hopefully this will solve the problem.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6066" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-08T21:36:06.177", "id": "16681", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-08T22:03:21.393", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-08T22:03:21.393", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1067", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "16680", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }
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<p>How can I add specific folders to places in mintMenu?</p>
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2012-08-19T05:01:12.583
2012-08-19T05:01:12.583
How can I add specific folders to Places in mintMenu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ol>\n<li><p>Right-click the menu and choose Preferences:<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/F4qpu.png\" alt=\"screenshot\"></p></li>\n<li><p>Click Places ▸ New:<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/xmdMY.png\" alt=\"screenshot\"></p></li>\n<li><p>Enter the name and path for the new place, then click OK:<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/J3lxl.png\" alt=\"screenshot\"></p></li>\n<li><p>The custom place should now be listed in the menu:<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/k3lYi.png\" alt=\"screenshot\"></p></li>\n</ol>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-15T18:11:33.133", "id": "18797", "postId": "17613", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks, for the reply. In the meantime i had found this solution myself. But you sure will get the Bounty. Nice answer. Note: I have to wait 23 hours to give you the Bounty.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7155" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-15T18:00:22.040", "id": "17613", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-15T18:00:22.040", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1859", "parentId": "16688", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>All you have to do is click add folder from the places menu when you are in the folder that you want to add.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-08T23:21:07.020", "id": "17814", "postId": "16691", ...
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<p>There was recently another release of <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">LibreOffice</a>, but it is a pain to have to manually go to their website and download the packages every time there is a new release. Is there a PPA that always has the latest version of LibreOffice?</p>
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2016-07-08T13:45:42.373
Is there a PPA with the latest version of LibreOffice?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is an official LibreOffice PPA <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa\" rel=\"noreferrer\">here</a>. </p>\n\n<p>You need to add <code>ppa:libreoffice/ppa</code> in your software sources to add it to the software center, just follow the <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4983/what-are-ppas-and-how-do-i-use-them\">instructions</a> for the GUI way.</p>\n\n<p>More information:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/52022/is-the-ppa-of-libreoffice-to-be-considered-safe-for-the-system\">Is the ppa of LibreOffice to be considered safe for the system?</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>To add ppa and upgrade libre office using command line:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa\nsudo apt-get update \nsudo apt-get upgrade \n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2019-06-27T16:21:56.800", "id": "1920110", "postId": "19794", "score": "0", "text": "This worked for me, although I did have to check for further upgrades to other packages that were \"held back\" after this. Running apt install <list of held back packages> fixed the issue.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "636665" } ], "communityOwnedDate": "2011-01-06T16:49:06.827", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-01-03T04:39:30.380", "id": "19794", "lastActivityDate": "2016-04-25T06:58:17.953", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:11.043", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "16695", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "45" }
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<p>There is only one user on my system. How can I change its user ID from the default of 1000?</p> <p>If there are additional steps that would be required in order to avoid breaking the login process on a typical desktop installation, those should be included as part of the answer.</p>
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2014-04-05T05:54:18.173
2022-04-13T17:55:57.987
How can I change my own user ID?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The problem is that, like you mentioned, you cannot change your user's UID when it is logged in a session. You have to use another user account to proceed.</p>\n\n<p>But you don't have to create a new user account, promote it to admin, log out, log in to the new admin account, change your primary account's UID, log out, log in to your primary account then delete the new admin user just change your UID. ;)</p>\n\n<p>You can boot into <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode\" rel=\"noreferrer\">recovery mode</a> (it's an option that appears when you start up your computer, or hold shift right after the BIOS messages complete; Use <kbd>ESC</kbd> on Dell machines running OEM-Ubuntu). This will log you in a root session. Being logged in root <strong>and not your usual user account</strong>, you will be able to modify your UID.</p>\n\n<p>Because the recovery mode only works in command line interface, once logged into a root session, you will have to: </p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Use <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/79933\">BubbaJ's instructions to remount the root file system in read-write mode</a>: <code>mount -o remount,rw /</code>. </p></li>\n<li><p>Use <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/16703\">Luis Alvarado's command</a>: <code>usermod -u NEW_UID your_username</code>. </p></li>\n<li>Follow <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/16719\">ddeimeke's instructions</a> to update file permissions. </li>\n<li>Then, reboot your computer (<code>reboot</code>), so you can boot in normal mode.</li>\n</ol>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-04-28T07:19:40.030", "id": "600966", "postId": "16822", "score": "2", "text": "Doesn't work for Ubuntu 14.04. After doing `usermod -u NEW_UID your_username` and `find / -uid 1000 -exec chown -h 5000 '{}' \\+`, reboot leads to a guess-session-only GUI login.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "272988" }, { "creationDate": "2014-06-18T07:53:12.853", "id": "646502", "postId": "16822", "score": "1", "text": "Maybe, hidden files in the home are not changed properly? Do you use encryption for your home?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4977" }, { "creationDate": "2018-03-20T22:22:48.020", "id": "1651487", "postId": "16822", "score": "1", "text": "You may wish to check your `/etc/login.defs` and `/etc/adduser.conf` files if you have changed your uid outside of the policies provided in those configuration files. Users outside the policy limits are not displayed in the login loop, but you may change the policy. See this [answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/811774/283571)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "283571" }, { "creationDate": "2018-05-14T12:17:00.550", "id": "1686053", "postId": "16822", "score": "1", "text": "`usermod: user user_name is currently used by process 1118 ` @Alexandre P.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "660555" }, { "creationDate": "2019-12-16T18:32:11.243", "id": "2004873", "postId": "16822", "score": "1", "text": "Answer is missing advice from @KMarkey's comment. If you change the user ID outside of the configured range in `/etc/login.defs` and `/etc/adduser.conf`, then there is no Gnome login. This last step fixed it for me.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "110313" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:34:23.210", "id": "16822", "lastActivityDate": "2017-07-26T08:00:31.193", "lastEditDate": "2017-07-26T08:00:31.193", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "476968", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7130", "parentId": "16700", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "39" }
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<p>My myTouch Slide wasn't mounting, so I decided to open Disk Utility. My phone shows up but when I click "Mount" it gives me this error:</p> <pre><code>Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on / mount failed </code></pre> <p>Here's my mtab:</p> <pre><code>/dev/sdb1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/matthew/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=matthew 0 0 /dev/sdg1 /media/Seagate\040GoFlex ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0 </code></pre> <p>EDIT: Here's my fstab:</p> <pre><code># /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt; &lt;type&gt; &lt;options&gt; &lt;dump&gt; &lt;pass&gt; proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=3b0db205-2bdb-4c98-a506-6bdd3520d540 none swap sw 0 0 </code></pre>
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2010-12-10T07:16:29.693
2011-04-10T09:06:01.040
Can't Mount Phone, "according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /"
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You may want to make a specific entry for your phone in order to have it mount where you want it to mount. First, check what the UUID of the devices hooked up to your machine:</p>\n\n<pre><code>craig@lister:~$ sudo blkid\n[sudo] password for craig: \n/dev/sdb1: UUID=\"[long-s...
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<p>What exactly does Ubuntu share with other Debian based distributions? What do all Debian based distributions share in common that other distributions don't?</p>
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2010-12-09T03:08:28.930
What exactly does Ubuntu share with other Debian based distributions?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>All Debian-based distributions share the Debian package archive either directly or (in the case of Ubuntu) by making their own rebuilds of it. Thanks to this a Debian-based distribution instantly has effectively every piece of software you'll ever need available in a package....
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<p>How can I profile what programs are making use of the HD to load after I type in my login credentials?</p> <p>It's taking a bit too much time lately.</p>
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2010-12-09T02:51:44.100
How to profile GNOME desktop start?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I never tried it but it seems <a href=\"http://www.bootchart.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bootchart</a> could help you out (it's available in the Software Center). </p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I'm not sure if it will also profile after login in though.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T05:34:23.123", "id": "17841", "postId": "16709", "score": "1", "text": "Bootchart *will* profile all the way to an idle desktop; it's how the Ubuntu boot time measurements are made.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "188" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T08:14:25.163", "id": "17858", "postId": "16709", "score": "1", "text": "@Oliver Lalonde: He also should install pybootchartgui. Last time I checked, it wasn't installed automatically, but you need it for creating the chart. @RAOF But it will fail if booting is taking too long. In that case you'd adjust the sleep time in the \"pre-stop script\" section of `/etc/init/bootchart.conf`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3037" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T17:47:54.163", "id": "18027", "postId": "16709", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks. I thought it didn't do up to the desktop before, but that's because it seems to have some default stop parameters - running pybootchartgui on it's own made it ignore them.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4918" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T02:51:44.100", "id": "16709", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T02:51:44.100", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2331", "parentId": "16708", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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<p>How do I retrieve movies and audio files from my Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera?</p> <p>Shotwell only sees the pictures. Mounting the camera via <em>"Places > Canon Digital Camera"</em> and then clicking twice on the resulting desktop icon yields this error:</p> <pre><code>could not display "gphoto2://[usb:001,002]/" </code></pre> <p>There is nothing in <code>/media</code>.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cte7o.png" alt="gphoto2 error message"></p> <p><strong>update:</strong> output of <code>sudo fdisk -l</code></p> <pre><code>Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3ee33ee2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2364 2612 1999872 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 * 1 2364 18979840 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2613 4864 18089159+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 2613 4864 18089158+ b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order </code></pre> <p><strong>Solution:</strong> install <em>gphotofs</em>, then Nautilus shows camera contents similar to a standard usb storage device (though note that gphotofs does not yet support adding to or deleting contents).</p>
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2011-02-13T10:24:23.973
Error when trying to get movies off my Camera
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As a workaround you could try accessing the files via the command line. In <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/10455/how-do-i-mount-a-digital-camera-via-the-command-line\">this question</a>, <br><code>gphotofs</code> was suggested for mounting the camera.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T22:51:00.763", "id": "18073", "postId": "16721", "score": "0", "text": "gphotofs solved it, but not in the manner indicated! After installing gphotofs selecting the camera from the *Places* menu opens a Nautilus window showing the contents of the camera as standard usb storage device.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "254" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T08:09:15.400", "id": "16721", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T08:09:15.400", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:56.827", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3037", "parentId": "16717", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As a workaround you could try accessing the files via the command line. In <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/10455/how-do-i-mount-a-digital-camera-via-the-command-line\">this question</a>, <br><code>gphotofs</code> was suggested for mounting the camera.</p>\n", "c...
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2010-12-09T08:24:58.013
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<p>What's the reason why we cannot download <code>Ubuntu+1 Alpha 1</code> once <code>Ubuntu+1 Alpha 2</code> has been released?</p> <p>It would be helpful to roughly find out when regressions started to show up (sometimes it's not as easy as simply downgrading one package).</p>
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2010-12-09T08:45:02.427
2022-07-11T07:55:42.473
Why is there always only the latest development milestone available for download?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>CD images take up a <em>lot</em> of space. Consider all of the combinations of architectures and flavours that one might wish to download. I imagine that the potential use case for this (consider that this method of regression testing would only work for packages on the CD, which are likely to have lots of developer attention anyway) is sufficiently small that it is not deemed to be a worthwhile tradeoff.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T09:35:00.477", "id": "17863", "postId": "16727", "score": "2", "text": "Maybe I'm missing something, but the disk space argument seems flimsy. From current Alpha 1: alternate, desktop, server, DVD x 2 = ~13 GiB. x 5 milestones = 65 GiB - I'd even donate the hard drive! :P But sure, I know that's not the most missed thing in the Ubuntu world - just wanted to know if there's a special reason for not providing the older ISOs.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3037" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T10:00:28.700", "id": "17865", "postId": "16727", "score": "2", "text": "You forgot to do 65 x 3 (architectures), also it is likely to be server class storage, not something you can get for a few bucks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "742" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T09:15:09.383", "id": "16727", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T09:15:09.383", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6683", "parentId": "16724", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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2010-12-09T09:14:09.707
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<p>When I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 (Maverick), the upgrade process got stuck on the post-installation of the CUPS package. I had to kill processes and run several forced updates before I could finally get regular updated. Ever since I can't print - The printed file gets messed up and crashes the printer. I also can't re-install CUPS, as each time the installation hangs and I have to kill it before it completes.</p> <p>I tried to find a workaround for this problem, but in vain. Does anyone know how to bypass this? Or at least why can the post-installation hang, and how to re-install a problematic package?</p> <p>Some system specs and other hints: Dell D630 laptop running Ubuntu 10.4, Gnome desktop, standard LAN network, printing to an LPD server. Everything worked fine on 9.10. Also, the printed files themselves are not corrupted. The problem does not seem to be Evince-specific, but common to all printouts.</p>
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2011-09-10T17:49:01.343
Can't print, CUPS package corrupted and hangs on re-install
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T09:55:28.860", "id": "17864", "postId": "16726", "score": "0", "text": "Try to reinstall and check /var/log/messages, there might be some errors related to the install hang.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "742" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The post-install script is <em>/var/lib/dpkg/info/cups.postinst</em>. If you know a little bit about shell programming you can try to find the problem.</p>\n\n<p>The hard way to bypass it is to add</p>\n\n<pre><code>exit 0\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>as the second line, but most lik...
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2010-12-09T09:16:46.630
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<p>As a default, the terminal prompt shows something like:</p> <pre><code>user@system:/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4$ </code></pre> <p>the deeper you go into the filesystem, the less space is left for typing in commands. Can I change this to only show something like:</p> <pre><code>&gt; </code></pre> <p>I mean, I can just type <code>pwd</code> to show where I am at. ;)</p>
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2014-01-23T13:26:12.383
2023-04-19T07:35:53.537
Hide current working directory in terminal
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<pre><code>export PS1='\\u@\\h: '\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>That results in <code>oli@bert:</code> for my prompt.</p>\n\n<p>If you really want something as minimalist as you ask for, try this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>export PS1='&gt; '\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can attach that to the end of your <code>~/.bashrc</code> file to have it persist between logins.</p>\n\n<p>You can also get creative with some colours. Here's what I use on my servers:</p>\n\n<pre><code>export PS1='\\[\\033[0;35m\\]\\h\\[\\033[0;33m\\] \\w\\[\\033[00m\\]: '\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Giving (it's easier to see on a full black background):</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/CzGm7.png\" alt=\"My terminals\"></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html\">Glossary of acceptable characters in PS1</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T12:15:04.020", "id": "17876", "postId": "16729", "score": "3", "text": "You can also have newlines (\\n) as part of the prompt, so you could put all the info and the '>' on separate lines.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5862" }, { "creationDate": "2012-04-01T21:16:25.793", "id": "139938", "postId": "16729", "score": "3", "text": "what is the format used for setting up the colors?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "23191" }, { "creationDate": "2019-03-29T16:48:02.247", "id": "1871052", "postId": "16729", "score": "1", "text": "@SyedRakibAlHasan Try `echo -e \"\\e[31mHello World\\e[0m\"` or `echo -e \"\\033[31mHello\\e[0m World\"` in a terminal, that should give you a clue. [source](https://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "375529" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T09:22:35.250", "id": "16729", "lastActivityDate": "2012-04-01T21:34:08.817", "lastEditDate": "2012-04-01T21:34:08.817", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "23191", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "16728", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "193" }
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2010-12-09T09:35:07.727
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<p>I use auto-mounting of external USB devices, and it works as expected, except that NTFS partitions are mounted with executability flag on. For example:</p> <pre><code>/dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions) </code></pre> <p>All normal files are <code>-rwxrwxrwx</code> on this partition. I am not happy with the <code>x</code>s. I know I can have it mounted the way I want if I pass the <code>fmask=0111</code> option.</p> <p>Now I use Lucid, and suppose it uses some new auto-mounting mechanism (<code>gvfs-mount</code>?), but I don't really know how the default mounting options can be changed now. Gconf settings in <code>/system/storage/default_options/ntfs/mount_options</code> have no effect.</p> <p>So, how do I make <code>fmask=0111</code> the default automounting option for all NTFS partitions? (I'd be grateful also if someone explains how the current automounting mechanism works, how to configure it<strike>, and if the default mounting options are hard-coded, what I have to recompile to change them</strike>).</p> <p>I know that I can put a line in the <code>/etc/fstab</code> and/or mount manually, but this is not the solution I want, because 1) I don't want to edit <code>/etc/fstab</code> for each and every external drive I use, 2) fstab records appear in the Places pane of Nautilus, even if the drives are not present. The questions is how to change the <em>defaults</em>.</p> <p>Update: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16730/#17913">installing <code>udisks 1.0.1+git20100614</code></a> or later gives more sensible defaults for NTFS, the problem which remains is how the user can specify arbitrary mount options.</p>
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2017-04-13T12:24:56.827
2011-05-05T21:52:42.837
Default mount options on auto-mounted NTFS partitions (how to add `noexec` and `fmask=0111`?)
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is because NTFS drives aren't made for linux, they're made for Windows, and Windows makes everything executable by default.</p>\n\n<p>The only way to have them set to non-executable by default is to edit the fstab for each drive, or switch them to fat32.</p>\n", "com...
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<p>For some reason when I try to upload photos to facebook from the website, it tells me I need to upgrade my flash player:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/518dy.png" alt="facebook photo uploader"></p> <p>I definitely have flash installed, as can be seen in the picture, and working fine in youtube etc. </p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUe10.png" alt="flash version"></p> <p>My question is two-fold:</p> <p>1) Does anyone know if this a problem with the version of flash I'm running, Ubuntu, or facebook itself? I get the same problem in Chrome and Firefox, so I know it's not the browser.</p> <p>2) Is there a workaround or fix for this? As far as I can tell I'm running the very latest flash (on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10) - but maybe that's the problem?</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Before everyone starts jumping up and down about using Shotwell or Digikam or some such to upload photos to facebook, I know about these (and do use Shotwell at times). Unfortunately Shotwell only lets you upload to a <strong>Profile</strong>, but doesn't (as far as I can tell) let you upload to a facebook <strong>Page</strong> of which I am an administrator, so I am forced do it through the website. Using the <em>simple uploader</em> as seen in the first picture is horribly slow and tedious, and often times out while uploading.</p> <p>Of course if anyone knows of any alternate ways to upload to facebook <strong>pages</strong> I'd love to hear 'em!</p>
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Facebook and flash - why doesn't facebook recognise that I have flash installed?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You're using the <a href=\"http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/square/\" rel=\"nofollow\">64bit beta</a>, and it looks like Facebook's version check code isn't accepting it. I get the same message in Facebook with that version of Flash on Firefox and Chrome. I don't think there's anything you can do but go back to the release version. Unless there's a Firefox extension that fakes plugin versions?</p>\n\n<p>For what it's worth it's easier to disable different versions of a plugin on the fly in Chrome/ium on its about:plugins page.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T14:22:26.793", "id": "17887", "postId": "16744", "score": "1", "text": "Your link is to the 32bit version.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "449" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T14:47:48.197", "id": "17892", "postId": "16744", "score": "0", "text": "@Oli Thanks, corrected. Adobe's own link on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ when you visit from a 64bit machine goes to the wrong page!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3251" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T12:27:43.707", "id": "16744", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T14:46:28.887", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-09T14:46:28.887", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "3251", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3251", "parentId": "16732", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You have a very new version of Flash. I thought I was using the latest version (10.2.161.23) and you're a whole minor version ahead... Which is odd.</p>\n\n<p>You can see from the Adobe page that they think the latest version is 10.1.</p>\n\n<p>I remember when I first started...
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<p>How can I specify the resolution of a program to 800*600, and for other programs to full screen or other specific resolutions?</p>
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2012-10-16T23:47:57.797
2013-07-08T01:10:49.637
Adjusting resolution for individual Wine programs
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You could try a way i was searching for when i wanted to use different programs an the same time or even the same program in multiple windows:</p>\n\n<p>Lets assume you have World of Warcraft installed in /media/fun/wow\nLets also assume you have Left 4 Dead 2 installed in /media/fun/l4d2\nLets last assume you installed yesterday Ventrillo and it went to .wine in your home folder.</p>\n\n<p>Do the following if you want to have them all open at the same time</p>\n\n<p><strong>FOR WOW:</strong></p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><code>export WINEPREFIX='/media/fun/wow'</code></li>\n<li><code>wine --prefix '/media/fun/wow'</code></li>\n<li><code>wine explorer /desktop=WOW,1024x768 \"/media/fun/wow/Wow.exe\" -opengl -console</code></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p><strong>FOR LEFT 4 DEAD 2:</strong></p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><code>export WINEPREFIX='/media/fun/l4d2'</code></li>\n<li><code>wine --prefix '/media/fun/l4d2'</code></li>\n<li><code>wine explorer /desktop=L4D2,1024x768 \"/media/fun/l4d2/left4dead2.exe\"</code></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>LAST VENTRILLO</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Just run it from the wine menu. Applications>Wine>Programs...</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>You will have all 3 open and visibly active. Here is the trick:</p>\n\n<p>You EXPORT the wine configuration to the games folders using the <code>export WINEPREFIX</code>\nYou them run the <code>wine --prefix</code> so it makes the new wine configuration in that directory.\nThen run the game in its own wine configuration.</p>\n\n<p>The wine explorer options used above are (In the case of WOW):</p>\n\n<p><code>wine explorer</code> - Opens the explorer</p>\n\n<p><code>/desktop=X,Y</code> - It creates a virtual desktop where X is the name of the desktop and Y is the resolution. For example WOW,1024x768</p>\n\n<p><code>\" \"</code> - After the variables for /desktop the stuff inside the double quotes is the executable. You do not need to have it inside quotes but just in case you have spaces you will need them.</p>\n\n<p><code>-opengl -console</code> - This are only parameters that WOW uses. You can put the parameters for a game after all has been typed as you can see in the above example for wow.</p>\n\n<p>This took me almost a whole year to find and use since sometimes users wanted 2 or 3 opened programs at the same time. And since i teach free software i had to really dig into this.</p>\n\n<p>After doing the above you can just create a LAUNCHER in the desktop pointing at the executable with the <code>wine explorer /desktop</code> line.</p>\n\n<p>Other tips and tricks are:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Using Regedit</strong></p>\n\n<p>Just type <code>regedit</code> in the terminal. It will open the wine regedit version for you to edit anything related to the registry.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Unistall App</strong></p>\n\n<p>Just type <code>wine uninstaller</code> in the terminal. It will open an app similar to the Add &amp; Remove of Windows.</p>\n\n<p>Hope it helps anybody.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kbsdt.png\" alt=\"Wine\"></p>\n\n<p> For more information see <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/316025/how-to-install-and-configure-wine\">How to install and configure Wine?</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T16:04:16.853", "id": "16761", "lastActivityDate": "2013-07-08T01:10:49.637", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:23:52.840", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7035", "parentId": "16733", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "20" }
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<p>I installed lotus notes 8.5.2 on 10.10 netbook using unity desktop. At first lotus notes showed its menu. Suddenly (not sure if I did something) the menu disappeared. When I start up using gnome desktop, the menu still is there. Unity shows only the file menu for notes with the only entry for closing notes.</p>
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2012-05-21T19:36:37.243
2013-11-02T10:58:06.757
Menu missing in Lotus notes 8 and Eclipse in Unity
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is a bug and has been reported. You may follow it here: <a href=\"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=330563\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=330563</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate...
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<p>I installed JACK and <b>DJPlay</b> on Ubuntu 10.10, they seem to launch and connect fine.<br> Then I open audio files in DJPlay, and start playing them, the oscilloscopes start moving.</p> <p>But <b>no sound comes out</b>.</p> <p>I am a newbie so I left everything configured as default.<br> Maybe it is just that I don't know how to use DJPlay and there is just a button to press somewhere? In the screenshot, note how the levels are moving in the "mixer" window but no signal in the levels in the upper-right side of the screen, not sure what it means.<br> <b>Any idea?</b></p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2iIAs.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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2010-12-09T11:46:11.887
2017-02-23T10:29:19.477
DJPlay: No sound coming out
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I had the same problem, and just now solved it. The solution isn't optimal and I will look for a cleaner one, but this may help you anyway. (I'm running Debian/Gnome, so if you're on Debian or Ubuntu I suspect this procedure will work - on other distros there may be some differences).</p>\n\n<p>First, start JACK control BEFORE you start DJPlay. Wait for it to display 'Started' in the display window. (If it doesn't get this far, then you probably have a problem with JACK). After it has started, then start DJPlay. Then, go back to the JACK control and click on 'Connect'. On the 'Audio' tab you should see 'DJPlay' in the 'Readable Clients' list, and both 'DJPlay' and 'system' in the 'Writable Clients' list. Expand 'DJPlay' in the left list, and 'system' in the right list. In the left list, click on 'player_1_left', then in the right list click on an item - on my system they show up as 'playback_1', 'playback_2', etc.. Then click on the 'Connect' button. A line should appear between left and right lists. Repeating the process, connect 'player_2_left' to 'playback_1', then connect 'player_1_right' to 'playback_2', then 'player_2_right' to 'playback_2'. This should connect the left and right outputs of both DJPlay decks to the left and right inputs of your computer sound system. If you play something in DJPlay, you should now hear it.</p>\n\n<p>There has to be a better, more automated way to do this; if I find it I'll try to post directions.</p>\n\n<p>I don't have a real-time kernel so I can't use the real-time option. I hear some squeaks that indicate the sound processing isn't quite keeping up with its task, so I'm going to need a dedicated computer with an RT kernel to get this working properly. But before I set that up, I'm going to play a bit to see if DJPlay is worth the effort. Good luck getting your setup running!</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-22T12:08:43.907", "id": "35295", "postId": "30944", "score": "0", "text": "I did exactly like you said and now it works great!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4066" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-18T17:37:24.630", "id": "30944", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-18T17:37:24.630", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": "user12616", "ownerUserId": null, "parentId": "16738", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2010-12-09T12:45:31.877
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<p>I would like to package my java web application <a href="http://kunagi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://kunagi.org/</a> for Ubuntu (and Debian).</p> <p>Should the package create a user <code>kunagi</code>, provide an init script and configuration files for the existing <code>tomcat6</code>, so that my application runs in a separate jvm instance with its own privileges? Or should the package just drop the web application into <code>/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/</code>, so that it runs with the tomcat process and privileges?</p>
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2011-05-23T21:54:41.160
Packaging a Java web application: Reuse tomcat6 or separate process?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>That should be the choice of the sysadmin. Just package the app in order to just run out-of-the box. If the sysadmin wants increased security that is his work :)</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T14:27:27.320", "id": "16751", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T14:27:27.320", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5484", "parentId": "16746", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2010-12-09T13:11:57.273
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<p>Whenever I try to download mail using POP3 in Evolution I get the following message</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Error while Fetching Mail.</strong></p> <p>Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/roland/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large</p> </blockquote> <p>If anyone could give me an idea of how to fix this I would be greatful</p>
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2010-12-09T13:36:23.560
2011-10-07T07:19:00.777
Cannot append to mbox file error while fetching mail in Evolution
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you are using lucid(10.04) you can use this ppa <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230</a> to fix this error. </p>\n\n<p>Some workarounds are also available to solve this error( eg: archivemail). There is bug report on launchpad regarding this. Just go through it:\n<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/197290\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/197290</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T13:25:58.633", "id": "16748", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T13:37:31.093", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-09T13:37:31.093", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "235", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4980", "parentId": "16747", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you are using lucid(10.04) you can use this ppa <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/evo230</a> to fix this error. </p>\n\n<p>Some workarounds are also available to solve this error( eg: archivemai...
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2010-12-09T14:39:55.150
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<p>I would like to package my java web application <a href="http://kunagi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://kunagi.org/</a> for Ubuntu (and Debian).</p> <p>Should the package install a <code>.war</code> file which contains all the required dependencies (<code>.jar</code> files)? Or should the package install the unpacked web application without <code>.jar</code> files and place symlinks into the <code>WEB-INF/libs/</code> directory?</p>
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2010-12-10T20:23:17.007
Packaging a Java web application: .war or symlinks to dependencies?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Traditionally there has been some friction between upstream and distribution level concerns with java packaging. Bundling dependencies has been one of the major points of contention. The security team particularly sees this as an unnecessary maintenance burden. Packages bundling libraries will likely be rejected from Debian. </p>\n\n<p>Java webapp packaging policy in Debian is still evolving. There is currently a <a href=\"http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep7/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debian Enhancement Proposal (DEP) under discussion around this issue</a>. It aims to</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>propose a file layout, set of\n conventions and best practices, and a \n supporting script interface for\n packaging Java web applications \n (servlets) and deploying them in\n containers.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This discussion is taking place on the <a href=\"http://lists.debian.org/debian-java\" rel=\"nofollow\">debian-java mailing list</a>. It's also probably the best place for you to ask further questions about Java packaging. I'm sure you will be able to find people willing to review your package for you there and most likely a sponsor willing to upload it.</p>\n\n<p>Here are some furthur links that might be of interest:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debian policy for Java</a> </li>\n<li><a href=\"http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tools for packaging Java apps and libraries in Debian</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/examples/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debian Java packaging examples</a></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T20:15:50.990", "id": "16895", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T20:23:17.007", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-10T20:23:17.007", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "570", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "570", "parentId": "16753", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Why you should use symlinks? You are more flexible with a .war Package, if you run the application in a Tomcat (or Jboss) cluster.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T20:40:39.247", "id": "17921", "po...
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2010-12-09T14:54:31.857
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<p>Fortunately, I have an old PCI ethernet card that works fine. But unfortunately my LAN card embedded in my Asus (P7H55-M/USB3) motherboard doesn't work.</p> <p>Who could me help?</p> <p>I get this error when starting the "Installation" step of <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16755/realtek-rtl8111e8168b-ethernet-driver-doesnt-work/16760#16760">hhlp's answer</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>/home/henry64/r8168-8.020.00/src/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl_get_eeprom’: >/home/henry64/r8168-8.020.00/src/r8168_n.c:1857: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [: 48: r8168: unexpected operator Depending module. Please wait. load module r8168 Completed.</p> </blockquote>
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2017-04-13T12:24:27.937
2012-05-05T15:47:26.937
Realtek RTL8111E8168B Ethernet driver doesn't work
[ "10.10", "networking", "drivers", "realtek" ]
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is a short guide to fix the problem concerning the following network chipset.</p>\n\n<pre><code>Ethernet controller: RealTek Semiconductor Co., Ltd RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><strong>Symptom</strong></p>\n\n<p>The ...
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<p>I have fallowed <a href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/unattended-ubuntu-installations/2/" rel="nofollow">this guide</a> to create a kickstart file to install ubuntu automatically. However the problem is that when I boot the menu item</p> <pre><code>label autoinstall menu label ^Auto install kernel /casper/vmlinuz append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/ks.cfg -- </code></pre> <p>it doesn't start the installer. I've tried using automatic-ubiquity as one of the parameters, but still it seems that kickstart file isn't used.</p> <p>Is there a way to make this work, or is there another way (preferably <strong>without</strong> using network, like FAI).</p>
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2010-12-09T15:23:49.853
2015-06-11T03:22:01.153
Kickstart file is ignored by the installer
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You have to use the alternative cd not the live cd:\n<a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads</a></p>\n\n<p>If you follow exactly the tutorial you mentioned it should work.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-08T21:42:27.230", "id": "25341", "lastActivityDate": "2012-07-27T09:44:57.317", "lastEditDate": "2012-07-27T09:44:57.317", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "61218", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10475", "parentId": "16757", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You have to use the alternative cd not the live cd:\n<a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads</a></p>\n\n<p>If you follow exactly the tutorial you mentioned it should...
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2010-12-09T15:52:52.740
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<p>I have been using Firefox for a long time in Ubuntu, I downloaded some add-ons but it made firefox extremely slow, even if I remove them nothing will change.</p> <p>I tried to remove Firefox also, but re-installing it will somehow recover the same Firefox I had- it seems it write some info somewhere that even if you remove Firefox, it will keep them.</p> <p>Moreover, I am not able to use see any flash videos or website with Firefox(chrome works fine).. Honestly I tampered with plug-in settings in Firefox that this happened. But right now I can't do anything to overwrite the setting...</p> <p>My question is how I can remove Firefox in a way to remove any previous traces and re-install a new version like for the first time?</p>
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2016-10-03T07:05:01.507
2023-01-18T13:41:06.150
Removing Firefox in Ubuntu with all add-ons like it never existed
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[ { "creationDate": "2020-01-20T09:46:55.180", "id": "2020266", "postId": "16758", "score": "1", "text": "In recent Ubuntu releases, Firefox could also be installed as a snap. See [Uninstalled Firefox still here (Ubuntu 19.10)](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204337/uninstalled-firefox-still-here...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h2>Delete Firefox and all it's data:</h2>\n<p>Thanks are also due to <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/1204337/707756\">snap question</a> and its <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/1204350/707756\">answers and comments</a></p>\n<p>I think this can be done in six easy steps, <strong>please edit my answer - or tell me to - if it's not complete</strong>:</p>\n<p>Run <code>type firefox</code>. You will either get</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>firefox is /usr/bin/firefox</code> or</li>\n<li><code>firefox is /snap/bin/firefox</code></li>\n</ul>\n<p>If you get</p>\n<div class=\"s-table-container\">\n<table class=\"s-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Output</th>\n<th><em>Firefox</em> has been installed by</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>firefox is /usr/bin/firefox</code></td>\n<td>apt</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>firefox is /snap/bin/firefox</code></td>\n<td>snap</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<p><strong>Apt</strong> and <strong>snap</strong> are ways to install packages. (package managers)\nIf the answer is <em>apt</em>, follow these steps . Steps for <em>snap</em> are after it.</p>\n<p><strong>Steps to follow if <code>apt</code></strong></p>\n<ol>\n<li><p>Run <code>sudo apt-get purge firefox</code> <em>Unless you are serious about data privacy this step should be enough</em></p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Delete <code>.mozilla/firefox/</code> in your home directory, should it still be there</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Delete <code>.macromedia/</code> and <code>.adobe</code> in your home directory, these can contain &quot;Flash Cookies&quot; stored by the browser. The same is true, if applicable, for Silverlight (Moonlight) and other plugins, they can allow websites to store data on your computer.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Delete <code>/etc/firefox/</code>, this is where your preferences and user-profiles are stored</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Delete <code>/usr/lib/firefox/</code> should it still be there</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Delete <code>/usr/lib/firefox-addons/</code> should it still be there</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Mind the periods in front of file- and directory names: They indicate a hidden directory. You can tell your File Browser to show them by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd>.</p>\n<p>The 4th and 5th step must be done with superuser privileges. To start a the File Browser as a superuser, press <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> and enter <code>gksu nautilus</code>.</p>\n<p>Finally, restart your computer to get rid of all temporary files. This should remove all traces of firefox ever being there.</p>\n<p>Important:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don't rely on this method if you've got sensitive information to protect! Deleting a file, in most cases, only means deleting a reference to it. The raw data will still be on your hard drive, and the proverbial bond-villain will be able to recover them. I'm only mentioning this <em>in case</em> it's applicable to anybody who reads this. The only way to <em>really</em> get rid of data is to shred the hard drive to bits.</li>\n</ul>\n<hr />\n<p><strong>Steps to follow if <code>snap</code></strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>sudo snap remove firefox</code></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-04-10T15:27:01.200", "id": "143652", "postId": "16763", "score": "3", "text": "You answered the OP's question exactly as asked in the title, but this is yet another case of the person really asking for something somewhat different, which is how to use Firefox in its original pristine state. This is better answered by this other answer with less upvotes: http://askubuntu.com/a/16773/43660", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "43660" }, { "creationDate": "2012-05-11T17:00:10.200", "id": "161340", "postId": "16763", "score": "0", "text": "Only steps 2 and 3 are required to meet the aims of resetting firefox to being like new. The other steps remove the binaries of firefox from your system, but they don't have any \"state\" or information about what you did. Also, it is incorrect that `/etc/firefox` is where your preferences are stored - they are stored in `~/.mozilla/firefox/`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "150" }, { "creationDate": "2014-06-03T12:01:17.173", "id": "633244", "postId": "16763", "score": "0", "text": "I found this answer very helpfull, it's answering the op question which also made me come to this thread in the first place... so thank you for answering to the question and not to somthing else...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "191324" }, { "creationDate": "2016-04-13T10:54:02.730", "id": "1129956", "postId": "16763", "score": "0", "text": "Does this remove old settings of firefox as well?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "348960" }, { "creationDate": "2020-01-26T15:50:43.403", "id": "2023437", "postId": "16763", "score": "0", "text": "You now specified 6 steps.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "479966" }, { "creationDate": "2024-03-26T16:33:35.603", "id": "2647068", "postId": "16763", "score": "0", "text": "@HamishDowner, I had `apturl.js` in `/etc/firefox/pref`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "323009" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T16:16:14.503", "id": "16763", "lastActivityDate": "2021-11-25T03:31:53.907", "lastEditDate": "2021-11-25T03:31:53.907", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "707756", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "16758", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "132" }
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2010-12-09T16:38:33.073
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<p>I use Windows Vista 32bit and have a Wubi install of the 10.10 RC. It worked great, until one day when I upgraded the kernel and rebooted.</p> <p>Now, whenever I select Ubuntu from the Windows boot menu, the screen goes black for half a second and I am returned to the boot menu. Is there a way to repair this?</p>
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2012-01-03T07:26:34.053
Wubi won't boot after a kernel update
[ "wubi", "bootloader", "windows-vista" ]
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T17:31:17.357", "id": "17907", "postId": "16766", "score": "0", "text": "It might be related to http://askubuntu.com/questions/15353/update-destroyed-grub/15412#15412 .", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "742" }, { "creationDate": "2012-02-01T19:12:...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Happened to me too and someone else just complained of the same problem. I think this is a general bug of wubi. I think you should now install directly to the hard disk. Since the purpose of wubi is not for long term use but for testing purposes(not totally).</p>\n", "com...
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2012-02-01T19:47:09.303
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2010-12-09T16:44:30.670
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<p>A fresh install of 10.10 on my Asus 1000HE has caused some wireless issues.</p> <p>At home, I have no issues with the wireless from my Linksys WRT54G router with WPA2 security.</p> <p>On campus at my university, my netbook constantly connects to and disconnects from the unsecured wireless (that you must provide credentials to access). Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it will stay connected for 5 minutes and I can check my email before it kicks off again.</p> <p>This was not an issue before 10.10. I believe I was running a proprietary Broadcom driver in previous releases of Ubuntu, but under "Additional Drivers" I no longer find any options for drivers.</p> <p>Any help?</p> <p>Please let me know if there's more information that would be helpful (and how I could go about retrieving it).</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Relevant hardware information from <code>sudo lspci --</code></p> <pre><code>00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c5] (rev 02) 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2860 [1814:0781] 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [1969:1026] (rev b0) </code></pre>
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2010-12-09T21:34:18.990
2010-12-09T21:34:18.990
Asus 1000HE Wireless Issues
[ "10.10", "wireless", "eeepc", "ralink" ]
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1
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is a well know issue, you can read <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a> in the topic <strong>Ralink Card</strong> </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Indicates trouble connecting to (some) wireless-n networks out of the box</li>\n<li>connection instability</li>\n<li>doesn't connect to 802.1x network </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><em><strong>Drivers</em></strong></p>\n\n<p>Some threads have reported success using newer or older drivers from the ralink website (as of writing at 2.4.0.0 compared to the 1.8.0.0 version in the Ubuntu/Debian repository). </p>\n\n<p>A method of installing a new driver is <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476007\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>. </p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T03:16:51.557", "id": "17953", "postId": "16799", "score": "0", "text": "This has seemingly worked a miracle; thank you.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6510" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T21:22:03.613", "id": "16799", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T21:22:03.613", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3550", "parentId": "16768", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is a well know issue, you can read <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a> in the topic <strong>Ralink Card</strong> </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Indicates trouble connecting to (some) wireless-n networks out of the box</li>\n<li>connecti...
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2010-12-09T16:51:24.587
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13790/does-ubuntu-one-mobile-support-ogg-vorbis">Does &#39;Ubuntu One Mobile&#39; support Ogg Vorbis?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I've just paid for Ubuntu Music and downloaded the app for my Android phone, but it appears Ogg Vorbis files are not supported. This is a definite deal breaker and I think I'm going to cancel until this is added, unless this feature is imminent. How soon is this likely to be added? </p>
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2017-04-13T12:23:44.677
2010-12-09T18:38:37.650
Ogg support for Ubuntu Music App
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This has been discussed here:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/13790/does-ubuntu-one-mobile-support-ogg-vorbis\">Does &#39;Ubuntu One Mobile&#39; support Ogg Vorbis?</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "201...
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2010-12-09T20:58:15.777
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2010-12-09T16:51:56.103
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<p>Using Maverick 64bit</p> <p>I downloaded Popper Email Notifier today. Installed it from the v023 deb.<br> <a href="https://launchpad.net/popper" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/popper</a></p> <p>I configured it, and the TEST tab shows I configured everything properly. I can't get Popper to appear in the notification menu. I have restarted gnome-pannel, restarted my computer, reinstalled the app. No luck. I checked the /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ folder, and there's only the defaults there.</p> <p>Anyone know how to fix this? Even if someone knows what file I can drop into that folder to make it work that'd be great.</p> <p>Edit: I wonder if it's because I removed the evolution-indicator package?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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2010-12-09T17:16:51.993
2012-09-16T08:19:07.447
Popper Email Notifier not working
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm the developer of Popper. From what you are writing I see that there must be an issue with your indicator menu configuration. Maybe you removed too much when you removed the evolution-indicator package. Please test the following:</p>\n\n<p>Go to: <a href=\"http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/allgemeiner-email-benachrichtiger/43/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/allgemeiner-email-benachrichtiger/43/</a>\nThere is a test script (indi.py) and a desktop file (popper.desktop) at the bottom of the page. Download both and store it in a temporary directory, e.g.: /home/user/test</p>\n\n<p>Open a terminal, go to this directory and run: python indi.py</p>\n\n<p>Now you should see a new entry in your indicator menu with numbers counting up every 5 seconds. If you don't see the entry in your indicator menu, you have an issue with the indicator menu and not with Popper. If you see the entry, it is a Popper issue.</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, please do the test and come back with the results in: launchpad.net/popper</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T18:16:54.017", "id": "17910", "postId": "16775", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks for the response. I ran that script and I got a \"Popper\" entry with a list of numbers after it. I guess I'll post on the launchpad.net/popper forums or file a bug?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1193" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T12:52:41.707", "id": "17995", "postId": "16775", "score": "0", "text": "Yes, go to https://answers.launchpad.net/popper and open a question (button 'Answers' on top middle of the screen) please. Then we can continue solving your problem at that place. Thanks", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5102" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T15:51:57.233", "id": "18015", "postId": "16775", "score": "0", "text": "I asked a question on launchpad. Here's the link so others may easily find it: https://answers.launchpad.net/popper/+question/137337 Thanks for the help rhersel.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1193" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T17:47:40.827", "id": "16775", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T17:47:40.827", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5102", "parentId": "16770", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
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<p>Using ubuntu 10.10 the editor in mc (midnight commander) is nano. How can i switch to the internal mc editor (mcedit)?</p>
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2010-12-09T18:42:19.610
2022-04-28T07:21:33.953
How to switch the editor in mc (midnight commander) from nano to mcedit?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Press the following keys in order, one at a time:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><kbd>F9</kbd> or <kbd>Alt + 9</kbd> Activates the top menu.</li>\n<li><kbd>o</kbd> Selects the <code>Option</code> menu.</li>\n<li><kbd>c</kbd> Opens the configuration dialog.</li>\n<li><kbd>i</kbd> Toggles the <code>use internal edit</code> option.</li>\n<li><kbd>s</kbd> Saves your preferences.</li>\n</ol>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPFav.png\" alt=\"screenshot\" /></p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-11-04T20:34:26.890", "id": "262932", "postId": "16782", "score": "11", "text": "Can you also add how to change the editor to any other editor?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4377" }, { "creationDate": "2013-04-30T08:10:30.940", "id": "362377", "postId": "16782", "score": "0", "text": "It would be better to specify a way to change this from the command line, but not by changing the OS default editor.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1004" }, { "creationDate": "2014-04-05T17:34:30.977", "id": "580893", "postId": "16782", "score": "0", "text": "This is great, but is there a way to do the same in the command line, say, by adding/changing an environment variable? I'd like to automate this.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "181242" }, { "creationDate": "2016-02-15T05:43:53.557", "id": "1090785", "postId": "16782", "score": "5", "text": "Looks it has changed to 't' instead of 'i' [image](http://imgur.com/rQi0rrm)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "139081" }, { "creationDate": "2020-05-20T02:46:00.297", "id": "2092206", "postId": "16782", "score": "1", "text": "@trusktr to change to other editor you need to uncheck the option and [set the `EDITOR` environment variable](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/80852/209677), easily with [`select-editor`](https://askubuntu.com/a/486205/349837)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "349837" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T18:14:55.907", "id": "16782", "lastActivityDate": "2022-04-28T07:21:33.953", "lastEditDate": "2022-04-28T07:21:33.953", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "349837", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "16776", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "97" }
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<p>I have a machine that I just installed Ubuntu Server on. The only problem is that I do not know how to connect it to a wireless network, and I cannot use a network cable to connect it to my router.</p> <p>When trying to list the network cards, only the loopback interface showed up:</p> <pre><code>$ ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric 1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) </code></pre> <p>which was unexpected, as both my Ethernet network interface (<code>eth0</code>) and wireless network interface (<code>wlan0</code>) showed up when doing the same in a fresh installation of Ubuntu Desktop 10.10.</p> <p>So, my two questions are:</p> <ul> <li>how can I install the wireless drivers (and packages I could download etc.) and/or set up the wireless network interface to work properly, and</li> <li>how can I connect to a WPA-encrypted wireless network from the command line?</li> </ul> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>I ended up uninstalling Ubuntu Server and installing Ubuntu Desktop instead, then configuring the wireless network through the GUI and making it boot into command line instead of GNOME.</p>
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2010-12-12T14:45:46.813
2010-12-12T14:45:46.813
Connecting to a wireless network
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Take a look at this guide for connecting to the network:\n<a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-...
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<p>I have an Acer Timeline 1830T. When I install 10.10 and 11.04 it needs to have the <code>acer-wmi</code> module <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Aspire1830T" rel="nofollow">blacklisted for wireless to work</a>.</p> <p>I think I need to file a bug on the linux kernel but I am not sure. I've heard the term "quirk" being thrown around by developers when it comes to fixing something so that it works on certain pieces of hardware. </p> <p>Is this indeed a kernel bug? What steps should I take to ensure that this gets reported so that everyone with my laptop doesn't have to go through this over and over?</p>
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2010-12-30T17:06:51.297
2011-02-14T00:48:05.263
My hardware needs a module to be blacklisted to work, how can I get this fix shipped?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is a kernel bug¹, so you'd want to use <code>ubuntu-bug linux</code> in a Terminal. You'd then want to modify the created bug report to add that you need to blacklist <code>acer-wmi</code> as a workaround for the wireless chipset not working as suspected.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p><em>¹ Technically it isn't a kernel bug but probably a combination of broken hardware, BIOS, and kernel drivers. On the upside, it probably can be hacked around in the kernel, hence the loose use of \"kernel bug.\"</em></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T19:16:27.790", "id": "16785", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-14T00:45:25.920", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-14T00:45:25.920", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "9061", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6369", "parentId": "16780", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }
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2010-12-09T19:55:19.303
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<p>Last, time several month ago, I installed Unity to test it in maverick. I had the problem that it didn't work as expected.</p> <p>Instead of Unity I only got a white screen, I'm not 100% sure what the problem was, but it should have to do with my Radeon Xpress graphics card I think.</p> <p>Is there another method of getting Unity to work together with this graphics card in Maverick?</p>
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2010-12-09T22:03:44.980
2010-12-09T22:03:44.980
Can Unity based on Compiz already be fully used?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Unity Compiz is only available if you are using Ubuntu 11.04, which is still in early development.</p>\n\n<p>At one point the Ubuntu developers were planning on backporting Unity Compiz to 10.10, but they later <a href=\"https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-November/032078.html\">decided against it</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Hi everybody,</p>\n \n <p>As some of you may know, there have been some discussions about\n backporting\n \"unity compiz\" to maverick as we had backported unity to lucid with a\n dedicated ppa and its own session.</p>\n \n <p>However, after some porting discussions and following the natty work I\n think\n we should perhaps consider not doing that because it's going to take\n quite\n some work for a moderated benefit and we would better spend those\n efforts in\n making natty rocking. </p>\n</blockquote>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T20:03:49.807", "id": "16793", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T20:03:49.807", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "16789", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }
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2010-12-09T20:22:41.893
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<p>I have two buttons on my mouse to go forwards and back:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GeRuf.jpg" alt="alt text"></p> <ul> <li><p>They used to work all right in Firefox, but now they don't any more. I've since switched to Google Chrome (the package from <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">google.com/chrome</a>, not chromium). </p></li> <li><p>I haven't changed any configuration to do with input devices in the mean time.</p></li> <li><p><code>xev</code> doesn't seem to recognize the buttons. The others work well. Even the weird zoom-slider on this mouse is recognized by xev. It's only the forwards and back buttons that don't do anything.</p></li> </ul> <p>How do I get them to work?</p> <p>The mouse is a Logitech VX Revolution in case that's important. </p> <p><strong>Edit at Dec. 10th, 11pm:</strong></p> <p>The back button has just started working, after an update. I'm confused. :P</p> <p>The forwards button still doesn't work. <code>xev</code> recognizes the back button now, not the other one.</p>
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2010-12-10T22:15:54.443
2012-02-23T06:02:13.830
Mouse's forward and back buttons don't work
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The mouse is just broken. I've tested it on another machine, doesn't work either. I've since bought a new one, works perfectly.</p>\n\n<p>The thing not working in <code>xev</code> should've been a good clue. </p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-02-23T06:06:35.480", "id": "124449", "postId": "18054", "score": "0", "text": "Could you please show me your xorg.conf file? I feel there's something wrong with mine, I have two Logitech mice, one of them is a g9 which was set-up first and works fine, the other is the VX revolution. The VX rev is the one whose buttons don't work properly...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "26299" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-18T18:51:23.853", "id": "18054", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-18T18:51:23.853", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "16795", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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2010-12-09T20:43:26.137
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<p>Some people say that Unity is touch friendly and I even saw a video of an Ubuntu developer showing it off on a Dell touch screen.</p> <p>It looks touch friendly and all but the window buttons still look too tiny to be touch friendly. There could be a gesture or something to close the windows easily, but not everyone will know about them and will aim at the little buttons.</p>
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2010-12-09T20:47:31.330
2021-11-10T08:32:00.770
If Unity will be touch friendly, will window buttons become easier to touch?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Gestures will be the easiest method for closing windows in touch environment. There have been several ideas discussing how to improve the window button in a touch environment, however no firm decisions have been made. Ideas range from making the buttons grow bigger on tap (so...
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2010-12-09T20:57:35.043
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<p>I <em>linked</em> a bunch of contacts from MSN and Google Talk with the new empathy feature, Now I want to export this configuration to my desktop so i don't have to make the same changes again and again.</p> <p>Does anyone know where this contact-linking configuration is stored? I didn't find it under <code>~/.config</code>, <code>~/.local/share</code> or <code>~/.mission-control</code>.</p>
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2010-12-09T21:02:38.567
2010-12-09T21:35:51.033
Where are Empathy's contact-links stored?
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2010-12-09T21:23:30.273
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<p>OK, I know this has been a problem for a while, and I know by now this really old Pentium II laptop is really really really obsolete. However, I have installed Lubuntu 10.10 on this laptop and things seem to work fine except the sound.</p> <p>Now I've read and gone through a bunch of tutorials and guides to working around this, none of which have worked. I have gone through <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/40116?comments=all" rel="nofollow">this Ubuntu bug report</a> and that doesn't work either.</p> <p>The problem I think is that the latest workaround is (understandably) about two Ubuntu versions behind. Now I'm not sure what has changed since then to make that workaround not work, but I would appreciate any help.</p> <p>Thanks</p>
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2010-12-09T21:52:41.460
2011-10-01T07:35:42.130
CS4326/7 sound chipset on Thinkpad 600E
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Did you disable Quick Boot in the BIOS setup? And then Initialize the BIOS. I have a 600E running 10.10 and the sound works fine after completing those 2 steps and then make sure you use the ALSA or OSS driver and not PulseAudio (I use ALSA).</p>\n", "commentCount": "5"...
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2010-12-09T21:33:33.730
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<p>I have just installed Ubuntu on both my laptop and my workstation. </p> <ul> <li><p>My laptop is a somewhat older one, with a 2Ghz centrino Core 2 Duo processor, an NVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics card, and 2 gigabytes of system RAM. Compiz+Emerald works flawless and super fast on this computer in every aspect. </p></li> <li><p>My workstation is a dual core (not Core Duo) 2.5GHz system, with a 1GB GeForce 9500GT card and 4 gigabytes of system RAM. 3D performance with Compiz is super slow here though, and other operations feel heavy as well. Opening a new tab in Firefox for example takes a couple of seconds. </p></li> </ul> <p>Both computers have the same driver version installed (173.14.28).</p> <p>I am new to this OS, any suggestions on how I could improve performance on my workstation? Many thanks!</p>
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1067
2010-12-09T21:47:58.263
2010-12-09T23:08:32.633
Poor compiz performance on NVidia 9500 GT
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>My first question would be which version of Ubuntu did you install. Regardless though, that seems to be a fairly old driver for the 9500gt. If you go to System > Administration > Additional Drivers, you should see that there are 2 choices, one of which is the 173 driver you have. The other one is a much more recent version (260.19.06), at least in the latest Ubuntu version, which is 10.10, it is. You want to activate this version. 173 is meant to maintain support for older cards.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T22:01:03.343", "id": "17925", "postId": "16804", "score": "0", "text": "wow thanks that really solved the problem :) Do you think I should attempt to change the driver on my laptop too? is there any chance it creates a problem if I install the newer driver?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7106" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-09T23:09:51.180", "id": "17929", "postId": "16804", "score": "0", "text": "Generally speaking the newest driver that supports your card is the best driver.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "188" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T08:03:00.573", "id": "17973", "postId": "16804", "score": "0", "text": "thnx I will try tp update it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7106" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-09T21:49:50.650", "id": "16804", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-09T23:08:32.633", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-09T23:08:32.633", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "188", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4914", "parentId": "16803", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>My first question would be which version of Ubuntu did you install. Regardless though, that seems to be a fairly old driver for the 9500gt. If you go to System > Administration > Additional Drivers, you should see that there are 2 choices, one of which is the 173 driver you ...
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16817
2010-12-09T23:31:41.273
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<p>Is there a way for a user with administrative privileges to change another user's "About Me" photo?</p>
1859
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2010-12-10T02:17:29.923
How can I change another user's "About Me" photo?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This can be done by replacing the <code>.face</code> file located in the user's home directory with a new photo.\nFor example, to change the photo for user <code>bob</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp new_photo.jpg /home/bob/.face \nsudo chmod 0644 /home/bob/.face \nsudo chown bob /home/bob/.face\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Not all image formats will work, so stick to PNG and JPEG.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:17:29.923", "id": "16817", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T02:17:29.923", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "16807", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This can be done by replacing the <code>.face</code> file located in the user's home directory with a new photo.\nFor example, to change the photo for user <code>bob</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp new_photo.jpg /home/bob/.face \nsudo chmod 0644 /home/bob/.face \nsudo chown...
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16819
2010-12-09T23:33:38.447
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<p>Is there a way to set a default "About Me" photo so that all users created in the future start off with the same user image on the login screen?</p>
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2011-02-20T17:18:00.690
Can I set a default "About Me" photo?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, simply place an image file named <code>.face</code> in <code>/etc/skel</code>. </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp new_photo.jpg /etc/skel/.face \n</code></pre>\n\n<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Not all image formats will work, so stick to PNG and JPEG.</p>\n\n<p>The <code>/etc/skel</code> directory contains files and directories that are automatically copied over to a new user's home directory when the user is created. </p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The name of the directory skel is derived from the word skeleton, because the files it contains form the basic structure for users' home directories.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><sup>Source: <a href=\"http://www.linfo.org/etc_skel.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.linfo.org/etc_skel.html</a></sup></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:25:45.983", "id": "16819", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-20T17:18:00.690", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-20T17:18:00.690", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "16808", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }
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16810
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17085
2010-12-10T00:11:32.260
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<p>I just figured out today that as long as the battery is in my laptop, it doesn't matter if it's fully charged while plugged in, Ubuntu always spins down my hard drive. I noticed this because there was a huge difference in speed when I removed the batteries. </p> <p>My settings for power management is basically:</p> <ul> <li>on AC power, don't spin down harddrive, dont suspend or anything</li> <li>on battery power, basically save as much power as possible</li> </ul> <p>I assumed that if I plug in my laptop, it'll use the On AC Power settings no matter what but apparently, this isn't so. Is there a way to "fix" this?</p>
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2011-05-11T21:45:17.407
Hard Disk Spins Down as long as Battery is in Laptop
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:50:07.303", "id": "17950", "postId": "16810", "score": "0", "text": "the slow down on battery power makes no sense to me (if it is the hdd spinning down). I personally think you might have another problem.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You could try editing these settings in gconf-editor:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gconf-editor /apps/gnome-power-manager/disks\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-12T15:16:25.337", "id": "17085", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-12T15:16:25.337", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7240", "parentId": "16810", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "0" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think you need to eliminate if you have a battery problem. If you remove the battery and just run on the charger and the problem goes away it could be a battery that is pulling too much current and the system would go bonkers because the little external charger can't handle...
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2012-05-22T18:46:51.977
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16811
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16814
2010-12-10T00:11:46.200
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<p>How well does Ubuntu support HFS+ (i.e. Mac formatted) filesystems? Can it read and write to them, and are there any potential problems to watch out for?</p>
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2014-03-06T13:42:36.930
How well is the HFS+ filesystem supported?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The kernel supports basic read support - however, journaling support is nearly non-existent which is needed for write support. By default most modern Macs (which utilize the HFS+ Filesystem) have Journaling enabled. For write support you'll need to first disable journaling on the HFS+ Partition:</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo diskutil disableJournal [VolumeName]</code></p>\n\n<p>Then, if needed, re-enable with:</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo diskutil enableJournal [VolumeName]</code></p>\n\n<p>However, as a warning - Journaling is an important part of any Filesystem which implements it. Disabling it in Mac OSX is not recommended and <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system#Rationale\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/V5VZp.png\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;can have adverse affects</a>. There has been work to include journaling support for the HFS+ driver in the kernel - but that it still some time away.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:14:35.590", "id": "17945", "postId": "16814", "score": "1", "text": "Do you mean the HFS+ driver in the linux kernel doesn't work if journaling is enabled in Mac OS X? Or do you mean the linux driver will ignore the journal (which would be the same as what ext2/3 drivers for Windows do currently AFAIK)?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T02:37:20.493", "id": "17949", "postId": "16814", "score": "0", "text": "@JanC You can't write without Journaling support. So if Journaling is enabled on an HFS+ partition you will only have a read-only mount. EXT2 does not have Journaling, and the driver for Windows to access EXT3 has Journaling support included in it (since it's been around since 2001)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T13:15:39.147", "id": "17996", "postId": "16814", "score": "0", "text": "The ext2/3 driver for Windows I have used ignored the journal; it only supported ext2, and ignored the ext3 features, just like you can force-mount an ext3 as ext2 on linux and ignore the journal. So, good to know this is different for HFS+.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T01:06:36.700", "id": "16814", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T01:22:13.683", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-10T01:22:13.683", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1067", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "41", "parentId": "16811", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
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2010-12-10T00:54:57.590
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<p>When I first ran Ubuntu from CD on this Dell Inspiron 2650, it worked for about ten to fifteen minutes, then it hung (I was probably trying to do too much at once from a Live CD). The next time, my mouse and keyboard didn't work. I rebooted three times and finally got them working. I then installed Ubuntu alongside Windows XP.</p> <p>After installing, selecting the OS in GRUB worked, but my touchpad and keyboard were again not working. I rebooted, and they worked. (I fortunately had a USB mouse with which to reboot.)</p> <p>Booting Ubuntu and then rebooting to enable my keyboard and touchpad has become a routine ever since. Often several reboots are required; at one point I had to reboot over a dozen times in a row before getting a session where everything worked properly. (My installation has been in place for about <del>three days</del> a week now.) I've looked around for a device manager equivalent to no avail.</p> <p>Sometimes the hardware is properly detected, and sometimes it's not. Once or twice I've had the keyboard detected properly but the touchpad not.</p> <p>Plugging in my wireless card also sometimes requires a plug, unplug, and plug again to get it working.</p> <p>So is there some solution? I'm without an Internet connection at home, and this &quot;laptop&quot; is really a wall wart on my desk, so suggestions for packages may take a while to test.</p> <h3>Xorg logs</h3> <p>I captured <del>two</del> <del>three</del> four sample Xorg logs: one from a startup where the devices worked; one from when they didn't; one from a session where Ubuntu thought my touchpad was a normal mouse; and one from a session where my keyboard worked but the touchpad didn't.</p> <p><a href="https://gist.github.com/736863" rel="nofollow noreferrer">See this gist</a>. Updated 2010-12-15 01:50 UTC with <code>Xorg.0.log.keyboardonly</code> file illustrating the case where the keyboard worked but not the touchpad. Updated 2011-01-11 04:10 UTC with <code>Xorg.0.log.touchpadregmouse</code> to illustrate a case where the touchpad was detected as a regular mouse (no &quot;Touchpad&quot; tab in mouse prefs).</p>
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2020-06-12T14:37:07.210
2011-01-11T02:17:56.720
Sometimes keyboard & touchpad work... sometimes not
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I am working on a friends Laptop Dell inspiron 2650. Once I get the keyboard and touchpad to work, I set up the power button to hibernate and to hibernate when the lid is closed. Then, I never completely shut it down. It hibernates when i press power button and when close ...
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2012-02-03T00:01:14.210
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16820
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29090
2010-12-10T02:26:30.553
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<p>I lost compiz zoom due to some incompatibility that I am not sure about. I read about a fix before, but I forgot what it is. When I try to zoom with the super key and mouse it just vibrates the cursor.</p> <p>After further testing to find the problem, I know it has to be something that is trying to put the pointer to the centre of the screen. Hopefully someone will be able to track down the cause, because so far I cannot.</p> <p>EDIT - I've tried all kinds of options, including resetting all the settings on the plugin, still no change. I can't zoom, even if I change the keys. If it helps, restraining the mouse to the zoom area makes it jump to one side of the screen.</p> <p>Could it be that I have dual outputs that is causing the problem?</p>
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1992
2010-12-28T22:35:38.403
2012-03-14T04:12:04.730
How do I restore compiz advanced zoom?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is caused by a bug when using dual monitors. As far as I know the only current fix is to unplug a monitor. You may be able to get it working by editing the General options in ccsm to not autodetect outputs and instead manually specify your monitors' sizes and positions.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-05T15:31:17.697", "id": "32399", "postId": "29090", "score": "0", "text": "I had fixed the problem before (forgot how I did it), but this is a method that works, so I'll accept it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-05T07:13:36.130", "id": "29090", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-05T07:13:36.130", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2178", "parentId": "16820", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is caused by a bug when using dual monitors. As far as I know the only current fix is to unplug a monitor. You may be able to get it working by editing the General options in ccsm to not autodetect outputs and instead manually specify your monitors' sizes and positions.<...
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16841
2010-12-10T03:13:37.127
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<p>A while ago I put Ubuntu on my Windows computer. It was awesome, for a while. One day I restart my computer and it boots with an error message.</p> <pre><code>error: No such device ############################### grub-rescue&gt; </code></pre> <p>I couldn't boot to Windows or Ubuntu anymore... When I finally acquired a Live boot CD. I reinstalled grub2 and tried to boot again, but of course it's not configured to boot to anything (still need to figure out how to do that). What is strange is that when I run <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> from the Live CD terminal I get:</p> <pre><code> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25201 202424312 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 25201 30402 41771008 7 HPFS/NTFS </code></pre> <p>This certainly looks like my hardrive. I have around 200GB dedicated to Windows and 50 to Ubuntu, but why is Ubuntu NTFS? When I try exploring my Ubuntu partition I can't find much (Windows files are fine though). I'll happily give you more information if you ask.</p>
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2010-12-10T04:59:42.857
2010-12-10T08:12:22.103
My Ubuntu partition is NTFS?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T03:33:06.427", "id": "17957", "postId": "16823", "score": "0", "text": "Sounds to me like windows some how wiped your partition. Did you by any chance attempt a windows recovery or something?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creation...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As Takkat said, you will need to fix your MBR using windows tools from Windows installation CD. After your windows boot successfully you can use EasyBCD from <a href=\"http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a> to add Ubuntu entry into widnows boot menu. This way you will get your Ubuntu back. There is a nice tutorial on how to add Wubi Ubuntu entry back to your Windows boot menu at <a href=\"http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20340/how-to-restore-the-wubi-ubuntu-bootloader/\">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20340/how-to-restore-the-wubi-ubuntu-bootloader/</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T23:10:33.563", "id": "18077", "postId": "16841", "score": "0", "text": "Accepted this answer because it has the most to do with Linux, I also already kinda knew what needed to be done on Windows. However, both are relevant.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7128" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T08:12:22.103", "id": "16841", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T08:12:22.103", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6713", "parentId": "16823", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>After erroneous Grub2 installation to the MBR of your harddisk you will have to run Windows tools from the installation CD as described in detail in <a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/EN-US/\" rel=\"nofollow\">KB927392</a>. To completely rewrite your Master Boot...
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16830
2010-12-10T04:01:50.360
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<p>Occasionally I would like to either remove/disable menu entries or add launchers for programs to my Applications list- how can I do this?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IbGzu.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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2010-12-12T17:31:53.543
2016-07-22T19:23:26.743
How can I add and change items in my Applications Menu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><p>First, open the <strong>Menu Editor</strong> (\"alacarte\") by <em>right clicking</em> on the Main Menu and selecting \"Edit Menus\":</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/frdtC.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>You can disable Entries in the menu temporarily by un-checking the boxes next to them:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/nQkH4.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>To disable entire sub-directores, select the parent directory (i.e. Applications in the list on the left) and uncheck the box at, for example, \"Games\". My thanks to Hans Parshall for reminding me to put this in here.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Move them around, changing their position in the menu or dragging them onto folders on the list on the left hand side of the window.</p></li>\n<li><p>You can also create folders by selecting \"New Menu\" from the list of buttons on the right.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/pm11U.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>To access the sub-directories, expand them by clicking the arrow next to them:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/mRCDu.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<p>As you can see there, I've created two sub-directories inside <em>accessories</em> to keep my menu clean.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Click the <em>New Item</em> button to add a <em>launcher</em> to your menu. This will ask for</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>A Name: this can be anything you like</li>\n<li>The command: This is what you would type into the terminal or the Run Dialog (<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>). Often it's just the name of the application (i.e. firefox, inkscape, ...)</li>\n<li>A Comment: This will show up as the tool-tip of the Item. Put some useful description in here. An example from Firefox: \"Surf the Web\".</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTQwW.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>You can select your own icon by clicking on the current icon:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Os63u.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>You can also edit existing launchers this way.</p></li>\n<li><p>Note that you can do the same things for your <strong>Settings Menu</strong>:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/fYK1M.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><br></p>\n\n<p><strong>The technical bit:</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>To see, in detail, what launchers are on your system, navigate your File Browser to <code>/usr/share/applications/</code> on your File system. You will find a lot of files that look like the icons in your menu. You can drag those files into the Text Editor to see what they do:</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>Please Note</strong>: The <code>/usr/share/applications</code> is where launchers for <strong>all users</strong> are stored. The ones you've created yourself are in your home directory at <code>.local/share/applications/</code>. A <code>.</code> at the begining of a file or folder name indicates that it's hidden. Press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd> show them.</p></li>\n<li><p><em>An example of a launcher, <code>stopwatch.desktop</code>:</em></p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open\n\n[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=0.1.1\nType=Application\nTerminal=false\nExec=/opt/simple-stopwatch/simple-stopwatch\nName=Stopwatch\nCategories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;\nName[de]=Stoppuhr\nName[fr]=Chronomètre\n[...]\n Name[hu]=Stopperóra\nName[ja]=ストップウォッチ\nIcon=/usr/share/pixmaps/simple-stopwatch.svg\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>The <code>Exec</code> part corresponds to the Command. </p></li>\n<li><p>This is also the place to Translate your custom launchers, if you are on a multi-language system, or if you want to give them away to people.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to share a launcher with all the users on your computer, open the File Browser with superuser privileges by pressing <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> and typing <code>gksu nautilus</code>. You can now drag launchers from <code>/usr/share/applications</code> to <code>~/.local/share/applications/</code>. (<code>~</code> is short-hand for your home directory)</p></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T03:24:34.047", "id": "18095", "postId": "16830", "score": "0", "text": "This is an excellent response. My only addition would be that you can remove, say, the entire \"Games\" menu by selecting Applications and unchecking the box next to \"Games\".", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6510" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T04:32:02.627", "id": "18099", "postId": "16830", "score": "0", "text": "@HansParshall Done that. Thank you very much for reminding me! :-)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T04:35:31.223", "id": "16830", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-01T20:54:12.443", "lastEditDate": "2011-03-01T20:54:12.443", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1067", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "16825", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "43" }
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2010-12-10T04:27:13.150
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<p>Hope you can help.</p> <p>My dashboard on ubuntu one shows that I have 14.5mb in the files tab, but under the files section, it is saying the "Lets get started with syncing your files." I have synced and stopped syncing folders with files just to test out how it worked., but I don't think it was 14.5mb worth of files. Is there a way to reset or clear an account? Who would I contact about this issue?</p> <p>I have tried the "How do I stop syncing a folder outside the Ubuntu One folder?" tips.</p> <p>Thank you.</p>
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2010-12-13T08:04:27.343
Ubuntu One, Dashboard shows 14.5mb used and files folder shows nothing
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It's likely that you are affected by this <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhyIsMyStorageUsageReportedWrong\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug</a>. There is a contact address in the link.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2...
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16834
2010-12-10T04:35:07.427
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<p>Are there plans for Shotwell to have face recognition and to categorize photos according to faces?</p>
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2010-12-10T04:54:54.357
2018-07-01T05:37:21.790
Is Face Recognition coming to Shotwell?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>We do have plans to add face recognition and a Faces (or People) view to Shotwell: <a href=\"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715909\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Bugzilla - Shotwell - Face detection</a></p>\n\n<p>There's been some movement on a patch from community contributors, but there's still plenty of work to do.</p>\n\n<p>UPDATE: Adventuresome Shotwell users unafraid to run development code should read my answer to <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/89593/how-can-i-compile-shotwell-to-be-able-to-use-the-faces-feature/97168#97168\">How can I compile Shotwell to be able to use the faces feature?</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-08-02T19:54:10.573", "id": "62575", "postId": "16834", "score": "0", "text": "To follow up, we've committed a patch from Google Summer of Code student Valentin Barros that adds face categorization to Shotwell. The user manually selects faces and Shotwell creates folders of photos for each face. There's no automatic face recognition yet, but this is a good first step.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5261" }, { "creationDate": "2013-05-20T20:49:31.707", "id": "374608", "postId": "16834", "score": "0", "text": "I wish this feature gets polished soon. I just **donated** to Yorba (http://www.yorba.org/about/donate/) - and would like to encourage everybody to do the same (and then just send a mail that they should focus on this feature)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "39966" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T05:23:11.867", "id": "16834", "lastActivityDate": "2014-06-24T10:02:42.963", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:23:56.577", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5261", "parentId": "16829", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "18" }
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2010-12-10T06:39:09.120
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<p>I have tried <strong>figlet</strong> but it's not much good. Are there any other ASCII editors? <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsFHF.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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2010-12-10T13:16:18.997
2016-12-31T09:21:40.847
What are some good ASCII art generators?
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T08:14:40.387", "id": "17975", "postId": "16837", "score": "1", "text": "what exactly do u mean by ascii editor? I mean every text editor should be able to edit ascii like gedit because ascii is just an encoding for characters", "userDisplayName": null, "user...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/toilet\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">TOIlet</a> <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/toilet\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install TOIlet\"></a></p>\n\n<p>I've seen <a href=\"http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><strong>TOIlet</strong></a>, I think that is what you're looking for.</p>\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T06:59:44.157", "id": "17967", "postId": "16838", "score": "0", "text": "In terminal it's oke but when i copy that into my text editor.It is not in the original form.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T09:54:10.107", "id": "17979", "postId": "16838", "score": "1", "text": "I believe you need to use a monospaced font for the ASCII art to render properly, you don't get aligned char positions with a variable font.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "742" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T11:29:57.990", "id": "17985", "postId": "16838", "score": "1", "text": "Is it possible to install monospaced font from repositories?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T13:37:05.320", "id": "17999", "postId": "16838", "score": "0", "text": "There are several monospaced fonts installed by default. Some of them have \"mono\" in their name, so should be easy to find.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T13:43:26.293", "id": "18000", "postId": "16838", "score": "0", "text": "@JanC if is installed by default.Why it's not appearing properly?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T15:46:47.360", "id": "18013", "postId": "16838", "score": "0", "text": "when you copy/paste, you don't include the font info...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T15:47:44.163", "id": "18014", "postId": "16838", "score": "1", "text": "I think, when looking at the TOIlet screenshots, your problem might be different. It seems like it (sometimes) uses colour and non-default characters, which is probably the problem you see, not the lack of a monospaced font.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T06:47:09.277", "id": "16838", "lastActivityDate": "2016-07-27T11:00:57.850", "lastEditDate": "2017-03-11T19:00:02.773", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6341", "parentId": "16837", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "21" }
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2010-12-10T07:39:04.153
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<p>I've apache2 and tomcat6 running on port 80 on ubuntu server 9.10. I've a registered domain name and I'll access the jsp index page navigating to <a href="http://abc.mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://abc.mydomain.com</a>. The page is under tomcat_home/webapps/myapp and the below are tomcat virtual hosting in server.xml file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Host name="abc.mydomain.com" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"&gt; &lt;Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="logs" prefix="virtual_log1." suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/&gt; &lt;Context path="" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat/webapps/myapps" debug="0" reloadable="true"/&gt; &lt;/Host&gt; </code></pre> <p>Recently a new domain has been bought(xyz.mydomain.com) and I'm asked to do the virtual hosting so that the new domain name directly points the page "admin.jsp" which is located under 'tomcat_home/webapps/myapps/WE-INF/js/'. How could I do this?</p> <p>If I type <a href="http://abc.mydomain.com/admin" rel="nofollow">http://abc.mydomain.com/admin</a> I'll get the page what I wanted. I should access the page just by typing <a href="http://xyz.mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://xyz.mydomain.com</a>.</p>
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2010-12-10T07:46:48.593
2011-03-17T05:33:34.483
apache2 tomcat6 virtual hosting
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In web.xml in the welcome file List. Example:</p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;welcome-file-list&gt;\n &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.jsp&lt;/welcome-file&gt;\n &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;\n &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;\n&lt;/welcome-file-l...
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2010-12-10T09:56:38.593
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<p>I have seen that plymouth themes in different distros are the same they just put a logo or a word..so if I want to put whatever I want...can somebody tell me with what program or editing what file?</p>
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2010-12-10T17:28:43.763
2011-01-22T15:14:46.783
Can I change the word ubuntu from my plymouth default theme?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><em>You cannot put whatever you want</em>, but you can choose from different themes.\nThat is because <strong>Plymouth themes are basically animated images</strong>, to customize them <strong>is not as easy as editing a text file or an image with The Gimp</strong>.\nYou can t...
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16847
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2010-12-10T10:04:36.283
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<p>I use Chromium. Many times, I am following links, from one page to another, and I am done with the current tab and don't want to open a link that might possibly open in a new tab. I tried some combination of Ctrl, Shift, Alt and mouse click, but the link still opens in a new tab. Can it be done, if at all? </p>
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2017-09-08T01:24:36.157
2017-09-08T01:24:36.157
Can you force open links that create a new tab, in the same tab?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=12feee09b7c1a36a&amp;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">You can add a little user script to break <code>target=\"_blank\"</code></a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>var a = document.getElementsByTagName(\"a\");\nfor (i=0; i&lt;a.length; i++)\n if (a[i].target == \"_blank\")\n a[i].target = \"_self\";\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><em>How</em> you get something like that to run is another question.</p>\n\n<p>You need to run Chromium with <code>--enable-user-scripts</code> so you need to alter your launchers (right click the menu, edit menus, etc). The command should be:</p>\n\n<pre><code>chromium-browser %U --enable-user-scripts\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then you need to save the script:</p>\n\n<pre><code>mkdir ~/.config/chromium/Default/User\\ Scripts/\ngedit ~/.config/chromium/Default/User\\ Scripts/target-eater.user.js\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Paste in the script, save and edit gedit. Launch chromium with <code>--enable-user-scripts</code> and the script should automatically load and start nuking <code>_blanks</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T11:13:06.700", "id": "16853", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T11:13:06.700", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "16847", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you drag the link onto the tab (eg. the one you are using!), it will open the link in that tab.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T12:01:01.747", "id": "17990", "postId": "16852", "score": ...
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16850
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2010-12-10T10:38:41.427
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<p>I have chmsee 1.0.7 installed on Ubuntu 10.04. It opens a small chm files (1Mb or 2Mb files) but when I try to open php manual chm file which weights about 10Mb it doesn't open it and doesn't show any error message.</p> <p>Where is the problem? Has anybody met this problem ever?</p>
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2010-12-10T16:55:30.857
2015-12-16T06:55:20.213
chmsee not opening php manual
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>In the google code htmlhelp link: <a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/CHM\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/CHM</a></p>\n\n<p>you can see all the viewers and some formats that happen to be in some chm and not others. That is why you can see in perfect condition some and not others.</p>\n\n<p>This is just a seccion of the above link:</p>\n\n<p>Format</p>\n\n<p>Microsoft never released the format specification, but there are a few reverse engineered descriptions of the format:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Unofficial CHM Specification</li>\n<li>Matthew Russotto's Microsoft's HTML Help format description </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>There are some tools which allow to read the contents of CHM files:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>CHMLIB</li>\n<li>libmspack — a library for Microsoft compression formats </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Viewers</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft HTML Help Viewer</li>\n<li>xCHM — a CHM viewer for UNIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris), written by Razvan Cojocaru</li>\n<li>JouleData Solutions' CHM Viewer — a comercial 100% native Cocoa .chm file viewer for the Mac OS X platform</li>\n<li>GnoCHM — a CHM file viewer. It is designed to integrate nicely with Gnome.</li>\n<li>chmviewer</li>\n<li>ChmSee</li>\n<li>Chmox — a Mac OS X CHM viewer</li>\n<li>KchmViewer — a Qt/KDE based viewer of CHM files </li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T13:57:48.080", "id": "16858", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T17:04:27.680", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-10T17:04:27.680", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "866", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7035", "parentId": "16850", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2010-12-10T15:09:21.403
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<p>I delete the gbas.so file from my home directory but it keeps coming back. Where does it come from?</p>
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2011-01-18T10:02:40.533
2012-09-03T01:02:20.013
What is the gbas.so file on my home directory?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As mentioned by nelaar, \".so\" files are usually shared binary libraries. Try doing \"readelf -a gbas.so\", it might give you some information about what the file contains (if it really is a library file).</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOw...
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2010-12-10T15:43:25.183
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<p>I've recently been required to migrate to Fedora 14 for work, but am not willing to give up the awesomeness of Ubuntu. As a result, I'm now dual-booting Fedora 14 and Ubuntu Maverick with a shared home directory.</p> <p>Everything seems to work, but one glaring problem is the fact that the gtk theme configured for each OS seems to conflict. If I set the default system theme in Fedora, then it looks broken in Ubuntu. If I do the same in Ubuntu, it is broken in Fedora. I'm under the impression that it should be possible to have each OS use a separate theme, and the following tutorial confirms this, but doesn't mention how it is achieved:</p> <p><a href="http://www.hackourlives.com/dual-boot-ubuntu-10-04-and-fedora-13-goddard-with-shared-home/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackourlives.com/dual-boot-ubuntu-10-04-and-fedora-13-goddard-with-shared-home/</a></p> <p>As shown, I want to use Fedora's theme in Fedora, and Ubuntu's theme in Ubuntu. How can I have Fedora's and Ubuntu's respective themes co-exist peacefully?</p>
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2010-12-10T16:10:11.690
Theme conflict on dual-boot of Ubuntu 10.10 & Fedora 14
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can fix this by changing where gconf stores its configuration data for each distro.</p>\n\n<p>The config file is in <code>/etc/gconf/2/path</code> in each distro. So you're going to want to edit this file once in your fedora partition, and once in your ubuntu partition. The config option you want is in this line:</p>\n\n<pre># The default storage location, ~/.gconf\n# This should be the only readwrite source\nxml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf\n</pre>\n\n<p>You can change it to something like <code>xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf_ubuntu</code> for ubuntu, or add <code>_fc</code> for fedora, or whatever you'd like. This way, ubuntu stores its settings in a separate place from where fedora does, so they won't clobber each other. Apps that don't use gconf (firefox, etc.) will still share configuration.</p>\n\n<p>You can also change some of the other \"include\"s in the User Preferences section and rename them depending on the distro you're using.</p>\n\n<p>We use this for shared NFS homes at work and it seems to work great.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T21:09:07.477", "id": "18326", "postId": "16868", "score": "0", "text": "Sounds like this won't diverge the gnome-panel config though, right? Panel config is in ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/, right?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7148" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T15:57:02.430", "id": "16868", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T16:10:11.690", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-10T16:10:11.690", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1913", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1913", "parentId": "16866", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can fix this by changing where gconf stores its configuration data for each distro.</p>\n\n<p>The config file is in <code>/etc/gconf/2/path</code> in each distro. So you're going to want to edit this file once in your fedora partition, and once in your ubuntu partition. ...
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1
22894
2010-12-10T15:43:49.283
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<p>Before I upgraded to Maverick, .swf files used to have a thumbnail in Nautilus. However, Nautilus doesn't generate thumbnails for them anymore, even after removing <code>~/.thumbnails/</code>, which most likely indicates that a package is missing.</p> <p>How do I get Nautilus to generate thumbnails for .swf files?</p> <p>EDIT: I've added a bounty, as I believe this question might still be answered...</p>
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2011-02-26T16:59:56.077
2017-02-23T09:57:05.093
Missing Thumbnails for .swf files in Nautilus?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is a way of getting this done explained <a href=\"http://techblog.floorplanner.com/2010/11/02/server-side-rendering-of-swf-images-using-gnash/\" rel=\"nofollow\">in the Floorplanner Tech Blog</a>. To compile dump-gnash on a fresh Maverick you'll need </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install gcc libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libagg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libcairo-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libatk1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkglext1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libspeex-dev libcurl-dev\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>And then you just follow the steps. <strong>This will take a long time.</strong><br>\n<strong>NOTE</strong>: For Step 7 use the following script instead:</p>\n\n<pre><code>if [[ $3 ]]; then\n raw=\"$(mktemp)\"\n dump-gnash $2 -P \"FlashVars=url=file://$1\" -D \"$raw\" --max-advances 1 -j 500 -k 500\n tail -c 1MB \"$raw\" | convert -size 500x500 -depth 8 rgba:- -separate -swap 0,2 -combine -trim png:\"$3\"\n trap \"rm $raw\" EXIT\nelse\n echo \"Insufficient arguments (expected 3 arguments)\"\n exit 1\nfi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Once you have the final script running you just hook it into gconf-editor</p>\n\n<pre><code>gconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@swf\" -t string \"/usr/bin/swfthumbnailer.sh %s %i %o\"\ngconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@swf/enable\" -t boolean 'true'\ngconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-swf\" -t string \"/usr/bin/swfthumbnailer.sh %s %i %o\"\ngconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-swf/enable\" -t boolean 'true'\ngconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-shockwave-flash/command\" -t string \"/usr/bin/swfthumbnailer.sh %s %i %o\"\ngconftool-2 -s \"/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-shockwave-flash/enable\" -t boolean 'true'\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then restart (or restart gnome-settings-daemon), and you've got swf thumbs!</p>\n\n<p>P.S.: This is a huge hack. A better way to do this would be vastly appreciated.</p>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-23T20:32:31.863", "id": "24762", "postId": "22894", "score": "1", "text": "Your commands don't work: `Error while parsing options: Unknown option -i`", "userDisplayName": "user2817", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-24T20:13:35.827", "id": "24922", "postId": "22894", "score": "0", "text": "The bounty ends tomorrow, so if you still want to score......", "userDisplayName": "user2817", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-25T03:46:43.980", "id": "24983", "postId": "22894", "score": "0", "text": "After a few Adjustments, the code works. I've documented the adjustments here: http://codepad.org/ZBaYE6he ***HOWEVER***, the script will run the flashfile for a moment, which results in random background noises... I've found that a little odd, but not tragic. I just wonder if that could be done in a better way...", "userDisplayName": "user2817", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-25T04:14:56.293", "id": "24988", "postId": "22894", "score": "0", "text": "@nebukadnezzar I have edited the answer to include your modifications.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "114" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-23T13:08:08.590", "id": "22894", "lastActivityDate": "2011-01-25T04:14:20.520", "lastEditDate": "2011-01-25T04:14:20.520", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6423", "parentId": "16867", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The thumbnails were made with <code>libswfdec</code> (i.e. <code>/usr/bin/swfdec-thumbnailer</code> from the package <code>swfdec-gnome</code>), which was removed in Ubuntu 10.10 (\"maverick\"). The libswfdec author stopped development because there are already 2 other open ...
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2010-12-10T16:05:37.053
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<p>After Downloading AWN Lucido Build the packages containing the AWN Applets won't install resulting in broken packages, is there a way to fix this mess?</p> <p>EDIT:Well, the output is in Spanish and <em>SOMEHOW</em> the broken packages are no longer there now it says the packages don't exist</p> <pre><code>Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho El paquete awn-applets-c-core-trunk no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente El paquete awn-applets-python-core-trunk no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente El paquete awn-applets-c-extras-trunk no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente El paquete awn-applets-python-extras-trunk no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente E: El paquete «awn-applets-c-core-trunk» no tiene candidato de instalación E: El paquete «awn-applets-c-extras-trunk» no tiene candidato de instalación E: El paquete «awn-applets-python-core-trunk» no tiene candidato de instalación E: El paquete «awn-applets-python-extras-trunk» no tiene candidato de instalació </code></pre>
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2012-02-11T19:54:25.010
2012-02-11T19:54:25.010
Broken Packages after installing AWN Lucido from official PPA
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To fix broken packages type the following in terminal,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install -f</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg --configure -a</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update</code></p>\n\n<p>To install <strong>AWN Lucido</strong> type the following in terminal,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get update</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk avant-window-navigator-data-trunk python-awn-trunk awn-settings-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T02:21:37.320", "id": "18089", "postId": "16885", "score": "0", "text": "seems like i added a ppa that only contained the AWN \"core\" packages ,thanks", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4203" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T19:31:54.653", "id": "16885", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T19:31:54.653", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5691", "parentId": "16869", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To fix broken packages type the following in terminal,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install -f</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg --configure -a</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update</code></p>\n\n<p>To install <strong>AWN Lucido</strong> type the following in terminal,</p...
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16872
2010-12-10T16:29:17.720
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<p>I was a bit curious to know what a distribution (i.e. 10.04 to 10.10) upgrade really means. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the update manager is constantly upgrading every piece of software on my computer and as I understand it, Ubuntu is a "collection" of open source software. With that in mind, I would be curious to know <strong>what really goes into a distribution upgrade</strong> in practice.</p>
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2010-12-10T19:40:50.787
With the update manager constantly updating software, what does it really mean to upgrade Ubuntu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Unless you've added extra repositories, Update Manager will only offer to install <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">stable release updates</a>, which are updates that fix either high-impact bugs, or security vulnerabilities. Some rare exceptions notwithstanding, they don't provide new <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4868/what-is-the-difference-between-upstream-and-downstream-when-referring-to-who-to-g\">upstream</a> versions of software that constitutes Ubuntu.</p>\n\n<p>A distribution upgrade, on the other hand, does: it takes you from one Ubuntu stable release to the next, thus most packages you have installed will typically be updated to new upstream versions.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T08:00:27.020", "id": "18105", "postId": "16872", "score": "0", "text": "Distribution upgrade also means that some of the apps you use can be removed as obsolete. You will usually get a newer version of the apps with new features as opposed to regular security/stability updates for them.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6919" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T16:36:19.603", "id": "16872", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T17:37:21.947", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:27.937", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2181", "parentId": "16871", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "14" }
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2010-12-10T17:24:14.353
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<p>My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything becomes ok, but If there's an easy way to fix it I would like to give it a try.</p>
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2014-04-17T15:17:43.887
2014-04-17T15:17:43.887
Boot screen in low graphics/text mode
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T17:35:14.257", "id": "18026", "postId": "16874", "score": "0", "text": "What graphic card and which driver is your machine on?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3940" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T17:53:21.500", "id": "18029", "postId"...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is a work around for the problems with proprietary drivers and Plymouth which has worked for me with Nvidia drivers.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Install the package <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/v86d\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">v86d</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/v86d\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"install v86d\"></a>.</p></li>\n<li><p>Back up and edit the file <code>/etc/default/grub</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cp /etc/default/grub ~/.etc.default.grub &amp;&amp; gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Replace the line that looks like <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet splash\"</code> with </p>\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap\"\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and the line that looks like <code>#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480</code> with <code>GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024</code>. </p>\n\n<p>In both of these edits, replace <code>1280x1024</code> with your desired screen resolution. Make sure you save the file and exit the text editor once you have finished editing.</p></li>\n<li><p>Now edit <code>/etc/initramfs-tools/modules</code> just like you did with the previous file:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cp /etc/initramfs-tools/modules ~/.etc.initramfs-tools.modules &amp;&amp; gksudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Add <code>uvesafb mode_option=1280x1024-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap</code> to the end of the file then save and close.</p></li>\n<li><p>Now edit the file <code>/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash</code> (which may not exist):</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Add this to the file: <code>FRAMEBUFFER=y</code></p></li>\n<li><p>Run <code>sudo update-grub2</code> then <code>sudo update-initramfs -u</code>.</p></li>\n<li><p>Reboot and feast your eyes on the beauty :)</p></li>\n</ol>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T21:16:30.987", "id": "18063", "postId": "16899", "score": "0", "text": "Yep, I can confirm that these steps will fix it. bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/563878 workaround source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2527" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T01:17:28.017", "id": "18087", "postId": "16899", "score": "0", "text": "Only now I has the opportunity to test this. Perfect!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "636" }, { "creationDate": "2011-08-31T14:54:41.220", "id": "67892", "postId": "16899", "score": "0", "text": "Unfortunately these steps don't work for all resolutions. I can only ever get 2380x1024 working, but not my monitors native resolution.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "13498" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T21:02:39.030", "id": "16899", "lastActivityDate": "2012-01-06T17:32:57.357", "lastEditDate": "2017-03-11T19:00:02.773", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "667", "parentId": "16874", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "17" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You must be using the proprietary nvidia or fglrx driver. Install <strong>startupmanager</strong> and try to change the bootloader resolution to one that your monitor supports.</p>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T17:5...
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2010-12-10T17:54:53.017
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<p>In compizconfig-settings-manager there's an option to enable/disable shadow of windows i.e. gnome-panel.</p> <p>Is it possible to enable disable shadow only for a certain panel and not for all panels? Which options can I use beside any or none?</p>
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114
2010-12-10T18:06:59.877
2010-12-11T23:11:22.137
Disable Compiz Shadow for a specific panel?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, you can exclude windows based on their title.</p>\n\n<p>For example, to exclude the top panel from having a shadow we first need to find the title of the panel. </p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>In the Window Decoration plugin, click on the add button to the right of the <code>Shadow windows</code> entry. </li>\n<li><p>Change the <code>Type</code> to <code>Window Title</code>,click the <code>Grab</code> button and then click on the top panel. The title will probably be <code>Top Expanded Edge Panel</code>.<br>\nCopy this and click <code>Cancel</code> (See <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compizconfig-settings-manager/+bug/584894\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">bug #584894 <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/NeMLe.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></a>).</p></li>\n<li><p>Now in the <code>Shadow windows</code> entry, put in the following and hit <kbd>Enter</kbd>:</p>\n\n<p><code>any &amp; !(title=Top Expanded Edge Panel)</code></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/TuNc1.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/TuNc1.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></a></p></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p><strong>Results</strong> </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Before (with shadow): </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Asypb.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n<li><p>After (without shadow): </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/4hCFU.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T18:50:07.507", "id": "16882", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T23:11:22.137", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-11T23:11:22.137", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "16876", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
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2010-12-10T18:09:54.060
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<p>I am using Firefox 3.6.12 on ubuntu 10.10 amd64 with Openjdk JRE. Firefox seems to hang for a long time when loading applets from websites using java. Things seem to work smoothly on Windows. I have the same problem with Firefox 4.0 b8. is this a bug with openjdk,firefox or ubuntu? Is there any way to solve the problem?</p>
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2010-12-27T13:58:45.730
2010-12-27T16:24:36.860
Firefox Hangs on ubuntu when loading java applets
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Sorry tinhed but it is not a problem with Firefox, or at least complete to firefox (I wish it were related to the browser). The problem is how the java applet is made. I know you have tested other places and the applet in those places works great, but in others it does not. S...
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2010-12-10T19:13:32.417
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<p>I currently have an old PC (AMD althon 3200+, 1.5GB RAM, Geforce 6500 256MB) running Ubuntu 10.10 that I use as a media centre using VLC player. It plays standard definition videos fine, but high def videos are 'jerky', I am assume this is because my hardware can't handle it.</p> <p>Any suggestions on the minimum spec in terms of CPU, GPU and RAM that will be able to handle HD video while playing nice with Ubuntu?</p>
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721
2011-03-24T09:24:18.480
2011-03-24T09:24:18.480
Hardware recommendations for Ubuntu Media centre
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>While your hardware is a bit dated, it can be made to play 1080p with a few expenses.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Buy some more system <strong>memory</strong></p>\n\n<p>RAM is very cheap these days. Upgrading it to, say 2 gigabytes will give you a big performance boost straight away....
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16886
1
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2010-12-10T19:34:46.237
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<p>I have a computer running SSH that I would like to give my friends access to, but I do not want them to use my internet connection through SSH tunnelling (although I'd like to do so myself). Is there a way to have a log of when SSH tunnels are created and by which (local) users, or, if that's not possible, only allow some users to do so?</p>
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2011-10-14T21:50:30.090
SSH tunnel logging?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If your friends are able to SSH onto your computer, they are using some of your bandwidth and it is therefore impossible to completely block them access to your Internet connection.</p>\n\n<p>That being said, one solution would be to limit what your friends can do with your connection. You could set up a firewall that whitelists your friend's IPs and blacklists everything else. That way, your friends could SSH onto your computer but from there, wouldn't be able to reach any other IP than their own.</p>\n\n<p>I have never setup a user specific <strong>firewall</strong> myself, but I believe it is possible to achieve with <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo\">IPTables</a>. Also, keep in mind that your users could still eat up a lot of your bandwidth by uploading big files on your server. If you specifically want to prevent this, you would have to <a href=\"http://linuxchunks.com/2009/07/how-to-limit-bandwidth-per-linux-user/\"><strong>limit bandwidth</strong> per user</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-12T16:59:46.757", "id": "17104", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-13T01:14:13.793", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-13T01:14:13.793", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "2331", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2331", "parentId": "16886", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }
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<p>By good podcast support I mean:</p> <ul> <li>resuming the audio files where I switched off the player or skipped the file.</li> <li>Synching with my podcatcher (currently I'm using Miro but I could change): deleting episodes, I listened to and copy new ones from my HDD to the player.</li> <li>A wifi capable player would be great since I wouldn't need to switch on the computer but this is not mandatory.</li> </ul> <p>I also have an additional condition: The player should not be manufactured by Apple.</p>
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2011-04-26T15:28:35.503
2011-04-26T15:28:35.503
MP3 player with good podcast support?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have a <strong><em>Sandisk Sansa Clip</em></strong>, which can be used in <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class\" rel=\"nofollow\">MSC</a>- or <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol\" rel=\"nofollow\">MTP</a>-Mode. It plays ogg files and can resume podcasts.</p>\n\n<p>It is recognized well with ubuntu/banshee.</p>\n\n<p>The only problem is, that the player's podcast folder is outside the music folder. But banshee stores podcasts in music/podcasts. So the player doesn't recognize all podcasts as podcast. The unrecognized files are treated as music and resume after you switch the player off, but doesn't remember the last position, when skipping the file.</p>\n\n<p>When using the player with banshee, you have to manually define which episodes you heard with the player after that it automatically synchronizes your new episodes and removes the old ones.</p>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T21:49:17.927", "id": "18065", "postId": "16900", "score": "0", "text": "Also, the Clip+ has a Micro SD slot.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4409" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T09:08:33.910", "id": "18108", "postId": "16900", "score": "0", "text": "I have a Clip+, and I just put my podcasts into the Podcast folder and haven't had any troubles. (When you start a podcast, it asks if you want to resume where you last left off, or at the beginning.) - Whoops, I missed the bit about synching with the Podcatcher. I prefer to copy and delete the files myself, so I don't know what kind of synching job it does.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4236" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-02T17:42:15.460", "id": "73427", "postId": "16900", "score": "0", "text": "It can also play flac files but I think upgrading the firmware is necessary. That's simply a matter of placing the update on the root of the filesystem. I found the UI to be a nightmare but otherwise it's ok. Beware mtp support can be difficult in Ubuntu.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10837" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-14T12:25:28.117", "id": "75775", "postId": "16900", "score": "0", "text": "The alternative open-source firmware [Rockbox](http://www.rockbox.org) solves the ui issues and adds a bunch of new features.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10837" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-15T22:10:12.100", "id": "76717", "postId": "16900", "score": "1", "text": "I've been using the Sansa Clip+ for a while now and I have to say: it was a good choice.\n\nI'm using gPodder to download and sync the podcasts. After I listened to an episode, I delete it on the player. gPodder has a \"delete podcasts you listened to on the player\" function but this deletes every episode you started listening to, not only the ones you completed.\n\nI sorted out the problems I had with ID3 tags by rewriting all tags by gPodder after download.\n\nUI could be a bit better. For instance, \"podcasts\" is a submenu of \"music\" which I wouldn't expect and which doesn't make to much sense.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6722" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-15T22:10:22.520", "id": "76719", "postId": "16900", "score": "0", "text": "I also had problems with the player deleting a wrong episode (of the same podcast). I couldn't really find out, when exactly this happens but I learned how to avoid it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6722" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T21:28:27.027", "id": "16900", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-10T21:28:27.027", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5338", "parentId": "16888", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
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<p>I recently installed <code>ssmtp</code> on my server to enable e-mail notifications for a <code>redmine</code> install. While I was verifying everything was setup correctly I got an e-mail notification about a failed cron job. This turned out to be really helpful and I never would have noticed it had I not set this up.</p> <p>It's been a few days since and I haven't received any other e-mails from the system. By default, what mail gets sent to root?</p>
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2013-02-05T14:06:58.513
By default, what system messages get mailed to root?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By default, cron will mail all output from cron jobs to the owner of the job, whether they fail or not. (Root is the owner of the system cron job, and is configured as the mail destination for non-root daemon cron jobs.) Most system cron jobs are carefully written not to produce output unless something is wrong.</p>\n\n<p>Any other program <em>can</em> send mail to root, but not many will in a default Ubuntu install. Things I have seen include</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>in Debian, some programs will send mail when they are not properly configured, but I have not seen this recently in Ubuntu</li>\n<li>mdraid sends mail when an array fails or is restored</li>\n<li>apcupsd sends mail when the machine loses AC power</li>\n<li>uptimed sends mail when you pass a milestone or record</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>If you're writing your own cron jobs you can set <code>MAILTO</code> to control where the output is sent. (See also <a href=\"http://www.manpagez.com/man/5/crontab/\" rel=\"nofollow\">man 5 crontab</a>.)</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T07:29:26.880", "id": "18104", "postId": "16911", "score": "0", "text": "Good info. Is that list examples of what can be installed and configured to send mail or a list of what is installed and configured by default to send mail? I actually tripped a breaker today causing the box to lose power. I didn't receive an e-mail when the system came back up.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2527" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T10:12:07.727", "id": "18247", "postId": "16911", "score": "0", "text": "`apcupsd` will only send mail when the machine loses and regains AC power if it's connected (eg over USB or ethernet) to an APC UPS (uninterruptible power supply). Ubuntu won't send mail if the machine just suddenly halts because of power loss with no backup.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1116" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T10:13:16.807", "id": "18248", "postId": "16911", "score": "0", "text": "From memory, these will send you mail by default if they are active, but they are not installed by default. You can look in eg `/etc/default` and `/etc/` to control this.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1116" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T23:18:26.870", "id": "16911", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-12T10:18:04.090", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-12T10:18:04.090", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1116", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1116", "parentId": "16891", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
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<p>I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 (with NVidia graphics, using nouveau drivers) that I'm using to try out Ubuntu. It's all great, except that Hibernate and Suspend aren't usable.</p> <p>Yes, I know that questions about power-save issues are rampant in the Linux support universe, but it seems that every time I find a solution it's for a very specific hardware combination and doesn't apply to me. So anyway, here goes.</p> <p>When I resume from either power-saving mode, I'll get graphics problems anywhere on the range from a few scattered random-colored pixels that won't change; all the way to full-screen patterns that don't change as I move the mouse, hit keys on the keyboard, or even bring up the shutdown dialog using the power button.</p> <p>Those full-screen issues (which may involve stripes with random pixels, partial black screen, or both) always end in me forcing the machine to shut down by holding the power button.</p> <p>I haven't done much testing yet to determine what severity level is most commonly associated with each mode, but I do avoid using either power-save option because of these issues.</p> <p><del>I'll add info on my hardware as I can gather it (no home internet connection, and this laptop is tethered to my desk by a dead battery and casing degradation).</del> Please feel free to request something specific in the question comments.</p> <h3>Hardware Info</h3> <p>See <a href="http://bits.technobabbl.es/hardinfo_report.html" rel="noreferrer">this hardinfo report</a> for my system's hardware configuration. (No, my username is not &quot;myuser&quot;; I sanitized hardinfo's output before publishing it.)</p> <h3>Screenshots</h3> <p>These screenshots are from a relatively mild occurrence, which happened after the second hibernation I took that session. The first one worked great, though I used the wireless card and Firefox heavily between the two hibernation attempts.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cP5Lu.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p> <p>Take a look at what happened when I opened my home directory in Nautilus and scrolled it:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UEnUt.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p> <p>See below for the situations I've tested so far. The real trouble comes when the machine resumes to an unusable state; in such cases I can't even unlock the screen or properly reboot, much less take a screenshot. I have a hunch that putting a CD in the drive will cause such major failures, and I will try that at some point; <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/17260/various-issues-linked-to-my-cd-drive-when-it-has-a-disc-in-it">see related question</a>.</p> <h2>Situations Tested</h2> <h3>Maverick (10.10)</h3> Suspend <ul> <li>Seems to suspend nicely with nothing running</li> <li>Seems to suspend nicely with flash drive plugged in</li> <li>On resume from suspend with no flash drive, Terminal and gedit running: Funky graphics on top of log output, then blank screen with pixelated cursor; no response to power button (normally will shutdown 60 seconds later)</li> </ul> Hibernate <ul> <li>Seems to hibernate nicely with nothing running</li> <li>Seems to hibernate nicely with a few apps (Terminal, Mouse preferences) running</li> <li>Seems to not hibernate when flash drive plugged in</li> <li>Seems to not hibernate when System Monitor is running</li> <li>Have encountered failed hibernation (after several hours and one successful hibernate/thaw cycle) with no external media connected and no programs running except normal background stuff</li> </ul> <h3>Natty LiveCD (11.04_2010-12-22)</h3> <p>When I tested it, Natty wouldn't stay logged in. It played part of the login sound and then <code>[ OK ]</code> appeared in the top right corner (white-on-black terminal text) for a few seconds. Then it kicked me back to the Unlock screen. It did that four times before I gave up and just tested suspend from the Unlock screen.</p> Suspend <ul> <li>Resumed to vertical gray and black lines 2px (?) wide, then shifted to vertical &quot;jail bars&quot; of black over a black screen with above-described random pixels and mouse pointer. No apparent response to input from mouse (clicking randomly). Keyboard and touchpad unrecognized.</li> </ul>
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Graphics trouble after resuming from hibernate or suspend
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<p>I originally started an Ubuntu forums post about this but I never received any responses. Anyways, I've got my Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders pointing to Samba shares on my server via CIFS volumes mounted in my fstab file. The problem is I end up with duplicate entries in the Places menu.</p> <p>I can remove the bookmarks for those folders but then the menu looks ugly as the mounted volumes are still displayed and I can't find a way change their icons in the menu. I've circled the offending menu entries in the screenshot. How can I hide them?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0hqVI.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
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2010-12-15T16:49:43.030
How do I hide CIFS volumes in the Places menu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>@<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/users/866/fluteflute\">fluteflute</a>: The answer in the question you linked helped guide me to a workable solution. What I ended up doing was changing the mount points from my <code>/home</code> folder to the <code>/mnt</code> folder in the <code>/etc/fstab</code> file and then replacing the folders in my home directory with symbolic links to the mounted locations.</p>\n\n<p><code>ln -s /mnt/documents/ /home/ramon/Documents</code></p>\n\n<p>It's all good now! My Documents, Video, Music, and Pictures folders no longer have duplicate entries in the places menu and are still mapped to the remote file system on my server. Thanks for the help guys.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-15T16:49:43.030", "id": "17604", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-15T16:49:43.030", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:25:10.160", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2527", "parentId": "16904", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2010-12-10T22:30:41.277
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<p>Trying to make a very speedy Ubuntu install for my network, I installed the command-line version of Natty Narwhal and the following packages: xorg, gnome-base, unity</p> <p>My .xinitrc is simply exec ck-launch-session gnome-session. Unity appears to be working, though there's no side-menu like I'm using to seeing in UNE. <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Tab</kbd> doesn't switch Windows either.</p>
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2011-10-31T20:47:54.530
2017-02-21T08:47:50.243
How can I get application side-menu on base Unity install?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I believe you mean <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/netbook-launcher-efl\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">netbook-launcher-efl</a> and not Unity. Furthermore you are probably missing alt-tab because of missing mutter.</p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T23:08:09.513", "id": "18075", "postId": "16908", "score": "0", "text": "What's the difference between netbook-launcher-efl and unity? After installing mutter, gnome, unity, and compiz, things work as expected. Thanks!", "userDisplayName": "Henson D Sturgill", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T23:13:19.853", "id": "18078", "postId": "16908", "score": "0", "text": "netbook-launcher-efl is basically the same as the previous (10.04) netbook experience, as opposed to unity, which does not have the side menu.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T00:52:46.390", "id": "18084", "postId": "16908", "score": "0", "text": "http://bit.ly/f3H8Ja This is without netbook-launcher-efl. I thought this was going to be the new interface for all versions.", "userDisplayName": "Henson D Sturgill", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T22:09:58.177", "id": "18184", "postId": "16908", "score": "0", "text": "Well, I just removed compiz and things still work. Maybe I was just selecting the wrong gdm drop-down box for \"Ubuntu Desktop\"?!", "userDisplayName": "Henson D Sturgill", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T23:34:17.590", "id": "18189", "postId": "16908", "score": "0", "text": "compiz is not needed for the experience to work ;) (it does make it more awesome though)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T22:43:07.680", "id": "16908", "lastActivityDate": "2017-02-21T08:47:50.243", "lastEditDate": "2017-02-21T08:47:50.243", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "527764", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1992", "parentId": "16905", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "0" }
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<p>I am trying to learn how to tweak my shell in the file but can't seems to find the file in my home directory or in <code>/etc/profile</code>.</p> <p>Is there any other file I need to search for, or am I expected to create one from scratch?</p>
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2010-12-11T06:29:24.803
2014-08-13T10:20:48.893
I can't find .bash_profile
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you open Nautilus, the file browser, go to your HOME directory and press CTRL+H you will see then all the hidden files (since hidden files start with the DOT <code>.</code> character). Since you are talking about the <code>.bash_profile</code>, I am guessing you want to start via console instead of an interactive desktop.</p>\n\n<p>The difference between <code>.bash_profile</code> and <code>.bashrc</code> is the following:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><code>.bashrc</code> is the one that you edit when you want to change the way xterm or gnome-terminal open the console. how the bash works in this interactive places.</p></li>\n<li><p><code>.bash_profile</code> is the one you edit when you want to change how bash works when you login via console (Like the same way you login to a Ubuntu server or when you press CTRL+ALT+F1 to start a terminal)</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Since <code>.bash_profile</code> does not come by default, you can just create it. But as I understand the default <code>.bash_profile</code> is now called <code>.profile</code> which can be seen in the HOME directory. Both, <code>.bashrc</code> and <code>.profile</code> can be edited to change how bash works in both, interactive and console modes.</p>\n\n<p>NOTE: If by some way you create <code>.bash_profile</code>, then Ubuntu wont read <code>.profile</code> but instead go directly to <code>.bash_profile</code> since both of them are the same but <code>.bash_profile</code> has more compatibility because of old ways. So basically you do not need <code>.bash_profile</code> if you have <code>.profile</code>. So just remember:</p>\n\n<p><code>.bashrc - Interactive Console/Terminal (Gnome, KDE, Xfce...)</code></p>\n\n<p><code>.profile - TTY Console/Terminal</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T22:57:29.300", "id": "18074", "postId": "16909", "score": "2", "text": "thx you are right i continude to read a little bit and found out that bash has a certain sequence it boots into first it tries to find .bash_profile if not found it tries to find .bash_login and if not found it tries to find .profile, and another thing i read is if you do create .bash_profile you can insert \"source .profile\"\ncommand at the end of .bash_profile and it should execute .profile afterwards, but it's all from reading a book, so not sure how much it will work", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4339" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-10T22:51:35.427", "id": "16909", "lastActivityDate": "2014-08-13T10:20:48.893", "lastEditDate": "2014-08-13T10:20:48.893", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "52726", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7035", "parentId": "16907", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "24" }
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<p>Byobu looks very broken in PuTTY. I've already fixed the key mapping issue, but this issue isn't specified in the man page or even Google:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Iq2O.png" alt="Broken PuTTY Console"></p> <p>Notice the misplaced position of the list of windows, the broken selector position, the duplication of the last window, the random a in the top right, and the misplaced apply option. You can't see this, but the last option is not selectable. </p> <p>Is there some option in PuTTY I need to use in order to see this correctly?</p>
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Ncurses prompts look broken in PuTTY from Windows
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-10T23:48:05.640", "id": "18080", "postId": "16912", "score": "0", "text": "If someone wants to create the `putty` tag, that would be nice", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "168" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T02:27:07.723", "id": "18090", "...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Ubuntu uses UTF-8 for its terminal, but byobu appears to use the \"ISO-8859-1 (Western European)\" charset for it menus. You can set the charset in Window -> Translation.</p>\n\n<p>I've found the following code on the Internet, and I'm still happy with it. <code>byobu</code> ...
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16913
1
20558
2010-12-11T00:12:49.920
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<p>I would like to boot a testing Ubuntu release from a directory (which contains a debootstrap based install).</p> <p>As far as I understand I just need someway to tell the boot process (initrd scripts?) that it should chroot() into the specified dir immediately after mounting the root partition, and then resume the regular upstart/init start.</p> <p>Could someone provide some instructions on how to achieve this?</p>
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3037
2011-01-06T18:03:39.030
2011-01-08T02:14:57.677
How to boot from a debootstrap based install?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2014-02-20T15:37:57.100", "id": "548159", "postId": "16913", "score": "0", "text": "Check out my working example of it here http://askubuntu.com/questions/405735/installing-multiple-linux-distros-in-a-single-partition", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "81249" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can boot a sub directory by replacing your sbin init with a script which uses pivot_root, the process is sketchy and various people have reported failure as much as sucesses. So try it and see, but keep a live cd handy in case your system becomes unbootable.</p>\n\n<p>Details here: <a href=\"http://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root</a></p>\n\n<p>What we could do with, is an automatic system for being able to boot multiple roots from the same drive. It should be programatically possible to do.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-04-22T21:43:01.080", "id": "595625", "postId": "20558", "score": "1", "text": "Rather than replace /sbin/init just add an /init script to root which does the pivot root.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2080" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-08T02:14:57.677", "id": "20558", "lastActivityDate": "2011-01-08T02:14:57.677", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "132", "parentId": "16913", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can boot a sub directory by replacing your sbin init with a script which uses pivot_root, the process is sketchy and various people have reported failure as much as sucesses. So try it and see, but keep a live cd handy in case your system becomes unbootable.</p>\n\n<p>Det...
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16915
1
null
2010-12-11T00:44:50.653
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<p>Ever since the upgrade to Maverick, I've noticed that window title bars (or at least the names listed in them) take forever to refresh. I sometimes see them cut in half horizontally. Also, the hover-over window names I get when I'm using the Compiz scale plugin are often messed up.</p> <p>Any idea what I can do to solve this? I'm on a Compaq Presario CQ62 which uses Intel graphics.</p>
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2012-01-27T15:45:26.190
How do I get window title bars to stop glitching?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T01:25:03.253", "id": "18193", "postId": "16915", "score": "3", "text": "That sounds like graphics driver issues. You might want to search for and/or report a bug on Launchpad.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" }, { "creationDate": "2012-02-...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>From the compiz wiki:</p>\n\n<p>Windows Don't Update</p>\n\n<p>When using the intel or ati driver with AIGLX, you may notice that all your windows seem to be frozen even as you interact with them. Nothing in any window updates until you rotate the cube or otherwise switch vie...
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2012-02-01T19:35:01.270
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16917
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2010-12-11T01:02:52.740
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<p>Whenever I install, update or remove something, it fails and I get a message similar to what is below. After I restart, everything appears to work fine.</p> <p>I just installed some updates using update manager, and here were the details shown in the "Package operation failed" window.</p> <pre><code>installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... [...] run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.35-23-generic /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic exec: 15: update-grub: not found run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 2 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic.postinst line 1010. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 </code></pre> <p>See the <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/542121/" rel="nofollow">full log here</a>.</p> <p>How can I stop this happening?</p>
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1067
2010-12-11T01:09:31.143
2010-12-20T09:22:02.210
Installations, updates and removals always fail. But work after a restart
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T08:54:38.570", "id": "18107", "postId": "16917", "score": "0", "text": "Post the output of `sudo update-grub` do you use the grub bootloader? or lilo? or burg?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T09:21:38.780"...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It sounds like <code>update-grub</code> has been removed. Do you recall deleting it? Try <code>sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc</code>. Then see if apt works a little better.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-20T09:22:02.210", "id": "18231", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-20T09:22:02.210", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2346", "parentId": "16917", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Do you have burg installed? I'm guessing you most likely do.\nIf you do, run:</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo ln -s /usr/bin/update-burg /usr/bin/update-grub</code></p>\n\n<p>in a terminal, or you can try to replace:</p>\n\n<p><code>update-grub</code></p>\n\n<p>with</p>\n\n<p><code>upda...
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16918
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16921
2010-12-11T01:31:40.117
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<p>Does anyone know of any software or solution I can use to listen to <a href="http://www.audible.com/">Audible</a> audiobook files in Ubuntu? I'd rather not have to use Wine but I'm just wondering what other people have come up with.</p>
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2015-11-12T00:03:53.317
2020-08-23T12:50:15.877
How to listen to Audible files?
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[ { "creationDate": "2013-03-12T15:12:22.657", "id": "334471", "postId": "16918", "score": "21", "text": "Everyone who reads this, please make sure to contact Audible and ask them to make a Linux or web client. (I could live with a Flash based player in my browser. Better than nothing.) Consumer d...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If the internet sources I found are correct, Audible uses a DRM solution known as \"Apple FairPlay\" (which is everything but fair play, of course...).</p>\n\n<p>There seems to be no way to listen to Audible .aa files in Ubuntu directly, but some other disappointed customers have found solutions to convert them to something usable:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://jan.saell.org/blog/archives/526\">Use the Windows software in Virtualbox and rip the audio on the host</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/589613\">Use some audio editor tools on Windows with an old version of the Audible software</a> (somebody on another forum used another sound editor to do the same)</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Note: Audible says it <a href=\"http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3899\">actively works on linux support</a>, but from what I read on-line they have been saying that since forever. Maybe you need to remind them about it... ;)</p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2017-06-01T16:16:28.280", "id": "1454726", "postId": "16921", "score": "0", "text": "Looks like they deleted the \"actively works on linux support\" answer. Here is one that says \"No\" for linux. http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6409/kw/linux", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11929" }, { "creationDate": "2017-06-01T16:36:52.860", "id": "1454736", "postId": "16921", "score": "1", "text": "Cloud player does in fact work on Linux now, it also syncs your position from your Android device. https://askubuntu.com/a/696934/11929", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11929" }, { "creationDate": "2017-12-17T02:16:46.447", "id": "1589520", "postId": "16921", "score": "1", "text": "Why was this answer accepted when @Luc's answer explains exactly how to \"listen to Audible .aa files in Ubuntu\"? No crappy Virtualbox VM or special \"audio tools\" are required. This answer should be deleted, as it's simply wrong and helping to obscure the correct answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "13217" }, { "creationDate": "2018-09-15T17:38:48.373", "id": "1765838", "postId": "16921", "score": "1", "text": "@Cerin Because when it was accepted 6 years ago there was not any better answer. The one who accepted does not seems to use AskUbuntu now unfortunatelly, Otherwise we might ask him to change.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "20882" }, { "creationDate": "2019-11-19T21:00:53.100", "id": "1990622", "postId": "16921", "score": "0", "text": "Now it's even worse. They don't even answer the question anymore.. or at least the audible link doesn't work anymore. @ElijahLynn", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9608" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T02:58:46.993", "id": "16921", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T02:58:46.993", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "935", "parentId": "16918", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "30" }
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2010-12-11T01:43:50.380
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<p>I have a bunch of files in the Documents folder. When I update most of them they are alright, However there is an xhb file (used by HomeBank) which creates some sort of other file *.xhb~. Ubuntu One sees this file and immediately starts hashing it although it is a temporary file which gets deleted. It then drives up my cpu usage until I kill Ubuntu One and start it again. Help please.</p> <pre><code>2010-12-11 09:35:55,673 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F 86b46f4f-2c65-4583-9590-af191d790cc7 ['56c92c0f-a5ae-4960-a5a6-61252ba2acd0'::'e6027d46-3d52-44a6-be8b-93421ce5c0c5'] ''Documents/Praveen.xhb~.UOMKNV'' | Called calculate_hash (In: T:NONE:F) 2010-12-11 09:35:55,675 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F 86b46f4f-2c65-4583-9590-af191d790cc7 ['56c92c0f-a5ae-4960-a5a6-61252ba2acd0'::'e6027d46-3d52-44a6-be8b-93421ce5c0c5'] ''Documents/Praveen.xhb~.UOMKNV'' | Calling calculate_hash (got HQ_HASH_ERROR:{}) 2010-12-11 09:35:55,676 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F 86b46f4f-2c65-4583-9590-af191d790cc7 ['56c92c0f-a5ae-4960-a5a6-61252ba2acd0'::'e6027d46-3d52-44a6-be8b-93421ce5c0c5'] ''Documents/Praveen.xhb~.UOMKNV'' | Called calculate_hash (In: T:NONE:F) 2010-12-11 09:35:55,677 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F 86b46f4f-2c65-4583-9590-af191d790cc7 ['56c92c0f-a5ae-4960-a5a6-61252ba2acd0'::'e6027d46-3d52-44a6-be8b-93421ce5c0c5'] ''Documents/Praveen.xhb~.UOMKNV'' | Calling calculate_hash (got HQ_HASH_ERROR:{}) 2010-12-11 09:35:55,678 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F 86b46f4f-2c65-4583-9590-af191d790cc7 ['56c92c0f-a5ae-4960-a5a6-61252ba2acd0'::'e6027d46-3d52-44a6-be8b-93421ce5c0c5'] ''Documents/Praveen.xhb~.UOMKNV'' | Called calculate_hash (In: T:NONE:F) </code></pre>
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2010-12-11T17:09:16.323
2010-12-11T17:09:16.323
Ubuntu One always hashing something that is not there
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Ok. First, please reproduce this one more time, <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+filebug\" rel=\"nofollow\">file a bug</a>, and attach the complete logfile from where you got the above excerpt; syncdaemon shouldn't go loopy if a file disappears while it'...
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16925
1
16949
2010-12-11T05:15:38.893
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<p>I've got an NAS file server on my local network, in my windows days I just mapped a drive to it and it was just there all the time. I'm having trouble doing the same in Ubuntu. I had done this successfully before using samba-cifs in fstab, but after reconfiguring the box that no longer works and it felt silly since the box itself runs Linux (Busybox I believe).</p> <p>So at first I tried <strong>sshfs</strong>. I can access it from the Places -> Connect to Server using ssh, and it'll pull up in Nautilus. I can also mount it via commandline: <code>sshfs -o idmap=user $USER@&lt;localip&gt;:/mnt/HD_a2 /media/nas-files</code> and it works fine; however, it asks for a password so I can't add that in rc.local to mount on login. I've tried editing fstab, unsuccessfully, using this command:</p> <pre><code>sshfs#shazzner@&lt;localip&gt;:/mnt/HD_a2/files /media/nas-files/ fuse user 0 0 </code></pre> <p>for some reason this turns the nas-files folder in a binary file, that appears to be garbage. When I unmount it, it comes back fine. No idea.</p> <p>Second, someone in the chat mentioned, <strong>Autofs</strong>. I edited auto.master with:</p> <pre><code>/media/auto /etc/auto.media </code></pre> <p>and in auto.media:</p> <pre><code>nfiles -fstype=fuse,rw,noperm,allow_other,reconnect sshfs\#//&lt;localip&gt;/mnt/HD_a2/files </code></pre> <p>then restarted autofs, it gives me no error message but the mount isn't there.</p> <p>Pulling my hair out with this one, any help?</p>
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2706
2010-12-11T05:27:45.223
2010-12-11T14:29:22.440
How to permanently mount a remote share?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can try to do a </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo su\nssh-copy-id username@nas\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to enable certificate based auto login for the user root.</p>\n\n<p>Now the user root should be able to login to the server viva ssh without a password and i think sshfs now also does not need a password.</p>\n\n<p>So you have to write a little script executing <code>sshfs</code> and start the script on startup (checkout the <code>update-rc.d</code> command)</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-02T09:01:28.217", "id": "21166", "postId": "16949", "score": "0", "text": "Related: [This Answer](http://askubuntu.com/questions/2271/how-to-harden-an-ssh-server/2279#2279) Explains Certificate based SSH login in more detail", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T14:29:22.440", "id": "16949", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T14:29:22.440", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1990", "parentId": "16925", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can try to do a </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo su\nssh-copy-id username@nas\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to enable certificate based auto login for the user root.</p>\n\n<p>Now the user root should be able to login to the server viva ssh without a password and i think sshfs now also doe...
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16932
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2010-12-11T07:55:31.507
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<p>Has anybody tried <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/">E17</a> on Ubuntu, as an alternative to Gnome/KDE? How does one install it?</p>
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2012-04-20T14:51:34.760
2019-06-11T13:25:00.893
How do I install Enlightenment (E17)?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<h1>9.10 only</h1>\n<p>You have to add the ppa <code>ppa:e17-packaging/ppa</code>to your software sources (<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4983/what-are-ppas-and-how-do-i-use-them/5102#5102\">here's how to do that</a>) and install e17 from the software center.</p>\n<p>...
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16935
1
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2010-12-11T09:36:30.393
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<p>I have a new MTS MBlaze Broadband modem USB and it is not getting detected in my Ubuntu 10. 04. It is getting detected as an USB but not as MODEM as result I am not able to create a MOBILE BROADBAND connection </p> <p>How to use MTS MBlaze modem on Ubuntu?</p>
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2014-06-24T22:29:37.063
2015-06-29T05:37:43.870
How do I set up an MTS MBlaze modem?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You have to create a new mobile broadband connection only after you installed <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/usb-modeswitch\" rel=\"nofollow\">usb-modeswitch package</a> - install from Software Center: <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/usb-modeswitch\" rel=\"nofol...
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16937
1
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2010-12-11T10:08:01.890
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<p>When I had installed the rar application the archive manager was using that one which had problems with non-english characters. I uninstalled it and the archive manager used p7zip. The question is how can I make the archive manage (and extract here) to use the p7zip instead of rar but have both installed at the same time.</p>
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2011-12-31T19:36:53.973
2011-12-31T19:36:53.973
How can I change the default application that archive manager uses?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You'll need to associate p7zip with <code>.rar</code> file types. To do so find a <code>.rar</code> file and Right Click that file and choose \"Open With Other Application...\"</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/YC5lu.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>In the \"Other Application\" menu select \"Use a custom command\" and enter <code>/usr/bin/p7zip -d</code> and check the \"Remember this application\" checkbox.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/1dkEe.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2020-09-01T15:30:11.700", "id": "2154582", "postId": "17102", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks, this is valid for ElementaryOS as well.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "996631" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-12T16:59:15.167", "id": "17102", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-12T16:59:15.167", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "41", "parentId": "16937", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Personally I found that the best archive manager which support non-English characters is PeaZip <a href=\"http://www.peazip.org/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">PeaZip web site</a>. It has a support for RAR archives and is able to do many other operations. </p>\n\n<p>In order to...
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2010-12-11T10:46:13.620
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<p>I'm missing both the Me Menu and the Log Out/Shutdown/Restart, etc applet from my panel and I can't find them in the 'Add to Panel' list. The screenshot below shows the current state of my panel. How can I get them both back?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TA8VN.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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2010-12-11T17:30:24.527
A few items are missing from my panel and I'm not sure how to get them back
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Right click your panel and then click <strong>Add to Panel</strong> </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/xu0fE.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>Scroll down and select <strong>Indicator Applet Session</strong> and then click Add.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/NNS26.png\" alt=\"alt text\"> </p>\n\n<p>Now <strong>Me Menu</strong> and <strong>Log Out/Shutdown/Restart</strong> applet will be loaded.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVIcI.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-06-30T17:44:50.983", "id": "57292", "postId": "16946", "score": "0", "text": "The thing is that there are items in the panel that (for reasons I don't understand) go away, and they don't appear in the \"Add To Panel\" picker. For example, the little sound control widget (the speaker thingy) is simply not listed there. Same goes for the \"log out/change user\" widget. There's a \"log out\" widget in \"Add To Panel\", and a separate \"switch user\", but the original one, once gone, is nowhere to be found.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1684" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T13:41:48.670", "id": "16946", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T17:30:24.527", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-11T17:30:24.527", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5691", "parentId": "16941", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try restarting the gnome panel by pressing <strong>Alt+F2</strong> and then typing in the command,</p>\n\n<pre><code>gnome-panel --replace\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If that doesn't work try restarting the system. I get this sometimes but when I log off or restart the machine the a...
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2010-12-11T14:22:21.930
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<p>I experienced some weird stuff:</p> <pre><code>berni@zero:~$ touch wiki berni@zero:~$ sudo chown root. wiki berni@zero:~$ sudo chmod 000 wiki berni@zero:~$ ls -l wiki ---------- 1 root root 0 2010-12-11 15:14 wiki </code></pre> <p>Summary: I created a file which nobody should be able to access in my HOME (~)</p> <p>My user has default ubuntu permissions, no system tweaks etc.</p> <p><strong>But I'm able to delete the file without root permission!</strong></p> <pre><code>berni@zero:~$ ls -l wiki ---------- 1 root root 0 2010-12-11 15:20 wiki berni@zero:~$ rm wiki rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `wiki'? y berni@zero:~$ ls -l wiki ls: cannot access wiki: No such file or directory berni@zero:~$ </code></pre> <p>This <strong>does not</strong> work in <code>/tmp</code> or any other folder (!= HOME).</p> <p>Does anyone knows why this is the case?</p>
1990
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2010-12-11T17:32:03.557
2010-12-11T17:32:03.557
Deleting without permission in $HOME
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Deleting files does not require any permissions on the file or directory you are going to delete, it requires that you have writing permissions in the parent directory and either is the owner of the file or the parent directory.</p>\n\n<p>For example:</p>\n\n<pre><code>/ root 755\n/foo user 755\n/foo/bar root 644\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You cannot delete the <code>/foo</code> directory here, even though you are the owner of it, because you do not have write permissions in the parent directory (<code>/</code>). You can delete <code>/foo/bar</code>, though, since you do have write permissions in the directoy <code>/foo</code>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T15:05:21.767", "id": "16958", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T15:05:21.767", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1697", "parentId": "16948", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
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16951
1
16954
2010-12-11T14:36:48.880
2
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<p>I am trying to fresh install a box to 10.04 (it was previously 9.10), but during the install process mounting the swap partition fails giving the error:</p> <blockquote> <p>The attempt to mount a file system with type swap in SCSI4 (0,0,0), partition #5 (sda) at none failed.</p> <p>You may resume partitioning from the partitioning menu.</p> </blockquote> <p>I ran the short-smart tools on it which returned no errors on the disk, its a relatively new disk.</p> <p>Suggestions?</p>
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2010-12-11T16:06:13.057
2010-12-11T16:06:13.057
Install fails, cannot mount swap
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You should select manual partitioning and create one huge partition format it as <code>ext4</code> and mount it as <code>/</code></p>\n\n<p>Then left about 2-3 GB of space for a swap partion (WHICH YOU DON'T CREATE YET)</p>\n\n<pre><code>|-----------------------|\n|Root FS / | free2GB|\n|-----------------------|\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then proceed and ubuntu asks if you are sure not to create swap. Say Yes.</p>\n\n<p>I the system now works fine and you can use it, you can create the swap afterwards </p>\n\n<p>For example: Start <code>gparted</code> and create an swap parition in the freespace </p>\n\n<p>Then do a <code>swapon /dev/sdXXX</code> (XXX the newly created partition)</p>\n\n<p>Now you can check if this has worked with <code>free</code>\nIf everythink works you can add the swap to the <code>fstab</code> file to be automounted after a restart.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T14:46:55.630", "id": "16954", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T14:46:55.630", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1990", "parentId": "16951", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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16952
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2010-12-11T14:37:17.320
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<p>I upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop and I have to use the old boot link for it to work. How can I make my laptop automatically use the working boot-up? When I use the new GRUB entry the screen goes blank and the computer seems to hang.</p>
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667
2010-12-11T14:54:15.550
2015-12-16T06:55:38.750
I upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop and I have to use the old GRUB entry for it to work
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>you have to know the number of the working item</p>\n\n<p>For example: The First line has number 0 , the second 1 etc.</p>\n\n<p>Now</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo gedit /etc/default/grub\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>And change the line <code>GRUB_DEFAULT=0</code>\nto</p>\n\n<pre><code>GR...
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John Bridgman
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2010-12-11T14:39:50.267
0
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<p>I have bought a new Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop with Windows 7 installed. I have installed Ubuntu via Wubi. I am using a BSNL Broadband connection with a ZXDSL 831A11 modem.</p> <p>Internet is working fine in Windows 7. But after logging into Ubuntu, I am not able to get an internet connection. There is no eth0 connection active. And my network card is : Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller</p> <p>Some more info by googling : <a href="http://www.downloadatoz.com/driver/articles/download-atheros-ar8152-fast-ethernet-controller-driver-for-dell-laptops.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.downloadatoz.com/driver/articles/download-atheros-ar8152-fast-ethernet-controller-driver-for-dell-laptops.html</a></p> <p>Any way to obtain this driver for Ubuntu?</p>
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235
2010-12-11T17:32:04.603
2017-02-21T09:01:00.657
Need wired driver for an Atheros AR8152
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Answered at <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9449490\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9449490</a>, #6 likely solution steps. Dell 4010 Atheros wired ethernet driver not in kernel 10.04 64.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T16:58:10.467", "id": "18147", "postId": "16961", "score": "0", "text": "Dint work.. installation was success.. but network dint come up.. still ifconfig -a displays only lo..", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6521" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T17:30:11.517", "id": "18149", "postId": "16961", "score": "0", "text": "on a second reboot it was working fine..", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6521" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T15:37:29.910", "id": "16961", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T15:37:29.910", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7195", "parentId": "16953", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
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16956
1
16957
2010-12-11T14:55:44.410
3
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<p>After I installed Banshee, apt-get is stuck (neither installed, or uninstalled) on the libubuntuone1.0-cil package:</p> <pre><code>Setting up libubuntuone1.0-cil (0.3.8-0ubuntu5) ... * Installing 1 assembly from libubuntuone1.0-cil into Mono E: installing Assembly /usr/lib/cli/ubuntuone-sharp-1.0/ubuntuone-sharp.dll failed E: Installation of libubuntuone1.0-cil with /usr/share/cli-common/runtimes.d/mono failed dpkg: error processing libubuntuone1.0-cil (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Errors were encountered while processing: libubuntuone1.0-cil </code></pre>
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2010-12-11T18:32:47.613
2010-12-11T18:32:47.613
stuck on libubuntuone1.0-cil, assembly error
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Run the following in terminal,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install -f</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg --configure -a</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update</code></p>\n\n<p>if you get any errors,post the output of those errors in a pastebin.</p>\n\n<p>Also see this <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libubuntuone/+bug/688538\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>bug</strong></a> report.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T21:45:06.137", "id": "18179", "postId": "16957", "score": "0", "text": "That bug report is exactly the problem I'm having! Subscribed. Here's my error: http://pastebin.com/arvt0YZt", "userDisplayName": "Henson D Sturgill", "userId": null } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T15:03:17.837", "id": "16957", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T15:11:03.977", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-11T15:11:03.977", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "5691", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5691", "parentId": "16956", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Run the following in terminal,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install -f</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg --configure -a</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update</code></p>\n\n<p>if you get any errors,post the output of those errors in a pastebin.</p>\n\n<p>Also see this <a h...
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Henson D Sturgill
16962
1
17016
2010-12-11T15:55:42.537
1
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<p>I mean to remove the Sendmail Mail Server on webmin, any idea how to remove it? Thanks.</p>
5840
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2011-01-05T20:56:36.233
2011-01-05T20:56:36.233
How to remove the Sendmail Mail Server from webmin?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Webmin is only a web based interface to various services and applications on Ubuntu, If you have the Mail Transport Agent (MTA), sendmail, installed and want to remove it then use the apt-get remove sendmail or apt-get purge sendmail command as usual or use the synaptic package manager, If you mean uninstalling via the webmin interface then you can use the command shell by expanding the others item in the left pane and clicking the command shell item then run the apt-get command from the corresponding page. You may have to use the --yes switch when you run commands from there, it is not recommended at all, it would be best to use ssh for this, an ssh interface is available in webmin but it does not work sometimes.</p>\n\n<p>If you just want to remove the sendmail module in webmin that interfaces with the sendmail MTA then doing the following may help:</p>\n\n<p>In the side bar click webmin when the items expand click webmin configuration, in the window on right click webmin modules, in the page that appears, click the delete tab, In the Delete modules list box select the required module then click the Delete selected modules button, you may have to click the refresh modules Item at the bottom of the left pane.</p>\n\n<p>Some people used to recommend ebox (available in the repository) as a replacement for webmin, I do not know how well this will work as I have never used it.</p>\n\n<p>ebox have since become Zentyal available here; <a href=\"http://www.zentyal.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.zentyal.org/</a> The installation guide is here; <a href=\"http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Document/Documentation/InstallationGuide\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Document/Documentation/InstallationGuide</a> </p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-15T06:39:13.550", "id": "18699", "postId": "17016", "score": "0", "text": "i got the way to remove the Sendmail Mail by myself , i got the configuration its on the webmin that allowing me to drooping / removing the application , thanks for the helping . :D", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5840" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T22:58:52.517", "id": "17016", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T22:58:52.517", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4923", "parentId": "16962", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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16966
1
16973
2010-12-11T16:35:41.833
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<p>In htop, I kill Nautilus, and within one second, it's back, with a new PID! </p> <p>The restarted Nautilus shows in the Processes list, but has no GUI until I manually launch Nautilus... I've heard mention of Nautilus works in lockstep with the desktop... maybe that is the reason(?). </p> <p>Is there some sort of "watchdog" program keeping an eye on some distro-critical programs? Monitoring Nautilus doesn't seem like a Linux kernel issue, so I just wonder what is happening here? </p>
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1067
2010-12-30T03:16:15.943
2012-02-14T00:24:26.677
What causes Nautilus to restart whenever I kill it?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Gnome uses a <em>Session Manager</em> (<code>gnome-session</code>) to keep track of what it needs to do. It is responsible for bringing up the whole session, all subprocesses, restoring state and saving it when you log out.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>GNOME provides tools to allow your application to run smoothly from session to session. Users can log out with running applications and have those applications fully restored when they log back in. – <em>from <a href=\"http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/session.html.en\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Gnome Documentation Library</a></em></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Among other things, the session manager tries to keep it's instance of Nautilus running. Nautilus has to register with the session manager for that - which it does by default; naturally, there's a command-line option to disable it: </p>\n\n<p><code>nautilus --sm-disable</code></p>\n\n<p>You can kill a running Nautilus process for good by running:</p>\n\n<p><code>killall -9 nautilus</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T01:08:22.637", "id": "18192", "postId": "16973", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks Stefano.. You have given a good overview, and that's what I was after, but as is often the case, an explanation can bring up another question(s)...I'll mention one now: I ran `nautilus --sm-disable` (user and sudo). This may have disabled the connection to the session-manager, but the session-manager kept right on restarting nautilus (with \"nautilus --sm-disable\" showing in the process list)... So does this parameter only take effect if it is applied at session startup (vs. mid-session), and are there any serious ramifications when disabled? (I think auto-mounting would vanish, but...?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2670" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T14:47:45.597", "id": "18272", "postId": "16973", "score": "0", "text": "Well, `nautilus --sm-disable` in an [Undocumented Feature](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undocumented_feature). So it's hard to say. But keep in mind that nautilus will restart *as soon as it's killed*, you'd have to start the first instance of it with this parameter. `killall nautilus && nautilus --sm-disable` won't work. The command doesn't disable the feature for the running instances of nautilus. You might try to combine mine and andrewsomething's answer. ;-)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" }, { "creationDate": "2010-12-30T12:09:58.220", "id": "20761", "postId": "16973", "score": "0", "text": "use `killall -9 nautilus`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2016-04-01T13:00:35.300", "id": "1122713", "postId": "16973", "score": "0", "text": "`nautilus --sm-disable` doesn't work in Ubuntu 15.10 (`Unknown option --sm-disable`). Also there is no Gnome session.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "52719" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T17:01:27.610", "id": "16973", "lastActivityDate": "2012-02-14T00:24:26.677", "lastEditDate": "2012-02-14T00:24:26.677", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1992", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "16966", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "20" }
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16972
1
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2010-12-11T16:59:50.963
1
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<p>Is there an easy way to have a samba user automatically created whenever a unix user is created? Currently I'm using LDAP. But it is not that easy, and also very difficult to setup. I'm looking for a simpler way.</p>
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169736
2014-01-29T14:02:50.080
2014-01-29T14:02:50.080
Synchronising samba and unix user accounts
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can use \"smbpasswd -a \" to set the users password in the Samba database, without requiring them to log in.</p>\n\n<p>It should be possible to create a simple wrapper script which calls both useradd and smbpasswd -a. Ideally useradd should just have integration for this ...
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16976
1
21338
2010-12-11T17:45:28.603
8
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<p>Whenever I want to print a PDF document in evince, I'm always slowed down with the "Getting printer information" process. I was wondering if there was anyway to save the "printer information" locally somehow so I'm not slowed down by the network lookup.</p>
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2011-01-13T09:31:25.450
How to speed up "Getting printer information"?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Disable Listening on /var/run/cups/cups.sock in cupsd.conf, keeping only \"Listen localhost:631\". See comment #29 in <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/475845\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/475845</a></p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo perl -i.bak -pe 's/^(Listen .*cups\\.sock)/#$1/' /etc/cups/cupsd.conf\nsudo /etc/init.d/cups restart\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If your application doesn't show any printers any more, restart it.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-09-21T09:16:30.973", "id": "71621", "postId": "21338", "score": "3", "text": "Can you explain what this change does? What is the socket /var/run/cups/cups.sock used for and how does disabling it affect the system?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "23530" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-13T09:31:25.450", "id": "21338", "lastActivityDate": "2011-01-13T09:31:25.450", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8822", "parentId": "16976", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
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16978
1
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2010-12-11T18:04:50.910
5
562
<p>I'm using MythTV to watch TV on my ubuntu computer and I'm having a problem with the resolution. </p> <p>It seems that the GUI resolution is matched with the channel resolution, so If I'm watching a HD channel, I get a nice GUI but If I'm watching a SD channel, then it's crap. </p> <p>A couple of screenshots to show the difference:</p> <p>High Definition Channel:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LZLF8.jpg" alt="High Definition Channel"></p> <p>Standard Definition Channel:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eaVR3.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>I haven't found any similar issue in the internet and neither an option in the settings menu of MythTV (backend and frontend). </p> <p>I have another small problem that you can see in the first screenshot, the channel name is cut (it shows "Telemadri" and the last letter is not completely shown). Anyone know how can I fix this too?</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p>
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2011-10-20T16:54:13.307
MythTV GUI problems
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You could be experiencing <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/684428\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">this bug</a> (\"Horizontal picture shrink and lower third blurred on channel change\"). If not, you should consider <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q...
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16980
1
null
2010-12-11T18:41:20.823
3
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<p>The Internal Microphone on my Eee 1005HAB does not work in 10.10. In 10.04 it didn't work very well (lot of static), but now it dosn't work at all. </p> This is weird because it seemed to work fine when I used a liveCD of 10.10. I can plug in an external mic (usb or mic jack) and those both work fine. I think the internal mic is stereo.
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2011-03-29T13:38:36.500
EeePc internal microphone not working
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2
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I never had microphone issues in my EeePc. Have checked in your Sound Preferences if you mic isn't muted, with very low volume or even not selected? You could also try something like <a href=\"http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/\" rel=\"nofollow\">eee-control</a></p>\n", ...
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16981
1
null
2010-12-11T18:43:41.430
5
2384
<p>From where can I download Mobile Media converter for Ubuntu?</p>
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169736
2013-12-31T04:10:17.270
2013-12-31T04:10:17.270
How do I install Mobile Media converter?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can download <a href=\"http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Mobile Media Converter</a> from their site. This is a <a href=\"http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverterUbuntu.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">link to their download ...
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<p>Today I had to force-shutdown my machine after it froze during resume from suspend. Since the reboot, I've found that the <kbd>p</kbd> key doesn't work normally in X. It does work normally in the console.</p> <p>Modified keypresses, e.g. <kbd>shift</kbd>-<kbd>p</kbd>, <kbd>ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>p</kbd>, do work normally.</p> <p>Pressing <kbd>p</kbd> with <code>xev</code> running gives</p> <pre><code>FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 </code></pre> <p>Could this problem be happening because of file corruption? What file would I check for corruption?</p> <p>I've done an fsck on the system drive —by running <code>tune2fs -C 200 /dev/sda3</code> before rebooting— which seems to have come up clean. I.E.</p> <pre><code>$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 | grep 'state\|check' Filesystem state: clean Last checked: Sat Dec 11 12:27:16 2010 Next check after: Thu Jun 9 13:27:16 2011 </code></pre> <p>I'm running an updated (last dist-upgrade done yesterday) ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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2010-12-11T20:44:14.410
`p` key doesn't work in X
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I've realized that this was happening because of a typo I made when manually editing my xfce keyboard shortcuts file.</p>\n\n<p>Specifically, the file <code>~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml</code> used the modifier <code>Meta5</code> (which doesn't exist) instead of <code>Mod5</code> to modify the <kbd>p</kbd> key.</p>\n\n<p>I did note that no errors were recorded in <code>~/.xsession-errors</code>, despite the fact that xfce seems to register things there.</p>\n\n<p>It may be useful to some people to note that one of my reasons for editing the file was in order to make the same shortcuts work with or without the Keyboard Layouts applet being loaded. Depending on whether or not that applet is loaded, the \"windows\" key will register as either <code>&lt;Super&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;Mod5&gt;</code>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T20:44:14.410", "id": "17003", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T20:44:14.410", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3865", "parentId": "16982", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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<p>I am signed up for the Ubuntu One service, and have my computer added. </p> <p>Under System → Preferences → Ubuntu One, I have enabled all synchronizations, including for music. </p> <p>System → Prefereneces → Ubuntu One, it shows this message: "Synchronization Complete". </p> <p>But, when (via Rhythmbox) I purchase a song, no synchronization occurs. I can see the purchased song on the Ubuntu One web page, but the "Purchased Music" folder in Rhythmbox is empty, and the folder <code>~/.ubuntuone/Purchased</code> from Ubuntu One is also empty. (So, the only way I can get at the song is to manually download it from the Ubuntu One web site to my computer.) </p> <p>I thought that these synchronizations should just happen automatically, but it appears that is not the case for me, and I can't figure out why. </p> <p>Thanks in advance for any help. </p>
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2011-01-03T08:12:23.500
2011-01-03T08:12:23.500
How do I make my purchased music be synchronized on Rhythmbox and in ~./ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is probably bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/684408\" rel=\"nofollow\">lp:684408</a>, which has been fixed in trunk. A workaround is to do something like</p>\n\n<pre><code>touch \"$HOME/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/xyzzy\"\n</code></...
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<p>I can I produce those nice images on the back of my dvd (lightscribe)?</p> <p>Is it possible on ubuntu?</p>
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How do I use lightscribe when burning CDs and DVDs?
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<blockquote> <p>If you are hurrying to reply, System → Administration → <strong>StartUp Disk Creator</strong> -- no, that's not what I'm talking about.</p> </blockquote> <p>I want to try Ubuntu 11.04's Unity without touching my existing Ubuntu install.</p> <p>To do this, I need to install the nVidia drivers first (sigh).</p> <p>To do this, I need changes to persist a reboot.</p> <p>To do this, <strong>I need to <em>really</em> install Ubuntu on a USB key.</strong></p> <p>How do you do that?</p> <hr> <h2>What I tried</h2> <ol> <li><p>I tried to make a USB key from <a href="https://launchpad.net/testdrive">Testdrive</a>, then boot from it, then choose "Install Ubuntu." The installer refused to install to the installation media itself.</p></li> <li><p>I tried, from my installed copy of Ubuntu:</p> <pre><code>sudo kvm /dev/sdb --cdrom .cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_natty-desktop-i386.iso </code></pre> <p>...but the installer didn't detect the disk properly.</p></li> </ol>
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How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key? (without using Startup Disk Creator)
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h1>Ubuntu/Linux solution</h1>\n<h2>1. Obtain latest image</h2>\n<p>You should do this with <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/testdrive\" rel=\"noreferrer\">testdrive</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/testdrive\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install testdrive\" /></a>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rj1n8.png\" alt=\"TestDrive\" /></p>\n<p><strong>Note.</strong> If your key is smaller than 4.4 GB (for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)), you <strong>must</strong> get the alternate installer. The Desktop installer refuses to continue if there is less than 4.4 GB of free disk space.</p>\n<h2>2. Format the USB disk.</h2>\n<p>This is important if you already have anything looking like a Linux install on your disk, or the installer will not want to touch that disk, for some reason. I failed earlier because I didn't perform this step, so skip at your own risk! You need a key that is at least 3 GB in size.</p>\n<p>You can do so from <em>System</em> → <em>Administration</em> → <em>Disk Utility</em>. Choose the destination USB key, unmount all partitions, and select <em>Format Drive.</em></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/wNNA7.png\" alt=\"Disk Utility\" /></p>\n<p>You need to make sure you select &quot;Don't Partition&quot; before it lets you format the disk.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/gkwf2.png\" alt=\"Format drive window.\" /></p>\n<h2>3. Start a virtual machine on the USB key</h2>\n<p>I made sure (with <code>file</code>) that my USB key was in <code>/dev/sdb</code>, then ran:</p>\n<pre><code>sudo qemu-system-x86_64 /dev/sdb -cdrom ~/.cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_natty-desktop-i386.iso\n</code></pre>\n<p>...to install the i386 ISO of the Natty Narwhal desktop -- the file name will vary if you download a different ISO image.</p>\n<p>Details for your virtualization solution of choice will vary, but you want to use the <em>device file</em> of your USB key as the VM's hard drive.</p>\n<p>Append <code>-boot order=d</code> to the kvm command to make it boot from the image in case it tries to boot from the 'hard disk' and fails because it cannot find an operating system there.</p>\n<h2>4. Install normally.</h2>\n<p>At this point you are working on a virtual machine that sees your USB key as the only connected hard drive. From inside the &quot;QEMU&quot; window, install as you would normally do.</p>\n<p>A few notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>Partitioning.</strong> Avoid using the automatic partitioning system, as it will create a swap partition on your USB key. That's no good, as swapping becomes <em>super</em> slow (seconds-long system freezes slow) and quickly kills your drive's life. Simply allocate a single partition for <code>/</code>. If you're using the alternate installer, make sure you set the <code>noatime</code> flag to further reduce the amount of writes to the disk.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Updates.</strong> Skip the option to automatically download and install updates. It is not guaranteed that the repositories will be in a consistent state by the time you run the installer. Personally, I'd rather manage the upgrades manually with a tool such as <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/aptitude.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">aptitude</a> (which does no longer ship with Ubuntu by default).</p>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Alpha-quality software.</strong> Things are a little wonky -- it is alpha quality software, after all. I had <code>dpkg</code> exiting with error code 1 without being able to review the error - no packages were broken as a result, however. I tried to shutdown the virtual machine cleanly after the setup, but it hung. On a reboot, however, the system booted fine.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>5. Reboot and boot into your copy of Ubuntu</h2>\n<p>You may need to fiddle with your BIOS settings to make this work.</p>\n<hr />\n<p>A nice (or annoying, based on your use case) thing about Ubuntu on a USB is that next time it'll refresh GRUB, it'll also detect and add to the list the kernels and operative systems on the HDD. This should let you boot straight into your HDD from your USB key's GRUB.</p>\n", "commentCount": "24", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T00:03:06.877", "id": "18191", "postId": "17018", "score": "10", "text": "Wow. Thanks for the very detailed list of instructions for doing this.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-18T12:06:33.350", "id": "23854", "postId": "17018", "score": "2", "text": "Awesome, thanks for the explanation. To add, I find that adding some RAM to kvm with `-m 2GB` helps speed up the boot process.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "785" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T13:33:55.880", "id": "26143", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Will I when using this solution always be working in a virtual machine or only while installing?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8642" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T13:38:37.040", "id": "26144", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "@Pit Only when installing.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1938" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T15:22:30.527", "id": "26162", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "How do you use it in virtualbox?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5149" }, { "creationDate": "2011-08-16T00:34:11.123", "id": "65036", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "You don't have to use the nightly build. In TestDrive, go to Edit > Preferences > General tab > Ubuntu Releases section > Change Repository to \"releases\" then select the official release (natty, maverick, etc).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "731" }, { "creationDate": "2012-01-22T14:38:11.140", "id": "111555", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "could you please update this answer to include how to install kvm as well...I am following the steps but am stuck at the point where you start kvm.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5855" }, { "creationDate": "2012-01-22T19:11:05.403", "id": "111612", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "@Nik kvm should be preinstalled with Ubuntu... it does, however, require a CPU with inbuilt virtualization support.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1938" }, { "creationDate": "2012-07-05T20:56:06.380", "id": "194995", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Do Intel Atoms have the \"inbuilt\" virtualization support? My system monitor says its this one. Intel® CPU U2700 @ 1.30GHz. Would use my much more powerful desktop, but the Power Supply died a few months ago. :-(", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "65492" }, { "creationDate": "2012-09-21T03:59:09.903", "id": "237086", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "@DanielClem It's not clear to me about your CPU. Here's the Intel page, http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology, but I don't see your CPU on it, either as having or not having it. If you look at the file /proc/cpuinfo you will see a line that says \"Flags\". If it says \"vmx\" you have a cpu that has the feature. AMD computers with it have the flag \"svm\". You also need a BIOS that supports it, and even then may have to turn it on in a BIOS setting.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "63886" }, { "creationDate": "2012-11-12T16:59:10.353", "id": "267818", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Will the resulting OS use the hard drive of whatever computer you're running on for swap? If no (which seems likely), are there any problems caused by running without any kind of swap?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "73487" }, { "creationDate": "2012-11-12T17:42:20.567", "id": "267836", "postId": "17018", "score": "1", "text": "@BryanHead When memory runs out, the [oom-killer](http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer) (if enabled) will pick the \"worst offender\" and kill it. The alternative is a kernel panic (which afaik is the only last resort measure under Windows.)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1938" }, { "creationDate": "2014-08-28T19:15:44.603", "id": "702165", "postId": "17018", "score": "4", "text": "This is a very detailed answer, but unfortunately it does not work with Ubuntu 14.04. For some reason `qemu` fails and the installation process aborts.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "177437" }, { "creationDate": "2014-08-28T20:24:27.290", "id": "702206", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "@LuísdeSousa What happens? I have upgraded to 14.10 and can't check for myself easily.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1938" }, { "creationDate": "2014-08-29T07:05:06.273", "id": "702438", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "The `qemu` window regurgitates a load of text, most of it are just numbers with no apparent meaning. I am not able to copied it, so I can not post it. I am trying with VBox now...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "177437" }, { "creationDate": "2014-10-29T18:40:28.667", "id": "744035", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Me neither, and I also have trusty. It is giving Kernel Panic errors https://i.imgur.com/wdLoiL8.png https://i.imgur.com/4wyVYsK.png", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "62483" }, { "creationDate": "2014-10-29T21:27:58.750", "id": "744127", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "@Lucio wtf, no init?!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1938" }, { "creationDate": "2014-12-03T13:00:17.510", "id": "763812", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Are you guys trying the 14.04.1 version in 64-bit or 32-bit? I tried 64-bit without success (kernel panic). I'll check whether the 32-bit version works.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "109449" }, { "creationDate": "2014-12-03T16:48:38.530", "id": "763985", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Checked 32-bit too and none worked. VirtualBox was able to boot the image though.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "109449" }, { "creationDate": "2015-11-07T18:36:23.523", "id": "1016559", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "`ext2` faster than `ext4` because without journaling?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "137696" }, { "creationDate": "2016-01-04T19:27:30.013", "id": "1058236", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "I just tested this answer with the 64 bit version and this time the qemu window does not even show up. You should edit your answer detail on which Ubuntu version it is supposed to work.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "177437" }, { "creationDate": "2016-01-06T22:33:23.470", "id": "1060014", "postId": "17018", "score": "2", "text": "I too was getting a kernel panic when trying to install ubuntu 14.04 to my USB stick. The problem is that it runs out of ram. To fix I ran this command. ```sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 /dev/sdc -cdrom ~/isos/ubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso```", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "14355" }, { "creationDate": "2016-12-11T21:21:33.080", "id": "1325190", "postId": "17018", "score": "1", "text": "If I install it to a flash drive or USB hard drive, the answer says it will also install GRUB. If I disconnect the flash drive where I installed Ubuntu, will I have issues booting into Windows?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "225254" }, { "creationDate": "2019-03-04T04:24:49.623", "id": "1857198", "postId": "17018", "score": "0", "text": "Can you explain me in a gist what are we doing, since VM is mentioned, I'm confused whether we are installing on a VM or a full install on a usb stick. Also tell me how many usb sticks do we need?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "517699" } ], "communityOwnedDate": "2014-01-10T02:39:50.213", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T23:22:52.223", "id": "17018", "lastActivityDate": "2018-01-21T07:34:21.003", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1938", "parentId": "16988", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "128" }
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<p>I want to create myself very tiny app, which will play a sound every time I press a key on my keyboard. I don't need to know which key on the keyboard was pressed, I just need to somehow know that it happened.</p> <p>Are there any global system hooks for pressed key on the keyboard?</p>
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2011-11-09T23:42:10.753
How can I listen on global keypress event?
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<p>In Windows I never turn my NumLock on. I navigate through the page line with Home and End, and when I want to mark a line I use them in a combination with the Shift key. Pretty basic stuff right? Well I don't know how to do it in Ubuntu 10.04. The Home and End keys work but if I hold the Shift key it inputs respectively 7 and 1. If I turn the NumLock on it works but if I am not holding the Shift key it prints 7 and 1 again. Is there any way I can use my keyboard in Ubuntu the same way I do in Windows?</p> <p>P.S. My roomy is much more experienced than me in Linux so he suggested that xmodmap might work, but even if this is the approach I should take, I still don't want to dig into the whole documentation, just the cliff notes for this exact task if you please.</p>
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How do I configure keyboard commands?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Go to <strong>System</strong> > <strong>Preferences</strong> > <strong>Keyboard</strong>, tab <strong>Layout</strong>, click on <strong>Options</strong>, go to <strong>Miscellanous compatibility options</strong> and then click on <strong>Shift with numeric keypad keys works as in MS Windows</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>I don't have a numeric keypad so I can't test if it works but it should.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T22:52:52.463", "id": "17015", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T22:52:52.463", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2834", "parentId": "16995", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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<p>Is it possible to switch between Nvidia's BLOB and Nouveau video drivers on-the-fly?</p> <p>I think I need to be able to:</p> <ol> <li>[&#x2713;] Unload nvidia</li> <li>[&#x2713;] Unload nouveau</li> <li>[&#x2715;] Restore the console after unloading nouveau*</li> <li>[&#x2713;] Swap xorg.conf files</li> <li>[&#x2713;] Take care of blacklisting</li> <li>[&#x2713;] Deal with libglx.so</li> </ol> <p>*) After a bit of talk with the guys at #nouveau, it seems to be difficult or even impossible with the current Ubuntu setup (builtin vesafb). I'm trying to get it to work with uvesafb, but for now the scripts in the answer do what I was looking for.</p>
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2010-12-12T14:02:38.193
2016-12-01T13:16:18.087
Switch between nvidia-current and nouveau without a reboot?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I now have two scripts that switch drivers, xorg.conf, take care of blacklisting and the libglx, so the answer is: yes, it is possible.</p>\n\n<p>Blacklisting works with one file in <code>/etc/modprobe.d/</code> containing either <code>blacklist nvidia</code> or <code>blacklist nouveau</code>. I also replaced <code>/lib/nvidia-current/modprobe.conf</code> with a dummy, else the nvidia driver would always create a link in <code>/etc/modprobe.d/</code> that blacklists nouveau.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Switch to nouveau:</strong></p>\n\n<pre><code> #!/bin/bash\n stop gdm\n\n rmmod nvidia\n\n sed -i \"s/nouveau/nvidia/\" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf\n\n update-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/mesa/ld.so.conf\n ldconfig\n\n modprobe nouveau\n\n cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf{.nouveau,}\n\n start gdm\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>After executing that, I have nouveau running and a working console (nouveaufb).</p>\n\n<p><strong>Switch to nvidia:</strong></p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nstop gdm\n\necho 0 &gt; /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind\nrmmod nouveau\nrmmod ttm\nrmmod drm_kms_helper\nrmmod drm\n\nsed -i \"s/nvidia/nouveau/\" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf\n\nupdate-alternatives --set gl_conf /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf\nldconfig\n\nmodprobe nvidia-current\n\ncp /etc/X11/xorg.conf{.nvidia,}\n\nstart gdm\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>&#x2192; Nvidia driver is working, only problem: after unloading the nouveau driver, the console is unusable. I need a way to reset it or load another framebuffer, but since vesafb is compiled into the kernel I don't know what to do.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-12T14:00:33.297", "id": "18265", "postId": "17068", "score": "0", "text": "The main goal has been achieved, so I'm accepting this until someone can come up with a fix for the terminal problem.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3037" }, { "creationDate": "2016-12-01T13:11:11.627", "id": "1317485", "postId": "17068", "score": "0", "text": "There seems to be a new question asking for this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/855451/easy-way-to-switch-between-nouveau-and-nvidia-proprietary-driver I linked your answer there, but after testing it, I realized that it doesn't work (anymore). Maybe you can update your answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "12015" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-12T10:33:49.357", "id": "17068", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-12T10:51:04.957", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-12T10:51:04.957", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "3037", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3037", "parentId": "16998", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't believe it's possible to do, not only is the nouvou driver kernel mode setting and the nvidia one not, but the nvidia driver uses a hacked xorg library which makes even using the same install on a machine requiring the intel driver a problem. (see upside down elements...
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2010-12-11T20:16:19.170
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<p>I have accidentally typed my password in SSH's interactive username prompt. Are there any log files that I should clear?</p>
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2010-12-11T20:26:47.770
2010-12-11T22:17:06.083
Accidentally typed password in username input, any logs to clear?
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T20:19:58.543", "id": "18171", "postId": "16999", "score": "1", "text": "Clear your ssh logfile if it exists.I mean your auth.log.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>/var/log/auth.log</code></p>\n\n<p>Search for \"Invalid user\"</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T20:23:43.583", "id": "17000", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T20:26:39.440", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-11T20:26:39.440", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "235", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2527", "parentId": "16999", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "13" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>/var/log/auth.log</code></p>\n\n<p>Search for \"Invalid user\"</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T20:23:43.583", "id": "17000", "lastActivityD...
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2010-12-11T20:32:15.123
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<p>After a clean Ubuntu Server install, I get the following error when running 'perl'. </p> <pre><code>perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_CA.utf8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). </code></pre> <p>Where should I set my locale, system wide and user specific? If there's a command line utility to do it I'd rather use it than manually edit configuration files.</p>
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2014-04-07T18:59:31.447
2014-04-07T18:59:31.447
How to set locale?
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[ { "creationDate": "2014-11-06T18:10:27.390", "id": "748722", "postId": "17001", "score": "0", "text": "Related: [How do I fix my locale issue?](http://askubuntu.com/q/162391/62483)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "62483" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Type the following in terminal to get rid of that error,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-11T20:35:55.057", "id": "17002", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-11T20:35:55.057", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5691", "parentId": "17001", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "40" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Type the following in terminal to get rid of that error,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLic...
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2010-12-11T21:45:09.970
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<p>This has been going on for a while now. When there are new updates for Firefox add-ons and I start Firefox it's trying to download them but it fails. E.g. the first extension is Firebug. After a while I get a dialog:</p> <pre><code>Firefox could not install the file at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1843/firebug-1.6.0-fx.xpi because: Download error -228 </code></pre> <p>How can I fix this?</p>
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2011-02-10T09:03:05.117
2011-02-20T15:40:58.377
Firefox can't update extensions
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[ { "creationDate": "2010-12-11T22:01:43.493", "id": "18183", "postId": "17006", "score": "0", "text": "It only happens with that plugin?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "636" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-09T10:48:06.887", "id": "22268", "postId": "17006", "score"...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Disable ipv6.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Type about:config in the addressbar, press Enter. </li>\n<li>Find <strong>network.dns.disableIPv6</strong> in the list.</li>\n<li>Right-click -> Toggle. </li>\n<li>Restart Firefox and try again.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>That should fix your problem.</p...
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