I have a Sony laptop CPU 2.80GHz HDD 60Gb and 512Mb RAM. I have defragmented.I downloaded Ubuntu 9 and burned to CD and all begins well as follows:
1 booting logo
2 Opening dialog screen
3 screen full of text(lasts about 5 seconds)
4 a screen full of mosaic patterns appears
5 a mauve screen flashes (with small rectangular patterns on it
6 that's it - I have to switch off after 10 minutes or more!
Sent for the CD from Canonical - same happens as above. A friendly suggestion offered was to try the alternate iso. I downloaded this and unzipped the files. These are scattered around the desktop in folders and files. How do I burn these to a disk?(get them together or just start with the"install" folder?)I'd like to persevere.Hello! I have a Sony laptop CPU 2.80GHz HDD 60Gb and 512Mb RAM. I have defragmented.I downloaded Ubuntu 9 and burned to CD and all begins well as follows:
1 booting logo
2 Opening dialog screen
3 screen full of text(lasts about 5 seconds)
4 a screen full of mosaic patterns appears
5 a mauve screen flashes (with small rectangular patterns on it
6 that's it - I have to switch off after 10 minutes or more!
Sent for the CD from Canonical - same happens as above. A friendly suggestion offered was to try the alternate iso. I downloaded this and unzipped the files. These are scattered around the desktop in folders and files. How do I burn these to a disk?(get them together or just start with the"install" folder?)
I recently upgraded the memory in one of my computers running Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 to 4GB of RAM from 2GB.It's a Biostar TA690G AM2, with an Athlon X2 BE-2400 in it. It supposedly supports up to 4GB of RAM when done as 4 1GB sticks, at least according to the original manual that came with it. Upon start up, I no longer get my login screen, it appears to crash when it gets to the part where it starts up Xorg.
At first I figured the memory might not be happy with the computer so I ran Memtest86, every thing seems fine there. So I try the recovery boot to the root prompt with networking. Everything seems to work fine there, at least as far as a root prompt with no gui goes.. However, if I try startx here, it crashes again.
Ok, so I then try an Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 boot CD. I get the Try/Install buttons in the little Xorg intro gui running. It's getting my hopes up now. However upon clicking "Try Ubuntu" it thinks for a second or two and then locks up, with the busy mouse cursor icon still spinning. I don't have windows installed on this computer, so I can't really say that it works fine in windows.
Is there some weird BIOS setting or xorg.conf setting that needs to be enabled so that it doesn't croak? The Bios recognizes the memory, Memtest86 recognizes the memory, and Linux recognizes the memory (at least until xorg starts). If I pull one of the sticks out, it will once again run, but then it's in single channel mode, and I'm missing out on 1GB of RAM goodness.
Everytime I try to introduce my password the OS takes every single letter as an 'intro'. If I want to type, for example, 'batman', it will take every single character as an intro and therefore I can't get access to the OS.... what can I do?Btw, all of this began when I was trying to write something in a console. When I tried to type anything in the console was like If I was clicking on the 'close window' button, so I though I was a little bug and I had to restart.
i am using Fedora 14. Once system get hanged during opening a video file so I had to restart the system by pressing restart button. But after restarting there are few problems appearing like system monitor not opening and Thunder bird opening but not showing any folder including inbox.
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One of the apps I would like to try out is usenext.Selectint the download for the right version (Linux - Suse, Red Hat, Fedora) I get the rpm file.Either opening this straight away or saving then opening it comes back with the following errors:
I am running ns2 in Solaris. I am running a simple tcl script which contains : exec nam out.nam & in the finish procedure. Upon running it using: ns simple.tcl, I am getting the following error: nam: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable. How to set this display variable and to what value.
I am having KDE and also gnome desktops. DOlphin file manager was working properly but suddenly now it stopped working in KDE. If I click the icon it just swings near the mouse for some time and nothing comes. Previously immediately after I click it used to come. But in gnome it still opens.
I have installed Debian on my computer but am having trouble setting up my wireless Internet. Under my network settings there's only one connection: Ethernet. how to create a new (wireless) connection.
Another thing is that I can't seem to open .deb files. The archive manager says that it's not supported. But I can't seem to find the dselect to open those files either.
One more question: how can I enter commands through the promp(t)? I've read all over the Internet that I can enter in commands, but I haven't found where or how.
I am a new Linux user and I have tried to download three things off the internet. each time I'm notified that the download was successfully completed, but I can't seem to run them. Can someone please tell me what I am suposed to do to run them? One of the downloads was Firefox.
I'm on Fedora 14, and OpenOffice 3.3.0 takes a long time to open (about 30 seconds, sometimes less). It isn't a CPU or disk performance issue, it's just simply a very long delay before the program opens. It appears to be a frivolous network connection timing out. According to Wireshark, it tries to look up:
dulcimer.(none) which fails, after which it tries to look up: dulcimer.(none).mylitestream.com (dulcimer is my hostname, and LiteStream is my ISP) Is there a way to work around this bug in OpenOffice?
I have an acer aspire one running Linpus Lite (i think) - worked fine for a year on wireless and LAN but yesterday I started it up, it connected fine and clicked up the wireless icon but when clicking the "Browser" icon it won't open the browser screen - repeated clicking brings up a screen that says Firefox was stopped and is still open - please shut it down- How do I do this when there are no screen commands ? I have tried switching off and re-starting the unit but no effect. What can I do to fix it ?
If there's some file, how can i forbid user to open it ? Ex. some text file or video file and forbid regular users (except root) to open/play it . Wouldn't chmod work here or should i use some other method ?
'm trying to get wine to open .pdf files with Foxit.I have no problems running the following command in terminal wine "C:\Program Files\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe" file.pdf
When I try to open pdf files from desktop, I get a dialog box about how to invoke the exe file. How do I get the exe to register the list of files properly?Also, how would I pass command line parameters for Foxit in the desktop entry file?
Problem 0pening Puppy. I downloaded lupu-511[1].iso, courtesy of Ibilio. It was easy to burn the CD, using Windows 7, but Adobe Reader was unable to open the files. Error message reads - wrongly coded or sent as an email attachment.
I ran a program that writes continuously from 1 every line. After some time I ran '/dev/null > temp' Problem1: bash: /dev/null: Permission denied (Yes, the permissions of /dev/null are correct ... crw-rw-rw-. I removed and created it again, but no change) I used 'cat temp' to see the contents and first few lines deleted (working correctly). Problem2: I can't open the file (with double click or with any graphical editor like gedit)
Apart from these problems, I have another question... Is there a way to trim a active log file to say 80% without affecting any logs that server might be writing.
Is there a way to imitate OS X behavior of opening applications in Linux?
For example: Assume that I already have Firefox open. In OS X it is very easy to open that window from console (it is the default, using open -a firefox).
I am running an Ubuntu(10.04) box and I am attempting to understand an error in a program.I don't have access to the source of this program, but I know it isn't working properly because it cannot find a particular file. I was wondering if it would be possible to monitor what file are accessed(more specifically denied access) by a process. My first idea was to breakpoint on fopen, but I didn't have any success.
i have a transcend's 4gb pen-drvie.when i plug it in usb drive it blinks n i get an icon in 'my computer',but when i double click over it,it doesnt open.my other usb devices like mouse are working fine. this is 'lsusb' output without pern-drive inserted.
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you will notice that device 15 is the pen drive. i dont know how to access my pen drive.
Hi I am a complete newbie I have installed ubuntu 10.04 I have sorted problem with Mobile broadband, but having problems opening root folder I get a permission denied not the owner I have admin privalage as far as I am aware I was following something I read using terminal but kept getting a message saying something about the root I opened the file manager found root folder but still denied access. how I get access same is also true for lost&found folder but have to admit i dont know what that folder is.
i have installed fedora 11..when iam opening my apache default test page using http://localhost its opening but when iam trying to open the same using my ip address i.e. http://172.31.73.4 its not opening..instead iam gettin an error message like this in firefox
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved....While trying to retrieve the URL: http://172.31.73.4/can anyone tell me whats the problem because till now i was using fedora 8 and while using apache i never got this sort of problem..
I am new in Linux,i build nano editor on Linux,it compile successfully but when i open in terminal then error displays "Error opening terminal : Xterm" while nano help is running successfully.
I have a MP3 player which is owned by Root. I have tried the following: in terminal - chown as both my usual log-in and root operation not permitted. I ran chown as both su, root, and myself. In Nautilus - I can't change any of the file attributes again opening it as any of the users above. I used to be able to copy files over to the MP3 player but not the Sandisk but not I can't copy or do anything to the files on both.
I popped in a scratched up CD of my wife's friend's music. It would not play or copy, had to just try anyway. So now the optical drive tray will not open, and the light is blinking. I have restarted the machine. Could this be my OS or other software error?
I want to launch the screen program by default and automatically every time that I open the bash terminal. How can I set this in terminal? I'm using lxterminal - terminal for lxde desktop environment.
