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Adding a second user to a system group? [closed]
I am trying to get around a permission issue I am having. The only reasonable option (other than ACL) is to add the user that needs access to the system group of the user that has access. Yes, the ...
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Very slow Ubuntu server [closed]
I have an Ubuntu Server with 200MB RAM and 400MB swap space that has no heavy load. I used top to verify its load. However, it's very slow and takes several seconds to execute a ls command or other ...
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acpi_listen returns different result in Ubuntu than Arch Linux
Ubuntu is able to detect my Lenovo "Mic Mute" button with acpi_listen, but when I try it on Arch Linux, there is no output available.
Model: Thinkpad X220 4290LY9
Tried to add acpi_osi=Linux in ...
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Install Ubuntu for Android
Canonical has an item on their site called Ubuntu for Android. This is a special distribution of Ubuntu which integrates with the Android system. Their website mentions that it is specifically ...
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KUbuntu 10.04 / Dolphin File Manager: Is there a way to make .desktop files display the filename the same as the NAME= in the metadata?
As shown in the below screenshot (sorry I couldn't make it inline - Seems points on other stackexchange subforums don't count here), if I have a Folder Widget setup to point to the Desktop "place", ...
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Problem with installation of camera drivers [closed]
When I install my video camera's drivers with a command:
modprobe usbserial vendor=... product=...
it gets installed as "sg3" instead of something like "ttyUSB0". Why is that?
I did look at the ...
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Booting Laptop with external monitor stalls
Whenever I try to boot linux with an external monitor attached to my laptop, it hangs after checking the battery state with the following message repeated several times:
...crtc_helper_set_config...
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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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No sound with fresh Kubuntu install
I've just taken the plunge and installed Kubuntu as my main desktop env but I can't get the sound to work, and was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to help me work out what the problem is.
I ...
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How do I install hgview on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to install hgview on Ubuntu, but it's not working.
$ hg version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.1)
(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)
Copyright (C) 2005-2012 ...
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Build an Affordable Linux Tablet [closed]
I have 3 young children and my wife has asked that the girls get a tablet, for basic gaming, and online web tutorials (school work usually).
Has anyone created or built a good affordable Linux ...
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Configuring multiple static IP addresses for a disk image
Using Ubuntu 10.04
I'm using Clonezilla to create and install a customized image. I'd like to be able to set up multiple static IP addresses. For example, I'd like the first interface to have the IP ...
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Installing Lubuntu on PC
I am having problem with the installation of Lubuntu 11.10 . The problem is in section of "select and install software." It's giving me the following message:
Please insert the disc labelled: ...
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Can you use grub to boot a RW partition file stored on a FAT32 HDD?
This is a bit tricky question. I have a Ubuntu 11.10 installed onto a USB 16GB Flash drive. I used the Ubuntu installer to do this. It runs great! Except the I/O is slow. I also have a 250GB USB ...
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On a dual head system, how can I force the placement of a window to a certain desktop?
The relevant output of my xrandr configuration:
xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2304 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y ...
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Bluetooth was working but just stopped?
I recently upgraded to the latest FGLRX driver on my MacBook Pro and I noticed that Bluetooth was having some issues afterward. I tried reinstalling bluetooth and bluez, but it didn't seem to fix ...
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Why doesn't GoogleTalk plugin recognize my camera, even with v4l?
The thing is that I have GoogleTalk plugin, also used for Google+ hangouts, and it works in my netbook, on Ubuntu. But on my laptop, using the same Ubuntu (Oneric) and having used the camera on Cheese ...
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/etc/fstab is mounting rw filesystem as read-only
A partition of my internal hard drive (not the root partition) I want to mount automatically on boot. I've been using /etc/fstab to mount my external backup drive automatically read-only, so this is ...
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Bluetooth auto-connect not going through
I finally got Bluetooth working on my late 2011 8,3 MacBook Pro running 11.10-amd64 Ubuntu.
However, I'm having some weird problems that I've noticed were pretty global across what I was doing.
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Using cygwin and rsync — “password file must not be other-accessible”
I've finally got an old computer of mine running as a backup server with Ubuntu 11.10. I'm planning on using it to backup my Windows 7 machine weekly using rsync. I've got cygwin installed, and rsync ...
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Wireless WAP Roaming on Ubuntu Server
I have an Ubuntu server that connects to the network over wireless. Since it obviously doesn't have Gnome's NetworkManager I have to configure everthing manually.
I've got it sucessfully connecting ...
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Program does not terminate when called from udev
I've written a program in C#/Mono that probes a device to determine if it is a modem.
The program works fine from the command line. However, when it is called from PROGRAM= in a udev rule, the ...
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grub2 Windows doesn't boot anymore
Hi. I had a Windows/Ubuntu 11.04 dual-boot setup and suddenly Windows stopped booting. I mean it doesn't even appear on the boot list. The files look fine and Ubuntu boots fine. I was trying to write ...
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problem dhcp3-server ubuntu server 11.04
I installed dhcp3-server in ubuntu server 11.04
apt-get install dhcp3-server
However, an error message during installation:
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « man-db »...
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Seeking command-line example for adding images to MP3 files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Searching for a command line tagging tool for mp3 and ogg that supports pictures
Anyone have a command-line example illustrating how to properly embed an image (for ...
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Accessing .VDI Image from Ubuntu VirtualBox [closed]
I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed in VirtualBox 4.0.10 on a Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit host. I have a hard disk that I have added to the SATA Controller on the VirtualBox (a .VDI image).
My ...
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Debugging Java program for changing timezone configuration file on Ubuntu
Here is a ruby script I wrote to change the timezone configuration on Ubuntu. I run it with jruby (a Ruby interpreter running in a JVM).
require 'java'
if ARGV.length == 0
puts "Usage: jruby ...
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Move files to specific directories [closed]
This question is the same as http://askubuntu.com/questions/47155/reorder-files-inside-folder:
I have about 30K songs in mp3. I already organized/tagged them with Musicbrainz Picard. But Picard made ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 installed from windows 7: how to expand drive?
I'm new to Linux. I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 from Windows 7. It's not in Virtual PC, it is independent. It uses a virtual drive in c:, I have chosen it to be 10 Gb.
Now I want to increase the size ...
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cdrdao is installed, but Brasero doesn't think so [closed]
When I try to copy CD to image, Brasero tells me that cdrdao isn't installed. However I reinstalled cdrdao and Brasero, but the error is still there.
[system] Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
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How do I access a digital camera drive via usb after safely removing it?
In Ubuntu 11.04, I unwisely right clicked and "safely unmounted the drive" of my Sony HDR-XR150 connected via USB. Now, when I plug my digital camera into my computer via USB, Ubuntu either doesn't ...
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No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. Makefile ubuntu
When I execute the command sudo make I get this error:
No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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Transfering files using ssh
I've found the following command pretty convenient for transferring files to servers I have ssh access to:
cat myfile.txt | ssh my.host.edu "cat > myfile.txt"
Is there a similarly convenient ...
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Unable to ssh out from my laptop
I'm unable to ssh from a particular machine, either from my Ubuntu 12.04 install or my Windows Vista install (using putty). I'm trying to ssh into a remote machine where I have an account, but I keep ...
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Changing root password does not change sudo password
I'm trying to change the password that get's asked when doing sudo.
I'm in Ubuntu.
Doing 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo passwd root' does give me the two new password questions, and it successfully changes ...
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How to permanently change the file/directory permission [closed]
How do I change the permission of file/directories such that I am able to create, edit, delete files/directories anywhere in my system? Currently I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
I tried
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Copy a directory to external HDD
I'm trying to copy a directory to external HDD- i mounted the device and then typed : cd root tar -cf - * | (cd /mnt ; tar -xpf -)
I got this error message: "cowardly refusing to create an empty ...
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Is there a difference in resource use/requirements between Ubuntu and Debian versions of Linux Mint (under the same DE)?
I intend to use Linux Mint on a RAM/1GB laptop. I'm used with Xfce and LXDE and I see that both Linux Mint 14 Nadia and Linux Mint Debian have Xfce versions.
Is there a reason to prefer one to the ...
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Migrate an entire volume group LVM2 to RAID5
I have a Virtual Host server build with Ubuntu and Xen
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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
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Optimal Setup for Windows & Linux - Sharing and Partitioning
This question gets a little complicated so please bear with me.
So we have a new custom designed desktop which we will be mostly a dedicated machine for scientific computations in FORTRAN and ...
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File Privileges
There is one user Lets call him B and he needs access Just to Read the File MEANS READ ACCESS and that file is own by another user A .
How can I grant access to user A's file to User B.
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Why isn't there a server edition for Fedora like Ubuntu?
I was looking for a server edition of Fedora to download, and just found that they don't have one. It's very strange to me. If Ubuntu has both desktop and server editions, why doesn't Fedora follow ...
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What could cause network latency on a fresh Ubuntu Server 10.10 install?
I have recently purchased a machine to run an online game server. I put the machine together and have installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server 10.10. I have noticed that the game server produces a ...
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Create directory in /var/run/ at startup
I'm using apache2 and postgres running on Ubuntu Server 10.04.
I have removed the startup scripts for both of these apps and I'm using supervisor to monitor and control them. The problem I have run ...
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Which process updates /proc/scsi/scsi?
I wrote C that displays info about my hardware on ubuntu. Now I wonder how I can make it more flexible such as querying the hardware directly instead of the file the os updates. So I think I can look ...
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How to delete a library which is not visible for package manager?
Long time ago I've installed matplotlib which I need to remove. I did it from the source, so if I go to synaptic manager (I use ubuntu) then I don't see matplotlib installed. But I found ...
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What would be the RHEL package corresponding to build-essential in Ubuntu?
I know how to list available packages from the repos and so on, but how can I find a list that matches up equivalent meta-packages, such as the build-essential.
Is there such a thing and if not what ...
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Apache2 configuration issue?
Why is it that when I write the directive Alias /hello /myfile.php it works fine, but if I write Alias /hello /myfile.php?myvar=test apache gives me 'NOT FOUND'.
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How can I rename all files in the current directory having a particular extension to another extension? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Renaming multiple files (changing extension)
Suppose that in my current/working directory I have five files:
file1.xvg
file2.xvg
file3.xvg
file1.eps
file2.eps
Is ...
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How do I install Ubuntu from Suse?
I just got a new laptop (HP ProBook 4520s), and I don't have my PC here, with which I used to create bootable USB's to install Ubuntu with. I only have an USB, an external hard drive, and some ...
