I don't know what happened, but suddenly I can't log in my Ubuntu 10.04 install. It was working fine as recently as yesterday, and nothing nasty happened to the hard drive it's on (hardware failure, poweroff without proper shutdown, etc.). When I tried to log in earlier, all that happened was this: the screen blanked momentarily, then I was back at the login screen again, as if I had never tried to log in.
It's not that I'm entering an incorrect password. I don't get any kind of error message. I just get kicked back to the login screen. WTF is going on? I'm posting this from my Ubuntu 9.10 install, which still works. I guess I could use Ctrl + F1 to login to Ubuntu 10.04 on the command line, but I'm not sure what I could do from there to find out what's gone wrong.
i booted up 8.04 and the display is huge. i tried ctrl alt backspace hoping it would come back normal, but after three times i gave up on that. i can't find anything in System to fix this. i can barely use it this way.
I upgraded my old HP Pavilion desktop to 11.04 a few weeks ago and at first things were fine, but recently the PC refuses to wake up in the morning. I assume it's going in to sleep mode overnight, but no matter what I push on the mouse or keyboard it won't wake up. I have set both the PC and screen in Power Management Preferences to Never go to sleep, but it doesn't seem to matter and it sleeps regardless. how I can either make it not sleep, or sleep a little lighter so it wakes up without a hard reboot?
After performing an update that the OS told me to do, I no longer have any sound available in any application. I tried rebooting into older versions of 9.10 and the problem persists. It is not a hardware issue, because the sound is fine in Windows.
I tend to forget stuff if I don't work with it for awhile. somehow I struggled through and figured out (with a lot of help) how to set up Ubuntu Intrepid server edition on my computer, and am serving my website from my computer. For times when the free DNS nameserver is 'closed' (often lol) I use localhost and can see/work on my site. Suddenly, when I type localhost into the address bar, I get a blank page, nothing! I'm not sure what to do....can someone please help because am going to use my website to present a class project, and was going to use localhost (bring my computer) in case the nameserver was down, I have to be able to display it.
So I was watching a video, and I changed the volume, and then the sound cut out, and it has not come back. No sound can be heard, from flash nor from files; through my laptop speakers nor my external speakers
I haven't do any updates so it shouldn't be anything wrong with the system...Even after restarting my comp, it still won't work.I was plugging in my earphones to the jack last night as I didn't want to disturb my family while watching starcraft 2 commentaries...So this morning i plug it out and wanted to use my speaker and it don't work anymore...it was working fine all the time...so is there any way using the earphone might have cause the problem?
Shut down speed all of a sudden became slow.. I'm running 10.04 on a dual core 3.2gig cpu with 4 gig ram. Boot up is in seconds and shut down was almost instant. Now shut down takes about 15 seconds. Is there a way to see what is causing ubuntu to hang when shutting down?
I'm trying to copy folders from one ubuntu machine to another. Both have ssh and openssh-server installed and have worked in the past.ing "scp -r Pictures username@192.168.1.1:/home/username" after entering the remote password, I get a bunch of lines.
I've had Ubuntu Netbook as my OS for about six months or so now, and suddenly it won't open anymore. I have a partition so that I can open Windows 7 if I want, but ever since I updated it last night and have restarted it, when I go to open Ubuntu it returns me to the screen to choose which OS to open.
All of my PHP web pages are now loading incredibly slow. I created a simple "Hello World!" script and timed retrieving it from a terminal using wget and it took 3min 9seconds. A wget of the home page of a PHP-based site also took 3min 9seconds. I have a PHP script that I run from the command line that I use to look for malicious FTP attempts and it took - you guessed it - 3min 9seconds. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and have applied all of the latest updates for that version.
One thing I did notice was a proliferation of apache2 processes. With every request for a page I seem to get 7 or so new apache2 processes.
Got a boot problem on a sony vaio with ubuntu 10.04. All was working fine, and now, suddenly, it can't boot anymore....
Sometime, I get Error : hd0,2 Out of disk Most of the time, I get udevd[87]: worker [94] unexpectedly returned with status 0x100 udevd[87]: worker [94] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2' udevd[87]: worker [97] unexpectedly returned with status 0x100 udevd[87]: worker [97] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5' ALERT! /dev/disk/by_uuid/fc478e75-0c7e-4dec-abf1-a2c4b8fd2b87 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Busybox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in-shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. initramfs
It looks like there is no disk in the machine. Yesterday, there was one... So I boot with a liveCD. and have a look with fdisk: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x598c9b19 .....
With disk utility, I can find my swap partition 4Gb, my system partition (Ext4, 20Gb), and 476Gb of freespace.
Here is my problem using K3B when writing Multi-session Project:
"Writing CD-R Using Wodim 1.1.10. Starting TAO to writing at 48x speed performing Optimum Power calibratpo;;p;9;n starting disk write mkisofs crashed cdrecord has no permission to open the device You may use K3bsetup to solve this problem"
I have the same problem with the other cd-burner programs, such as: Brasero Disk Burner, Gnome Baker CD/DVD Writer, xfBurn, and CD/DVD Creator. Why all the programs are malfunctioning since yesterday? I un-installed some of them, re-started the pc, but the problem continues...
I have no idea what happened, but as of around a week ago, I can no longer print in Ubuntu 10.04.
The printer is a Brother MFC-7440N connected to my LAN. I have never had a problem before printing to it from any of my computers, regardless of whether they were running Windows XP, Windows 7, or Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04. I am still able to print from Windows 7, so I'm reasonably sure there's nothing wrong with the printer or network configuration.
But I can't get it to print at all from Ubuntu. I already tried reinstalling the drivers and re-setting it up in CUPS - no change. Every time I try to print a test page, the printer does nothing, and "Document Print Status" shows the job as eternally "Pending."
If I go to the CUPS printer page [url], the job status shows as "Paused - "Unable to locate printer 'MFC-7440N'!"
I don't know why CUPS thinks it can't locate the printer. When I was setting up the printer in CUPS, CUPS properly detected it on the network, no problem.
I can see the printer in the CUPS administration page, and even change settings. The one thing I cannot do is get it to actually print!
Like I said, the printer works fine through Windows, so I think this is an Ubuntu problem, not a printer problem.
When I open "System->Administration->Printing," there's an icon of the printer with a green-circle check mark, as if everything is OK. But if I right-click, the "Enabled" box is not checked. Checking it myself has no apparent effect.
My portable HDD is suddenly saying that I don't have write permission anymore.
properties>permissions says that I have full read/write permission over the top folder of the drive. After looking in the permissions I'm out of ideas.
I checked the properties of the drive itself and it said "Permissions could not be determined"
I haven't changed the permissions deliberately - I use this hard drive every other day to move movies across to my TV.
Old HP computer, came with XP, installed Ubuntu 8.03, upgraded to 9.10, installed xubuntu-desktop for speed.
Ever since I've started dual-booting Ubuntu with Xp, I've been able to access my XP partition by going to Places-HP_PAVILION, which has always been mounted at /media/HP_PAVILION, but recently, within the last few days or so, it hasn't been appearing anywhere. I'm still able to mount it if it use # mount /dev/sda2 /*mount point*, but that's a pain, and I'd rather not use a workaround if I don't have to. Any suggestions? I'd really prefer if it mounted to /media/, and had it's own shortcut in the Places menu, like flash drives, memory cards, and such get. I've tried my Flash Drive, and that does everything it's supposed to.
I turn on my laptop running 64-bit karmic (if that helps anyone), open GNU Emacs 23.1.1 with the org files I've been working on, and for some reason it is not recognising standard key bindings, for the first time ever, with no reason I can conceive. What does "M-kp-enter is undefined" mean when it seemed well defined not long before? It seems using Esc-enter still works.. can anyone suggest if there are any config files I might need to edit, or what else could have gone wrong?
I think it might have to do with an app I installed called Jupiter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jupiter/) that missed with my power configs, I removed it but I still can't hibernate or suspend. Whenever I try to do either, my screen fades to black and nothing happens. If I move the mouse or touch the keyboard, it comes back.
Got the strange problem with Evolution. I've got two inboxes, and one of them has suddenly emptied - don't know what I did. Also, when I try and send a test message to the emptied inbox, nothing happens, although the message gets through on my gmail account.
So I was happily using tweetdeck on Adobe Air in my Ubuntu 9.10 x64 installation when it suddenly stopped. It now reports a series of errors. First I get a pop up that says. "You are trying to connect to an unverified server s3.amazonaws.com (on port 443). Do you trust this server, and want to go ahead with the connection? - view certificate - This Session - Never"
Selecting any option makes no difference and takes me to the second error. "Ooops, TweetDeck can't find your data. TweetDeck is having trouble using some of your passwords that are stored securely on your machine. Clicking Submit will clear this data so that you continue to use TweetDeck. Please note that you will have to add your accounts to TweetDeeck again. - OK"
I then click OK many times. Eventually I get the third error; "Sorry, Adobe AIR is having a problem running on this computer. It looks like your computer is one of a very small number of computers that don't play well with Adobe AIR. We're actively working with Adobe on this, and it would really help us if you would let us know that you're having trouble by opening a ticket at http://support.tweetdeck.com/tickets/new - OK"
I then click OK many times and get a blank Tweetdeck. Nothing works. I can not setup an account or even load the settings pane. I can "close" it, but the icon in the top bar stays and I cannot remove it till I reboot. I've uninstalled tweetdeck. Then Adobe AIR. Then re-installed both and I get the same error.
Like many others I recently upgraded to 10.04. So far it's generally an *excellent* upgrade. Very promising LTS release. However, mouse clicks are suddenly not behaving as expected in applications (including system config apps). In these, I must ctrl-click to get proper left and right click behavior. Strangely, on both the top panel and on the awn dock, clicks behave as they should. One final note, this behavior was not immediately present after the 10.04 installation. It started the day after the 10.04 release. Currently in the process of checking recent installs to see if anything would affect this.
This always used to mount automatically and has suddenly stopped. Same result if I use smbfs instead of cifs. I have worked around this by adding noauto and then mounting it in /etc/rc.local.
Anyone else had this and fixed it so that the share mounts at boot rather than login. I do have some cron tasks that require this to be mounted and assume they will fail unless I login immediately after a reboot.
I installed 10.04 on my old Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. After using it for about an hour, I was suddenly had no option to shutdown or restart the system when logged in on the main and only account. The 'Shut Down' applet on my bar was greyed out and the shutdown option was missing from the system menu.
I removed the 'Shut Down" applet and was unable to re-add it afterwards (wasn't a selection when adding to panel). If I log off, selecting shutdown or restart from the login screen does nothing.
'Sudo shutdown now' will shut it down, though it won't power the system off; it just hangs on an all-white screen.
I saw other posts suggesting Open Office Quickstart was the culprit, though I am not running this.
Ubuntu and I'm using the latest stable version. Yesterday I had my sound working, but today my sound has stopped working.I've taken the following steps without success:System -> Administrator -> Hardware Devices (finds nothing)
We do server backups to USB HDD's. Neither of our known good backup drives are being recognized by our 10.04 server, fully updated. Additionally, I plugged in my SanDisk 4GB USB mem stick, and it is not recognized either. I am used to seeing the kernel do some PnP messages in either /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog and I am not seeing any blips there what so ever of the USB drives being plugged in. Did something happen to USB PnP with some latest update? USB HDD's were being recognized recently, like six weeks ago...
I recently received an automatic update to my 10.04 system which included some kernel stuff. I am using vanilla repositories, I haven't added, removed, or altered any of the default repositories. I downloaded and installed the updates using the graphical Update Manager found in System->Administration
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and my kernel is listed as 2.6.32-25-generic. I haven't installed any new hardware whatsoever; my hard disk drive is the same as it has always been. When I go through System->Administration->Disk Utility, then view my hard drive, the line: SMART Status: reads with a grey circle and then "Not Supported" I am able to run the Benchmark application from Disk Utility and it completes without problem. This happened to me where I was unable to view SMART data after automatic updates involving the kernel when I was using Ubuntu 9.10.
I've been using authbind to allow tomcat to bind to 80 on 64-bit Lucid since August and it's been working fine every morning following morning power-up on oureloper workstations. This morning (11-18-2010 13:00GMT) at boot up authbind isn't allowing tomcat to bind to 80.Checked /etc/default/tomcat AUTHBIND=yes is still set/etc/authbind/byuid still matches the id for tomcat6 in /etc/passwd and is set to 0.0.0.0/0:1,1023 on the one I've been debugging, 0.0.0.0/32:1,1023 on the remainder.I added in 80 to /etc/authbind/byport and made it owned by tomcat6 and gave it u+rwxWhen I run /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start the java process created is owned by tomcat6.
A couple days ago I booted up my Ubuntu 10.10 machine as usual,but the wired LAN connection did not work; it doesn't seem to see any wired connection devices. I can still connect to a wireless network with no problem, and if I plug that same ethernetable into another machine it works fine. I've been happily using this setup for weeks; the LAN only stopped working a day or two ago. So I figure there's two possibilities:A recent update caused NetworkManager to stop working with wired LAN connections, but I'm e only persothed affected (unlikely)My motherboard's ethernet port died (this motherboard only a couple weeks old, so this also seems unlikely)I'm not good at diagnosing problems with networking, so who can tell me where to st
I installed GParted just so that I could have it in case I ever needed to resize my partitions. I opened it just because, with no intent of changing anything. That's when I noticed that I have 1.7 GiB of free space.if it is safe can I add it to my / partiton. It is in between my NTFS partiton and my Extended Linux partition so I would have to change the start point of /.
Today, all of a sudden, gmail is loading only the html view in my firefox. It is asking me to upgrade to a faster browser in order to have the standard view. Clicking on that link, I found that my firefox is already the latest version. It is not only gmail, but my institution mail is also loading in basic html mode. There is no problem with yahoo mail though.
The one thing that I did yesterday was installing many ubuntu themes and wallpapers. I changed the theme back to the old one but to no avail. Of course, the wallpaper is new, but that should not be causing any problem. I tried clearing the cache and deleting the cookies from google. But the problem persists i.e I closed all the google related tabs, cleared cookies and cache and restarted the browser. Note that Google chrome is able to load gmail properly.
