I 've been running Kubuntu 10.4 for some time now.At some point, I installed evolution-indicator and indicator-messages, and after reboot, the system booted on GNOME instead of KDE.Is there any way to reverse it? I tried uninstalling both packages but that did not have any effects.
View 3 RepliesI just erased +200GB worth of photos, documents, music and videos on my external hard drive.I wanted to try the new Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 2, so I downloaded the .iso, launched the live USB disk creator and tried to format my 1GB pendrive to make room for the OS. Somehow, I ended formatting my 320GB external USB hard drive. The hard drive had to partitions (one EXT3 and one NTFS), but now it only has a FAT partition that spans the whole drive.I understand that the new FAT partition may have erased the EXT3 data structures at the beggining of the partition, making file recovery next to impossible.A confirmation dialog on the live USB disk creator wouldn't have hurted either.
View 5 Replies View RelatedA rather new user here, was messing with the preferences on a user folder of mine on Karmic, looking for a way to make the folder invisible to users (like the old windows option). Set it to 'none', then closed it, returned to the directory finding the folder with a box with an 'x' on it.
Went to open it, it says 'access denied'. So I think 'okay, how do I undo that', go back to see if I can restore it back to 'read & write' with no sucess.
Seached the forums for a solution to this issue, most of solutions revolve around 'gksudo nautilus' which I attempted to open via command-line. Nothing seemed pop open after I entered my password in responce to entering said command-line, probably because I really don't know how to use Nautilus.
I have been working on this script and I just made a ridiculous error. I tried to move my script out of my home directory and for some reason I put in "mv myscript .bashrc" Now my .bashrc file has nothing but my script in there... I think I may have overwritten some important info. Is running cp /root/.bashrc ~
View 2 Replies View RelatedI accidentally chmodded my entire /etc/ folder to 755 privileges.
It's not completely critical because my system is a home server.
My biggest problem is that MySQL is pitching a start-up message saying that I have 'unprotected key file', clamav is stating that it won't start until it has owner permissions...
I did chmod 600 /etc/passwd just in case.
"How do I see all the start-up complaints in a text file?"
I installed ubuntu 10.10 beta. But i thought it replaced ubuntu 10.04, well it did but i whiped my whole harddrive instead. Can I recover my window 7 that i once had? I accidental installed my linux using up the whole drive. i have alot of server cfg and other stuff such as pic and document.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy first post. I've been using Ubuntu Server edition (Hardy) happily for some time now.
I use sudo regularly during configuration of new services. It always works/authorises within seconds, however, it recently became very slow, to the point of being nearly unusable.
In /var/log/auth.log I noticed a regular working pattern like this code...
I think I did something dumb. I was trying to increase the space allocation to my /home virtual disk on my wubi installation of Ubuntu. I ran the wubi-add-virtual-disk utility (as I had done before the first time I increased my space), but I received the message "The target virtual disk /host/ubuntu/disks/$virtual_disk already exists, aborting." So, thinking that all my data was in a different path and that the file home.disk was probably just some configuration file of little importance (I should've checked and I should've made a backup of it myself), I browsed to /host/ubuntu/disks and ran "rm home.disk", then reran the wubi-add-virtual-disk utility (stored in my still existing /home/cportiz/Downloads directory), and I thought I had successfully increased my space.
To my horror, upon restarting my computer, my desktop was empty and basically unusable as there is nothing to click on. I rebooted on recovery mode and logged on in terminal mode, then browsed to /home and found an EMPTY folder. I ran locate home.disk and found a file at /host/ubuntu/disks with the size that I specified when I ran the virtual disk utility, but I don't know where my old contents are. I didn't just delete all that stuff. it is still somewhere on my hard drive and that all I need to do is modify the home.disk file in this or that way or hit restore. There is not a home.backup file at /host/ubuntu/disks/.
Anyhow, if indeed I've lost everything, I can probably restore most of the work I'd done (only a couple of weeks worth) pretty quickly. Some of the files were backed up in other computers, etc... How to restore my wubi installation to a functional one? I would prefer not to have to reinstall ubuntu altogether since I believe the majority of the packages I've installed were housed on /opt meaning I can get back up and running compiling certain programs from source fairly quickly and most of the recovery effort is in rewriting some of the files that were stored in /home.
I am running a program in gnome-terminal window (using metacity window manager) which will take many hrs to complete.
I was wondering if there is some way to "lock" that window, so that accidental closing of that window is prevented.
I accidentally deleted all the files from file system in my hard drive (thankfully not my /home since it resided on a separate hdd). I did this from another system while I had connected that hdd to look at some files since my system was not booting correctly. The problem is that I deleted everything (manually while I was in nautilus) including the .Trash file. I have not formatted this drive so the partition table remains the same, nor have I written anything to it since the deletion, and, this drive is using ext4. What is the best way to restore this drive to how it was (say yesterday at 4:30PM)? (I have a lot of programs installed and I have been upgrading Ubuntu there since 9.04 to now 10.04). If I am not mistaken when data is deleted in ext4 it is simply flagged as usable space, and if that is so, is it possible to just simply unflag this data to get every file back the way it was yesterday at 4:30PM?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThere's a physical problem with my Microsoft mouse (and from what I've heard many other Microsoft and Logitech mice) where it accidentally double clicks during what is intended to be one click from me. I was thinking that surely some software that ignores the next click input from the mouse if it is within say 50ms (At a guess) as the last click would solve this problem and increase the longevity of these mice. Is there an option for this somewhere? Perhaps it would be easy to program a simple script or something for this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI really need some help here. I was installing Ubuntu 11.04 supposedly on a Desktop but I had my external hard disk connected via USB. This external hard disk had two NTFS partitions with lots of important personal and my works.
I accidentally installed Ubuntu upon it and I believe I had created new Linux partition for the Ubuntu installation. Is there any way to undo everything?
i unplugged the wrong machine during an rdiff-backup run, and when i try to ssh to that machine now, i get 'connection refused'. the machine was set up with ssh-copy-id before the accidental unplug.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have avant-window-navigator in my startup appplications. This apparently causes gnome to use the Gnome icon theme on boot, instead of the Humanity theme I selected in Preferences->Appearance. I just have to go to Preferences-Appearance again to get the Humanity theme back to work (I don't even have to change any settings, just going there is enough.) When I remove awn from my startup applications, this problem doesn't occur.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHere's a weird one. Once in a while I inadvertantly hit the key combination RIGHT-ARROW + INSERT on my keyboard while editing in Geany. This stops my mouse buttons from working and I have to kill xorg. Anyone heard of this before or how to fix it? I know I know, I should stop hitting those keys by accident, but it seems to happen at least once a day! This is on Fedora 12.
View 5 Replies View RelatedOne of our admins accidentally deleted the adm userin the following way,#userdel -r admi recreated the "user" from the /etc/passwd- & /etc/shadow- files and added to its groupand created the /var/adm directory but is there more that needs to be done ?Lot of files were written, so i have not yet tried debugfs or any file recoverybecause i couldnt get any google info on what adm does.OS Details:CentOS release 5.2 (Final)Can anyone scale the damage that could have occured?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to remove Ubuntu from the boot process.A lot of different resources show a lot of different solutions, none which worked for me.I've started out with a base server (9.10) and added a minimal GNOME installation. Now I want to prevent GNOME from starting unless I specify to do so (startx)! Using sysv-rc-conf I've disabled GDM for any run level. Then I have installed BUM to remove GNOME there as well.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSince a few hours I can't seem to get GNOME working. Whenever I boot my computer, I just get tty1 wanting me to log in. That works, but then I just get tty1 with a terminal... In tty7 I can see the startup checks which end with "* Checking battery state... [OK]".
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed LXDE and want to choose each boot whether to run Gnome or LXDE. However Gnome gets started automatically without me being able to choose. Are there any config files I have to edit?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having a hard time understanding how to boot into the CLI, and not GNOME.Do I use the following sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove.Is there a special keyboard key like in windows (F, to drop into the CLI before GNOME loads, and modify the xorg.conf file?
View 7 Replies View RelatedGnome panel is not loading at all (version 10.10 ubuntu btw) All I get is about 1/3 of the top panel on the screen - no menu etc drawn and my desktop icons moving slightly up and down, which I guess due to gnome panels attempting to load. When I try to boot using altctrldel I get the message gnome-panel is not responding. I tried safe mode etc which no effect. I think its clear I am using the windoz ideas - not sure how to start fixing this in ubuntu I have tried a couple of things from this site in pervious threads from the basic
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last week I did an update and it may or may not be tied to the fact that now I can only login to Failsafe Gnome mode. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala. I've had Ubuntu for a year but I'm not that familiar with it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedEverytime I boot into eeebuntu on my 900hd the panel on the top is completely blank (along with the main menu and everything on it), and only will revert back to normal when I change something in the properties (e.g. the background).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.04. I installed the KDE libraries to use Okular. Then Ubuntu took almost 30s more to boot (20s black screen between login and desktop). I uninstalled KDE, booted on another kernel, rebooted and the boot time was OK again (25s).
I reinstalled KDE, 55s to boot again. Rebooted couples of times always the same. Rebooted on another kernel then again on mine (it seems to fix the slow boot times).
Boot time was 35s (I thought it was OK). After lauching Okular, the boot time was again 55s...
Removed KDE, Okular, and the boot time is normal again since 10 reboots..
When I turn on my desktop and log in to Lucid Lynx, I can only use it with "Failsafe GNOME" turned on. If the Normal GNOME is on instead, it literally freezes every single time, within about 4secs-1 minute of use. is there a way I can boot up in failsafe GNOME without clicking it every time?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThis seems like it has happened to me on every installation of Gnome that I have doneght be an exaggeration, but not by much).On the top Gnome panel the icons on the right side seem to move around. For example, after installation the Logout button will be the button that is on the far right. Then after reboot, it will be the Volume icon, then after another reboot it might be Network icon
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Fedora Core 9 on a older PC (Compaq Presario that dual boots Windows xp). It had a much older Fedora on it and I overwrote it. I did a basic install using 3 of the 6 discs and watched it say it installed Gnome. I remember from a few years back that Fedora just boots to the prompt after installation unless you *tell* it to boot to a gui environment.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a centos 5.2 machine that seems to have a problem with xwin. upon a reboot it complains that gnome has crashed. my desktop bckground is 'there' my desktop resolution seems to have changed( maybe it was 1024 x 768 -- now 800x600??? )the toolbars that were across the bottom of the screen that held shortcuts to programs and things is now blank -- empty.what might i be able to do? also when i tried to update i get complaints about missing dependencies.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn order to get multiple monitor/display support which is not available in the version of gnome available with centos repos, I decided to try KDE. I tried just adding it with yum without removing gnome. Now I don't seem to get a display after "starting udev (OK)" message during boot. As a newbie I don't know how to go about backing out of this update. is ther some way to boot to a console? Then what would I do - yum uninstall kde? And I suppose I also need advice on what I should be doing to get kde going to support my two monitors.
View 3 Replies View Relatedmy when i boot my ubuntu 8.10 i get only xterm failsafe ,however failsafe Gnome does open , i have tried several solutions from the web such as deleting .profile file and some other solutions but none works.here's my .xsession-errors file
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/etc/gdm/Xsessin: beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Executing default failed ,will try to run x-terminal-emulator