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20992 | 1 | 21964 | 2011-01-11T02:09:58.150 | 2 | 4291 | <p>Removing the package from cache, and disabling Recommended Updates in Software Sources gives me an error saying I need to install this package.</p>
<p>I've tried to update several times, but it keeps hanging on unpacking the ubuntu-sso-client package. Which forces me to hard-reset to unlock the package manager.</p>
<p>I've tried:</p>
<pre><code>sudo dpkg --configure -a
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<p>No errors</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-broken
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<p>Wants me to reinstall said package, resulting in it hanging</p>
<p>Removing the package:</p>
<pre><code>sudo rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-sso-client_1.0.8-0ubuntu1_all.deb
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<p>Results in the same effect, it re-downloads then hangs</p>
<p>I can de-select Recommended Updates but I get error messages when I try to update again:</p>
<pre><code>E: The package ubuntu-sso-client needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
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<p>Which won't let me continue</p>
<p>Finally re-enabling the source, I try to remove ubuntu-sso</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-sso-client
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<p>It removes a bunch of other packages but complains about the package:</p>
<pre><code>dpkg: error processing ubuntu-sso-client (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
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<p>Reinstalling ubuntu-sso-client hangs :(</p>
<p>I'm at my wits end, any ideas? I would be nice to install all the other updates but this one is preventing it.</p>
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21002 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T04:14:45.987 | 2 | 7029 | <p>I've isnstalled phpMyAdmin with <code>apt-get install phpmyadmin</code>. When I open "http://localhost/phpmyadmin/", enter "root" as the user name and my MySQL root password and press go, then if I use Firefox, I get offered to download index.php file (and if I agree to download, the file is empty), if I use Opera 11, it says " Connection closed by remote server". What may the reason be and how to fix it?</p>
<p>I use up-to-date Xubuntu 11.04. Reinstalling phpmyadmin did not help, neither did removing AppArmor.</p>
<p>I've tried to use SQLBuddy instead, but there's exactly the same problem. So, I think, the problem is not in phpMyAdmin but in Apache or something.</p>
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21003 | 1 | 21005 | 2011-01-11T04:29:56.120 | 5 | 482 | <p>What is the "desktop couch scratch" folder, and what do I do with it, if anything?</p>
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21004 | 1 | 21009 | 2011-01-11T04:35:01.877 | 5 | 4468 | <p>I have two computers.</p>
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<p>I'd like to access apt repositories to update or install some packages on Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I heard, apt-cacher is one of solutions, but I couldn't find apt-cacher for Windows (It is only one, I have, with Internet connection).</p>
<p>Please let me know how to do.</p>
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21006 | 1 | 21160 | 2011-01-11T05:24:20.057 | 1 | 1354 | <p>I am on 10.10 and have been able to get connected to a VPN server. But the problem is I can't open any other sites when I am connected to VPN.</p>
<p>It's working in Win though, where I was able to browse any sites and the VPN site at the same time without issues. </p>
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21007 | 1 | 21020 | 2011-01-11T05:50:01.327 | 2 | 156 | <p>After attempting to install quickly with:</p>
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<p>I got a postfix (mail daemon) configuration screen. Why do I need it to use quickly and how should I configure it? I read/write mail on my browser (gmail...).</p>
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21010 | 1 | 21121 | 2011-01-11T06:14:22.607 | 5 | 861 | <p>Will Ubuntu have something like Google App Inventor to easily develop applications for the Ubuntu platform? Is Quickly intended to do that? I heard Ubuntu is planing to make easy and fun to develop for Ubuntu platform. How is it going to be accomplished?</p>
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21013 | 1 | 21116 | 2011-01-11T08:29:23.567 | 1 | 734 | <p>I'm using the Docky ppa, and since the latest update it won't start. If I run it from the terminal, this is what I get:</p>
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[Info 09:21:19.024] Kernel version: 2.6.35.24
[Info 09:21:19.026] CLR version: 2.0.50727.1433
[Debug 09:21:19.493] [UserArgs] BufferTime = 0
[Debug 09:21:19.494] [UserArgs] MaxSize = 2147483647
[Debug 09:21:19.494] [UserArgs] NetbookMode = False
[Debug 09:21:19.494] [UserArgs] NoPollCursor = False
[Debug 09:21:19.528] [SystemService] Using org.freedesktop.UPower for battery information
[Info 09:21:19.564] [ThemeService] Setting theme: Transparent
[Debug 09:21:19.587] [DesktopItemService] Loading remap file '/usr/share/docky/remaps.ini'.
[Debug 09:21:19.599] [DesktopItemService] Remapping 'Picasa3.exe' to 'picasa'.
[Debug 09:21:19.599] [DesktopItemService] Remapping 'nbexec' to 'netbeans'.
[Debug 09:21:19.599] [DesktopItemService] Remapping 'deja-dup-preferences' to 'deja-dup'.
[Debug 09:21:19.599] [DesktopItemService] Remapping 'VirtualBox' to 'virtualbox'.
[Warn 09:21:19.600] [DesktopItemService] Could not find remap file '/home/lasse/.local/share/docky/remaps.ini'!
[Debug 09:21:19.602] [DesktopItemService] Loading desktop item cache '/home/lasse/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.en_DK.utf8.cache'.
[Info 09:21:20.101] [DockServices] Dock services initialized.
[Debug 09:21:20.134] [DBusManager] DBus Registered: org.gnome.Docky
[Debug 09:21:20.142] [DBusManager] DBus Registered: net.launchpad.DockManager
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at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.IO.MonoIO.Read (intptr,byte[],int,int,System.IO.MonoIOError&) <IL 0x00012, 0x00062>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.IO.MonoIO.Read (intptr,byte[],int,int,System.IO.MonoIOError&) <IL 0x00012, 0x00062>
at System.IO.FileStream.ReadData (intptr,byte[],int,int) <IL 0x00009, 0x00047>
at System.IO.FileStream.RefillBuffer () <IL 0x0001c, 0x0002b>
at System.IO.FileStream.ReadByte () <IL 0x00079, 0x000c7>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.ReadNext () <IL 0x0000b, 0x00031>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <IL 0x0003c, 0x00053>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <IL 0x00047, 0x0005f>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <IL 0x00047, 0x0005f>
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<p>And this .Skip () continues infinitely, and very fast.
I've tried cleaning the cache and reinstalling docky, but without luck.</p>
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21018 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T09:27:22.663 | 0 | 4013 | <p>I am trying to learn image processing and obviously opencv is one of the best options. Usually synaptic does all my installing work for me so I just checked the repos. But in the repos there is only on libcv1 and it is listed as 1.0.0-6.2ubuntu1. Does that mean it is version 1.0 of opencv? Also I found this page in community wiki</p>
<p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenCV" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenCV</a></p>
<p>It says I need to install libcv4 which is not in my repos. I also downloaded the source but it uses something called cmake, never used it before. Is it similar to make?</p>
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21019 | 1 | 65518 | 2011-01-11T09:31:35.663 | 45 | 1376 | <p>I am considering buying "Ubuntu Desktop Support" from Canonical for 2 reasons:</p>
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<li>I have a couple of issues that I would like professional help with. (Specifically a recurring kernel panic, and a slow wireless connection.)</li>
<li>I would like to lend a helping hand toward supporting Ubuntu financially.</li>
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<p>However, I am a bit worried that once I transfer the money, they will end up just referring me to the bug tracker on Launchpad. </p>
<p>Also, free support options like this site have the pleasant property that they are open to the internet, meaning that if my issue gets fixed, it is more likely to help others with the same problem.</p>
<p>What does paying for support from Canonical actually get you?</p>
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<p>I've downloaded <code>Jmol-12.1.16-full.tar.gz</code>, what do I need to do with it?</p>
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21023 | 1 | 21270 | 2011-01-11T10:02:24.197 | 3 | 1247 | <p>A while ago, my Search Toolbar bar went missing in dolphin.</p>
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<p>I tried reconfiguring with dpkg, purging and reinstalling, etc.</p>
<p>I left it alone as I thought it would be fixed in an update, but today I upgraded dolphin and it's still gone. This appears to be a 4.6 bug or something.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
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21024 | 1 | 21057 | 2011-01-11T10:15:32.037 | 4 | 2997 | <p>we have a collection of old home videos that were saved in AVI format a long time ago. I want to convert these files to a more modern format because the Totem Movie Player that comes with Ubuntu 10.4 seems to be the only program capable of playing them. </p>
<p>The files seem to be encoded with a MJPEG codec, and playing them in VLC or Windows Media Player plays only the sound but there is no video.</p>
<p><strong>Avidemux</strong> was able to open the files, but the quality of the video is severely degraded: The video skips frames and is interlaced (it's not interlaced when playing it in Totem). </p>
<p>Neither <strong>ffmpeg</strong> nor <strong>mencoder</strong> seems to be able to read the video stream. mencoder reports that it is using ffmpeg's codec. Here's a section from its output:</p>
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Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
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[mjpeg @ 0x92a7260]mjpeg: error using external huffman table, switching back to internal
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<p>while running <code>ffmpeg</code> produces the following:</p>
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Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 720x544, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 1411 kb/s
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Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x544, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 0 fps= 0 q=0.0 Lsize= 143kB time=15.23 bitrate= 76.9kbits/s
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<p>So the problem is that output does not contain any video, as evidenced by the <code>video:0kB</code> at the end.</p>
<p>In all of the above cases the audio comes out fine.</p>
<p>So my question is: What can I do to convert these files to a more modern format with more modern codecs?</p>
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<p>The problem is, this cryptfs mapper disappears after boot, so I putting the appropriate line in fstab fails.</p>
<p>How do I set the cryptfs to prompt for password and unlock the drive <strong>at boot</strong>?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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21027 | 1 | 21031 | 2011-01-11T10:36:16.277 | 30 | 15370 | <p>As noted in the Ubuntu <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails">wiki page on Rails</a> it is recommended that gems manages your Rails/Ruby dependencies.</p>
<p>What is the best practise with Python packages like Django? Should I install them through apt-get or should I let easy_install/pip fetch them from PyPi?</p>
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<p>Edit:</p>
<p>Not letting web pages to use their own fonts also doesn't help:</p>
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<p>See how the upper one is still sharper?</p>
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21033 | 1 | 21040 | 2011-01-11T11:52:51.873 | 59 | 19995 | <p>Is there any difference between the behavior of <code>gksu foo</code> and <code>gksudo foo</code>? <br/>
Can they be used interchangeably? <br/></p>
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21039 | 1 | 21087 | 2011-01-11T12:19:11.310 | 6 | 8698 | <p>In my Ubuntu 9.10 installation, I notice that the process gvfs-afc-volume-monitor causes my CPU core to go to 100% (that means for my dual-core machine to 50%).</p>
<p>Killing this process helps, but I see it repeating later on (not sure if this happens after restart/relogin or not).</p>
<p>What can I do to prevent this from happening?</p>
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21044 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T12:52:49.713 | 3 | 1356 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/32499/migrate-from-a-virtual-box-vm-to-a-physical-system">Migrate from a virtual box vm to a physical system.</a> </p>
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<p>how to install VMware image on a hard drive partition? </p>
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21046 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T13:02:22.130 | 5 | 3285 | <p>I am looking for a good publishing tool to write articles. I saw the book <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449382674/?CMP=ILC-hf1st" rel="noreferrer">"Head First Python" from O'Reily Media</a> and found it really interesting, the way they present things in the book. </p>
<p>I am looking to organize my articles in similar fashion. I am looking for a similar publishing tool in Ubuntu or Windows. I would prefer a open source alternative. </p>
<p>Regards
Kiran</p>
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21050 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T13:13:37.140 | 7 | 904 | <p>I am working on a project that is based on Urdu language in Ubuntu platform. I'm using Python language and have almost achieved my task.</p>
<p>The problem is that, the Urdu text is rendered in reverse order.</p>
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<p>When copying this text to Open Office or opening the generated XML file in Firefox,
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<p>I Am using Python 2.6 IDLE, its working perfect with Windows platform, which clearly shows its not the problem of IDLE. Am working on TKINTER GUI library.</p>
<p>How can this problem be solved?</p>
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21051 | 1 | 21534 | 2011-01-11T13:20:42.047 | 1 | 903 | <p>I'd like to use my mobile phone (Nokia E71) as a handset for incoming calls in Skype/Empathy.</p>
<p>I know this basically means that I have to configure it as a PulseAudio device, but I wasn't able to do that.</p>
<p>Following <a href="http://discoverylinux.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/bluetooth-audio-con-pulseaudio-in-jaunty-2/" rel="nofollow">a guide</a> (in Italian, sorry), I installed pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and BlueMan, but the latter sees the phone as a "Smartphone", not allowing me choose other profiles.</p>
<p>Can you help me?</p>
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21052 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T13:22:59.203 | 7 | 789 | <p>I have made Ubuntu my primary OS since 10.04, and I have converted many of my friends and neighbors into Ubuntu users since then. I am the fix-it guy they approach when they encounter problems. The most frantic calls I get are when they encounter an "update-induced kernel panic." (<em>Many human beings are allergic to command-line interfaces and search engines.</em>)<br/></p>
<p>What are the step-by-step procedures to resolve an "update-induced kernel panic"? </p>
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21056 | 1 | 21061 | 2011-01-11T13:50:19.310 | 21 | 16148 | <p>Is there a way to stop ClamScan eating my server CPU?</p>
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21059 | 1 | 23514 | 2011-01-11T13:59:55.027 | 4 | 3357 | <p>Was anyone able to install packetfence on Ubuntu 10.10? I tried a <a href="http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/386610%3ainstall-packetfence-for-powerful-network-access-control" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a>, but didn't have any luck. Some of the services installed and are working apache with php, snort, pfdetect, and pfdhcplistener. I can even get info from it, but for the life of me I can't get it to work with apache2. </p>
<p>When I run <code>pfcmd service pf start</code> I also get an error <code>uninitialized value $_[7] in join at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/class.pm line 170</code></p>
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21066 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T14:39:55.550 | 4 | 4351 | <p>I have a rather long spreadsheet with historical information of issues solved by some user on a collaborative environment. </p>
<p>The spreadsheet have the following (relevant) columns</p>
<p>date, week no., project, author id, etc...</p>
<p>The week no. is calculated from the date, is basically the year concatenated with the week number within that year; for instance, both 2009-02-18 and 2009-02-20 yield the week number 200908 - the 8th week of year 2009; and 2009-02-23 yields 200909 - the 9th week of year 2009.</p>
<p>I need to count how many different users (given by author id) contributed to some project, on a weekly basis.</p>
<p>I have setup a data pilot with the week as Row Field, the project as the Column Field, and count-author as the Data Field. However, this counts the author id as different instances. This is not what I need. I need to count how many <strong>different</strong> users contributed to each project on a weekly basis.</p>
<p>I expect to get something like:</p>
<pre><code> projects
week Project1 Project2 Project3
200901 10 2
200902 2 7
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<p>Each inner cell containing how many different users contributed. With the count-author configuration, what I get is how many contributions (total) got the project on that week.</p>
<p>Is there a way to tell OpenOffice Calc to do what I want?</p>
<p>UPDATE: Following the suggestion given by other users, this question is now posted on Super User: <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/232339/openoffice-calc-how-can-i-count-the-number-of-different-items-with-data-pilot">https://superuser.com/questions/232339/openoffice-calc-how-can-i-count-the-number-of-different-items-with-data-pilot</a></p>
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21070 | 1 | 21113 | 2011-01-11T15:22:56.973 | 12 | 16457 | <p>I want to insert an item to System menu:</p>
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<li>About Ubuntu </li>
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<p>More specifically, I want to insert a new item under "About Ubuntu".</p>
<p>Trying with alacarte doesn't work. Cloning "ubuntu-about.desktop" file and changing his attributes doesn't work too (I even rebooted the computer after that). Searching for categories in "/usr/share/desktop-directories" haven't worked too, and searching for "core" and "about" entries in /etc/xdc/menus neither. It isn't as easy as I thought it would be.</p>
<p>Anyone have any suggestions?</p>
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21075 | 1 | 21076 | 2011-01-11T16:34:28.303 | 4 | 1014 | <p>My hard disk partitioning scheme is like this: </p>
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<p>I had made such a partitioning scheme assuming that I could perform a full re-install without disturbing my data. Now if I am to do it (re-install Ubuntu), how should I proceed?</p>
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21079 | 1 | 21693 | 2011-01-11T16:57:08.080 | 3 | 1661 | <pre><code>#!/bin/bash
#
# list of synaptics device properties http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/synaptics.4.html#sect4
# list current synaptics device properties: xinput list-props '"SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"'
#
sleep 5 #added delay...
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 8 1
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xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Width" 9 # Below width 1 finger touch, above width simulate 2 finger touch. - value=pad-pixels
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 1 1 0 # vertical, horizontal, corner - values: 0=disable 1=enable
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold" 250 # stabilize 2 finger actions - value=pad-pixels
#xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 # pad corners rt rb lt lb tap fingers 1 2 3 (can't simulate more then 2 tap fingers AFAIK) - values: 0=disable 1=left 2=middle 3=right etc. (in FF 8=back 9=forward)
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 1 0 # vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling - values: 0=disable 1=enable
#xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Circular Scrolling" 1
#xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger" 3
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<p>Hello everybody...
The above script allowed me to use happily multitouch for a month...
Now if I do a two fingers scrolling the mouse cursor just runs on the screen like possessed...
Any hints?</p>
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21082 | 1 | 21206 | 2011-01-11T17:05:05.240 | 6 | 7288 | <p>I run a few Ubuntu servers that have a load of django sites running on them. The sites and the httpd start at boot and after that (apart from me SSHing in to update it or using bzr to update websites) nothing else gets run on it.</p>
<p>At the moment over half the ram is allocated as cache. This isn't a problem because cache usually makes space or a little bit of it slips into swap (again, this doesn't really bother me) but I don't see the need for it.</p>
<p>Is there a quick way to disable the cache? This is more of an experiment than anything else so it would be handy to know how to turn it back on again.</p>
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21088 | 1 | 32794 | 2011-01-11T17:22:42.123 | 6 | 7524 | <p>I have setup u VPN connection to our Windows 2008 server at the office and it seems to work fine.</p>
<p>For some reason, however, I still am not able to access the network shares over a VPN connection using my standard fstab entries. When I am physically connected to the network, it works fine, but now when trying this over VPN I get the following error:</p>
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Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
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<p>My <code>/etc/fstab</code> looks like this:</p>
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<p>As said, it works fine when physically connected, but over VPN it just wont work.</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
<p>It seems the Windows firewall is making things harder on me. When I turn it off, I get a bit further, although I still get the following error message:</p>
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<p>The strange thing is that I have file sharing added as an exception to the firewall. Port 137-139 and port 445 are open, which should suffice, shouldn't it?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT Jan 20th:</strong></p>
<p>Still not working. When I have the firewall turned on, it times out. When I turn it off, I get the not suitable address error. Turning the firewall off is not an option, by the way.</p>
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21093 | 1 | 21102 | 2011-01-11T18:09:24.117 | 6 | 149 | <p>When I click on the Help Center Icon in the 'System' menu, it takes more than a minute to launch the program. More than a minute, for a text only program seeming like a website!</p>
<p>All my other programs work fine, and I saw this problem also on other computers.</p>
<p>Is there a reason for this? Will it be fixed? I think it is an important issue for beginners.</p>
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21097 | 1 | 41067 | 2011-01-11T18:12:42.467 | 13 | 7279 | <p>I have the Microsoft C-Fonts installed, and they're wonderful. However, Calibri appears as a bitmap font in a lot of the sizes that it appears. How do I tell fontconfig to forbid Calibri (and Cambria,etc.) from being rendered from the embedded bitmaps? I already have <code>70-no-bitmaps.conf</code> in my <code>/etc/fonts/conf.d/</code> directory.</p>
<p>The fonts in question can be <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/calibri-linux-vista-fonts-download.html">extracted from the PowerPoint Viewer</a>.</p>
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21098 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T18:14:54.520 | 2 | 799 | <p>After installing a wireless keyboard and mouse I cannot shutdown my pc.</p>
<p>I have tried to shut down from the console as well, but the result doesn't change.
How can resolve my problem?
thanks in advance</p>
<p>ciao
h.</p>
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21100 | 1 | 21103 | 2011-01-11T18:37:06.183 | 1 | 1088 | <p>I'm new to Linux so this probably should be an easy fix, but I cannot see it.</p>
<p>I have a script downloaded from official sources that is used to install additional tools for fsharp but it gives me a syntax error when running it.</p>
<p>I tried to replace ( and ) by { and } but eventually it lead me to another error so I think this is not the problem since the script works for everybody. I read some articles that say that my bash version maybe is not the right one.</p>
<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and here is the error:</p>
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install-bonus.sh: 28: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")
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<p>And this is line 27, 28 and 29:</p>
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<p>And the full script:</p>
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#! /bin/sh -e
PREFIX=/usr
BIN=$PREFIX/bin
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echo "$1" >&2
echo "Installation aborted." >&2
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sed "s,INSERTGDKPATH,$GDKDIR,g" load-gtk2.fsx > load-gtk3.fsx
sed "s,INSERTATKPATH,$ATKDIR,g" load-gtk3.fsx > load-gtk4.fsx
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<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
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21101 | 1 | 22929 | 2011-01-11T18:48:42.413 | 6 | 33119 | <p>When I tried to move one of my partitions, I got some error messages. Here are some extracts:</p>
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finding optimal blocksize
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22527034 of 113357882 read
Error while reading block at sector 385849832
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Input/output error during read on /dev/sda
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<p>What should I do to effectively move my partition?</p>
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21104 | 1 | 21105 | 2011-01-11T18:55:29.073 | 3 | 21288 | <p>I have XAMPP installed, and need to edit my <code>httpd.conf</code> file to add a virtual host block. If I right-click on the file in Nautilus and open with <em>gedit</em>, I can see all the content, but it's read-only. </p>
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<p>It opens the root version of gedit, but there's no content in the file.</p>
<p>How can I edit this file?</p>
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21115 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T20:06:32.747 | 1 | 286 | <p>I don't like the way of working with the 10.10 netbook and want to use desktop. I'm using Wubi and I'm new to ubuntu! Is there a way, simple switch between those two?</p>
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21118 | 1 | 21158 | 2011-01-11T20:27:09.357 | 5 | 1581 | <p>I don't even know how those tools are called together, but i think they make linux a very powerful OS. Do you know any good tutorials to learn those?</p>
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21119 | 1 | 22660 | 2011-01-11T20:40:28.230 | 3 | 991 | <p>Has anyone been able to use any M-Audio midi devices successfully? (the box says Mac only). I am using an M-Audio KeyStudio 25.</p>
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21120 | 1 | 21167 | 2011-01-11T20:45:15.943 | 5 | 4386 | <p>I just installed the current build for Ubuntu on a partition for my work computer. I am a novice when it comes to Linux/Ubuntu, which is why I installed it along side windows. I want to learn how to operate and use Ubuntu much more than I do now, so I figured installing it and trying to do day to day functions here would be a "Thrown into the pool with sharks" way to do it, and I like that way.</p>
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<li>We are on a Domain in Windows, is there any way to join that domain using the Ubuntu partition?</li>
<li>We Also have 16 mapped network drives. I don't actually need ALL of them mapped for Ubuntu, but is there a way to Map at least one of them to see/use here in Ubuntu.</li>
<li>Outlook Corporate email, how can I sign in/use it while...well, you get the idea.</li>
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<p>As I said earlier, I am VERY new to Ubuntu, i've only played around with it a bit at home and never at the office. If you could simplify it down for me a bit, that would be great.</p>
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21122 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T21:04:42.173 | 1 | 364 | <p>I have the following problem with tomboy notes. There are some notes that I cannot delete. The delete button is greyed out. If I look on Ubuntu One, under notes, these notes do not show in the left pane but show under recent activity. eg "# (Untitled 10) was updated"</p>
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21125 | 1 | 21129 | 2011-01-11T21:12:44.913 | 2 | 372 | <p>Currently I have way to many indicators/icons on my system tray. Is it possible that auto hide will be added in future Ubuntu versions?</p>
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21131 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T21:46:54.717 | 49 | 201223 | <p>Ubuntu seems to favour OpenJDK/JRE very much over Sun JDK/JRE. Even after I installed Sun JRE, JDK and plugin and spent some time plucking out OpenJDK-related packages, apt-get has installed them back with some packages as a dependency. Can this behaviour be corrected in favour of Sun Java packages? I'd like to have one and only Java stack installed (yes, it's a bit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder">OCD</a>, but I like to have my systems clean) and want it to be Sun Java.</p>
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21136 | 1 | 21140 | 2011-01-11T22:18:29.443 | 38 | 29979 | <p>Is there any way to debug bash script without using echo and logging?</p>
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21142 | 1 | 21149 | 2011-01-11T22:55:29.473 | 7 | 4824 | <p>Is there any defragmenter out there for ext3?</p>
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21144 | 1 | 21153 | 2011-01-11T23:24:55.573 | 25 | 10622 | <p>My workstation has two Geforce 7300GTs and three monitors, and I'd like to put them to good use. Dual monitors works out of the box, but triple doesn't. How can I get the third monitor up and going when the Monitor Prefs dialog only shows two?</p>
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21145 | 1 | 21162 | 2011-01-11T23:35:30.780 | 2 | 311 | <p>I have a postinstall script that runs after my preseed install that checks /proc/cpuinfo for vmx or svm flags and if the server has them, it installs kvm packages. The only problem is due to the install running in a chroot /target directory, there is no /proc/cpuinfo to look at. The "lshw" command doesn't have the goods either. Any thoughts on how this can otherwise be accomplished?</p>
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21146 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T23:37:37.220 | 10 | 5034 | <p>I would like to</p>
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<p>How do I acheive this?</p>
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21148 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T00:27:30.840 | 1 | 3413 | <p>The sheet tabs in Open Office Calc appear very pixelated to me. Also the buttons to change tabs are very tiny.</p>
<p><strong>Screenshot:</strong><br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/92nhQ.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>Is there a way to fix this appearance? All the functionality is there, but it's bugging me. Hopefully this helps some other people too.</p>
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21151 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T01:52:36.057 | 16 | 45947 | <p>I've seen the documentation on Blu-Ray Restricted formats <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD" rel="noreferrer">here</a> but I'm looking to see if anyone has come up with an easy solution yet? Also it would be awesome if someone knows of any type of program that provides mkv compression. </p>
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21154 | 1 | 21156 | 2011-01-12T03:22:03.330 | 16 | 8467 | <p>I recently bought my first Android phone (HTC Legend). Now I want to develop for it!! :)
Is it possible under Ubuntu and what is the best tool? Eclipse or IntelliJ or maybe something else? </p>
<p>UPD: It takes about a year for me (sorry my lazyness ;) But this is my first Android app - <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxsoft.balls" rel="nofollow">https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxsoft.balls</a>
Created by Eclipse + ADT in Ubuntu 11.10!</p>
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21161 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T04:25:43.590 | 5 | 6329 | <p>Hi i have a newly installed version of ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. When i run windows, the fan is working properly and is not making sound. but when i run ubuntu, its making sound and is runnning more faster. what could be the problem. Is there any way of rectifying it.</p>
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21163 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T04:30:23.250 | 4 | 1884 | <p>what is the best input format for Cinelerra? I have tried various combinations of video and audio formats, but none has worked so far. Advance thanks!</p>
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21170 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T05:32:24.017 | 4 | 518 | <p>I have more than 100 contacts on my iphone. When i sync with Ubuntu One App, only 44 contacts appears in Ubuntu One ... What is the problem ?
What can I do to have all my contacts sync ?</p>
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21171 | 1 | 21219 | 2011-01-12T05:36:35.720 | 7 | 4711 | <p>My new server got hacked (sigh).</p>
<p>I have physical access to my machine. It seems like the only changes made was a new user account created and a broken <code>/etc/sudoers</code> file.</p>
<p>It seems as though the password was discovered by dictionary attack. </p>
<p>After I fix these problems (or do a full re-install?), I want to add a mechanism to ban an IP (for maybe 24 hours or some time limit) after getting the password wrong x number of times, but I'm not a unix sysadmin or anything, so I'm not really sure where to get started.</p>
<p>What software should I use and how can I configure it?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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21173 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T05:54:30.503 | 2 | 3648 | <p>Inside the Virtual Machine ,running Ubuntu, I can ping outside machines and can even connect to the internet, but outside machines can not ping me except my host Windows machine,</p>
<p>The VMware Image use bridge mode and The IP of the Ubuntu is get from DHCP.</p>
<p>What could be catchy here and how to diagnose it? Thanks.</p>
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21175 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T06:03:19.837 | 7 | 1567 | <p>I would like to know if the i915 driver supports all the features of DirectFB. I don't know whether this is the right way to ask what I have in my mind. When I look at the code, I find that it support just 'fill rectangle' and 'image blitting'. Is that all or does it support more? Please guide me.</p>
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21177 | 1 | 23400 | 2011-01-12T06:40:34.237 | 2 | 385 | <p>I have installed nautilus elementary as per this <strong><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-nautilus-elementary-ppa.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">instruction</a></strong>.Installation went fine. But some of icons are missing.</p>
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<p>And there is no Edit <strong>→</strong> Preferences <strong>→</strong> Tweaks tab. Also the keyboard shortcuts <kbd>F7</kbd> and <kbd>F4</kbd> is not working. Toolbar is not customizable. Am i missing something?. How can i make it work properly.</p>
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21182 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T07:06:05.267 | 1 | 14902 | <p>I have an AIR 2.0 application which makes a request to the server which can take more than 1 minute. Sadly due to this <a href="https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-4934" rel="nofollow">bug</a> the request timeouts after 30 seconds. There is a workaround, but is only available for Windows. Could you tell me how to do the same thing in Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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21183 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T07:11:13.827 | 2 | 575 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10008/how-to-make-keyboard-work-like-osx-system-wide">How to make keyboard work like OSX System Wide?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 on my MacBookPro6.2, and I'd like to remap the following keys:</p>
<p>Right-Alt -> Right-cmd <br>
Right-command (apple key) -> Right-Alt <br></p>
<p>how do i do this? thanks for all your help</p>
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21186 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T07:50:42.700 | 2 | 829 | <p>I've bought a vps server a few days ago, with Ubuntu on it, but I have a problem now. By nearly all the commands I put in I get this error: : command not found. I am logging in as root. I think this is the Ubuntu version I have: ubuntu-8.04-i386-minimal. (Maybe it has to do with 'minimal'? I really don't know.)</p>
<p>To be more specific, the command I have and try to run now is this, </p>
<pre><code>cd ~/mclawl
screen -S MCForge -d -m -c /dev/null -- sh -c 'mono MCForge.exe
exec $SHELL'
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<p>If I do so, I get this,</p>
<p><code>-bash: screen: command not found</code></p>
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21188 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T07:54:14.997 | 7 | 2129 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/43621/what-if-i-accidently-run-command-chmod">What if I accidently run command chmod</a> </p>
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<p>I changed file permissions recursively on the root directory '/' with <code>sudo chmod / 777 -R</code> and after that i run "save mode" and i was changed main directories like a sys, boot, root , etc using (<code>sudo chmod 440 /etc -R</code>) etc and after that can't boot system because many of process don't have permissions. </p>
<p>Please help. </p>
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21192 | 1 | 21200 | 2011-01-12T08:50:27.900 | 2 | 1119 | <p>Is there any magical or non-magical way to increase screen resolution for my monitor that officially does 1366 x 768? With my graphics card, I could do 1920, and when I actually do that, the image is very "unclean" on the screen...</p>
<p>I run Ubuntu 10.10, on an HP Pavilion with a GeForce 315. My monitor is a HD ready Samsung LE32C450... my smaller previous monitor had no problem showing a 1920 resolution, and my obvious mishap was to assume a much bigger screen would support at least this same resolution...</p>
<p>Any tips would be greatly appreciated!</p>
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21207 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T11:44:02.113 | 7 | 1967 | <p>I'm having some issues when connecting to my house's wifi from my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop.</p>
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The same network works with no issues on the same laptop when running Win7, and on other wireless networks when running Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Is there a Network Manager log which I can take a look at for troubleshooting the issue? Are there any tools for checking the wifi status?</p>
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21208 | 1 | 21210 | 2011-01-12T12:13:59.403 | 8 | 763 | <p>I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my desktop box. I have got a new laptop and I will be using it from now on. But I will have to do the setup all over again (setting up applications/updates). Plus many of my preferences and tweaks I've had in my desktop will be lost and those too I will have to all over again. </p>
<p>Is there an easy way where I can just take image or something and use it in my laptop??</p>
<p>Any help/pointers/links are much appreciated.</p>
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21211 | 1 | 21212 | 2011-01-12T12:52:41.790 | 4 | 2724 | <p>I've installed Dropbox on Ubuntu Server 9.10 using <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-dropbox-in-ubuntu-9-10karmic9-04jaunty8-10intrepid8-04hardy.html" rel="nofollow">these instructions</a>, however I am struggling to find out what to do next. Other help pages are related to those with a GUI.</p>
<p>Running <code>dropbox status</code> returns: <code>Dropbox isn't responding!</code></p>
<p>How do I login to my existing Dropbox account and choose a folder for it to start using?</p>
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21216 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T13:30:34.643 | 2 | 128 | <p>All 22 show up in the download queue within Rhythmbox. The queuing feature never really works there anyway though, so I usually go to the web site, click on Files/Purchased Music/band/track to get what I purchased.</p>
<p>This has worked well for other albums, but 'Greatest Hit ... (and 21 other pretty cool songs) has been showing 10 tracks for the past 17 hours. Any clues?</p>
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21217 | 1 | 21218 | 2011-01-12T13:37:57.630 | 7 | 13942 | <p>How can I create in Network Manager, multiple wired lan connection configuration for the same wired card?
I use to move between a lot of offices where I need to change my network config (IP, Mask, ecc) is it possible to create or save different configurations for the same network card and activate the right one time by time?</p>
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21221 | 1 | 21226 | 2011-01-12T14:07:43.397 | 3 | 300 | <p>I found that if I build any binary on Ubuntu 10.10, then it doesn't execute on some older Linuxes. It is because Ubuntu uses a very new C library, called EGLIBC. Most of the desktop Linux systems use GLIBC. </p>
<p>I would like to know whether there is any standard method how to redistribute binary programs built on a modern Ubuntu so that they can be executed on any older Linux system ? </p>
<p>How to find all required dependencies (glibc version, dynamic libraries) ?</p>
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21223 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T14:11:14.493 | 7 | 1056 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrativeroot-password">How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?</a> </p>
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<p>I inherited a machine with Ubuntu desktop installed. It has a password in place and I have no idea what the password may be. I cannot get to the command line to use the methods I have found online. No matter how many times I press "Shift" during the boot process it still goes all the way to the desktop login. I never see grub. I am not sure which version I have but I think may be 9 or 10. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Doug
<hr>
OK, chapter II</p>
<p>I have 10.04.1, btw.</p>
<p>I tried holding the shift key down and got to the boot menu. Mine was titled <strong>GNU GRUB 1.98-1unbuntu7</strong> </p>
<p>It has several kernels listed but none say...Ubuntu, KERNEL. Instead mine says (along with several older versions)</p>
<p>Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-generic. </p>
<p>I pressed 'e' on that one anyway and got a page that shows:</p>
<p>recordfail<br>
insmod ext2<br>
set root = '(hd0,1)'<br>
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set (long id number)<br>
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID (same long number) ro quiet splash<br>
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic </p>
<p>When I try to addd rw init=/bin/bash and hit ESC, then e again it is gone. If I try to reboot (ctrl-X) after entering the above it goes to the locked desktop. </p>
<p>I also tried the Live CD (I have 8.04.1 on CD). That worked, up until I tried to mount the existing HD. It said it was ext4 and was not compatible. I used the Partition manager and it showed that partition was ext3. {shrug}</p>
<p>I booted into recovery mode and can get to the root command line. It shows the machine name but I am not sure where I need to go from there though to find the user info. Maybe CD /dev/sdb?? I know root is a no-no and I don't want to break it .. . I just want to get in and not have to reinstall!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Doug</p>
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21225 | 1 | 21233 | 2011-01-12T14:21:23.657 | 3 | 358 | <p>I have a patch named "incator.patch". How can I apply that to the application "indicator applet" and get it running? The bug will solve a bug with key-binding caused by "indicator applet". </p>
<p>Patch is here : launchpadlibrarian.net/52193166/hotkey.patch .</p>
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21231 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T15:10:51.510 | 2 | 1359 | <p>I try to install mysql-server on my Ubuntu vps server, and it's able to install, but not to configure. If it tries to configure I get this: </p>
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<p>Does someone know a solution to this? </p>
<p>Btw, my other question can be closed, it's solved, but I cant comment on it anymore.</p>
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21234 | 1 | 65143 | 2011-01-12T15:29:58.117 | 5 | 457 | <p>I need to write a manual to the software I made. If it possible to use gettext when writing a manual, or other documents?</p>
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21237 | 1 | 21576 | 2011-01-12T15:35:00.803 | 8 | 10968 | <p>I'm having a problem with my subversion in Ubuntu, and it's happening only on my computer, my colleagues are working fine. It asks for password for user "(null)":</p>
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<p>entering the password it shows:</p>
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<p>What can be causing that (again: it's just on my computer, the svn server is ok).</p>
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21238 | 1 | 21241 | 2011-01-12T16:01:55.110 | 2 | 12350 | <p>TP-LINK TL-WN722N is a usb antenna for wireless network.</p>
<p>The antenna cames with a cd for windows (and works just fine), but how can I install it on Ubuntu? It's not recognizing alone.</p>
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21243 | 1 | 21251 | 2011-01-12T17:29:51.477 | 6 | 1293 | <p>I work on a team with several other developers. We all have similar hardware and we all run at least the same base development software. We are wishing to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 doing a clean install. </p>
<p>I am looking for a way to do a base install of Ubuntu, including all our common applications, then clone it to each of the developers drives and then let them further customize their own install.</p>
<p>Some considerations would be giving the developer the ability to have their own person id and not the same as which the base install was done with. I know they do this on VMware installs and corporate installs of Windows that can then be customized, but I have not seen this done with Ubuntu yet.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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21249 | 1 | 21336 | 2011-01-12T18:08:04.520 | 3 | 801 | <p>Where can I see a list of supported bluetooth drivers?</p>
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21252 | 1 | 21294 | 2011-01-12T18:43:06.803 | 4 | 517 | <p>The anti-aliasing of my system (of GTK?) has gone weird after I did one of two things - do a system update, and install gimp 2.7 beta. See images:</p>
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<p>Here's the current rendering comparison between Chromium, Firefox and Opera (in that order):</p>
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<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kg8rR.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CXthy.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>Does anyone know how I can get the old anti-aliasing back? As far as I can tell, I never did anything special to achieve that before. It has always been on the default settings since I installed Lucid few months ago.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> I have tried different settings (even though I knew they were already at the "best" settings) in appearance > fonts ( > details) but, as expected, any change there only makes things worse.</p>
<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> One/some of these packages are to blame I'm sure:</p>
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libc-dev-bin (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
libc6 (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.6) to 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7
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21254 | 1 | 21255 | 2011-01-12T18:54:14.383 | 2 | 1664 | <p>Every time I login into my desktop, pidgin start behind, and sometimes it's annoying me - <em>e.g. when I'm not connected to Internet or when I don't want to be on-line</em> - I check startup application list and there's no pidgin listed.<br><br>
another thing that is very annoying is <strong>hiding window feature</strong> or what ever it called.<br>
assume that you're using <strong>MusicTracker</strong> plug-in, your status is <strong>Busy</strong> and you're <strong>chatting with someone</strong>. when music change, status will change, and then <strong>buddy-list</strong> will <strong>disappear</strong> and <strong>chat window</strong> will <strong>minimize</strong>. Buddy-list is not important but minimizing chat window when you're chatting is annoying, Is there any way to make pidgin stop that?</p>
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21256 | 1 | 21269 | 2011-01-12T19:04:39.227 | 2 | 563 | <p>My understanding is that upstart is installed on 8.04, but it's different than 10.04. I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to start/stop/check services from the command line for 8.04.</p>
<p>I'm seeing some scripts in /etc/event.d (e.g.: rcS, which AFAIK starts the old init.d scripts), but I don't have commands like start/stop/status.</p>
<p>Can someone help me put the pieces together?</p>
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21257 | 1 | 21259 | 2011-01-12T19:17:54.337 | 5 | 7110 | <p>In a bash script that execute 2 commands like this</p>
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<p>Nautilus starts not before gedit is closed? How can i avoid this?</p>
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21261 | 1 | 21268 | 2011-01-12T19:24:33.053 | 0 | 194 | <p>In the "Desktop Couch Scratch" folder, do I have to manually add the bookmarks I want saved, or does the system do it automatically?</p>
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21262 | 1 | 21274 | 2011-01-12T19:30:45.687 | 14 | 22797 | <p>Does a shell command exist to bring a already started program in gnome in the front of another.</p>
<p>i.e.: </p>
<p>Gedit and Nautilus are started.
Nautilus is in the background and Gedit in the foreground.</p>
<p>How to i bring Nautilus in the front with a shell command?</p>
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21263 | 1 | 21266 | 2011-01-12T19:39:23.430 | 1 | 437 | <p>When i have an executable script and i runs it by double-clicking it
in Gnome.</p>
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<p>Is there a way to avoid this question in for certain selected scripts?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/e8NG3.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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21264 | 1 | 21271 | 2011-01-12T19:40:48.583 | 7 | 23159 | <p>Wubi has created one big file with whole ubuntu installation <strong>root.disk</strong> - there are some files I have left on my linux partition that I would like to access from windows partition,</p>
<p>Is there any way to mount/open this file under windows?</p>
<p>P.S. I think its <strong>ubuntu question</strong>, because <strong>Wubi is a windows compatible linux</strong>.</p>
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<p>I am building 3.4 while the tutorial is for 3.1</p>
<p>I installed all of the specified dependencies including cairo.</p>
<p>After running <strong>cd awesome-3.4 && make</strong> I get the following missing dependencies error:</p>
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-- cat -> /bin/cat
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A required package was not found
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<p>I ran</p>
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<p>but the problem is still there. It is probably because apt-get uses different names for these libraries. <strong>Please advise</strong></p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> following enzotib's suggestion, I ran: </p>
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<p>and now it looks like I'm missing a library:</p>
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Running cmake…
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-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/button.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/layoutbox.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/layout/init.lua
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-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/layout/horizontal.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/layout/default.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/progressbar.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/widget/textclock.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/dbus.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/remote.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/client.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/prompt.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/completion.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/tag.lua
-- Configuring lib/awful/util.lua
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-- Configuring themes/zenburn//theme.lua
-- Configuring themes/default//theme.lua
-- Configuring themes/sky//theme.lua
-- Configuring config.h
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-- Configuring awesome-version-internal.h
-- Configuring awesome.doxygen
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
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Running make Makefile…
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In file included from /home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:42:
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In file included from /home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:47:
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/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:89: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘c’
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/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:230: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘evenths’
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/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:370: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘mousegrabber’
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/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:377: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘argv’
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/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:425: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘timer’
/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:425: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘timer’
/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:425: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘timer’
/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:425: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘timer’
/home/druden/util/awesome-3.4/awesome.c:425: error: ‘awesome_t’ has no member named ‘timer’
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21284 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T22:42:51.177 | 2 | 223 | <p>I can use suspend without any problem if I do it manually. It resumes OK as well.</p>
<p>However, for some reason it has stopped doing this automatically. Right now it is set to suspend after 30 minutes but it can be idle for hours without suspending.</p>
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21286 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T23:07:00.597 | 7 | 3214 | <p>I'm running on UPS power and would like to prevent the laptop's battery from charging, to increase the amount of power available to other devices. Is there a way to do this?</p>
<h3>update</h3>
<p>The machine is a Dell Latitude D400. If people want more details, just ask.</p>
<p>Also, I'm gathering that I need to explain my desired setup a little better. I've gotten a bunch of suggestions about taking the battery out. I'm not sure if people are suggesting to take the battery out while the machine is running — this, as I understand, is not a good idea with most laptops — or to just remove the battery altogether.</p>
<p>The latter option is not optimal, because ideally I'd like to use the 30-60 minutes of power in the laptop battery and then switch over to UPS power. The details of the switch-over may constitute a separate question, but if I can't find a way to keep the laptop battery from charging, then removing the battery from the machine altogether may be the best way to do this. I'm not sure yet if this machine will run without a battery, but I'll check that out.</p>
<p>Other than the laptop, the UPS is just supporting a cable modem and router and a USB hub.</p>
<p>Again in the idealized version of this setup, all the power management changes would be automated, i.e. not require replugging anything or pressing Fn-keys. I'd like the machine to start using laptop battery power when apcupsd indicates that the UPS A/C is out, and then start using UPS power, but not charging the battery, when the battery is almost depleted.</p>
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21287 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T23:16:10.260 | 2 | 1527 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04)<br>
I was browsing in Firefox yesterday, then the PC suddenly did a reset</p>
<p>Once it restarted, everything went normal until gdm begun showing. Then everything froze and locked when userlist showed. <strong>I can't move mouse pointer nor do anything with keyboard at this point (just after userlist shows in gdm)</strong>.</p>
<p>PS: Both, mouse and keyboard work fine, because this Ubuntu is dual-booting with a Windows XP install which loads/works fine.</p>
<p><strong>Here is my .xsession-errors file, but I don't have a clue what may be wrong. Thanks</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/GVtneEAF" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/GVtneEAF</a></p>
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21290 | 1 | null | 2011-01-12T23:35:12.233 | 23 | 12146 | <p>Since first becoming an Ubuntu user I have developed a growing list of aliases, and there are some that I cannot imagine being without. This makes me think that there are probably still tons of aliases that I haven't thought to use which could make the lives of me and fellow ubuntu users easier. </p>
<p>What aliases do you guys use which are:<br>
general - they apply to lots of users<br>
helpful - you use them often or they save a lot of time when you do use them</p>
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21295 | 1 | 22817 | 2011-01-13T00:31:56.447 | 10 | 5096 | <p>i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square... </p>
<p>These are the screenshots:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOFaZ.jpg" alt="alt text"><br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jowRj.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>I have no idea what to do to solve this problem. Anyone of you have an idea to solve it?</p>
<p>Edit: <strong>this problem was encountered from 8.10+!</strong></p>
<p>Edit 2, Video card specifications:</p>
<pre><code>paska@ubuntu:~$ hwinfo --gfxcard
35: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_3230
Unique ID: VCu0.QX54AGQKWeE
Parent ID: vSkL.CP+qXDDqow8
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "VIA K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9]"
Vendor: pci 0x1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc."
Device: pci 0x3230 "K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x81b5
Revision: 0x11
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xfbcf0000-0xfbcfffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 16 (10026 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001106d00003230sv00001043sd000081B5bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: viafb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe viafb"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #35
paska@ubuntu:~$
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<p>thanks,<br>
A</p>
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21297 | 1 | 21299 | 2011-01-13T00:39:15.443 | 2 | 365 | <p>The ubuntu-desktop in synaptic is removed on my system. And when I start the machine, I cannot login ,the mouse and keyboard cannot be used also. How to fix it? How to enter the text mode of ubuntu? </p>
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21301 | 1 | 21302 | 2011-01-13T01:10:27.817 | 19 | 14218 | <p>How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee?</p>
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21303 | 1 | 31993 | 2011-01-13T01:30:25.860 | 22 | 78227 | <p>I'm trying to create a bootable USB image to install Ubuntu on a new computer.</p>
<p>I have done this before following the "<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/server/get-ubuntu/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">create USB drive</a>" instructions for Ubuntu desktop, but I don't have an Ubuntu desktop available.</p>
<p>How can I do the same using only the command line?</p>
<p>Things I've tried:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create bootable USB on Mac OS X following the ubuntu.com "create USB drive" instructions for Mac: Doesn't boot.</li>
<li><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>usb-creator</code></a>: According to <code>apt-cache search usb-creator</code> and Wikipedia usb-creator only exists as a graphical tool.</li>
<li><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#Create%20Bootable%20USB%20Manually" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Create manually" instructions</a> at help.ubuntu.com: None of the files and directories described (e.g. <code>casper</code>, <code>filesystem.manifest</code>, <code>menu.lst</code>) exist in the ISO image, and I don't know what has replaced them.</li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unetbootin/wiki/commands" rel="nofollow noreferrer">unetbootin scripting</a>: Requires X server (graphics support) to run, even when fully scripted. (The command <code>sudo unetbootin lang=en method=diskimage isofile=~/ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso installtype=USB targetdrive=/dev/sdg1 autoinstall=yes</code> gives an error message <code>unetbootin: cannot connect to X server</code>.)</li>
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<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>Also tried GRUB fiddling: Merging information from </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-grub2-on-usb-from-ubuntu-linux/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pendrivelinux.com</a></li>
<li>a <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/665/installing-grub-2-on-a-usb-flash-drive">related question on the Linux Stackexchange</a> </li>
<li>and a <a href="http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">grub configuration example</a> </li>
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<p>I was able to get halfway there - it booted from USB, displayed the grub menu and started the installation, but the installation did not complete.</p>
<p>For reference, this is the closest I got:</p>
<pre><code>sudo su
# mount USB pen
mount /dev/sd[X]1 /media/usb
# install GRUB
grub-install --force --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/usb /dev/sd[X]
# copy ISO image to USB
cp ~/ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso /media/usb
# mount ISO image, copy existing grub.cfg
mount ~/ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso /media/iso/ -o loop
cp /media/iso/boot/grub/grub.cfg /media/usb/boot/grub/
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<p>I then edited <code>/media/usb/boot/grub.cfg</code> to add an .iso loopback, example grub entry:</p>
<pre><code>menuentry "Install Ubuntu Server" {
set gfxpayload=keep
loopback loop /ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso
linux (loop)/install/vmlinuz file=(loop)/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso quiet --
initrd (loop)/install/initrd.gz
}
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<p>When booting from USB, this would give me the Grub boot menu and start the installer, but the installer gave up after a couple of screens complaining that it couldn't find the CD-ROM drive. (Naturally, as the box I'm installing on doesn't have an optical drive.)</p>
<p>I resolved this particular issue by giving up and doing the "create USB drive" routine using the Ubuntu Live desktop CD (on a computer that does have an optical drive), then the USB install works.</p>
<p>But I expect that there is some way to do this from the command line of an Ubuntu system without X server and without an optical drive, so the question still stands.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how?</p>
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