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22587 | 1 | 23708 | 2011-01-21T13:09:50.077 | 12 | 210 | <p>When changing a string of text as a part of a patch, how should the translation in the <code>.po</code> files be handled? For example, a recent paper cut I've worked on involved changing the string "Reboot Anyway" to "Restart Anyway" when gnome-session detected applications still running during restart. When I greped for the offending string, I found not only the string on the Gtk button, but identical strings in a long list of <code>.po</code> files which I later learned contained translations. </p>
<p>The format of these translations of along the lines of</p>
<pre><code>msgid:Reboot Anyway
<translated text>
</code></pre>
<p>Changing the text of only the button would results in a discrepancy between the text on the English button and the translation, and changing the <code>msgid</code> line would result in a similar situation. How should I raise the issue that new translations are needed? I know this is a trivial problem in this example, but there are other such bugs that involve rewriting entire paragraphs of text.</p>
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22588 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T13:11:34.397 | 0 | 298 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/21305/desktop-forgets-theme">Desktop forgets theme?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Suddenly after restart my default theme turned into a theme like this,
Every time i change the theme it gets changed into a custom theme like this
Can somebody tell me how can i find the cause of this problem<br>
Thanks</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKpfn.png" alt="Desktop"></p>
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22589 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T13:15:12.103 | 66 | 102955 | <p>I'm using Chrome, and the scroll rate is like 3 lines, and it's painfully slow. My finger gets tired really quickly on long pages. <em>System → Preferences → Mouse</em> lacks any scroll wheel configuration options.</p>
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22592 | 1 | 22615 | 2011-01-21T13:30:08.590 | 29 | 13296 | <p>I'd like to know if it's safe to rename user folders such as <code>Desktop</code>, <code>Documents</code>, <code>Music</code> (I want them to start lowercase).</p>
<p>Are there any programs in a default installation of Ubuntu (10.10/11.04) that expect those folders to exist and that cannot be configured to use different ones?</p>
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22597 | 1 | 22605 | 2011-01-21T14:05:20.620 | 11 | 7118 | <p>Are there any desktop applications for uploading video to youtube?</p>
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22600 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T14:30:08.167 | 8 | 20958 | <p>I have a scanned image, and it's in Corel Draw (.cdr) format (~6mb). Is there a way to open it, or convert it to something that I can manage? I tried <a href="http://filespazz.com/">http://filespazz.com/</a> a few times, but it didn't work due to some timeout error.
Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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22602 | 1 | 22685 | 2011-01-21T14:40:41.640 | 8 | 1878 | <p>Gedit has two plugins from <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins" rel="nofollow">Gnome's Gedit Plugins page</a> which I both particularly want... </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jon-walsh.com/journal/multi-edit/" rel="nofollow">Multi-edit</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.thingsthemselves.com/gedit/" rel="nofollow">Control Your Tabs</a> </li>
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<p>However they both vie for the same shortcut keys: Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown </p>
<p>I can see two possible solutions, and maybe there are more,,,(there usually is :) </p>
<p>The best solution may be to change the shorcut keys in Multi-edit to Shift+Ctrl+PageUp and Shift+Ctrl+PageDown... but I've very little python knowledge, and how to do it escapes me.. </p>
<p>The simplest method (for me) is to just toggle them on/off via another shortcut-key. I know the command to toggle the Multi-edit feature on/off (but not the entire script)... Basically, for this option, I need a command to toggle a Gedit Plugin on/off..</p>
<p>Either, or both (,or other) solutions would be appreciated... </p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I'm looking for a <em>command-line</em> command (vs, a menu command),<br>
and/or a 'fix' for Multi-edit's python script. </p>
<p>Note: The 'Edit Shortcuts' plugin does not show the Multi-edit plugin... (so I can't do it that way)</p>
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22607 | 1 | 22614 | 2011-01-21T15:17:22.517 | 126 | 79577 | <p>Whenever I open the terminal, </p>
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See "man sudo_root" for details.
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<p>appears before the terminal. How do I get that to go away?</p>
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22608 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T15:21:43.347 | 30 | 219438 | <p>I have a .mp4 movie (it's an .mp4 file, and the "video codec" is Xvid, and the "audio codec" is mp3) that I want to play, but when I try to open it in MPlayer, it says "The steam is encrypted and decryption is not supported." I tried to apply the answer from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/500/how-can-i-play-dvd-movies">this question</a> and <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats" rel="noreferrer">this wiki page</a>, but neither worked.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>The file came from an [apparently] less than reputable site, which I guess I can't link to. :(</p>
<p>I've tried:</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install w64codecs
sudo apt-get update
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22609 | 1 | 22611 | 2011-01-21T15:23:07.570 | 1 | 2584 | <p>I've just spent about half an hour reading forums and such, so in short of finding a working solution, I ask this here.</p>
<p>All solutions found so far consist of english (US) keyboards writing spanish characters, while it may work for them, I use a fr_CA which already contains some accented characters (plus the letters on my keyboard <em>are</em> fr_CA).</p>
<p>Therefore, I tried activating the "Compose key position" and "Enable extra typographic characters", etc. but I find no way to write inverted ! and ? or ñ, etc. on my keyboard.</p>
<p>Anyone know how? Using the character map is getting tiresome. Thanks!</p>
<p>** <strong>UPDATE</strong> **</p>
<p>Setting the "Compose key position" to "<strong>Right Ctrl</strong>" makes the ñ work by pressing</p>
<blockquote>
<p><kbd>AltChr</kbd> + <kbd>Right Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>~</kbd> and then <kbd>n</kbd> = ñ</p>
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<p>Now I'd love to be able to map custom chars to key combos :) I'd map something for the ¡ and ¿ chars (and other accented letters), etc.</p>
<p>** <strong>UPDATE 2</strong> **</p>
<p>As stated by <a href="https://askubuntu.com/users/8642/pit">Pit</a>, enabling the "Compose key position" works also with ¡ and ¿ by pressing</p>
<blockquote>
<p><kbd>Right Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>1</kbd> (x2) = ¡</p>
<p>Right <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>6</kbd> (x2) = ¿</p>
<p><kbd>AltChr</kbd> + <kbd>´</kbd> then <kbd>o</kbd> = ó</p>
<p>etc</p>
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<p>Solution accepted!</p>
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22613 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T15:45:21.197 | 5 | 3852 | <p>I don't need any workspace previews or big workspace switcher widgets. I just want simple workspace switcher like on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringBoard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">iOS springboard</a>. Any suggestions?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gp5xB.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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22617 | 1 | 23956 | 2011-01-21T16:06:14.217 | 3 | 346 | <p>I have recently added a second monitor to my setup. Instead of one VGA monitor, I now have one VGA and one DVI monitor hooked up to the computer. The displays work just fine. However, ever since this monitor was added Ubuntu (10.10) does not shut down properly. I go to shutdown and it starts shutting down but just hangs and I need to manually shut it down. This has been like this for weeks and I feel not comfortable shutting it down this way over and over again.</p>
<p>Has anybody any idea what this can be? Or, also useful, does anybody know how to get some info on why this crash occurs? Any logs that can be used for this? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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22626 | 1 | 22642 | 2011-01-21T17:19:34.073 | 5 | 1129 | <p>About a week ago I used the windows installer to install Ubuntu to an extra hard drive I had because I've heard so much about it. Since [I guess] Wubi is meant for people with limited disk space who want to dual boot, it only allocates 30G of space to Ubuntu. </p>
<p>My situtation is that I have an extra ~170G of disk space that isn't being used, since I'm not dual-booting from one disk. Is there a way to make Ubuntu use that free space without reinstalling.</p>
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22629 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T17:26:19.500 | 6 | 70884 | <pre><code> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS - system restore
/dev/sda2 13 4674 37436416 7 HPFS/NTFS - Windows 7
/dev/sda3 4674 58843 435116032 7 HPFS/NTFS - data storage
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<p>Initially I installed StartUpManager. This ( I think ) added another 4 instances of Linux + memtest to my boot menu list. However, I did not see the GRUB boot menu. The computer boots into Ubuntu after a few seconds.</p>
<p>I have tried to add windows 7, but I did not succeed.</p>
<p>This is a part of my menu.lst file.</p>
<pre><code>title Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-24-generic
uuid 1c9748e2-2f11-4a6c-91c0-7310d48c4a7a
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic root=UUID=1c9748e2-2f11-4a6c-91c0-7310d48c4a7a ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic
title Chainload into GRUB 2
root 1c9748e2-2f11-4a6c-91c0-7310d48c4a7a
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
title Ubuntu 10.10, memtest86+
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kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
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<p>And this is after <code>upgrade-grub</code></p>
<pre><code>Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
Found GRUB 2: /boot/grub/core.img
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
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<hr>
<p><strong>Later Edit:</strong></p>
<p>I have added the following to <code>/etc/grub.d/40_custom</code> and I have uncommented the hidden menu line from menu.lst, but I still cant see any boot menu.
I have also tried to press ESC and SHIFT.</p>
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set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
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menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
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set root= hd(0,0)
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menuentry "!Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
set root= hd(0,1)
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22635 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T18:07:29.733 | 1 | 313 | <p>I guess one should not run the software update when running off of a pendrive. Each time I have, not only does the update crash, but the usb drive becomes unbootable? Should the ablitiy to run a software update be disabled for pendrive instances?</p>
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22636 | 1 | 22638 | 2011-01-21T18:23:54.197 | 6 | 2894 | <p>I heard something of a filesystem change. Is it gonna happen in 11.04?</p>
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22644 | 1 | 36570 | 2011-01-21T19:02:14.013 | 3 | 4111 | <p>Sometimes hdd might drop out of my RAID, but after I fix HW problem - I have to manually find out which is device name of dropped HDD and manually re-add it.</p>
<p>Is there a way to let mdadm scan all HDDs and auto-read ones which belong to array?</p>
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22649 | 1 | 22801 | 2011-01-21T19:15:22.483 | 4 | 2723 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
The software center was asking me for password when I wanted to install/remove any application. Since last week, it doesn't prompt for password. Also, I have the same problem with <code>update-manager</code>. However, Synaptic and <code>sudo apt-get</code> ask for password. <br/>
How to fix this?</p>
<p>this is link to the files that you guys need to know</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1qnIRRCcbK5OKqOdA_OLCsMJQBzPZ4P9FcLe8Vrw8mDg" rel="nofollow">sudoers file</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lPM2jF9s-bS2nxSqkU4Fs819dUW8TXl4KGomE6_kKlU" rel="nofollow">/etc/polkit-1</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Mr9ByQ0LCXRjbR0hC7QJjkJuhmwiMrb6fj_Q8m2fbeQ" rel="nofollow">/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=19wsi2kU0p9ZLyziNajevfqOAMc8pYtxB7xYt62HAI9k" rel="nofollow">sudo grep -IR '^[^#]' /var/lib/polkit-1</a></p>
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22651 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T19:41:26.710 | 2 | 244 | <p>I just created my Ubuntu One account on the machine running Ubuntu
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I can access account, and see all files, but when I try to access or download, it
loads and loads, and loads, but nothing happens. Why is that? If I can access the account from a different machine I should be able to download, right?
Please enlighten me.<br/>
Thanks in advance. <br/>
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<p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
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22661 | 1 | 22664 | 2011-01-21T21:31:41.220 | 18 | 241 | <p>I know what an Ubuntu Team is and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10334/how-do-i-find-ubuntu-users-in-my-country-state">where to find them</a>, but what can users do if their area doesn't have a LoCo team?</p>
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22662 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T21:32:18.840 | 2 | 1090 | <p>I downloaded the truecrypt 64 bit .tar.gz, but it could not be opened. The archiv manager says: Does not look like a tar archiv. Does anybody no, how to solve this error?
OS :Ubuntu Maverick.
On Lucid I had no problems to install TrueCrypt.</p>
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22663 | 1 | 22777 | 2011-01-21T21:41:50.383 | 31 | 170627 | <p>I decided to get rid of <code>network-manager</code> for some reason, and now in order to get on the network, I have to run <code>sudo ifup eth0</code>. Here's what <code>cat /etc/network/interfaces</code> gives:</p>
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<p>How do I ensure I don't perform this laborious process again... how do I get the network started automatically on boot-up?</p>
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22665 | 1 | 22733 | 2011-01-21T21:49:24.817 | 2 | 2319 | <p>My husband has converted the entire household to Ubuntu, so far things are going fine, except for this small issue, I have a ps/2 Genius keyboard model, KB-06X attached to a desktop computer and on rare occasions when I am typing in any application, Word processor, text editor or forms and I activate capslock what I get are lower case characters, when I deactivate capslock (green light off) I got upper case characters, I noticed this as far back as 8.04 and as recent as 10.04, I have not noticed it yet on 10.1, even if 10.1 fixes the problem I am still curious as to why this happen on the others.</p>
<p>Is it just cheap faulty keyboard or is this a known problem?</p>
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22667 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T21:53:33.843 | 79 | 73242 | <p>Why is ufw firewall included in Ubuntu, when it is not enabled and pre-configured by default? Most users don't even know it is there, because no GUI frontend is provided.</p>
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22670 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T22:23:21.223 | 3 | 558 | <p>I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from Live CD.<br>
I can access the partitions already created ( two NTFS and one ext3 prepared ), but when I'm trying to install, at the step where I should select the partition, I don't have from where to choose.<br>
The list is empty, as you can see in the screenshot below: </p>
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<p>My HDD is @ S-ATA.
Motherboard: AsRock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2</p>
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22675 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T23:08:10.477 | 5 | 2112 | <p>Sometimes when I try to shut-down or restart, I get an error saying:</p>
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<p>It gives three choices</p>
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<p>What should I look for?</p>
<p>If I could configure it to <strong>always</strong> assume that I want to shutdown anyway, then that would be great.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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<p>I have two (different type) monitors plugged into the DVI and VGA slots, and they work great. However, I cannot seem to be able to get a third monitor in the HDMI slot to work. I can see the monitor (and monitor info) show up in display settings. However, if I try to switch the monitor to 'on' and click apply, nothing happens.</p>
<p>Anyone have the slightest idea what the problem might be? (It's a Radeon graphics card FYI; if I remember right I think it was the Radeon 4200?)</p>
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22682 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T23:44:05.100 | 2 | 742 | <p>I am windows user and using windows 7 on my laptop.
Is there any way i can run practically run and use ubuntu from flash drive or it is necessary to install it on my hard drive.</p>
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22686 | 1 | 22738 | 2011-01-22T00:00:21.343 | 7 | 786 | <p><em>Please do not mistake this for another post resembling installing Firefox 4.0 beta..I have no intention of that.</em></p>
<p>What I meant to ask was in Febrary or possibly march Firefox 4.0 will be officially released. Would the official repositories update to the latest version or should I install add the mozilla daily ppa to do this?</p>
<p>I am very keen on installing the latest version of firefox 4.o when it releases. The firefox website only provides <strong>.tar.bz2</strong> files which means I need to compile from source. Hence the question if the official repository updates to firefox 4.0.</p>
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22696 | 1 | 22699 | 2011-01-22T02:23:54.447 | 28 | 7709 | <p>Anyone knows where I can get a keyboard to buy with the Ubuntu logo on the super key?
If not where can I get some durable small plastic Ubuntu logos about 8 to 9 mm in diameter that I can use to glue on my keyboard?</p>
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22698 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T02:32:55.603 | 2 | 11179 | <p>I have Ubuntu10.10 x64 and after installing Windows 7 grub dissapear I log on with my usb to reinstall grub and now grub only shows Ubuntu...
Then when I try to do update-grub2 I get this:</p>
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Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
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<p>It is in spanish but it says it cant get access to /var/lib/os-prober/mount/boot
and that Boot: dosent exist..
I dont know what I am doing wrong can someone help me please?</p>
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22702 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T03:29:53.640 | 3 | 12506 | <p>I need xorg-server version <code>2:1.9.0.902-1ubuntu3</code> installed because it contains a fix:</p>
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* Add 207_dga_master_device.patch: Cherrypick from upstream xserver git
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<p>And I need that for my xbmc to work properly, but on my machine it shows: <code>xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7.1</code> when I run X -version</p>
<p>Any ideas? I can't find any packages to install and apt-get says it's already the most current version...</p>
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<p>Is this a bad sign?</p>
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22711 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T04:36:01.263 | 2 | 611 | <p>I am not a basic user of computers, but frankly I have never done a partition of a hard drive. But I decided to shrink the only HD in the computer by 25GB for Ubuntu, however I realized that Ubuntu will partition the HD. However, I am stuck with a 25GB partition that I can not use, at least I think so... Can I use the partition when installing Ubuntu (version 9.10) or can I make the partition apart of the rest of the drive again? When I try to delete it, Windows 7 (the only OS at the moment) prompts me stating that it is an extended partition and will be inaccessible if I do so.</p>
<p>Help?</p>
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22716 | 1 | 22721 | 2011-01-22T05:19:54.063 | 1 | 1233 | <p>Instead of totem, what application that can play .m4v format?</p>
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22726 | 1 | 22776 | 2011-01-22T08:55:01.380 | 5 | 2042 | <p>Thanks to this <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9189/upgrade-while-keeping-home-partition">thread</a> I know now that I should've done this during the installation part. But I didn't. </p>
<p>So I'm left with my system partition and a old home partition that acts as an extra drive. I would like to know or it still possible to mount the old home partition back. I rather keep my data on that partition but if that is not option I still want to move my home folder. My system partition is just too small to host the home directory. </p>
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<p>Ubuntu always requires me to enter my password when I resume from suspend, which can be very annoying.<br>
How can I disable this?</p>
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It turns out that this really is undesired behavior, and there are several bugs related to this issue.<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-power/+bug/553646" rel="noreferrer">Bug #553646 on launchpad</a><br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643036" rel="noreferrer">Bug #643036 on GNOME bugzilla</a></p>
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"text": "Thank you, this would be be the perfect answer! If only it would work :(. I have tried both options and neither of them works. Proof: http://imgur.com/w4KVj&Sl385l I would report a bug but I'm not registered on the Gnome bug tracker.",
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22743 | 1 | 22745 | 2011-01-22T12:19:10.000 | 575 | 2545250 | <p>I've recently installed Ubuntu on Oracle's Virtualbox. Now I want to install the guest additions.</p>
<p>I started up my Ubuntu guest OS, clicked "Devices" and chose "Install Guest Additions". Nothing happened, and I don't see the CD icon on my desktop.</p>
<p>How can I make this work?</p>
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It is <strong>not recommended</strong> to install these in newer releases of Virtual Box as obtained from the Oracle repository (see below).</p>\n<p>Alternatively we can install the package <strong>virtualbox-guest-additions-iso</strong> in the <strong>host</strong> Ubuntu.</p>\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso\n</code></pre>\n<p>The .iso file with an image of the OSE edition of the guest additions CD will install in the host directory <code>/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso</code>. Mount this .iso file as a CD in your virtual machine's settings. 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You can run this command in a terminal to install both:</p>\n<pre><code>sudo apt install build-essential dkms\n</code></pre>\n<p>Selecting <em>Devices -> Install Guest Additions</em> (or press <kbd>Host</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd> from the Virtual Box Manager) the Guest Additions CD .iso will be loaded but <strong>not installed</strong> in your guest OS. To install we need to run the installer script <code>VBoxLinuxAdditions.run</code> as root or from the Autorun Prompt (see below).</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>GNOME Shell</h3>\n<p>To install the Guest Additions we will have a CD icon on our desktop as soon as the virtual drive is mounted:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPZcf.png\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPZcf.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></a></p>\n<p>Next step is to run the <em>autorun.sh</em> script (as root) on this <strong>mounted</strong> CD by opening the drive and clicking on the "Run Software" button. 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If the CD still was not there you may have to manually add the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso as a CD-ROM in the Virtual Box Manager <em>Storage</em> menu. In an Ubuntu host the disk image is in <code>/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso</code>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note 3</strong><br />\nIn some systems (e.g. when running <strong>Xubuntu</strong> guests) we may not have an <em>Autorun Prompt</em> for the mounted CD. Then we can install the guest additions by opening a terminal on the mounted guest additions .iso to run <code>sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run</code>. In <strong>Lubuntu</strong> or <strong>Ubuntu Server</strong> guests we additionally need to install the GNU C compiler (<a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gcc\" rel=\"noreferrer\">gcc</a> <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gcc\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/kV0OM.png\" alt=\"Install gcc\" /></a>) and the <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/make\" rel=\"noreferrer\">make</a> <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/make\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/kV0OM.png\" alt=\"Install make\" /></a> utility in the guest system to be able to compile the guest additions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note 4</strong><br />\nRunning <strong>DKMS</strong> in the guest OS will keep Guest Additions installed after a guest kernel update. It is not a prerequisite for Guest Additions but if used it should be installed <strong>before</strong> we install the Guest Additions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<hr />\n<h2>Installing Guest Additions from a Terminal##</h2>\n<p>In case Guest Additions are not installed properly we may not be able to boot to the GUI. In this case we need to boot holding the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key to access the Grub menu where we access a root shell as depicted in the following question (we do need to mount the filesystem read/write to proceed):</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/92556/how-do-i-boot-into-a-root-shell\">How do I boot into a root shell?</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>The Guest Additions .iso file needs to be installed on <code>/dev/cdrom</code> from the Virtual Box Manager (see above). We then may install Guest Additions by typing the following commands:</p>\n<pre><code>mount /dev/cdrom /mnt # or any other mountpoint\ncd /mnt\n./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run\nreboot\n</code></pre>\n<hr />\n<h2>Remove Guest Additions</h2>\n<p>In case something went wrong with installing the guest additions, or the guest OS can not boot after installing we may have to remove the additions. This can also be done from a <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/92556/how-do-i-boot-into-a-root-shell\">root shell</a> by running an uninstallation script located in the <strong>guest</strong> <code>/opt</code> directory.</p>\n<pre><code>cd /opt/<VirtualBoxAdditions-x.x.xx>/\nsudo ./uninstall.sh\n</code></pre>\n<p>Replace <code>x.x.xx</code> with your current version of guest additions.</p>\n",
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"text": "I came across this answer while trying to install Guest Additions on Ubuntu Server. One step is missing if you need to install on server: run sudo apt-get install dkms first. (ref http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp19765808)",
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"text": "I tried your solution for ubuntu 12.10 server as guest and mac os x as host. Virtual box is 4.2.6. I am unable to to get the shared folders to work. somehow the guest additions are not working. Even Devices > Install Guest Additions did not work too. Not even the package virtualbox-guest-additions helped. Every attempt to run the iso GuestAdditions.iso does NOT lead to the iso showing up under /media/cdrom. Please advise.",
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"text": "@kimsia: you need to **mount** the .iso in your server first. After that you can install the GA with `sudo ./<mountpoint>/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run`",
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"text": "@Takkat the mounting cannot work at all. In other news, i finally found a way to make everything work.http://superuser.com/a/527508/8184 so thank you for answering me. Appreciate it greatly :)",
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"text": "@kimisa: please note that the method you linked to will **not** install the most recent guest addition but those available from Ubuntu repositories (which would be 4.1.18 for 12.10 and 4.1.22 for 13.04). In case your host Virtual Box release is newer it is **not recommended** to run older versions of Guest Additions (but they will mostly still work).",
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"text": "@gertvdijk thank you for your effort but I deliberately left out the headers and build parts because in a vanilla default Ubuntu installation we **do not need these**. GA build fine without any further steps to take (this is different in Xubuntu and Lubuntu only). DKMS is supposed to help when ubpdating kernels but for some reasons we still always have to rebuild the GAs after a kernel update.",
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"text": "Ok this doesnt work at all. tested on ubuntu 32 and 64 versions 14.04.\n\nAnd works only http://askubuntu.com/questions/22743/how-do-i-install-guest-additions-in-a-virtualbox-vm/99479#99479",
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"text": "please specify which version.",
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"text": "sorry had to -1 this one. looks like a collection of \"everything\"",
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"text": "@IIIIIllllllllIlllllIIIIIIIIlll: sure - covering everything is all a \"canonical\" Q&A. is about. Anything missing, anything outdated?",
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"text": "In order to build guest additions on Ubuntu 14.04.4 Server, I needed to first do `sudo apt-get update` and `sudo apt-get install make gcc`.",
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"text": "On Ununtu 16.04, when I `apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso`, it suggests to uninstall vmware first. this seems dangerous, will i loose data or settings to my existing vm-mashines?",
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"text": "@rubo77 this is a dependency issue brought in by vmware... definitely not related to installing the guest additions ISO file.",
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"text": "Yes it is, because this is the message, if you try to install the guest additions iso in the host system, which seems wrong. It worked after i installed the ISO in the guest system",
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"text": "@rubo77 it is a bug in the vmware dependencies. Installing an installer ISO in the **guest** is a waste of space.",
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"text": "So you should describe, how to get around this bug",
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"text": "@rubo77 alternatively we can install the guest-utils in the guest as was said in another answer I linked to above. Anyway, in the long run installing the regularly updated versions of virtualbox from the Oracle repository turned out to be better for me.",
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"text": "@Takkat Further to your comment from 26 June 2013, what about Xubuntu? Specifically, if I precede the GA script with `sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-virtual dkms` just in case, is it safe? (Note: `linux-headers-virtual` includes `linux-headers-generic` as a dependency, and the latter is somehow [smart to sync with the kernel version, as opposed to `linux-headers-$(uname -r)`](http://askubuntu.com/questions/75709/how-do-i-install-kernel-header-files#comment444517_268710).) E.g. I've read that it might cause a dependency knot like [this](http://askubuntu.com/a/347588/193272).",
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"text": "@EvgeniSergeev: I never had to manually install the headers in any guest - but if for any reason you must then **on Ubuntu** `linux-headers-virtual` and `linux-headers-generic` are just transitional packages pointing to the appropriate kernel headers. You also get these with installing `linux-headers-$(uname -r)` there should be no difference, and not dependency issues.",
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"text": "You don't need to install the ISO on the host. You can just do it on the guest then mount it with the `mount` command.",
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"text": "Thank you very much. I used a combination: 1) I used the CD in VB to map the .iso to it 2) used the terminal to go to the /mnt directory and do the *.run to install and then rebooted. Wish this guest additions nonsense would be put to bed once and for all.",
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22750 | 1 | 22757 | 2011-01-22T13:34:16.013 | 30 | 59828 | <p>In order to speed up DNS lookups, I want to install a DNS cache or proxy.</p>
<p>I can see at least three programs I think will do the job: bind9, pdnsd, or dnsmasq.</p>
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"text": "Thanks, Igor. I tried this approach and it works well for name lookups, but it does not seem to cache reverse IP address lookups. How would I do this using bind9?",
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"text": "This didn't do anything on my setup. Query time is still ~100ms",
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"text": "Both of you: if it doesn't seem to work, check what server dig says it got the answer from. If it doesn't say 127.0.0.1, then you haven't set it up properly. Note: The instructions for setting resolv.conf may be different for different versions of Ubuntu.",
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"text": "So you are running a caching nameserver on gui box? Yes, it's possible of course.. More than likely most ppl reading this will have a server install - and the GUI is optional. A simple `sudo apt install bind9` and `sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf` should be added to your answer as alternatives.",
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"text": "I did everything but the setup is not working. I did `resolv.conf` to 127.0.0.1 at last. Can this fail it? `dig ubunut.com` says \"connection timed out; no servers could be reached\"",
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"text": "`$ gksudo gedit /etc/default/bind9`\nI changed RESOLVCONF=no to yes.\nand \n`$/etc/init.d/bind9 restart`\nAbove two lines made it work.",
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"text": "Now `dig` is working but please show me where is those local DNS entry for each host? For my satisfaction. Seeing is believing. I Google failed.",
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22754 | 1 | 24614 | 2011-01-22T14:00:38.430 | 1 | 924 | <p>My home is encrypted, which breaks the login. Gnome and other services try to find all sorts of <code>.files</code>, write to them, read from them and so on. E.g. <code>.ICEauthority</code>. They are not found (yet) because at that moment the home is still encrypted. I do not have automatic login set, since that has known issues with encrypted home in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>When I go trough the following steps, there is no problem: </p>
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<li>boot up the system.</li>
<li><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>, login.</li>
<li>run <code>ecryptfs-mount-private</code></li>
<li><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F7</kbd>, done. Can now login.</li>
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<p>I may have some setting wrong, but have no idea where. I suspect <code>ecryptfs-mount-private</code> should be ran earlier in bootstrap, but do not know how to make it so.</p>
<p>Some issues that may cause trouble:</p>
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<li>I have a fingerprint reader, it works for login and PAM.</li>
<li>I have three keyrings in seahorse, containing passwords from old machines (backups). Not just one.</li>
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<p>Suggestion was that the PAM settings are wrong, so here are the relevant parts from <code>/etc/pam.d/common-auth</code></p>
<pre><code># here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block)
auth [success=3 default=ignore] pam_fprintd.so
auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_winbind.so krb5_auth krb5_ccache_type=FILE cached_login try_first_pass
# here's the fallback if no module succeeds
auth requisite pam_deny.so
# prime the stack with a positive return value if there isn't one already;
# this avoids us returning an error just because nothing sets a success code
# since the modules above will each just jump around
auth required pam_permit.so
# and here are more per-package modules (the "Additional" block)
auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap
# end of pam-auth-update config
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<p>I am not sure about how this configuration works, but ut seems that maybe the <strong>optional</strong> in <code>auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap</code> is causing the <code>ecryptfs</code> to be ignored?</p>
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<p>Ubuntu 11.04 64b
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22760 | 1 | 22766 | 2011-01-22T14:45:11.567 | 3 | 5642 | <p>I have several folders of video files that need to be renamed to something uniform, eg: <code>foldername.videotypexvideonumber.avi</code>. I have looked at creating a shell script to make this easier. The <code>mv</code> command seems to be the best way to do this.</p>
<p>However, every guide/tutorial/manpage I've seen says that when I rename a file I have to also include the file extension. This would normally be fine, but some folders have videos of multiple file types, eg .mkv and .avi and even some .rmvb files.</p>
<p>So, what I need to know is if there's a way to rename files through the terminal <strong>without</strong> having to specify the file type when doing so - basically so that the extension stays the same, regardless of what it is before renaming.</p>
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22770 | 1 | 23178 | 2011-01-22T15:43:23.750 | 12 | 5470 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 server on EC2. I installed Python 3.1, and now I want to install NumPy on it. How do I do it? I tried <code>easy_install-3.1 numpy</code> but got this error:</p>
<pre><code>RefactoringTool: Refactored /tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/core/defchararray.py
RefactoringTool: Files that were modified:
RefactoringTool: /tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/compat/py3k.py
RefactoringTool: /tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/core/defchararray.py
Running from numpy source directory.Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install-3.1", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('distribute==0.6.14', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install-3.1')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py3.1.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1855, in main
with_ei_usage(lambda:
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return f()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py3.1.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1859, in <lambda>
distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
File "/usr/lib/python3.1/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
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self.run_command(cmd)
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cmd_obj.run()
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self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
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return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
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File "setup.py", line 211, in <module>
File "setup.py", line 204, in setup_package
File "/tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
File "setup.py", line 151, in configuration
File "/tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 972, in add_subpackage
File "/tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 941, in get_subpackage
File "/tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 878, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
File "numpy/setup.py", line 5, in configuration
File "/tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 713, in __init__
ValueError: 'build/py3k/numpy' is not a directory
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<p>I would like to explore what my alternatives are to get another display into the mix. I've found lots of references to displaylink but nothing absolutely confirmed to work.</p>
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22778 | 1 | 22795 | 2011-01-22T16:43:08.803 | 17 | 28333 | <p>A textbook I'm using came with a CD containing a few supplementary applications. To my pleasant surprise, it appears to include an installer for Linux.</p>
<p>The readme file on the CD provides the following installation instructions:</p>
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<p>PC: Linux</p>
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<li>Double-click on the folder 'LINUX'</li>
<li>Double-click on the file 'INSTALL.BIN'</li>
<li>Follow instructions on screen.</li>
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<p>But doing this just produces the following error message:</p>
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<p>Attempting to run the installer via the command line results in a permissions error:</p>
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linux os x readme.txt windows xp windows xp - no java
ak@aux:~$ ls -l /media/BDH\ DE/linux/
total 41177
-rw-r--r-- 1 ak ak 42164549 2005-07-26 03:39 install.bin
ak@aux:~$ /media/BDH\ DE/linux/install.bin
bash: /media/BDH DE/linux/install.bin: Permission denied
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<p>While, to my disappointment, the message fails to inform me of <em>what</em> permissions I am lacking, a quick glance at the output of ls reveals that the installer has not been marked executable.</p>
<p>How do I run it?</p>
<hr>
<p>The type of the file is:</p>
<pre><code>ak@aux:~$ file /media/BDH\ DE/linux/install.bin
src/bdh-de/install.bin: POSIX shell script text executable
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22786 | 1 | 22790 | 2011-01-22T18:45:05.347 | 1 | 1071 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9933/how-to-read-ext4-and-btrfs-partitions-in-windows">How to read ext4 and btrfs partitions in Windows?</a> </p>
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<p>It's pretty easy to access all my Windows files in Ubuntu,<br>
but now i wan't to do the opposite thing: i wan't to access my Ubuntu files from Windows.</p>
<p>I can't seem to find a way to do this <em>easily</em>, are there 'things' out there that can do this?</p>
<p>I'm using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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22793 | 1 | 25460 | 2011-01-22T19:02:41.723 | 3 | 145 | <p>When I try to read a specific file by running</p>
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<p>od hangs. </p>
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<p>I plan to run a badblocks ckeck but that will take ages to complete. Is there anything else I can do?</p>
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22798 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T19:22:51.477 | 1 | 156 | <p>Maybe I'm wrong but more than once it happened to me that some problems suddenly got fixed after a number of turn-on/turn-off cycles. </p>
<p>I also read somewhere that this was even recommended in some other OS's (Windows).</p>
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22811 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T21:22:46.273 | 3 | 1296 | <p>I just chose to have the visualization in separate window once, now it looks like this:</p>
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<p>I can't find a way to get it back in Rhythmbox. There are no buttons and no menu entries to move it back.</p>
<p>Any Ideas? Thanks.</p>
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22812 | 1 | 22818 | 2011-01-22T21:23:28.910 | 2 | 6416 | <p><strong>Question</strong>: I see <code>[ 20.473125] composite sync not supported</code> and several such entries when I run <code>dmesg</code>. What do they mean?</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong>: I'm trying to debug a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22011/2696/">problem</a> where my laptop won't suspend. Since acpi seems happy and I can suspend easily from the command line, I've turned to tracking down all boot-up errors/warnings.</p>
<p>So I run <code>dmesg | grep not</code> and, amongst other shtuff, I get:</p>
<pre><code>728:[ 17.267120] composite sync not supported
733:[ 18.009061] composite sync not supported
740:[ 18.159289] registered panic notifier
749:[ 18.162500] vga16fb: not registering due to another framebuffer present
757:[ 18.598251] composite sync not supported
776:[ 20.473125] composite sync not supported
777:[ 20.932266] composite sync not supported
778:[ 28.350231] composite sync not supported
779:[ 28.924913] composite sync not supported
780:[ 35.480658] composite sync not supported
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<p>And the full log for the few lines right around that first appearance (line 728) is listed at the bottom of my post (I'd happily include anything else).
Any ideas what could be causing this? I've read several sites:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1528427" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ubuntuforums #1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ircanswers.com/ubuntu/321398/composite-composite-supported-supported-graphics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IRC Chat #1</a></li>
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<p><a href="http://ircanswers.com/ubuntu/321398/composite-composite-supported-supported-graphics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">One post</a> talks about ??Adobe flash?? causing this error?</p>
<p><a href="https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/msg57564.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Some others</a> also suggest that it might be an nvidia related problem, but I've got a Dell Latitude D630 with an integrated Intel graphics -- so nvidia isn't the problem.</p>
<pre><code>[ 17.207142] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[ 17.207833] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 17.207849] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 17.207865] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 17.207927] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 17.267120] composite sync not supported
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[ 17.620201] input: DualPoint Stick as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7
[ 17.641192] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
[ 18.009061] composite sync not supported
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[ 18.108115] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
[ 18.108941] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[ 18.109676] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 18.110356] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 18.159286] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
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[ 18.160218] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input9
[ 18.160286] ACPI: Video Device [VID1] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 18.160334] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.VID2._DOD: Return Package has no elements (empty) (20090903/nspredef-433)
[ 18.160432] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:02/input/input10
[ 18.160491] ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 18.160539] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 18.162494] vga16fb: initializing
[ 18.162497] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[ 18.162500] vga16fb: not registering due to another framebuffer present
[ 18.176091] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 18.176123] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.285752] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input11
[ 18.312497] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
[ 18.312586] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
[ 18.328043] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[ 18.460909] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 180x56
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22816 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T22:06:07.140 | 2 | 2330 | <p>I want to setup my home server to use ssh keys but when I follow the tutorial on <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html</a>
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<p>but the part that asks me to do this:</p>
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22829 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T23:39:49.963 | 4 | 908 | <p>I have installed a couple of indicators from the <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/the-omg-guide-to-must-have-indicator-applets/" rel="nofollow">The OMG! Ubuntu! Guide to the best indicator applets around</a>.</p>
<p>For some reason, however, none of them are showing up besides the sound, e-mail and Dropbox indicators, which were already there.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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22831 | 1 | 22834 | 2011-01-23T00:10:48.797 | 3 | 308 | <p>For example, in moving from Maverick to Natty, Banshee replaces Rhythmbox as the media player. But if I had installed a player different from either one of these, and uninstalled Rhythmbox, how would the distribution upgrade behave? Would it still install Banshee? What if I simply uninstall and then reinstall Rhythmbox? Will it upgrade to Banshee?</p>
<p>Months ago, on the Lucid to Maverick update, I got impatient and made the upgrade a week or two before the final release. At that time, the new Ubuntu font was not implemented, so I downloaded and installed it by myself. When I upgraded to the final version, of course I had the font, but it was not set up as it should have been, with the correct font sizes. I fixed them manually later. I suppose that this happened because the system "considered" this to be a personal setting which should not be changed.</p>
<p>My main question is: How does the system "know" whether I want to use a particular setting as the default, thus upgrading it according to the new version, or if that setting was actively set by me and, in that case keeping it intact?</p>
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22835 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T00:51:13.253 | 105 | 296740 | <p>How can I network two Ubuntu computers, so that they can "see" each other at an IP address?</p>
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22840 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T01:29:06.147 | 4 | 12276 | <p>We can change breadcrumbs and the sidepane color, but what else can be edited with <code>gtkrc-2.0</code>?</p>
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22843 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T01:59:01.303 | 6 | 4301 | <p>I just installed a new SSD in my system, and I'm having numerous problems trying to boot from it.</p>
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<p>How can my SSD show up in Ubuntu but not Grub? What is the difference between the way Grub finds filesystems and the way Ubuntu does?</p>
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22845 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T02:17:01.253 | 1 | 250 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2596/comparison-of-backup-tools">Comparison of backup tools</a> </p>
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<p>I have an external hard drive that I would like to make backups to, what I would like is have a program that is easy to set up to accomplish this for me.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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22846 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T02:29:26.850 | 4 | 3053 | <p>In the top panel of Unity there's the Title of the window, and when it's moused over, a global menu pops up. Is there a similar indicator for 10.10?</p>
<p>I've found the Indicator Applet Appmenu and Window controls for the panel, but I'm looking for one that works similar to the titlebar/global menu indicator. Thanks in advance!</p>
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22848 | 1 | 22865 | 2011-01-23T02:51:52.917 | 1 | 504 | <p>I have installed Mint LXDE 10.04 on my netbook, but would prefer the standard Ubuntu. Would it be easy (one or a few commands) to get the computer to the same state as it would have if I did a fresh install of Ubuntu, or should I just do the fresh install?</p>
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22849 | 1 | 59849 | 2011-01-23T03:18:18.423 | 4 | 5117 | <p>I am having problem hibernating and suspending my Dell Laptop while virtualbox is running( XP Guest). I have tried default kernel method, uswsusp and tuxonice and none of them works. But if I close virtualbox, then hibernation and suspend works fine. Following are system specs.
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<p>My laptop model is Dell Inspiron N5010. It has ATI HD 5000 series graphic chipset and I am used proprietary Drivers for it, installed via jockey.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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22850 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T03:18:21.693 | 5 | 23298 | <p>I am trying to install tasksel in order to install LAMP but for some reason it always gives me this error:</p>
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22851 | 1 | 22872 | 2011-01-23T03:24:00.287 | 1 | 719 | <p>Whenever you want to open a file with a program that's not in the right-click shortlist, you click 'use a custom command.' However, the way that's worded led me to believe that it may be possible to treat the file as if it were <code>$@</code>, command line input.</p>
<p>What I want to be able to do is add the custom command 'cp (clickedfile) /my/directory'...</p>
<p>However, the custom command 'cp $@ /my/directory' did not work.</p>
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22852 | 1 | 22859 | 2011-01-23T03:31:08.277 | 3 | 1466 | <p>Since yesterday, the title bars of windows are missing. I haven't changed any configuration.</p>
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<p>I must also say that, once I change Compiz settings all the three radio buttons in 'Desktop Effects' remain unselected. But when this problem arises, it will be set to 'None'.</p>
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22863 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T06:34:27.787 | 1 | 2560 | <p>I do not know the root password. I am only in group root. How do I add myself to other groups?</p>
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22866 | 1 | 22885 | 2011-01-23T08:11:11.033 | 2 | 1206 | <p>I am trying to create a dual boot of Ubuntu 10.10 with Windows 7. My hard disk allocation were as follows:</p>
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/boot EXT4 200 MB
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<p>After installation is complete, instead of getting the boot screen of Ubuntu, it directly boots from windows 7 without asking anything. </p>
<p>What is wrong? I run the Live Cd again using USB drive and I see that the \boot, and \ are occupied with most likely Ubuntu data. </p>
<p>Now How do i point my Laptop to point to Ubuntu Boot instead of Windows Boot</p>
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22871 | 1 | 22899 | 2011-01-23T09:02:05.100 | 132 | 167087 | <p>I saw a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code" rel="noreferrer">QR code</a> reading a book, but I don't have a smart phone to decode it.</p>
<p>So I just took a picture of it and saved the picture to my PC. I downloaded libdecoderqr0, libdecodeqr-dev, and libdecodeqr-examples for reading it. But I don't know how to use them.</p>
<p>What do I do next? Or is there a nicer way to read QR codes?</p>
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22875 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T09:40:47.463 | 4 | 7740 | <p>Will the wobbly windows effect be available in Ubuntu 11.04?</p>
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22876 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T09:51:53.810 | 2 | 308 | <p>My secondary monitor stopped updating the desktop background on my Maverick after an update I ran on January 10th. My desktop looks like this:</p>
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<p>If I disable Compiz, the problem goes away. I've tried resetting the Compiz settings to defaults. What I haven't tried is a clean reinstall, but that I would obviously use as the last resort.</p>
<p>I'm running a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 with a Geforce 8600 as the GPU.</p>
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22886 | 1 | 22888 | 2011-01-23T11:03:57.497 | 3 | 2337 | <p>As it is explained <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10223/display-current-layout-language-code-country-flag-in-keyboard-indicator/10268#10268">here</a> I wanted to show current country flag in a keyboard indicator. The problem is where to find those country flags.</p>
<p>Does anybody know where can I download country flags appropriate for keyboard indicator?</p>
<p>I have found one <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Language+Flags+for+Faenza+and+Elementary?content=133726" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> but it only has language abbreviations, I need country flags instead.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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22890 | 1 | 22893 | 2011-01-23T11:52:20.773 | 2 | 236 | <p>I am using both Arabic and English as input languages and set the switching key combination to <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>. Sometimes i find the languages keep switching spontaneously too fast that I type a letter in Arabic and another in English. No key combination work at this case and the keyboard indicator in the top panel becomes unresponsive. The only solution is to restart.</p>
<p>I used 10.10 for a month or two and had no problem until one day I updated my system but the kernel seems not compatible with my Laptop and I couldn't neither boot nor fix ubuntu so I had to reinstall. The problem started to appear then. I thought it might be my CD has some scratches and missing files I tried to reburn the image several times and even downloading an entirely new image but nothing works I get the same problem. </p>
<p>On windows everything is working fine that's why I am excluding a keyboard problem as I use the same key combination as windows. </p>
<p>NB: I can remove Arabic and this solves the problem but not usable for me.</p>
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22896 | 1 | 22901 | 2011-01-23T13:32:09.130 | 28 | 36865 | <p>Other than for Windows in Ubuntu there are no fancy utilities provided from printer manufacturers to print photos. I am aware of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/gnome-photo-printer" rel="noreferrer">Gnome Photo Printer</a> and of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/photoprint" rel="noreferrer">Photoprint</a>, the first being easy to handle, the latter having more options. However I wonder if there are any other or maybe even better alternatives (including plugins) to perform the following tasks:</p>
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<li>Print photos in the best photo-resolution the driver offers</li>
<li>Adjust paper size for standard values of photo papers</li>
<li>Choose paper tray if the printer has more than one</li>
<li>Print out multiple photos on one page including mixed sizes (grids)</li>
<li>Multiple prints with same settings</li>
<li>Borderless printing if the printer is capable of this</li>
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<p>Any additional options like pre-processing for color correction or noise reduction would be nice to have but are not so essential.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/N/ImprovePhotoPrinting" rel="noreferrer">this spec</a> it seems not to so easy to accomplish the simple task of printing photos.</p>
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<p>Indeed all applications I have gone through have major drawbacks that make printing photos almost impossible. Below I will list what put me off using them for photo printing:</p>
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<li>For obscure reasons CUPS only offers <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13641/how-to-print-more-than-600dpi-with-cups">printing at 600 dpi the most</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-photo-printer/" rel="noreferrer">Gnome Photo Printer</a>: no thumbnails, no grids, not available for 14.04</li>
<li><a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/photoprint" rel="noreferrer">Photoprint</a>: does not keep settings, GUI broken, no standard photo size, no thumbs, not available for 14.04</li>
<li><a href="http://projects.gnome.org/eog/" rel="noreferrer">Eye Of Gnome</a>: no multiple pages, no grids</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gimp.org/" rel="noreferrer">Gimp +</a><a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/2236" rel="noreferrer"> Images Grid Layout</a>: far too many steps to finally find that prints are always different to their previews.</li>
<li><strong>F-Spot</strong>: no grids</li>
<li><a href="http://picasa.google.com/" rel="noreferrer">Picasa 3</a> via <a href="http://www.winehq.org/" rel="noreferrer">Wine</a>: no grids, very few <strong>fixed</strong> paper sizes, <strong>300 dpi only</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.easysw.com/~mike/flphoto/" rel="noreferrer">flPhoto</a>: strange GUI, no thumbs, no printer settings, did not print at all</li>
<li><a href="http://zedonet.com/en_shop_turboprint.phtml" rel="noreferrer">TurboPrint</a>: proprietary paid software with a shameless high price and obscure paid-only update policy - but it does the job quite well (even includes reporting Inklevels from a network printer) for many Canon, Epson, Brother and HP printers. Alas, I am not willing to pay $40 for a basic feature I expect to just work.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS/" rel="noreferrer">Windows</a>: <em>Ooops</em> - everything works fine! <strong>But I want Ubuntu to do this!</strong></li>
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<p>After half a pack of ink cartridges and half a pack of photo paper cards I am getting tired of testing. At least Gimp and Picasa looked promising but both don't keep their promise when it comes to printing. I'd already be happy to quickly print a few photos with EOG if <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/80220" rel="noreferrer">bug #80220</a> was fixed - but it's still on "wishlist".</p>
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22907 | 1 | 22922 | 2011-01-23T14:51:21.450 | 2 | 104 | <p>I would like to have info (time, filename, and user when having shared folders) about file changes, uploads, downloads...</p>
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22909 | 1 | 22992 | 2011-01-23T15:01:05.937 | 8 | 1509 | <p>I accidentally ran <code>rm -rf /*</code> on my Ubuntu 10.10 and cancelled the command quickly. I was not root and didn't use <code>sudo</code> but a lot of my files were deleted. The system has become less responsive and I am not sure how to fix it. For instance, I reinstalled firefox and it solved many firefox issues but right click is very sluggish. Deluge keeps on pulling up CPU usage (1 core) to 100%. Shutter is also a bit weird in terms of responsiveness.</p>
<p>Is there anything I could do to repair everything? Like reinstalling every installed package and Ubuntu files?</p>
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22910 | 1 | 22912 | 2011-01-23T15:16:11.143 | 82 | 61404 | <p>I have written a simple script.
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"text": "For a noob like me... could you explain the PRACTICAL differences between both situations? In other words.... what can I do with one method that I can't with the other, and vice versa?",
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"text": "ty... to much noobism inside me in scripting issues :)... I had put the bang line within my 2 or 3 scripts without knowing why.",
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22913 | 1 | 22923 | 2011-01-23T15:34:47.703 | 1 | 2350 | <p><strong>Question</strong>: What does this dmesg mean? Is it bad? There is a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/221437" rel="nofollow noreferrer">two year old post</a> about how this could imply degraded I/O performance, could this be/is this still true??</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong>: I have been experiencing degraded I/O but I attribute this to using the built in RAID on my motherboard as opposed to a dedicated card. I've been tracking down <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22812/2696/">a few random</a> kernel messages and now I've switched to my desktop -- more out of curiosity than anything. The box has an Intel Core i7 930 processor. The following messages appear with some regularity. I'm running openPBS, if that matters. But these messages appear six times within the past day and a half since the system was rebooted.</p>
<p>The output of <code>uname -a</code> is:</p>
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22915 | 1 | 22917 | 2011-01-23T15:47:49.710 | 0 | 811 | <p>I have a small Hard Drive (20 gb) so I need to keep an eye on my Disk Usage Analyzer, I can't afford to upgrade my Hard Drive yet so I'm looking for a safe and effective system cleaner that won't compromise system stability.</p>
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22918 | 1 | 22921 | 2011-01-23T16:02:15.440 | 0 | 2690 | <p>Hallo all,</p>
<p>i'm trying to use easytag to tag my music collection that is shared on a NAS in my home network. But my problem is, that i cannot access the NAS in the open file dialog (can only access everything on my computer but nothing in the network).</p>
<p>I had this problem for several times. In some applications, the open-file-dialog supports network storages and in other applications not. Is this normal?</p>
<p>Is there a possibility, how i'm able to access the network device in those programms?</p>
<p>greetings</p>
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22919 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T16:05:36.760 | 5 | 4201 | <p>I don't know how to reproduce this problem, because I don't regularly play music or sound. All I know is that, sometimes, I'll load a video (from youtube or from a local file) and there will be no sound.</p>
<p>Everything looks fine software wise:</p>
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<li>Rebooting <em>always</em> fixes.</li>
<li><code>aplay</code>, <code>paplay</code> and pals give no error message</li>
<li>I'm not in the <code>audio</code> group, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup">as advised</a></li>
<li><p>The device exists and appears in use:</p>
<pre><code>$ lsof /dev/snd/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1b.0
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
pulseaudi 17313 badp 23u CHR 116,10 0t0 7628 /dev/snd/by-path/../controlC0
pulseaudi 17313 badp 30u CHR 116,10 0t0 7628 /dev/snd/by-path/../controlC0
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<li><p>Restarting pulseaudio or alsa seems to do no good.</p></li>
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<p>What is wrong here?</p>
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22927 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T17:11:09.257 | 3 | 2344 | <p>Whenever I am typing in Arabic, the cursor skips to the beginning of the line because if it were written from left to right, that would be where I last typed.</p>
<p>How can I fix that?</p>
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22931 | 1 | 22932 | 2011-01-23T17:31:36.900 | 3 | 104 | <p>I am trying to buy more storage to my Ubuntu One account. I live in UK and the purchase form detects that. However, the form allows me to choose between euros and dollars. Why is pounds not in the list? How can I make my purchase in pounds?</p>
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22934 | 1 | 22938 | 2011-01-23T18:40:13.823 | 0 | 2845 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 on MediaTemple (ve) servers.</p>
<p>On both of them, the <strong>anacron</strong> setup is broken, ... and they have been broken since I first installed Ubuntu. It has only come to my attention recently, when I realize my log files were not rotating.</p>
<p>I am hoping someone who has anacron working can help diagnose the problem and suggest a fix.</p>
<p>Here is <strong>/etc/cron.d/anacron</strong> ...
This part works correctly: Every morning at 7:30am, <strong>cron</strong> executes this command to start up anacron.</p>
<pre><code># /etc/cron.d/anacron: crontab entries for the anacron package
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
30 7 * * * root test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron start >/dev/null
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<p>The problem is that <strong>/etc/init.d/anacron start</strong> fails:</p>
<pre><code># /etc/init.d/anacron start >/dev/null
start: Unknown job: anacron
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<p>Notice that /etc/init.d/anacron is a symbolic link to /lib/init/upstart-job:</p>
<pre><code># ls -l /etc/init.d/anacron
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 12 2010 /etc/init.d/anacron -> /lib/init/upstart-job
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<p>Now I am stumped. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix this?</p>
<p>Take a look in <strong>/var/log</strong> and see if your log files are being rotated (as opposed to growing indefinitely). If they <strong>are</strong> being rotated, then you probably have a working <strong>anacron</strong>, so please check your setup and let me know how it differs from mine.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, ...</p>
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22935 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T18:56:06.263 | 5 | 7956 | <p>Previously, I need to clear documents history, so I Googled and found this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchingthenet.com/ubuntu-tip-clear-disable-recent-documents.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.watchingthenet.com/ubuntu-tip-clear-disable-recent-documents.html</a></p>
<p>I did the step, and then when I opened gedit in root terminal, I've got this:</p>
<pre><code>root@dellph1-desktop:/# gedit
(gedit:8224): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_bookmark_file_load_from_data: assertion `length != 0' failed
(gedit:8224): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to rename file '/root/.recently-used.xbel.FP7PPV' to '/root/.recently-used.xbel': g_rename() failed: Operation not permitted
(gedit:8224): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.recently-used.xbel', but failed: Operation not permitted
root@dellph1-desktop:/#
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<p>And it's happpened in user terminal:</p>
<pre><code>dellph1@dellph1-desktop:~$ gedit
(gedit:9408): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
dellph1@dellph1-desktop:~$
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<p>I really hope someone helps in this case, thank you.</p>
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22936 | 1 | 23159 | 2011-01-23T19:29:17.460 | 13 | 14343 | <p>I have seen a question here about reading .epub but I would like to create my own easily from a GUI, what is available for Ubuntu? Even if I have to download something outside the repository, as long as it installs easily and works well, I would also like the software to be able to support the use of .svg images and tables.</p>
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22943 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T20:41:14.633 | 1 | 1349 | <p>I have a htpc running 10.10.</p>
<p>It has no keyboard or mouse attached, so I connect over vnc for administration and manual tasks. This usually works fine but every so often an app running in fullscreen mode crashes.</p>
<p>All I want to be able to do is kill this app from VNC. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do this that will preserve the VNC connection?</p>
<p>If I use <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>, I see the terminal but can no longer control it from VNC. Trying to return to the desktop doesn't work either?</p>
<p>Any easy process I can follow?</p>
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22944 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T20:45:05.050 | 3 | 1577 | <p>I run Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop on my machine and have installed Ubuntu Server 10.10 in a Virtualbox VM. I'm running Virtualbox 4.0.2. It is not virtualbox-ose.</p>
<p>I'd like the guest OS to have an IP address on my local network so that I can run server software and access this from the host OS. My intention is to run a Hudson CI server in the guest OS.</p>
<p>I understand I need to set up a network bridge for this to work, however I don't understand what I need to do for this to happen.</p>
<p>I have tried following the instructions at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking</a>, however I run into two issues towards the end:</p>
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<li><p>"To take the modifications into account, restart the VirtualBox host networking script". I don't have Virtualbox-ose installed and guide suggests <code>sudo /etc/init.d/vboxnet restart</code>, however <code>/etc/init.d/vboxnet</code> does not exist for me.</p></li>
<li><p>The end of the guide refers to the <code>vboxusers</code> group. I don't have such a group and am not sure why I need this or how it should be created.</p></li>
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<p>I'm simply looking to allow the guest OS to have an IP on my local network so that I can access servers on the guest OS from the host OS.</p>
<p>What changes do I need to make to both the host and guest OSs for this to work?</p>
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22945 | 1 | 22956 | 2011-01-23T20:54:21.483 | 1 | 150 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6724/how-to-highlight-just-the-name-not-the-extension-for-renaming">How to highlight just the name (not the extension) for renaming?</a> </p>
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<p>I remember kind of one year ago that when I was renaming a file the default selection was for the name, while the extension where not selected, this way, suppose you have a <code>file.doc</code>, you press F2, type gongigongi and then enter the result was a file named <code>gongigongi.doc</code>, while now it's <code>gongigongi</code>.</p>
<p>Any way to get that feature back?</p>
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<p>Is there some repository available for the latest build?</p>
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22949 | 1 | 22957 | 2011-01-23T22:17:22.880 | 2 | 4690 | <p>I have a Windows PC (don't worry, I almost never use it) that sometimes gets used for playing games and audio/video.</p>
<p>Is there a way I can stream the audio output from that PC over the network to my Ubuntu machine? Both PCs are on the same network, so they can reference themselves directly via their local IP addresses.</p>
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22952 | 1 | 22953 | 2011-01-23T22:27:00.420 | 3 | 996 | <p>I tend to run newer kernels than most people, partially for fun, partially for bug testing, partially for masochistic fulfilment. A couple of days ago I installed <code>2.6.38-rc1</code> and VirtualBox's DKMS module would no longer compile.</p>
<p>I'm not new to VirtualBox throwing spanners in my kernel experiments but is there any way to make it compile?</p>
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22961 | 1 | 22964 | 2011-01-23T23:03:19.993 | 1 | 815 | <p>Is it possible to select which folders (outside the ubuntu one folder) are being synced to each machine ?
For instance i'd like to sync a data-heavy folder with most of my PC's but not with my netbook.</p>
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22967 | 1 | null | 2011-01-24T00:03:52.513 | 1 | 2473 | <p>I'm trying to install Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client on Maverick 64-bit. I'm getting the following errors:</p>
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Removing previous installation...
/opt/cisco/vpn/bin/manifesttool: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
vpnagentd: no process found
Extracting installation files to /tmp/vpn.Mjh9Z5/vpninst086037244.tgz...
Unarchiving installation files to /tmp/vpn.Mjh9Z5...
Starting the VPN agent...
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<p>I have libxml2.so.2 in /usr/lib, though. Should it be somewhere else?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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22973 | 1 | null | 2011-01-24T01:55:13.697 | 13 | 19991 | <p>I am trying to share a folder on VirtualBox with a guest OS X, I tried to share the folder through VirtualBox but it doesn't show up in OS X. I also tried sharing a folder on OS X and access it from Ubuntu also failed.</p>
<p>So I need someone who did this before with success to tell me how to correctly do this. </p>
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22976 | 1 | 22986 | 2011-01-24T02:41:50.677 | 1 | 281 | <p>The login process to my Ubuntu box takes a long time, maybe a minute or longer. </p>
<p>Unlike the bootstrap which prints a lot of messages to the console, there is nothing displayed when GUI started. </p>
<p>I've checked <code>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</code> and <code>/var/log/Xorg.1.log</code>, most of them are a bit of lower level information about display devices, seem like things happened before the login, and nothing related to startup applications.</p>
<p>Any idea?</p>
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