Software :: Normal To Wipe - Each Year And Start Over?
Sep 21, 2010
I am running ubuntu on several computers. One in particular runs mythbuntu and is a mythtv server and frontend.
I do the ubuntu upgrade every 6 months so that I can gain the new features and enhancements included in mythtv.
My issue is that with each upgrade seems to come more issues. For instance, this time I upgraded to the latest and greatest and now mythtv crashes every day or two. Also, since vdpau was added to the new nvidia drivers, i am unable to get it to work.
So my question is: Is it normal for you guys to do a complete reinstall when you want to go to a new version of your linux flavor of choice.
It seems that the new ubuntu (really mythbuntu) is very stable and never crashes, but it just seems to me that once you start running a few programs, they just don't upgrade well.
View 11 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Jan 26, 2011
Thunderbird is becoming quite slow. Startup, response to actions and especially the address lookup as I'm typing an email address.
It gets so slow sometimes on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop that the screen goes dark.
Can anyone know how I can start diagnosing this to figure out what's wrong?
This is TB 3.1.7 on Ubuntu 10.04. Not sure what else to post.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Aug 8, 2011
I had Ubuntu on my hard drive and tried to install Arch Linux. Things got messy and I now have an unstable, unbootable machine. I feel the installation failed because there were remains of Ubuntu. I'd like to wipe the hard drive and start over from scratch; without anything on there. How do I do this? I have several partitions made in a desperate attempt to make it all work. So I'd like to remove all partitions and any other information that's on the drive. I can not start any OS, but I can boot with the Live USB of Arch Linux...
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 28, 2010
I need to wipe the slate clean on my computer and start from scratch. I have too many issues and school is just around the corner for me, I've got a huge workload and don't have time to find solutions to my problems right now. I recently upgraded to Lucid but that only escalated my woes. The simple fact is my machine is getting too old and it's time to upgrade everything, which won't happen until fall. So for now I simply want to downgrade to hardy because it will be supported until April next year and it is very stable, plus I think it is the release that my graphics card got a decent resolution on (ATI, need I say more?). I'm somewhat of a noob, but I've got my wits about me and have researched the forums for many hours to find solutions, but to no avail. I don't want to go into details about what issues I'm having, I just need to know how to remove ALL kernels off of Grub and start from scratch. Any links to comprehensive tutorials would be ideal, or if someone knows of anything else that will work,
P.S. I love Ubuntu and am a lifer. The philosophy behind it as well as the community are supreme and will someday rule the universe,
View 8 Replies
View Related
Jun 7, 2010
I have setup a CentOS 5.5 server as a DHCP server. That will be it's only task in a Cisco callmanger VoIP environment The DHCP server that comes with CentOS 5.5 is from ISC V3.0.5 -redhat.
The server (HP DL360) has two physical NIC's of which only NIC1 is used (ETH0)
ifconfig shows:
Code:
The interface has a fixed IP setup.
My dhcp.conf file looks like this:
Code:
When I start (try to) dhcpd via the service interface or via the prompt as
Code: service dhcpd start
I get an [FAILED] message and the following is in /var/log/messages
Code:
But when I start the DHCPD on the comamnd prompt in debug mode it looks as follows:
Code:
and /var/log/messages shows:
Code:
Why does the system ask a declaration for eth0 0.0.0.0?
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 11, 2011
I can start libreoffice as root user, but can't start as normal user. Shows error, exception "user" like something, now even that also stopped coming.
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 31, 2011
I am running 11.4 with KDE updated to 4.6.3 and suddenly I cant start Yast or Software Manager using kickoff. It doesn't even open the dialogue to ask for root password. I see Yast appear in the panel for 15 seconds or so then it just disappears without opening a window. If I open a terminal and su to root and run yast2 it work fine.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Nov 18, 2010
I'm having some trouble with Tomcat 6 after upgrading to 10.10. During the upgrade process, the installer hung while dealing with Tomcat 6, which required me to kill the upgrade and do some clean up, and then re-run `apt-get upgrade` again to get things going. This left some weirdness (like the MOTD for both 10.10 and 10.04 being shown on login), but otherwise things are OK. The only remaining problem I have is Tomcat; it simply won't start when the server is booted. The information I have:
Tomcat 6 runs normally when started with `sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start`. No errors are thrown, everything works as expected.I used `rcconf` to try removing and reinstalling the rc scripts, this didn't help. I manually deleted all the rc scripts, then used `rcconf` again. The scripts all seem symlinked correctly to `/etc/init.d/tomcat6`, but it's just not coming up on boot. I ran `sudo grep "tomcat" /var/log/*.log` to see if something is appearing in the logs, but nothing of interest is there.
How can I verify that Ubuntu is even trying to start Tomcat? As this is a development box, I am not adverse to a quick + dirty solution if there's some either simple way of getting it started at boot. I'm thinking the next Ubuntu release will see me blow away the server and start it fresh, but right now I'd just like a working box
View 7 Replies
View Related
Oct 12, 2009
I have found so many ways for root user to execute commands in so many possible path locations - but having difficulties on executing commands as normal user - during start up.This is what i've got for /etc/rc.d/rc.local script:Code:su -l user && (/bin/sh svc_cmd.sh &)But the command doesn't run at all...
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 8, 2011
I get a blank screen with no progress when I use normal mode, but I am able to get into desktop environment using recovery mode and selecting safe graphics mode from there. Anything I could to do to restore my normal desktop environment.
View 9 Replies
View Related
May 5, 2010
i installed ubuntu 9.10 but it doesnt work i have a laptop MEDION akoya P6622 which its whit a geforce 310m 3d card and a intel graphics media accelerator 3d card can someone help me i just get a black screen when i wanted to start up ubuntu windows 7 just work normal grtzzz mikeyy
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 7, 2011
Re purposing 8-year old PC, recommendations on what desktop environment. Bit of a newbie to the scene, but I've been tinkering for a while with Ubuntu/linux.
The machine is an AMD AthlonXP 2700+ with 1.5GB of memory and an nvidia 6600GT. I have Ubuntu 10.04 on it right now with the standard gnome environment that came with it, but it is slow and terribly laggy. I was looking at XFCE and LXDE. I know either would work, was looking for pros/cons, ect.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Sep 24, 2010
Possible Duplicate:How do I delete files greater than a certain date on linux How to delete all files in current directory and it`s sub directories older than one year ?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 14, 2010
searching broadcom ubuntu in google results in a thread that is five years old. has there been any changes? i still cannot set up my 4 year old laptop's wireless to run and i have just about given up. why should i spend my valuable time getting something that is suppose to work when i could just run windows 7 and be done with it. now this is coming from a 4 year old laptop, has anything changed? i want to hear yes but i know that wireless support in linux is absolutely atrocious and sickening, even more than 4 years ago since wireless is now the norm and linux refuses to give proper attention to wireless drivers.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 15, 2010
Does anybody know where the "pay-per-year-instead-of-per-month-botton" is located. I can't find it
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 27, 2011
I want to have the year displayed in my ubuntu calendar next to the clock on the upper right corner of the gnome desktop (see screenshot). [URL]. The context menu of the gnome calendar does only allow to set the additional display of seconds, but not the YEAR!
Here is a related pots that raised this issue for me:
HOWTO: Set Gnome Calendar First Day of Week [URL]
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 24, 2011
I have a script: Code: #!/bin/bash
THEYEAR=2011
LASTYEAR=$(($THEYEAR - 1))
echo $THEYEAR
echo $LASTYEAR I get:
[Code]...
THEYEAR is correct but then I get a line space and then a -1 for LASTYEAR. I can't figure out why.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 16, 2010
i just need to make copy files have 2 year old to another directory i know how to use cp command but i am not able to do that
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 22, 2010
How to find files which is modifed 01 year before, with size detail
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 13, 2010
I use an email program that shows the date as, 10-4-26.....which means the year 2010 (10) April (4) 26th day.
How do I change the date format so that it's- Month-Day-Year?
I want this changed system wide so all dates are shown in the format I want.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 16, 2011
I want to start some C++ development on my 3 year old, un-updated 8.04 ubuntu desktop machine. I tried,sudo apt-get install build-essentialand got,
Code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
[code].....
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 20, 2010
I am trying to install Fedora 12 on a 3 year old Dell Demension 1100. It only has a CD reader so I bought a 5 CD set and proceeded to install. Everything works fine until the end of the initial part of the installation where it asks to reboot the computer, the program says it has installed correctly. On rebooting the command line appears and asks for localhost log in. Problem is during the installation the program didn't ask for a user name only a root password. I am unable to access this and there are still another 4 CD's to go.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 31, 2011
How to find and list files and directories present the current directory which were created in, say, years 2005, 2006, and 2009 and then move them to some other location, for example, /backup. Yes, I need to list them and move simultaneously. We can use:
Code:
find . -mtime n {};
but that n is troublesome for me to figure out files/directories created in years 2005, 2006, and 2009, for instance. Is there any way to match exactly by Year Value rather than calulating the "n" (days * 24 Hours)?
System Info:
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 24, 2010
Today I tried to compress some folders containing backup files from last year. I right-clicked on the folders and selected compress as tar.gz. I let it work, and found that hours later, the folders were still compressing. How long is it supposed to take, anyway? I was trying to compress the two sets of backups simultaneously; together they're around 1.5 GB. They have many subdirectories.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 25, 2010
I have a script that moves files from one directory to another, based on the numeric date of the file name (i.e., 20091212 would go to the December directory). Now, since this script will be ran at the beginning of the following month (December's files to be tarred and gzipped will be performed the first day of January, and January's in February, etc.), it appears to me that the script will be tricky when it comes time to do the December files in January.
Here's part of the script:
Code:
# Define working directory and target directory.
DIR=/var/log
target=$DIR/month
hostname='uname -n' .....
I can't seem to figure out a way to carry the output of the date command to the next command, and the year for the December files will always be wrong.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 13, 2010
I don't use office apps often and I'm using Open Office to put donations entries into a yearly statement for a non profit organization, and I can't figure out how to do a year-to-date column that will sum each line to the lines before it.How would I accomplish the year-to-date column using a formula, to add the previous year to date and the amount.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 1, 2011
In the MySQL database for one of my programming projects, I used a "YEAR(4)", because I wanted the column to contain four-digit year values. I discovered, though, that this type only allows values from 1901 to 2155, which is not workable as some year values are previous to the twentieth century. But I do not want a "DATE" type because the month and day are of no interest to me. What type should I convert to that would be the least radical change in data type, while giving more range?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 21, 2011
The copyright year in the newest Fedora download shows still 2010. A screenshot has been attached along with this note. Just thought I would bring the same to Fedora Installation Support team.
View 7 Replies
View Related
Dec 5, 2010
I updated my Ubuntu Desktop systems (2x 10.10 and 1x 10.04) within the last 2 days. After the update, the "clock" applet in the panel has stopped showing the year! Here is how it appears now:
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 3, 2011
I just migrated to Ubuntu 10.04 from windows and I could not be more satisfied, except for one minor, nitpicky detail. In iTunes I was able to sort my music by "album by year". That is, my music was sorted primarily by artist, then by album year. So each artist had their albums listed in chronological order. My library is meticulously tagged, so every track on every album is tagged with the same YEAR value. Is this possible in Rhythmbox? Is there a plugin or will i have to edit a .conf file (or similar) somewhere? I'm new to Ubuntu, but not afraid of getting my hands a bit dirty, so to speak.
View 1 Replies
View Related
