I put ubuntu 10.10 on my computer it was great i then the driver finder told me that I could make my computer 3d so i downloaded the driver now my computer will not read my hardrive and will not boot.
if you know how to fix this
and i have tried to put ubuntu back on with a live cd but it says error
I am having issues with sharing an external hard drive with other users on a computer. For example if I reboot and login with user A and then logout and login with user B, I am not able to mount the external hard drive. If I reboot and login with user B first, I can then access the external hard drive with user B but not user A. Is there a way that both users can use the drive without having to reboot every time?
I am assuming this is some sort of security issue. If I login with the second user and go to /mnt/external harddrive I get a permission error."You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "External Drive"." If I login with the first user and try to set the permission it doesn't give me the ability?
Very strange happenings going on here. Have three computers that dual boot with Ubuntu and WindowsXP. All three have failed in the identical manner!While reading a web site in Windows,the computer screen becomes frozen then a messege flashes momentarily stating "A problem has occurred" then the computer shuts down and will not reboot. Attempting to reboot results in a black screen with an unresponsive cursor in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
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Here is my current network setup:
[WAN] > [MODEM] > [10.1.1.3] > [192.168.56.101]
How can I make my computer ([10.1.1.3]) forward incoming traffic on port 25 to [192.168.56.101]?
i installed kernel 2.6.34 to fix my lid closing issue, and that went great. but now when i go to reinstall my broadcom i get this error. Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ... Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
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I don't understand the results of a simple performance test I ran using two basic scripts (running on a high end server):
perfVar.zsh :
#!/bin/zsh -f
MYVAR=`cat $1`
for i in {1..10}
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Performance test result:
> time ./perfVar.zsh BigTextFile > /dev/null
./perfVar.zsh FE > /dev/null 6.86s user 0.32s system 100% cpu 7.177 total
> time ./perfCat.zsh BigTextFile > /dev/null
./perfCat.zsh FE > /dev/null 0.01s user 0.10s system 91% cpu 0.118 total
I would have thought that accessing a VARIABLE was way faster than reading a FILE on the file system... Why this result ?Is there a way to optimize the perfCat.zsh script by reducing the number of accesses to the file system ?
I have Ubuntu installed and I need to reinstall Window$ so that I can set up a dual boot.I cannot get my Hardrive to format, I think there is a way to format the drive in recovery but I do not remember the commands for command prompt.
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what software should I use?
I noticed its my hardive that has problems and wont boot any of my operating systems not letting me get to my desktop. Is there a way i can clean it or a disk to do it but without doing it at your desktop?
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View 9 Replies View Relatedcopy a list of fileswhich has some unique string e.g
filename_1dec_2010.tar
filename_2dec_2010.tar
filename_3dec_2010.tar
filename_4dec_2010.tar
and i have another secondary hardisk i guess i need to grep with "_2010" and move
I'm trying to mount a USB hardrive from the terminal.
Using the following I can mount the hdd:
Code:
sudo mount -o rw,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd However if I try and change to /mnt/usbhd :
Code:
-bash: cd: /mnt/usbhd: Permission denied
(if I change to root I can view the contents)
If I add umask=000 I can view the contents, but I can't do anything to them:
Code:
sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd
Code:
mkdir: cannot create directory `misc': Read-only file system
I have tried changed the privileges of /mnt/usbhd, and I have tried adding an entry into /etc/fstab (and restarted), and I have tried using "user" rather than "users" but I get exactly the same results.
I don't have autofs or usbmount installed, which I read somewhere causes issues.
Code:
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usbhd type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
I've run these commands on another machine and it works perfectly, so it isn't the drive...?!
My english is not very good, sorry for that. Well. I have a question: It is can be possible to make a computer without TouchScreen Technology like one that if have it?.
I am a Windows user to, and i been searching and i found it can be possible do that, but this is only on windows with the Wii Remote of Nintendo Wii Console.
My question is part of this, it could be possible do this on Ubuntu like on windows?
After selecting Linux 2.6.23-22-generic 64-bit in the GRUB bootloader, I am staring at a black screen with a white flashing underscore for almost 2 minutes (usually between 1min40sec and 2min). The Linux kernel is loading here, and it's taking forever!
Once Plymouth starts it barely even manages to flash into view before it's done and I get to login, so bravo to Canonical. But seriously, I need that boot time cut down A LOT. Since I'm assuming it has quite some relevance, here's all my installed programs: (So if you know any offenders you can point them out) I can see it also lists packages I've removed after installing them. Removed packages are listed as "deinstall" and are, obviously, NOT installed or functioning, but their config files remain I assume. I also cannot make my computer hibernate, and if I try to put it to sleep when it's on critical power, it will continue waking up again until it runs so hard out of power it just dies.
acpidinstall
adduserinstall
adium-theme-ubuntuinstall
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Prior to the update my internal hd worked flawless. Now its a read-only disk and i can't change it by gui.
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
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When I try to mount my 320 Gig HD I get this.
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
What am I missing?
Im Running Ubuntu 10.10
During my Ubuntu install I screwed up Leopard 10.5 and don't have original install disk. I have downloaded 10.5 via a torrent via Ubuntu on my external hardrive and it is too large, my G5 doesn't support dual layer to burn install DVD. I thought I found a Ubuntu link that would help me install this OSX.dmg from my external firewire drive but i can't find it again.Anyone recognize this that could provide a link?
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Error opening file '/media/My Passport/test.avi': Input/output error This is obviously very fustrating and i want to stay with Linux but i do need to fix this problem else im afraid im going to have to back to awful windows.
i installed ubuntu using wubi and so far i have been impressed. I quickly filled up the small size i allocated for the ubuntu installation in wubi and now find myself in quite a predicament. I was thinking of performing a clean install of ubuntu and removing the existing windows installation. Rather than dual booting, i was using virtual box to run a windows xp machine so that i could use common windows applications. However, i was having some problems running some applications in the virtual box.
it was possible to install ubuntu and windows on the same hardrive with the ability to boot into either/or, but also be able to run the same windows installation inside a virtualization program in ubuntu? The majority of the windows programs worked fine in the virtual box, but some of the applications didnt. Is there any software out there that can do this?
I have a laptop with Win XP and Ubuntu installed as dual boot. Well something happened with the Ubuntu install and I need to reinstall but can't figure out how to do it.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a 2-year old DELL XPS M1330. I used to have Windows Vista on it, but over time, I believe it became clogged with too many programs and so I wiped the hard drive and installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS about 2 weeks ago. However, ubuntu many times seems to run slower than vista did. I have 4 GB of RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1 GHz, 3MB Cache, 800MHz FSB), 320GB HDD, 128MB nVIDIA GeForce 8400M. Ubuntu recognizes me as having dual processors at 2.1 GHz and 3.4GB RAM, but when I'm watching a simple video, whether online or locally on the computer, my CPU usage invariably jumps to 100% and it lags. Sometimes, even simple word processing makes it slow significantly.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to be careful in case my system crashes, and although highly unlikely my first question is if there is a way to first compress my Linux Partitions. After running the diskutil command in OSX's Terminal, I basically end up with this poartition scheme:
Quote:
Macintosh HD = 130GB
disk0s3 = 1MB
disk0s4 = 30GB
Linux Swap = 1.3 GB
I am sure there is a way in the Terminal to first compress disk0s3, disk0s4, and Linux Swap, and then output the compressed partitions into my external Harddrive. I have already read some of the suggestions that only /HOME, /etc/fstab/, list of installed packages, /opt, and /var/cache/apt/archives/-where all installed packages are stored, is what I should backup. But, please correct me if I'm wrong. Wouldn't it take quite a while to install all those packages again in case of a system failure. Or would it just be easier to untar all of them in their directories once Linux has been reinstalled. The closest command I have found so far in being able to achieve this is:
Quote:
sudo tar cvf - files | (cd target_directory ; tar xpf -) The above code is very suitable for what I am looking for because it enables you to copy files into another location by using the tar command where you would create In my case the new location would be my external harddrive. My external harddrive already has its own Linux partition which I am able to mount in Linux and that Linux sees as free space.
On my HTPC/Server unbuntu box I have installed logwatch in order to get a daily look on my computer activity.
And I often have this line in the report :
Quote:
root => my_user
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/usr/bin/gconftool - 3 Times.
The corresponding line in auth.log are :
Quote:
./auth.log:Jan 28 07:59:31 sweetBox sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=my_user ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy
./auth.log:Jan 28 07:59:32 sweetBox sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
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I ran Computer Janitor and I thought it deleted things I don't use anymore so I deleted those things and I read somewhere that Computer Janitor does delete important things, how can I be sure that I didn't delete anything important?
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