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3228 | 1 | 3271 | 2010-08-28T14:37:24.780 | 4 | 6511 | <p>The manufacturer of our printer (Canon) does provide Linux printer drivers for most its printers. However, they are all 32bit and only the newer printer drivers are available in both DEB and RPM. The older are only provided as RPM files.</p>
<p>I use 'alien' to convert the RPM files to the DEB format so I can install the drivers. However, lately it seemed Canon has screwed the new drivers for the Canon PIXMA iP3300 up a bit in the build process of the RPMs.</p>
<p>Although all printer-specific RPM packages are available, the cnijfilter-common package, containing the vital CUPS filter, is distributed as a Source RPM (*.src.rpm). Very useful to build your own drivers if you want to ('rpmbuild --rebuild cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm'), but not so much when you run a Debian-based operating system.</p>
<p>My question is: is it easy to convert a Source RPM to something you can easily build as a DEB, or will I have to manually convert the Source RPM to something usable?</p>
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3237 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T15:18:28.257 | 2 | 111 | <p>The workspace between the top and bottom Gnome panels occasionally dims about 25% and holds there for an unpredictable period of time. Sometimes it never recovers to full brightness. The cursor moves but buttons are non-responsive. Most often this happens in Firefox but is not restricted to this one program. The top and bottom Gnome panels remain fully functional. </p>
<p>The processor stays at an approximately steady 40% "User" use. The memory hovers at about a 40% mixture of "User", "Buffers" and "Cached" use. Network and disk activities flatline.</p>
<p>Sometimes the workspace un-dims itself and returns full control. When it does not the only things that work are pressing the automatically presented force quit button, typing "xkill" from a terminal or choosing to restart. Usually the application that dimmed can be restarted without restarting the operating system. I've experienced this in both Karmic and Lucid. </p>
<p>What am I missing?</p>
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3239 | 1 | 3323 | 2010-08-28T16:05:09.557 | 2 | 318 | <p>I am recently setup a server to host my "data" movies and music and such. </p>
<p>I was trying to copy the data back to my home computer using this command</p>
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<p>the response was unknown user@computer, then i replaced with the ip address still same difference. How can i fix this?</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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3241 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T16:21:38.747 | 7 | 1421 | <p>I installed the latest <strong>Lubuntu</strong> image on a pen drive(2GB), using <strong>Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator</strong>.
My goal for this pen drive is for maintenance of old Windows XP machines.</p>
<p>What software should I install for this? Whether it is already in the Ubuntu repository or not.</p>
<h2>Note:</h2>
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<li>This is a <strong>Community Wiki</strong> page. </li>
<li>I already know some of what to install and that that there are preconfigured distributions for this purpose. I just want a public list for reference (In case I missed something).</li>
<li><strong>Please mention ONE software per question posted,</strong> for better voting.</li>
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3248 | 1 | 3272 | 2010-08-28T17:22:47.403 | 8 | 22689 | <p>I don't myself know how deep this question actually goes (for example, for all I know there could be several, depending on my task).</p>
<p>Particularly, I am interested in what kinds of strings are used to name files and folders on the system.</p>
<p>I am also interested in how strings are represented by default for a bash or python script.</p>
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3249 | 1 | 3252 | 2010-08-28T17:24:20.553 | 23 | 41643 | <p>I'm attempting to block myself from time-wasting websites but changes I make to /etc/hosts. For example:</p>
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<p>I can access bing.com in a freshly opened Chrome or Firefox - why is this not working?</p>
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3265 | 1 | 3268 | 2010-08-29T06:55:38.777 | 3 | 3148 | <p>I have a <a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow">BOINC</a> Manager installed contributing to <a href="http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" rel="nofollow">World Community Grid</a>. </p>
<p>Is there a way to set this to run as a screensaver visually in Ubuntu?</p>
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3270 | 1 | 3276 | 2010-08-29T12:55:47.553 | 4 | 1226 | <p>I'm looking for updated VLC builds for Lucid.</p>
<p>I was using c-korn, but it's gone.</p>
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3277 | 1 | 3279 | 2010-08-29T15:16:17.890 | 2 | 238 | <p>I would like to convert videos I download to the iPhone format on my server and be able to access and play them on my iPhone. </p>
<p>I looked into Handbrake, but I wasn't sure if it would work on the server. </p>
<p>Any suggestions you may have to set this up would be much appreciated. </p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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"text": "Not true - that command should work on 9.10 and 10.04 (at least those are the two I've tested) Make sure you have `python-software-properties` package installed",
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3278 | 1 | 3281 | 2010-08-29T15:33:04.677 | 2 | 858 | <p>It looks like my fan in my laptop is not turning on when appropriate. I already removed granola (maybe it disables it far too long?)</p>
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<p>There are multiple issues here: Why, and how to diagnose this issue? How can I control when the fan should turn on, how do I test that the code is turning on my fan, how do I turn on the fan manually through a command if all hell breaks lose?</p>
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3284 | 1 | 3314 | 2010-08-29T16:33:08.593 | 2 | 1640 | <p>I don't use Wine much, but saw this about running the BBC Doctor Who games</p>
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<p>Any fixes for this?</p>
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3287 | 1 | 3289 | 2010-08-29T17:28:29.440 | 10 | 38192 | <p>I have some mkv files, and while Totem plays them perfectly, when i use Devede to burn them to dvd it all gets messed up: the video is ok, but the audio is out of sync.</p>
<p>I did see that Devede does write my dixv avi files correctly to disk.</p>
<p>So i am thinking what the best way could be to convert my mkv for playback on dvd?</p>
<p>I was thinking maybe converting them to avi first? But i did not find a good way for that to happen.</p>
<p>What do you suggest?</p>
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3290 | 1 | 3291 | 2010-08-29T18:03:38.670 | 9 | 5995 | <p>I have Wine installed and several Windows applications installed there run fine, if I start them using the right mouse menu "Open with Wine program loader". But if I try starting an .exe file by just double clicking instead, the archive manager tries to open the executable.</p>
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3294 | 1 | 3310 | 2010-08-29T20:26:46.600 | 3 | 2663 | <p>On current Ubuntu (10.04) suspend-on-lid/<kbd>FN</kbd> + <kbd>F4</kbd> only works if some powermanagement-applet of KDE/gnome is running.</p>
<p>But what about suspend-to-lid if you are working on the console or using a non-bloated window-manager?</p>
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<p>What of hald/udev/acpid/foo-kit/random-thing is the right place to hook this feature in?</p>
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<p>or something else?</p>
<p>Btw, if it matters, I want to configure it on some Thinkpads.</p>
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3299 | 1 | 3308 | 2010-08-30T00:54:27.120 | 9 | 24531 | <p>I have some anacron jobs which run daily. The scripts update local bzr and git repositories. Naturally these scripts need working network connections. I'm on a laptop and often wired and wireless internet do not come up fast enough. This causes my cron job to time out when pulling the repositories =(</p>
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3306 | 1 | null | 2010-08-30T04:34:54.893 | 17 | 17062 | <p>I think the title explains it already...</p>
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3315 | 1 | 3734 | 2010-08-30T10:52:40.740 | 3 | 1639 | <p>I used Tunnlier in windows and it was perfect. After migrating to Linux I, surprisingly, can't find anything that does the following:</p>
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<li>manage my SSH connections</li>
<li>use Terminal and SFTP browser</li>
<li>save my connections as profiles to load later</li>
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<p>I found PuTTY and gSTM, but they really don't do what I mentioned above.</p>
<p>What do you recommend?</p>
<p><br /></p>
<hr>
<p><em>moved here from <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/181649/whats-the-bitwise-tunnnlier-equivalent-for-linux">superuser</a></em></p>
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3326 | 1 | 3332 | 2010-08-30T18:31:50.340 | 13 | 905 | <p>Whenever notifications show up, they are much lower than I would expect. In most screenshots I see, they are directly under the top panel, but for me, there's a large gap:</p>
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<p>Is there any way to change the position?</p>
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3327 | 1 | 3344 | 2010-08-30T18:37:34.933 | 3 | 2476 | <p>I've changed this from the original VHost but it should still work in my mind:</p>
<pre><code>Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
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ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin ross@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
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LogLevel warn
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<p>The only difference between this and other working VHosts is that /var/www requires higher privileges to access it - I get a "Could not connect" error which I assume is a 500 error (Chrome hides the status codes and I can't remember). What can I do to make this work?</p>
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3335 | 1 | 3339 | 2010-08-30T20:37:31.987 | 19 | 2183 | <p>I recently saw <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/best-linux-clipboard-manager.html">this poll</a> asking for the "Best Linux Clipboard Manager". What actually is a clipboard manager and in what situations would a clipboard manager be useful?</p>
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3340 | 1 | 3349 | 2010-08-30T21:47:53.393 | 3 | 2004 | <p>I have a low-powered networked Ubuntu pc next to my tv. I also have a Humax PVR. The PVR has an option to record to a USB drive instead of its internal disk. </p>
<p>I'd like recording to be accessible on the network so I was wondering if it's possible to get a USB male-to-male (A-to-A) lead, connect Ubuntu to PVR and have Ubuntu pretend to be a USB disk.</p>
<p>I've see this the other way around. The Nokia N8** tablets were natively just seen as disks but with some hacking could be USB hosts.</p>
<p>One side-note: I have other USB devices, plugged into the Ubuntu machine, that need to to work as usual.</p>
<p>Edit: I'm open to hardware solutions but I'd rather not have to buy a NAS that has USB and Ethernet to sit in the middle. Is a <a href="http://www.dabs.com/products/startech-com-usb-data-file-transfer-cable-5D49.html" rel="nofollow">USB File Transfer Cable</a> (or similar) an option?</p>
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3341 | 1 | 3343 | 2010-08-30T22:05:39.260 | 24 | 8938 | <p>Is there currently any GUI based application to show currently running services, with buttons to start and stop services?</p>
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3348 | 1 | 3384 | 2010-08-31T02:45:26.653 | 11 | 6891 | <p>Okay, I just got a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120904104215/http://www.thinkgeek.com:80/computing/usb-gadgets/c609" rel="noreferrer">Lilliput 7" USB Monitor</a>:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJMj0.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJMj0.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
<sub>(source: <a href="https://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/frontsquare/c609_lilliput_mini_usb_monitor.jpg" rel="noreferrer">thinkgeek.com</a>)</sub></p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am having some trouble getting it to work in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>It is a <a href="https://www.displaylink.com/" rel="noreferrer">DisplayLink</a> device, so it should work in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Here is the output of <code>lsusb</code>:</p>
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<p>...<br />
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 17e9:02a9 Newnham Research<br />
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<p>I modified my <code>xorg.conf</code> file to accommodate the device.</p>
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Fri Apr 9 11:51:21 UTC 2010
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Fri Mar 12 02:12:40 PST 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "DisplayLinkScreen" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen0" RightOf "DisplayLinkScreen"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LPL"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "BenQ T705"
HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
EndSection
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Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
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Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
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Identifier "DisplayLinkDevice"
driver "displaylink"
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Identifier "DisplayLinkMonitor"
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<p>All I get is a green screen.</p>
<p><strong>Any</strong> tips or advice would be appreciated!</p>
<hr />
<p><strong>Update:</strong> I discovered that X11 was having trouble finding the <code>displaylink_drv.so</code> module, so I fixed that. Then my XServer completely crashed. (Segmentation fault, I believe.)</p>
<p>Now I'm really confused.</p>
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3353 | 1 | null | 2010-08-31T08:38:32.170 | 4 | 1623 | <p>Right-click in the main panel allows to change icons associated to files of directories, and this is cool for content organization and so on.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, right click on small directories on the side pane does not allow to change its properties (such as icon).</p>
<p>I try to change the original directory icon, expecting that its side pane version would change accordingly, but surprisingly, nothing appends...</p>
<p>Any idea?</p>
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3355 | 1 | 3366 | 2010-08-31T09:43:27.523 | 6 | 1561 | <p>So, I installed Ubuntu (Using Gnome) with keyboard layout US International with Dead Keys enabled. Now I've set this to US International with <kbd>Alt-Gr</kbd> Dead Keys enabled. I added the latter and deleted the first. I then clicked "Apply to entire system" and closed the keyboard manager.</p>
<p>Now whenever I reboot, the old keyboard lay-out is re-added to the list and set to the default keyboard layout. The keyboard with US International with <kbd>Alt-Gr</kbd> Dead Keys enabled is still in that list so it doesn't completely revert to the installation settings, making me conclude that it must have saved the settings.</p>
<p>How can I make this keyboard ghost go to the eternal <code>/dev/null</code> plane so that it will never rise from the grave again? (How to get rid of the thing...)</p>
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3359 | 1 | 3360 | 2010-08-31T12:19:52.473 | 27 | 37533 | <p>I have a terminal command I run from an application launcher. This works great, however sometimes the command fails, so I'd like for the terminal to stay open so I can see the results. How can I do this?</p>
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3362 | 1 | 3367 | 2010-08-31T16:04:23.420 | 4 | 3026 | <p>I have a laptop with an internal wifi G adapter, and I have an external USB wifi adapter that is compatible with N. the internal wifi can be disabled using a little switch on the side of the laptop. However, when I disable it using the switch, it disables <strong>ALL</strong> Wifi adapters, internal or external.</p>
<p>I want to use the external USB adapter, since it's faster. </p>
<p>Also, on my EeePC, I cannot seem to be able to disable the internal WiFi adapter. The blue light remains ON, which means I cannot use my EeePC in an airplane.</p>
<p>How can I fix those problems ?</p>
<p>Thanks :-)</p>
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3363 | 1 | 82717 | 2010-08-31T16:28:51.223 | 7 | 8236 | <p>I know how to open directory, but I do not know how to select a file from the command line.</p>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
<p>I do not know how it works, but when I move any file to a directory and then open the directory that this file is selected.</p>
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3369 | 1 | 3370 | 2010-08-31T17:22:48.987 | 154 | 189873 | <p>Logout, Restart and Shutdown are all self explanatory to me. </p>
<p>What are the differences between Suspend and Hibernate on the shutdown menu?</p>
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3372 | 1 | 3374 | 2010-08-31T17:47:06.550 | 4 | 1213 | <p>My Blue Eyeball Webcam works for the application cheese out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. Now I would like to use it for Skype for which it does not work. What can I do?</p>
<p>UPDATE3:
I had limited time to return the webcam, so I returned it and bought one that was on the list of webcams supported in Skype.</p>
<p>UPDATE2:</p>
<p>On this site:
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeWebCams" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeWebCams</a>
they give the following tips when webcams work in cheese but not skype. I don't understand some, do they look like they would help?</p>
<p>~http://code.google.com/p/gstfakevideo/</p>
<p>Works right away in cheese. To get skype video, run "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype" at the command line (NOTE the LIB32!!!)</p>
<p>Skype 2.0.0.72: You should setup ov51x-jpeg (version here: 1.5.8) and "sudo modprobe ov51x-jpeg forceblock=1" or edit /etc/modprobe.d/options and add there "options ov51x-jpeg forceblock=1". Loading ov51x-jpeg without forceblock-option results in a black video stream for skype, while it works fine using "cheese".</p>
<p>works with cheese ootb but not in Skype. works in Skype (2.1.0.47) when setting "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype"</p>
<p>UPDATE:
I have included output of diagnostic programs.</p>
<p>v4l-info</p>
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general info
VIDIOC_QUERYCAP
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card : "Blue Eyeball 2.0"
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tuner : 0
std : 0x0 []
status : 0x0 []
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flags : 1
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fmt.pix.field : NONE
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type : INTEGER
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maximum : 10
step : 1
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type : INTEGER
name : "Hue"
minimum : -5
maximum : 5
step : 1
default_value : 2
flags : 0
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general info
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name : "Blue Eyeball 2.0"
type : 0x1 [CAPTURE]
channels : 1
audios : 0
maxwidth : 1600
maxheight : 1200
minwidth : 48
minheight : 32
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name : "Camera 1"
tuners : 0
flags : 0x0 []
type : CAMERA
norm : 0
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hue : 45875
colour : 45875
contrast : 39321
whiteness : 38010
depth : 16
palette : YUYV
buffer
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x : 0
y : 0
width : 640
height : 480
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<p>camorama -D</p>
<pre><code>VIDIOCGCAP
device name = Blue Eyeball 2.0
device type = 1
can use mmap()
# of channels = 1
# of audio devices = 0
max width = 1600
max height = 1200
min width = 48
min height = 32
VIDIOCGWIN
x = 0
y = 0
width = 800
height = 600
chromakey = 0
flags = 0
VIDIOCGWIN
x = 0
y = 0
width = 800
height = 600
chromakey = 0
flags = 0
VIDIOCGPICT:
bright = 45875
hue = 45875
colour = 45875
contrast = 39321
whiteness = 38010
colour depth = 16
YUYV
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3375 | 1 | 594186 | 2010-08-31T18:19:26.443 | 287 | 455449 | <p>I have a virtual machine that is set to <strong>PST</strong> that a couple of colleagues have in different time-zones.</p>
<p>If I wanted to change the time-zone to <strong>EST</strong> and <strong>GMT</strong>, what do I need to do?</p>
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3377 | 1 | 3393 | 2010-08-31T18:46:01.467 | 3 | 246 | <p>I am trying to solve <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3348/how-to-get-lilliput-usb-monitor-running-in-ubuntu">this</a> problem. In the process, I messed up the kernel configuration and some of the modules aren't loading.</p>
<p>Whenever I start <em>that particular kernel</em>, I get a message saying "Module <code>nvidia</code> could not be found." This of course means the USB module isn't working either. No mouse.</p>
<p>Thankfully I had another kernel installed that I'm using now - but I'd like my other one back.</p>
<p>I can remember some of the steps I took - I edited some of the arguments being passed to the kernel - but I just got rid of those by editing the line when GRUB started - and it still didn't fix anything. The only other thing I remember is messing with <code>initramfs</code>.</p>
<p>How would I go about fixing that? I can boot to a console, but I'm not very familiar with any command-line text editors. Is there a way to fix this from the kernel I'm using right now?</p>
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3378 | 1 | 3399 | 2010-08-31T19:22:30.930 | 87 | 140646 | <p>My processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz). As far as I know that's a 64-bit processor - I'm a bit confused as the architecture is called <strong>AMD</strong> 64, is this a generic name given to 64-bit architectures? I've heard of x64 but can't see a release labelled with this.</p>
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"text": "@Jelly I don't understand your comment. Were you reporting a typo? The only occurrence of “32-bit kernel” in my answer is correct. (Of course the sentence is also correct for a 64-bit kernel, but that isn't interesting.)",
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"text": "so those PAE kernels are technically-speaking 36 bits not 32 bits according to my math. A quick question: Why would you design a 36 when you can do full fledge 64 bits or was this a technicality of the past?",
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"text": "@Jelly No, they're called 32-bit, because virtual addresses are on 32 bits. Physical addresses (which are only used internally in some places in the kernel) use 64 bits. You can call it a “32-bit kernel with 64-bit physical addresses”, but by no means a “36-bit” or “64-bit kernel” — that would mean that pointers (i.e. virtual addresses) use 36 or 64 bits. The limit to 2^36 isn't due to the number of bits in pointers, but the number of bits spanned by MMU descriptors and on some buses; these have no reason to be powers of 2.",
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"text": "I'm now seeing an arm64 distribution for debian linux. I assume this is a fairly rare breed of smart-phone processor.",
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"text": "@JosiahYoder Not so rare, high-end smart phones have 64-bit ARM processors now. This thread was in the context of x86 processors, but the answer on arm would be substantially the same.",
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"text": "@Gilles, 3rd point should change as `A 64-bit kernel can access more than 4GB of RAM, so having more than 4GB of RAM is not a compelling reason to run a 64-bit kernel. On the other hand, a 32-bit program can only access less about 3GB of memory.`",
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"text": "@gihanchanuka No. That wouldn't even make sense. The point here is that a 32-bit kernel can access more than 4GB of RAM.",
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3389 | 1 | 3391 | 2010-08-31T20:31:57.913 | 4 | 743 | <p>I bound the command "terminator" to <kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>T</kbd> in the shortcut keys configuration.</p>
<p>This is nice and all except terminator starts with <code>/</code> as the current directory, not <code>~</code>. How to change this?</p>
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3394 | 1 | 3401 | 2010-08-31T22:55:55.703 | 4 | 3826 | <p>I've <em>almost</em> got <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3348/how-to-get-lilliput-usb-monitor-running-in-ubuntu">this</a> problem solved... I've got both displays working now. The secondary display is displaying a purple background. Unfortunately, I can't use it. (I can't move the mouse into it, etc.)</p>
<p>Here is the output of <code>xrandr --verbose --screen 1</code>:</p>
<pre>
Screen 1: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 480, maximum 800 x 480
LILLIPUT USB Mo connected (normal)
Identifier: 0x175
Timestamp: 271103
Subpixel: horizontal rgb
Clones:
CRTC: 0
CRTCs: 0
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
EDID:
00ffffffffffff0031900120eb030000
2013010380101778ca54548f54599726
cb545400000001010101010101010101
010101010101540b208030e02d102830
7304000000000018000000fd00374118
2905000a202020202020000000fc0055
5342204d6f6e69746f720a0a00000010
00000000000000000000000000000028
800x480 (0x176) 29.0MHz -HSync -VSync +preferred
h: width 800 start 840 end 888 total 928 skew 0 clock 31.2KHz
v: height 480 start 503 end 506 total 525 clock 59.5Hz
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<hr>
<p>And here is my <code>xorg.conf</code> file:</p>
<pre>
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Fri Apr 9 11:51:21 UTC 2010
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Fri Mar 12 02:12:40 PST 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 1 "DisplayLinkScreen" RightOf "Screen0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LPL"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
#################################################
############### DisplayLink Stuff ###############
Section "Device"
Identifier "DisplayLinkDevice"
driver "displaylink"
Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DisplayLinkMonitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "DisplayLinkScreen"
Device "DisplayLinkDevice"
Monitor "DisplayLinkMonitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800×480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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<hr>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> After adding...</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Xinerama "1"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>...I now have the secondary screen mirroring the primary one. But I'm hoping I can have separate displays.</p>
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3395 | 1 | 3397 | 2010-08-31T23:36:46.327 | 84 | 101346 | <p>I'm trying to get the mime type of a file from the command line as a printed string (eg. <code>application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet</code>).</p>
<p>I looked up how to do this and found the <code>xdg-mime</code> command.</p>
<p>From reading the man page (<code>man xdg-mime</code>), it seems I should run <code>xdg-mime query filetype FILE</code>. However, when I run this with any file it prints nothing and exits.</p>
<p>Is there a way to fix this? An alternative command?</p>
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3396 | 1 | null | 2010-08-31T23:43:57.247 | 0 | 313 | <p>I have "automatically remember running applications when logging out" enabled in "Startup Application Preferences". However, some programs don't work with this setting: namely Chromium TweetDeck and Geany; none of these programs are restored whenever I restart the machine. Other programs such as Firefox, Gedit, Terminal are able to be restored automatically on restart.</p>
<p>Is there any way I can have ALL of these programs restored appropriately on startup? or at least Chromium?</p>
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3402 | 1 | 3579 | 2010-09-01T00:56:12.353 | 39 | 95474 | <p>I have two drives on my computer that have the following configuration:</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, drive 2 seems to be dying, because trying to write to it is giving me errors, and checking out the SMART settings shows a sad state of affairs.</p>
<p>I have plenty of space on Drive 1, so what I'd like to do is move the / and /boot partitions to it, remove Drive 2 from the system, replace Drive 2 with a new drive, then reverse the process.</p>
<p>I imagine I need to do some updating to grub, and I need to move some things around, but I'm pretty baffled how to exactly go about this. Since this is my main computer, I want to be careful not to mess things up so I can't boot.</p>
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3403 | 1 | 3429 | 2010-09-01T00:59:06.693 | 6 | 2723 | <p>I'd like to be able to determine what emblem a file has from the command line. Is there a way to determine this? Also, is there a way to apply emblems from the command line?</p>
<p>I usually have a cron job that trashes files over 7 days old in my ~/Downloads, but I'd like to be able to only delete files that don't have a particular emblem (my seeding torrents). I've been applying these emblems manually, but if I can automate that as well, that'd be awesome.</p>
<p>My usual cron job is just a simple find command:</p>
<pre><code>find /home/zach/Downloads/ -ctime +7 -exec trash {} \;
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<p>Edit:</p>
<p>I solved my own question.</p>
<p>Bonus:</p>
<p>To elaborate on exactly what I'm doing, I use <code>deluge-torrent</code> to manage my downloads. I am now using the execute plugin to run this script on torrent complete:</p>
<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env bash
# deluge gives the download directory name as the third argument
gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv "$3" metadata::emblems ubuntuone-unsynchronized
</code></pre>
<p>I then created my <code>trasher.sh</code> (this requires the <code>trash-cli</code> package):</p>
<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env bash
[[ "$(gvfs-info -a metadata::emblems $*)" =~ "ubuntuone-unsynchronized" ]] || trash "$*"
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<p>Now, I just modify my cron to:</p>
<pre><code>find /home/zach/Downloads/ -maxdepth 1 -ctime +7 -exec /home/zach/Scripts/trasher.sh {} \;
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<p>And voila! Now Deluge can manage its downloads, while my cleanup script can safely cleanup old files without interfering with seeding torrents.</p>
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3404 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T01:08:46.847 | 3 | 5374 | <p>I'm running ubuntu 9.10 x64, with the stock tightvncserver (1.3.9).</p>
<p>When I start tightvncserver, I can connect with the windows tightvnc client and get the empty desktop with a single terminal. When I then try to start gnome-session it promptly crashes.</p>
<p>The last lines on the tightvncserver log are:</p>
<pre><code>01/09/10 10:53:18 Got connection from client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:18 Using protocol version 3.8
01/09/10 10:53:18 Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
01/09/10 10:53:20 Full-control authentication passed by 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 Pixel format for client 192.168.1.31:
01/09/10 10:53:20 32 bpp, depth 24, little endian
01/09/10 10:53:20 true colour: max r 255 g 255 b 255, shift r 16 g 8 b 0
01/09/10 10:53:20 no translation needed
01/09/10 10:53:20 Using tight encoding for client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding 8
01/09/10 10:53:20 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 Enabling cursor position updates for client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 Using image quality level 6 for client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for client 192.168.1.31
01/09/10 10:53:20 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding -223
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":3.0"
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<p>The output from gnome-session (obtained from gnome-session | tee output) is:</p>
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SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mUVFSj/socket.ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=2783
** (<unknown>:2779): DEBUG: Client registered with session manager: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client2
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
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<p>I've checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log but this contains nothing pertinent to the vnc session.</p>
<p>I am currently successfully using tightvncserver on other 9.10 systems. The system which exhibits the problem does not differ from my other working systems in any way that seems significant to me.</p>
<p>What I'd like to know is:</p>
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<li>What I should be doing to find out further information on what is failing</li>
<li>What is causing the crash</li>
<li>How can I fix it?</li>
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<p>It's working fine without attachment. When I add attachment, auto bcc is not working and admin didn't get email.</p>
<p>How to fix that problem ?</p>
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3408 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T06:00:41.240 | 4 | 5821 | <p>I need links to some documentation which states how Ubuntu handles <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock" rel="nofollow">deadlock</a>, which method does it apply?</p>
<p>Please note am asking this question as am a new user regarding the os and therefore really confused google is not helpful</p>
<p>EDIT-- additional details</p>
<p>(kernal and user space in general</p>
<p>how to compare linux with an ms windows)</p>
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<p>Is there a way I can use just this packages (and all the packages it depends on) in my current Ubuntu installation? Some kind of repository maybe?</p>
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3418 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T10:12:12.893 | 2 | 7189 | <p>On my laptop the wireless seems to be detected but it fails to connect. Even turning the switch on and off seems to have no effect. This is the output of lspci command:</p>
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<p>I have the package b43-fwcutter istalled. Some people told me if I remove the linux driver and install Ndiswrapper the proplem would be solved. Is that true? And if the answer is yes how can I do that?</p>
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3421 | 1 | 3422 | 2010-09-01T11:41:00.283 | 1 | 3811 | <p>I have a Fat32 external hard drive plugged into my server at home and since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.10 - it was a bug jump!) I've been having permissions trouble with it.</p>
<p>It used to be mounted as root automatically and I think the permissions were pretty much 'ignored'. Since the upgrade, it is being mounted with the group and owner being my user. Obviously, I need access as my user and this is no problem still. However, I am also running a PHP script (via apache) that serves certain files to authenticated users. This is now no longer working.</p>
<p>If I run PHP as my user there is no problem (obviously). However, when running under www-data it cannot access the drive so my script is now failing.</p>
<p>The permissions on the drive look like this at the moment:</p>
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<p>for folders and files respectively.</p>
<p>It's very clear what the problem is (only adamnfish can access the drive!) but I have no idea how to fix the problem. I've tried mounting the drive every which way and even using GUI tools to try and set the bitmask properly!</p>
<p>The hard drive is always plugged in, but sometimes I kick its power cord while tidying up (so the solution needs to be resilient to plugging / unplugging the drive) and I reboot the machine from time to time (so ideally it'll be an fstab entry or something so I don't need to manually unmount and remount with the correct permissions every time).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, I know this will be obvious to a lot of people but I've been pulling my hair out!</p>
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3424 | 1 | 3517 | 2010-09-01T13:03:09.230 | 4 | 10578 | <p>My chromium browser doesn't work for some reason. What I mean by that is that it doesn't even start up when I click on chromium icon or choose chromium from applications menu. What might be the problem?</p>
<p>After typing: <code>chromium-browser</code> in the terminal I get this:</p>
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/home/freshnrg/.themes/T-ish-Brushed-Overlaid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: Clearlooks configuration option "menuitemstyle" is not supported and will be ignored.
/home/freshnrg/.themes/T-ish-Brushed-Overlaid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:58: Clearlooks configuration option "listviewitemstyle" is not supported and will be ignored.
/home/freshnrg/.themes/T-ish-Brushed-Overlaid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:59: Clearlooks configuration option "progressbarstyle" is not supported and will be ignored.
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<p>So nothing about any errors connected to chromium because all that is just my ubuntu theme errors witch i get all the time. don't understand that <b>Segmentation fault</b> not sure if that has anything to do with chromium.</p>
<p>after typing: <code>rm -rf ~/.config/chromium</code>
and then: <code>chromium-browser</code></p>
<p><code>chromium</code> actually starts from scratch asking if I want to import bookmarks from firefox and it doesn't matter what I choose because that is it. After that nothing happens and chromium still doesn't work.</p>
<p>Re-installation didn't helped. I still get segmentation fault error.</p>
<p>EDIT: I've done all this, went back to official version 5.0.375.127, I've re-installed it couple of times and still nothing. I still have that segmentation fault error.</p>
<p>EDIT: It's definitely something to do with dropbox. After installing dropbox on my new account Chromium stopped working. How can I get rid of dropbox on my old account as I've uninstalled it and deleted all the files that has anything to do with dropbox but I still can't get Chromium to work?</p>
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3426 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T13:33:46.867 | 1 | 492 | <p>Im running the latest release version (5.0.372.127) of chrome on karmic koala x86. I just installed <em><a href="http://www.google.com/chat/video/download.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Voice and Video</a></em> chrome plugin with out problems but if I try to start a video call then I get this message (in the chat window).</p>
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<p>The <em>learn more...</em> is static text i.e. no link so thats not much use. A quick google shows that ubuntu does support this feature, theres even a thread <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2522/google-talk-video-chat-on-ubuntu">here</a>.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
<hr>
<p>Sorry if Iv'e omitted any crucial information, let me know and Ill update the question ASAP.</p>
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3431 | 1 | 3433 | 2010-09-01T14:50:13.720 | 4 | 14618 | <p>If I boot ubuntu from the live cd without any special options I get the following message:</p>
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3432 | 1 | 3436 | 2010-09-01T14:55:19.213 | 19 | 35329 | <p>I need to view a .pub file. How can I view the file or convert it to a more mainstream format (such as a PDF?)</p>
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3446 | 1 | 3454 | 2010-09-01T17:10:11.287 | 16 | 2144 | <p>I have a program that needs to be recompiled for every ubuntu version.</p>
<p>Currently I am packaging it using Ubuntu's PPA just for the current distribution.</p>
<p>Eventually, I have to provide packages for the previous ubuntu version.</p>
<p>I am not sure how to accomplish this.</p>
<p>How does the Ubuntu PPA build server works - does it just look at the distribution field in the most current changelog entry (in the debian/changelog file) to determine for what distribution the package should be build?</p>
<p>The debian specification allows to add multiple distributions into the distribution field. But this does not seam to help me.</p>
<p><a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning">Some ubuntu documents</a> talk about encoding the distribution name into the version number (in the debian changelog file).</p>
<p>But how does this work in practice? A new version of the program is available, then what? Do I add for each distribution a new changelog entry and the PPA buildserver builds automatically for each distribution new packages after dput'ing it up? Or does the PPA buildserver just looks at the first changelog entry?</p>
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3447 | 1 | 3448 | 2010-09-01T18:09:04.373 | 8 | 3423 | <p>Is there a nice, possibly GUI way to add mount points to partitions in Ubuntu?</p>
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<p>How can I add it again, so that it'll be nicely accessible from gnome as it used to be?</p>
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3450 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T19:10:23.893 | 2 | 930 | <p>I have a HP Compaq nx9020 notebook with Intel graphics 855MG. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in text mode everything worked fine, but after a reboot the notebook is freezing after the loading screen with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Windows works fine so I guess the hardware is ok.</p>
<p>If I use vesa drivers I don't see anything in graphic modes. Console works fine.</p>
<p>How can I sort this out?</p>
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3457 | 1 | 3458 | 2010-09-01T21:26:59.373 | 7 | 4023 | <p>The write-protect switch on an SD card doesn't connect to any internal electronics, so it must just be respected by the software controlling the card reader.</p>
<p>Is there any way for me to override this setting and mount a write-protected card with read-write permissions?</p>
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3460 | 1 | 3461 | 2010-09-02T01:45:09.947 | 5 | 659 | <p>My Gwibber app in 10.04 seems to have fallen victim to the OAuthcalypse. I understand that the latest version of Gwibber has this corrected. What is the easiest way to install a version of Gwibber that will work once again with twitter?</p>
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3463 | 1 | 3505 | 2010-09-02T02:32:09.160 | 2 | 2405 | <p>I recently installed <code>mpd-gnome</code> which among other things adds a nautilus extension <code>nautilus-mpd.py</code>. This extension does not seem to be working so I decided to run nautilus from the command line to see if it threw up some kind of error regarding the extension. Unfortunately as soon as I attempted this nautilus forked to the background or something.</p>
<p>How can I see exactly why my extension isn't work?</p>
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3468 | 1 | 3607 | 2010-09-02T06:44:44.057 | 3 | 347 | <p>My mouse was working fine up until this morning. Since then my mouse has stopped working. However the red led bottom is still on and it works in Windows on same machine. The keyboard is unaffected. There is not error messages fired at boot time. What can be the possible reason and how can this be solved.</p>
<p>-- EDIT --</p>
<p>Yesterday I went Out of Space. so I cleared <code>/tmp</code>, <code>/var/tmp</code>. after some googling I saw few guys in some forum clearing <code>/var/cache</code>. So I cleared <code>/var/cache</code> too. and everything went nice even after that.
Now on morning Its actually gdm is refusing to take any input (not even keyboard Inputs)
I thought to reinstall gdm. But apt is complaining about missing <code>/var/cache/apt</code></p>
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"body": "<p>I am not sure however it might get solved by rebuilding /var/cache.\nBut You really donno What file to put. Just Copying from others might not solve the problem untill you know the trigger point (e.g. exactly which folder/file is missing there).</p>\n\n<p>I've reinstalled <code>hal</code>. and It Started working again. :-)</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get --purge -remove hal\nsudo apt-get install hal\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>However Now I think. just making the following directories manually should work.</p>\n\n<pre><code>/var/cache/apt\n/var/cache/apt/archives/partial\n/var/cache/debconf\n/var/cache/gdm\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><em>and expecially</em> <code>/var/cache/hald</code></p>\n\n<p>However I am not still sure whether it will work or not without a <code>/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache</code> </p>\n\n<p>and I don't think its possible to make this one manually. unless you copy from others. However I do still have hope that you don't need to create <code>/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache</code> manually</p>\n",
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3469 | 1 | 3473 | 2010-09-02T12:06:20.897 | 5 | 643 | <p>Recently (I don't don't know when, might have been after an update) the sound indicator disappeared from my panel, and I haven't been getting any sound either. I tried installing the <code>indicator-sound</code> package, but all I got was this error message:</p>
<pre><code> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
indicator-sound: Depends: libido-0.1-0 (>= 0.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
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<p>Seems to be a bug, but how do I get around it? Could I install an older version of libido? If so, how do I do that?</p>
<p>Everything had worked fine until a couple days ago, so I'm sure that the package is the problem.</p>
<p>EDIT:The command <code>$ dpkg --get-selections | grep libido</code> returns the following output:</p>
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<p>Ok, that's embarassing. Yesterday I uninstalled and reinstalled the libido package half a dozen times, and the indicator-sound package kept reporting the same error. Today, however, I just installed the libido package and now the indicator-sound package installed with no errors. Maybe the system needed a reboot or something.</p>
<p>(Should I answer my own question or just wait for a moderator to close it?)</p>
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3470 | 1 | 3471 | 2010-09-02T13:40:43.980 | 5 | 2505 | <p>Gnome is a reasonable desktop manager, but it doesn't seem to match Mac OSX or Windows 7. Are there any alternatives for Ubuntu that focus more on usability? </p>
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3475 | 1 | 3487 | 2010-09-02T16:19:29.167 | 5 | 518 | <p>I've purchased several System76 desktops and have been pleased with them. They can only be configured with nVidia cards. That's why I was surprised to see that their Pangolin Performance laptop can only be configured with "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 Graphics with 512MB GDDR2 Memory." I'm a little concerned given ATI's historically poor Linux performance. Have things changed that much?</p>
<p>I contacted System76 and they said they regularly offer both ATI and nVidia on and off, and that ATI cards give more bang for the buck. <em>Really?</em> With Linux?</p>
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3476 | 1 | 3534 | 2010-09-02T16:30:57.980 | 2 | 5092 | <p>Some weeks ago I configured a dual boot laptop to run Xubuntu 10.4 on the third partition of my disk (i.e. I had to set the installation location manually). Everything was fine until I had installed the bunch of automatic updates (including a new kernel), which were discovered after Wifi was finally working. After rebooting, Grub didn't boot into Xubuntu anymore (which it did several times before), but just showed a prompt. I managed to get the system repaired using a live CD and a good hour of Internet reading.</p>
<p>For some weeks everything was fine, including automatic updates. Yesterday I got a new kernel through automatic updates. And guess what? The laptop refused to boot afterwards.</p>
<p>To me it looks like every kernel update makes my system unbootable. How can I prevent this besides the obvious "Don't install updates"? Is there anything else I should inspect or monitor on that system? Or are my conclusions about the kernel update completely wrong and I should look for something else causing these symptomes?</p>
<p>EDIT: Some more details as asked in the comments: I didn't start Windows between the update and the crash, so for me it seems to be related to Xubuntu only. Grub is Grub2 (version 1.98something). /boot/grub/grub.cfg looks like this:</p>
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"text": "update-grub doesn't show any error. Thanks to your explanation of that process. Now if the next kernel update occurs I can make a backup of the config after the kernel update, run update-grub myself and compare both files afterwards. If they differ, I know that the needed automatic grub config update does not work and I always have to do it manually.",
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3481 | 1 | 3491 | 2010-09-02T17:26:05.057 | 8 | 7535 | <p>People always say that Linux is more secure than Windows. The main reason seems to be the general system design philosophy and the fact that users are users and not root.</p>
<p>One main security concern when using Windows and Internet Explorer seem to be ActiveX. Every few days I read about another kind of exploit using ActiveX, and almost always the workaround is to deactivate ActiveX. I read that so often I wonder why people bother to activate ActiveX at all. (One reason might be that the name contains "active"; another might be the windows update function.)</p>
<p>Using Ubuntu and Firefox, I always feel so safe when reading about the ActiveX exploits. I know that there are many other security vulnerabilities that use JavaScript and/or Adobe Flash, but as far as I understand those kind of security vulnerabilities can only do as much damage as my user rights allow. Of course that doesn't help much when the malware wants to destroy all of my data - but most malware today only wants to use my PC as a botnet drone and so is not interested in destroying my data.</p>
<p>So the question again: does Firefox running under Ubuntu have something similar to ActiveX, in terms of security vulnerabilities?</p>
<p>Another question which may be identical: can a security vulnerability involving Adobe Flash and/or JavaScript be "easily" exploited to do as much damage as an ActiveX exploit?</p>
<p>When I say "easy" I mean that the attack does not need to exploit another component of the system to elevate user rights. For example, an exploit involving Adobe Flash will gain access to my PC using my user rights, and then proceed to exploit some known vulnerability in <code>X</code> to gain root access. That is not "easy".</p>
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3484 | 1 | null | 2010-09-02T18:21:03.217 | 0 | 399 | <p>I hate to have the Windows PC just for the sake of running my Magick Jack on, Have long since left Windows for Ubuntu for all my home PC's. </p>
<p>Has anyone figured out, how to get this or an alternative working on Ubuntu?</p>
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3489 | 1 | 10027 | 2010-09-02T19:05:34.810 | 5 | 4947 | <p>Will the Unity launcher in 10.10 UNE have gnome-do style keyboard shortcuts?</p>
<p>i.e. <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>Spacebar</kbd> for quick search and application launch</p>
<p>If not, can it be customized to allow this?</p>
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3497 | 1 | 3499 | 2010-09-02T20:21:45.750 | 2 | 8513 | <p>I am using an IMAP email account. I created a filter in Evolution to move email from a specific high-volume source into a particular folder, to keep the Inbox uncluttered. I noticed that incoming emails are coming straight into the Inbox. If I select Messages->Apply Filters, then they are moved into the folder. Is there an option to make this filtering apply automatically to all new emails?</p>
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3498 | 1 | 3500 | 2010-09-02T21:12:25.820 | 2 | 881 | <p>I'm going to try and set up wifi on a computer with Ubuntu installed where it doesn't work out of the box. The computer is an Acer Veriton L460 with a AR5001 wifi card. There are two options as far as I know:</p>
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<p>There are steps for using Madwifi here:
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305514" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305514</a></p>
<p>Some hints for ndiswrapper are here:
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-240280.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-240280.html</a>.
The driver seems to be available here: <a href="http://www.netgate.com/support/Drivers/STA_24071bin/Install/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.netgate.com/support/Drivers/STA_24071bin/Install/</a>.</p>
<p>So my questions are, are there any other types of ways to do this? Are there any positives and negatives for chosing MadWifi or ndiswrapper? Has anyone had success installing this particular wifi card in ubuntu, and if so what did you use?</p>
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3502 | 1 | 3527 | 2010-09-02T22:32:35.723 | 4 | 2182 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (can't upgrade due to some applications being incompatible with later versions), with all updates installed.</p>
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<p>At first I thought it was an issue with Greek characters (which we use); however, I attempted to insert some accented western characters (like é, which is in the typical western 1252 Windows codepage), and these too showed up as boxes too, so it's not strictly an issue with Greek.</p>
<p>I attempted to type Greek in a textbox: the word «Δοκιμή» (test). I then selected what I typed, pressed Ctrl-C, switched to a native text editor and pressed Ctrl-V. The result was “Îοκιμή”, which is the greek word pretty messed up (think UTF-8 interpreted as Latin-1; I work a lot with Unicode, so it's easy to recognise such stuff :) However, if you want to verify, start a Python interpreter in a UTF-8 capable terminal and try:</p>
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Δοκιμή
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<p>which is what I typed).</p>
<p>Now, the application also embeds an Internet Explorer control; Mono does well emulating it (I think it uses a Gecko engine), and in a textbox inside that IE control, I <strong>can</strong> type fine and see any non-ASCII character I want.</p>
<p>I would like to know whether there is an issue with my mono configuration or even if it's a known bug; VB.Net is supposedly Unicode-capable, but I don't know anything about the Unicode-capability of the standard controls it uses.</p>
<p>So, if you can help me, please advise: what can I do on the Ubuntu side to remedy the situation?</p>
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<p>Is there a way where only one of my machines needs to download the packages, and the other machines can use the first machine to get the debs? Does it involve setting up my own local mirror? Or a proxy server? Or can it be made simpler?</p>
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"text": "It looks like the **Manual Config** is not valid anymore. There is no `apt.conf` file under `/etc/apt`. However, there is a plethora of files with settings under `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d`. I would imagine that we should now create a file there instead?",
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3508 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T00:02:54.227 | 1 | 382 | <p>I'm in a bit of a pickle here; my main computer has trouble with the Nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards. As this problem is seemingly quite complicated, I was wondering if there was a way to add/install the NVIDIA driver from Jockey onto a Ubuntu/Kubuntu <code>.iso</code> file.</p>
<p>One possible way could be VirtualBox, but I don't even know if a VirtualBox image can be turned into an installable ISO.</p>
<p>I know Linux Mint comes prebundled with it, but I'd much prefer to stick to the Ubuntu line (what can I say? I happen to like appindicators and polish! :P)</p>
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3511 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T02:31:35.993 | 3 | 4926 | <p>With my webcam plugged in at boot, it always defaults to <code>/dev/video0</code> and my TV-card defaults to <code>/dev/video1</code>. Tvtime defaults is using <code>/dev/video0</code>. I know that I can run Tvtime with the --device option and force it to switch to <code>/dev/video1</code>, but if i happen to have my webcam unplugged when I boot, the TV-card becomes video0.</p>
<p>This is very inconvenient, as I have tried to write a "udev" rule, to make the webcam video5 but have not been able to get it to work.</p>
<p><strong>This is the rule I tried to use:</strong> </p>
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<p>I saved this in <code>/etc/udev/rules.d/75-mystuff.rules</code>, and also tried with a lower number, <em>15-mystuff.rules</em>, which didn't work.</p>
<p>I am using Ubuntu 10.04 64bit. Any help to resolve this will be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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3515 | 1 | 3535 | 2010-09-03T03:56:44.260 | 69 | 234025 | <p>When I SSH to a remote box</p>
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<p>and I have firefox running on my local machine, a local firefox window will open. no firefox process is running on the remote box.</p>
<p>If firefox is not running on my local machine then a remote firefox window will open.</p>
<p>Why is it opening a local firefox window? How can i prevent that?</p>
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<p>Here some more information of my local system.</p>
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<p>Information of remotebox.</p>
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<p>The following command produces a brief delay, then drops back to prompt and a local firefox window pops up. No firefox process running on the remotebox.</p>
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<p>Information of remotebox2.</p>
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<p>The following command on remotebox2 starts a remote firefox session as expected.</p>
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<p>I do not know why firefox on remotebox2 starts a remote session instead of a local session.</p>
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3518 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T07:37:47.383 | 11 | 8540 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed with OpenVPN, and when I connect to a VPN, http access to non VPN sites stops working, until I close the VPN connection. To be more specific, both Chrome and Firefox stop being able to load sites like google.com. Sites on my companies intranet are accessible, as well as pages from localhost.</p>
<p>I have asked the Ubuntu gurus at my company, and they can't fix the problem. I have no proxies set up, and the VPN connection uses Automatic VPN with no routes.</p>
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3530 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T12:47:47.440 | 9 | 428 | <p>Will they be available in 10.10 or not? </p>
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<p>I try to copy form netbeans into a terminal. If I paste it somewhere else, in gedit for example, it gets pasted. So it is copied. </p>
<p>Using <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>/<kbd>V</kbd> does not work.</p>
<p>Is this a settings of from some sort?</p>
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3547 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T18:07:05.323 | 3 | 5883 | <p>I just fixed the grub install, and found that my wired network connection did not work. I eventually got it working, but each time I restart, I have to manually restart the networking service to bring up the network. How can get the network to come up automatically?</p>
<p>Here's the pertinent info.</p>
<p>Running <code>ifup</code> gave:</p>
<pre><code>$sudo ifup eth0
Unknown interface eth0=eth0
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<p><code>dhclient</code>, didn't work either. I eventually had a look at <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code>, and <code>eth0</code> was missing:</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
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<p>which I changed to:</p>
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iface eth0 inet dhcp
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#iface lo inet loopback
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<p>The error produced by <code>ifup</code> went away but <code>dhclient</code> still still wouldn't give me an ip, but restarting the network interface did:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... RTNETLINK answers: No such process
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1421
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
send_packet: Network is unreachable
send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.101 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 37830 seconds.
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 1801
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<p>Here are the related <code>syslog</code> entries for the system start up, and after restarting the network:</p>
<pre><code>Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490593] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:2):
operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/sbin/dhclient3"
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490754] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:3): operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490833] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:4): operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.670581] ACPI: resource piix4_smbus [0xb00-0xb07] conflicts with ACPI region SOR1 [0xb00-0xb0f]
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.670581] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.674793] EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Aug 19 2010
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.680588] EDAC amd64_edac: Ver: 3.2.0 Aug 19 2010
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681182] EDAC amd64: This node reports that Memory ECC is currently disabled, set F3x44[22] (0000:00:18.3).
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] EDAC amd64: ECC disabled in the BIOS or no ECC capability, module will not load.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] Either enable ECC checking or force module loading by setting 'ecc_enable_override'.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] (Note that use of the override may cause unknown side effects.)
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681224] amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769839] alloc irq_desc for 16 on node 0
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769844] alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769860] HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.823915] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917876] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917890] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917899] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.918099] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 19:10:14 PDT 2010
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 16.561300] r8169: eth0: link down
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 16.561648] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 17.444914] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1038) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1045) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1050) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1055) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Server startup complete. Host name is storm-rider.local. Local service cookie is 49883856.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1060) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1067) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1072) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1077) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1082) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1087) terminated with status 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd respawning too fast, stopped
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid: 681b428f-beaf-8932-dce4-687ed5bae28e
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: autoconnect
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0)
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: locking wired connection setting
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (37841184) ... get_connections.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (37841184) ... get_connections (managed=false): return empty list.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo)
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> modem-manager is now available
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Found user 'avahi-autoipd' (UID 103) and group 'avahi-autoipd' (GID 110).
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully called chroot().
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Starting with address 169.254.10.181
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider gdm-session-worker[1113]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully called chroot.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully dropped privileges.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully limited resources.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Running.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Canary thread running.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Watchdog thread running.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider polkitd[1203]: started daemon version 0.96 using authority implementation `local' version `0.96'
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1195 of process 1195 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
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Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889)
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Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1242 of process 1195 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
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Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1244 of process 1244 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider pulseaudio[1244]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider anacron[1405]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-09-03
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Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823454] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823456] CPU2 attaching NULL sched-domain.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823457] CPU3 attaching NULL sched-domain.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823458] CPU4 attaching NULL sched-domain.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823460] CPU5 attaching NULL sched-domain.
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903191] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903193] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903195] groups: 0 1 2 3 4 5
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903199] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903200] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903201] groups: 1 2 3 4 5 0
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903203] CPU2 attaching sched-domain:
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903204] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903205] groups: 2 3 4 5 0 1
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903208] CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903209] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903210] groups: 3 4 5 0 1 2
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903212] CPU4 attaching sched-domain:
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903213] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903214] groups: 4 5 0 1 2 3
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Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903217] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC
Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903218] groups: 5 0 1 2 3 4
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Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Callout BIND, address 169.254.10.181 on interface eth0
Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 169.254.10.181.
Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for 169.254.10.181 on eth0.IPv4.
Sep 3 13:39:00 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully claimed IP address 169.254.10.181
Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider init: ssh main process (944) terminated with status 255
Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider ntpdate[1514]: can't find host ntp.ubuntu.com
Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider ntpdate[1514]: no servers can be used, exiting
Sep 3 13:39:54 storm-rider AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
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Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved.
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient:
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Callout STOP, address 169.254.10.181 on interface eth0
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Withdrawing address record for 169.254.10.181 on eth0.
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Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
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Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Sep 3 13:40:17 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Sep 3 13:40:25 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1421
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved.
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient:
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: send_packet: Network is unreachable
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved.
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient:
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier now ON (device state 1)
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider kernel: [ 186.096615] r8169: eth0: link up
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd
Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Sep 3 13:40:41 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fee3:26fd on eth0.*.
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.101 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.101.
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.101 on eth0.IPv4.
Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 37830 seconds.
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| 1445 | null | null | 2010-09-04T02:05:51.500 | After startup, why do I have to run /etc/init.d/networking restart for networking to work? | [
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3554 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T19:13:22.920 | 21 | 33855 | <p>My company's corporate network requires me to set a network proxy to access the net, but when I am anywhere else, I don't need it.
The proxy settings in Ubuntu (System -> Preferences -> Proxy server) allowed me to create "locations" that I can manually select. Then I have a "default" location (with no proxy) and a "work" location (with my company's proxy in it).</p>
<p>Is there a way to make Ubuntu automatically select the "work" location based on the connection I'm using? I thought I could use the IP subnet (very specific) to detect where I am, but I have no idea how to set it up...</p>
<p>Edit: I really need to have the proxy settings set at the system level. All my network connections (IMAP, SMTP, chat, etc) need to go through the proxy. Not only the web browser.</p>
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3557 | 1 | 8843 | 2010-09-03T19:34:01.560 | 7 | 7913 | <p>How can I get my webcam's (<em>Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000</em>) microphone to work?</p>
<p>It uses the <em>uvcvideo</em> driver and video quality is perfect on both <em>Cheese</em> and Gmail's Video Chat.</p>
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3561 | 1 | 565940 | 2010-09-03T20:26:57.167 | 48 | 75856 | <p>I'd like to watch disk activity on my USB external hard drive. I know that I can use <code>iotop</code> to monitor disk I/O for each running process, but is there a way to get a measure per filesystem?</p>
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3564 | 1 | 3568 | 2010-09-03T22:01:42.347 | 2 | 804 | <p>I'd like to have a script play a pretty chime sound as a notification, but I want it to use the internal speaker because the external sound system isn't always powered on.</p>
<p>Beeping is not an option; it makes passers-by think there is something wrong.</p>
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3573 | 1 | null | 2010-09-04T05:44:35.570 | 2 | 161 | <p>I have a box that has Xen on it. It currently has only one DomU. Given that Xen isn't supported in the newer versions of Ubuntu...are there any good HOWTOs or other instructions for removing Xen?</p>
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3 drives mirrored via RAID1 software raid.
LVM on top.</p>
<p>I was thinking something like removing one of the drives, getting my DomU to boot of that and then re-RAID1 from that drive. But I'm not really sure how to go about doing that with <code>mdadm</code>. :-/</p>
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3576 | 1 | 3725 | 2010-09-04T08:27:34.797 | 28 | 104141 | <p>I copied "archives" folder (/var/cache/apt/archives) from another computer which was fully updated and had some packages that i want. Can someone guide me how to add my USB drive in repository list so that i can install those packages from it?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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3577 | 1 | 3606 | 2010-09-04T08:33:33.357 | 6 | 7148 | <p>They use silverlight -- therefore I installed moonlight but still get a black screen.</p>
<p>Is there a way to watch it on Ubuntu? I now use a virtual (windows xp) machine so I can still watch it, but would like to know it there are possibilities.</p>
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3578 | 1 | 3584 | 2010-09-04T08:33:59.960 | 132 | 106643 | <p>Often I need to annotate (draw some arrows, lines, basic shapes like squares, ellipses etc and enter some text) on top of pictures (JPG, PNG images) and screenshots (again png images). I would also need to be able to crop, resize etc.</p>
<p>I tried the Gimp but I could only enter text and perform all image transformations but couldn't find a way to draw boxes etc.</p>
<p>I finally settled to Openoffice.org draw, but I know that isn't what I want, because in oodraw I need to insert my pic into a drawing and resize it (or the drawing) to fit and then go about making changes and finally export to png...</p>
<p>Is there any image editor that allows adding shapes and text to jpg & png files and save the modified file in its place? If the tool can also have template collections (like dia does) for shapes that is an added bonus.</p>
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"text": "@fluteflue: will give shutter a spin - though the image you have posted shows me it is very close to what I want.",
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"text": "2 notes: 1. Inteface is indirect - need to click on the toolbar button for editing with in-built editor to get to the window which allows annotations to be made. 2. `sudo aptitude install shutter` doesn't install libgoo-canvas-perl which is required for enabling the edit button! Couldn't figure it out straight away: shutter complains of missing `Goo::Canvas/libgoocanvas` while `aptitude search libgoocanvas` show `libgoocanvas3` is installed - the unmet (runtime) dependency is libgoo-canvas-perl. Thought of putting it here in case anyone wants to try out shutter after reading this.",
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"text": "That is so not the right thing to do. Thanks for the pointer. Will follow up.",
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"text": "@andrewsomething You can recommend that for Debian Squeeze, too. :)",
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"text": "And now completely borked for me in 18.04. :(( And not just the [edit button](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029085/) -- I'm amazed people have it running at all. :/",
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"text": "`snap install shutter` installs the software on 20.04, but the software itself is buggy (observed crash with stack smashing) and I could not find any annotation tools. It also is slow to start loading many plugins. Downvoted.",
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3580 | 1 | 3581 | 2010-09-04T08:39:13.457 | 2 | 200 | <p>If I download a packed file, and then want to open, the gnome file system points me to my home directory.
I want to go some other path, so I browse there and unpack it.</p>
<p>A moment later, another packed file download, and this time it points me to my home directory again, instead of the last location I unpacked the tar file.</p>
<p>Is it possible in gnome to make it remember the last location where you unpacked a file some moments ago?</p>
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3586 | 1 | 3587 | 2010-09-04T11:09:47.527 | 3 | 19733 | <p>How do I move the start bar on top to the right or left edge of the screen? </p>
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3592 | 1 | 3597 | 2010-09-04T12:11:18.687 | 6 | 4503 | <p>I am a Linux/Ubuntu newbie installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a fresh box as a web server.</p>
<p>My box has two physical drives (40GB and 160GB), and I wish to use them both.</p>
<p>With no previous experience in installing Ubuntu, what partitions should I create that will best utilize my disk space, but also be stable with reasonable performance?</p>
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3601 | 1 | 240383 | 2010-09-04T13:42:20.357 | 14 | 8046 | <p>Maybe this is obvious and I am missing it, or maybe someone's already written a great guide and my (seeming exhaustive) googling is failing to turn it up, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the darn python console in rhythmbox to <strong>do</strong> anything!</p>
<p>I've enabled it from the plugin menu, and then open it using Tools->Python Console.</p>
<p>It prints</p>
<pre><code>You can access the main window through the 'shell' variable :
<rb.Shell object at 0xa6cdd24 (RBShell at 0xa14e000)>
>>>
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<p>But anything I type at the prompt does <strong>nothing</strong>!
I've tried <code>help</code>, I've tried <code>exit()</code>, I've tried <code>print "hello world"</code>, nothing does anything!</p>
<p>All of these things work, of course, in a normal python console. I haven't a clue what the devil the difference is here! Am I supposed to do something other than hit enter?</p>
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"body": "<p>Holy crap, I just found out what the problem was (2.5 years later)—for some reason my \"enter\" key maps to two different key events depending on whether numlock is on or off. When numlock is on, it returns <code>KP_ENTER</code>, and when numlock is off, it returns <code>Return</code>. I always have numlock on, because I prefer entering numbers with the keypad. </p>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the python console in Rhythmbox only recognizes <code>Return</code> to run a command—the <code>KP_ENTER</code> event just enters a line break...</p>\n\n<p>But easy fix, just turn off numlock when using the console. I've ran into this problem in a few other applications (usually games), so I'm going to look into a better long-term solution (maybe forcing both to map to <code>Return</code> somehow)...</p>\n",
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"text": "In case someone else has this problem, I did find a long-term solution:\n\n`xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap`\n\nto create a custom layout, then at the end of that file add a line \n\n`keysym KP_Enter = Return`\n\nthen run `xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap` to enable the new custom layout for this session. \n\nTo make it autorun for the future, add the following to `~/.xinitrc`:\n`if [ -f $HOME/.Xmodmap ]; then\n /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap\nfi`",
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"text": "curse comments and their lack of line breaks! the `if` statement added to `.xinitrc` needs to have line breaks after `then` and before `fi`.",
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"text": "I was using the main \"Enter\" key, not the one in the numpad; for some reason having numlock on/off made a difference for that one too.",
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"text": "CentOS 6.7 but with anaconda python, the Enter key on the NumberPad had a slightly different effect than the Enter key on the main keyboard. NumLock did not have an effect. The main keyboard Enter would return the '>>>' prompt, but the NumberPad Enter would return an empty line.",
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3609 | 1 | null | 2010-09-04T17:24:55.497 | 4 | 6754 | <p>I have and HP Officejet 6500 Wireless printer and I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit. I want to print CD covers, what kind of software can i use to do that? I already tried glables, Gimp, and Image viewer. </p>
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3613 | 1 | 4184 | 2010-09-04T18:26:05.430 | 5 | 4864 | <p>Whenever I try to view a PDF of a document in <a href="http://www.lyx.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LyX</a>, I get this error:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhI5K.png" alt="No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex)"></p>
<p>I get similar errors for DVI and postscript.</p>
<p>If I go through File->Export, the only options are other LyX formats and Docbook. There isn't even an option to export to LaTeX.</p>
<p>How do I configure LyX to export to these formats? Is there at least a way for me to convert to LaTeX so I can use pdflatex to create a PDF?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Strangely, this problem fixed itself. I can't think of anything I changed to make it happen. Perhaps a software update fixed this.</p>
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"body": "<p>I haven't found a way to stop these errors but I have found some workarounds that give a nicely formatted output:</p>\n<p><strong>eLyXer</strong>\n<a href=\"http://elyxer.nongnu.org/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">eLyXer</a> is a program available in the software repositories as <code>elyxer</code> that converts a document in LyX format to a nicely formatted HTML document. This can be viewed by a web browser and converted to a PDF/PS via print to file.</p>\n<p><strong>View Source + pdflatex</strong>\nTo view the LaTeX source, select View->View Source. This displays a split-screen. To get the complete LaTeX document make sure the 'Complete Source' box is ticked. This text can then be copied and pasted into a text editor. The command line tool, <code>pdflatex</code> can be used to convert the LaTeX document to a PDF. The PDF file can be converted to other formats via the <code>pdf2*</code> and <code>pdfto*</code> sets of commands.</p>\n<p><strong>docbook-utils</strong>\nThe package <code>docbook-utils</code> can convert a file in docbook format to several other formats including PDF, PS and HTML.</p>\n",
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3616 | 1 | 3800 | 2010-09-04T19:30:33.600 | 2 | 1291 | <p>I'm trying to install iFolder on Ubuntu 10.04 32bits by following the steps presented at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall</a>.</p>
<p>When issuing the command</p>
<pre><code>bzr-buildpackage
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<p>it seems to download simias.tar.gz and after that, i get the following errors</p>
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<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated</p>
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"body": "<p>Try that:</p>\n\n<p>The simias.tar.gz file is downloaded as \"download\".\nAll you have to do is to add a line in the file \"rules\" just before the tar command.</p>\n\n<pre><code>mv download simias.tar.gz\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>It should work.</p>\n",
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