I had to register with a new username, because I could not remember my logon details and have since changed ISP so could not get details sent, anyway that aside to the problem.
I upgraded to 11.04 and all went well (hence posting here and not in the Upgrade section) and it is running fine, well until yesterday.
I ran the update manager as I usually do when first entering Ubuntu and it did an update but then gave me an error message about file permissions and to check my connection (which was connected OK).It has also affected the Software Installer, and now I can not install any new software.
Is this a generic problem with the latest update or is it just my Dell Inspiron 1545 please?
Started slackpkg upgrade-up and went to bed. Woke up to find the power had gone out during the night. The computer booted up, but displayed a message that said something to the effect of, "Error occurred during root file system check. You will be given the option of doing maintenance......"I can get to a command prompt, but regardless of what I do a message pops saying it can't find libblkid.so.1
KMail 1.11.4, KDE 4.2.4: I'm migrating from WinXP to Mandriva, and installed KMail at the weekend. Works fine, but I have a niggle - the message list displays headers grouped by month order. I'd like the option of having a simple list (no groups), and suspect that it could be done - but I haven't been able to find out how. I've checked in the Handbook without success, and a search in LQ hasn't turned up anything yet.Any suggestions gratefully received. If this isn't the right place for a KMail query,
I need to display a message before any login on a Linux box, either locally and for remote login via SSH. How can I achieve this? "issue" and "Banner" are the two concepts I need to use to provide a message for every user before they log into the system.
I try to change locale for a program to run my native language with root. I don't know what I made, but can't open gui programs from konsole with root account.
It appear this error:
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When type locale, it appear:
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Yesterday I make run level 4 to skip typing startx in console, and login directly to KDE.
Kernel driver function was called via ioctl and returned success, but when I checked the kernel display buffer with dmesg the printk message was not there. Then when you do lsmod, the driver you were calling showed "used by zero". So it seems like the kernel driver was not accessed. In the kernel driver, I had many printk statements, but nothing printed in the buffer. if the driver get accessed and what could cause this?
Vista Recovery Windows 7 GRUB Extended -->Fedora 12 (ext4)
so, I shrunk my recovery in Windows 7 successfully, and booted into my Fedora 12 live cd to run Gparted, and move the partitions so that the free space could go towards fedora, I did such, and then I couldn't expand the partition to my dismay. Next, I woke up this morning, tried to boot to fedora to run SSH, grub loaded, but when I tried to boot fedora, I got the "File system check failed" error, and when I tried 7, it just went to a blank screen with a single "_" in the top left-hand corner.
I need to write an else-if condition in a makefile, and though the format is posted on several websites, nothing seem to be working, andI get an error everytime. Could anybody please write a small example with an else-if conditional in a maekefile?
Is there some way to filter output of command by OR condition in Linux? There is filtering by AND condition with grep in way like: ls -l | grep "^a" | grep "z$"
That says: list all files that beggins with "a" AND ends with "z" (so there is shorter way to write this: grep "^a.*z$", but it is not matter). Is there some way to perform test by OR condition? For example: files that starts exactly with "xen" OR files that ends exactly with ".rpm". But exactly, not something like: grep "[xen]{0,3}.*[.rpm]{0,4}"
How can I have ELSE condition in procmailrc I mean if the mail was from X and Subject has Y OR .... DO something ELSE DO SOMETHING ELSE. I do not want to use two different conditions for each state I want use just one condition and its ELSE because putting too recipes in procmailrc make it too slow .
I am a final year student doign Computer systems engineering and just been introduced to linux. While still strugling to catch up with the commands, I am now given an assignment under shell scripting.I seriously am strugling to understand this question, can you please assist me.Here follows the assignment:
Operating Systems III Some tips e.g. (test if a file is empty, if it is then display "file is empty" otherwise display
I have scenrio where i have to check first whether the files exists or not then count of records should not be equal to zero and file should be of current day not the previous day then only process my next task.There are three files totally.please let me know how to write script to achieve the same.
I've got a script to recursively create symlinks in my home directory to my settings directory, to keep the files under version control. I would like it to skip files which are already symlinked via a parent directory. That is, if I have these files/directories:
I am witing a file upload program in perl where i need to upload a wav or a gsm file and save it as a gsm file.How can i make sure that the uploaded file is a wav or a gsm sound file and not an executable malicious script or something.
I have a site that I login to to check updates. It does not have RSS because users need to authenticate themselves before getting access to the page. Is there a way to write a script that can login to the page and check whether the HTML has changed and then send me an email?
I have a small doubt regarding Assembly file compilation. I have two .s files. When I compile two .s files I am getting corresponding .o files. But when I compare the both .o files with diff command, it is resulting that two files are differing. How could/ what are commands we should use to understand the difference between two .o file's output.
Occasionally Ubuntu runs a file check, and I assume repair if necessary, at start-up. what do I type into Terminal if I want to run a file check without waiting for the automatic file check to start? The reason I ask is that my system wouldn't boot last week and after several attempts to reboot, the automatic file check came into play and corrected whatever was wrong. This process of rebooting my system several times before Ubuntu fixed itself was very time consuming and frustrating. I dare say that there is a command line to trigger this file check.
create one tar.gz file that contains my /home, /etc, /root directory.
a) The process ended with a 88GB file size (which is ok) but with the following message.Code: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors.I have searched a little but I could not find what went wrong.
b) What are the limitations of tar and gz for backups. Of course I fully understand that they can not be used for differential backups (if it is called like that)
c) Let's say that my backup will be a file of 100GB and I want to see the contents of the .tar.gz. In kde there is a program called ark. Can ark handle so big files? Does it use my hard disk (eg. /tmp) to uncompress the file so to show me its contents? It might be the case that might be the compressed file is much bigger than the left space on the hard disk?
d) How can I do an integrity check when my tar.gz file is created?