Ubuntu :: Files Are Totally Jumbled?

Apr 6, 2011

The file system on my computer has become completely confused and out of sync. When I go into "documents," for example, I get the MPlayer for audio/video! I go into "home file" and get an audio player for streaming FM!Not every file is out of sync, but many are.I believe this situation started a few weeks ago when I decided to install MPlayer. I like MPlayer and especially its flexibility with regard to playing several kinds of media. I downloaded MPlayer and tried to make it my "default" player; I think that may have been the problem. Ever since then my files have been doing weird things and I'm unable to retrieve things (like documents) that I really need. Any suggestions as to how I can begin to clean up this mess

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Fedora :: Background Overlay Jumbled In Gnome 3?

Jul 21, 2011

Unsure of what caused this but please reference the screenshot to see my problem. I'm not using any special graphics driver, just whatever the distro decided to use upon install.

[theophan@porter ~]$ sudo uname -a
Linux porter 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 6 13:58:54 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[theophan@porter ~]$ lspci |grep Radeon

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Mar 10, 2011

I'm having a lot of trouble installing OpenSUSE 11.4 on a home PC. Currently the PC has Windows Vista and I've convinced the owner to let me put Linux on it. When I boot from the Live KDE CD, though, it fails to function properly. I can see the screen where I choose whether I'd like to install, boot from the CD or boot from the hard drive. No matter what I choose, the screen afterwards is unreadable - it's all kinds of jumbled, unreadable lines. The problem appears even if I change the resolution to all kinds of other resolutions. If I go into text mode and say that I'd like to install, it goes through a startup routine that looks like I'm starting the computer completely in text mode. Afterwards it wants me to log in, and I can logon as root and perform commands, but I've got no way that I can see of installing it on my system's hard drive so that I can have it boot OpenSUSE from the HD.

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Jan 14, 2009

Im trying to install Fedora 10 on to my HP Pavilion a340a (full product specifications: [url] ), i boot from the cd and it says "Automatic boot in 10 seconds..." etc, i get past that screen and am then at a screen with 2 shades of blue and a white bar moving at the bottem of the screen towards the words "Fedora 10", on the next screen, the log on screen, all the text is jumbled up and distorted, and everything appears frozen, except that i can move the mouse. I am not sure what the problem is but i know its not the cd because after having problems with hp pc i decided to try it on my Acer Extensa 2300 laptop (1.5ghz, 1.2gb ram, 40gb hdd, 32mb intel integrated graphics) and that installed fine, without a problem. This has led me to beleive that Fedora may not be liking the intel graphics on my HP Pavilion, and i dont know why. i really want to use Fedora 10 on my desktop. I should mention that i want to dual boot Windows XP and Fedora 10 on Pavilion, windows is already installed.

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Apr 9, 2010

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Apr 27, 2010

I have an old Compaq w/ 40g HD & 1g RAM.

When I boot up I see on the Boot Screen:

Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel 2.6.24.25 rt
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel 2.6.24.25 recovery mode
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel 2.6.24.16 rt
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel 2.6.24.16 rt recovery mode
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Kernel memtest86+
Windows XP Home

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Oct 19, 2010

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When I took the monitor away it still wouldn't work, so I tried entering with safe graphics and that wouldn't work.

I uninstalled xorg and reinstalled and ran the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but still no luck.

I have tried reverting the vesa driver but it still won't work. The screen flashes like it's trying but just gives up.

I don't know what to do now except reinstall the partition.

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Jun 29, 2010

I had it working perfectly everything worked including my headset. The only problem was certain programs were too quiet for my taste and seeing as i have a laptop and cant manually turn up the speakers i looked for a solution and found

Code: [URL] I followed those directions to try and boost the poor sound volume that has plagued me in ubuntu distros. Instead sound sparsly works. It is quieter than was, and if chrome is open at all no sound will play at all in rhythmbox or amarok(the play button dont even works it just sits at 0:00) Only after chrome closes does it play my music files again but only on this partition. As now my windows partition thats also located on this fakeraid just magically disappeared.

how to fix this as i dont even know what i did to begin with. how i can trash kde and start over from within gnome(havent tried to see if it works there yet though) EDIT: Logged back in to gnome and everything works fine. The missing partition is auto mounted like i wanted, the sound is perfectly fine. Obviously something got screwed up in the kde config but i dont know what or what to look for as i have never used kde before.

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May 1, 2011

I was looking for a way to totally turn off the Hibernate option in 11.04, and not just remove the option from the menu. I have read that you can easily disable hibernate from System>Preferences>Power Management but as far as i can see I have no options in there to do such.I found this and similar pages: URL... I do not have the key named can_hibernate anywhere under my gnome-power-manager.I read that this is the option that only removes the "hibernate" option from the power menu, but actually does not disable the service, can anyone confirm this?URL...

Just curious but disabling hibernate in linux save you hardisk space like it does in windows (still quite new here)?

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May 1, 2011

I have ubuntu network remix on my netbook. How do I completely wipe off ubuntu and install Windows xp on my netbook? My netbook doesn't come with a cd/dvd reader so I have to install it through a pendrive. I got my own windows xp iso ripped from my desktop,ready to go.

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Jun 11, 2011

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Mar 11, 2010

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Nov 2, 2010

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Apr 9, 2011

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Jun 24, 2011

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May 20, 2010

I upgraded to Lucid a few days ago (from Karmic) and although everything went smoothly, I've been having this problem:Every now and then, when I'm on FireFox, the whole computer freezes and is unresponsive. The mouse doesn't work, I can't open the terminal, I can't do anything! My only option is to press the restart button on my laptop.I don't know if this is of any relevance, but I use UbuntuStudio, but have been using the proper Linux Kernel. I only selected the RealTime kernel if I'm working on audio editors, which I haven't done since updating to Lucid.y laptop is an HP pavilion zv5000. It has an ATI 9000/9100 graphics card, about 768 mp of ram, and a P4 3GHz processor.

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Jun 24, 2011

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Its OS version 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE. KDE SC version:4.5.5

I know that at the bottom left where there would be a windows button on a Windows PC there is a blue K button. That's ALL I know.

First thing I'd like to know is how to totally back up this system OS and all so that if something happens I can load it onto another PC. I'm pretty panicked because it IS an old pc it's on. Then, I'd like to know what is this exactly and how can I learn what I have here

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Jan 11, 2010

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Fdisk -l shows the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 320g
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylanders
units = cylanders of 16065 *512 = 822...bytes

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All the info I have found has multiple steps, but in my situation is there just 1 easy command to do this? If not, can I just reinstall from CD and it will reformat and let me customize more? If I have to use the several steps to reformat, can you explicitly type out exact commands for me? I am completely new, have to learn all this, and all the referece books/materials kind of scatter the info around.

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Jun 27, 2011

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Feb 4, 2011

At the moment im using a live linux distribution and running a program to test the security of my website. Unfortunatly this program is running from, and seems to fill up rootfs, at which point the program crashes and dissapears.

Is there any way to force a program to run totally from RAM, which i would presume would automatically use a swap file because of the in built memory management in linux, of which is a 30GB partiton.

I know i could just install the distribution to the partition instead, however it has peaqued my interest in just how much control linux has over the programs running on it.

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May 19, 2009

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Jun 4, 2009

Currently working on the targeted policy, I need a help in doing the following things as quick as possible:

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May 30, 2011

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Aug 4, 2011

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Mar 13, 2011

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Apr 7, 2011

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I appreciate any "Helpful" solutions. Not in techy but layman's terms please as I won't understand. Also if you do reply, I am in the UK and also don't get notifications so I am not being rude if I can't get back to you quickly. I will be going to bed now.

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Jan 23, 2010

I used the directions from this thread: [url]

Then after installing it, I realized not only did firefoxes fonts look terrible, the fonts on the entire system were totally different, they look terrible.

So I uninstalled all the new programs, removed the new moz repository, and then reinstalled the regular firefox 3.5 from regular ubuntu repos. Dropped all support software down to 3.5 as well. System fonts are still totally fubar!

I tried creating a .fontconfig file with the text from the threads, supposedly to fix the new firefoxes fonts, and it did not help.

As my fonts looked absolutely wonderful, now they look terrible. I tried messing with all the settings in the appearance tab of the gnome menu, nothing seems to help!

Regular firefox is back, and running fine, but its fonts and all the rest of the fonts on the system look horrible, like they are not getting aliased/hinted at all!

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Mar 20, 2010

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Did the daily set of updates today, which included the kernel, but that update only had to do with enabling IPV6 on all flavors of the kernel. The update also included updates to the xorg packages from the X11:XOrg repo. However I was prompted that a requirement couldn't be met and one of the options was to downgrade xorg-x11-driver-input to the previous revision (not previous version). I thought that wouldn't matter so I did it.

I reboot and I am able to choose the kernel I want in the grub boot screen, get to the KDM login screen, however, after that the input is totally dead! Mouse and keyboard don't work whatsoever. I have a Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave mouse (LX8) & keyboard so I tried it with a standard PS/2 wired mouse & keyboard but it produced the same exact problem.

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