id stringlengths 1 7 | postTypeId stringclasses 1
value | acceptedAnswerId stringlengths 1 7 ⌀ | creationDate stringdate 2009-01-08 07:47:55 2024-03-31 23:33:05 | score stringclasses 504
values | viewCount stringlengths 1 7 | body stringlengths 24 34.3k | ownerUserId stringlengths 1 7 ⌀ | lastEditorUserId stringlengths 1 7 ⌀ | lastEditDate stringdate 2010-07-28 20:43:11 2024-04-07 06:16:28 ⌀ | lastActivityDate stringdate 2010-07-29 14:11:46 2024-04-07 06:16:28 | title stringlengths 13 150 | tags listlengths 1 5 | answerCount stringclasses 45
values | commentCount stringclasses 47
values | contentLicense stringclasses 3
values | comments listlengths 0 56 | acceptedAnswer dict | answers listlengths 0 82 | communityOwnedDate stringclasses 232
values | favoriteCount stringclasses 2
values | closedDate stringlengths 23 23 ⌀ | lastEditorDisplayName stringclasses 890
values | ownerDisplayName stringlengths 2 28 ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
19675 | 1 | 19763 | 2011-01-02T03:09:13.923 | 6 | 439 | <p>I have a seperate data partition with a functioning .Trash directory. </p>
<p>But <code>~/.local/share/Trash</code> is the only directory seen by <code>trash:///</code> in nautilus.</p>
<p>Here's the fstab entry for the partition:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>UUID=86cf7ec3-c911-4eb9-badb-cb039f975d1d /mnt/ ext4 nodev,nosuid 02</p>
</blockquote>
| 8204 | 5691 | 2011-01-02T18:25:05.603 | 2011-01-02T19:40:15.117 | Any way to consolidate multiple .Trash directories | [
"10.04",
"nautilus",
"trash",
"xdg"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<ul>\n<li><p>You can bind the <strong>.Trash</strong> directory from the data partition to <code>~/.local/share/Trash</code>.</p>\n<p><code>mount --bind source destination</code></p>\n<p>i.e</p>\n<p><code>sudo mount --bind /media/sda2/.Trash ~/.local/share/Trash</code></p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T19:40:15.117",
"id": "19763",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T19:40:15.117",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "5691",
"parentId": "19675",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<ul>\n<li><p>You can bind the <strong>.Trash</strong> directory from the data partition to <code>~/.local/share/Trash</code>.</p>\n<p><code>mount --bind source destination</code></p>\n<p>i.e</p>\n<p><code>sudo mount --bind /media/sda2/.Trash ~/.local/share/Trash</code></p>\n</li... | null | null | null | null | null |
19676 | 1 | 19688 | 2011-01-02T03:32:25.697 | 1 | 2213 | <p>I'm new to Linux. I've got XAMPP installed on Ubuntu 10.10 in <code>/opt/lampp/</code>. </p>
<p>I'd like to synchronise the files in <code>/opt/lampp/htdocs/</code> with Ubuntu One (and I've bought 20gb in preparation), but there's no option to sync the folder.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
| 8205 | 235 | 2011-01-02T05:47:00.590 | 2011-01-02T05:47:00.590 | Using Ubuntu One to synchronise htdocs? | [
"ubuntu-one",
"xampp"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>In order for you to be able to synchronise the directory with Ubuntu One, you need to a) own the directory, and b) have it inside your home directory (or a sub-directory of your home directory):</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p>Just create a directory inside of your home directory, and name it, for example, <code>public_http</code>. Then <strong>change xampps default directory</strong> inside it's <code>httpd.conf</code> file.</p>\n<p>or</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>You can also remove the htdocs directory, create one named <code>public_html</code> in your home directory and use</p>\n<pre><code>sudo ln -s ~/public_html /opt/lampp/htdocs\n</code></pre>\n<p>To create a <strong><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Symbolic Link</a> named <code>/opt/lampp/htdocs</code></strong>, that <strong>points to <code>~/public_html</code></strong> (note: it doesn't work the other way 'round, ubuntu one will not let you synchronise a directory if it is a symlink that points to a real directory).</p>\n<p>This means that whenever the system tries to look for a file inside the /opt/lampp/htdocs directory, it is secretly and silenty 'redirected' to your home directory.</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Afterwards, you can tell Ubuntu One to synchronise the directory as you normally would:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/PrmKe.png\" alt=\"alt text\" /></p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T05:19:25.257",
"id": "19688",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T05:19:25.257",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19676",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>In order for you to be able to synchronise the directory with Ubuntu One, you need to a) own the directory, and b) have it inside your home directory (or a sub-directory of your home directory):</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p>Just create a directory inside of your home directory, and name... | null | null | null | null | null |
19677 | 1 | 19684 | 2011-01-02T03:36:53.503 | 6 | 5462 | <p>Well, I Stumbled upon a command that connects your wired connection from the command line by issuing this in the terminal; "sudo dhclient3 eth0". But there is also a command called "dhclient". Are they the same? Could I issue the same command as; "sudo dhclient eth0?" Could someone clear up newbie on this issue?</p>
| 789 | null | null | 2011-01-02T11:09:16.060 | Difference between dhclient & dhclient3? | [
"networking",
"command-line"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>They are indeed one and the same:</p>\n\n<pre><code>~$ ls -lah /sbin | grep dhclient\nlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-12-30 14:38 dhclient -> dhclient3\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 402K 2010-08-07 04:49 dhclient3\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The arrow indicates that <code>dhclient</code> is a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Symbolic Link</a> that points to <code>dhclient3</code>. We can use </p>\n\n<pre><code>test -h /sbin/dhclient\necho $?\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to make sure it is; it will return <code>0</code>, meaning yes.</p>\n\n<p>This is sometimes done to maintain backwards compatibility with older programs and scripts that assume the old command.</p>\n\n<p>If you are writing a program that uses either of those, you should use <code>dhclient3</code>, and manage your dependencies accordingly.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>In <code>ls -lah</code>, the arguments mean <b>l</b>ong listing format, <b>a</b>ll files, and <b>h</b>uman readable file sizes. Also, <code>test</code> has nothing to do with symlinks, it's a general utility to test the truth of a statement, the argument <code>-h</code> causes it to work on files, and return True (0) if the file exists and is a symlink.</p>\n\n<p>To find out where the file is, I used the <code>type</code> utility:</p>\n\n<pre><code>type dhclient\ndhclient is hashed (/sbin/dhclient)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you find any two files that aren't symbolically linked, and you suspect they're still the same, you can use a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_Function\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hash Function</a> to see whether they're the same:</p>\n\n<pre><code>stefano@lenovo:~$ md5sum /sbin/dhclient && md5sum /sbin/dhclient3\nfc2491e5c1576783bdc4aa8c5817166e /sbin/dhclient\nfc2491e5c1576783bdc4aa8c5817166e /sbin/dhclient3\n</code></pre>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:24:05.257",
"id": "21154",
"postId": "19684",
"score": "1",
"text": "ah, that clears my doubt. Thank you for the answer. :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "789"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T04:32:23.017",
"id": "19684",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T11:09:16.060",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-02T11:09:16.060",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19677",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "6"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>They are indeed one and the same:</p>\n\n<pre><code>~$ ls -lah /sbin | grep dhclient\nlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-12-30 14:38 dhclient -> dhclient3\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 402K 2010-08-07 04:49 dhclient3\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The arrow indicates that <code>dhclie... | null | null | null | null | null |
19680 | 1 | 19758 | 2011-01-02T04:17:53.603 | 3 | 2179 | <p>I ran a search for this, but the answers I saw were referring to something altogether different than what I'm asking for. So let me clarify: I'm not asking how to change key-combo shortcuts. I'm asking--how do you actually change what your computer thinks you did when you press a given key?</p>
<p>An example of what I mean (and the reason I'm asking). I'm a Chrome user, and I use Windows alongside Ubuntu. I own a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p--it came with my scholarship package, and I would have shopped for a nice computer if I could have. The T61p has two buttons above the left and right arrow keys that relate to browser commands to go back and forth one page. This is extremely frustrating for me, as I use the arrow keys, and a single accidental keystroke will catch me going back a page, losing temporary data, and yelling at my stupid keyboard. At the same time, I'm the type of person who keeps way too many tabs open. Chrome doesn't let me refigure keyboard shortcuts, and the only way it allows you to switch between tabs are ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab, and ctrl+page up/down.</p>
<p>I was using Notepad++, and they had finally found the solution to both problems! The page back and forth keys functioned as tab back and forth keys. I went through quite some effort to learn how to change the keybindings in Windows. The page back and page forward keys are now the page up and page down keys, respectively, and if I hit control, they let me switch tabs easily, and rather pleasantly. And if I hit the keys by accident, no harm, no foul.</p>
<p>Alas, I'm in Ubuntu now, and I need to go through the process again. And while I couldn't just find the answer online, like I did for Windows, I know Ubuntu has nice, supportive communities like this one, where, hopefully, somebody can tell me how to do either what I did in Windows, or directly make it so that my computer changes tabs when I hit those buttons (removing the ctrl button from the tab-changing command).</p>
| 1415 | null | null | 2011-01-02T18:39:06.720 | Change Keybindings (hardware to software) | [
"keyboard",
"keyboard-layout",
"google-chrome"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You should be able to do this using <code>xmodmap</code>- see <a href=\"http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xmodmap.1.html\">here</a> for documentation and <a href=\"http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/xmodmap.html\">here</a> for more information. The command will be something like <code>xmodmap -e \"keycode <key code>=<key sym>\"</code>. </p>\n\n<p>You can determine key code and key sym names for the keys in question by opening Terminal and running <code>xev</code>. Once this is running press the key in question and something similar to this will show:</p>\n\n<pre><code>KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001,\nroot 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 117923881, (73,50), root:(736,103),\nstate 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,\nXLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) \"a\"\nXmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) \"a\"\nXFilterEvent returns: False\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The third line gives both the key code (here, 38) and the key sym (0x61).</p>\n\n<p>To make this new mapping permanent, you'll need to have these commands run at startup by adding them to System > Preferences > Startup Applications.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T21:18:21.810",
"id": "21237",
"postId": "19758",
"score": "0",
"text": "Not the most... intuitive solution, but I managed to do it without electrocuting myself or turning my computer into a brick, so thanks.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T01:39:29.917",
"id": "21259",
"postId": "19758",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel - I agree, not very intuitive, but that's all I could dig up. Glad it worked!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8036"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T18:39:06.720",
"id": "19758",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T18:39:06.720",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8036",
"parentId": "19680",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "6"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You should be able to do this using <code>xmodmap</code>- see <a href=\"http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xmodmap.1.html\">here</a> for documentation and <a href=\"http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/xmodmap.html\">here</a> for more information. The command will be something like <... | null | null | null | null | null |
19681 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T04:23:00.700 | 4 | 2599 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19430/mount-a-virtual-box-drive-image-vdi">Mount a Virtual Box drive image (vdi)?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I have a VirtualBox harddisk, let's say here:</p>
<pre><code>~/harddisk/ubuntu.vdi
</code></pre>
<p>How can I mount it using FUSE, so that it's accessible from the host PC?</p>
<p>Please assume that I've almost no knowledge about FUSE and mounting.</p>
| 1676 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:48.743 | 2011-01-05T00:47:46.307 | How can I mount a VirtualBox harddisk? | [
"mount",
"virtualbox",
"virtualization"
] | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T05:29:10.643",
"id": "21136",
"postId": "19681",
"score": "0",
"text": "A bit of googling and I found this (no idea how useful it is) http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/~caminati/mount_vdi.html",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "785"
},
{
"creationDate": ... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>As a workaround, I would use <a href=\"http://clonezilla.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clonezilla</a> to backup the partition to a file and then restore the partition into your other vm. I'm not familiar with FUSE but I am guessing that this is the general idea of what you need... | null | null | 2011-01-05T01:19:08.123 | null | null |
19685 | 1 | 19687 | 2011-01-02T04:33:23.803 | 2 | 479 | <p>On my dell laptop I have to use tuxonice to get hibernation and suspend work because default kernel and uswsusp is not working for me. tuxonice is working good. But I want to know that what are disadvantages of custom patched kernel. Am I going to get the updates ? What if where Natty will be released, is it going to break my whole system ?</p>
| 8207 | 235 | 2011-01-02T05:49:27.453 | 2011-01-02T05:49:27.453 | Disadvantages of using custom patched kernel | [
"kernel"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Since you can install multiple kernels at one time, you will be fine when upgrading to Natty. The upgrader will basically ignore that you have a custom kernel and proceed normally.</p>\n\n<p>As for getting updates, that is up to the maintainer of the custom kernel to put the work in to keep the kernel uptodate. Typically the goal of a custom patch maintainer is to provide the patch against the latest Ubuntu kernel. I use tuxonice myself, and they (the tuxonice maintainers) are very good at pushing out updates.</p>\n\n<p>It is generally a good idea to feel free to install whatever custom kernels you want and keep around the standard kernel, just-in-case.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T09:47:34.607",
"id": "21167",
"postId": "19687",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks for your answer, It was very informative. I was just worried because I have received any update in last 6 to 7 days, but may be thats because of the holiday season.What you think ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8207"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:55:44.723",
"id": "21388",
"postId": "19687",
"score": "0",
"text": "The updates for tuxonice will always follow the release schedule for the mainline kernel. And that schedule tends to be a bit random; I'm sure they just release whenever needed. I have found the tuxonice gets released very close to the mainline releases. No need to worry!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1974"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T04:58:39.060",
"id": "19687",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T04:58:39.060",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1974",
"parentId": "19685",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Since you can install multiple kernels at one time, you will be fine when upgrading to Natty. The upgrader will basically ignore that you have a custom kernel and proceed normally.</p>\n\n<p>As for getting updates, that is up to the maintainer of the custom kernel to put the... | null | null | null | null | null |
19690 | 1 | 35331 | 2011-01-02T05:41:26.500 | 2 | 980 | <p>I have recently installed ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. I had to do manual shutdown pressing the power & reset button 2-3 times. So when ever I power on the system, the system waits at the boot menu till I hit enter. I think there may be some tricks so that I can skip the boot option and directly boot the system without needing to hit enter at the boot option?. Any help...</p>
| 3215 | 235 | 2011-01-02T05:46:00.513 | 2011-05-16T03:50:57.397 | Skip hitting enter at the boot option and directly boot the system | [
"grub2",
"9.10"
] | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:21:17.467",
"id": "21153",
"postId": "19690",
"score": "1",
"text": "I'm not too sure how to do this. Though I would imagine that shutting down your system correctly would not trigger this again. Try hitting CTRL+ALT+T and at the console type \"sudo shutown 0\" o... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Install startup manager by running this command:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install startupmanager\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then run startupmanager, and change the timeout to 0. This should work. HOWEVER!!! BE WARNED THAT THIS CAN MAKE IT HARD TO RECOVER FROM A DISASTER!!! The best way is to press enter before you boot, so then you can rescue your system easier, but you lose some convenience.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-05-16T04:24:03.133",
"id": "47181",
"postId": "35331",
"score": "0",
"text": "+1 - For StartUpManager. More info [here](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/StartUpManager).",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "12473"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-04-15T21:20:41.057",
"id": "35331",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-04-15T21:20:41.057",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "13755",
"parentId": "19690",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "2"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Install startup manager by running this command:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install startupmanager\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then run startupmanager, and change the timeout to 0. This should work. HOWEVER!!! BE WARNED THAT THIS CAN MAKE IT HARD TO RECOVER FROM A DISASTER!!! Th... | null | null | null | null | null |
19691 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T05:54:51.917 | 3 | 1565 | <p>I was at home uploading a WP site and it's maxing at 4.2kb. I did a speed test and im getting ~1MB upload (my home ISP caps it out at that). I uploaded a 5MB file via Chrome, to test, and it uploaded within 2 mins. The file uploaded was a wordpress.xml file through the uploader. Same file in nautilus is taking forever. To upload this WP site and all the plugins took 1 hour.</p>
<p>Any ideas of why or how?</p>
<p>P.S. I've been using my hosting company also for years and they've never had any speed issues uploading.</p>
| 2490 | null | null | 2011-01-02T05:54:51.917 | Extremely slow upload speeds in nautilus with FTP | [
"nautilus",
"ftp",
"wordpress"
] | 0 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T23:39:08.320",
"id": "21249",
"postId": "19691",
"score": "0",
"text": "Have you tried uploading using the plain text mode ftp just to be sure it's really nautilus related ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "742"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T... | null | [] | null | null | 2012-02-06T20:46:30.327 | null | null |
19692 | 1 | 22511 | 2011-01-02T06:08:52.530 | 7 | 7726 | <p>In my office I've Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installed and it's running for a long time. When ever the system is started, I'll get a <code>file system maintenance error</code> and something it's prompted for the root password or <code>(press ctrl+d to continue)</code>. After pressing Ctrl+D the system normally boots up. I could not resolve this issue for a long time and I think something should be done in the <code>fstab</code> file. I'm not sure to do anything and expecting the experts here to help to perfectly fix this. Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
| 3215 | 1067 | 2011-01-02T07:11:42.943 | 2011-01-20T22:32:51.007 | System displays "File system maintenance error, press ctrl+d" while booting | [
"boot",
"filesystem",
"8.10"
] | 1 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T06:58:26.683",
"id": "21142",
"postId": "19692",
"score": "1",
"text": "Post the output of `cat /etc/fstab`",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T07:15:03.657",
"id": "21143",
"postId": "19692",
"sco... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This happens when the root (/) filesystem gets corrupt and needs to be fixed. At the point during the boot where it finds that the root filesystem is corrupt, the root filesystem is already mounted, and Ubuntu won't do a <code>fsck</code> on a filesystem that is mounted since that is unsafe.</p>\n\n<p>The best way to recover from this is to boot the liveCD and run a filesystem check on it from there, when it is not mounted. You can use <code>fsck</code> from a terminal, or run gparted (in System -> Administration) where you can right-click the filesystem and choose \"check\".</p>\n\n<p>Also, please note that Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop is no longer supported. You should upgrade to a supported version. See <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades</a> for help on how to do that.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-22T01:40:46.200",
"id": "24522",
"postId": "22511",
"score": "0",
"text": "One should be cautious as fsck may also corrupt the fs on a way to recovery.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "3215"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-20T22:32:51.007",
"id": "22511",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-20T22:32:51.007",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "9016",
"parentId": "19692",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This happens when the root (/) filesystem gets corrupt and needs to be fixed. At the point during the boot where it finds that the root filesystem is corrupt, the root filesystem is already mounted, and Ubuntu won't do a <code>fsck</code> on a filesystem that is mounted since... | null | null | null | null | null |
19694 | 1 | 19778 | 2011-01-02T06:37:17.300 | 8 | 3287 | <p>I've seen this question: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11160/home-network-printer-recommendations">Home network printer recommendations</a> but I think I'm asking something more basic. I'm not really familiar with networked printers or how they work or what they do really. What I'd like is to have a printer that is accessible to anyone connected to my home network, without having to plug into the printer itself. </p>
<p>An alternative setup might to be to have a printer that is always hooked up to one computer, like a desktop, that is almost always on and allows other computers connected on the network to print to it as well.</p>
<p>I believe the first option is called a networked printer and the second is printer sharing. But again I'm new to this so I don't really know the details or if I'm using the correct terminology. I was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on this and let me know what is needed for either of these setup. Thanks.</p>
| 4460 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2013-12-19T11:48:24.383 | What is needed for a networked home printer? | [
"networking",
"printing",
"sharing"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You have three options:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Take any printer and hook it up to an always-on PC. The PC will be the printer server, and needs to be set up to allow printer sharing, as shown in the first part of Takkat's reply. (The client part is more or less the same independent of which printer sharing option you use.)</li>\n<li>Take any printer and hook it up to a hardware mini print server, as suggested by Kendor. This kind of printer server is much smaller than a PC, it's basically just a USB port for the printer plus a network card. (Image courtesy Netgear.) </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnTdh.jpg\" alt=\"USB mini print server\"></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Lastly, buy a printer with a network card included, then you don't need a separate print server. Look for a printer with either WiFi or Ethernet. For example in the Newegg advanced search, search for <a href=\"http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007661+600011810&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=38&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">printers with network ports</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Plain printing tends to work with many/most combinations of printer and OS. </p>\n\n<p>But if you have/buy a multifunction printer, using the scanner over the network can be tricky. If network scanning is one of your requirements, make sure to get a product that works for your particular setup (i.e. where you can get drivers that support it for all the operating systems you use). I believe mini-print servers are out of the question in this scenario.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T09:00:23.583",
"id": "21305",
"postId": "19778",
"score": "1",
"text": "I'm accepting this because it seems to cover all of the options. The other responses are very informative answers as well and I'd encourage anyone with this same question to read all the responses. Thanks everyone.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4460"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T23:29:43.230",
"id": "19778",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T23:29:43.230",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "2337",
"parentId": "19694",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "7"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<h2>12.04 and later</h2>\n<p>To share a printer attached to a computer on the network open the printer dialog from the menu on the cogwheel on the to panel side. Choose the printer with a right click and tick "Share" to enable sharing. Next open <em>"Server -> ... | null | null | null | null | null |
19697 | 1 | 35439 | 2011-01-02T07:39:37.283 | 5 | 7055 | <p>I wanted to add a path so that the system could find some manually installed executable. However, instead of typing <code>PATH=xxx:$PATH;export PATH</code> at the end of ~/.profile where xxx is the directory in which the executable lies, I wrongly used <code>PATH=xxx;export PATH</code>. </p>
<p>After I logged out I was unable to log in the usual way. How can I fix this instead of reinstalling?</p>
| null | null | 2011-05-26T13:42:23.860 | 2018-05-08T01:42:32.197 | How to log in after wrongly modifying path | [
"environment-variables",
"paths",
".profile"
] | 4 | 6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T07:40:48.630",
"id": "21145",
"postId": "19697",
"score": "1",
"text": "Boot from a live cd and delete the path ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T07:45:25.717",
"id": "21146",
"postId": "19697",
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>In addition to @João Pinto's answer, you cannot use text editors like gedit or Kate. For the terminal or console, use text-based editors like <code>nano</code>.</p>\n\n<p>The full steps needed to make changes to the <code>~/.profile</code> file:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F1</kbd> to switch to a text console</li>\n<li>Login with your username or password</li>\n<li><p>Restore your <code>$PATH</code> variable by restoring the environment so you can run <code>nano</code> without specifying the full path:</p>\n\n<pre><code>. /etc/environment\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Edit the <code>~/.profile</code> file by running:</p>\n\n<pre><code>nano ~/.profile\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Use Arrow keys, Page up or Page down to move the cursor. As with text editors like Kate, you can use <kbd>Backspace</kbd> or <kbd>Delete</kbd> to delete text before or after the cursor and insert text by typing it.</p></li>\n<li>After making the changes, save the changes and quit the <code>nano</code> editor by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>X</kbd>, followed by <kbd>Y</kbd> to answer yes on saving changes. Finally, press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to confirm the filename.</li>\n<li>You can now logout from the console by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>D</kbd> (or by executing <code>exit</code>)</li>\n<li>Switch back to the graphical login by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F7</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F8</kbd> if F7 did not work.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>If this does not work out-of-the-box for whatever reason, then we can always revert to karthick87's answer which Jasper added as an answer below: using a LiveCD to make changes.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2018-08-23T14:21:44.493",
"id": "1751124",
"postId": "35439",
"score": "0",
"text": "You saved my day",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "654567"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-04-16T12:15:41.020",
"id": "35439",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-04-16T13:21:00.910",
"lastEditDate": "2011-04-16T13:21:00.910",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "6969",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "6969",
"parentId": "19697",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Changing the profile with PATH=xxx;export PATH will not prevent you from loggin in, at least not from the console. Switch to the text console with: CTL-ALT-F1, login, edit the file with your prefered text editor.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
... | null | null | null | user7182 | user7182 |
19699 | 1 | 19747 | 2011-01-02T07:59:45.153 | 21 | 74387 | <p>I scanned pen drive using clamscan and I closed the terminal after scanning without reading the result. </p>
<p>Now one of my folders on the pen drive is missing. I wanted to know if clamav deleted it. </p>
<p>So I want to view the last scan result.</p>
| 4162 | 4162 | 2011-01-02T08:48:10.647 | 2016-08-14T23:18:57.630 | How to view results of last clamscan scan? | [
"log",
"clamav"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There is no log file by default - the output goes to stdout. </p>\n\n<p>In order to have a log specify it with the <code>-l</code> option i.e. <code>-l clamav.log</code></p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:07:07.387",
"id": "19747",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-26T19:50:45.830",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-26T19:50:45.830",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "866",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "3226",
"parentId": "19699",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "28"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There is no log file by default - the output goes to stdout. </p>\n\n<p>In order to have a log specify it with the <code>-l</code> option i.e. <code>-l clamav.log</code></p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense":... | null | null | null | null | null |
19700 | 1 | 19701 | 2011-01-02T08:13:07.227 | 4 | 12749 | <p>I need to install php-apc on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04</p>
<p>First of all, can I just install this package to make it work with php 5.2 + lighttpd on these Ubuntu versions ?</p>
<p>I've tried to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 and I get the following error:</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install php-apc
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php-apc: Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs
E: Broken packages
</code></pre>
<p>thanks</p>
| 5136 | 129 | 2011-02-09T20:31:33.253 | 2012-05-21T20:22:46.767 | Broken Packages: php-apc: Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs | [
"server",
"php",
"lighttpd"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2012-05-21T20:22:46.767",
"id": "167743",
"postId": "19700",
"score": "0",
"text": "I realize it has been awhile since activity on this but did you ever get this resolved. I am dealing with the same issue. Thanks.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "65156"
},
{
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>php-apc cannot be installed because it depends on the virtual package <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/phpapi-20090626+lfs\">phpapi-20090626+lfs</a>. For the system to consider this virtual package 'installed', then you need to have installed either Apache or PHP.</p>\n\n<p>Seeing as you don't need Apache I would suggest you install the <code>php5-cgi</code> package. (This will give you PHP 5.3 in 10.04.)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:39:07.567",
"id": "21159",
"postId": "19701",
"score": "0",
"text": "I actually don't want to upgrade to php 5.3, because it doesn't support Drupal 6 yet. Can I make it with php 5.2 ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5136"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:43:47.150",
"id": "21161",
"postId": "19701",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Patrick according to the [drupal website](http://drupal.org/requirements) you can use PHP 5.3 with the latest Drupal 6 releases",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "866"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T09:51:22.673",
"id": "21168",
"postId": "19701",
"score": "1",
"text": "I know but it is an optimistic statement. I work with it and some modules are not properly working. Trust me.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5136"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:21:40.920",
"id": "19701",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T08:21:40.920",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "866",
"parentId": "19700",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>php-apc cannot be installed because it depends on the virtual package <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/phpapi-20090626+lfs\">phpapi-20090626+lfs</a>. For the system to consider this virtual package 'installed', then you need to have installed either Apache or PHP.</... | null | null | null | null | null |
19704 | 1 | 19705 | 2011-01-02T08:43:34.327 | 6 | 3781 | <p>Tried sudo grub-install on sda1 but it complained about being a BAD IDEA.</p>
<p>I had to install windows for a work related issue so I used a separate disk (I had used it for ubuntu on this computer, but bought a bigger disk so installed ubuntu on that and left the old one in in case I needed an old file). Windows installed fine but overwrote Grub. So if I choose the Ubuntu disk to boot first in BIOS I get a blank screen.</p>
<p>I googled and followed this advice:
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows" rel="noreferrer">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows</a></p>
<p>However, when I get down to this section:</p>
<pre><code>sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 /dev/sda1
</code></pre>
<p>I get this:</p>
<pre><code>Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea…
</code></pre>
<p>--recheck does nothing. Any ideas?</p>
| 2706 | 1067 | 2011-01-02T09:04:34.670 | 2014-09-11T02:07:03.950 | "BAD idea" warning when trying to recover Grub, after Windows removed it | [
"10.10",
"grub2",
"dual-boot"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The <em>bad idea</em> warning is caused by trying to install grub onto a <strong>partition</strong> rather than a <strong>hard disk</strong>. Having booted up your Live CD, </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>when you run grub-install as per the <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows\">Guide in the Ubuntu Wiki</a>, make sure the hard drive you pass as an argument is <code>/dev/sda</code>, not <code>/dev/sda1</code>.</p>\n\n<p>That is:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/[GUID] /dev/sda\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Where [GUID] is the identifier of the disk you have found out using <code>mount | tail -1</code></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Here's why:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>The master boot record, MBR, is the first 512 byte 'sector' of any partitioned\nhard disk. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The BIOS searches this sector when trying to find a device it can\nboot from. </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>In the GNU/Linux system, your hard disks are all named <code>/dev/sd[x]</code>, where x\nare consecutive letters. E.g.: <code>/dev/sda</code> and <code>/dev/sdb</code>. The first <strong>partition</strong> on the first disk is called <code>/dev/sda1</code>. The fourth partition on the seventh hard disk is called <code>/dev/sdg4</code>, and so on. At the very least, you'll have one partition.</p></li>\n<li><p>These partitions are not searched for bootable data by\nthe bios.\nAs a result, <code>grub-install [...] /dev/sda7</code> will issue a warning. You <em>can</em> install\nit there, but in almost any case, you shouldn't.</p></li>\n</ul>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:46:27.773",
"id": "21162",
"postId": "19705",
"score": "0",
"text": "Worked perfectly; can't believe I didn't see that. Thanks!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2706"
},
{
"creationDate": "2013-03-02T14:03:18.057",
"id": "329030",
"postId": "19705",
"score": "3",
"text": "Maybe not smart of me to ask this on a very old question, but why exactly is it bad to install grub on a partition? I read some tutorials where they prefer doing it that way, and then use the windows boat loader, and let it point to that boot partition.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "136838"
},
{
"creationDate": "2017-08-09T07:23:30.483",
"id": "1500203",
"postId": "19705",
"score": "0",
"text": "@gl3nn that sounds like it would work. I guess grub wants to be first. :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T08:44:16.437",
"id": "19705",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T09:07:04.700",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-02T09:07:04.700",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19704",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "11"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The <em>bad idea</em> warning is caused by trying to install grub onto a <strong>partition</strong> rather than a <strong>hard disk</strong>. Having booted up your Live CD, </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>when you run grub-install as per the <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/R... | null | null | null | null | null |
19710 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T11:06:20.900 | 6 | 10279 | <p>I have an android phone which doesn't connect to ad-hoc networks. I use ad-hoc network to share internet among my pcs. I want to setup my ubuntu laptop as a wireless access point. But I don't want my ubuntu laptop to be a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1385/how-to-set-up-ubuntu-as-wireless-accesspoint">router as described here</a> as I'll be using suid3 as a http proxy. It should be just a wireless accesspoint which broadcasts it's SSID like a home wireless router. The ubuntu laptop has athros wireless card which requires athk9 driver.</p>
| 2968 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2011-05-17T15:51:11.180 | Setting up ubuntu as a wireless accesspoint | [
"wireless"
] | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T11:36:12.777",
"id": "21170",
"postId": "19710",
"score": "0",
"text": "You should change the question so that it's not obviously a duplicate of the target your linked to (http://askubuntu.com/questions/1385/how-to-set-up-ubuntu-as-wireless-accesspoint). I've flagg... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I somehow got it working. Here is the tutorial that I did: <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1663788\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu netbook as a wireless access-point and router</a></p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": nul... | null | null | null | null | null |
19711 | 1 | 19713 | 2011-01-02T11:17:53.563 | 2 | 488 | <p>I want to listen to the key press of lets say <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>W</kbd> in Rhythmbox, and call a functions if that happens. How can I do that in Python ?</p>
| 6330 | 667 | 2011-01-02T12:10:14.600 | 2011-01-02T12:28:19.130 | How can I listen to a specific signal in Rhythmbox? | [
"programming",
"rhythmbox",
"python"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I assume that you are creating some sort of plugin. Plugins can be written in C or Python. I don't know how to do this but I know where you could possibly find out this information:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http://live.gnome.org/RhythmboxPlugins/WritingGuide\" rel=\"nofollow\">The documentation for creating plugins</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://library.gnome.org/devel/rhythmbox/unstable/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The API documentation</a>.</li>\n<li>Asking on the rhythmbox-devel mailing list (rhythmbox-devel@lists.gnome.org)</li>\n<li>Asking on the IRC channel (#rhythmbox on irc.gimp.net)</li>\n</ol>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T12:15:50.293",
"id": "19713",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T12:15:50.293",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "667",
"parentId": "19711",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I assume that you are creating some sort of plugin. Plugins can be written in C or Python. I don't know how to do this but I know where you could possibly find out this information:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http://live.gnome.org/RhythmboxPlugins/WritingGuide\" rel=\"nofollo... | null | null | null | null | null |
19716 | 1 | 19743 | 2011-01-02T13:08:37.903 | 2 | 2640 | <p>I need to install svn on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04. On both servers I use lighttpd.</p>
<p>I found some tutorials on internet explaining which packages to install with Apache, but i actually need lighttpd.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
| 5136 | 3037 | 2011-01-03T23:17:02.037 | 2011-01-03T23:18:09.990 | SVN with Lighttpd web server? | [
"10.04",
"server",
"9.04",
"lighttpd",
"svn"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>According to a posting in lighty forum:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>There is no mod_subversion for lighttpd and there won't be one in the \n near future. lighttpd is single-threaded (mostly) and mod_subversion \n would block the whole server process (and so ALL connections).\n Either proxy to apache or use svnserve which has almost all features \n which mod_subversion has (the only problem I can think of is that Apache \n supports several authentication modules (kerberos etc.) which can be \n used in combination with mod_subversion, but svnserve doesn't support \n that iirc).</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Your best choice is to use apache2 in combination with lighty: <a href=\"http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/ApacheSubversionRecipe\" rel=\"nofollow\">A great tutorial</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T16:39:19.377",
"id": "19743",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T23:18:09.990",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T23:18:09.990",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "3037",
"ownerDisplayName": "Hanafubuki",
"ownerUserId": null,
"parentId": "19716",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>According to a posting in lighty forum:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>There is no mod_subversion for lighttpd and there won't be one in the \n near future. lighttpd is single-threaded (mostly) and mod_subversion \n would block the whole server process (and so ALL connections).\... | null | null | null | null | null |
19717 | 1 | 19738 | 2011-01-02T13:15:49.570 | 2 | 1031 | <p>I am not being to access any functions in my desktop and I don't have an OS besides Ubuntu and I am new to Ubuntu. I think I rebooted my computer thinking that Google Chrome crashed. I opened Google Chrome but it showed opening message but never opened so I restarted my computer. and when my system was loading (I was playing with keyboard dont know what I typed) and when by Ubuntu loaded, I was unable to access anything some of characteristics are listed below:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>I cannot hear any sound</p></li>
<li><p>I cannot access wired ethernet connection on the right corner where I usually enable to access internet and I have no internet.</p></li>
<li><p>There is no local apache server either. when ever I try to start apacer I get setuid must be root or something.</p></li>
<li><p>When I type sudo then I get message setuid must be root.</p></li>
<li><p>I cannot access orther external storage devices like pendrive and portable hard drive and cannot mount my other drives with FAT32 filesystem.</p></li>
<li><p>When I try to start my apache webserver with out typing sudo then I get message cannnot open socket or something like it.</p></li>
<li><p>I remember also doing command </p>
<pre><code>chown -R www-data /
</code></pre>
<p>earlier and got error message</p></li>
<li><p>I cannot shutdown my computer, it only logs off</p></li>
</ul>
| 8144 | 132 | 2011-01-02T16:20:26.680 | 2011-01-02T17:14:48.643 | Can't access any functions after chown command | [
"10.04",
"troubleshooting",
"sudo"
] | 2 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T13:21:34.620",
"id": "21179",
"postId": "19717",
"score": "0",
"text": "Do you have a spare live CD/USB handy? I recommend booting using one of these then backing up your important files and reinstalling.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "667"
},
{
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The apache command you tried is clearly the problem, it's caused all sorts of files to now be owned by www-data instead of root, your user and a bunch of other system users that operate the machine.</p>\n\n<p>It would be very hard to try and recover the machine in it's current state and instead the best action to take is to reinstall. Make sure you back up all your files first by booting a liveCD or liveUSB. You may need another machine in order to make the equipment you need to do the recovery.</p>\n\n<p>If you are having a really hard time, then seek out a local Ubuntu service person who can help. There are businesses that offer servicing now as well as individuals from LoCo teams around the world.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T16:19:18.863",
"id": "19738",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T16:19:18.863",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "132",
"parentId": "19717",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The apache command you tried is clearly the problem, it's caused all sorts of files to now be owned by www-data instead of root, your user and a bunch of other system users that operate the machine.</p>\n\n<p>It would be very hard to try and recover the machine in it's curren... | null | null | null | null | null |
19718 | 1 | 19722 | 2011-01-02T13:25:01.727 | 43 | 68562 | <p>What is the equivalent option for the <code>ls</code> command to activate pagination as in DOS the <code>dir /p</code> does?</p>
| 7155 | null | null | 2022-05-18T05:42:37.300 | How to activate pagination for ls command? | [
"command-line",
"ls"
] | 5 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There's no straightforward equivalent in <code>ls</code> itself, but there's the <a href=\"http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?less\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>less</code></a> utility, which will format the output of any command as seperate pages, scrollable by line or page:\n<strong><code><pre>ls -C | less</pre></code></strong></p>\n\n<p>Where <code>-C</code> triggers column display. Use <code>lah</code> as arguments (<code>ls -lah</code>) to get a <b>l</b>ine by line display with <b>a</b>ll files being displayed (include hidden ones), and <b>h</b>uman readable filesizes.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>To get colours to show up properly</strong>, you need to add the <code>--color=always</code> argument to <code>ls</code>, and the <code>-R</code> argument on less*:</p>\n\n<p><strong><code><pre>ls -C --color=always | less -R</pre></code></strong></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/sVKOx.png\" alt=\"alt text\"><br><em>this shows 'ls -ah --color=always | less -R'</em></p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>In contrast to <a href=\"http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>more</code></a>, <a href=\"http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?less\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>less</code></a> will let you scroll through the output. It's also a bit faster for very large listings. </p>\n\n<p>The pipe works like this:</p>\n\n<p>Every program has input and output, a pipe redirects the output of one program (ls) to the input of another program (less). And less simply expects input which it then formats. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>A more old-school dos equivalent would be <a href=\"http://www.computerhope.com/unix/upg.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>pg</code></a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ls | pg\n</code></pre></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>You can also</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Use <code>ls | head</code> or <code>ls | tail</code> to display only the first or last part of the output</li>\n<li>Use <code>watch \"ls\"</code> to keep the display open, updating it every few seconds to watch changes</li>\n<li>Use <code>banner $(ls)</code> if you're sitting really far away from the screen. (;</li>\n</ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>If you find all of that too long to remember, you can set up an <a href=\"http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/alias.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><em>alias</em></a> for it:</p>\n\n<p>Open <code>~/.bash_aliases</code> with a text editor and add something like this to it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>alias lsp=\"ls -ah --color=always | less -R\"\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(this is a script that is run every time a new virtual terminal is started up, you should set up all your permanent aliases there)</p>\n\n<p>Now you can just type <code>lsp</code>, or whatever name you choose.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to be able to pass <strong>further arguments</strong> to your alias, we need to define a function <em>instead:</em></p>\n\n<pre><code>lsp(){ ls -ah --color=always \"$@\" | less -R; }\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>A function, principally looking like this: <code>name(){ commands; };</code> can accept arguments, <code>$1</code>, <code>$2</code>, <code>$3</code> and so on. <code>$@</code> means <em>\"every argument, if any\"</em>.</p>\n\n<p>You can now run something like <code>lsp *.py</code>, <code>lsp -C</code>, and so on. We insert the arguments at the point where they get passed to ls. We could also have inserted $* for less, if it were the important command. You can see all of ls' arguments at <a href=\"http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ls\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>man ls</code></a> (worth a read).</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>*: The reason for this is, that whenever you Pipe something, it detects a Terminal (actually the other program) not capable of displaying colour. \"--color=always\" forces ls to ignore this. The -R switch makes less repaint the screen, <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/17299\">escaping the colours</a> properly.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "8",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T14:02:47.093",
"id": "21186",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "0",
"text": "thanks great answer, exactly the part with the alias came to my mind when i saw the long commandline. the only disadvantage by creating the alias is that using a wildcard filter like *.pdf this isn't possible? perhaps does there exist also a solution for this?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T14:22:53.613",
"id": "21187",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "0",
"text": "Everything is possible ;-) I added the bit about arguments, I somehow didn't think of it earlier.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T14:47:51.593",
"id": "21188",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "2",
"text": "you gave more than expected :) thanks for the detailed answer. P.S. do you know if there are differences between bash and fish that somehow prevent this alias argument passing method from working in fish? i got the alias without the argument option to work here.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T14:56:03.430",
"id": "21189",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "0",
"text": "I've never used fish; go ahead and ask a question about what the differences are. It'll be very interesting. Note though that alias is not a program, but built in to bash.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T15:14:39.750",
"id": "21193",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "1",
"text": "Ok, here http://askubuntu.com/questions/19728/differences-between-fish-and-bash-to-pass-commandline-arguments-to-alias-function the new question starts, thanks again for your helpful answers so far.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-23T13:18:23.477",
"id": "24713",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "0",
"text": "`alias lsp='_(){ ls -ah --color=always $* | less -R; }; _'` don't put a function in an alias, just write a function in the first place: `lsp(){ ls -ah --color=always \"$@\" | less -R; }`. Also, it's always wrong to use `$*`.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "9016"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-23T13:30:01.050",
"id": "24714",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "0",
"text": "@geirha, all right, I've edited the answer, and it's now correct. Could you explain why it's always wrong to use `$*`?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-03T13:12:02.713",
"id": "26813",
"postId": "19722",
"score": "1",
"text": "`$*` and `$@` do the exact same thing. They expand to `$1 $2 $3 ...`. Quoted, however, `\"$@\"` expands to `\"$1\" \"$2\" \"$3\" ...` while `\"$*\"` expands to `\"$1 $2 $3 ...\"` (that is, all arguments into one string, using the first character of `IFS` as separator). http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Parameters",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "9016"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T13:42:41.120",
"id": "19722",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-23T13:28:33.390",
"lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:23:52.877",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19718",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "69"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Try <code>ls | less</code> or <code>ls | more</code>. The second one is close to the DOS version.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T13:41:38.057",
"id": "21183",
"postId": "19719",
"score": "... | null | null | null | null | null |
19720 | 1 | 19723 | 2011-01-02T13:29:16.607 | 3 | 1944 | <p>I'd like to tweak my Conky so it automatically displays the days of the week correctly. So for example, if TODAY were Tuesday, it would look like this:</p>
<p>Tuesday</p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>Thursday</p>
<p>Friday</p>
<p>[etc.]</p>
<p>And then tomorrow, <em>automatically</em>, it would look like this:</p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>Thursday</p>
<p>Friday</p>
<p>[etc.]</p>
<p>I know I can get it to display <em>today's</em> date like this:</p>
<p>${time %A}</p>
<p>But how do I get it to display tomorrow's date?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for any help/suggestions.</p>
| 4236 | 235 | 2012-08-19T18:56:44.857 | 2012-08-19T18:56:44.857 | Possible to automatically display the correct days of the week? | [
"conky"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You can use the <strong>$execi</strong> Conky command to make what you want.</p>\n\n<p>This command executes a shell command with specific interval and displays the output in conky.</p>\n\n<p>For your need, you can execute the standard date command : </p>\n\n<pre><code>date -d tomorrow\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This will return the tomorrow date using the standard output, but you can specify your output format using date parameters (see man date)</p>\n\n<p>So what you need to enter in your .conkyrc script is : </p>\n\n<pre><code>${execi 3600 date -d tomorrow}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The interval is in seconds, I set it to 3600 but change it with your ideal interval</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-01T22:19:01.853",
"id": "26486",
"postId": "19723",
"score": "1",
"text": "I'm wondering if it's possible to use the same command for time? I'm asking because currently I have ${time %I:%M %p} ${font sans:style=bold:size=24}${color orange}6:30 PM appointment and it'd be great to have something that tells me how long I have until my appointment happens. (Apologies for the one long paragraph. I'm still really struggling with how to format.)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4236"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T13:56:18.520",
"id": "19723",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T13:56:18.520",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "2841",
"parentId": "19720",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You can use the <strong>$execi</strong> Conky command to make what you want.</p>\n\n<p>This command executes a shell command with specific interval and displays the output in conky.</p>\n\n<p>For your need, you can execute the standard date command : </p>\n\n<pre><code>date -... | null | null | null | null | null |
19724 | 1 | 19952 | 2011-01-02T14:00:19.143 | 3 | 7106 | <p>How do I configure Xchat to send files?</p>
<p>My setup:</p>
<pre><code>hardware router: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx example.com
|
Ubuntu Server with IRC server: 192.168.1.2
Local machines: 192.168.1.x
</code></pre>
<p>My aim is to allow to send files between the local machines. By now, they are able to talk on the local IRC channel.</p>
<ul>
<li>which ports do I need to open on the router?</li>
<li>what do I need to configure on the server?</li>
<li>how to configure XChat on the clients?</li>
<li>how to troubleshoot/debug the problems?</li>
</ul>
| 2509 | null | null | 2011-01-04T04:16:25.520 | How to configure Xchat and IRC server to transfer files? | [
"10.10",
"server",
"irc",
"xchat"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The method by which files are sent in Xchat, and on IRC in general, is via <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Client-to-Client\" rel=\"nofollow\">Direct Client to Client (DCC)</a>. A direct connection is established between the two relevant machines and the file is sent. While IRC protocol allows any non-privileged ports to be used, Xchat uses ports 4990 to 5000 for DCC.</p>\n\n<p>If you were sending files to machines on the Internet, since you have network address translation, you would need ports 4990 to 5000 forwarded to the machines doing the DCCs. But since you are transferring files on your LAN, it is not necessary in this case. If all internal routing on your LAN is open (which odds are it is, although I don't know), then the files should transfer without a problem, and without need for port forwarding or anything.</p>\n\n<p>To send a file, I simply right-click a user name within Xchat and send the file. To receive a file, I see in my main console Xchat window (usually) something like \"Dennis has offered motd (122 bytes)\". I type \"/dcc get Dennis motd\" and the file is pulled.</p>\n\n<p>The DCC file transfer in Xchat is a little buggy, if your Xchat window crashes during a file send/receive attempt, file a bug at Launchpad. If that happens, your ~/.xsession-errors file would have be dated at or after the crash, and a line near the bottom would mention an xchat failure.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T04:16:25.520",
"id": "19952",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T04:16:25.520",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "3117",
"parentId": "19724",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The method by which files are sent in Xchat, and on IRC in general, is via <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Client-to-Client\" rel=\"nofollow\">Direct Client to Client (DCC)</a>. A direct connection is established between the two relevant machines and the file i... | null | null | null | null | null |
19726 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T14:48:33.247 | 2 | 1161 | <p>I'm using a laptop and a monitor (wall mounted) over my laptop. I would like to reflect this physical hardware setup in my software screen setup. So that I can move my mouse upward, out of my laptop screen and use the monitor on the wall. I have been searching for a solution for a while, and I hope somone can help me out.</p>
<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 "out of the box". Side by side screen setups works just fine, over/under is doesn't work.</p>
| 8224 | 235 | 2011-01-02T16:10:02.507 | 2011-01-02T16:13:20.950 | How do I get one monitor on top of the other? | [
"10.10",
"multiple-monitors"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Use the \"Monitors\" application under System/Prefences and just drag the right hand monitor above the left hand monitor. Click apply and you're done.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T16:14:02.207",
"id": "... | null | 0 | null | null | null |
19727 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T15:12:02.033 | 3 | 247 | <p>In U1 preferences, setting "limit bandwidth" option is ignored by sync service, ie. although the preferences show a limit of 30 kbps, U1 is uploading up to 350 kbps, although all files appear to be already synced. This causes massive slowdowns among the home network, rendering it nigh unusable.</p>
| 8312 | 1067 | 2011-01-02T15:56:28.227 | 2011-06-22T22:28:46.883 | U1 bandwidth limit not enforced | [
"10.10",
"ubuntu-one"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T15:13:11.530",
"id": "21192",
"postId": "19727",
"score": "0",
"text": "Also: using Maverick, upgraded from Lucid. If any pertinent info is needed, please ask.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8312"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-06-22T22:28:46.883"... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>We've seen reports about this, but it always ended up being a perceptual issue rather than an actual one. The issue is that the way to limit bandwidth is sending a bunch of stuff and then waiting a while; this averages out to the requested bandwidth cap, but people (and monit... | null | null | null | null | null |
19728 | 1 | 19730 | 2011-01-02T15:12:57.070 | 7 | 6909 | <p>From the answers to my other question <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19718/how-to-activate-pagination-for-ls-command">here</a> i learned about the possibility to pass commandline arguments to a alias function in Bash.</p>
<p>In Fish i can edit an alias by editing the file <strong>config.fish</strong> in <code>~/.config/fish</code> directory and adding a line like this</p>
<pre><code>alias lsp='ls -ah --color=always | less -R;'
</code></pre>
<p>and it works perfectly. This should be the equivalent to editing <code>~/.bash_aliases</code> in bash</p>
<p>But when i try to setup an alias function to pass arguments like this</p>
<pre><code>alias lsp='_(){ ls -ah --color=always $* | less -R; }; _'
</code></pre>
<p>it doesn't work for fish?</p>
<p>Are there any differences between fish and bash in the way to setup an alias to pass commandline arguments that prevent this second alias from working with fish instead of bash?</p>
| 7155 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:07.557 | 2011-01-20T20:47:23.233 | Differences between fish and bash to pass commandline arguments to alias functions? | [
"command-line",
"bash",
"alias",
"fish"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This second command is actually a small bash-script. Bash is the programming language built into the shell. It's used by other shells, but not necessarily, as we see here. </p>\n\n<p>Fish defines a <em>completely different programming language to bash</em>, though it does support <em>simple</em> aliases in the usual <code>alias name=command</code> form; You should define a function instead. This is how you would define the above function in fish:</p>\n\n<pre><code>stefano@lenovo ~> function lsp\n ls -ah --color=always $argv | less -R\n end\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and <code>funcsave lsp</code> so save it permanently.</p>\n\n<p>You can now run the expected commands, like <code>lsp</code>, <code>lsp -R</code>, <code>lsp *.png*</code> and so on.</p>\n\n<p>You can also 'invoke' bash to run a script for you, using the 'sh' program (this will run 'dash' to be precise). But if you're using fish, chances are you want to use the methods it provides. I've just tested it for the first time, and I'm very impressed so far.</p>\n\n<p>The functions are stored as a file in <code>.config/fish/functions/</code> in your home directory. The file name will be, in this example, <code>lsp.fish</code>. You can either edit the file, restarting fish afterwards, or just define and save the function again.</p>\n\n<p>The best way to learn fish is by reading its built-in help. From within fish, just type</p>\n\n<pre><code>help\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and you'll get a very nicely formatted, extensive and easy to read manual. Actually, this opens the <code>w3m</code> web browser, because the help is in html format:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/3bidL.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>(press q-y to exit)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T15:41:37.597",
"id": "21194",
"postId": "19730",
"score": "0",
"text": "thank you very much. can these functions edited subsequent, once there already stored? where are they stored? P.S. did you found any good tutorial on this, the webpage with the documentation for fish is since several days unavailable?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2013-05-27T12:02:47.923",
"id": "378146",
"postId": "19730",
"score": "0",
"text": "Actually, in fish 'alias' is just a shellscript wrapper around the function builtin. See http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/commands.html#alias",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "10962"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T15:36:12.770",
"id": "19730",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T16:04:22.527",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-02T16:04:22.527",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19728",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "9"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This second command is actually a small bash-script. Bash is the programming language built into the shell. It's used by other shells, but not necessarily, as we see here. </p>\n\n<p>Fish defines a <em>completely different programming language to bash</em>, though it does sup... | null | null | null | null | null |
19731 | 1 | 19734 | 2011-01-02T15:36:23.930 | 20 | 19269 | <p>Occasionally I want to <code>cd</code> into a directory where my user does not have permission, so I resort to <code>sudo</code>.</p>
<p>The obvious command <code>sudo cd somedir</code> doesn't work:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo mkdir test
$ sudo chmod go-rxw test
$ ls -l
drwx------ 2 root root [...snip...] test
$ cd test
-bash: cd: test: Permission denied
$ sudo cd test
sudo: cd: command not found
</code></pre>
<p>Using <code>sudo su</code> works:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo su
# cd test
</code></pre>
<p>Is it possible to make this into a one-liner? (Not a big deal, just idle curiosity :)</p>
<p>The variations I tried didn't work:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo "cd test"
sudo: cd: command not found
$ sudo -i cd test
-bash: line 0: cd: test: No such file or directory
$ sudo -s cd test
</code></pre>
<p>The last one doesn't give an error, but it cd's within a new shell that exits by the end of the line, so it doesn't actually take me anywhere.</p>
<p>Can someone enlighten me as to why this happens? Why is <code>sudo cd</code> not found, when for example <code>sudo ls ...</code> works fine?</p>
| 2337 | null | null | 2016-06-22T16:06:40.433 | "sudo cd ..." one-liner? | [
"command-line",
"sudo"
] | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2014-04-10T04:54:49.483",
"id": "584261",
"postId": "19731",
"score": "0",
"text": "BTW, `sudo -i` is preferred over `sudo su`, otherwise the user's env vars will be [carried over](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Special_notes_on_sudo_and_shells).",
"userDisplay... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Theoretically, the problem is that if you don't have execute rights to a directory, you shouldn't be able to read the contents of the directory. Now suppose you could do what you wanted:</p>\n\n<pre><code>user@desktop:/$ sudo cd restricted-dir\nuser@desktop:/restricted-dir$ ls\nfile1 file2\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>As you can see, you entered the directory using sudo privileges, then, when sudo returns, you become a user again, and you are in a directory where you normally shouldn't be.</p>\n\n<p>Technically, the problem is the following.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cd restricted-dir\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><code>cd</code> is a shell built-in, not a command.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cd -i restricted-dir\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You are probably in /root, but it would have the same problem as with the next one.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cd -s restricted-dir\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You open a new root shell, cd into the directory, then exit the root shell, and return to where you began.</p>\n\n<p>All in all, the only solution is to open a root shell and keep it open while you are in that directory.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2014-04-10T04:51:34.350",
"id": "584258",
"postId": "19734",
"score": "0",
"text": "Technically, `cd` is a \"shell builtin command\" (according to `man bash`).",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "53508"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-07-28T04:30:51.870",
"id": "1213837",
"postId": "19734",
"score": "0",
"text": "If this was the case @petersohn, then why would shell promt `cd: command not found`, It shows no permission issue. And I don't think `shell builtin` is the particular reason either, because `sudo echo` works fine, while echo is also `shell builtin`",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "573408"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T15:52:48.043",
"id": "19734",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T15:52:48.043",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8226",
"parentId": "19731",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "20"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Theoretically, the problem is that if you don't have execute rights to a directory, you shouldn't be able to read the contents of the directory. Now suppose you could do what you wanted:</p>\n\n<pre><code>user@desktop:/$ sudo cd restricted-dir\nuser@desktop:/restricted-dir$ l... | null | null | 2017-12-11T17:36:56.790 | null | null |
19732 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T15:42:01.650 | 6 | 9813 | <p>Is there an alternative to rEFIt as a bootloader where you can choose between OS X and Ubuntu? I already installed Ubuntu on my Mac with rEFIt, so if there's a better option, I can remove it now.</p>
<p>I'm exploring, mainly because I want one with a more appealing UI. Other improvements are still very much welcome, though.</p>
| 3124 | 235 | 2011-01-03T23:08:13.373 | 2012-11-20T22:36:29.333 | Is there an alternative to rEFIt? | [
"dual-boot",
"macosx",
"uefi",
"refit"
] | 3 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T16:31:21.100",
"id": "21206",
"postId": "19732",
"score": "0",
"text": "You should also consider asking this question on [SuperUser.com](http://superuser.com). They **may** not be able to tell you how to do it using Ubuntu, but they might know more.",
"userDispl... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>There's <strong>elilo</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO#elilo\" rel=\"nofollow\">elilo</a> (the <b>e</b>fi <b>li</b>nux <b>lo</b>ader), is the EFI equivalent of LILO, a linux boot-loader like grub. This seems to be very modern and functi... | null | null | null | null | null |
19737 | 1 | 19746 | 2011-01-02T16:17:14.150 | 1 | 380 | <p>I'm using fish as shell. The internal help is based on html files and when I type help it opens w3m to view this help files. Since w3m is not my default browser I wonder where this configuration to start w3m for this is stored. I'd like to read the helpfiles with another browser. How can I setup another one for this purpose or perhaps where are the helpfiles located so I can open them manually in the browser.</p>
| 7155 | 169736 | 2014-03-31T03:36:06.673 | 2014-03-31T03:36:06.673 | Using another browser than w3m for reading HTML helpfiles? | [
"fish",
"w3m"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If you want to use, as an example, elinks to view the fish documentation, type</p>\n\n<pre><code>elinks /usr/share/doc/fish/index.html\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can also use <code>firefox</code> or <code>google-chrome</code> in the same way.</p>\n\n<p>I found the location by looking at <code>type help</code>, which returned the function definition. In there, I found a reference to the variable <code>$__fish_help_dir</code>, which contains <code>/usr/share/doc/fish</code> (using <code>echo $__fish_help_dir</code>).</p>\n\n<p>There's a <a href=\"http://www.mail-archive.com/fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00562.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">discussion on their mailing list</a> on the subject as well.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:18:12.140",
"id": "21212",
"postId": "19746",
"score": "0",
"text": "thanks a lot. ok, then i guess, using w3m is fish specific in this case and it can't customized in the way that it automatically uses another browser when help is executed. is /usr/share/doc/ the preferred directory to find application documentation?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:24:32.083",
"id": "21213",
"postId": "19746",
"score": "1",
"text": "Yes it is. See the [Filesystem Hierarchy Standard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard) for more on that.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:05:32.210",
"id": "19746",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T17:12:17.087",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-02T17:12:17.087",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19737",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If you want to use, as an example, elinks to view the fish documentation, type</p>\n\n<pre><code>elinks /usr/share/doc/fish/index.html\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can also use <code>firefox</code> or <code>google-chrome</code> in the same way.</p>\n\n<p>I found the location by l... | null | null | null | null | null |
19740 | 1 | 19742 | 2011-01-02T16:30:50.100 | 17 | 16564 | <p>I have a pretty picture set as my desktop background, but I've lost the original file. However, my desktop is still set to this picture. How can I get back my picture?</p>
| 880 | 25863 | 2012-11-21T21:47:47.670 | 2013-11-20T10:30:24.007 | Where does Ubuntu store the picture that I set as my desktop? | [
"customization",
"desktop-background"
] | 4 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Open up the file browser and press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd>, to show hidden files (ones that start with a <code>.</code>), now navigate to <code>.cache</code> → <code>wallpaper</code>.</p>\n\n<p>Or hit <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> and type <code>nautilus .cache/wallpaper/</code></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/TW0ah.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:51:10.373",
"id": "21214",
"postId": "19742",
"score": "0",
"text": "These seem to be zoomed versions of the original. Does Ubuntu also store the original file somewhere?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "880"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T18:00:57.153",
"id": "21216",
"postId": "19742",
"score": "0",
"text": "No, it doesn't - unfortunately. You can use `find / 2> /dev/null | grep warty` to search everywhere on your disk. Replace warty with something that you would expect in the file name of the image. *Perhaps* there happens to be a copy somewhere, but nautilus doesn't create one.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T16:36:01.550",
"id": "19742",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T10:37:56.887",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T10:37:56.887",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "866",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19740",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "21"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Open up the file browser and press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>H</kbd>, to show hidden files (ones that start with a <code>.</code>), now navigate to <code>.cache</code> → <code>wallpaper</code>.</p>\n\n<p>Or hit <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> and type <code>nautilus .cache/wallpaper/... | null | null | null | null | null |
19745 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T16:59:15.877 | 0 | 423 | <p>I am unable to install programs for the Ubuntu 10.10 system. The download is ok, but when attempting to install them, the following message is displayed,</p>
<pre><code>AN ERROR OCCURRED WHILE OPENING THE ARCHIVE
END-OF-CENTRAL-DIRECTORY SIGNATURE NOT FOUND etc.......
ZIPINFO: CANNOT FIND ZIPFILE DIRECTORY IN etc......
</code></pre>
<p>As I am new to Ubuntu and also fairly "green" as far as computer terminology is concerned, I have no idea what this means and don't have a clue on how to fix it.</p>
<p>Can you help please?</p>
<p>Many thanks,
Brian Buck</p>
| 8230 | 235 | 2011-01-29T00:17:34.543 | 2011-02-28T01:03:25.940 | Problem with installing programs | [
"10.10",
"installation",
"zip"
] | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:03:52.907",
"id": "21209",
"postId": "19745",
"score": "4",
"text": "What were you trying to install?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "667"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T17:52:06.100",
"id": "21215",
"postId": "19745",
"score":... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Sounds like you're trying to run <code>unzip</code> or double click on a <code>.zip</code> or <code>.msi</code>. file. You probably downloaded a program for Windows.</p>\n\n<p>Linux programs are usually distributed as <code>.deb</code> files, or sometimes <code>.rpm</code>, ... | null | null | null | null | null |
19750 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T17:39:14.297 | 4 | 4137 | <p>I have a dm3t laptop and when im using the keyboard I frequently accidentally touch it and cause some mouse event. How can I make a shortcut key that toggles the mousepad on and off?</p>
| 640 | 7155 | 2011-01-02T18:12:26.940 | 2011-01-02T18:14:06.067 | How can I make a shortcut key to disable the mouse pad? | [
"keyboard",
"shortcut-keys",
"touchpad"
] | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2018-09-05T17:47:47.823",
"id": "1759779",
"postId": "19750",
"score": "0",
"text": "In Ubuntu 18.04 [`gsettings` command](https://askubuntu.com/a/1072472/853796) can be used to toggle the touchpad.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "853796"
}
] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>If you are using Synaptics Touchpad, you can toggle the touchpad on and off by using <a href=\"http://linux.die.net/man/1/synclient\" rel=\"nofollow\"><code>synclient</code></a>. To turn the pad off, run <code>synclient TouchpadOff=1</code>, and to turn it back on use <code>s... | null | null | null | null | null |
19757 | 1 | 19766 | 2011-01-02T18:36:56.427 | 8 | 5057 | <p>I'm searching for a good Audioplayer in Ubuntu which is able to remember the position it stopped last playing, to resume play even after you closed the application. Which one would you recommend?</p>
| 7155 | 235 | 2011-01-02T19:36:53.950 | 2013-04-05T13:28:12.060 | Which Audioplayer do you recommend to listen Audiobooks? | [
"software-recommendation",
"sound"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Since version 1.8 Banshee does that:</p>\n\n<p>Look at the <a href=\"http://banshee.fm/download/archives/1.8.0/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">release notes</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The Audiobooks library is now enabled by default, and audiobook tracks are now better organized into books. The last position in each book is automatically saved, so you can resume playing a book right from where you stopped.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/banshee\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Get Banshee:</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/banshee\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install banshee\"></a></p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T21:16:28.170",
"id": "19766",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T21:16:28.170",
"lastEditDate": "2017-03-11T19:00:04.903",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "5338",
"parentId": "19757",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Exaile and Amarok both do resume playback on start.Exaile for GNOME systems,Amarok for KDE systems.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/exaile\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><strong>exaile</strong> <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install exaile\"><... | null | null | null | null | null |
19760 | 1 | 19775 | 2011-01-02T19:04:49.120 | 3 | 1374 | <p>I'm looking for a fast file manager for Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I need to copy a lot of files to Windows machine via Samba. Nautilus is so slow, that when I click on the directory I need to copy the screen just dims and takes forever to list the files.</p>
<p>Any recommendations, except compiling <code>mc</code> from source? Maybe some terminal command?</p>
| 2509 | null | null | 2011-01-02T22:33:24.960 | Fast file copier with Samba support? | [
"filesystem",
"samba",
"networking",
"file-sharing"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T19:45:16.970",
"id": "21223",
"postId": "19760",
"score": "1",
"text": "It sounds like you have network issues... at least with samba. Nautilus is only as slow as the protocol it's trying to execute on, it'll be just as slow through anything else.",
"userDisplay... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Mount the windows shares using smbfs (for instructions check <a href=\"http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/165\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/165</a>), then just copy from the terminal using rsync.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T22:33:24.960",
"id": "19775",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T22:33:24.960",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "742",
"parentId": "19760",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Mount the windows shares using smbfs (for instructions check <a href=\"http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/165\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/165</a>), then just copy from the terminal using rsync.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19764 | 1 | 19768 | 2011-01-02T19:44:04.477 | 19 | 23516 | <p>I would like to set up my keyboard via my midi-sport 2x2, I've plugged everything in and even installed the midisport-firmware package which was not automatically installed for some reason.</p>
<p>The goal is to have the computer produce a piano sound when keys of the keyboard are hit. If you can make this work without jack, that would be good too. Step by step instructions, the less complexity the better.</p>
| 132 | null | null | 2014-01-05T13:04:38.650 | How does one set up a MIDI keyboard | [
"keyboard",
"midi"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>OK I figured out the smallest number of steps to get this midi keyboard working:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Install <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/qsynth\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">qsynth <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install qsynth\"></a>, <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/qjackctl\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Jack Control (called <code>qjackctl</code>) <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install qjackctl\"></a>, and download Claudio_Piano.rar from <a href=\"http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/musicres/thammer/HammerSound/localfiles/soundfonts/Claudio_Piano.rar\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here</a>, unpack and save in a handy place.</p></li>\n<li><p>Launch Jack Control (<code>Applications</code> > <code>Sound and Video</code> > <code>JACK Control</code> on older Ubuntu versions, or search for it in the Dash in newer Ubuntu versions)</p></li>\n<li><p>Click the settings button on the right side of the Jack Control panel, in the settings switch on midi input by going into the <code>MIDI Driver</code> drop down near the bottom of the window and selecting <code>seq</code> (alsa sequencer) and click <code>OK</code>.</p></li>\n<li><p>Load Qsynth, go into the setup, check <code>Enable MIDI Input</code> and turn the midi driver to <code>alsa_seq</code>, in the audio tab ensure the <code>Audio Driver</code> is set to <code>jack</code>, in the sound fonts tab open your downloaded sound font from above. Click ok and reset the server when it asks.</p></li>\n<li><p>If Qsynth freezes, unfreeze by stopping the jack server and then starting it again.</p></li>\n<li><p>Go back into the <code>JACK Audio Connection Kit</code> window and click <code>Connect</code>, here we are going to make sure in the <code>Audio</code> tab that qsynth is connected to the system output (drag handles).</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/xjXEO.png\" alt=\"connect qsynth to output\"></p>\n\n<p>In the Alsa tab we are going to connect our midi device to qsynth.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbzgb.png\" alt=\"connect midi to qsynth\"></p></li>\n<li><p>Back in Qsynth Click on the <code>Channels</code> button and watch carefully all the little lights beside each of the midi channels. Press keys on your keyboard and see which one lights up. Click on that row and set the name to Piano (or whatever your musical instrument is)</p></li>\n<li><p>Play keyboard with sound output.</p></li>\n</ol>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2013-09-17T14:29:17.107",
"id": "444115",
"postId": "19768",
"score": "0",
"text": "confirmed for Ubuntu 12.10. Added screenshots for step 6 where I hung up for an hour ... until I understood the explanation. Now, make music my friend!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "116355"
},
{
"creationDate": "2013-12-31T00:19:35.597",
"id": "509913",
"postId": "19768",
"score": "0",
"text": "Up through step 7, where I see the light beside the row light up, everything works. I don't understand how to set the name to Piano though. So I did it in the \"Preset Name\" box, not in the row. Is that correct? After doing that, I still don't get any sound. I've obviously connected though, right? I'm sure of it since pressing keys will make the thing light up. I still can't figure out how to get any sound. I'm guessing I'm supposed to somehow connect the piano sound to this but I don't know how/where to do that.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "82675"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-02-04T08:26:37.113",
"id": "1081959",
"postId": "19768",
"score": "0",
"text": "Is it just me, or does this work but then regular audio can't be played? I'd ask a separate question, but I think the solution given here messes up audio settings so regular audio can no longer be played. Is this normal? If so it should explain how to get back to normal. Should I ask a separate question?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "289003"
},
{
"creationDate": "2017-12-16T14:02:49.947",
"id": "1589164",
"postId": "19768",
"score": "0",
"text": "Martin, please accept my kiss in feet. Worked like a charm.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "613257"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T21:43:22.483",
"id": "19768",
"lastActivityDate": "2013-09-17T14:34:10.163",
"lastEditDate": "2017-03-11T19:00:04.903",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "132",
"parentId": "19764",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "21"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>OK I figured out the smallest number of steps to get this midi keyboard working:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Install <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/qsynth\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">qsynth <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install qsynth\"></... | null | null | null | null | null |
19767 | 1 | 19769 | 2011-01-02T21:36:44.587 | 3 | 14583 | <p>When I try to open Synaptic from the AWN Cardapio applet menu it gives me the 'starting without administrative privileges' message and then I can't install anything.</p>
<p>I can run sudo synaptic and it works fine, but how can I get it to just prompt me for my password like it used to? I don't like having to open terminal just to open synaptic. Any ideas?</p>
| 4203 | 4203 | 2011-01-02T21:58:27.157 | 2017-04-17T19:30:47.320 | Synaptic opens with "starting without Administrative privileges | [
"synaptic",
"awn"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Since the common user does not have permission to install programs (Since installing programs is an administrative activity) you need to start synaptic as an administrator. To do this you can:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Start synaptic through the menu: <strong>System -> Administration -> Synaptic</strong></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>Or</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Press ALT+F2 and type: <strong>gksu synaptic</strong> (gksu is to start a program in gui as administrator)</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>If you run it like one would normally would, just typing synaptic, synaptic will run with the privileges that the running user has. Since the privileges of the normal user are not administrative level, synaptic throughs that security message. At that level, you can only see the programs you can install and information related to them, but you can not install from the lack of administrative privileges.</p>\n\n<p>NOTE - If you edit the main menu and go to the synaptic option of the menu, you will see it also starts with gksu. That is why in the menu it works like it should.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T22:01:19.293",
"id": "21241",
"postId": "19769",
"score": "0",
"text": "oh ok thank's, i edited the Cardapio applet in AWN to start synaptic with the command you said",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4203"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T21:48:34.710",
"id": "19769",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-02T21:48:34.710",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19767",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "2"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Since the common user does not have permission to install programs (Since installing programs is an administrative activity) you need to start synaptic as an administrator. To do this you can:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Start synaptic through the menu: <strong>System -> Administration ... | null | null | null | null | null |
19770 | 1 | 59920 | 2011-01-02T21:49:09.290 | 198 | 454171 | <p>I've been finding fonts on the internet and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts">installing them</a> on my system. </p>
<p>What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line recommendations are also welcome.</p>
| 235 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:44.127 | 2024-02-10T16:09:03.043 | How do I change fonts and adjust their size? | [
"fonts"
] | 14 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<h2>Ubuntu 18.04 and later versions</h2>\n<p>The latest Ubuntu uses GNOME Shell. You can change the fonts using the "GNOME Tweaks" (<code>gnome-tweak-tool</code>) program.</p>\n<p>Install the program using Ubuntu Software:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3BXZ.png\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3BXZ.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></a></p>\n<p>And change the font and font size.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjLZL.png\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjLZL.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></a></p>\n<h2>13.04 - 17.04</h2>\n<p>For Unity interface users, customisation of fonts can be done using <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/unity-tweak-tool\" rel=\"noreferrer\">unity-tweak-tool <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install unity-tweak-tool\" /></a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNtyx.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/htZqs.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/NWrVC.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<h2><a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/myunity\" rel=\"noreferrer\">For 12.04</a>:</h2>\n<p>For Unity interface users, they have their own tweak-tool. Customisation of Fonts in 12.04 can be done through <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/myunity\" rel=\"noreferrer\">myunity <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install myunity\" /></a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/RVvC6.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2014-08-06T17:41:17.887",
"id": "685265",
"postId": "59920",
"score": "24",
"text": "So, I have to download a special package to change the font? Surely, you can't be serious?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "305417"
},
{
"creationDate": "2015-01-24T21:35:46.780",
"id": "797400",
"postId": "59920",
"score": "12",
"text": "@StevePitchers : I am. And don't call me Shirley!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "201083"
},
{
"creationDate": "2015-11-14T11:06:12.890",
"id": "1021748",
"postId": "59920",
"score": "1",
"text": "At version 15.10, we still need to use 2 (two) 3rd party tools for such \"**System Settings**\": \"**Unity Tweak Tool**\" gets updated better, but it still lacks a number of features that \"**Ubuntu Tweak**\" includes such as \"*Desktop Font*\".",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "47343"
},
{
"creationDate": "2018-03-17T16:56:33.497",
"id": "1649468",
"postId": "59920",
"score": "0",
"text": "It seems any \"tweak\" utility is not found for ubuntu 16.04",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "382793"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
"creationDate": "2011-09-03T22:24:18.290",
"id": "59920",
"lastActivityDate": "2019-10-07T22:26:48.900",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "14356",
"parentId": "19770",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "210"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<h1>For 11.04 and earlier:</h1>\n<p>Right click on the desktop and select "Change Desktop Background" and then click the Fonts tab. Couldn't be easier!</p>\n<p>(NB: After playing with these setting you may wish to <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4989/reset-gn... | null | null | null | null | null |
19772 | 1 | 19773 | 2011-01-02T22:01:19.667 | 96 | 247313 | <p>When I make some changes to the shell/bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and opening a new window?</p>
| 7155 | 47709 | 2018-08-21T15:34:21.467 | 2023-01-25T21:29:42.733 | How to reinitialize a terminal window instead of closing it and starting a new one? | [
"bash"
] | 8 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If you mean reloading your .bashrc configuration then: </p>\n\n<p><code>source ~/.bashrc</code></p>\n\n<p>For less typing, you can replace <code>source</code> with a dot: <code>. ~/.bashrc</code></p>\n",
"commentCount": "6",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T05:49:24.023",
"id": "21270",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "2",
"text": "Here is a question, how does this behave differently than `source ~/.bashrc` ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5042"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T13:44:19.500",
"id": "21358",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "0",
"text": "It doesn't. Looking at the bash man page you will see that the commands are listed as equivalent.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7411"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-27T18:36:00.213",
"id": "25476",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "4",
"text": "`source` is a specific to bash. `.` is more standard. Both work the same in bash.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "12"
},
{
"creationDate": "2017-06-12T01:46:30.817",
"id": "1461024",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "3",
"text": "This just reloads your PATH and some environment variables. It doesn't \"reset\" anything. @NES's answer is the correct one.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "13217"
},
{
"creationDate": "2018-08-08T15:33:05.147",
"id": "1741652",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "12",
"text": "This doesn't reset anything, if you had updates to your PATH you'll now have your old updates and new updates.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "72358"
},
{
"creationDate": "2020-03-22T18:32:52.520",
"id": "2050648",
"postId": "19773",
"score": "2",
"text": "For anyone looking for an actual solution because this is not at all the same as closing and starting a new one. Everything that was exported to the env will still be there. The [answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/1129323/616464) of @isarandi is what you might be looking for.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "616464"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T22:18:00.650",
"id": "19773",
"lastActivityDate": "2019-02-13T11:53:02.840",
"lastEditDate": "2019-02-13T11:53:02.840",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7955",
"parentId": "19772",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "90"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If you mean reloading your .bashrc configuration then: </p>\n\n<p><code>source ~/.bashrc</code></p>\n\n<p>For less typing, you can replace <code>source</code> with a dot: <code>. ~/.bashrc</code></p>\n",
"commentCount": "6",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate... | null | null | null | null | null |
19774 | 1 | 19777 | 2011-01-02T22:33:04.070 | 59 | 92529 | <p>How can I automatically shutdown the system after a certain customizable time?</p>
| 7155 | 62483 | 2014-08-02T20:43:08.437 | 2023-11-01T17:29:17.697 | How can I automatically shutdown the system after a specific time? | [
"shutdown",
"automation"
] | 7 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2015-12-17T17:15:57.323",
"id": "1045576",
"postId": "19774",
"score": "0",
"text": "This graphical script can be useful https://askubuntu.com/questions/640845/what-graphical-utility-can-i-use-for-ubuntu-auto-shutdown",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "364243"
}
] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Open a terminal window and type in:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo shutdown -h +60\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and just replace 60 with whatever number of minutes you want to take.</p>\n\n<p>More info here:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-473173.html\">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-473173.html</a>\n<a href=\"http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l5/lesson5a.html\">http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l5/lesson5a.html</a></p>\n",
"commentCount": "5",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T23:28:11.907",
"id": "21245",
"postId": "19777",
"score": "3",
"text": "The `-P` parameter (power off) seems to be a good idea too.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "3037"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T14:26:26.373",
"id": "21363",
"postId": "19777",
"score": "0",
"text": "shutdown +m 60 doesn't work for me. gives me an error message and says that there's an invalid time value.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:04:50.353",
"id": "21413",
"postId": "19777",
"score": "0",
"text": "I thought it was odd... it shouldn't be \"+m 60\", it should be \"+60\" (or maybe more like \"-h +60\". The bottom of this page seems to know how it works: http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l5/lesson5a.html.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-08-02T12:01:42.693",
"id": "62487",
"postId": "19777",
"score": "0",
"text": "\"shutdown -P 1\" - works well and shuts down the system in 1 minute, no time unit needed.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "48525"
},
{
"creationDate": "2014-05-09T16:29:34.447",
"id": "611275",
"postId": "19777",
"score": "2",
"text": "actually its sudo ..... because need root privileges",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "195621"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T22:57:07.530",
"id": "19777",
"lastActivityDate": "2015-02-14T09:08:40.853",
"lastEditDate": "2015-02-14T09:08:40.853",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "186134",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1415",
"parentId": "19774",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "66"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Open a terminal window and type in:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo shutdown -h +60\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and just replace 60 with whatever number of minutes you want to take.</p>\n\n<p>More info here:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-473173.html\">http:/... | null | null | null | null | null |
19781 | 1 | 19784 | 2011-01-02T23:42:22.403 | 1 | 1917 | <p>Are there any services after a fresh ubuntu install, that are probably by most of the standard users not needed, so that you could recommend to disable them?</p>
| 7155 | 235 | 2011-01-03T00:39:42.207 | 2011-01-03T00:39:42.207 | Unused services to disable after a fresh installation? | [
"installation",
"services"
] | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:05:52.263",
"id": "21252",
"postId": "19781",
"score": "1",
"text": "Hi! I think that isn't to concrete: \"standard user\". User who lives net-social life nearly use all installed internet apps, who don't only needs a browser and a text editor(OO). But if you giv... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This is highly subjective depending on each user. Most services that start up with the standard <code>ubuntu-desktop</code> are in some way required. However, you can disable a number of things which start up for each user in the Startup Applications Preferences, found in System > Preferences > Startup Applications - To disable a program from launching at startup simple uncheck it in the list under the Startup Programs tab.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/zBKzX.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>Some examples: If you don't use Evolution or, in particular, Evolution Calendars you can disable the Evolution Alarm Notify task. If you do not connect to this machine via VNC or another Remote Desktop tool you can disable the Remote Desktop server application. If your machine doesn't support Bluetooth you can also remove that service. Any service that you know you don't utilize while logged in as your user you can feel free to uncheck.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:11:05.847",
"id": "21253",
"postId": "19784",
"score": "0",
"text": ":) like my words :D",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6341"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:14:34.377",
"id": "21255",
"postId": "19784",
"score": "0",
"text": "As said, it's subjective, but since I don't have bluetooth, when I install Ubuntu that's *the* first thing I disable, then I disable the Evolution calendars & alarms, plus whatever else I feel like experimenting with.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:29:10.923",
"id": "21256",
"postId": "19784",
"score": "1",
"text": "@BRoland Only difference - I answered 7min before your comment :P Answers > Comments",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "41"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T13:44:11.153",
"id": "21357",
"postId": "19784",
"score": "0",
"text": "where do i find the startup entry for Remote Desktop Tool?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-02T23:59:32.560",
"id": "19784",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T00:30:02.640",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T00:30:02.640",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "41",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "41",
"parentId": "19781",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>This is highly subjective depending on each user. Most services that start up with the standard <code>ubuntu-desktop</code> are in some way required. However, you can disable a number of things which start up for each user in the Startup Applications Preferences, found in Sys... | null | null | null | null | null |
19783 | 1 | 19785 | 2011-01-02T23:47:11.507 | 9 | 5306 | <p>Is there a way to automatically close a certain application after custom time? </p>
<p>Update: i.e. stop the Audioplayer after a certain time.</p>
| 7155 | 169736 | 2013-09-07T20:47:17.837 | 2013-09-07T20:47:17.837 | Automatically close application after custom time? | [
"automation"
] | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:00:14.307",
"id": "21251",
"postId": "19783",
"score": "2",
"text": "Could you give a use case example?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "41"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T14:53:04.483",
"id": "21371",
"postId": "19783",
"score"... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Install <code>gnome-schedule</code> from the Ubuntu Software Center, load the program from <code>Applications > System Tools</code>. Use it to add an entry for the time you want the program to be closed like so:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqwAv.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>This will kill <em>all</em> instances of firefox at a certain date/time, you can also have reoccurring events that kill off certain programs at certain times, for instance to encourage kids to not browse the internet or for killing certain games.</p>\n\n<p>It is possible to do this kind of thing from the commandline too, but you need to know how to use <code>crontab -l</code> and how to write cron lines.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T01:06:15.047",
"id": "21258",
"postId": "19785",
"score": "5",
"text": "A similar technique would just involve the commandline. E.g., `sleep 3600 && killall -9 firefox-bin` would wait 3600 seconds (1 hour), and then kill all instances of Firefox.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1689"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T00:18:25.447",
"id": "19785",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-18T13:13:55.053",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-18T13:13:55.053",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "132",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "132",
"parentId": "19783",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "10"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Install <code>gnome-schedule</code> from the Ubuntu Software Center, load the program from <code>Applications > System Tools</code>. Use it to add an entry for the time you want the program to be closed like so:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqwAv.png\" al... | null | null | null | null | null |
19787 | 1 | 19934 | 2011-01-03T02:04:27.453 | 2 | 3777 | <p>I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and it seems to work flawlessly. But today I tried to check some CDs and I was surprised that Ubuntu doesn't automatically refresh the CD/DVDs inserted in my media drive.</p>
<p>I had to eject manually from the CD/DVD desktop icon >right click> Eject and then Insert the new CD and only then Ubuntu reads the data in the newly inserted CD/DVD. </p>
<p><strong>How can I fix the CD/DVD refresh for the media drive so that Ubuntu 10.10 recognize it automatically?</strong></p>
| 8096 | 8096 | 2011-01-04T18:52:03.980 | 2011-01-04T18:52:03.980 | How can I Fix the CD/DVD refresh for the media drive so that it is recognized automatically? | [
"64-bit",
"cd",
"dvd",
"drive"
] | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T03:25:04.287",
"id": "21264",
"postId": "19787",
"score": "2",
"text": "Ubuntu should automatically recognise the CD/DVD media, if it doesn't then it's a real bug. Please report the bug by pressing Alt+F2 and typing in `ubuntu-bug ubuntu`",
"userDisplayName": nu... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Pretend that your CD/DVD drive does not have a manual ejection button.\nInstead, r-click the Desktop icon and choose Eject.\nThere is also an Eject option in Nautilus when a CD/DVD has been mounted.\nOr, from the command line type <code>eject</code>.\nOr, [ALT]+[F2] <code>eject</code> and Run.</p>\n\n<p>Unix-like systems \"mount\" a CD/DVD, incorporating the contents into the file system.\nNot too-too long ago, the physical ejection button would not work at all\nif a CD/DVD was currently mounted. By using the physical ejection button,\nyou have ejected the media, but Linux doesn't know about it, so it shows you what\nit thinks is supposed to be there.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2015-01-02T20:27:42.773",
"id": "782943",
"postId": "19934",
"score": "0",
"text": "The key is to run `eject` _before_ mounting the new media. This also matters for VMs.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "236230"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T23:17:05.657",
"id": "19934",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T23:17:05.657",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": "user8290",
"ownerUserId": null,
"parentId": "19787",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Pretend that your CD/DVD drive does not have a manual ejection button.\nInstead, r-click the Desktop icon and choose Eject.\nThere is also an Eject option in Nautilus when a CD/DVD has been mounted.\nOr, from the command line type <code>eject</code>.\nOr, [ALT]+[F2] <code>eje... | null | null | null | null | null |
19789 | 1 | 19867 | 2011-01-03T03:19:02.090 | 4 | 11391 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. However, I need to install Windows 7 back, and I expect that it would alter GRUB and it did.</p>
<p>Right now, my partition on my <strong>Software RAID 0</strong> looks like this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5tpb2.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>nvidia_acajefec1 is Ubuntu 10.10 and nvidia_acajefec3 is Windows 7.</p>
<p>I've been following some guides around and I am always stuck at GRUB not able to detect the usual RAID content.</p>
<p>I've tried running: </p>
<pre><code>sudo grub
> root (hd0,0)
</code></pre>
<p>GRUB complains it couldn't find my hard disk. So I tried:</p>
<pre><code>find (hd0,0)
</code></pre>
<p>And it complains that it couldn't find anything.</p>
<p>So I tried:</p>
<pre><code>find /boot/grub/stage1
</code></pre>
<p>It said "file not found".</p>
<p>Here's the text from the console:</p>
<pre><code>ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/stage1
Error 15: File not found
</code></pre>
<p>**Fortunately, I got one person suggesting that what I've been trying to do is for GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. So I went to the suggested website, (<a href="http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide</a>) try to look around, and try:</p>
<pre><code>ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Unable to seek on /dev/sda
</code></pre>
<p>This is just the step 2 of the instruction in the <a href="http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide</a> and I cannot proceed because it cannot seek /dev/sda.</p>
<p>However,</p>
<pre><code>ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmraid -r
/dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_acajefec", stripe, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0
</code></pre>
<p>So what now? Do you have an idea for how to make fdisk see my RAID array on live cd (Ubuntu 10.10)? Honestly, I am lost, very lost in trying to restore GRUB2 on this software RAID 0 system right now.</p>
| 8252 | 8252 | 2011-01-03T16:31:08.067 | 2011-01-03T16:43:59.967 | Restoring GRUB2 on Software RAID 0 using LiveCD after Windows 7 wiped it | [
"10.10",
"grub2",
"live-cd",
"raid",
"bootloader"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If you boot by recovery CD your root devices is not / but the ISO representation in RAM. In this case we have to mount the <em>real</em> root partition first.</p>\n\n<p>Check if your software RAID is active:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ cat /proc/partitions</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>You have to expect your <code>sda</code>, <code>sdb</code>, <code>dm-0</code> followed by <code>dm-1</code>, <code>dm-2</code> and so on representing your partition table entries.</p>\n\n<p>If you do not see the <code>dm-*</code> entries you have to activate the software RAID manually:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo dmraid-activate</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Check <code>/proc/partitions</code> again and verify if <code>grub</code> is aware of it:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo grub-mkdevicemap -m -</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The output may differ but should look like (where *ata-WDC_WD5001AALS-00L3B2_WD-WCASY5902194* depends on your hardware configuration):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5001AALS-00L3B2_WD-WCASY5902194<br/>\n (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5001AALS-00L3B2_WD-WCASY5867648<br/>\n (hd2) /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Your <em>real</em> root partition should be <code>/dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec1</code> right now. We mount this partition for future tests now:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec1 /mnt<br/>\n $ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev<br/>\n $ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc<br/>\n $ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Check if <code>grub</code> is able to map the devices to your partitions:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo grub-mkdevicemap -m - | sudo grub-probe --device-map=/proc/self/fd/0 --target=device /mnt</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>You should see something like <code>/dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec1</code>.</p>\n\n<p>Identify the name of your partition as GRUB device:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo grub-mkdevicemap -m - | sudo grub-probe --device-map=/proc/self/fd/0 --target=drive /mnt</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The output should be something like <code>(hd2,msdos1)</code>.</p>\n\n<p>So far so good. In order to install/update GRUB we are ready to switch to the <em>real</em> root partition and update the boot block:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>$ sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash<br/>\n $ sudo update-grub<br/>\n Generating grub.cfg ...<br/>\n Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png<br/>\n Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem<br/>\n Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem<br/>\n Found Linux on /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec1<br/>\n Found Windows on /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec3<br/>\n done<br/>\n $ sudo grub-install /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec<br/>\n Installation finished. No error reported.<br/>\n $ exit</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Your are ready to reboot the system.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:26:32.860",
"id": "21382",
"postId": "19867",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thank you very much. I've followed all of your step. However, the console shows a little different for the last part for install/update GRUB: **root@ubuntu:/# sudo update-grub**\n**sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu**\n**Generating grub.cfg ...**\n**Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic**\n**Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-23-generic**\n**Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic**\n**Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic**\n**Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin**\n**Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec2**",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8252"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:27:05.950",
"id": "21384",
"postId": "19867",
"score": "0",
"text": "Right now, I have rebooted my system, but it goes to Windows 7 right away, and no GRUB at all. Perhaps I am forgetting something...?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8252"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:44:19.797",
"id": "21386",
"postId": "19867",
"score": "0",
"text": "I've missed the `sudo grub-install /dev/mapper/nvidia_acajefec` in the chroot environment.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8268"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T15:42:22.187",
"id": "19867",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T16:43:59.967",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T16:43:59.967",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "8268",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8268",
"parentId": "19789",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "2"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>The device you need to mount is <code>/dev/nvidia_acajefec1</code>, and the device you need to install to is <code>/dev/nvidia_acajefec</code>. So roughly following the directions on <a href=\"http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://grub... | null | null | null | null | null |
19791 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T03:27:09.097 | 5 | 243 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19792/duplicated-entries-in-ubuntu-one">Duplicated entries in Ubuntu One</a><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/20616/why-does-my-ubuntuone-sync-only-upload-folders-and-zero-content">why does my UbuntuOne sync only upload folders and zero content?</a>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16592/how-can-i-tell-whether-ubuntu-one-file-sync-is-working-and-what-progress-it-is-m">How can I tell whether Ubuntu One file sync is working, and what progress it is making?</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Added two computers to Ubuntu One. One machine is windows. The windows version seems to work fine, and I started syncing a folder by placing it into the Ubuntu One folder. All files and folders are visible when I go to my account online.</p>
<p>On Ubuntu machine. I selected to sync the Download folder. Shortly thereafter, I realized that one folder exceeded my storage max. I tried to un-sync the folder, but Ubuntu One and the Stop Syncing This Folder were not visible in the menu.</p>
<p>Per Ubuntu instructions, I removed my Ubuntu computer from the list of syncing computers.</p>
<p>Per Ubuntu instructions, I re-added the Ubuntu computer. However, I find that two computers by the same name are added on both the desktop app and on the web. Plus, I the connection is "unknown."</p>
<p>I have removed and re-added the computer several times with the same results. In all cases, I remove the computers using the Ubuntu One desktop app, then removing them from my account on the web, removing the Ubuntu One password, and restart the Ubuntu One app.</p>
<p>Problem remains.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any replies and help.</p>
| null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:09.107 | 2011-06-05T20:21:32.487 | Computer shows up twice, connection unknown | [
"ubuntu-one",
"sync",
"couchdb"
] | 0 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-08T22:28:36.437",
"id": "22214",
"postId": "19791",
"score": "1",
"text": "I think this is answered by [Duplicated entries in Ubuntu One](http://askubuntu.com/questions/19792/duplicated-entries-in-ubuntu-one) and [why does my UbuntuOne sync only upload folders and zero... | null | [] | null | null | 2011-06-05T20:20:05.983 | null | Thomas G. Seroogy |
19792 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T03:27:17.220 | 2 | 469 | <p>I recently started using Ubuntu One. Somehow, when I look at Ubuntu One Preferences->Devices, one of my laptop computers is listed twice. When I visit my Ubuntu One account via web, "Computers on your account" also lists that particular laptop twice.
I am wondering why this happens, and whether I can remove one of them.
Thank you very much for your help!
BVP</p>
| null | null | null | 2011-04-30T20:39:58.483 | Duplicated entries in Ubuntu One | [
"ubuntu-one"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Yes, you can remove the bottom one. You can get multiple entries for a computer when you authorize a machine multiple times. As the machine will only keep the latest tokens it got from the server, you can safely remove the other, older ones.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
... | null | null | null | null | BVP |
19796 | 1 | 19799 | 2011-01-03T05:05:09.880 | 7 | 56014 | <p>I am going to dual-boot install Ubuntu1 10.04 on my laptop with Windows 7. I was wondering </p>
<ol>
<li>what filesystem types (such as ext2,
ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and whatever might come
into mind) are recommended for
various possible partitions (such as
/, home, /boot, swap, and others
that might come into mind)and why?</li>
<li>if ext4 is now stable enough for use
for partitions in Ubuntu and Shared
partition between Windows and
Ubuntu?</li>
<li>what journaling Options (writeback, ordered and journal) are recommended for each partition's filesystem?</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks and regards!</p>
| 1471 | 1471 | 2011-01-03T05:35:50.607 | 2014-07-26T22:14:41.067 | filesystem types for partitions | [
"filesystem",
"partitioning"
] | 2 | 8 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T05:55:23.143",
"id": "21273",
"postId": "19796",
"score": "3",
"text": "AFAIR, the windows ext (ext2fs) driver does not support ext4 unless it is prepared with specific options (with regards to sector size and some other technical details) that aren't default option... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Assuming you have checked in wikipedia, ubuntu forum, linux forum, linux sites about this very common question, i leave you here with a quick breakdown of the common ones:</p>\n\n<h1>POINT 1</h1>\n\n<p>You already know that ext4 is the enhanced version of ext3 which is the enhanced version of ext2 which is the enhanced version of.. you guessed it, ext (Extended File System) which was a better implementation of the Minix File system.</p>\n\n<p>I wil just copy paste a lot of stuff found in wikipedia / ubuntu+ linux forums /etc... since it is found easily but has a LOT of reading to be done to find the good points.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Ext</strong> - Solved 2 big problems that were found in the Minix System: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>maximum partition size </li>\n<li>filename length limitation to 14 characters</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Ext2</strong> - Added several things that lacked in Ext: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Support for separate access </li>\n<li>Inode modification and data modification timestamps</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Ext3</strong> - Added More thing missing from Ext2: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Journaling file system </li>\n<li>Online file system growth </li>\n<li>Htree indexing for larger directories missing from Ext3 </li>\n<li>Faster Performance Overall</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>Ext4</strong> - Added a whole bunch of things, including but not limited to: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Large file system: Support volumes with sizes up to 1 exabyte and files with sizes up to 16 terabytes. </li>\n<li>Break 32,000 subdirectory limit found in ext3. </li>\n<li>Faster file system checking </li>\n<li>Multiblock allocator </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>ReiserFs</strong> - Very good File System that showed potential and i tested some years back. you could see as an end user the speed difference between it and Ext3 for example. But after some \"problems\" the company working on the file system had to make some changes. Sad story really. Anyway the final problem right now is the lack of tools for it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Reiser4</strong> - Not available easily but is the \"Version 2\" if you can call it that of ReiserFS. Have not tested yet but some benchmarks show good progress.</p>\n\n<p><strong>BtrFS</strong> - The illegitimate child of everyone. This file system has taken the good of Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFs and Reiser4 added some sugar, mixed with chocolate and PRESTO! you have some super mutant ninja System. This is not a stable file system YET but it shows a LOT of potential and has some pretty amazing benchmarks. You can have a look here: <a href=\"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1010_btrfs&num=2\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1010_btrfs&num=2</a> but it still needs a lot of work before it can be called stable. Anyway some of the amazing things that it has, for my case, would be the Online volume growth and shrinking, Online defragmentation, Snapshots...</p>\n\n<p>I am using Etx4 right now since I already tested ReiserFs, Ext3, Ext2 and maybe 2 or 3 more.</p>\n\n<p>For many small files in a partition I recommend Reiser since it worked wonders for me BUT you might get a problem that if it happens to you (It happened to me 2 times. That was enough.) you might loose everything forever. And I mean like FOREVER!.</p>\n\n<p>Ext4 a year ago might have not sounded like fast and steady but right now it is very VERY good for almost any time of work in a desktop.</p>\n\n<p>So my recommendation for your POINT 1 would be stay with Ext4. In the future, you might start looking at Btrfs but for now stay with Ext4. There is also the case of performance. As of December 2012, BtrFS does not yet have a similar performance as Ext4 does. In this case I am talking about cases like Copy/Paste speed, moving files, reading thousands of files, the stuff that end users do from time to time. BtrFS is more oriented towards scalable scenarios where we can play with several HDDs or huge space sizes, resize, snapshot and more. But even with that in mind, the work put in BtrFS is huge, so much so, that there are a couple of Ext4 developers that promote BtrFS for several case scenarios. In the future, the performance of BtrFs and stability will have improved to the point of becoming the default one.</p>\n\n<h1>POINT 2</h1>\n\n<p>For you POINT 2. I do not recommend it if you want to share files between Windows and ubuntu. For that case use NTFS or FAT32. Windows has some programs that can read Ext2/Ext3 systems but I have had (And 2 more friends had) a couple of problems with them, reading wrong, writing wrong, etc.. So for safety sake, stay with NTFS or FAT32 to be on the safe side.</p>\n\n<p>NOTE: What I mean with this is do the Ubuntu partition with ext4 BUT leave a small partition in FAT32 or NTFS to share files between them both. If you are working on the same PC for both Windows and Ubuntu, then there is no need to make a third partition for them. Just install Windows First leaving space for Ubuntu and then install Ubuntu. Ubuntu will be able to see the files in Windows (But Windows will not be able to see the ones in Ubuntu, but since you are running in the same PC anyway you will not mind anyway). Remember that FAT32 is limited to file sizes of 4.2GB or less. If you try to copy a file bigger than that it will throw an error. This can affect you if you want to store ISO files of DVD/Bluray. For this I would then recommend NTFS.</p>\n\n<h1>POINT 3</h1>\n\n<p>For you POINT 3 - If you want performance you can add <strong>noatime</strong> and <strong>nodiratime</strong> to your fstab for the ext4 partition so you get a small performance boost. This will eliminate the access times for files and directories (I think noatime removes both so there might not be a need for nodiratime) If you want more journal options you can check the GIT for the Linux Kernel where it shows you all options: <a href=\"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt;h=7be02ac5fa36d7f4c07856fe9cf89391e08986f7;hb=HEAD\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt;h=7be02ac5fa36d7f4c07856fe9cf89391e08986f7;hb=HEAD</a></p>\n\n<p>That will help you since it gives a brief summary for each option.</p>\n\n<p>Hope this helps. Sorry for the long post.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:21:02.967",
"id": "21277",
"postId": "19799",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks, CYREX! I actually very much appreciate the details you provided! I was wondering if you agree with (http://superuser.com/questions/84586/partition-scheme-and-size-for-dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-9-10-with-separate-p/84839#84839): \"I would split / (root) from /boot: the reason is that you can use an ext2 for your /boot and ext4 for your / (root)\"? There are two questions there: if separte /boot from /, and if use different filesystem types for /boot and /?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1471"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:29:38.497",
"id": "21278",
"postId": "19799",
"score": "0",
"text": "I usually do not use / in a different partition than boot (Myself) but i always recommend that. The simplest reason is that if ANYTHINGGG goes wrong, you have your boot system in a different partition and you can most of the time safe everything quickly back to normal. Same goes if the boot system goes bad. you have your root partition in a different place so you can safe everything again. If you have both of them in the same place and something goes wrong, well it will get difficult. Anyway for the ext2 reason does not make since to me, but for the rest i agree.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7035"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:10:32.537",
"id": "19799",
"lastActivityDate": "2014-07-26T22:14:41.067",
"lastEditDate": "2014-07-26T22:14:41.067",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "47291",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19796",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "11"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Assuming you have checked in wikipedia, ubuntu forum, linux forum, linux sites about this very common question, i leave you here with a quick breakdown of the common ones:</p>\n\n<h1>POINT 1</h1>\n\n<p>You already know that ext4 is the enhanced version of ext3 which is the en... | null | null | 2014-06-15T22:40:18.150 | null | null |
19798 | 1 | 20371 | 2011-01-03T05:40:52.970 | 13 | 25629 | <p>I'm setting up a Maverick server on a spare PC. The install completes fine and the system boots up into the shell. However, when I try to do a <code>apt-get update</code> , apt hangs on almost every entry with the message <code>99% [Waiting for headers]</code> sometimes a message of <code>96 b/s</code> appears on the far right. The actual percent that it claims also varies. </p>
<p>Searching around online gave a potential solution by using the option <code>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth="0"</code> this <em>somewhat</em> alleviates the problem, i.e. it stalls on every other entry with the same message as above. </p>
<p>If you wait it out (the whole update took about 4 hours), the update still fails as a good portion of the hits show a "unable to connect" or similar message, despite the fact that I can ping the server from the pc just fine.</p>
<p>The problem is also unrelated to the mirror used since I've tried about a dozen mirrors with no success, I've even tried commenting out everything but the <code>main</code> entry in sources.list and it still refuses to update.</p>
<p>The network connection is fine since I can ping and wget (apt won't let me install lynx until I run a successful update) just fine. I've also reinstalled the distro with no luck.</p>
<p>The only thing weird about the setup is that the PC is connecting to the internet through my windows laptop with ICS configured properly, but as I've said before, the network connection is fine. </p>
| 5042 | 169736 | 2014-05-14T03:46:31.010 | 2017-11-07T11:47:32.563 | apt-get update stuck on "Waiting for Headers" when using Windows XP ICS | [
"apt",
"windows-xp"
] | 2 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T05:43:49.330",
"id": "21269",
"postId": "19798",
"score": "0",
"text": "Try executing the following commands in your terminal `sudo dpkg --configure -a` and `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade`",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There seems to be a fundamental issue with the implementation of ICS and IP forwarding in general on Windows XP it simply cannot handle multiple connections to the same server, maybe it's some weird combination of a bug with intentional incompetence (as I like to call it), but the end result is that XP cannot function as a competent router/proxy for a linux system (maybe the limitations are intentionally put in place for non-windows systems). </p>\n\n<p>It is interesting to note that this is not only limited to ICS. There is a hidden option in the windows registry that allows IP forwarding for network interfaces and it suffers from the same problem.</p>\n\n<p>The only solution - it appears - is to either change the network topology to avoid using ICS (either connecting directly, or buying a dedicated switch/access point), or to use a different OS to set up the temporary bridge. I used an ubuntu live-cd (it wasn't my computer or it would have been running some *nix to begin with) and enabled packet forwarding and ip masquerading so the computer behaves as a bona-fide router.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T20:58:41.670",
"id": "20371",
"lastActivityDate": "2014-10-23T20:04:35.910",
"lastEditDate": "2014-10-23T20:04:35.910",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "219939",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "5042",
"parentId": "19798",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "10"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>There are some rumours in the web (I can't verify them) about ICS problems with IP6. They said when ICS receives more than one IP6 connection it halts for a while. This could explain why wget works (only one connection), and apt-get update fails (lots of simultaneous connecti... | null | null | null | null | null |
19803 | 1 | 19806 | 2011-01-03T06:31:52.673 | 12 | 22799 | <p>I don't know much about 32 bit and 64 bit. I had been using 32 bit and it's crashed (not working properly and i don't know how to recover) <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19717/cant-access-any-functions-after-chown-command">question here</a>..... and i don't have backup and i run on 3.2 dual core intel processor can you recommend me which would be better, and i do web development(php and mysql) and learning python.</p>
| 8144 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2014-04-19T21:37:49.597 | For better performance should I install 32-bit or 64-bit? | [
"11.10",
"architecture",
"multi-core"
] | 7 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:33:49.923",
"id": "21279",
"postId": "19803",
"score": "0",
"text": "any specific error on 32 bit edition?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4203"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:35:24.853",
"id": "21280",
"postId": "19803",
"s... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There are no big performance differences between 64 bit and 32 bit in Ubuntu. I tried both for years now. Let me point to the actual PROS and CONS for the 64 bit since you have been in the 32 bit already:</p>\n\n<p><strong>64 bit PROS:</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Support for more than 4 GB RAM (without any kernel modifications, 32 bit PAE support, etc..) The sucker supports more than 1 TB.</p></li>\n<li><p>Gives performance boosts ONLY if you are doing some very intense work that needs more than 4 GB Ram. Am not talking about playing, watching videos or listening to music. Am talking about server with a million users, rendering shrek 7 christmas edition or something very big like making a 3D version of the galaxy.... from scratch.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><strong>64 bit CONS:</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>In the past (2012 or less) a whole bunch of programs had issues. For example flash (even the 64 bit version) had some glitches and more. If you thought you had issues with 32 Bit on those times, changing to 64 bit increased your chances of having more. For me it was a nightmare on PC street. This obviously changed and it changed very quickly. Since 13.04 I would say, 64 bit got much more stable, easier to work with and it was very hard to get a 64 bit problem. On 13.10 I did not have any issues whatsoever. Now on 14.04 it is more recommend than ever before to move to 64 bit but only if you have the following hardware:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Have a PC with 4 GB or more of RAM</li>\n<li>Have a motherboard that supports 64 bit (Most motherboards after around 2005 do)</li>\n<li>Have a CPU that supports 64 bit (Most CPUs after around 2004 do)</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p>Recommended for the average user that has 4 GB or RAM or more and hardware that supports 64 bit architecture. <s>There are many issues still in the 32 bit that will get even bigger in the 64 bit one. Apart from that 64 bit is still very new (Even if it came out around 2000) but the majority of the programs made (Even today) are mostly for 32 bit.</s>. Nowadays, 64 bit is the best move. When I wrote this answer it was January 2011. We are now in April 2014 and I can really say that 64 bit is much better than 32 bit in terms of performance, stability and more. Of course, the need for a program to use even close to 4 GB is not yet a big problem and the real need to use more than that applies to intense apps.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Test out 32 bit if you want but if you have a computer with enough RAM, CPU and a good motherboard (From 2005+) then I would really recommend 64 bit for you.</p>\n\n<p>Hope to have helped.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "8",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:02:28.797",
"id": "21283",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "sure thanks have 2GB RAM going for 32 bit also not average user but beginner ...!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8144"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:09:20.977",
"id": "21285",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "1",
"text": "Again, 32 bit ubuntu _automatically_ enables the PAE kernel if there is more than 3gb of RAM, thus the point about addressing more ram is moot (albeit valid). If you have more 4+GBs of ram, you *don't need to install a 64 bit system*. See the [Community Documentation](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE). Great answer none the less :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:45:27.330",
"id": "21293",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "Hi stefano. That is why i mention the part about 32bit PAE Support in the beginning. Thanks for the link which helped.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7035"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:47:10.777",
"id": "21294",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "As @Stefano pointed out, the 32 bit linux kernel has had PAE support for several years now, it is capable of PHYSICALLY addressing > 4GB (assuming the chipset supports it). However, the virtual address space given to each process is still 4GB (AFAIR), however, this is still quite a large ceiling.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5042"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T10:17:05.213",
"id": "21312",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "+1 for mentioning the incompatibilities with flash and other software. I had been through that nightmare too.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5289"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T11:09:55.813",
"id": "21315",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "Actually, 64-bit has been around significantly longer than 2000 (not x86-64, admittedly)... ;)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7773"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:26:52.307",
"id": "21383",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "I actually had a lot more trouble with Flash when I used the 32 bit version. The 64-bit prerelease has never caused me problems. YMMV.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1689"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-02-02T08:17:12.000",
"id": "1080274",
"postId": "19806",
"score": "0",
"text": "Long mode also have double the registers, which often results in more efficient function calls... Pointers do take double the memory though, so it tend to use somewhat more memory for the same job. (The x32 ABI solves that, but there doesn't seem to be many practical ways to use it)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "114847"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T06:54:34.343",
"id": "19806",
"lastActivityDate": "2014-04-19T21:37:49.597",
"lastEditDate": "2014-04-19T21:37:49.597",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "7035",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19803",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "18"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>As for this question: If you plan to re-install your operating system completely, choose the 32 bit version. There's really no need for you to try 64 bit. </p>\n\n<p>But it's really not that important. Ask another question here about how to best do that re-installation, keepi... | null | null | null | null | null |
19808 | 1 | 19810 | 2011-01-03T07:04:09.590 | 9 | 11813 | <p>I want to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact. I have 160 GB hardrive (sata or pata I don't know but it's slim and made in China) with a 40 GB ext3 partition, a 4GB swap memory and 3 other partition with a FAT32 file system. I have around 4GB space on my drive where Linux is installed.</p>
<p>I'd like to keep the data intact, especially the Downloads folder, desktop, and <code>/var/www</code>; And I no longer have access to any other machines or external storage devices.</p>
| 8144 | 169736 | 2014-06-07T14:18:41.987 | 2014-06-07T14:47:35.143 | How to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact? | [
"partitioning",
"system-installation"
] | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:20:24.183",
"id": "21286",
"postId": "19808",
"score": "0",
"text": "If I've understood you correctly, you also don't have an Ubuntu CD or a USB stick. Correct?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:22:34.... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Just copy the directories that you want to save i.e Downloads, <code>/var/www</code> and Desktop to another partition, install Ubuntu to that 40 GB ext3 partition and after installation copy the directories back. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:50:44.573",
"id": "21295",
"postId": "19810",
"score": "0",
"text": "do you mean i can copy files while installing ubuntu? i don't have access to sudo command (it's disabled and the only partition that is accessible to me is the partition where linux is installed and i don't want to delete other drives.)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8144"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T08:02:40.543",
"id": "21296",
"postId": "19810",
"score": "0",
"text": "@explorex: you have access to all your files when booting a live system from USB or CD",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "3940"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T08:07:15.643",
"id": "21297",
"postId": "19810",
"score": "0",
"text": "okay i will try, right now i am downloading one",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8144"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T08:37:33.587",
"id": "21302",
"postId": "19810",
"score": "0",
"text": "Can you be a bit more specific @binW? There's nothing wrong with explaining it in painstaking detail ;-)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T07:47:06.493",
"id": "19810",
"lastActivityDate": "2014-06-07T14:47:35.143",
"lastEditDate": "2014-06-07T14:47:35.143",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "169736",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "6713",
"parentId": "19808",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "9"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Just copy the directories that you want to save i.e Downloads, <code>/var/www</code> and Desktop to another partition, install Ubuntu to that 40 GB ext3 partition and after installation copy the directories back. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19812 | 1 | 20841 | 2011-01-03T08:05:04.557 | 2 | 572 | <p>I bought music from the Ubuntu One music store, and the status of the downloads are stuck at "Transferring to your Ubuntu One storage" under the "My Downloads" section of Ubuntu One Music Store. I can see the music bought from the web interface, but I'm unable to synchronize it onto my machine. </p>
<p>I've tried <strong><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16983/how-do-i-make-my-purchased-music-be-synchronized-on-rhythmbox-and-in-ubuntuone">this</a></strong> without success.</p>
<p>Has this problem been reproduced at all other than by me?</p>
| 8261 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2011-01-10T02:10:16.493 | Music bought from ubuntu one music store stuck on "Transferring to your Ubuntu One storage" | [
"10.04",
"storage",
"ubuntu-one"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>First, <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/16592/711\">make certain your syncdaemon is connected and working correctly</a>. If the state of syncdaemon is stuck in something like <code>STANDOFF</code>, I'd recommend you restart it; this can be done in several ways, although I prefer doing it via entering the following in a terminal:</p>\n\n<pre><code>u1sdtool --quit\nu1sdtool --start\nsleep 30\nu1sdtool --connect\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you find that it is OK, but it is busy, please use <code>magicicada</code> or <code>u1sdtool --waiting-content</code> to see if your music isn't queued up for download.</p>\n\n<p>If it is connected and idle, and have tried <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/16983/711\">the solution for the only known remaining client-side issue that could cause this</a> and it hasn't helped, please <a href=\"https://one.ubuntu.com/support/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">contact support</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-10T02:10:16.493",
"id": "20841",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-10T02:10:16.493",
"lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:13.310",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "711",
"parentId": "19812",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I can confirm this problem. There is no synchronization after the music were purchased to my u1 storage.\nJust after clicking the restart button in the u1 preferences/devices it starts to sync.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": nul... | null | null | null | null | null |
19813 | 1 | 20261 | 2011-01-03T08:09:55.243 | 1 | 1618 | <p>I have a screensaver configured to activate after 5 minutes. When the time elapses, instead of activating the screensaver, my monitor turns off.</p>
<p>I tried playing with settings, and searching the internet, but I couldn't find anything and couldn't figure out how to solve this issue.</p>
<p>Can someone help?</p>
| 6228 | 3037 | 2011-01-05T00:55:51.757 | 2011-01-06T06:58:33.230 | Monitor turning off instead of activating the screensaver, how do I prevent it? | [
"10.10",
"power-management",
"monitor",
"screensaver"
] | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T08:13:51.080",
"id": "21298",
"postId": "19813",
"score": "0",
"text": "Have you checked Power Management Preferences(System → Preferences → Power Management) ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T08:15:48.860... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Apparently I screwed up my kubuntu after trying <a href=\"http://kenfallon.com/?p=733\" rel=\"nofollow\">BSOD screensaver</a>, and I am posting my answer just for references.</p>\n\n<p>I switched to xubuntu-desktop and everything works fine. I didn't try to reinstall kubuntu-desktop, but that might fix the problem.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T06:58:33.230",
"id": "20261",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-06T06:58:33.230",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "6228",
"parentId": "19813",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "0"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Apparently I screwed up my kubuntu after trying <a href=\"http://kenfallon.com/?p=733\" rel=\"nofollow\">BSOD screensaver</a>, and I am posting my answer just for references.</p>\n\n<p>I switched to xubuntu-desktop and everything works fine. I didn't try to reinstall kubuntu-... | null | null | null | null | null |
19817 | 1 | 19822 | 2011-01-03T09:08:34.043 | 5 | 107 | <p>I've heard it thrown around on a lot of blogs that Ubuntu Brainstorm is the "graveyard of good ideas". I have a bit of a passion for average end-users suggesting the kinds of software they want and they way they think their applications and computers could work. I'm interested in joining the Ubuntu Brainstorm team, maybe to facilitate ideas not getting buried and making it not seem like a dead platform. Unfortunately I'm not very plugged into the "community" so I'm not sure how to go about it. I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks.</p>
| 4460 | null | null | 2012-04-22T23:27:21.330 | How can one get involved in the Ubuntu Brainstorm team? | [
"community",
"brainstorm"
] | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2017-02-02T15:58:08.077",
"id": "1368081",
"postId": "19817",
"score": "2",
"text": "After years of great discussion, Ubuntu Brainstorm closed permanently in 2014.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "19626"
},
{
"creationDate": "2017-02-04T14:19:24.323",
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Great idea, I had a few ideas myself. You can start at <a href=\"http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/</a>, there are lots of ideas being voted for. Also <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~brainstorm-moderators\" rel=\"nofollow\">HERE</a> is a link to brainstorm moderators.\nThere is also <a href=\"http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu QA Team mailing-list</a> you can join.\ngood luck.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:11:28.260",
"id": "21399",
"postId": "19822",
"score": "0",
"text": "Well I'm more talking about how to actually get involved reviving the platform, not just contributing to it. Like do they need more moderators on the site? If so how could one go about applying for that?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4460"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:18:02.887",
"id": "21401",
"postId": "19822",
"score": "0",
"text": "I guess I'd go for Ubuntu QA Team on the mailing list, there you can contact them directly.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4777"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T09:29:19.587",
"id": "19822",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T09:29:19.587",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "4777",
"parentId": "19817",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Great idea, I had a few ideas myself. You can start at <a href=\"http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/</a>, there are lots of ideas being voted for. Also <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~brainstorm-moderators\" rel=\"nofollow\">HERE</a... | null | null | 2017-02-04T07:51:48.487 | null | null |
19819 | 1 | 20151 | 2011-01-03T09:13:30.093 | 2 | 1172 | <p>I have never used a Linux system in an AD environment before and am trying to join my laptop running Ubuntu to join our Active Directory (DC is a Windows Server 2008 machine) using Likewise-open.</p>
<ul>
<li>Using the GUI wizard, I have joined the domain. </li>
<li>I can mount network shares using CIFS </li>
</ul>
<p>My <code>fstab</code> entry looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>//server/share /mnt/foo cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/home/aron/.smbcredentials 0 0
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Problem:</strong><br>
I only have read access to our fileserver. What more is needed to get the AD to recognize me as a user who has the appropriate rights?</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
| 7527 | 8844 | 2011-03-31T04:13:01.170 | 2011-03-31T04:13:01.170 | Likewise: joined Active Directory but cannot write shares | [
"10.10",
"active-directory",
"likewise"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I finally solved the problem.</p>\n\n<p>It turned out, this would not work without a valid GID or UID parameter in fstab.</p>\n\n<p>I added my UID to the fstab entry and I can now write the share perfectly.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently\" rel=\"nofollow\">This resource</a> has helped me come to this conclusion.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T10:18:09.853",
"id": "20151",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-05T10:18:09.853",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7527",
"parentId": "19819",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I finally solved the problem.</p>\n\n<p>It turned out, this would not work without a valid GID or UID parameter in fstab.</p>\n\n<p>I added my UID to the fstab entry and I can now write the share perfectly.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSha... | null | null | null | null | null |
19823 | 1 | 19824 | 2011-01-03T09:53:37.780 | 2 | 707 | <p>In Empathy, I can use the default image in google talk. But, with msn, the picture didn't show. How can I config it to make it right.</p>
| null | 742 | 2011-01-03T12:34:45.170 | 2011-01-03T12:34:45.170 | How can I show the msn user picture in Empathy? | [
"empathy",
"msn"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>In Empathy do the following:</p>\n\n<p><code>Edit -> Personal Information</code></p>\n\n<p>In <strong>Account</strong> Select the MSN account. After that click on the <strong>ICON</strong> to the right. Select the picture you want. Thats it.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T10:11:57.657",
"id": "19824",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T10:11:57.657",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19823",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>In Empathy do the following:</p>\n\n<p><code>Edit -> Personal Information</code></p>\n\n<p>In <strong>Account</strong> Select the MSN account. After that click on the <strong>ICON</strong> to the right. Select the picture you want. Thats it.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0"... | null | null | null | null | user8260 |
19826 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T10:40:30.113 | 3 | 2846 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7283/where-can-i-find-vim-7-3">Where can I find Vim 7.3?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Vim 7.3 is out, and there's a PPA for Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p>Is there a PPA for Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
| null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2011-01-24T14:33:53.583 | Is there a PPA for vim 7.3? | [
"10.04",
"ppa",
"vim"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>There's not a PPA unfortunately, but you could install <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/7283/where-can-i-find-vim-7-3/7344#7344\">it from source</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA ... | null | null | 2011-01-24T14:41:11.900 | null | user8264 |
19828 | 1 | 19831 | 2011-01-03T10:47:38.890 | 5 | 10516 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3378/my-processor-is-64-bit-does-that-mean-i-need-the-amd64-image">My processor is 64-bit - does that mean I need the amd64 image?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I have a x86 64bit dell inspiration pc and it doesn't contain a amd cpu.
Should I install "amd 64 10.04" or "x86 32 10.04"?</p>
| null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:38.027 | 2011-01-03T13:54:45.710 | Which architecture should I install on x86 64bit machine? | [
"architecture"
] | 4 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2017-07-19T03:31:24.167",
"id": "1485918",
"postId": "19828",
"score": "0",
"text": "Also related: [Is the 64-Bit version of Ubuntu only compatible with AMD CPUs?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/197001/is-the-64-bit-version-of-ubuntu-only-compatible-with-amd-cpus)",
"user... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The Intel 64 architecture is compatible with ubuntu's amd64 images. For the most part 64bit is vender neutral.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T11:47:11.113",
"id": "21325",
"postId": "19831",
"score": "0",
"text": "It's actually just named \"amd64\" because AMD developed this standard as a concurrence to Intels IA64, but that's another story.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1676"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T10:53:45.093",
"id": "19831",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T10:53:45.093",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8204",
"parentId": "19828",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>it Doesn´t matter if the distro says \"amd64\" it can be used on any x86-64 CPU, it´s only indicating the architecture it supports , x86-64-bit.</p>\n\n<p>You can safely use any of them.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2012-... | null | null | 2011-01-03T14:00:23.800 | null | user8260 |
19830 | 1 | 26454 | 2011-01-03T10:53:38.713 | 1 | 476 | <p>Every time I new kernel update is installed to my system, it adds itself again to the boot menu. Right now my boot menu has 3 linux option, one for each kernel version.</p>
<p>how can I avoid that new options to be added?</p>
| 8265 | 866 | 2011-02-15T06:46:37.293 | 2011-02-15T08:19:54.207 | Prevent new options being added to grub after kernel updates? | [
"kernel",
"grub2",
"updates"
] | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T11:12:42.870",
"id": "21317",
"postId": "19830",
"score": "0",
"text": "Actually, as @Uri mentions in his answer, you do want the new version added in order to use it, but the old ones removed afterwards.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7411"
},
{
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Maybe it's not the best idea to always remove the old kernels! You may experience some bugs with the new kernel, or other problem, you can't know. Then you can boot with the previous kernel to \"save the day\". Without that option and with a crash (always) during the boot would render your system unusable (sure you can help with a boot CD or so). Ok, it's not so frequent, maybe I can can mention a single happening like this with me since 6 years, or so. But it's very nasty if happens. I would recommend to keep at least two versions, the newest and the one before it: you can boot the older if you experience any problem. Anyway, you can remove the old versions if you really want:\n<code>apt-get --purge remove linux-image-...</code>\nwhere the \"...\" means the same character-string you can see in /boot after file names initrd.img- or eg vmlinuz- so an example:\n<code>apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic</code> For sure, you can remove packages by Synaptic Package Manager as well, if you prefer GUI more than using command line.</p>\n\n<p>Be careful not to remove kernel which is currently running, you can check the current one with this command: <code>uname -r</code></p>\n\n<p>And a little comment: your question is a bit misleading: you should not ask not to add new options after kernel updates, since the important thing here to have a newer, updated kernel. What you need (maybe) is to remove older ones, so it's really about removing older ones.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-16T10:26:39.027",
"id": "29266",
"postId": "26454",
"score": "0",
"text": "I asked how to remove the old kernels, the question was edited. Thanks for your response.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8265"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-02-15T08:19:54.207",
"id": "26454",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-02-15T08:19:54.207",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "10579",
"parentId": "19830",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Maybe it's not the best idea to always remove the old kernels! You may experience some bugs with the new kernel, or other problem, you can't know. Then you can boot with the previous kernel to \"save the day\". Without that option and with a crash (always) during the boot wou... | null | null | null | null | null |
19836 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T11:47:56.233 | 1 | 196 | <p>When I installed the ubuntu 10.04 amd 64bit, the screen is shifted to left and cannot be fully showed on the monitor. I cannot even seclect the list on the top pannel. How should I adjust it?</p>
| null | 1992 | 2011-01-12T14:27:59.127 | 2011-03-01T15:52:51.783 | Screen is rotated. How to adjust it? | [
"graphics"
] | 1 | 6 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T11:54:01.330",
"id": "21326",
"postId": "19836",
"score": "0",
"text": "you mean it´s rotated on a different direction?, are you using any propietary drivers? ATI/AMD or Nvidia?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4203"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-0... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>To change your desktop rotation, open up Monitors settings, and you should see a window that looks like this.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9ltF.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>From there you can change your rotation.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments... | null | null | null | null | user8260 |
19837 | 1 | 19843 | 2011-01-03T11:48:01.330 | 2 | 3613 | <p>I want to automatize the backup of my databases and files with cron.
Should I add the following lines to crontab ?</p>
<pre><code>mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD database_name | gzip > /home/backup/database_`date +\%m-\%d-\%Y`.sql.gz
svn commit -m "Committing the working copy containing the database dump"
</code></pre>
<p>1) First of all, is this a good approach?<br>
2) It is not clear how to specify the repository and the working copy with svn.<br>
3) How can I run svn only when the mysqldump is done and not before ? Avoiding conflicts</p>
<p>Any other tip ?
thanks</p>
| 5136 | 742 | 2011-01-03T12:28:35.147 | 2011-01-03T12:28:35.147 | How to automate mysql backups? | [
"cron-jobs",
"crontab",
"cron",
"svn"
] | 1 | 9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:04:30.810",
"id": "21332",
"postId": "19837",
"score": "0",
"text": "If you are using a public svn server please consider encrypting the backups with GPG before committing.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "742"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-0... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>1) The mysql dump for backup itself is the usual approach, I don't see any benefit from using svn to store the backups</p>\n\n<p>2) Better move this to it's own question (svn related)</p>\n\n<p>3) By doing the commands in sequence in a script you are already enforcing that, the svn commit is only executed after the mysqldump | gzip finishes .</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:24:25.107",
"id": "19843",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T12:24:25.107",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "742",
"parentId": "19837",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "0"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>1) The mysql dump for backup itself is the usual approach, I don't see any benefit from using svn to store the backups</p>\n\n<p>2) Better move this to it's own question (svn related)</p>\n\n<p>3) By doing the commands in sequence in a script you are already enforcing that, t... | null | null | null | null | null |
19840 | 1 | 19845 | 2011-01-03T12:10:43.827 | 2 | 997 | <p>This seems like a silly question, but I'd like to add a widget to my panel. Normally one would right click on the panel and choose the correct option in the menu, but...my panel is full and there's no empty space to click on :p.
How can I access the panel menu?</p>
| 2071 | 742 | 2011-01-03T12:31:02.943 | 2013-05-06T01:14:39.477 | How do you edit a full GNOME Panel? | [
"gnome-panel",
"panel"
] | 3 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:12:20.853",
"id": "21335",
"postId": "19840",
"score": "2",
"text": "If you have a full panel, where is the new widget gonna go?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "866"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:16:28.387",
"id": "21340",
"pos... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>If the Window List is preventing you from adding anything, then either:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>close some windows or</li>\n<li>go to another Workspace using <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>-></kbd>, add the item, then change back.</li>\n</ul>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:45:22.473",
"id": "19845",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T12:45:22.473",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "866",
"parentId": "19840",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>When a panel is full, you can't right click anywhere to \"Add to Panel\". Perhaps this was by design, but overlooked things like dynamically resizing widgets like the Window List which fills blank space.</p>\n\n<p>So when your panel is full, you have only one option - remove... | null | null | null | null | null |
19844 | 1 | 19852 | 2011-01-03T12:25:18.400 | 2 | 353 | <p>I just installed an ubuntu on my pc(Dell Inspiration I560SR-358, with CPU E5700 3GHz, 4G memory, and NVIDIA GeForce G310). </p>
<p>The pc becomes noisy before that it's quiet with a windows 7 on it.
How come? How to set it to be quiet again in Ubuntu 10.04.
One of the two cpu usage is always 100%. I think that is the reason.</p>
<p>//re-edit</p>
<p>Everything gets ok after I restart the computer.But the fan is still running which makes it noisy, if i switch to windows 7, it becomes quiet again.</p>
| null | 186134 | 2014-08-04T16:44:49.213 | 2014-08-04T16:44:49.213 | PC noisy due to high load - why? | [
"system-installation",
"fan"
] | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T12:27:37.583",
"id": "21346",
"postId": "19844",
"score": "2",
"text": "This is likely a problem with temperature management. We will need more info about your hardware. What computer are you using?.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "211"
}
] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Have you installed the Nvidia (closed-source) drivers? Ubuntu uses the Nouveau (open-source) drivers out of the box, which do not support power management yet. This causes the GPU fan to run at 100% - noisy!</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T13:58:00.270",
"id": "19852",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T13:58:00.270",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8273",
"parentId": "19844",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>It is normal for fans to be noisy when the CPU usage is 100%. It is not normal for CPU usage to be at 100%.</p>\n\n<p>You can try to find the culprit for this CPU usage by going into Sytem->Administration->System Monitor and clicking the 'Processes tab'. You can filter by CPU... | null | null | null | null | user8260 |
19846 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T12:47:13.597 | 5 | 10866 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13197/how-to-program-a-status-icon-that-will-display-in-ubuntu-11-04-as-well-as-in-othe">How to program a status icon that will display in Ubuntu 11.04 as well as in other distributions?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hello,
I have a small audio recording application programmed with GTK/GDK. (see <a href="http://bildr.no/view/791855" rel="nofollow noreferrer">picture</a>). And I would like to add a tray-icon for it so users can control the application window and recording from it. </p>
<p>Adding a tray icon:
I have planned to use the GtkStatusIcon class for this task.
Ref: <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.11/GtkStatusIcon.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.11/GtkStatusIcon.html</a></p>
<p>Is GtkStatusIcon the recommended solution that also works in Ubuntu's Unity and in the GNOME 3.0 desktop? I already googled a bit and found a good <a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/ressgdw8/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/gtkstatusicon-starter-program-0.1.0.tar.bz2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">example</a> on GtkStatusIcon.</p>
<p>Could I also use Libindicator for this task?
Ref: <a href="https://launchpad.net/libindicator" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://launchpad.net/libindicator</a></p>
| 4772 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:28.223 | 2015-11-22T02:19:55.983 | Adding icon to the system tray (notification area) | [
"unity",
"indicator",
"gnome-panel",
"programming",
"application-development"
] | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T13:00:32.237",
"id": "21355",
"postId": "19846",
"score": "0",
"text": "possible duplicates: http://askubuntu.com/q/13197/3940 and http://askubuntu.com/q/11162/3940",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "3940"
}
] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p><strong>GtkStatusIcon is not supported in Unity</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>If you need an icon displayed use <strong><a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Application Indicators</a></strong> instead. They are quit... | null | null | 2011-06-05T20:16:57.387 | null | null |
19848 | 1 | 19856 | 2011-01-03T13:06:00.237 | 8 | 336 | <p>I own a <a href="http://www.dell.com/us/p/studio-xps-1647/pd">Dell Studio XPS 16</a>.</p>
<p>The media keys work fine when logged in, but stop working after the screen is locked. Although I can imagine this being classified under the 'feature, not a bug' class, in some cases it could still be a very handy option to be able to to mute the sound when the screen is locked, for example.</p>
<p><em><strong>Is there a way to use the media keys, even when the screen is locked?</em></strong></p>
| 7527 | null | null | 2014-12-04T20:47:05.750 | Is there a way to enable the media keys when the screen is locked? | [
"10.10",
"sound",
"laptop"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The problem and reason it's not possible is because it's considered a bit of a security problem if the locked computer can communicate with the desktop.</p>\n\n<p>Might be worth a gnome bug report though.</p>\n\n<p>Not currently possible.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2013-02-10T09:40:44.910",
"id": "316892",
"postId": "19856",
"score": "0",
"text": "Just found this because I had the same question. Is there any change on the topic since it's been two years?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "43951"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T14:21:41.730",
"id": "19856",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T14:21:41.730",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "132",
"parentId": "19848",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "4"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The problem and reason it's not possible is because it's considered a bit of a security problem if the locked computer can communicate with the desktop.</p>\n\n<p>Might be worth a gnome bug report though.</p>\n\n<p>Not currently possible.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19849 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T13:18:18.987 | 2 | 24077 | <p>I have a TV card that I have not managed to install with Ubuntu 10.10 i386. I have tried various topics in various forums and I could not install it.</p>
<p>I hope you can help me to install it thank you.</p>
<h1>lspci</h1>
<pre><code>01:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
</code></pre>
<h1>dmesg</h1>
<pre><code>[10299.516344] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound unloaded
[11385.340661] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[11385.384278] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.16 loaded
[11385.384390] saa7130[0]: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0x0
[11385.384403] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: LifeView/Typhoon FlyVIDEO2000 [card=3,insmod option]
[11385.384412] saa7130[0]: can't get MMIO memory @ 0x0
[11385.384431] saa7134: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -16
[11385.401174] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[11385.401182] saa7134 ALSA: no saa7134 cards found
[11477.797019] tvtime[12534]: segfault at 6b0 ip 0804cf64 sp bf928a4c error 4 in tvtime[8048000+76000]
[11626.141821] tvtime[12549]: segfault at 6b0 ip 0804cf64 sp bfec357c error 4 in tvtime[8048000+76000]
[12218.120632] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound unloaded
[12464.993061] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[12465.028285] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.16 loaded
[12465.028392] saa7130[0]: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0x0
[12465.028404] saa7134: <rant>
[12465.028406] saa7134: Congratulations! Your TV card vendor saved a few
[12465.028408] saa7134: cents for a eeprom, thus your pci board has no
[12465.028411] saa7134: subsystem ID and I can't identify it automatically
[12465.028414] saa7134: </rant>
[12465.028416] saa7134: I feel better now. Ok, here are the good news:
[12465.028418] saa7134: You can use the card=<nr> insmod option to specify
[12465.028421] saa7134: which board do you have. The list:
[12465.028428] saa7134: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
[12465.028435] saa7134: card=1 -> Proteus Pro [philips reference design] 1131:2001 1131:2001
[12465.028447] saa7134: card=2 -> LifeView FlyVIDEO3000 5168:0138 4e42:0138
[12465.028457] saa7134: card=3 -> LifeView/Typhoon FlyVIDEO2000 5168:0138 4e42:0138
[12465.028467] saa7134: card=4 -> EMPRESS 1131:6752
[12465.028475] saa7134: card=5 -> SKNet Monster TV 1131:4e85
[12465.028484] saa7134: card=6 -> Tevion MD 9717
[12465.028491] saa7134: card=7 -> KNC One TV-Station RDS / Typhoon TV Tune 1131:fe01 1894:fe01
[12465.028501] saa7134: card=8 -> Terratec Cinergy 400 TV 153b:1142
[12465.028510] saa7134: card=9 -> Medion 5044
[12465.028517] saa7134: card=10 -> Kworld/KuroutoShikou SAA7130-TVPCI
[12465.028523] saa7134: card=11 -> Terratec Cinergy 600 TV 153b:1143
[12465.028532] saa7134: card=12 -> Medion 7134 16be:0003 16be:5000
[12465.028542] saa7134: card=13 -> Typhoon TV+Radio 90031
[12465.028548] saa7134: card=14 -> ELSA EX-VISION 300TV 1048:226b
[12465.028557] saa7134: card=15 -> ELSA EX-VISION 500TV 1048:226a
[12465.028565] saa7134: card=16 -> ASUS TV-FM 7134 1043:4842 1043:4830 1043:4840
[12465.028576] saa7134: card=17 -> AOPEN VA1000 POWER 1131:7133
[12465.028585] saa7134: card=18 -> BMK MPEX No Tuner
[12465.028592] saa7134: card=19 -> Compro VideoMate TV 185b:c100
[12465.028600] saa7134: card=20 -> Matrox CronosPlus 102b:48d0
[12465.028608] saa7134: card=21 -> 10MOONS PCI TV CAPTURE CARD 1131:2001
[12465.028617] saa7134: card=22 -> AverMedia M156 / Medion 2819 1461:a70b
[12465.028625] saa7134: card=23 -> BMK MPEX Tuner
[12465.028632] saa7134: card=24 -> KNC One TV-Station DVR 1894:a006
[12465.028640] saa7134: card=25 -> ASUS TV-FM 7133 1043:4843
[12465.028648] saa7134: card=26 -> Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (saa7134) 11bd:002b
[12465.028657] saa7134: card=27 -> Manli MuchTV M-TV002
[12465.028663] saa7134: card=28 -> Manli MuchTV M-TV001
[12465.028670] saa7134: card=29 -> Nagase Sangyo TransGear 3000TV 1461:050c
[12465.028679] saa7134: card=30 -> Elitegroup ECS TVP3XP FM1216 Tuner Card( 1019:4cb4
[12465.028687] saa7134: card=31 -> Elitegroup ECS TVP3XP FM1236 Tuner Card 1019:4cb5
[12465.028695] saa7134: card=32 -> AVACS SmartTV
[12465.028702] saa7134: card=33 -> AVerMedia DVD EZMaker 1461:10ff
[12465.028710] saa7134: card=34 -> Noval Prime TV 7133
[12465.028717] saa7134: card=35 -> AverMedia AverTV Studio 305 1461:2115
[12465.028725] saa7134: card=36 -> UPMOST PURPLE TV 12ab:0800
[12465.028734] saa7134: card=37 -> Items MuchTV Plus / IT-005
[12465.028740] saa7134: card=38 -> Terratec Cinergy 200 TV 153b:1152
[12465.028749] saa7134: card=39 -> LifeView FlyTV Platinum Mini 5168:0212 4e42:0212 5169:1502
[12465.028760] saa7134: card=40 -> Compro VideoMate TV PVR/FM 185b:c100
[12465.028768] saa7134: card=41 -> Compro VideoMate TV Gold+ 185b:c100
[12465.028776] saa7134: card=42 -> Sabrent SBT-TVFM (saa7130)
[12465.028783] saa7134: card=43 -> :Zolid Xpert TV7134
[12465.028790] saa7134: card=44 -> Empire PCI TV-Radio LE
[12465.028796] saa7134: card=45 -> Avermedia AVerTV Studio 307 1461:9715
[12465.028805] saa7134: card=46 -> AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E500) 1461:d6ee
[12465.028813] saa7134: card=47 -> Terratec Cinergy 400 mobile 153b:1162
[12465.028821] saa7134: card=48 -> Terratec Cinergy 600 TV MK3 153b:1158
[12465.028830] saa7134: card=49 -> Compro VideoMate Gold+ Pal 185b:c200
[12465.028838] saa7134: card=50 -> Pinnacle PCTV 300i DVB-T + PAL 11bd:002d
[12465.028847] saa7134: card=51 -> ProVideo PV952 1540:9524
[12465.028855] saa7134: card=52 -> AverMedia AverTV/305 1461:2108
[12465.028863] saa7134: card=53 -> ASUS TV-FM 7135 1043:4845
[12465.028871] saa7134: card=54 -> LifeView FlyTV Platinum FM / Gold 5168:0214 5168:5214 1489:0214 5168:0304
[12465.028884] saa7134: card=55 -> LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO / MSI TV@nywhere D 5168:0306 4e42:0306
[12465.028894] saa7134: card=56 -> Avermedia AVerTV 307 1461:a70a
[12465.028903] saa7134: card=57 -> Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM 1461:f31f
[12465.028911] saa7134: card=58 -> ADS Tech Instant TV (saa7135) 1421:0350 1421:0351 1421:0370 1421:1370
[12465.028924] saa7134: card=59 -> Kworld/Tevion V-Stream Xpert TV PVR7134
[12465.028931] saa7134: card=60 -> LifeView/Typhoon/Genius FlyDVB-T Duo Car 5168:0502 4e42:0502 1489:0502
[12465.028942] saa7134: card=61 -> Philips TOUGH DVB-T reference design 1131:2004
[12465.028951] saa7134: card=62 -> Compro VideoMate TV Gold+II
[12465.028958] saa7134: card=63 -> Kworld Xpert TV PVR7134
[12465.028964] saa7134: card=64 -> FlyTV mini Asus Digimatrix 1043:0210
[12465.028973] saa7134: card=65 -> V-Stream Studio TV Terminator
[12465.028980] saa7134: card=66 -> Yuan TUN-900 (saa7135)
[12465.028986] saa7134: card=67 -> Beholder BeholdTV 409 FM 0000:4091
[12465.028995] saa7134: card=68 -> GoTView 7135 PCI 5456:7135
[12465.029003] saa7134: card=69 -> Philips EUROPA V3 reference design 1131:2004
[12465.029011] saa7134: card=70 -> Compro Videomate DVB-T300 185b:c900
[12465.029020] saa7134: card=71 -> Compro Videomate DVB-T200 185b:c901
[12465.029028] saa7134: card=72 -> RTD Embedded Technologies VFG7350 1435:7350
[12465.029036] saa7134: card=73 -> RTD Embedded Technologies VFG7330 1435:7330
[12465.029045] saa7134: card=74 -> LifeView FlyTV Platinum Mini2 14c0:1212
[12465.029053] saa7134: card=75 -> AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 1461:1044
[12465.029062] saa7134: card=76 -> SKNet MonsterTV Mobile 1131:4ee9
[12465.029070] saa7134: card=77 -> Pinnacle PCTV 40i/50i/110i (saa7133) 11bd:002e
[12465.029078] saa7134: card=78 -> ASUSTeK P7131 Dual 1043:4862
[12465.029087] saa7134: card=79 -> Sedna/MuchTV PC TV Cardbus TV/Radio (ITO
[12465.029094] saa7134: card=80 -> ASUS Digimatrix TV 1043:0210
[12465.029102] saa7134: card=81 -> Philips Tiger reference design 1131:2018
[12465.029110] saa7134: card=82 -> MSI TV@Anywhere plus 1462:6231 1462:8624
[12465.029120] saa7134: card=83 -> Terratec Cinergy 250 PCI TV 153b:1160
[12465.029128] saa7134: card=84 -> LifeView FlyDVB Trio 5168:0319
[12465.029137] saa7134: card=85 -> AverTV DVB-T 777 1461:2c05 1461:2c05
[12465.029147] saa7134: card=86 -> LifeView FlyDVB-T / Genius VideoWonder D 5168:0301 1489:0301
[12465.029156] saa7134: card=87 -> ADS Instant TV Duo Cardbus PTV331 0331:1421
[12465.029165] saa7134: card=88 -> Tevion/KWorld DVB-T 220RF 17de:7201
[12465.029173] saa7134: card=89 -> ELSA EX-VISION 700TV 1048:226c
[12465.029182] saa7134: card=90 -> Kworld ATSC110/115 17de:7350 17de:7352
[12465.029191] saa7134: card=91 -> AVerMedia A169 B 1461:7360
[12465.029200] saa7134: card=92 -> AVerMedia A169 B1 1461:6360
[12465.029208] saa7134: card=93 -> Medion 7134 Bridge #2 16be:0005
[12465.029216] saa7134: card=94 -> LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid Cardbus/MSI TV 5168:3306 5168:3502 5168:3307 4e42:3502
[12465.029229] saa7134: card=95 -> LifeView FlyVIDEO3000 (NTSC) 5169:0138
[12465.029238] saa7134: card=96 -> Medion Md8800 Quadro 16be:0007 16be:0008 16be:000d
[12465.029249] saa7134: card=97 -> LifeView FlyDVB-S /Acorp TV134DS 5168:0300 4e42:0300
[12465.029259] saa7134: card=98 -> Proteus Pro 2309 0919:2003
[12465.029267] saa7134: card=99 -> AVerMedia TV Hybrid A16AR 1461:2c00
[12465.029276] saa7134: card=100 -> Asus Europa2 OEM 1043:4860
[12465.029284] saa7134: card=101 -> Pinnacle PCTV 310i 11bd:002f
[12465.029293] saa7134: card=102 -> Avermedia AVerTV Studio 507 1461:9715
[12465.029301] saa7134: card=103 -> Compro Videomate DVB-T200A
[12465.029308] saa7134: card=104 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1110 DVB-T/Hybrid 0070:6700 0070:6701 0070:6702 0070:6703 0070:6704 0070:6705
[12465.029324] saa7134: card=105 -> Terratec Cinergy HT PCMCIA 153b:1172
[12465.029332] saa7134: card=106 -> Encore ENLTV 1131:2342 1131:2341 3016:2344
[12465.029344] saa7134: card=107 -> Encore ENLTV-FM 1131:230f
[12465.029352] saa7134: card=108 -> Terratec Cinergy HT PCI 153b:1175
[12465.029360] saa7134: card=109 -> Philips Tiger - S Reference design
[12465.029367] saa7134: card=110 -> Avermedia M102 1461:f31e
[12465.029375] saa7134: card=111 -> ASUS P7131 4871 1043:4871
[12465.029384] saa7134: card=112 -> ASUSTeK P7131 Hybrid 1043:4876
[12465.029392] saa7134: card=113 -> Elitegroup ECS TVP3XP FM1246 Tuner Card 1019:4cb6
[12465.029401] saa7134: card=114 -> KWorld DVB-T 210 17de:7250
[12465.029409] saa7134: card=115 -> Sabrent PCMCIA TV-PCB05 0919:2003
[12465.029418] saa7134: card=116 -> 10MOONS TM300 TV Card 1131:2304
[12465.029426] saa7134: card=117 -> Avermedia Super 007 1461:f01d
[12465.029435] saa7134: card=118 -> Beholder BeholdTV 401 0000:4016
[12465.029443] saa7134: card=119 -> Beholder BeholdTV 403 0000:4036
[12465.029451] saa7134: card=120 -> Beholder BeholdTV 403 FM 0000:4037
[12465.029459] saa7134: card=121 -> Beholder BeholdTV 405 0000:4050
[12465.029468] saa7134: card=122 -> Beholder BeholdTV 405 FM 0000:4051
[12465.029476] saa7134: card=123 -> Beholder BeholdTV 407 0000:4070
[12465.029484] saa7134: card=124 -> Beholder BeholdTV 407 FM 0000:4071
[12465.029493] saa7134: card=125 -> Beholder BeholdTV 409 0000:4090
[12465.029501] saa7134: card=126 -> Beholder BeholdTV 505 FM 5ace:5050
[12465.029510] saa7134: card=127 -> Beholder BeholdTV 507 FM / BeholdTV 509 5ace:5070 5ace:5090
[12465.029520] saa7134: card=128 -> Beholder BeholdTV Columbus TVFM 0000:5201
[12465.029528] saa7134: card=129 -> Beholder BeholdTV 607 FM 5ace:6070
[12465.029537] saa7134: card=130 -> Beholder BeholdTV M6 5ace:6190
[12465.029545] saa7134: card=131 -> Twinhan Hybrid DTV-DVB 3056 PCI 1822:0022
[12465.029554] saa7134: card=132 -> Genius TVGO AM11MCE
[12465.029560] saa7134: card=133 -> NXP Snake DVB-S reference design
[12465.029567] saa7134: card=134 -> Medion/Creatix CTX953 Hybrid 16be:0010
[12465.029576] saa7134: card=135 -> MSI TV@nywhere A/D v1.1 1462:8625
[12465.029584] saa7134: card=136 -> AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E506R) 1461:f436
[12465.029592] saa7134: card=137 -> AVerMedia Hybrid TV/Radio (A16D) 1461:f936
[12465.029601] saa7134: card=138 -> Avermedia M115 1461:a836
[12465.029609] saa7134: card=139 -> Compro VideoMate T750 185b:c900
[12465.029617] saa7134: card=140 -> Avermedia DVB-S Pro A700 1461:a7a1
[12465.029626] saa7134: card=141 -> Avermedia DVB-S Hybrid+FM A700 1461:a7a2
[12465.029634] saa7134: card=142 -> Beholder BeholdTV H6 5ace:6290
[12465.029642] saa7134: card=143 -> Beholder BeholdTV M63 5ace:6191
[12465.029651] saa7134: card=144 -> Beholder BeholdTV M6 Extra 5ace:6193
[12465.029659] saa7134: card=145 -> AVerMedia MiniPCI DVB-T Hybrid M103 1461:f636 1461:f736
[12465.029669] saa7134: card=146 -> ASUSTeK P7131 Analog
[12465.029676] saa7134: card=147 -> Asus Tiger 3in1 1043:4878
[12465.029684] saa7134: card=148 -> Encore ENLTV-FM v5.3 1a7f:2008
[12465.029693] saa7134: card=149 -> Avermedia PCI pure analog (M135A) 1461:f11d
[12465.029701] saa7134: card=150 -> Zogis Real Angel 220
[12465.029708] saa7134: card=151 -> ADS Tech Instant HDTV 1421:0380
[12465.029716] saa7134: card=152 -> Asus Tiger Rev:1.00 1043:4857
[12465.029725] saa7134: card=153 -> Kworld Plus TV Analog Lite PCI 17de:7128
[12465.029733] saa7134: card=154 -> Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM Plus 1461:f31d
[12465.029742] saa7134: card=155 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1150 ATSC/QAM-Hybrid 0070:6706 0070:6708
[12465.029752] saa7134: card=156 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1120 DVB-T/Hybrid 0070:6707 0070:6709 0070:670a
[12465.029763] saa7134: card=157 -> Avermedia AVerTV Studio 507UA 1461:a11b
[12465.029772] saa7134: card=158 -> AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E501R) 1461:b7e9
[12465.029780] saa7134: card=159 -> Beholder BeholdTV 505 RDS 0000:505b
[12465.029789] saa7134: card=160 -> Beholder BeholdTV 507 RDS 0000:5071
[12465.029797] saa7134: card=161 -> Beholder BeholdTV 507 RDS 0000:507b
[12465.029806] saa7134: card=162 -> Beholder BeholdTV 607 FM 5ace:6071
[12465.029815] saa7134: card=163 -> Beholder BeholdTV 609 FM 5ace:6090
[12465.029823] saa7134: card=164 -> Beholder BeholdTV 609 FM 5ace:6091
[12465.029832] saa7134: card=165 -> Beholder BeholdTV 607 RDS 5ace:6072
[12465.029840] saa7134: card=166 -> Beholder BeholdTV 607 RDS 5ace:6073
[12465.029849] saa7134: card=167 -> Beholder BeholdTV 609 RDS 5ace:6092
[12465.029857] saa7134: card=168 -> Beholder BeholdTV 609 RDS 5ace:6093
[12465.029866] saa7134: card=169 -> Compro VideoMate S350/S300 185b:c900
[12465.029874] saa7134: card=170 -> AverMedia AverTV Studio 505 1461:a115
[12465.029883] saa7134: card=171 -> Beholder BeholdTV X7 5ace:7595
[12465.029892] saa7134: card=172 -> RoverMedia TV Link Pro FM 19d1:0138
[12465.029900] saa7134: card=173 -> Zolid Hybrid TV Tuner PCI 1131:2004
[12465.029909] saa7134: card=174 -> Asus Europa Hybrid OEM 1043:4847
[12465.029917] saa7134: card=175 -> Leadtek Winfast DTV1000S 107d:6655
[12465.029926] saa7134: card=176 -> Beholder BeholdTV 505 RDS 0000:5051
[12465.029934] saa7134: card=177 -> Hawell HW-404M7
[12465.029941] saa7134: card=178 -> Beholder BeholdTV H7
[12465.029948] saa7134: card=179 -> Beholder BeholdTV A7
[12465.029955] saa7134: card=180 -> Avermedia PCI M733A 1461:4155 1461:4255
[12465.029967] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[12465.030033] saa7130[0]: can't get MMIO memory @ 0x0
[12465.030051] saa7134: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -16
[12465.053892] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[12465.053900] saa7134 ALSA: no saa7134 cards found
</code></pre>
<h1>tvtime-scanner</h1>
<pre><code>Leyendo la configuración de /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Leyendo la configuración de /home/ricardo/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
Escaneando usando la norma de TV NTSC.
/home/ricardo/.tvtime/stationlist.xml: No existing NTSC station list "Custom".
videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/video0: No existe el dispositivo o la dirección
</code></pre>
<h1>ls /dev/</h1>
<pre><code>autofs disk fd0u1743 hpet lp0 pktcdvd ram14 root sg2 tty11 tty22 tty33 tty44 tty55 tty9 vcs2 vcsa6
block dvd fd0u1760 input mapper port ram15 rtc shm tty12 tty23 tty34 tty45 tty56 ttyS0 vcs3 vcsa7
bsg dvdrw fd0u1840 kmsg mcelog ppp ram2 rtc0 snapshot tty13 tty24 tty35 tty46 tty57 ttyS1 vcs4 vga_arbiter
btrfs-control ecryptfs fd0u1920 log mem psaux ram3 scd0 snd tty14 tty25 tty36 tty47 tty58 ttyS2 vcs5 zero
bus fd fd0u360 loop0 net ptmx ram4 sda sr0 tty15 tty26 tty37 tty48 tty59 ttyS3 vcs6
c drom fd0 fd0u720 loop1 network_latency pts ram5 sda1 stderr tty16 tty27 tty38 tty49 tty6 uinput vcs7
cdrw fd0u1040 fd0u800 loop2 network_throughput ram0 ram6 sdb stdin tty17 tty28 tty39 tty5 tty60 urandom vcsa
char fd0u1120 fd0u820 loop3 null ram1 ram7 sdb1 stdout tty18 tty29 tty4 tty50 tty61 usbmon0 vcsa1
console fd0u1440 fd0u830 loop4 nvidia0 ram10 ram8 sdb2 tty tty19 tty3 tty40 tty51 tty62 usbmon1 vcsa2
core fd0u1600 full loop5 nvidiactl ram11 ram9 sdb5 tty0 tty2 tty30 tty41 tty52 tty63 usbmon2 vcsa3
cpu fd0u1680 fuse loop6 oldmem ram12 random sg0 tty1 tty20 tty31 tty42 tty53 tty7 vcs vcsa4
cpu_dma_latency fd0u1722 hidraw0 loop7 parport0 ram13 rfkill sg1 tty10 tty21 tty32 tty43 tty54 tty8 vcs1 vcsa5
</code></pre>
<p>I followed the steps down here and still nothing i think is 42 my video card is this: <a href="http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TV-PCIRC&cat=VID" rel="nofollow">http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=TV-PCIRC&cat=VID</a></p>
<p>And when i start tvtime it closes automatically.</p>
| 8270 | 235 | 2011-01-04T00:21:28.633 | 2011-01-11T00:09:29.473 | How do you setup the driver for a Philips based TV capture card? | [
"10.10",
"hardware",
"tv-tuner"
] | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T14:30:03.283",
"id": "21364",
"postId": "19849",
"score": "0",
"text": "Which TV card model do you have ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7567"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T00:57:34.533",
"id": "21465",
"postId": "19849",
"score... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>You need to read the dmesg, it's saying you have to specify the card when the module is added (albeit the developer decided to rant a bit about it too) you need to know which tv card you have and then match it up to a number in that list in your dmesg. Once you have the numbe... | null | null | null | null | null |
19855 | 1 | 19885 | 2011-01-03T14:20:24.837 | 8 | 15431 | <p>I'm using awesome-wm on Kubuntu 10.10. I like some of the KDE tools... like choqok. Thing is, that within awesome wm it seems to be impossible to set a default browser, because KDE4 settings overwrite the generally desired settings:</p>
<p>To illustrate the problem:</p>
<pre><code>% xdg-mime query default text/html
chromium-browser.desktop
</code></pre>
<p>And from <code>~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals</code></p>
<pre><code>[General]
BrowserApplication=firefox.desktop
</code></pre>
<p>Which does in no way make sense to me. If I set Firefox as default xdg-mime should not have Chrome. In fact I want Firefox.</p>
<p>So how do I globally once and for all, across all frameworks, define Firefox as default?</p>
<p>Best,
Marius</p>
<p>p.s.: I should probably mention, that clicking in Choqok starts Konqueror... </p>
| 3485 | 5691 | 2011-01-03T17:18:27.853 | 2018-06-21T12:00:22.140 | How do you globally set the default browser using KDE4? | [
"configuration",
"default",
"browser"
] | 4 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:22:13.593",
"id": "21390",
"postId": "19855",
"score": "0",
"text": "Look for default apps in system settings?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:25:46.157",
"id": "21391",
"postId": "19855",
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I go to the start menu, then:</p>\n\n<p>System Settings->Default Applications->Web Browser</p>\n\n<p>and then I tell it to open http/https in: <br> \n<code>google-chrome</code></p>\n\n<p>Now links in choqok (or any other kde application) are opened in chrome,\nalso, if I do <code>alt+f2</code> and type <code>\"man:file\"</code> for instance, the man page opens in chrome.</p>\n\n<p>I also modified the default email client so that emails are launched using gmail using the following command:</p>\n\n<p><code>google-chrome \"https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=\"%t</code></p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2015-11-09T19:57:51.387",
"id": "1018034",
"postId": "19885",
"score": "0",
"text": "Very handy! default browser worked like a charm. But that email line didn't work from gwenvew for sharing an image - the image itself wasn't loaded as an attachment. Can that be made to work as well?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6130"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:12:20.113",
"id": "19885",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T18:12:20.113",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": "user8284",
"ownerUserId": null,
"parentId": "19855",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "12"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I have here KDE 4.6 (Beta of course) but am sure this worked in 4.5.x because i was opening everything with Firefox.</p>\n\n<p>Right click on a html file, choose properties and on the window that appears click on the small button next to the format of the file (html in this e... | null | null | null | null | null |
19858 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T14:40:06.333 | 2 | 543 | <p>I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with a dead internal hard drive controller. It boots perfectly from CD or USB. I therefore removed the internal hard drive and installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick onto an external USB hard drive. </p>
<p>It boots and runs perfectly when doing a "cold start" of the PC. However, when I choose restart/reboot in the Ubuntu menu (e.g. after an update), I get this error message from the BIOS: "No bootable devices, strike <kbd>F1</kbd> to retry boot, <kbd>F2</kbd> for setup utility, press <kbd>F5</kbd> to run onboard diagnostics". I can make the system boot again by pressing <kbd>F2</kbd> or <kbd>F5</kbd> and exiting the utility without having done anything. Or, I can simply power off the system and do a new "cold start".</p>
<p>Does anyone know the likely reason for this problem and how to fix it. It is not a big issue but an annoyance that I would like to fix if possible.</p>
| 8276 | 47151 | 2012-03-12T13:21:55.940 | 2012-03-12T13:21:55.940 | Booting but not rebooting from external USB hard drive, what could be the problem? | [
"10.10",
"boot",
"usb-drive",
"bios"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T14:47:40.810",
"id": "21369",
"postId": "19858",
"score": "0",
"text": "This is most likely a BIOS/HW issue, probably the USB device is powered off during the shutdown and the power is not restored during the hot restart.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId"... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Use an additional power supply for your USB hard drive. Most hard disks need more then 500mW at spin up time. This may lead to a problem if Linux suspend the USB device at shutdown.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"cont... | null | null | null | null | null |
19861 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T14:46:59.203 | 2 | 248 | <p>OS: Windows XP SP3
Hardware: Dell Precision M4400 (Laptop)
CPU: Core2Duo T9600
Mem: 4 GB</p>
<p>Installer- setup, first start and account- setup of UbuntuONE Windows client passed with no problems.</p>
<p>After restart of UbuntuONE, the CPU- usage shows 50% (100% core usage).</p>
<p>Exit- command (from context-menu) hides the trayicon, but the program is still working excessive in background (50% cpu- / 50 MB memory- usage), until <em>UbuntuOneClient.exe</em> is killed by the taskmanager.</p>
<p>What's going on ?</p>
| 8277 | null | null | 2011-01-03T15:28:46.760 | Ubuntu ONE (Windows BETA) locks up - What to do? | [
"ubuntu-one",
"startup",
"cpu-load",
"windows-xp"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Currently the windows beta is a sequential operation. <strong>At the end</strong> of the sequential operation, the metadata used by the application to know the state of your machine is updated.</p>\n\n<p>When you launch a sync on Windows, a new process is spawned to avoid blo... | null | null | null | null | null |
19866 | 1 | 19874 | 2011-01-03T15:34:15.290 | 2 | 1801 | <p>I have found that there is an "Ubuntu Support Team" at <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam</a> but I am not sure it's official or active.<br>
Please note that I am not referring to bug fixing support, I am referring to the broader OS support, with people available to engage users needing support with a problem and drive it to a proper resolution.</p>
<p>Is there an official team for this purpose with a clear scope and activity plan ?</p>
| 742 | 742 | 2011-01-03T16:08:04.407 | 2015-10-06T14:04:44.223 | Is there an official Ubuntu free technical support team? | [
"support"
] | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T15:55:35.287",
"id": "21379",
"postId": "19866",
"score": "0",
"text": "Honestly I don't know if that works. But I'm a long time Ubuntu user, and can tell you that getting support or relevant answers to questions/issues from forums is / *was* a pain. I say *was* bec... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>It would appear the \"Ubuntu Support Team\" that you mentioned has been inactive for over two years. (In fact I don't think it was ever really 'active').</p>\n\n<p>There are four main places to go for community support:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>IRC channel #ubuntu - personally I wouldn't advise it because it gets very chaotic</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The Ubuntu Forums</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Launchpad Answers</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com\">Ask Ubuntu</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>You might want to take a look at <a href=\"http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/675/when-should-we-use-launchpad-answers-and-when-ask-ubuntu\">When should we use Launchpad Answers and when Ask Ubuntu</a>. In my opinion none of these four tools are great for \"troubleshooting\", but this site is doing a very good job answering a lot of the questions people have about Ubuntu.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:21:08.660",
"id": "21402",
"postId": "19874",
"score": "1",
"text": "+1 - though I'd put it differently, the IRC channels are *wonderfully chaotic* ;-)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2021-01-22T18:49:09.877",
"id": "2229423",
"postId": "19874",
"score": "0",
"text": "Is this still accurate? Also is cross posting across these places okay?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "800252"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:04:48.087",
"id": "19874",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T17:04:48.087",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "866",
"parentId": "19866",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>It would appear the \"Ubuntu Support Team\" that you mentioned has been inactive for over two years. (In fact I don't think it was ever really 'active').</p>\n\n<p>There are four main places to go for community support:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>IRC channel #ubuntu - personally I woul... | null | null | null | null | null |
19869 | 1 | 19873 | 2011-01-03T16:26:44.133 | 25 | 100503 | <p>Recently when I tried to open a video with VLC, my system slowed down, the open applications webbrowser, VLC and filemanager and others didn't react any longer. The mouse just reacted still very slowly.</p>
<p>On a windows machine i would press a keycombi CTRL-ALT-DEL to open the taskmanager, search the process which caused the hang and kill it.</p>
<p>Since i'm fairly new with the use of linux i haven't figured out the best practice for solve such a situation in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Which quick and effective way would you recommend to identify the hanging process and close it, when the system already reacts very slowly on user input?</p>
| 7155 | 169736 | 2014-01-19T03:21:35.307 | 2024-03-24T17:21:45.057 | How to identify and kill hanging process, when system hangs and reacts slowly on user input? | [
"process"
] | 5 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There are two primary ways to identify hung processes. One is via the System Monitor GUI and the other is via <code>top</code> in command-line.</p>\n<h1>System Monitor</h1>\n<p>This can be found in System > Administration</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/RNdOH.png\" alt=\"account\" /></p>\n<p>You can also create a keyboard shortcut for this in <a href=\"http://jeffpollreisz.com/2010/11/23/how-to-configure-ctrl-shift-esc-to-open-system-monitor-in-ubuntu-10-04/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">this article</a>.</p>\n<p>Once the GUI launches you can select the Processes tab which will list all the running processes. Sort by the CPU column to find the most CPU intensive task</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/i1xM1.png\" alt=\"cpu\" /></p>\n<p>Lastly you can right click that task and choose to end it, stop it, or kill it. Killing it will immediately stop and remove that process from the system.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJ190.png\" alt=\"kill\" /></p>\n<h1>Command-Line</h1>\n<p>If you have a terminal open you can simply type <code>top</code> this will list all the running processes similar to that of the Processes tab in the GUI</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/B2i8a.png\" alt=\"top\" /></p>\n<p>Within top it is CPU sorted by default - so the top most CPU intensive tasks are at the top. At anytime you can press the letter <kbd>k</kbd> to kill a process</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/LVnZb.png\" alt=\"k\" /></p>\n<p>Simply type the PID of the process you wish to kill and press enter. It will ask for a Kill signal to send. To kill the process nicely use the default 15 - to kill it right away "Do not pass go, do not collect $200" use 9.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/rl1oq.png\" alt=\"sigkill\" /></p>\n<p>The process will then be terminated.</p>\n<p>If you are experiencing sluggish interface you can try to SSH in remotely if that is enabled - or switch to a virtual console via <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F#</kbd> Where <code>F#</code> is a Function Key (F3, F4, F5, etc). To return to the Desktop environment switch to either F7 or F8 depending on your version of Ubuntu.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:02:28.697",
"id": "21389",
"postId": "19873",
"score": "5",
"text": "Great answer. I usually assign the CTRL+ESC shortcut to the System Monitor. This gives me a quick access to kill process.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "211"
},
{
"creationDate": "2014-08-31T20:48:35.267",
"id": "704320",
"postId": "19873",
"score": "1",
"text": "+1 for System Monitor. It could kill/stop a hanging VLC process, which htop could'nt do.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "175489"
},
{
"creationDate": "2019-08-01T10:23:25.583",
"id": "1937363",
"postId": "19873",
"score": "0",
"text": "@malisokan Are you sure `htop` can't do it? You can send SIGKILL to kill any hanging process you have rights to.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "496651"
},
{
"creationDate": "2021-10-05T02:23:24.577",
"id": "2348722",
"postId": "19873",
"score": "0",
"text": "Debian to turn back to desktop Ctrl+Alt+F7",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "634132"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T16:51:34.037",
"id": "19873",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-07-12T11:00:16.413",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "41",
"parentId": "19869",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "34"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Add the <code>System Monitor</code> applet to your panel (<em>right click</em> on the panel, select <code>Add to Pannel</code> and search for System Monitor) the and <em>right click</em> on it to open the System Monitor application.</p>\n\n<p>You can launch the System Monito... | null | null | null | null | null |
19878 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T17:36:41.977 | 4 | 1993 | <p>I have an external HD that I saved all my data on from my old windows setups. I now want to access that info on my ubuntu machine and the drive isn't mounting. I've floated around the help files and I am not finding anything that works.</p>
<p>the drive is firewire LaCie</p>
<p>My jolicloud machine sees it no problem. Ubuntu on the other hand does not.</p>
| 8285 | 235 | 2011-01-03T17:40:43.423 | 2011-07-28T12:32:25.523 | My external HD is not showing up | [
"10.10",
"external-hdd"
] | 2 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:42:37.380",
"id": "21392",
"postId": "19878",
"score": "0",
"text": "Could you post the output of `sudo fdisk -l` with your harddisk plugged in ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:04:52.393",
"id":... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>So after walking away from my laptop for a while, I came back and out of no where it recognized the HDD. Then it disappeared... Then it came back!</p>\n\n<p>I don't get it, but it's here, and it works.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks.</p>\n\n<p>Perhaps it's the cable, the HDD, or the firewi... | null | null | null | null | null |
19880 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T17:49:28.767 | 8 | 4514 | <p>I have successfully managed to load subtitles in totem and it says that the subtitles are run but,the problem is that I can't see them.
Does anybody know a fix for it?</p>
| 2788 | 1992 | 2011-08-08T22:01:19.163 | 2011-08-13T19:50:44.640 | Can't see the subtitles in totem | [
"totem",
"subtitle"
] | 2 | 9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:54:49.273",
"id": "21393",
"postId": "19880",
"score": "2",
"text": "Can you see some text garbled or there is no text displayed at all?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6650"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T17:59:07.837",
"id": "21394",... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I would suggest trying it with vlc, and checking the font preferences, probably something to do with unicode or charsets. I believe in totem though tyou can automatically load subtitles if they are in the root dir of the movie. </p>\n\n<p>Goodluck!</p>\n",
"commentCount"... | null | null | null | null | null |
19881 | 1 | 19889 | 2011-01-03T17:55:57.100 | 22 | 38402 | <p>I've got almost 20 processes for google chrome (whilst only having 4 tabs open, all with barebones HTML) , all hogging memory and either saying futex_wait_queue_me or poll_schedule_timeout. </p>
<p>My fan is going wild by all this and one of the processess is eating up my entire CPU, what is happening?</p>
<p>(Happens to Chromium too)</p>
| 2442 | 169736 | 2014-01-08T17:54:06.803 | 2014-01-08T17:54:06.803 | Why does Chrome have so many processes on my machine? | [
"google-chrome",
"chromium"
] | 2 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:26:28.357",
"id": "21405",
"postId": "19881",
"score": "0",
"text": "May be memory is probably shared between processes.Look at `/proc/$pid/smaps` and see if **Pss** is lower than **Rss**.If so, it's shared.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
}... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Chrome renders each page (tab) in a different process. This makes it faster on multi-processor machines.</p>\n\n<p>The behaviour you're seeing is normal.</p>\n\n<p><code>futex_wait_queue_me</code> refers to a type of mutex <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer)\" rel=\"noreferrer\">lock</a> (fast userspace mutual exclusion) that is used to schedule many processes work on one processor. The state indicates that your process is enqueued to receive the lock. </p>\n\n<p>Sometimes, an unusually high amount of waiting for a lock can be caused by cpu throttling, but most often, it's normal. Take a look at the sort of website you have open; Perhaps something like Flash is causing the high CPU load. </p>\n\n<p>To see what tabs or plugins are slowing down your system or filling up your memory, you can use Chrome's built in task manager:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Hc54.png\" alt=\"Right click on the tab bar and select "Task Manager"\"></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/BYAJk.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>In my example, omgubuntu's javascript uses a lot of cpu. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "14",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:36:52.027",
"id": "21407",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "5",
"text": "It renders each tab as a different process - runs it in it's own \"sandbox\" to minimize the chances of a Virus killing the entire Browser. Make sense?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:19:17.590",
"id": "21415",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "5",
"text": "Each plugin (flash, etc.) is also its own process. And it doesn't just stop viruses--if flash crashes, or one tab crashes, it allows you to just kill the tab/plugin/whatever, and leave the rest of your stuff intact. This is considered a handy feature, and other browsers are working to mimic it. I believe Mozilla is working on some radical change to Firefox's tab management system just to implement this feature, but I don't follow them closely, and I don't know if it's planned to be out for FF4.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:19:41.963",
"id": "21416",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@jrgifford You're absolutely right, I researched it and removed the ambiguousness. It's a full process, not just a thread.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:41:58.730",
"id": "21420",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel God I hope not... When I have tons of tabs open and Flash kills one of them, at least half of them go down. It only ever happens in Chrome, never firefox...",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5197"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:47:10.520",
"id": "21421",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel Out-of-process plugins exists since Firefox 3.6.4 and honestly, is better than Chrome. I don't know about earlier versions, but Opera 11 has it too. Out-of-process tabs, is a different story and it won't be landing on Firefox 4, which already reached feature freeze and should be heading towards a release candidate soon. More info about OOP on Mozilla products at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2950"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:51:05.600",
"id": "21422",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Stefano You weren't far off though.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:53:55.177",
"id": "21423",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel - I've experienced the same issue that @codeMonk has - in Chrome on Ubuntu/Windows/Mac, when Flash dies in one tab, it dies in all. However, on Chrome OS (I have a Cr-48), it's a completely isolated process. When Flash crashes in one tab on there, my other tabs are fine. Something to do with what modifications Google did to Chrome, I think.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:37:40.743",
"id": "21449",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@codeMonk All of the tabs with Flash content lose said content until you refresh. This includes Gmail, if you have the progress bars on uploads enabled. It would be a bit much to have a separate flash process running for each tab with flash in it. And the tabs don't die completely, it's only the flash content that stops working right.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:40:01.007",
"id": "21450",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "1",
"text": "@jrgifford You lucky jerk. Uh... Yeah, with the browser being the only thing that can eat up system resources, they probably (and rightly) feel like they have license to sandbox each instance of flash as its own process. But that would be a bit extreme for the non-OS version of Chrome, I guess.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:52:31.950",
"id": "21454",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel No, the way I experience it is it kills the entire process and crashes all of the tabs being rendered by that process (which often includes 8-10 of them and sometimes more)... and the fact that Chrome doesn't have a \"reload all\" option it's a real pain. Gotta love the startup speed though!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5197"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T15:50:28.820",
"id": "21551",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Daniel Yeah. They have the right to completely sandbox each tab, and it works *very* well.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T15:51:45.137",
"id": "21552",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@CodeMonk Chrome does have a \"reload all\" option - when you open up Chrome after a force quit, it has a \"Restore tabs\" option thingy. @Daniel",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6005"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T02:28:15.510",
"id": "21809",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "+1 - Also, Chrome gives each plugin its own process.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T04:39:55.107",
"id": "21813",
"postId": "19889",
"score": "0",
"text": "@jrgifford It's not just a force quit. You can quit a single window intentionally, and open it again. If you have more than one window, the recently closed tabs function occasionally (I don't know if it's buggy, or what) says something like \"11 tabs\" and you can click on it to open the recently closed window back up. Pretty sweet.... Uh, but that's enough talk about Chrome. Good browser, but... We've kind of beat the issues at hand to death.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1415"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:33:26.790",
"id": "19889",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T13:00:06.693",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-04T13:00:06.693",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19881",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "30"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Chrome renders each page (tab) in a different process. This makes it faster on multi-processor machines.</p>\n\n<p>The behaviour you're seeing is normal.</p>\n\n<p><code>futex_wait_queue_me</code> refers to a type of mutex <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer... | null | null | null | null | null |
19882 | 1 | 19884 | 2011-01-03T17:56:35.170 | 4 | 13852 | <p>Normally, I installed Ubuntu for people with little experience with computer. These people's tasks are simply email, office work, and some more chit chat online. If I am with them, I can troubleshoot their troubles. However, if I am abroad, this can be a little bit of trouble.</p>
<p>Is it possible to connect to a specific Ubuntu machine from a computer on another country and gain root access level?</p>
| 8252 | 169736 | 2014-05-14T03:42:37.637 | 2014-05-14T03:42:37.637 | How do you connect remotely from another country? | [
"networking",
"remote-desktop"
] | 5 | 4 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:02:13.620",
"id": "21395",
"postId": "19882",
"score": "0",
"text": "With Internet access whether you connect from the next room or from another country,it is same.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:06... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You can use <strong><a href=\"http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Team Viewer</a></strong> it can work beyond proxies.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Installing Team viewer:</strong></p>\n\n<p>For Ubuntu,you can download the teamviewer <strong><a href=\"http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here</a></strong>. Once downloading is completed, you can install it easily by double clicking the .deb file.After installation you can find team viewer under the Internet Menu(Applications <strong>→</strong> Internet).</p>\n\n<p><strong>Open the Team Viwer:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Applications <strong>→</strong> Internet <strong>→</strong> Team Viwer</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/ueXHw.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>Before establishing the remote desktop connection,you must know the ID and Password of the remote system which is running Team Viwer.After getting the ID and Password from your partner.Enter the ID and click connect to partner, with in few seconds it will show a window prompting for a password.Enter the password which you got from your partner and click ok.</p>\n\n<p>Now you are connected to remote sytem.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Note:</strong><br>\nTo establish the connection, Team viewer must be installed in both the system. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:29:38.413",
"id": "21448",
"postId": "19884",
"score": "2",
"text": "Can you extend your answer to explain how to do it with *free software*?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:11:11.087",
"id": "19884",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T18:27:30.713",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T18:27:30.713",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "5691",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "5691",
"parentId": "19882",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "7"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I think you may use <a href=\"http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Team Viewer</a>. It is free & cross-platform, also works on your mobil device. </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/sdOR6.jpg\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>You can ... | null | null | null | null | null |
19886 | 1 | 19891 | 2011-01-03T18:17:49.160 | 3 | 11847 | <p>On Windows 7, there is this Sticky Note app that will always start itself up and show itself in the same place with all the text you have written when you boot Windows up. You can also have multiple instances of the Sticky Note.</p>
<p>Do we have an equivalent app for Ubuntu?</p>
| 8252 | 24621 | 2013-04-17T16:43:04.020 | 2013-04-17T16:43:04.020 | Is there a Sticky Note application? | [
"software-recommendation",
"notes",
"stickynotes"
] | 2 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<h1>Ubuntu 10.10 and below</h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Sticky note comes with ubuntu installation.</li>\n<li>To use sticky notes,right click on your panel and then choose Add to Panel...Drop down and select sticky notes and then click on Add.<br />\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/jWJZ3.png\" alt=\"alt text\" /></li>\n<li>After adding the sticky note application on your panel, right click on the sticky Notes application and choose New note.\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/pNHNx.png\" alt=\"alt text\" /></li>\n<li>Now you can see sticky note in your Desktop.</li>\n</ul>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:43:32.167",
"id": "19891",
"lastActivityDate": "2013-04-17T08:57:53.543",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "5691",
"parentId": "19886",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "8"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Yes they are called Sticky Notes. </p>\n\n<p>Just right click on the panel -> click <em>Add to panel...</em> and add <strong>Sticky notes</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>good luck!</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": ... | null | 0 | 2013-04-17T16:55:08.317 | null | null |
19887 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T18:24:19.840 | 5 | 543 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies">How do I resolve unmet dependencies?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I did try <code>apt-get -f install</code> but that didn't work either.</p>
<p>The problem appeared after installing a modified version of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/libapache2-mod-wsgi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">libapache2-mod-wsgi</a>. </p>
<p>I modified the package dependencies because, as you can see from the package details link, it depends on python 3. A version of python is required but not version 3 necessarily and I didn't want to install version 3. There's <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mod-wsgi/+bug/672901" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bug #672901</a> that describes the problem.</p>
<p>So, modifying the package dependencies worked but now that I try to install another package I get the error above. How can I get rid of it?</p>
| 6331 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:48.743 | 2012-05-28T18:01:50.463 | How do you resolve the error "E: Unmet dependencies."? | [
"installation",
"apt",
"dependencies"
] | 0 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T18:30:40.537",
"id": "21406",
"postId": "19887",
"score": "2",
"text": "Post the output of `sudo apt-get update`",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-08-21T16:48:06.533",
"id": "66117",
"postId": "19887",
... | null | [] | null | null | 2012-05-28T18:02:16.703 | null | null |
19894 | 1 | 20366 | 2011-01-03T18:56:04.867 | 8 | 11536 | <p>I have a USB turntable which when plugged in to my Ubuntu 10.10 machine appears in the audio settings as an input device (USB PnP Audio Device Analog Stereo) like a microphone.</p>
<p>What I'd like to be able to do is have the sound for that audio device played back through the audio output (speaker or whatever). I'm not too worried if there's a slight delay between the audio coming in and it being played out through the speakers.</p>
<p>As far as I'm aware this is refereed to as software loopback. I can achieve exactly what I want if I open Audacity, enable software loopback and press record. Obvious this isn't ideal as I don't really want it recording what I'm playing all the time.</p>
<p>I know this is possible because of the Audacity example however I'd like to know if there's a way to do it without it recording. I've search around for a while for a piece of software that does this, however I couldn't get anything even close.</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
| 976 | 234305 | 2019-01-04T17:06:52.367 | 2019-11-20T19:40:32.483 | USB Audio Device Loopback Through Speakers | [
"usb",
"sound",
"microphone"
] | 1 | 1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T19:28:48.943",
"id": "21418",
"postId": "19894",
"score": "0",
"text": "+1 Yes! I'd like this too. I'd like to use my pc speakers to play music from my Squeezebox which is hooked up to my line-in.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5786"
}
] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Just a warning: This answer is theoretical, because i don't own such hardware...</p>\n\n<p>AFAIK you have to enable a loopback-device for pulseaudio:</p>\n\n<pre><code>pactl load-module module-loopback\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>After that you should see a new application under audio-settings.</p>\n\n<p>If it works well, you may add a line to the pulse-audio-config to make this persistent:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo sh -c ' echo \"load-module module-loopback\" >> /etc/pulse/default.pa '\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Good luck!</p>\n\n<p>Additional info from matto1990:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>You only need to do this if you want to loopback from a device other than the microphone or line in (the default ones). Go to software center and install \"PulseAudio Volume Control\". Open it up and go to the recording tab. In the show dropdown select \"all\". In the \"loopback from internal audio\" section (or whatever the output device you want is) select the input device you want to loopback from (in my case the USB one).</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T22:52:49.997",
"id": "21946",
"postId": "20366",
"score": "0",
"text": "I get a new thing under the application tab. It has no icon (the grey square with the red circle strike through icon). It's on full volume and not muted but nothing is coming out of the speakers. I've made sure the USB device is selected as the input device.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "976"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T22:55:42.707",
"id": "21947",
"postId": "20366",
"score": "0",
"text": "Actually it does seem to work but it loops back the microphone built into the laptop. This happens irrespective of which device I select under the input tab. How would I go about telling it to use a different device?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "976"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T23:07:08.577",
"id": "21948",
"postId": "20366",
"score": "1",
"text": "Ok, I've found the way to do it. You only need to do this if you want to loopback from a device other than the microphone or line in (the default ones). Go to software center and install \"PulseAudio Volume Control\". Open it up and go to the recording tab. In the show dropdown select \"all\". In the \"loopback from internal audio\" section (or whatever the output device you want is) select the input device you want to loopback from (in my case the USB one). After you do this it works perfectly :D Thanks Clausi :D Can you add it to your answer for future reference please :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "976"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-07T09:02:36.190",
"id": "21982",
"postId": "20366",
"score": "0",
"text": "Glad it works! I have added your comment to the answer.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4469"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T20:12:09.537",
"id": "20366",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-07T08:59:48.687",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-07T08:59:48.687",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "4469",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "4469",
"parentId": "19894",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "13"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Just a warning: This answer is theoretical, because i don't own such hardware...</p>\n\n<p>AFAIK you have to enable a loopback-device for pulseaudio:</p>\n\n<pre><code>pactl load-module module-loopback\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>After that you should see a new application under aud... | null | null | null | null | null |
19897 | 1 | 39485 | 2011-01-03T19:47:27.507 | 3 | 14929 | <p>I have a new HP dv7 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card, and also Intel graphics (switchable). I have done the following and want to understand what is going on with my graphics driver</p>
<ol>
<li>Resized windows 7 and did fresh install of 10.10</li>
<li>Booted into 10.10 and things seemed to be working okay</li>
<li>Enabled ATI graphics, and was clearly working on the ATI rather than Intel GPU (desktop cube worked)</li>
<li>Rebooted, got an error that modprobe could not load modules.dep, and also something about i915 symbols</li>
<li>Rebooted into recovery mode, modified xorg.conf to remove the mention of fglrx</li>
<li>Rebooted, and the errors show, but then x starts but clearly in intel graphics</li>
</ol>
<p>I would ideally like to be able to switch between the ATI and Intel graphics, a la vga_switcheroo. My first problem seems to be that the folder</p>
<pre><code>/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo
</code></pre>
<p>does not exist, hinting at some kind of kernel issue. What can I do to get this available?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
| 8289 | null | null | 2011-05-03T01:05:25.390 | Getting vga_switcheroo with ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 HD to work | [
"10.10",
"drivers",
"ati"
] | 8 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-05-03T01:01:34.363",
"id": "43324",
"postId": "19897",
"score": "0",
"text": "Hi there, did you solve your problem?? I'm still looking on this... Did you check this blog: linuxenvy.blogspot.com",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "13553"
},
{
"creationDat... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I think that I found the solution, we are on the same page, please look this comment:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Found the problem. As mentioned in\n other sites, vga_switcheroo will\n magically disappear if you have the\n proprietary Radeon driver installed.\n This driver is called fglrx. So if\n Synaptic shows that you have fglrx on\n your machine, uninstall it and reboot\n - et voila, vga_switcheroo returns.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This might help!</p>\n\n<p>cheers!</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-05-03T05:09:41.750",
"id": "43373",
"postId": "39485",
"score": "0",
"text": "Ah, I am now revisiting this thread after having removed fglrx and as you say, vga_switcheroo is back. Thanks!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8289"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-05-04T02:09:36.713",
"id": "43709",
"postId": "39485",
"score": "0",
"text": "After I remove the fglrx I`m unable to login on normal mode, I could only login using `safe-mode`. Did you succed on your laptop? On your profile information I can`t find any email, can you please ping me on rafa.ferreira[a]gmail.com and we can share finds. Regards!",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "13553"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-05-03T01:05:25.390",
"id": "39485",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-05-03T01:05:25.390",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "13553",
"parentId": "19897",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I got it working in my laptop with <a href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/ubuntucontrolcenter/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu Control Center</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T18:25:34.940",
"id": "21741",
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19898 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T19:49:30.143 | 166 | 332059 | <p>Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www</p>
<p>I gave myself administrative privileges in Ubuntu but it still doesn't allow copies.</p>
| 8256 | 235 | 2012-04-03T18:45:47.947 | 2022-09-08T20:05:12.140 | Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to "/var/www"? | [
"permissions",
"webserver"
] | 8 | 3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-11-17T19:15:11.627",
"id": "90625",
"postId": "19898",
"score": "0",
"text": "Related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/45496/what-is-the-best-way-to-add-files-to-a-website-on-a-lamp-server/",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "41"
},
{
"creationDate": "201... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p><strong>Method 1:</strong> </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Press <kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> and enter gksudo nautilus and then click Run.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/XsC5e.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p></li>\n<li>It will open nautilus with root previleges.</li>\n<li>Go... | null | null | null | null | null |
19900 | 1 | 24872 | 2011-01-03T19:56:23.897 | 8 | 11695 | <p>I want to use Ubuntu 10.10 Server in a classroom, a computer lab whose bandwidth is provided by a local cable ISP. That's no problem, though the school network has an IP printer that I want to use. I cannot reach the printer through the cable Internet. But, I have two network cards.</p>
<p>How is it possible to use both networks at once?</p>
<p>eth0 (static 192.168.1.254) is plugged into a four-port router, 192.168.1.1. On the public side of the four-port router is Internet provided by the cable company. I also have the classroom workstations plugged into a switch. The switch is plugged into the four-port router. The whole classroom is wired into the cable Internet.</p>
<p>The other NIC, eth1, could it be plugged into an Ethernet jack in the wall? It uses the school network, and I might receive by DHCP an IP address like 10.140.10.100, with the printer on maybe 10.120.50.10.</p>
<p>I was thinking about installing the printer on the server so that it could be shared with the workstations. But how does this work? Can I just plug eth1 into the school network and access both LANs?</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.254
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
</code></pre>
| null | 31366 | 2021-06-12T18:35:00.403 | 2021-06-12T19:14:48.323 | Use two networks at the same time? | [
"networking",
"printing",
"routing",
"lan"
] | 4 | 3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-05T22:18:33.513",
"id": "27263",
"postId": "19900",
"score": "0",
"text": "Is the dhcp server for eth1 supplying default route info?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8844"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-06T13:45:46.083",
"id": "27333",
"post... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I'm assuming you don't have any routes set locally on the Ubuntu box. </p>\n\n<p>If your target IP address shares address space with the directly connected interface, it should by default route to the correct IP. </p>\n\n<p>You will be able to see what networks your interfaces 'own' with <code>ip route show</code>.<br>\nFor example, </p>\n\n<pre><code>$ ip route show\n192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.22 metric 1 \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In this case, a <code>192.168.1.x/24</code> address (eth0) would be the gateway for the the same <code>192.168.1.x/24</code>. A <code>10.x.x.x</code> address will be the gateway for all <code>10.x.x.x</code> that fall under its subnet mask. \nThis is actually what you see in bacon's answer. It shows a ping test where the gateway and target IP addresses are in the same network -- the network masks match exactly. <code>192.168.43.102</code> is within the same <code>/24</code> network (as indicated by the <code>255.255.255.0</code> network mask) as the interface.</p>\n\n<p>The only problem would be confusion over other subnets -- the interface connecting to the outbound ISP path would need to be the 'gateway of last resort' for all routes that aren't directly connected. </p>\n\n<p>You can get this to work, but you should do a quick test to make sure you can reach the resources you need.\nYou might find that you need to use <code>route add</code> to add a default route. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-05T13:37:05.610",
"id": "27193",
"postId": "24872",
"score": "0",
"text": "I do have a default route, which I added in the question. So the trick is to remove the default route?",
"userDisplayName": "user8290",
"userId": null
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-05T22:09:04.570",
"id": "27253",
"postId": "24872",
"score": "0",
"text": "@christoper Actually, the default route should be there. The subnets of the private IP space interfaces 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x should match first on any traffic going to their subnets, and traffic that doesn't match should then use the default route, because there is no better explicit route set.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8844"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-02-05T00:47:54.643",
"id": "24872",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-02-05T04:57:11.883",
"lastEditDate": "2011-02-05T04:57:11.883",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "8844",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8844",
"parentId": "19900",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I did a quick test setup here at home, with a 10.0.1.0 network and a 192.168.43.0 network (the first my usual LAN over Ethernet the second my phone over wireless.) I have no problem pinging to either network, so I would expect the computer to be able to find printers on both ... | null | null | null | user8290 | user8290 |
19901 | 1 | 19903 | 2011-01-03T20:07:14.107 | 224 | 829543 | <p>I'm a new Linux user. I've reinstalled my Wubi from scratch <em>at least ten times</em> the last few weeks because while getting the system up and running (drivers, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19457">resolution</a>, etc.) I've broken something (X, grub, unknowns) and I can't get it back to work. Especially for a newbie like me, it's easier (and much faster) to just reinstall the whole shebang than try to troubleshoot several layers of failed "fixing" attempts.</p>
<p>Coming from Windows, I expect that there is some "disk image" utility that I can run to make a snapshot of my Linux install (and of the boot partition!!) before I meddle with stuff. Then, after I've foobar'ed my machine, I would somehow restore my machine back to that working snapshot.</p>
<p><strong>What's the Linux equivalent of Windows disk imagers like <a href="https://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html" rel="noreferrer">Acronis True Image</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111230180025/http://us.norton.com/ghost" rel="noreferrer">Norton Ghost</a>?</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>Note: I found a similar question: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13278">Easy backup/restore of installed system?</a></p>
| 5786 | 816190 | 2020-06-25T12:58:45.850 | 2024-03-25T14:01:25.720 | How to make a disk image and restore from it later? | [
"backup"
] | 12 | 7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T20:34:51.427",
"id": "21424",
"postId": "19901",
"score": "0",
"text": "Torben, under the Wubi folder (usually C:\\UBUNTU, but may be some other drive & folder), you'll find not only the loopback disk images created for your Ubuntu install, but also some other impor... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>It's Clonezilla Live: <a href=\"http://clonezilla.org/\">http://clonezilla.org/</a></p>\n\n<p>The tutorial for Clonezilla can be found <a href=\"http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/free_imaging_software.html\">here.</a></p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2016-07-27T04:51:57.553",
"id": "1212961",
"postId": "19903",
"score": "20",
"text": "Clonezilla will not image a running file-system like Acronis or Ghost, so Clonezilla does not do what they do. In order to use Clonezilla, the OS must be stopped, and a 2nd OS must mount it's file-system and take a snapshot. If you don't stop the OS the restore has the chance of not working because in a multi-tasking OS other tasks can put the backup in an unnatural state.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "568145"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-09-23T09:59:32.393",
"id": "1260847",
"postId": "19903",
"score": "3",
"text": "Well, yes, Clonezilla should be used from a boot CD to have exclusive (like any full-drive-imaging tool. (Windows became a bit of an exeception though its Volume Shadow Copy Service \"hack\").",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "479118"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-09-23T10:02:47.560",
"id": "1260851",
"postId": "19903",
"score": "1",
"text": "\"Boot CD\" usually means \"Boot USB Stick\" nowadays. And a great way to create one is the [Linux Live USB Creator](http://www.linuxliveusb.com/). It even has \"Clonezilla Live CD\" is even under it's predefined images to choose from... Click, Build, ready-to-boot. Only caveat: Will only run on your (friends) Windows machine...",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "479118"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T20:22:32.440",
"id": "19903",
"lastActivityDate": "2012-10-06T14:02:14.420",
"lastEditDate": "2012-10-06T14:02:14.420",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "78161",
"ownerDisplayName": "user8290",
"ownerUserId": null,
"parentId": "19901",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "118"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>It's Clonezilla Live: <a href=\"http://clonezilla.org/\">http://clonezilla.org/</a></p>\n\n<p>The tutorial for Clonezilla can be found <a href=\"http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/free_imaging_software.html\">here.</a></p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19906 | 1 | 19909 | 2011-01-03T20:37:50.083 | 107 | 151675 | <p>I'd like to use a beep sound in a shell script. Unfortunately none of the methods I found via Google work for me.</p>
<p>I tried</p>
<pre><code>echo -e '\a'
echo -ne '\007'
</code></pre>
<p>and the command <code>beep</code> after I installed it via apt.</p>
<p>What could be the reason?</p>
| 7155 | 44179 | 2013-06-09T23:24:20.530 | 2023-10-24T02:05:39.483 | Beep in shell script not working? | [
"sound",
"command-line",
"scripts"
] | 17 | 4 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2014-12-02T23:58:01.793",
"id": "763541",
"postId": "19906",
"score": "0",
"text": "See this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/769314",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2355"
},
{
"creationDate": "2015-09-30T14:52:16.143",
... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>First run <code>sudo modprobe pcspkr</code> and then <code>beep</code> should work.</p>\n\n<p>The reason this doesn't is because by default Ubuntu no longer loads the hardware driver that produce beeps.</p>\n\n<p>If this works for you then to enable the loading of pcspkr permanently edit the <code>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf</code> file (using <code>gksudo gedit</code> perhaps) and comment out line that says <code>blacklist pcspkr</code> so it looks like this:</p>\n\n<pre># ugly and loud noise, getting on everyone's nerves; this should be done by a\n# nice pulseaudio bing (Ubuntu: #77010)\n# blacklist pcspkr</pre>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-07-28T11:37:15.243",
"id": "61657",
"postId": "19909",
"score": "4",
"text": "If I comment `blacklist pcspkr` I have to do `modprobe -r pcspkr && modprobe pcspkr` to get it to work. Also getting beep to work is _not_ the same as getting the audible bell to work and thus http://askubuntu.com/questions/22168/how-do-i-enable-the-terminal-bell should still be open.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "10837"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-04-04T23:41:43.013",
"id": "1124787",
"postId": "19909",
"score": "5",
"text": "This doesn't work for me in Ubuntu 14.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "13217"
},
{
"creationDate": "2020-04-22T01:08:58.330",
"id": "2069017",
"postId": "19909",
"score": "0",
"text": "This will mostly likely never work on modern laptops, as they don't have a speaker device. Instead see my answer below on how to use `paplay`. (I wasted a bunch of time chasing down this, only to get silence.)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "568145"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T20:44:16.327",
"id": "19909",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T21:06:39.500",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-03T21:06:39.500",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "866",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "866",
"parentId": "19906",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "109"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>As far as I can tell, this is a bug: <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/486154\" rel=\"nofollow\">System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDa... | null | null | null | null | null |
19912 | 1 | 19914 | 2011-01-03T21:09:59.370 | 2 | 3217 | <p>Is it possible to use another shell for scripts than for standard terminal use?</p>
<p>The problem is, i use fish as shell at the moment and i find i very convenient.
But i would like to learn a bit of shell programming in Ubuntu. Since there are differences between those two it would be nice, to work with fish and bash at the same time, perhaps in different terminal windows? i know i can write a shell script and have to put the interpreter in the beginning. But for testing developing at commandline i would find it useful to fast switch between shells or use two different terminal windows with different shells in one session at the same time?</p>
| 7155 | null | null | 2011-11-01T20:45:59.467 | Is it possible to use two different shells for different terminal windows? | [
"command-line"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Yes, like takkat said you can start gnome-terminal, or xterm, or konsole in kde or press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F3</kbd>, etc.. All by default use bash but you can have fish opened along side with them as well.</p>\n\n<p>To have any of the 2 do this:</p>\n\n<p><code>gnome-terminal -e bash</code> (To start gnome-terminal with bash)<br>\n<code>gnome-terminal -e fish</code> (To start gnome-terminal with fish)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "6",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:23:24.753",
"id": "21436",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "i have set fish as my standard shell, so when i open a terminal fish is instantly activated? do i have to manually switch back to bash? how can i do that?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:41:23.093",
"id": "21441",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "mh, i'm not sure if this worked. tried gnome-terminal -e bash and it opens a new terminal that looks like bash. but when i use echo $SHELL it prints /usr/bin/fish?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:44:09.107",
"id": "21442",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "$SHELL is your system variable that you set to 'fish' by making it your standard shell",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "3940"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:44:47.187",
"id": "21443",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "Because $SHELL gets the one set in the environment. Not the one used right now. For me it shows bash for example even though am typing it from fish.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7035"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:50:11.910",
"id": "21444",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "ah ok, thanks. can i somehow add an argument to gnome-terminal -e so that it uses colors again. as it would do if i had activated bash globally in the environment?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7155"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-02-05T00:16:01.880",
"id": "27113",
"postId": "19914",
"score": "0",
"text": "@NES Either remove the `#` from the line `#force_color_prompt=yes` in your `~/.bashrc` or run `gnome-terminal -x env TERM=xterm-color bash` instead (the default `.bashrc` will enable color if the `TERM` environment variable is xterm-color). If you have made changes to your `.bashrc` file and you wonder what the default is, you'll find it as `/etc/skel/.bashrc`.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "9016"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:20:30.927",
"id": "19914",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-11-01T20:45:59.467",
"lastEditDate": "2011-11-01T20:45:59.467",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "17739",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19912",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "4"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>You can easily start two terminal windows by typing</p>\n\n<pre><code>gnome-terminal\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>in your fish shell.</p>\n\n<p>In case you changed your standard shell to 'fish' proceed as CYREX suggested.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19916 | 1 | 19917 | 2011-01-03T21:27:42.367 | 100 | 108919 | <p>I accidentally unchecked <em>View -> Show Menubar</em> which hides the menubar for gnome-terminal, and there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to show the menubar again.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bXodl.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>How can I make gnome-terminal show the menubar again?</p>
| 114 | 12 | 2011-01-27T18:33:57.377 | 2023-12-01T20:21:21.767 | How to show gnome-terminal menubar? | [
"gnome-terminal"
] | 3 | 4 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2018-12-13T13:41:20.170",
"id": "1813914",
"postId": "19916",
"score": "2",
"text": "I wonder what the purpose of hiding that menubar in first place is.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "782651"
},
{
"creationDate": "2019-01-31T12:36:59.890",
"id": "18... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Right click anywhere inside the terminal, and you'll get a similar pop up menu that lets you reenable it.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/FsiUT.png\" alt=\"alt text\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p>If you're running an application that controls the terminal via the Ncurses library (which are most TUI applications, like <strong>vi</strong>), you need <strong>Shift + Right-Click</strong>, or to exit or suspend the application first. (I.e. <code>^Z</code> (control-Z) to suspend, then right click to get this menu, and select <strong>Show MenuBar</strong>, then finally enter <code>%</code> and <code>↵ Enter</code> to resume.)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2018-11-09T21:30:31.503",
"id": "1796519",
"postId": "19917",
"score": "1",
"text": "and... once the menu appears, go into Edit->Profile Preferences->General and click \"Show menubar by default in new windows\". THis applies to at least GNOME Terminal 2.31.3",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "614206"
},
{
"creationDate": "2019-02-20T22:07:26.547",
"id": "1851034",
"postId": "19917",
"score": "0",
"text": "it does not work in tmux. I need to open new tab/window and then context menu works.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "263243"
},
{
"creationDate": "2020-02-27T12:27:15.967",
"id": "2038652",
"postId": "19917",
"score": "0",
"text": "Mine was already checked. Unchecked and checked and still, no menu is shown.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1045845"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:29:41.843",
"id": "19917",
"lastActivityDate": "2023-12-01T20:21:21.767",
"lastEditDate": "2023-12-01T20:21:21.767",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1631199",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "235",
"parentId": "19916",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "160"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Right click anywhere inside the terminal, and you'll get a similar pop up menu that lets you reenable it.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/FsiUT.png\" alt=\"alt text\" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p>If you're running an application that controls the terminal via the Ncurses l... | null | null | null | null | null |
19919 | 1 | 19920 | 2011-01-03T21:31:28.207 | 55 | 141968 | <p>Is there a command I can use in Bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?</p>
| 5 | 10883 | 2019-08-26T17:17:36.003 | 2019-08-26T17:17:36.003 | Command to open a URL | [
"command-line"
] | 5 | 0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There's a command that knows about your default browser:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xdg-open http://google.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This will also work for <em>every other type</em> of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (<code>xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png</code>).</p>\n\n<p>There is also</p>\n\n<pre><code>xdg-email team@stackexchange.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and</p>\n\n<pre><code>xdg-mime query default text/html\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>To find out what application is going to be used.</p>\n\n<p>You can set your preffered application by going to <em>System → Preferences → Preferred Applications</em>:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/WxhBW.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>These utilities are part of the <a href=\"http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/\">freedesktop.org</a> specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the <a href=\"http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec\">spec</a>.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2019-08-27T13:58:39.647",
"id": "1950153",
"postId": "19920",
"score": "1",
"text": "echo **`alias open=xdg-open`** >> ~/.bashrc, highly recommended.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "9061"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T21:32:41.303",
"id": "19920",
"lastActivityDate": "2013-01-07T20:44:10.480",
"lastEditDate": "2013-01-07T20:44:10.480",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "36349",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19919",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "71"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>There's a command that knows about your default browser:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xdg-open http://google.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This will also work for <em>every other type</em> of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice ... | null | null | null | null | null |
19922 | 1 | 21072 | 2011-01-03T21:41:34.287 | 6 | 34159 | <p>For my iphone I was using <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1351548" rel="nofollow">this</a> with pdanet to tether via usb. Now I have an android phone, also with pdanet. I'd appreciate any help.</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
<p>My phone is a droid x. I'm using the latest OS officially available for that phone.</p>
| 640 | 235 | 2011-01-17T15:20:06.853 | 2022-10-23T12:59:13.347 | How can I tether my android phone with pdanet to my laptop via usb? | [
"10.10",
"usb",
"android",
"tethering"
] | 2 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-10T20:03:47.280",
"id": "22499",
"postId": "19922",
"score": "0",
"text": "what phone, what version of android?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "711"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-11T08:06:06.290",
"id": "22589",
"postId": "19922",
"sco... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Install <code>easytether</code> from <code>Android Market</code>. It has Ubuntu 10.04+ package you can install and it works fine.</p>\n\n<p>It also comes with detailed instructions what to do to make your tethering work. It does not require rooted phone.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-11T16:04:06.323",
"id": "21072",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-11T16:04:06.323",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "2937",
"parentId": "19922",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "7"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>If you are like me and did not know what Tethering is the simple definition is to use a cell phone to share the internet connection to a laptop, computer or another device. Definition: <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org... | null | null | null | null | null |
19923 | 1 | 19928 | 2011-01-03T21:58:08.740 | 7 | 24250 | <p>I am doing some marking that requires me to open .docx file created using Microsoft Office 2007+. OpenOffice doesn't seem to be doing a good job for it, so far, hid all the images in the documents. Any idea if there is a program that is guaranteed to open .docx file correctly? Please pay attention to the word "guaranteed", because otherwise I might not be fair to the students.</p>
| 7280 | 939648 | 2020-09-20T11:03:44.133 | 2023-08-14T21:05:52.370 | Opening DocX Files | [
"windows",
"software-recommendation",
"file-format",
"microsoft-office",
"doc"
] | 5 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:07:05.593",
"id": "21445",
"postId": "19923",
"score": "0",
"text": "This is not an answer to your question, but why do you need to use the docx format? Microsoft Office 2003 itself cannot open this either unless you download a compatibility pack. How about askin... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p><a href=\"http://docs.google.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Google Docs</a> sometimes does a better job with .docx files than Open Office does-- but definitely <em>no guarantees</em>.</p>\n\n<p>What <em>should</em> work -- though I wouldn't stake too much on this -- is to get a <a href=\"http://windowslive.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Windows Live account with Microsoft</a>, upload the .docx file to your Microsoft \"skydrive\", and use the \"Edit in Browser\" option (which surprisingly sometimes works even on Linux). Since you're using Microsoft's own software, everything <em>should</em> be OK. I often get something to the effect that the document contains things that only work in standard Word, however, and then it won't let you open it. (Microsoft trying to get money out of you, of course.)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2023-02-22T20:01:16.170",
"id": "2545715",
"postId": "19928",
"score": "0",
"text": "sadly libre office writer almost always freezes my ubuntu laptop to the point I have to force a shutdown. Google drive on the other hand works fine for .docx",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "704206"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-03T22:28:03.360",
"id": "19928",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-03T22:28:03.360",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1689",
"parentId": "19923",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "6"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>The only program that is <strong>guaranteed</strong> to open docx files correctly is Microsoft Office >= 2007. You could potentially try to run this in <a href=\"http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=31\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">wine</a>.</p>\n\n<p>You could require s... | null | null | null | null | null |
19927 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T22:21:45.877 | 5 | 2281 | <p>I finally got my old computer to boot from a cd, then it loads the cd and i can't get to the installation. Instead a load of messages appear, like <code>28603967] kernel_thread_helper</code>.</p>
<p>It just stops there... My keyboard then starts blinking as if someone is constantly pressing scroll lock and caps lock. The only thing moving on the screen is a blinking underscore (<code>_</code>) at the bottom of it. </p>
| null | 235 | 2011-01-03T22:28:11.270 | 2011-01-25T03:25:33.620 | Installation doesn't start, kernel thread helper message and blinking keyboard LEDs | [
"installation",
"kernel"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T01:29:20.170",
"id": "21468",
"postId": "19927",
"score": "0",
"text": "I had that same problem with my old computer too, not from the CD, but from the HD. Unfortunately (for you), in my case the solution was a simple press of the reset button and give another try t... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>The blinking lights indicate a kernel panic where the kernel has basically been booted from the cpu. It's very, very bad. Normally it's caused by faulty hardware, but sometimes it can be caused by bad acpi support or some very bad bug in Linux.</p>\n\n<p>In order to figure ou... | null | null | null | null | Pat |
19929 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T22:56:05.900 | 1 | 1675 | <p>Have Snow Leopard 10.6.5 on a working MacBook Pro. Have CD of Ubuntu 10.10 amd.dmg in the CD drive. Have rEFIt. Now what?</p>
| null | 235 | 2011-01-03T23:07:37.587 | 2011-03-05T13:04:40.023 | Installing on Snow Leopard? | [
"10.10",
"dual-boot",
"installation",
"mac",
"refit"
] | 2 | 1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T07:44:11.963",
"id": "21482",
"postId": "19929",
"score": "0",
"text": "I believe you need the alternate install cd in order to get EFI support, I may be wrong",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5042"
}
] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>I thought all Macs were intel, not amd... anyway follow the guide here:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook</a></p>\n\n<p>Please try and ask only concise, specific questions and not open en... | null | null | null | null | ferren |
19930 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T23:04:20.957 | 1 | 213 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5882/can-i-make-links-to-email-addresses-open-gmail-instead-of-evolution">Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I would have liked to make Gmail be my default email client, or mail program. In that case I would be able to open a Firefox window containing a new message writer, every time I click on a 'mailto:' hyperlink.</p>
<p>How should I do it?</p>
| 5592 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2011-01-03T23:04:20.957 | How can I make a webmail be my default email client? | [
"email",
"gmail",
"client"
] | 0 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | null | [] | null | null | 2011-01-03T23:45:54.663 | null | null |
19936 | 1 | 19945 | 2011-01-03T23:38:46.027 | 21 | 32292 | <p>For strange reasons best not asked, I have a projector plugged into my computer that is pointed at a mirror. So the computer image is displayed on a wall, but it is mirrored.</p>
<p>In Linux(ubuntu) I can go to display preferences and set the external monitor to have a rotated image. Is there a clever way I could have it set to rotate/flip the image?</p>
| 8301 | 4776 | 2011-01-03T23:45:52.623 | 2021-10-25T21:19:36.003 | How can I mirror/flip display output? | [
"display",
"monitor"
] | 1 | 4 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T00:01:56.153",
"id": "21461",
"postId": "19936",
"score": "2",
"text": "I like it when questions get funky. Let me see what i can come up with. So let me understand the image comes out of the projector, bounces on the mirror and lands on a wall?",
"userDisplayNa... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>After testing on 2 PCs, I found the following:</p>\n<p>On some integrated cards like Intel you can use <code>xrandr</code> in console. For example:</p>\n<p>Go to console (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>T</kbd>)</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>xrandr -x</code> will flip de video horizontally like a mirror.</li>\n<li><code>xrandr -y</code> will flip de video vertically.</li>\n<li><code>xrandr -y -x</code> will flip both.</li>\n<li><code>xrandr -o normal</code> will return to normal the video.</li>\n<li><code>xrandr -o inverted</code> will...invert O.o</li>\n</ul>\n<p>But if you have an Nvidia this may not work. For an Nvidia to work you need to:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p>Edit you xorg.conf: <code>sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf</code></p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Find the section that has <strong>Driver "nvidia"</strong> in it</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Copy and paste the following at the end of that section: <strong>Option "RandRRotation" "on"</strong></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>This will activate the rotation for Nvidia which comes off by default. Why off by default i do not know.</p>\n<p>After that reboot and you can change the orientation BUT NOT the reflection. What i mean with this is that Nvidia does not yet support reflection options like <code>-x</code> or <code>-y</code> options in <code>xrandr</code>. I will keep searching for some more since the question is interesting.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "4",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T12:47:26.917",
"id": "21513",
"postId": "19945",
"score": "5",
"text": "If you are testing this sort of thing without the mirror set up, then I suggest first entering `xrandr -o normal` so you can press up,up,enter without twisting your head. :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8301"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T12:48:38.163",
"id": "21514",
"postId": "19945",
"score": "2",
"text": "I like your attitude to funky questions. Using `xrandr -x` worked, but it would turn off the primary monitor (which I wanted to use unflipped). Anyway you led me to `xrandr --help` and after some thinking came to the following command which does what I want.\n `xrandr --output VGA1 --reflect x`",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8301"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-01-21T19:35:32.367",
"id": "1071177",
"postId": "19945",
"score": "3",
"text": "I just spent entirely way too much time playing with this and laughing manaically. I think I have spent too much time in front of my screen today.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "658"
},
{
"creationDate": "2021-09-05T23:48:48.027",
"id": "2335765",
"postId": "19945",
"score": "0",
"text": "It's 2021 now and it works with NVIDIA as well.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "892824"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T02:37:37.730",
"id": "19945",
"lastActivityDate": "2021-10-25T21:19:36.003",
"lastEditDate": "2021-10-25T21:19:36.003",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "349837",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7035",
"parentId": "19936",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "21"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>After testing on 2 PCs, I found the following:</p>\n<p>On some integrated cards like Intel you can use <code>xrandr</code> in console. For example:</p>\n<p>Go to console (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>T</kbd>)</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>xrandr -x</code> will flip de video hor... | null | null | null | null | null |
19939 | 1 | 19948 | 2011-01-04T00:06:57.930 | 2 | 2243 | <p>I want to replace gdm with another display manager. I did <code>aptitude install slim</code> (tried also <code>xdm</code>) and got a possibility to configure which display manager should be used. But after the reboot the display manager didn't got started. The Ubuntu-logo with the points simulating a progress goes on and on. If I press ESC, I can see, that <code>slim</code> (or <code>xdm</code>) was started, but I cannot see any login-screen. How can I use these alternative display managers?</p>
| 6037 | 15811 | 2011-09-11T08:58:39.237 | 2011-09-11T08:58:39.237 | How to install an alternative display manager? | [
"10.10",
"display-manager"
] | 1 | 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T00:32:43.003",
"id": "21464",
"postId": "19939",
"score": "0",
"text": "I really never ran through this, but I guess this might be related to your problem: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2586/cant-seem-to-get-my-login-screen-back-after-installing-slim",
"userDis... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p><code>sudo aptitude install slim</code></p>\n\n<p>SLiM saves the themes on /usr/share/slim/themes and the configuration file on /etc/slim.conf which is the one that will do all the work. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>background.jpg</strong>: Here goes the Image.</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>panel.png</strong>:It ´s the login box.</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>slim.theme</strong>: Configuration file.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>We only need to modify these files and then create a new folder inside /usr/share/slim/themes and put our own files.</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo mkdir usr/share/slim/themes/name_of_the_folder</code></p>\n\n<p>Now we´ve got to tell SLiM where to look for the files, we must edit /etc/slim.conf. And look for the line that says:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>current_theme default</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>and replace it with your own folder.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "2",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T22:40:24.240",
"id": "21783",
"postId": "19948",
"score": "0",
"text": "Ok, I tried it, but it doesn't work. :-(",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "6037"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-07T01:40:15.047",
"id": "21953",
"postId": "19948",
"score": "1",
"text": "edit\n\n/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager\n\nchange it to DISPLAYMANAGER=”slim”",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "4203"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T03:30:29.110",
"id": "19948",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-07T01:33:20.357",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-07T01:33:20.357",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "4203",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "4203",
"parentId": "19939",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "3"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p><code>sudo aptitude install slim</code></p>\n\n<p>SLiM saves the themes on /usr/share/slim/themes and the configuration file on /etc/slim.conf which is the one that will do all the work. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><strong>background.jpg</strong>: Here goes the Image.</p></li>\n<li>... | null | null | null | null | null |
19940 | 1 | 19947 | 2011-01-04T00:08:04.590 | 2 | 196 | <p>I added some files into my <code>Ubuntu One/My Files</code> folder on my desktop machine. I can see them in the U1 web ui. My laptop is connected to the same U1 account, and in the Ubuntu One preference pane I can see it's connected to the account.</p>
<p>However, my new files never download.</p>
<p>In <code>syncdaemon.log</code> I can see it checking a bunch of other existing files, and then the file ends with many repetitions of </p>
<pre><code>2011-01-04 11:05:42,277 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Main - NOTE - ---- MARK (state: <State: 'READY' (queues WORKING_ON_METADATA connection 'Not User With Network')>; queues: metadata: 1; content: 0; hash: 0, fsm-cache: hit=5086 miss=69) ----
</code></pre>
<p>I do have a working network connection.</p>
<p>What do I do now?</p>
| 1116 | null | null | 2011-01-04T03:06:48.927 | newly added files don't sync down | [
"ubuntu-one"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>For some reason your syncdaemon isn't connecting. Please file a bug with details as to versions, etc.; in the meanwhile, you can connect manually entering <code>u1sdtool -c</code> in a terminal.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T07:50:44.273",
"id": "21483",
"postId": "19947",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks, that got it going, and I filed http://pad.lv/697108",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1116"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T03:06:48.927",
"id": "19947",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T03:06:48.927",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "711",
"parentId": "19940",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "2"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>For some reason your syncdaemon isn't connecting. Please file a bug with details as to versions, etc.; in the meanwhile, you can connect manually entering <code>u1sdtool -c</code> in a terminal.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate"... | null | null | null | null | null |
19943 | 1 | 19944 | 2011-01-04T02:19:37.420 | 17 | 30016 | <p>I currently have xubuntu installed on my netbook, and I'm considering converting it to the standard vanilla Ubuntu. Is this possible? If so, how do I start?</p>
| 3647 | null | null | 2018-10-24T17:27:33.380 | Can my xubuntu installation be converted to standard Ubuntu? | [
"gui",
"xubuntu"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You'll simply need to install the <code>ubuntu-desktop</code> meta-package. This installs all the nessisary packages for a \"Vanilla\" Ubuntu Desktop. <code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</code> Once this has been completed you can restart your computer. At the login screen you can switch from XFCE to Ubuntu Desktop under the Session dropdown. Doing so will load the Gnome desktop.</p>\n\n<p>If you're satisfied with Ubuntu Desktop and wish to remove xubuntu you can always remove the meta package <code>xubuntu-desktop</code> which will remove the meta-package. If you wish to remove all the packages from the xubuntu-desktop meta package you'll have to remove those by hand. <a href=\"http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome\">An updated list of all the packages by distrobution</a> is available simply copy the line for your version of Ubuntu</p>\n",
"commentCount": "6",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T02:29:15.433",
"id": "21470",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "0",
"text": "Would it be better to use autoremove instead of remove since autoremove will also remove the orphaned dependencies?",
"userDisplayName": "user7182",
"userId": null
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T02:32:43.677",
"id": "21471",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Jasper `xubuntu-desktop` isn't considered orphaned since you can have multiple Desktop Environments on one installation. However, if you remove `xubuntu-desktop` meta-package it should take out all packages that aren't inner-dependent for packages outside of the meta-package. One may need to run autoremove after removing `xubuntu-desktop` if there are any orphaned packages though.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "41"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T13:26:02.563",
"id": "21699",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "0",
"text": "Removing the xubuntu-desktop meta-package will not remove the Xfce desktop. It will only remove the xubuntu-desktop package itself. You will need to remove all the xfce and xubuntu specific packages individually to remove Xubuntu.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5373"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T14:18:46.823",
"id": "21704",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "0",
"text": "@charlie-tca You're right, it only remove the meta package unless xubuntu-desktop was installed with aptitude which isn't available in the distribution anymore. I've updated my answer to reflect that and the \"proper\" way to remove all the xubuntu packages",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "41"
},
{
"creationDate": "2013-04-23T17:33:13.583",
"id": "357811",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "2",
"text": "What about upgrades? Will they work properly, too?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "59292"
},
{
"creationDate": "2014-09-24T17:47:45.733",
"id": "720094",
"postId": "19944",
"score": "1",
"text": "Would there be any conflicting daemons or startup scripts by having both ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop (regarding 14.04) installed?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "29020"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T02:25:35.350",
"id": "19944",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-05T14:14:23.190",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-05T14:14:23.190",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "41",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "41",
"parentId": "19943",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "23"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>You'll simply need to install the <code>ubuntu-desktop</code> meta-package. This installs all the nessisary packages for a \"Vanilla\" Ubuntu Desktop. <code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</code> Once this has been completed you can restart your computer. At the login scr... | null | null | null | null | null |
19949 | 1 | 19950 | 2011-01-04T03:49:23.897 | 5 | 1976 | <p>After installing Emerald theme manager, double clicking title makes the window roll up and down.</p>
<p>How can I restore the normal behavior of maximize/restore?</p>
| 8310 | 2732 | 2012-02-10T19:41:56.353 | 2012-02-10T19:44:13.790 | How to have double click on title bar maximize/restore behavior? | [
"themes",
"window-management",
"emerald"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Need to verify in two places,</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p><code>System</code> → <code>Preferences</code> → <code>Windows</code></p>\n<p>Change the <em>Titlebar action</em> to <em>Maximize</em>.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p><code>System</code> → <code>Preferences</code> → <code>Emerald Theme Manager</code> → <code>Emerald Settings tab</code></p>\n<p>Change <em>Titlebar Double-Click Action</em> to <em>Maximize/Restore</em>.</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T03:54:35.233",
"id": "19950",
"lastActivityDate": "2012-02-10T19:44:13.790",
"lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8310",
"parentId": "19949",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "5"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Need to verify in two places,</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p><code>System</code> → <code>Preferences</code> → <code>Windows</code></p>\n<p>Change the <em>Titlebar action</em> to <em>Maximize</em>.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p><code>System</code> → <code>Preferences</code> → <code>Emerald Theme Mana... | null | null | null | null | null |
19951 | 1 | 19959 | 2011-01-04T03:58:02.143 | 1 | 319 | <p>My 10.04 system (OS-1) got into a tangle the other day, so I installed a second, dual-boot 10.04 (OS-2), so that I could trouble-shoot the hung system... </p>
<p>In case it is relevant to my question, I'll mention that since I got OS-1 working again, it has shown a few battle wounds from its ordeal (.. actually the ordeal was mine ... trying to figure it all out ;) ... I lost some custom settings, but not all. </p>
<p>(For the curious: the hangup was caused by rsync writing 600 GB to OS-1's 320 GB drive.. The destination drive was unmounted at the time, and rsync dutifully wrote directly to /media/usb_back; filling it to capacity... I have since, ammended my script :) </p>
<p>Because the dual-boot MBR was prepared by OS-2, it is first on the grub list.. However, I want OS-1 to be the default OS to boot... </p>
<p>From OS-1, I tried two methods to change the grub-menu's defaule OS. eg. </p>
<ol>
<li><p>Directly editing /etc/default/grub (then update-grub) </p></li>
<li><p>Running 'Startup Manager' (then update-grub) </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Neither of these methods had any effect... so I started OS-2, and tried method 1... It worked! </p>
<p>Why can I <strong>not</strong> change the grub menu from OS-1?
.. or if it can be done, How?</p>
| 2670 | null | null | 2011-01-04T06:11:10.213 | I cannot change the grub Default item from OS-1, but I can from OS-2 (dual-boot 10.04 on both) | [
"grub2",
"bootloader",
"mbr"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The problem is that you currently have two Ubuntu installations, each with their own grub.cfg, but only one grub installation. When you boot your computer, grub loads and reads the grub.cfg from OS #2. To make it so that grub reads from OS #1's grub.cfg you need to install grub from within OS #1. In addition you want to make sure that OS #2 is not configured to install grub on upgrades, or else it will overwrite OS #1's grub again.</p>\n\n<p>These instructions assume that you only have one hard drive, /dev/sda: </p>\n\n<p>First boot OS #1 and run <code>sudo grub-install /dev/sda</code> (note that this should <em>not</em> be a partition like /dev/sda1). Then boot OS #2 and run <code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc</code>, this will ask a few questions. For the first and second question leave the option at its default value (the first will likely be blank, this is normal). For the third question, \"GRUB install Devices\", make sure that no install devices are selected (you can toggle whether a device is selected with the space bar, and move between devices with the arrow keys). You will be asked to confirm that you really want to continue without installing grub, select yes.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T06:58:33.913",
"id": "21478",
"postId": "19959",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks Jordan.. That was well explained.. I've run the commands, and everything went smoothly... grub is back under the control of OS-1... (the grub \"mystery\" is starting to be less mysterious :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2670"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T06:11:10.213",
"id": "19959",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T06:11:10.213",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "6618",
"parentId": "19951",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "2"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>The problem is that you currently have two Ubuntu installations, each with their own grub.cfg, but only one grub installation. When you boot your computer, grub loads and reads the grub.cfg from OS #2. To make it so that grub reads from OS #1's grub.cfg you need to install gr... | null | null | null | null | null |
19954 | 1 | 19956 | 2011-01-04T04:24:28.610 | 48 | 57619 | <p>After installing Ubuntu 10.04 with my Samsung SyncMaster B2030, native resolution (1600X900) is not found in the list of resolutions.</p>
| 8310 | 8310 | 2011-01-11T05:07:38.587 | 2020-01-18T11:28:56.157 | How to set the monitor to its native resolution which is not listed in the resolutions list? | [
"resolution",
"monitor",
"xrandr",
"samsung"
] | 3 | 2 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-11T07:18:27.837",
"id": "22584",
"postId": "19954",
"score": "2",
"text": "In addition to using a short-term solution, consider filing a bug so that the resolution can be correctly configured by default in future Ubuntu releases: `$ ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg`",
"user... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<blockquote>\n <p>Native resolution for Samsung SyncMaster B2030 is 1600 * 600 60 Hz</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Generate the modeline using <code>cvt</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cvt 1600 900 60\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>which will be:</p>\n\n<pre><code># 1600x900 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.44M9) hsync: 55.99 kHz; pclk: 118.25 MHz\nModeline \"1600x900_60.00\" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Get the name of the output to which your display is connected:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xrandr\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This outputs among other things: </p>\n\n<pre><code>Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192\nVGA1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In this example the name of the output is <code>VGA1</code>.</p></li>\n<li><p>Create the new modeline (with the values from the output of <code>cvt</code>):</p>\n\n<pre><code>xrandr --newmode \"1600x900_60.00\" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><b>Note:</b> </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>the above should be in a single line</li>\n<li>make note of <b>x</b> in 1600 <strong>x</strong> 900_60.00</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p>Add the above created modeline:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xrandr --addmode VGA1 1600x900_60.00\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>If everything went well <strong>xrandr</strong> will list your newly added resolution.</p></li>\n<li><p>Test the newly added resolution:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x900_60.00\n</code></pre></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>The resolution you set with the above commands will not persist across sessions. Until Ubuntu 11.04 you can add the following lines at the beginning of your <code>/etc/gdm/Init/Default</code> to set the resolution automatically every time you log in:</p>\n\n<pre><code>xrandr --newmode \"1600x900_60.00\" 118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync\nxrandr --addmode VGA1 1600x900_60.00\nxrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x900_60.00\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/63681\">This question</a> describes other ways to make <code>xrandr</code> customizations permanent.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "5",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-09-27T06:22:16.097",
"id": "72550",
"postId": "19956",
"score": "0",
"text": "Could you explain the other options in step 3? `118.25 1600 1696 1856 2112 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync` what do the values mean, so that I could translate that to my use",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "14782"
},
{
"creationDate": "2012-09-10T20:07:25.007",
"id": "232177",
"postId": "19956",
"score": "0",
"text": "But what if the xrandr does not recognize any output name, specifically, not DVI-0, as described in this question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/186288/how-to-detect-and-configure-an-output-with-xrandr",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "26972"
},
{
"creationDate": "2014-10-27T03:58:36.783",
"id": "742171",
"postId": "19956",
"score": "1",
"text": "I did this for my Viewsonic G790 (1600x1280_76.00 native resolution) and got an error: xrandr --newmode \"1600x1280_76.00\" 223.00 1600 1728 1896 2192 1280 1283 1290 1339 -hsync +vsync xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default\nX Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)\n Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)\n Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (RRCreateMode)\n Serial number of failed request: 19\n Current serial number in output stream: 19",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "79820"
},
{
"creationDate": "2017-09-29T19:36:26.667",
"id": "1535121",
"postId": "19956",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks for showing how to use `cvt`! I've been seeing these mode lines for years and never knew how to calculate one.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "56280"
},
{
"creationDate": "2018-03-26T11:11:06.417",
"id": "1654529",
"postId": "19956",
"score": "1",
"text": "With modern LCDs, you'd need [reduced blanking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Video_Timings#Reduced_blanking) with `cvt -r`.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "288687"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T05:28:38.320",
"id": "19956",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-11-10T07:07:35.740",
"lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:08.560",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "-1",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "8310",
"parentId": "19954",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "50"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<blockquote>\n <p>Native resolution for Samsung SyncMaster B2030 is 1600 * 600 60 Hz</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Generate the modeline using <code>cvt</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cvt 1600 900 60\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>which will be:</p>\n\n<pre><code># 1600x900 59.95 Hz (CVT... | null | null | null | null | null |
19957 | 1 | null | 2011-01-04T05:48:12.400 | 1 | 700 | <p>I have 10.10 installed on my netbook, but the Unity interface that came with it does not seem to work. The top and side bar are missing and several graphical menus don't work. I have tried updating my graphics card but have had no luck. Any suggestions?</p>
| null | 63111 | 2012-07-09T13:12:55.773 | 2012-07-09T13:12:55.773 | How can I get the Unity interface to work on my netbook? | [
"unity",
"10.10",
"ubuntu-netbook"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [] | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>If you can't get unity to work on your netbook, try to install package \"ubuntu-desktop\" (<code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</code>) and login to Ubuntu Desktop instead of Ubuntu Netbook. But If you really want a unity interface you have to wait for Ubuntu 11.04 to be... | null | null | null | null | OzoneTank |
19958 | 1 | 19993 | 2011-01-04T06:09:15.253 | 3 | 888 | <p>I often get stalled by the long timeout while typing the first few letters of a file name in Nautilus... </p>
<p>The current timeout seems to be 5 seconds. I'd prefer 1 second ...(as per item 2 on this page about <a href="http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html" rel="nofollow">Response Times</a>)</p>
<p>I don't use the mouse much, which means I either wait, or press Escape, when I don't find the file... </p>
<p>I realize that this is a <em>feature</em> to some, but I'd rather not wait.</p>
<p>Is there any way to change this timeout behaviour?</p>
| 2670 | 5691 | 2011-01-04T09:32:06.193 | 2011-01-04T16:50:57.760 | How can I change the "timeout" duration for Nautilus "find the filename as you type" feature? | [
"nautilus",
"timeout"
] | 1 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Unfortunately, the five second delay is hard-coded into Nautilus. Here's how to hack it:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>First, set up your build environment:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install build-essential\nsudo apt-get install devscripts\nsudo apt-get build-dep nautilus\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><code>devscripts</code> might ask you to configure Postfix, select anything you want (\"No configuration\" should be fine, if you don't use Postscript, it shouldn't ask otherwise)</p></li>\n<li><p>Get the source code of Nautilus:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get source nautilus\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(Notice no <code>sudo</code> here)</p></li>\n<li><p>Now to change Nautilus. Open <code>nautilus-2.32.0/libnautilus-private/nautilus-icon-container.c</code> in your favourite text editor. The line we're concerned with is <em>about</em> line 149. It should say:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#define NAUTILUS_ICON_CONTAINER_SEARCH_DIALOG_TIMEOUT 5\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Replace the <code>5</code> with any amount of time you like. This must be an integer, and ≥ 1. I've change it to one second, as the article recommends. ;-)</p></li>\n<li><p>Now to build the package:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cd nautilus-2.32.0/\nsudo debuild\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This will take a while. It should, at least. If it finishes with an error like \"patch does not remove cleanly\", run <code>sudo debuild -nc</code> instead). Note also that this may complain about it not being able to sign the package. You don't need a signed package in this case, they're only required if you want to upload them somewhere.</p></li>\n<li><p>You should now have some .deb packages in the parent directory. Install them all:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cd ..\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb\n</code></pre></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Afterwards, restart your computer (logging out may be sufficient, I'm not sure), and test the changes. As you know, your changes will be undone with every update of Nautilus. </p>\n",
"commentCount": "7",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T13:01:46.753",
"id": "21516",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks Stefano... As it turns out, as an answer to one of my questions, I was given some effective directions on how to compile Nautilus... and I managed to do it! ...but actually finding the relevant code would have put it out of the question... So, as you have indicated the code, I'll give it a go.. (The version I am running is already a tweak :) .. Here is the link to the \"how to compile Nautilus\" question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7882/can-the-nautilus-properties-page-show-size-in-bytes-for-multiple-selects-and-for",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2670"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T13:04:07.237",
"id": "21517",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "Notice this is defined in Gtk, not Nautilus. Gtk is the library of graphical tools and widgets that the whole of Gnome, including Nautilus, is built with.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T14:15:38.893",
"id": "21532",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "Okayyyy :) I see what you mean. This GTK \"thing\" has been a puzzle to me; (Where does it fit into the overall picture?).. and, please correct me if I'm wrong, but is seems that it is simply a library of functions to do graphical things... and it was a matter of choice that Nautilus chose it.. They could just as well have used Qt.. (if it existed at the genesis of Nautilus)... The \"penny has dropped!\" ... I'd better leave it alone! ......(I seem to have just repeated what you said, but it took me a while to \"get\" it .. :)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2670"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T14:18:21.480",
"id": "21533",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "There a [real picture](http://software.intel.com/file/2388) to correspond with your metaphorical one ;) You're quite right, Gtk is a toolkit full of things that help you develop graphical applications. It was made for the Gimp, but has now become one of the de-facto standard. I'm still working on how to compile gtk, and it's quite easy, were it not for [this problem](http://askubuntu.com/questions/20007/libgtk2-0-common-fails-to-build-with-gdk-2-0-gir-error-type-reference-gdkpixbuf). I'll keep at it.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T17:24:57.683",
"id": "21571",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "@fred.bear As it turns out, I was wrong - it *is* defined in Nautilus itself. I've changed the answer now. Please let me know if this works.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T15:27:35.990",
"id": "21716",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "@Stefano... Well it took me a full day, but I finally got there. I decided to first write a script to automatically graft modified-code snippets into the source-file with significant validation re it replacing the right lines.. .I've got 2 snippets now, I figured that was enough reason to automate it :) ..(again another good venture into the land of bash scripting).. However, although it compiled, this particular mod seems to be acting unchanged.. (my other mod did register and my file sizes now say \"Hello 234567 bytes\", so the process works.. Thanks for presenting such a helpful explanation.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "2670"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-05T15:39:24.743",
"id": "21717",
"postId": "19993",
"score": "0",
"text": "That's weird, I'm quite sure this is the correct modification to make. Perhaps it's because I made the same modification in Gtk, but that'd be quite strange (this one has precedence, in this case). In Gtk, the file is `gtk+/gtk/gtktreeview.c` and the time is given in milliseconds. (Just for reference)",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1067"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T12:18:38.307",
"id": "19993",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T16:50:57.760",
"lastEditDate": "2011-01-04T16:50:57.760",
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": "1067",
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "1067",
"parentId": "19958",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "6"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>Unfortunately, the five second delay is hard-coded into Nautilus. Here's how to hack it:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>First, set up your build environment:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install build-essential\nsudo apt-get install devscripts\nsudo apt-get build-dep nautilus\n</code>... | null | 0 | null | null | null |
19962 | 1 | 19966 | 2011-01-04T06:35:21.277 | 1 | 813 | <p>After I paste these scripts into terminal, my wallpaper became white.</p>
<pre><code>sudo ln -s /etc/xdg/xdg-une/autostart/maximus-autostart.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo ln -s /etc/xdg/xdg-une/autostart/netbook-launcher.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/gconf/une/default/20_une-gconf-default /usr/share/gconf/defaults/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/gconf/une/mandatory/20_une-gconf-mandatory /usr/share/gconf/defaults/
sudo update-gconf-defaults
</code></pre>
<p>Help me, I dont know what [-s] for ? and how do i get my wallpaper back.</p>
<p>Best Regards from Newbie</p>
| 8318 | 54298 | 2012-07-09T13:07:17.717 | 2012-07-09T13:07:17.717 | Error with missing Wallpaper after remove unity from sudo command | [
"sudo",
"desktop-background"
] | 2 | 5 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T06:42:49.410",
"id": "21476",
"postId": "19962",
"score": "0",
"text": "What for you enter those commands?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "5691"
},
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T06:49:14.943",
"id": "21477",
"postId": "19962",
"scor... | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>ln -s will make a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">symbolic link</a> to a file. To reverse what you have done just delete the links:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/maximus-autostart.desktop \nsudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/netbook-launcher.desktop \nsudo rm /usr/share/gconf/defaults/20_une-gconf-default \nsudo rm /usr/share/gconf/defaults/20_une-gconf-mandatory \nsudo update-gconf-defaults\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>That should leave the system in the state that was prior the commands.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "1",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T05:01:13.100",
"id": "21817",
"postId": "19966",
"score": "0",
"text": "Thanks 4 d answer. Next time i will be more carefull. Maybe some backup needed",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "8318"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T08:05:51.023",
"id": "19966",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T08:05:51.023",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "211",
"parentId": "19962",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "1"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>It's so funny that i solved my own question. LOL\n.\nSo, after long googling i decided to remove mutter with this commands\nsudo apt-get remove unity</p>\n\n<p>And everything goes perfectly</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
... | null | null | null | null | null |
19964 | 1 | null | 2011-01-04T07:01:05.280 | 0 | 596 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14978/do-i-need-to-replace-my-hard-disk">Do I need to replace my hard disk?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I got the same problem - installing ubuntu. My hard disk is also emitting certain weird noise. What other option do i have rather then replacing my HDD? should i try installing ubuntu through USB. If yes how exactly should i go about with it?</p>
<p>Thanking you in anticipation.</p>
| null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2011-01-04T11:04:33.923 | Hard disk makes weird noises during installation | [
"installation",
"hardware",
"hard-drive"
] | 1 | 3 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T07:22:29.170",
"id": "21479",
"postId": "19964",
"score": "3",
"text": "Could you detail what kind of issues you had while installing Ubuntu ? Did the install process stop at some point with some error message ?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "7567"
... | null | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>If you think you may have hardware issues with your HDD, you should check it's <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">SMART</a> status. Boot your computer with an Ubuntu LiveCD and check your drive status through Disk Utility (System -... | null | null | 2012-12-29T07:20:56.157 | null | pooja |
19969 | 1 | 19972 | 2011-01-04T09:16:39.203 | 4 | 9368 | <p>Will <code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code> also upgrade PHP from 5.2 to 5.3 on my Ubuntu 9.04?</p>
| 5136 | 235 | 2012-03-13T19:00:00.327 | 2012-03-13T19:17:39.433 | Will "apt-get upgrade" also upgrade my PHP version? | [
"upgrade"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>An <code>upgrade</code> will only install security updates. So the short answer is no.</p>\n\n<p>The full answer is, that for 9.04 updates are no longer provided as it has reached the end of its life cycle last October. You should seriously consider updating to a newer release (using <code>sudo do-release-upgrade</code>). Using 10.04 (which is an LTS release) you will get php 5.3.</p>\n",
"commentCount": "0",
"comments": [],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T09:38:45.773",
"id": "19972",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T09:38:45.773",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7411",
"parentId": "19969",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "6"
} | [
{
"accepted": null,
"body": "<p>Ubuntu 9.04 is now out of the update loop, so you're stuck with whatever you've got currently unless you update it manually.</p>\n\n<p>To check the current version, you can:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Check in Synaptic.</li>\n<li>Make a new PHP page containing: <code><?php phpinfo()... | null | 0 | null | null | null |
19970 | 1 | 19974 | 2011-01-04T09:20:40.023 | 14 | 5261 | <p>In order to speed up Android development, I've edited my <code>~/.bashrc</code> to add some paths to <code>PATH</code>:</p>
<pre><code>export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools
</code></pre>
<p>This works just fine from the command line (I can just type <code>android</code> and, no matter where I am, the Android SDK and AVD Manager will start up just fine.</p>
<p>However, if I try to type <code>android</code> in the <kbd>Alt+F2</kbd> dialog (Run Application), it gives the following error:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Could not open location 'file:///home/felix/android'</strong></p>
<p>Error stating file '/home/felix/android': No such file or directory</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why is that? What <code>PATH</code> does the Run Application dialog use?</p>
| 1398 | 449 | 2011-01-18T09:59:52.453 | 2016-07-12T14:30:44.167 | Alt+F2 (Run Application) doesn't work for custom commands | [
"paths"
] | 3 | 0 | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [] | {
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I assume the <code>bashrc</code> is not read by Gnome, and why should it, since it is a config file for <code>bash</code>.</p>\n\n<p>I define my path in <code>~/.profile</code>. This file is definitely read by the Gnome and XFCE environments and should by others as well. (But it is read only on login, so you have to log out and back in any the changes to take effect!)</p>\n",
"commentCount": "3",
"comments": [
{
"creationDate": "2011-01-06T09:49:17.240",
"id": "21842",
"postId": "19974",
"score": "0",
"text": "I moved the `PATH=` statement to `~/.profile` and it works both in Alt+F2 and a terminal. Thanks.",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "1398"
},
{
"creationDate": "2016-07-12T14:27:10.537",
"id": "1202601",
"postId": "19974",
"score": "0",
"text": "In my case, I couldn't figure out how to make the X session to start with a login shell so it would read the `~/.profile`, so I had to change /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "36349"
},
{
"creationDate": "2018-10-06T18:34:39.843",
"id": "1777376",
"postId": "19974",
"score": "1",
"text": "Hey, this is Gnome 3.30.1 speaking, and setting the PATH in `~/.profile` does not work anymore. Is there any update on this?",
"userDisplayName": null,
"userId": "338131"
}
],
"communityOwnedDate": null,
"contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5",
"creationDate": "2011-01-04T09:44:35.017",
"id": "19974",
"lastActivityDate": "2011-01-04T09:44:35.017",
"lastEditDate": null,
"lastEditorDisplayName": null,
"lastEditorUserId": null,
"ownerDisplayName": null,
"ownerUserId": "7411",
"parentId": "19970",
"postTypeId": "2",
"score": "19"
} | [
{
"accepted": true,
"body": "<p>I assume the <code>bashrc</code> is not read by Gnome, and why should it, since it is a config file for <code>bash</code>.</p>\n\n<p>I define my path in <code>~/.profile</code>. This file is definitely read by the Gnome and XFCE environments and should by others as well. (But... | null | null | null | null | null |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.