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Scrambled Xen Console on dom0
I installed Xen using the recommended procedure on Ubuntu's site using motherboard Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 and Ubuntu 13.04 amd64. After the installing it and rebooting my console looks like this: ...
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How do I setup DNS names and static IPs for an Ubuntu virtualbox? [migrated]
I have Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox, on top of a Windows 8 host. How can I setup a static IP and DNS name for this virtual machine that other virtual machines will see?
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Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 - crackling sound
I am very new user to the Linux world. I istalled newest Ubuntu on my old ASUS A7CC laptop. I would like to use also my older external sound interface Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1. I am able to ...
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Forgot encfs password
I followed the guide here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/encrypt-your-private-dropbox-data-with.html
to get dropbox encfs working on my first computer. I disabled the syncing of the encryption key. ...
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Replacing Multiple Debian Packages from Compiled Source
I've had to download and install a version of a library from its source code repository. The problem is is that other packages from the Kubuntu package manager require this library to be installed. ...
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Installing Linux Mint on Windows-Ubuntu Dual Boot
I currently have an Ubuntu-Windows Dual boot. However, I would like to try out a new OS so I burned Linux Mint to a USB stick.
I would like to install Linux Mint and remove Ubuntu while still ...
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Ubuntu : after upgrade, wire network is unstable
Yesterday I have upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04. After I upgrade, I meet a serious problem with network. (and I use wire network), that my network is unstable. After a short time using, it's often ...
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Virtualbox kernel modules not loading at boot - ubuntu 12.04
I have been running virtualbox on a ubuntu 12.04 laptop for a while and it has all worked smooth, but suddenly, probably after a kernel upgrade, the vbox* modules are not loading at boot, if I ...
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Installation problem with python-software-properties
I need to install the last version of node.js but my system has in repository older version. I need to add new ppa source. I followed this tutorial
Question - when I install ...
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Compiling and running Snapper for Ubuntu
I am trying to get snapper working in my Mint 14. (The version from launchpad is old and not compatible with Ubuntu 12.10. The OpenSuSe's build project failed to build it, too). So I try my luck with ...
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Ubuntu Bash - Changing permissions to user files for automating Apache VirtualHost creation
Moved here from AskUbuntu
I currently have a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine (test environment) with about 3 non-root users created. Each user has their own public_html directory under their ...
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Exynos 5 DVFS or turning off cores in Ubuntu - Scaling frequency for one of the cores only (dual core) (cpufreq)
I was wondering if there is possible to scale only one of the cpu cores in the A15 in Exynos 5 ? I have tried using e.g cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 500MHz, but both cores are set to the same frequency. When ...
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Recover Partially Formatted Hard Drive
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and recently tried to safely remove my external hard drive using the GUI, but the "Format" button was right next to the "Safely Remove" button. I stopped the format as soon ...
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How much success can I expect with Qemu On PowerPC Linux?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 for PowerPC and I installed Qemu just for kicks, having experience using it in the past to build an iso for an arm tablet, and upon doing a search I found this installed on my ...
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What does apt need to be healed of a bad setup?
I made a couple of earlier posts regarding a libssl-dev that, it seemed, was not removable. Some of the replies touched on that there was a problem with apt, and now that someone posted the command to ...
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How can I forcibly remove a package from Ubuntu by hand?
I posted this on ServerFault and got some helpful-looking questions, but no answer in terms of what can I do. What, on a low level, can I do to completely exorcise a package that is jamming aptitude ...
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Not able to configure Squid3 proxy server on Ubuntu Server 12.04
When I install Squid3, I configure my network on squid.conf as acl localnet src 192.168.1.0/24, then I configure proxy settings in my browser. After that it stops the browsing and a message displays ...
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Novice Ubuntu 12.04 user needs help! [closed]
I'm new to Unix/Linux and someone suggested I try Ubuntu. I like it but I can't figure a couple of things out and don't really have time to google up ways to solve the problem. Answers from a quick ...
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Starting Resque worker with script doesnt work, starting by hand does
I am trying to figure out why my process doesn't work if started via a script, but works fine if started by hand.
Here's the details:
script is a resque worker start script. The script location is ...
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Find command incorrect results with days filter
I am trying to find all files modified before march 6 in a directory with thousands of files.
I executed the following commands in the PWD where I want to find files.
find -mtime +47 > ...
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Jingle CLI client / Jitsi replacement / VOIP
I am looking for a Jingle client for the command line.
Currently, I use Jitsi, but my dreams of not needing the GUI for more than just web-browsing are not realized due to my reliance on this ...
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How do I update my Debian kernel?
Essentially I have an Ubuntu laptop and a board running Debian. I have installed the same kernel module and a utility for managing it on each, using aptitude.
Unfortunately, the versions of the ...
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Channeling audio
I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like:
INPUTS:
1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player)
1 Microphone Input
OUTPUT:
1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast.
1 connection to ...
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delete file with name --help.tgz [duplicate]
I have file with name --help.tgz. I want to delete but don't know how.
I tried rm "--help.tgz", rm \-\-help.tgz and it did not work. How can I delete a file with such name?
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Time synchronization of machines on LAN to GPS NTP server on the LAN UBUNTU 12.04
I have 4 computers on a LAN that need to have their system clocks closely synchronized within a ms or so if possible. I have just installed a GPS based time server (ESE-104A) on the LAN. At this ...
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Does encrypting my whole Lubuntu slow running programs down?
During the installation of Lubuntu I chose to encrypt my whole HDD (not just the /home folder). Now it feels like my system has slowed down a lot. Especially the startup time of programs increased.
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How to attach elisp function source code in Emacs?
I could use M-x find-function to find the source code of some elisp functions if the function is not written in C code.
But since I am using a Debian binary package of Emacs , some of the source ...
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grub2 ubuntu 12.04.2 flashing screen
Okay, so I've been searching a bit and either by my lack of understanding (I know just enough to be about as dangerous as a fluffy kitten) or because I am just not searching for the right stuff (maybe ...
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Local port forwarding automatically configured on boot?
I have software which needs to run as a non-root user, but needs to listen on port 80 and 443.
With iptables, this isn't all that difficult:
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp ...
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sybase and iconv
I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...
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uploading from Netbeans to remote CentOS server failed
I have a php web application on Netbeans on my Ubuntu , and server is CentOS on a virtualBox .
Suddenly uploading to server stopped and I'm getting these errors for non-root user :
Failed:
file ...
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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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Can I put 2 disks into a raid-0 array without reformating the FS?
We have an existing /dev/sda disk, we are adding an identical /dev/sdb
I want to place these two disks in a raid-0 array.
Can I do that without reformating /dev/sda?
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Postfix address resolver + loopback to root problem
Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 With LAMP stack.
The goal is to setup a web server that can send mail via the PHP mail() function, which uses localhost. The mail must then be relayed to an ISP domain ...
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Get diff changes between original files installed with apt and current files
I installed php5-fpm package using apt; then I made some changes to the PHP configuration files.
Now I would get the diffs between the original files versions (the ones of the package installed) and ...
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Run service after logging in on an X session
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to automatically start a service after login with LightDM. This service is not meant to start on boot, but after X is initialized.
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Transfer 150GB of files from an old MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 13.04 Live DVD
My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS.
Since she ...
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How to get past “Loading Initial Ramdisk” hang after going from x86_64 to i686 cpu
Long story short, I have a Ubuntu 12.04 64-Bit Server setup as a virtual machine with VirtualBox (4.1.18). I migrated the guest machine from an AMD chipset (a gaming machine) to an Intel Xeon (server ...
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Copyed mysql files from previous system now error while connect, what to do?
Fist of all I have the files but the old system is gone.
I took the folders in /var/lib/mysql/ and gave then the permissions the mysql folder that was in there had. user mysql group root only ...
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cannot mount .img file - “not a directory” error
I try to execute the following command on an ubuntu 12.04 system:
sudo mount minix203.img -o loop -t minix /mnt/myminix/
in order to mount an .img file with minix partition; and get the following ...
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issues booting Ubuntu [Firmware Bug ] : ACPI _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
I am running into an issue booting Linux on a new machine. I started with Ubuntu Server edition. I completed the initial setup via an ISO image, however when the machine restarted and went to load ...
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After ubuntu install + software raid 0 config, we see: rejecting I/O to offline device
I'm trying to pin down what this error rejecting I/O to offline device is, as seen towards the end of this syslog.
Ideas:
Problem with RAID-0 configuration (we have 2 4TB disks in RAID-0 and I do ...
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ssh with identical machines
I have two identical beaglebones that I'm working with. They have the same hostname and originally had the same IP, though I changed one to see if that made a difference. They're going to be deployed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome 3 “freezes” randomly - not a normal freeze though
Since upgrading to 12.04, I've randomly experienced this strange phenomenon where my mouse mostly doesn't work and keyboard mostly does. I have not been able to identify a cause for this. Sometimes it ...
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Move a Whole Ubuntu Server [duplicate]
I have a machine with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 Bits installed on a LVM except for the boot partition
the current settings is
/dev/sda1 /boot 1GB
/dev/sda2 lvm
on LVM
/dev/lvm/root 45GB
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Remote desktop server as daemon
I'm using KRFB as remote desktop server in my Linux Mint KDE. It works fine as usual remote desktop server but I've to log-in then run it manually (or at start up)
How can I run KRFB of any remoter ...
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Migrate an entire volume group LVM2 to RAID5
I have a Virtual Host server build with Ubuntu and Xen
SO
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64Bits
xen-hypervisor-4.1
Disk
Hitachi SAS 15K 147GB (x2) in a Volume group
sda1 1GB /boot
sda2 146GB lvm
sdb1 ...
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How to check if hot-swap or hot-plug are activated on my Linux machine
I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit on a PowerEdge 2900. My current setup has two 300GB disks (no RAID), but I want migrate the system to three new 600GB disks. I'm trying to connect the new disks, make ...
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Low PPPoE speed in Linux (Ubuntu)
We have 2 PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and connect with 1000M/bit cable. We then start iperf on both PCs and get 900m/bit speed using the iftop tool.
However, when we setup PPPoE server on the 1st PC, and ...
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Mystery of a small 1K hard disk partition, and is it safe or malware on Ubuntu 12.04.02LTS Amd64 generic
Look at my bizarre sda4 partition. It is just 1K in size! Be mindful that this is not cluster size, this is partition size. I did not knowingly install this sda4 super small partition. This is not ...
