I have several DE, actually 5, and I want everyone to have custom start up. for example -wicd (daemon) and wicd-gtk to start up when I log in to 'awesome' ,'xfce4'and 'ratpoison'and the standart ones for gnome and kde.(btw, it's all happening in Arch linux, but I guess it's not a big deal)
View 4 RepliesI have a few problems getting a custom service/daemon to auto-start at boot. I'm running ubuntu 11.04 Server amd64 edition. One of the services is a Teamspeak3 server I'm trying to start. I would like it to start up automatically on boot. ts3 already have a script with start/stop commands so all i have done is make a little script for it to get it to run as the correct user.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ts3
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
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Just spent three whole days barking up the wrong tree, solving Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 boot failures because the correct hypothesis was illogical: installation did not update/modify the initrd.
The first couple of times I installed Fedora 11 on the HighPoint Technologies RocketRaid 2640x4, the installation inserted my "custom" driver module (rr26xx) into the initrd, permanently, so that the system booted off the controller card for which the custom driver was inserted. (I yelled about this success in this thread: [url]
My most recent installs of BOTH F11 and F12 on the RocketRaid failed to properly set up the boot. It turns out that the "rr2640" module I "slipstreamed" into the installation process was *NOT* permanently added to the initrd by anaconda. (F12 gave me "no root device found boot has failed, sleeping forever", on boot; F11 hung also, without such error, I presume, during the init script execution). Because of limited resources and time, I only know for sure the module was missing from the F11 initrd, and am ASSUMING the same was the case with F12.
The only difference between the successful installs and the ones with failed boot is that the successful installs were made on a single-drive (JBOD) mode on the controller; whereas, the failed ones were placed on RAID 5. But, AFAIK, the created logical device for the card is "/dev/sda", in both cases, and the kernel can not distinguish between the two cases (or can it?). Thus, the inconsistency cost me a lot of time, and is still inexplicable to me.
Question: What is the best way to deal with custom drivers, today? There are custom spins, and many tools, like isomaster. Stupid question: Is there a way to modify the initrd inside an installer ISO -- be it for CD/DVD/USBboot drive -- beefing the init RAM disk with whatever modules you'd like, for the boot process (using, say, isomaster)?
And what makes anaconda understand that a module must be added to the initrd ? How can one force anaconda to do so?
How does moving to dracut as the initrd tool affect any/all of the above?
Im trying to run synergy on startup. This works fine on the client, but it wont start automatically on the server. I put this line in an entry in startup applications:
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but still no dice.
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, downloaded Adobe reader '.bin', from the terminal
It extracted and asked me for a installation location, to which i put [~]
It then finished the installation.
But when i click on the icon in the start menu or on desktop it fails to start, when i also click on a .pdf document it also fails to start!
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04 64bit and the start up time is abnormally slow. If I start up the computer and don't press anything, the start up time is 30 minutes but it usually doesn't start up at all. It just boots into a purple screen, no splash, then it sits there and the computer doesn't have any loading lights flashing.
I had a similar problem with 10.10, but I assumed it would go away when I did a clean install of 11.04.
I can't get a read out of what's going wrong because when I press Esc it doesn't display anything, though weirdly it can sometimes get the start up process moving. I have also found that pressing enter really fast can sometimes help and something that seems completely oxymoronic, if I press the power button while it's starting up that can make it work, but nothing works every time.
I have a mysql database and i use it with apache for my webpages. And I guess it dosen't start when the computer starts so I have to manually start it with "sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start" This returns fail so i went to '/var/run/mysqld/' and the folder was empty. I don't know if this is the problem or not. How can I fix this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI wanted to add some custom emblems so I could label my folders more effectively and after a little bit of work, I figured out how to do it and I thought I should share that info with the group. The first thing to note is that the emblems are stored in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems. The first problem you are going to run into is that you don't have permission to add files to this folder. The way I got around this was by changing the owner of the folder to myself. I am using a computer for recording, so my user name is "band." Change that to your user name.
Code: sudo chown band "/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems" After you do that, you can paste your icons (I would use the .png format) into the folder. Next, you have to resize your icons so they are 32x32. You can do this by right clicking on the image then Open With > Gimp Image Editor. When Gimp starts up, go to Image > Scale Image. Change the width to 32. If your image is square, it will automaticly change the hight to 32. If it isn't then you can either force it to be 32 by unchecking the chain icon between the width and height, or you can resize the layer so it fits within 32x32. Then File > Save. If it is not a .png file, I would use Save As and save it as a .png by replacing the current format (.jpg, ect.) to .png. The Gimp will automaticly change the settings so it save it to the right format. I know for some of you these steps were obvious, but I thought I should help people out who aren't too familiar with the terminal or with the Gimp.
I want to create a custom ubuntu ISO (This ISO will contain all the packages with the latest updates released till date).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm purchasing a new laptop and considering the Dell XPS 14, customized.
Specifically, its customized to the sheet I've attached as PDF. The parts I'd assume are most important for Linux hardware compatibility, are:Processor: 2010 Intel CoreTM i5-430M 2.26GHz (2.53GHz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) Video Card: Intel HD Graphics. Wireless NIC: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Does anyone have any warnings about any of this hardware? I'd like to make sure I'm not going to run into any more issues (as I have personally, in the past) with drivers being crappy because the manufacturer refuses to open up to the Kernel Dev. community.
if you're looking at the PDF, then obviously ignore all the software garbage that Dell throws in (eg. MS Windows 7, Adobe, McAfee).
I am in the tasks section of the following tutorial [URL] I did the list package thing to see what packages there are. However now I cannot leave the list in order to run the purge command. How can I get back to the previous section so I can remove packages from the custom live cd. I want to make sure I am editing the live cd and not the current install. I am going to make two images. One cd that will still have a gui but I plan to build as a recovery tool. The other one is a dvd and will be for installing everything I want on any machine. I am doing the tutorial with Karmic. Also I have cursors, themes and icons I installed from gnome look. I then went to customize and created my own personal mix I like. I would like to make this a standalone theme and come as the default theme on the live cd and dvd. I have no clue what I am doing, however wish to learn to build my own custom live cd. Also I would like to know how to ad repositories to the live cd and how to add programs pre installed that are not usually included.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I am going to tell you has worked for the Alternative Ubuntu ISO but I would like to see if I can do this for the Server Ubuntu ISO. I need to pass along some ideas as no one else seems to have tried it this way on this forum (other have been using preseeds but I don't think this way).[URL]Copy files from the mounted ISO to my HDD: cp -rf /mnt/ubuntu/* /opt/ubuntu-server/Once the files were on my HDD, I started to edit files that would help using a special preseed I wanted to configureI changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/preseed/ and created a file called test.seedI edited the test.seed file with the example found here:[URL]Saved it and changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/isolinux/Started the edit the text.cfg (holds the labels for installing ubuntu)Here is what I appended to the end of the file:
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label test-install
menu label ^Install Test Ubuntu
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I wasn't using my laptop for at least a few hours, but when I looked at it, it had seemed to crash. I am hoping to figure out what caused this, and to prevent it from happening again. I believe it has something to do with drm or b43 as that is what I could decipher from the screen. I have checked some logs and found nothing irregular. I do not want this to happen again. I am running kernel 2.6.33.1 with no patches and a custom config tailored to my processor. The reason I am running 2.6.33.1 is because of support for my Wifi.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor a long time I've used a custom xsession that loads Mythtv without any sort of desktop environment. Every time I upgrade I've just backed up and restored my xsessions entry. I did the same when switching to 10.4 only to find that the custom xsession entry causes gdm to login WITHOUT a password.When I select the custom xsession in GDM I get logged in immediately without a password or confirmation. The expected behavior is that I'd select the xsession and not get logged in until after entering my password. I've done some trial and error with this issue and it seems that it boils down to a single line in the custom xsession file.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust installed latest ubuntu,
I want the "system monitor" to pop up on ctrl+alt+delete, I'm still damaged from long time on windows ^^
Anyways this is what i have done:
1. system > keyboard shortcuts
2. made another shortcut for "log out" (is ctrl-alt-delete default)
3. then "add" name=Ctrl-Alt-Delete and command=gnome-system-monitor
Now my new custom shortcut is disabled. How can i enable this?
I'm sure this is possible to do, but how do I create a Ubuntu install cd that uses my current config. Ideally I would like to be able to install exactly what I have on my system now, without user files. Wine, Ccsm, amarok, audacity, themes the whole nine yards. I tried using a program called Ubuntu Customization Kit, but it wouldnt let me mount the normal ubuntu install .iso file. This would avoid the hour and a half post-install config every time I screw Ubuntu up as well as stripping off many of the programs I don't need...
View 3 Replies View RelatedPreload notes the applications I open frequently and preloads them for faster app. startup.
But is there any way in which I can add my own files to preload
I recently correctly installed a cursor theme in ubuntu 10.04. When I move the pointer around in a window the theme appears but when I move the pointer around on the desktop i changes to the default theme.
I think it's something with compiz because when I shut it down the theme appears on the desktop...
I would like to try and optimize my kernel a bit. Since I am doing this on a fresh install, I don't really care if the os gets bricked in the process, and I am sure I can bring it back if I can boot into a recovery console from the old kernel. So, I followed thispost. I patched it and copied and edited a config file from /boot/, saved it as .config, I tried it several times with both removing and not removing /debian and /debian.master directories from the source, yet I always get the same error when I run "make oldconfig".
Code:
$ make oldconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
*** Error during writing of the kernel configuration.
make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
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I want to create a custom live cd of off peppermint os one. I want to add specific software, and delete some packages i don't really need. How can I do this Reconstructor is not what i want, because i am forced to use Ubuntu or Debian,
remastersys doesnt work for me since I see no option in using peppermint one as a live cd.
I want to create a LiveCD that you can boot and where instead of the normal Ubuntu installer (ubiquity) my own installer is starting.
I tried to do that with FAI, but I have many problems with it. Do you know a good way to do it? Is there an Interface for the Ubuntu installer/Source Code? Any other tools, ideas or thoughts?
So, when I play Java games, Sun Java will use default cursor set instead of custom cursor set that i have selected. So, where is the problem? I can see the difference if I start that java game to window, and move my mouse from not-window to window :/
Very annoying, because i would need that custom cursor for that game
the archive manager in ubuntu uses default settings for archiving files into .7zip
s. but much more compression can be achieved setting the cmpression level
higher from command line. Is there a way I can set that settings as default in Archive manager?
how to make a live cd how can I put it on a usb stick. [URL] Also in the article you install skype etc. but where did they get the path to donload skype etc. I might want to add more software.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm working to setup an small PC as a kiosk, I was able to create an USB pen drive with ubuntu 10.10 with a persistent area and I made all the changes I need, everything works but if the PC loss power in most of the cases the file system is corrupted. Now I'm trying to generate a non persistent USB drive, but I'm having some problems. I was able to install remastersys and create an ISO image of my system (dist) but when I tried to create the USB drive using different Programs, in all cases I get the boot menu but it never complete the login, it just try to keep booting. The only messages I saw when I create the iso image is a bunch on chown operation fail from remastsys, I'm not sure if it is part of the problem. how to create an USB read only from a persistent one ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using Natty in Classic Gnome mode with a custom icon set, Awoken. It is doing fine, but an upgrade was released a few days ago and the installation fails:
Code:
Preparing to replace awoken-icon-theme 2.0~ppa1~natty2 (using .../awoken-icon-theme_2.1~ppa1~natty1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement awoken-icon-theme ...
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There is a page for awoken-icon-theme package on Launchpad, but I cannot find a way to submit a bug on it. If I try "ubuntu-bug awoken-icon-theme", it is rejected because it is not an Ubuntu package. I understand that. Should I try to contact the developer directly?
How can I resolve this error and get the upgrade installed?
I want to customize the installation and I'm following the instructions here.I added my packages but now the iso is much larger(about 770 MB)Now I know I can simply delete from cd-image/dists/ but then the installer fails on missing deps.How can I do this safely ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to create custom Live Linux cd that consumes less RAM by limiting its functionalities?My laptop has 448 mb RAM and I want to run the LIVE CD along side windows xp pro(using VMware Player). I have tried a few Linux live cds but all of them are very slow when I run them inside xp!! I want to create this custom live cd so it only have firefox browser (latest version) pre-installed along with flash player (Latest version) and ability to hear voice when playing ..... videos. (I want omit the rest of programs in order that Linux runs faster). Is it possible to gain speed by omitting un wanted programs? How I can create such LIVE cd with limited functionality and fast performance.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow do you create custom cursors? I found an xcursor tutorial but no installation instructions - it just left me with the cursor files.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to make a Custom Ubuntu Live CD using Remastersys and an installer for the Live CD using Ubiquity. I was able to successfully create a Custom live CD using remastersys and when I boot from the custom Live CD the grub correctly displays the Custom Live CD Name that I specified during the ISO file creation using remastersys. However, when I install from the Live CD that I created, using Ubiquity, after reboot, the Grub menu displays as Ubuntu and not the Custom Label. How can I change it so that after installation, the custom Live CD name is displayed?
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