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so i installed a maxtor external hard drive. for some reason around this time i can login with my username/password, but in the terminal when i type 'su' and try to type the same password, it says auth failure | su is disabled for non-root users. use sudo |
i was planning to install both ubuntu and kubuntu to see which version i perfer but from what i heard, te application menu would get cluttred with applications from both versions no matter what session you use. is there a way to prevent this from happening? like only show gnome apps under gnome and kubuntu apps under k... | another machine may allready have the ip. |
somebody could tell me the default password of user 'ubuntu' in the image downloaded from ubuntu? | by default, there is no password and it should autologin |
i'm trying to install ubuntu on a compaq presario v3000 cto notebook, but it appears there are already three partitions on the four partitions, on the roughly 100gig hd, about 70% of which is one which i assume has windows and most files, then followed by an 8 megabyte blank partition, then two i don't recognize that s... | have you tried mounting them to see what they contain? what file system are they? |
is it better to install pae on my 32bit ubuntu or install the 64bit edition, so i can have available all 8gb of ram? | if you intend to encode audio and video then 64bit will help. if you have a lexmark printer then 32bit will allow you to use it due to half ass support |
where whould i go to find mouse icons online? | see the links at the right |
someone tell me how to get permission to make this launcher? ln -s /media/win.xp.sp2.on.250/'program files'/steam/steamapps ./steamapps | put 'sudo' before the command |
what do you mean? | when i'm typing etc wine jfjef/jerje kk/dfo it stops at jfjef/jerje if you understand |
anyone with tips for a photo application that is easy to reduce an image size (storage size) in ubuntu? | i think there is nautilus extension for that |
can someone at least say they don't know, to my question i'm getting paranoid my messages aren't being received :) does anyone know where/how to get truss onto ubuntu? thx | depends on what your question is? |
how do i get rid if the splash screen during bootup? | esc |
hello. i'm from universidade do minho. and we are mirroring ubuntu. i was wondering how can we be an official mirror. can you help us? | read the mirror info on the wiki it's all explained there |
i'm running hoary and i'm having a sound problem with totem, mplayer and xmms - totem plays video but no sound, while xmms and mplayer hang - can anyone point me in the right direction as to a fix? | i think something similar applies to mplayer -- maybe -ao esd, something like that |
hi, i have a problem with the keyboard layouts. i have 2 layouts: german and russian, after a reboot i'm not able to switch to the russian layout anymore... i tried to find a solution in the forums, but had no success. | you have both checked in system > administration > language ? you should get an applet in the panel... this is not working? |
hi there. is there anyway i could image a complete harddrive to external server or harddrive? i'm upgrading my hd and don't want to have to reinstall everything | type 'man dd' |
hello people. i have had a mac for about one year now and have previously been using ubuntu. i have stopped using ubuntu because the sudden problems it caused were eating away my time. they were hardware problems, from my other pc. i want to try out ubuntu on my mac, see how it goes there. but i do not want to damage a... | get a real computer. |
hello, i have installed ubuntu-desktop on one test machine that i can access only via ssh, i was wondering how can i enable remote connections from the terminal to be able to access it using remote desktop connection 'vinagre' ? | with that you should be able to tunnel a vnc connection |
i am unable to hear anything in my install of ubuntu, the mixer shows 2 defices.. alsa has an nvidia device and oss has a realtec one.. as far as i know it is a realtec audio system. ideas? | u sure you don't just have e.g. pcmoutput muted? |
anyone that knows the location of the ubuntu logo in the gnome-panel so i can remove it? | in your icons folder named start-here.png |
are there any up to date guides for getting video on an ipod for ubuntu? | use vlc to convert videos. |
hello, does anyone know whether it is possible to switch from mint to ubuntu (preserving setttings etc.)? | chances are you need to do a full reinstall. |
is there a good tool to make a raw copy of a harddrive? | you can also partimage. |
is sata generally hotswappable? i bought an enclosure that supports esata and it came with a bracket that just connects an esata connector on the back of the bracket/case to a sata connector on the motherboard... i'm wondering whether that's safe to hotplug | at least as far as i know, there is no linux support for hotswapping esata yet. |
hello all, i have a question. i was running synaptic for about 2 hours and i downloaded about 40 of 400 files, the thing is my internet died before they could all finish. and i dont think that the files that were finished installed... is there a way to find out?? | just go to synaptic, and re-run the upgrade, you don't need to manually do anything. |
there's only 2mb free on the internal drive. i'm assuming it's gonna download more than 2mb of stuff. i can't imagine the installer hunts for free disk space on other drives. does it? | this machine to be precise |
is there any image editing tool for ubuntu? not normal image editing tool, i mean photoshop type image editing tool | try gimp |
hey, any body in here know what could have caused this to happen during an update 'http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2061/screenshot3k.png'? | you can try downloading the .deb package direct from packages.ubuntu.com and installing it by clicking on it. |
now, when i boot up , i get a message about waiting for network configuration.. and then waiting 60 seconds.. | if you don't get a reply here, try the ubuntu forums |
anybody noticed that the scale plugin for compiz slows down (only) when firefox is open? | it's probably your graphics driver being slow |
first time irc'in here, am i supposed to wait my turn for my problem lol? | i believe that page covers it: you use synclient |
should have just left it at 10 when 10.04 and 10.10 'worked' with both my displays out of the gate. (vmware server broke but what else is new) but nooo i had to just hit the upgrade button. like a crack head i do stupid things. | compizconfig-settings-manager |
i'm puzzled why it put stuff in /etc the first time... | postgresql doesn't seem to like to properly purge the files so you can recreate the defaults, i believe i managed to get it to work by purging both postgresql-8.4 and postgresql-common, then deleting the /etc/postgresql and /etc/postgresql-common and then reinstalling successfully recreated those /etc directories |
how to create a smb user ? | smbpasswd |
is there no more #ubuntu+1? that bookmark brought me here. | redirected :) |
i have a question regarding invoking 'sed' - specifically on how to get it to find all *.lua files in all subfolders (ie rather than using ./* which opens all text files in all subfolders). if someone can point me to a different channel where the question is more appropriate, that'd be fine as well :p. | how about something like: find /path/to/files -iname '*.lua' -exec sed s/whatever/whatever/ -i {}\; |
hi... what difference is there between .mp3 and .ogg .....any reason to pick one over the other? | see here for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vorbis |
i get an error with update manager about 2.6.17.11 kernel and tells me that it is broken. update manager offers me the command: sudo apt-get install -f . and that command removes linux-image-generic and linux-generic which are 106kb. what should i do? should i say yes to this command? | no prob! |
hello. i need to install sun-java6-jdk and a few weeks ago that still was found in synaptic and installed, when canonical partners was added as repository. now i installed same ubuntu 11.04 on a different machine today and it can't find sun-java6-jdk anymore, even though canonical partners etc. is the same...? | double check the partners repo is enabled and make sure you updated your package list |
how can i format a partition in ubuntu? there is no grafical paritioner, right? | gnome frontend to parted |
is ubuntu.beryl-project.org down? | beryl is no longer being developed, you want to look into compiz fusion |
is there a way to display timestamps in the chat window using regular xchat (2.8.4) | settings>preferences>interface>text box |
what is the command for makeactive in grub2 | http://superuser.com/questions/93443/grub-makeactive-command-in-grub2 |
easy question for anyone...i compiled compiz fusion from git....how do i check what version i'm running? | compiz --version , or compiz.real --version |
is there a cron gui in ubuntu? | gnome-schedule |
when i install the bind package (either 8 or 9) where is the bind binary located? | dpkg -l bind9 |
how do i undelete contents of a folder? | did you accidentally delete something permanently, aka not in the trash? |
where is memu.lst in 9.10? | you're gonna hae to do some stuff w/ grub.conf.. which sorry, i know little about... |
how can i find the usb port a device is using??? ttyusb1, ttyusb3 etc etc i have a palm pilot im trying to setup as a card reader and i dont know what port its on | when you plug it look at the last dmesg messages « dmesg | tail -n20 » |
can someone paste the sources.list the way it should be on pastebin? | hang on |
hi, i'm new to linux but i'm also interested in running a linux server - file, http, hl2 and dc. should i get ubuntu desktop or server? (i also want to play high end comp games eg, hl2) | if you need to play games, you should use the desktop version to install |
whats the command to reconfigure xserver-xorg? | `sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg` |
anyone know the name of that notepad that goes into the ubuntu panel that acts like a mini-wiki? i am not running ubuntu atm but need to know the name of that program. :p | it's definitley tomboy, tomtom is a gps service |
i'm attempting to get lucid running on a xen domu, the initrd runs and mounts the root filesystem okay, but it seems to hang when it tries to run /sbin/init. i tried booting with break=init, and i get a prompt, but running /root/bin/sh hangs. | how about /bin/sh ? |
hi. i was installing nes emulator from software center (ubuntu 10.10) and it didnt finish installing. now it keeps showing a message 'items cannot be removed or installed until the package catalogue is repaired'. i try to repair but it says failed. can anyone help? | you can do that with synaptic |
i installed vlc couple of days ago on my ubuntu 9.10 but it doesn't work. i cannot read mp3. if i had the files in the library it shows lenght = 0 and nothing happen if i press play. i also tried to launch it from the terminal in debug mode and it says playlist empty .. even if i have added music ... anyone already had... | ntfs-3g has a mac port, you could try ntfs |
ok i am in failsafe now in cli, how can i remove or uninstall kde from cli? | 'sudo apt-get remove kde' |
how can i change the master volume in command line, please ? (i want it for a script, thus can't use stuff like alsamixer) | amixer |
vis: why did you follow that? nobody seems to get that working :( | i was having some problems with pulseaudio and my usb sound card which was working fine with programs like music on console, so i thought id give it a try |
hey. can someone tell me how to install a firefox theme that is in a .jar? | open firefox > go to tools > themes menu, and drag and drop the jar file onto the list of themes |
is it ok to upgrade from feisty to jaunty? | if you have a seperate /home and you want to make one single jump .. install fresh otherwise i'll have ubottu give you a link |
can anyone help me get firestarter to autostart after reboot, i'm using ubuntu 8.04? | you don't actually need firestarter running for the firewall to run, but in case you want to, just add 'firestarter' command to your autostart section |
[kernel help] sudo modprobe driver works for me. but i have to do it on every boot. how do i have it automated? | ya that too can be done... what fde said |
i'm sure this has been beaten to death, but any ideas when breezy might be ready for general public consumption? | october |
how do i download vlc source from ubuntu repository? | try |
i am using xubuntu 9.10 and want to re-enable the ctrl-alt-backspace restart x ability. i have to make the command manually in xubuntu, does anyone know what the command is for restart x? | take a look at this http://maketecheasier.com/restore-ctrl-alt-backspace-in-ubuntu-jaunty/2009/05/17 |
is there some reason i don't want to just log in as the root user and always be him? | mount /dev/whatever -o remount=rw |
i would like to address my issue to ubuntu community support via email. could somebody please provide me with that email? | go to lists.ubuntu.com and join the ubuntu-users mailing list |
how can i watch dvd's on my dvd-rom with ubuntu? | kaffeine, totem, xine can play dvds. libdvdcss needed if encrypted |
i'm trying to run windows xp inside ubuntu 8.04. i just installed virtualbox | bad idea... virtual machines dont' have the same hardware and windows doesn't like hardware changes |
how do you release/renew an ip address via dhcp? | then sudo ifup eth0 |
i'm on 10.04. can i pull packages fro ma 12.04 repository? namely geddeb from ubuntuupdates | you do not want to cross release repos. will break your system. |
are there any former undergrads here that have experience on arguing with professors? specifically, how stupid is doing such a thing? | as a professor to be, i should tell you that it is usually unwise to argue with your professors! :x |
i'm fairly new to ubuntu, and having a bit of a time using apt. is there a way to search repositories? i'm trying to find picasa. | apt-cache search keyword |
anybody know if ubuntu and linspire are going to change the names of ubuntu and freespire to one name? | from what i read they are just sharing technology with each other |
any cool color pickers for ubuntu ? | gcolor2, not so much cool, but simple |
there's a breezy version of a package that i want to install on my hoary system - is there a best practices doc on that? d/l'ing and dpkg -i'ing would be fine with me, but i wanted to make sure doing so is the best approach (if it is) | pinning may help (though i don't pretend to understand it). http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/pinninghowto |
i'm trying to setup a preseed file that partitions my drives and makes / and swap encrypted however i can't get the recipe right, can anyone provide some insight? i've tried the 'use entire disk and setup lvm and encrypt' however i always get grub error 18 on boot, i think its because the installer for 9.04 doesn't mak... | you could also use trucript |
hi, is there a way to get commands to run on shutdown? like /etc/rc.local, but for shutdown | https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/12884 |
just a quick question here. why was gdebi removed? | it is still in the repos, but i believe that the software center is now handling .deb installs. theres only limited space on the live cd, so duplicated programs get removed. |
how can i change the name of my ubuntu machine? | change it in /etc/hostname |
anyone help me with troubleshooting to make my laptop detect a second display? | tried the monitor app in gnome? |
how to i open a port on my ubuntu machine ? | you can always do a, nc -l -p <port #> |
tasksel is working away. i'm coming from debian. is tasksel like dpkg or what? i never used it in debian. | ubuntu is debian-based, and uses the same dpkg, apt-get and other things. |
is asf format, a movie file? | asf is a ms format, mpeg is more open |
hi. which key is kp1 or kp9? | kp = keypad. |
for setting up a lamp server: apache2 mysql-server and which package for php? | php5 |
when i add an nfs share to my fstab it doesn't mount automatically on boot .... but when i mount it manually it does mount .. what could be wrong ?! | auto should work, you may also like to put put option user so regular users can mount it as well |
tried alt+t in 10.10, apparently it's ctrl+altt. | good to know :) |
hey, i'm rather new to linux and i really like it. i would like to change over completely but because of my ipod is there an ipod program or something that can run ituns? | try gtkpod |
hirvinen, does ubuntu have a automatic partioner setup for when you are installing so that it would divide the harddrive? | no, it's part of the install, can't miss it. |
hello guys, i tried to set environment variable by some_env='/home/foo/', but can't | maybe, export some_env='/home/foo' |
where do you put gnome themes? | the gnome theem selector tool has a 'install' button i belive. or ya can drag/drop them on it. |
what user/group does apache2 run as by default? | : www-data |
what's going on, eh? | i screwed up, i'll fix it. |
hi guys can anyone tell me how can i check what is the partition number of my current booted os????? | df will tell you the currently mounted filesystems |
could someone point me towards a name/word i can google regarding the 'bit torrent service' installed with ubuntu? | i think you answered your own question |
if i download something from a torrent, and i turn my computer off. will the download continue from where it stopped when i turn it on again? | it should.... |
can a directory be renamed in linux? | 'mv postfixadmin-2.1.0 postfixadmin' |
is there a nice method of installing java support for firefox from within kubuntu? | : sudo aptitude install sun-java6-plugin |
is there ubuntu reference, similar to debian's - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ ? | http://is.gd/wxon |
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