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Installing USR 5422 on Ubuntu 12.04
I am a newbie to Linux. I was trying to set up the USR5422 USB adapter. It worked fine for the first time, but since then it freezes the computer most of the time. What commands can I fire to see ...
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Fix Fn-keys for keyboard illumination
I've tried following the Ubuntu hotkeys/media keys troubleshooting guide and /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz to make the Fn keys work. After copying the map file and modifying ...
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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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Cisco-like command Line Interface
I'm looking for a way to implement a fairly basic Cisco like command line interface on my Ubuntu server appliance (12.04 in particular).
I've come across the following project: CLISH however, ...
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How to recover most recently deleted directories on NTFS partition under Ubuntu 12.04
In Nautilus under Ubuntu 12.04, I accidentally selected several directories on a partition and deleted them at once (unfortunately, I deleted them by Shift+Delete such that they don't remain in ...
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8-bit input in gnome-terminal
I'm trying to switch from xterm to gnome-terminal but having trouble with alt keys. I have already disabled menu access keys, but I still need 8-bit inputs. In xterm I can set 8-bit inputs in ...
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Using Creative Sound Blaster on Ubuntu Server
I just got a Creative Sound Blaster for playing audio wirelessly. I connected it to a virtual version of Ubuntu desktop and just had to go into the sound settings and switch it to the USB and the ...
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Does BCM4312 802.11 b/g LP-PHYnetwork controller support hostap ?
I have been trying to get my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop to make an access point to connect my blackberry playbook . hostapd gave error
Configuration file: ./hostapd-minimal.conf
nl80211: 'nl80211' ...
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Slow system after running a KDE GUI application from a Debian Squeeze chroot
I have a PC with Ubuntu 11.04 and a Debian Squeeze chroot installed in it.
As soon as I start any KDE application from within chroot (and installed there), e.g. Kompare for viewing git diff output, ...
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Pinguy OS 11.04 WiFi and Wired Networking is not working
I was attempting to install Pinguy OS from a YUMI created USB thumb drive, with the computer wired to my router. The internet, however, was not working. After the install, it still is not working. ...
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BCache and disk encryption
I recently bought a new laptop with a 16Gb mSATA SSD cache drive. I haven't used that one yet.
I have, however, opted for Ubuntu 13.04 with "Full Disk Encryption" for the main partition (is that ...
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Fedora 18 guest in VirtualBox 4.2: How to assign static IPv4 address to guest regardless of active ethernet interface on host
I have a Ubuntu 13.04 host running VirtualBox 4.2.12. This host has both a wired and a wireless network interface, but only one of which would usually be active at any given time. For example, at home ...
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Alt+tab key not working in NX client for linux
I am using NX clinet-3.5.0-7 version running on ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to use Alt+Tab key to switch between different terminals on my NX client but I am unable to do so. When ever I use Alt+Tab, it ...
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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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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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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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Use dedicated per-user log file for cron and?
On Ubuntu 12.04 how can I configure cron to log to a particular file when it runs jobs as a particular user? I am interested in redirecting both the messages that go into auth.log and those going into ...
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Sharing /boot between two Ubuntu 12.04 Server installations?
This question may seem trivial at first sight, but it has certain implications and I'm wondering what is the recommended path to take here.
Assume the following scenario: a server system. The default ...
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Ubuntu: How to configure DNS servers in /etc/network/interfaces correctly for resolvconf?
All examples I have seen of configurations (/etc/network/interfaces) showed that you configure an interface and then underneath that gave the dns-* lines such as:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
...
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To what extent does LXC manage configuring the network interface in a container?
In the LXC config file we can specify an IP address for a container:
lxc.network.type=veth
lxc.network.link=br0
lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.1.0.35/16
lxc.network.flags=up
lxc.network.hwaddr= ...
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Error: invalid arch independent ELF magic, while loading a VirtualBox machine with Ubuntu Tinyos
I've created a virtual machine with Ubuntu (having TinyOS). The problem arises when I start the machine. I immediately get a black screen with written:
GRUB loading.
error: invalid arch independent ...
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Washed out colours with screencast software but not screenshot on Ubuntu (all versions)
I have experimented with screencast software on Ubuntu over a number of LTS versions and using pretty much every software I can get my hands on. I have used VLC, RecordMyDesktop and some others the ...
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ping receives no packets, but tcpdump can see them coming in
I'm migrating an old Ubuntu OpenVZ instance (Jaunty) to a new CentOS 6.3 host (using vzdump/vzrestore).
Now networking does not work properly. Facts:
It works just fine if a setup a new OpenVZ ...
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Become operator on all channels ircd-hybrid
I have a problem with my ircd-hybrid server. I can only make myself operator in the status tab but not when I join channels.
There is my operator tag in ircd.conf:
operator {
/* name: the name ...
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Mounting USB camera on Ubuntu
I am quite new at Linux and I have to install this SwissRanger camera on Ubuntu. I am trying to follow their USB mounting instructions and I got stuck.
From the instructions:
Modify the usbdevfs ...
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Can /mnt/hgfs/'shared folder' be used as apache root?
I have an Ubuntu Server (12.04) running on my development machine. It is in a VM. I have succeeded with the task of setting up Apache2, MySQL, and PHP. I can access the server from my host browser ...
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PPPoE connection problem
I have just installed Backtrack 5 R2 and I'm finding it difficult to make a DSL internet connection. What troubles me is that I think I have all the steps figured out, and after completing them, the ...
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Forcing X to recognise video ram, saving the file 99-vesa file
So I was looking at a question about forcing X to recognise video memory to achieve 1080p resolution, however when I finished the following piece of code:
Section "Device"
Identifier ...
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My laptop is not able to recover from suspend and hibernate
I have a acer aspire 5750G laptop. I am running ubuntu 11.04.
The uname -a reads the following:
Linux admin-Aspire-5750G 2.6.38-13-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 14:32:30 UTC 2012 ...
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Remove notifications icon or make notifications fade after a while
Just installed Ubuntu 11.10, along with Gnome 3 to replace Unity. I'm using the classic Gnome look rather than the new one which is way too much like Unity for my tastes. Seems like everything is ...
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'convert' taking a long time to create a PNG thumbnail
I made a png from a pdf using ghostscript. It was converted very fast (not more than 1 sec), and has good quality.
$ identify 1.png
1.png PNG 3508x2480 3508x2480+0+0 8-bit PseudoClass 2c 51KB 0.000u ...
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Mount Freecom Classic SL Network Drive (NDAS) in Ubuntu 11.10
Both the Network Drive and the Ubuntu machine are connected by Ethernet to a Linksys WRT54GL router (192.168.1.1).
To access the Network Drive in Windows, I installed the NDAS software and mounted ...
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Need libca.so (Needed to install epics)
I need to install epics on my Ubuntu system, but when I try to it returns a warning saying it cannot find the dynamic library (libca.so or libCom.so). I tried to locate them, but it appears that they ...
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TP-Link WN321G USB wlan in VirtualBox Ubuntu guest
I am trying wifi usb stick tp-link wn321g @ ubuntu 11.04 (in virtualbox), so far I was able to scan the air, connect to a wpa2 network and do some basic information gathering using airodump-ng
Now ...
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Virtual machine hangs when trying to login after beeing idle for som time
I'm using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run a linux virtual machine, but after some time I can't login to it -- not from the instance on the localmachine or ssh in to the machine. Both give the same ...
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compiz scale plugin arrow movement breaks sometimes
The arrow keys cycles between the windows. But sometimes it won't let me switch to window down, just left or right and other times it won't let me go up. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug, ...
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VirtualBox bug[?] when Chainloading Grub2
Regarding this: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
So booted into Ubuntu..and I run this script:
#!/bin/bash
# show the bootlist of grub when booting pc
sed ...
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unable to connect intex 3.5g modem in ubuntu 12.04
Can anyone help me out on connecting usb modem in ubuntu? Here are the steps i have followed, initially it is recognized as a storage device and the modprobe cmd does not create any impact on it
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Install man pages in directory with update-alternatives
Using update-alternatives(8) on a Debian system it is possible to add man pages as slaves under some master alternative.
For example, the following command installs an alternative man page tclsh.1 ...
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No sound in Ubuntu 13.04 i386
I have a machine running Windows 7-ultimate 32-bit. I installed vmware workstation on it and Ubuntu 13.04 i386 on that vmware. But on Ubuntu I don't hear any sound, any start up or movie or music ...
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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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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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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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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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System packages not detected by the Oracle installer
I am installing Oracle 11g 32bit on Ubuntu Linux and the setup shows the following error message on Prerequisite Checks screen:
This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the package ...
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Weird issue with unmet dependencies when cloning package states from earlier installation on same machine
I've been doing the usual routine of saving the package selections and also marking the packages as auto or manual as outlined in the question and answer here: Restoring all data from backup of dpkg ...
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Creating a terminal application from a shell script
I have a shell script. I want to convert the shell script to an application for Ubuntu which can be installed using (sudo apt-get install) command and after installing, the application can run from ...
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cgroups: blkio.weight doesn't seem to have the expected effect
I've got 2 LXC containers with these cgroup settings:
lxc.cgroup.blkio.weight = 200
lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 200
and
lxc.cgroup.blkio.weight = 800
lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 800
I have verified in ...
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Can't drag and drop in Qt Creator
I recently installed the system upgrades for my Ubuntu distro (12.10). Since the upgrades, I can't drag and drop items in Qt Creator. I found a solution that requires editing of xorg.conf.
My system ...
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Opening lid results in black screen (Dell Laptop with ATI Graphics, Ubuntu 12.04, 3.2 kernel, GNOME 3)
For the past few weeks, when opening the lid my laptop often fails to recover from suspension leaving me with a blank screen. Further, when this bug occurs, the laptop fans continue to run while the ...
