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Unable to set hostname for use within network
I am having a lot of trouble setting up a hostname for my home server for use within my home network. My home server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and all packages are up to date.
My homeserver ...
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upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 Server, do-release-upgrade still shows
I upgraded my server to Ubuntu 13.04 Server a while ago. However, the notice that tells me there's a New Release '13.04' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it. still shows. Obviously, ...
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init:network-interface (lo) pre-start proc (664) terminated with status 1
Ubuntu server 10.04. I modified the file /etc/network/interfaces. Restarted the system.
system startup errors：
init:network-interface (lo) pre-start proc (664) terminated with status 1.
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Xtightvnc: Ubuntu gnome-session-fallback: Fonts problem
I'm running a tightvnc server on Ubuntu 11.04 with a Gnome fallback session. Things seem to work fine except that when I try launching an application that needs xfonts-100dpi. All application menus ...
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Wireless on my Dell Latitude E5320 doesn't work on Ubuntu but works on Linux Mint. What can I do to make it work?
I have dualboot Ubuntu 12.10 & Linux Mint 14, both are clean install & updated with the latest. My wireless works flawlessly on Linux Mint but it's very unreliable on Ubuntu: every 15~20 ...
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No volume control in Nexuiz fullscreen mode
While playing Nexuiz on my Ubuntu in full screen mode the volume control buttons on my laptop don't work at all, externally after minimizing the game increasing/decreasing the sound solves the problem ...
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How to find speed of wlan interface?
I'm trying to find speed of network interface using file-descriptor. It's easy to do it for ethX, just calling cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed. Unfortunately this method doesn't work with wireless ...
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Sierra wireless aircard 890 (Mobile broadband/ express card), how to either recharge and check balance of money
I'm using a mobile broadband, the Sierra wireless aircard 890 (express card) for 3G mobile connection. Everything is ok, the card's automatically recognized. But one thing that I can neither recharge ...
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Binding a particular IP to a port in apache2
In How to set-up a online SVN server on my laptop I asked to give access to my SVN server installed on my laptop to some of my friends siting in another part of country.I set-up a SVN server.I was ...
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nme for linux target setup fails on debian
I'm trying to run
haxelib run nme setup linux
To set up NME for the Linux target on my Debian box. Actually Linux MINT Debian Edition, but that shouldn't matter. However, I get the following ...
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Make bluetooth device invisible / disable incoming pairing
I am using the bluez package for my bluetooth usb dongle on ubuntu server. I want to be able to initiate bluetooth connection from the dongle to a device, however a device itself shall not be able to ...
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How do I detect wheter the audio cable is connected?
I'm using Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). In my shell script running as root I want to detect whether an audio cable (analog jack) is connected to the laptop or not. How do I do that? I don't need a portable ...
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access a command line via a web browser
2 questions:
Question 1
My job blocks ssh which means that I cannot ssh to my home server. However, they do allow https out. Is there a package out there for ubuntu that will allow me to connect to ...
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How to use nVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 x64 on my ASUS G75-VW with nVIDIA GTX670M. I have installed nvidia drivers via terminal and additional drivers, terminal says nothing to upgrade, additional drivers shows that ...
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Mount a filesystem read-only, and redirect writes to RAM?
Is it possible to mount a loopback file as read-only, and redirect all writes to RAM?
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VPN with network manager (nm-applet) is not working
My university (TU Wien) offers a VPN in order to get an IP of the university network. The instruction on the university webpage says to install the packages network-manager-gnome, network-manager-vpnc ...
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How to set-up a online SVN server on my laptop
I had created a local SVN server on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 and its working perfectly fine. Now I want to make my laptop as server for some valid users who can access my SVN server though ...
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Linux ubuntu/mint livecd user-home customization
I'm trying to customize Linux Mint livecd with these instruction (uck doesn't work for me).
What I want is to have more icons at its livecd user (/home/mint/Desktop) but I can't find /home/mint on ...
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Linux installation stops working after a few reboots
I'm trying to set up a dualboot Win8/Linux on my HP tablet (touchsmart tm2-1050ez).
However, when I'm finished setting it all up, after a few more reboots, I'm not able to boot to Linux anymore, as I ...
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How to setup VLAN on same subnet as Ethernet ?
I have a physical NIC with dev name eth0 with ip 192.168.1.2 and gateway 192.168.1.1 and I want to setup a VLAN with ip 192.168.1.x and same gateway as eth0.
Setting up the VLAN runs smoothly and I ...
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I cannot install new packages: “Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock”
I am new to Linux (installed Ubuntu for the first time yesterday), and have never dealt with any unix-based OS. I started using Linux for the sole purpose of collaborating code with my partners via ...
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Triple Booting; Windows, Ubuntu, Linux Mint by Windows Installer
I wanted to install Linux Mint 14.1 using the Windows Installer (mint4win.exe). I
copied mint4win.exe to HDD, and when I running it, it prompts me to uninstall Ubuntu. Previously I installed Ubuntu ...
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Add Ubuntu to list of Grub boot options
I have an old laptop with an old version of Debian. I would like to install Ubuntu as well. Is it possible to install Ubuntu from the HD (not a rescue CD or flash-drive) and have it reside as a Grub ...
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Enable Compiz Fusion at startup kde
Compiz is "temporarily disabled" by default, I have to enable Compiz by pressing Alt+Shift+F12 every time I start my computer.
Can somebody please tell me how it can be enabled automatically at ...
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building/compiling kernel headers
I am compiling kernel 3.4 and 3.8 for different target devices. I would like to install compat wireless driver which requires kernel header. Could anyone tell me how I can compile/build the kernel ...
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Half screen appears to have film on it. Acer C7 Chromebook running 13.04
Right side of the screen is not processing colors properly. Does not show up in white space but when colors deep colors occur the right side is lighter and it seems to be a bit blurry as well.
I ...
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Overflow /tmp mounted when there is free space on /
I recently faced an "overflow" issue on /tmp. I don't have a separate /tmp partition, and there is 17% free in / – then why did I get an overflow tmp filesystem?
# /etc/fstab: static file ...
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Ubuntu Server: Already have LAMP installed, how do i install and set up Django?
Alright, so i've been struggling with installing and configuring Django for months now. I have reinstalled Ubuntu Server countless times because of my fails. I keep messing up some way every time.
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UART0 Access in AM1808 using Embedded Linux
I am trying to interface GSM module with my AM1808 processor.
I am using gcc compiler as well as UBUNTU 10.04 Lucid.
I have configured the TXD and RXD pins of UART0 but i can not access the RTS and ...
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Unable to connect to a wifi network with a special SSID
My current wifi network (and i'm writing this with the help of Windows -.- ) has a special character in it's SSID: "ö", a so-called "umlaut".
If changing the SSID is not an option, how to connect to ...
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Ubuntu filesystem buffers/cache always empty
I have a virtual server with ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS and plesk (preinstalled by hosting company).
Now i have seen that the buffers/cache are always empty.
Current uptime is 22 days. free and htop shows the ...
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Ubuntu make fails with No such file or directory /lib/modules/3.4.0/build
I am trying to build the CP210x driver for the 3.x.x kernel on ChrUbuntu.
Build instructions: Ubuntu:
make ( your cp210x driver )
cp cp210x.ko ...
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How to monitor the last PID assigned by the kernel?
To monitor process creation I'd like to periodically write the last PID assigned by the kernel to any process on the system (not just processes created by the PID-monitoring program) with a time stamp ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu with windows 8
I have Windows 8 and need to dual boot Ubuntu. I made a new partition from Windows Manager, but when I boot Ubuntu and select the new partition I get the error:
this partition is not rooted !!
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keyserver timed out when trying to add a GPG public key
I am trying to add a public key for installing a program with CPG. But i am pretty new to this but every command i found gave me the same error:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ...
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Guest OS Ubuntu 12.04 no network connection
Recently added a new *.VDI image with Ubuntu 12.04 to my existing VirtualBox. The machine hangs with a "Waiting for network configuration" error, eventually times out after 60 seconds and boots in ...
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Set up an email domain with Postfix and Dovecot
I am very new to the Linux world so please forgive me.
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 12.10 x86 and I have installed Rails3, Nginx, Mysql and Passenger. All are up and running.
I want to set up mail so ...
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Linux, disable /dev/fd0 (floppy)
Is it possible to make Linux kernel completely ignore the floppy disk controller? I do not have the drive but obviously my motherboard does contain the controller. I would like to disable the /dev/fd0 ...
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What could the “disable touchpad” Fn+F5 button disable? My touchpad does not work anymore even after reboot
Ok, I am getting crazy around this.
I pressed Fn+F5 button that in my Samsung 9 laptop disables touchpad.
It worked.
Then I pressed it again.
Clicks (and even click through tapping!) work, but pointer ...
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Unexpected Output Running Semaphore [migrated]
I'm trying to write a program that forks another process and stays in sync so that the first process doesn't start its (i)th iteration until the second process has finished its (i-1)th iteration. Is ...
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“Live” Processor hang under Ubuntu 11.10, how to diagnose/fix?
We recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 on a virtual server. Since the upgrade, the server will periodically "hang" with processor use at zero (according to monitoring). Monit is still running and ...
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Running Ubuntu of a USB stick. Can't install wireless driver
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my 8 gb USB stick, and got it running. It seems like I don't have the full Ubuntu OS on the stick though, and that was my intention. Anyway, I can run a "demo" version ...
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Can I display part of a window on the second device?
When giving presentations, I use the html/css/js-based showoff. It has a presenter mode which shows the notes and the progress in a good way for me. It seems like the idea is that somehow a second ...
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Xubuntu 12.04: slow login
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and after I ran the update, my login started slowing down big time. I've dabbled a little bit with the programs in Settings -> Settings Manager -> Session and Startup, and ...
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What doesn't need defragmentation? Linux or the ext2 ext3 FS?
Why don't you have to defrag a Linux system? Because it's using the ext2/ext3 file system or because it's Linux?
That's relevant, because a have a double boot system (W7 / Ubuntu) and a common ...
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How to configure external IP addresses for LXC guests?
I'm exploring the LXC features in Ubuntu 12.04 and I really want to set up a network like this:
client1: 192.168.56.101/24
lxc-host: 192.168.56.102/24
guest1 192.168.56.201/24
guest2 ...
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Using update-rc.d
As per this question, I'd like to start a /etc/init.d script on boot. I have the following script comments:
# Startup script for Wowza Media Server
#
# chkconfig: - 80 20
# description: Wowza Media ...
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How can I fsck a partition when the device reads as busy (but has been confirmed otherwise)?
I'm attempting to run fsck -p /dev/sda5 to repair errors on an ext4 partition, however the command outputs
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open ...
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Sharing ubuntu drives with windows
I'm new to the whole Linux thing. I have a Linux server up and running and have been using this guide as a help. I have an issue with shared drives. My windows machines can see them but cant write to ...
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Tracing system call on Ubuntu 12.04
The main task I have to carry out, is to trace the system call of processes in ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Problem is, I am unable to trace them continuously, i.e. as soon as they are added to the system, they ...
