I'm getting exactly the same error described here: [URL] and according to the people on there, doing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" fixes the problem...However when I try this I get
Quote:
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
I've tried restarting but that doesn't fix the problem...
getting exactly the same error described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/464020 and according to the people on there, doing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" fixes the problem...However when I try this I getQuote:dpkg: status database area is locked by another processI've tried restarting but that doesn't fix the problem.
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'sudo dpkg --configure -a'.
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1. Deleted .pulse folder form Home folder Thread here
2. This thread
3. And lots more
I have been trying to update my server from 6.06 server to 10.04 server. My attempts have been complicated by versions later than 6.06 not being able to properly read my CD-ROM. I used the 'do-release-upgrade' mechanism to upgrade to from 6.06 to 8.04 and then to 10.04. 8.04 loaded OK, but 10.04 fails to boot with the surprisingly common "Gave up waiting for root device" error. It stops at the built-in shell prompt. If I exit from the shell, it seems to boot up normally.
I have verified that the boot partition is /dev/sda1 and the UUID for the partition is correct. My system is an older IBM eServer xSeries 350 with quad 700MHz XEON processors and a 36GB SCSI drive. This system properly installed from the 6.06 CD and boots under this version without problems. So I have some questions. Only the first one needs an answer.
1. What do I need to do to get my system to boot properly?
2. Why was this software released with this error?
3. Why wasn't the faulty loader pulled from the release until it was fixed?
4. Is it possible to revert to the 6.06 loader, which works fine?
5. Why doesn't the loader attempt to try something else that should work instead of just giving up?
I just installed LXDE and configured the .xinitrc file and when I gave the command "startx" and it tried to start, but stopped with this error message
Waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR
(base = 0xf0000000, size = 0x04000000, type = 1) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
I am not sure if I configured the .xinitrc file correctly, so that may be the problem.
just installed ubuntu 10.10 on my external usb hdd from my 8gb flash drive doing this on a laptop, my primary hdd (internal) is running windows (230gb of 250gb used) so i got an external hdd (2tb) and I decided to install ubuntu on it
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The system is an old AMD Duron 650MHz that was dug out of the garbage, trying to set it up as a light duty server. I installed ubuntu 10.04 with no errors or troubles during the install, however whenever the system is booted it sits at a cursor for about a minute then goes into busybox giving the error "Gave up waiting on root device." and says that the hard drive does not excist. If I sit at busybox for about another minute and type exit it then boots ubuntu 10.04 with no errors or issues.
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Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) Check Root= (did the system wait for the right device) Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev Alert /dev/sdd8 does not exist dropping to shell /bin /sh: can't access tty; job control turned off If I boot off Debian Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single user mode) Then use Control-D it boots fine.
Every time I try to use Tucan or Gwget to download a file, it gives me a time like 2 minutes or 47 seconds, and downloads an empty file. I checked to make sure I was logged into my RS account, tried it with zShare, and again with several different links. Does the same thing with .rar or .avi, the extension doesn't make a difference. Thought it was Tucan at first, so tried Gwget instead and both are doing it. Until now they both worked fine.
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The recommended fix for this looks to be on this post that I got from LaunchPad: [url]
It says to: "Open the Synaptic package manager. System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager
If anything is broken it will tell you.Choose 'Custom' from the buttons at the bottom then click on 'Broken'
Right click on the offending package and choose to remove it."
Unfortunately, Synaptic won't open.
What are the various network managers that can be present on Ubuntu? I have been having problems with network connections on my laptop, and it seems that I have more than one manager that is conflicting with the other. I can make settings for both wired and wireless connections using nm-connection-manager, yet using the applet NetworkManager to make a connection ends up with different settings.
i.e. I had set a fixed IP address with nm-connection-manager, yet NetworkManager made a connection that had a different address. When I went back to NetworkManager, the settings had been changed to make an automatic connection with DHCP. I did have wicd installed at one point, but deleted it with synaptic using the "complete removal" setting.I want to be able to go to one location to setup the connections, and have those settings remain.
I was wondering is there were any other file managers for Ubuntu other than nautilus and dolphin, And it has to have a GUI, I like nautilus, but I cant stand the way it's tabs are now (compared to how they were in karmic) also nautilus is a little slow for my liking, dolphins tabs are fine, but I use gnome and it looks terrible outside of KDE.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedAs the title says I am looking for window managers that support having a workspace per screen. Now I'm not talking xrandr, twinview, xinerma or anything. I don't think this feature is possible with metacity. Most tiling window managers are like this and I love it, it makes things so much more efficient.
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What I really, really want to know, is why can't these managers resume downloads that experience these errors? Why can't they set markers during the download process (say every 5MB) so that if a problem like a size mismatch, a connection dropout, or a timeout occurs, then it can backtrack only slightly and then resume? I download a couple of shows from revision3 each week and more often than I care to remember they've failed at around 70% of a 300MB+ download and merrily just start downloading all over again. Another frustrating thing is they ditch the file that didn't finish, so I can't even watch the part of the show I had. I live with it, though it's very frustrating, but I wonder why these download managers aren't more intelligent.
Does anybody here has made experiences with tiling-WMs ?
- Are there any in our repos, and there?
- Do they run under the normal DE,or only solo?
- Can I use all programs with them?
Actually,I am using openSuse 11.3 with KDE 4.4.
If I install a new desktop manager without uninstalling the old one, how do I specify which one to use? I wanted to look at LXDE, so to see what would happen, I installed it without uninstalling KDE. KDE apparently just sat underneath, and was unaffected. I didn't keep LXDE, but I might, if I could switch back to KDE to do work until I understood LXDE. (Keeping up-to-date in MEPIS will force me to learn KDE 4 despite that KDE 3 was fine, so I might as well examine other desktop managers.)
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