Ubuntu :: How To Get Back Settings When Install Fresh Ubuntu
Jun 28, 2011
yesterday I was switching normal user to root and root to user. I did this like 10 times but last time I tried to switch from root to user nothing happened but black screen. so I closed my laptop by pressing the button.And then my all normal user unity components were like root user's.then I found the solution by executing the command: unity --reset.that worked but in terminal i got warnings and when I close the terminal all settings were gone AGAIN.How can I get back the settings when I install the fresh ubuntu?
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Aug 10, 2011
I would like to transfer the settings and list of installed applications to a new partition as I propose to do a fresh install into a new partition.
Can it be done?
If I could run ubuntu from the old partition I would do:
SUDO dpkg -- get-selections >/home/robin/package.selections
but
I can no longer boot from the old partition. I can access it from within the live cd. Is there an application which will extract a list that will set the old application selections into the new partition?
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May 23, 2010
I have a problem with gnome panels, when i start ubuntu the gnome panels are missing.
i have tried code...
which does restore the panels but if i reboot the panels go away again,
This is on a new installation of Ubuntu 10.04, i'm preparing it for use by someone else and they can't use it easily without the panels
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Mar 12, 2009
I'm totally new to Linux. Got a fresh installation of Fedora 10 x86_64 on my HP dv7-1070el notebook with previously installed Vista Ultimate 64bit. I have 2 HDDs. The OS are installed on different hard-disks. The problem: I've chosen to put the boot loader on the first sector [...] on the second HDD (/sdb5) where Fedora is installed, not on MBR /sda1 where is Vista. Now, when I reboot, it goes straight to Vista and I expected to be asked for a boot choice.
What I want is to start using Fedora and to be able to choose which OS I want to use when I start my notebook. I'm not sure I made myself clear since I'm not too familiar with all terms so please correct me so I can learn . This is what I remember from installation. Everything else went great, no installation problems. If there's no way to get the dialog of which OS I want to boot, tell me the command for booting Vista when GRUB starts.
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Apr 24, 2011
I accidentally screwed it up.
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Jul 1, 2011
to back-up and eventually restore compiz settings, is it enough to back-up and restore the .compiz directory in $HOME? Reason is that the setting in my classic gnome set-up are different and partially conflict with the unity settings. Since I want to be able to run both environment (to give Unity a chance) I'd like to be able to switch settings easily.
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Jan 24, 2010
I've installed the latest version of Ubuntu on one of my systems. I need to wipe it out and replace it with another OS for testing. After a week or so I'll reinstall Ubuntu.I've customized the looks and feel of Ubuntu desktop and have changed many other settings at a number of places. Is there a way so I can save my settings (like the desktop background, the screen saver settings, colors, terminal window settings including its fonts etc., and others) in a file or a set of files which can then be imported directly when I'd reinstall Ubuntu?
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Jul 15, 2010
Could someone please tell me how to turn my password settings back on for mintupdate? Somehow it got turned off. I don't like how software can be updated without my password now.
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Aug 23, 2010
I was trying out a theme from gnome-look (elegant gnome) and it had an option to change my gdm theme. I used it, did not like the look, but when I uninstalled it said there was no back-up. Now my gdm looks like something from windows 95! How can I reset it back to the original settings? I tried reinstalling GDM in synaptic but no change
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Jan 5, 2011
I have got ubuntu netbook edition installed alongside windows xp and after some custimising i can now only chose the ubuntu option and no others. Can i set settings back to default settings?and how? I guess it would be via terminal commands
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Aug 16, 2009
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and started messing around with my firewall, it got a little too complecated for me, so I just would like to be able to somehow restore the default iptables setting. Any idea how I can do this?
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Jul 27, 2010
I screwed up and deleted my top panel and I cannot figure out how to bring it back to the original default settings. After trying different things found in other posts like
restart X, then in console:
gnome-session-remove gnome-panel
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
gnome-panel &
now both top and bottom panels are gone. I need help to bring both panels back. I'm on jaunty jackalope 9.04.
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Oct 6, 2010
Seems that i have totally ****ed up my sony vaio (vgn-fz21z). I've been doing some partitioning and formatting without really knowing what i was doing. Now it is a mess.The vaio comes with pre-installed windows vista, which is no longer installed. I want it to be.Ubuntu 10.4 is installed. In grub I can choose vista but that is only vaio recovery tool. Which is not working. When I try the format cption and take it all back to the original settings, it says that c: is too small or missing.
I also have some cd:s with windows 7 and xp on, but they can't be read. Now the vaio is not even accepting my ubuntu live-cd. I have nothing of importance on the computer, so there would be no problem re-formatting the whole thing. Can it be done? I would prefer is the vaio recovery tool could be left untouched, it has its own partition. I guess I'm asking: is there a way from inside ubuntu to make a total system re-installation, get rid of different partitions and reconstruct c:, so win can be installed again?
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Feb 27, 2010
I just installed a Caviar Black 1TB drive, did a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10. I do not have access to the internet on this computer, and was wondering if there is a way to get my old settings/files off the old drive onto the new?
Since it is a new install on the 1TB disk, I have no MP3 codec, so I can't play my music...this is bugging me, so I would at least like to get that capability back.
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Jan 2, 2011
How to format hard drive (with ubuntu 10.10 maverick, 32-bit vs.) and, after it will have been formatted, bring all system settings and programs which I run know back e.g. Compiz, browsers and other (of course without installing each one of it separately)? Is it possible to copy some parts of the HD and copy it after format?I can add, that I'm using now three partitions: dev/sda1/ (with Win7 OS � 64-bit, NTFS); dev/sda3 (with ubuntu 10.10 32-bit vs.; ext3) and dev/sda4 (linux swap); dev/sda4 (NTFS for storing files).
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Apr 7, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 9.10, I removed the task bar at the bottom of the screen and replaced it with a new one. The problem is when I click on Fire Fox and by default Fire Fox would drop to the bottom of the screen, now it just disappears. Is there any way of putting back the original settings.
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Apr 1, 2011
Is there a way I can save system settings and have yast revert to a config file in case I ever need to reinstall the system again? I hate having to configure the firewall, runlevels, samba shares, samba workgroup, apparmor, and all the other junk after every install. It's not like I install often, but should suse 11.5 or 12 roll out, I'd like it to be a snappy upgrade.
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Jan 15, 2011
I have recently played around with Mac4lin a program to change the interface to one that resembles a Mac computer. I did not like the settings then decided to uninstall the program. It reverted to a really ugly looking gnome desktop rather than my previous settings. One thing that I don't like is that I have a foot icon on my gnome traditional menu button on the panel rather than the green ball type icon I used to have. I know it's not the end of the world that my icons do not look like it previously did, everything else is running smoothly, though I'm just more annoyed than anything else.
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May 5, 2011
Every time after I boot up, I have to follow the info at URL...Do you have any ideas on to make sure that I do not have to do that almost every time I boot up?
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Sep 1, 2011
i have noticed that if vista is not the active partition, hybernate does not work. it just goes black and then back to the user icon screen to log back in. another "slight" problem was that i was not able to apply a service pack. after restoring vistas dominance i was able to install the pack. is there any other work arounds for hybernate? even though you might not be interested in cleaning up after microsoft.
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May 3, 2010
I'm running Win XP 64 bit and ubuntu 9.10 as a dual boot. I also have the CD for Ubuntu 10.04. My question is, I want to do a fresh install and would prefer it to install over 9.10. Is this what will happen or will it want to install as a 3 way boot??
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Jul 26, 2010
I installed ubuntu some weeks ago, then had to install compiz and other stuff like nvidia-current myself...now when i do a fresh install, it's there which means some files are saved.. how do i stop that, and make a 100% fresh install?
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Nov 6, 2010
I just performed my first (successful?) Ubuntu installation. The installation process seemed to go fine, and I selected "Ubuntu Desktop" when asked which set of packages I wanted to install. I assumed this was a standard choice.
After the installation finished, the system rebooted and brought me to a login prompt.I'll mention at this point that I have SOME prior experience with Linux systems, but I'm by no means an expert, and I'm new to Ubuntu. I logged in and tried startx, only to be informed that it was not installed. Having performed a network install, I have internet access on the machine, so I tried "sudo apt-get install xinit" which seemed to work, but now when I run startx, my window shrinks to a portion of my monitor size, the colours invert (black prompt on a white background) and the system locks up. I'm assuming this is some sort of video driver issue, and could probably explore further, but I figured I'd ask some experts first.
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Feb 11, 2010
Every times, after a fresh install of ubuntu karmic, i use update manager for to get all possible updates and regularly on reboot i have a filesystem check with immediate reboot.P.s. I tried also to divide the updates, but in this way happens even twice.
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Mar 20, 2010
I just installed ubuntu 9.10 on my computer and it just freezes without me doing anything.If i open my computer and leave it like that it will freeze after 5 mins or so.
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May 29, 2010
I upgraded to 10.04, upgrade went fine but now I have lots of problems.My wireless internet is extremely slow, its as if I am on dail up.My Rogers Rocket stick that used to work perfectly is now not connecting to the internet wich is a huge problem for me.Flash player now dont work either and Mozilla thinks its not even installed.I cant change the time and date, it tells me I have to unlock to change the Time but when I click on unlock nothing happens.Who knows what else is not working either.
I am not impressed at all with 10.04, my laptop and Netbook used to work perfectly before the upgrade and now I have tons of problems.What can I do to fix my problems or will a fresh install work better
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Jun 24, 2010
I messed up an install of Ubuntu (tis all part of the learning process) and I was wondering if I could install a fresh copy over the top of the old one?Would it remove everything like themes, programs and drivers and stuff?
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Jun 30, 2010
I have just installed Kubuntu 10.04, but can't login into it. I enter correct user/pass, then it tries to go into KDE, but suddenly drop back to login window.The same situation with failsafeX.A olso tried different users and several times reinstalled Kubuntu.
Here is my "~/.xsession-errors"
Xsession: X session started for metrofun at Wed Jun 30 20:04:22 EEST 2010
konsole(1091)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "change-profile" with KXMLGUIFactory!
x-terminal-emulator: ../../src/xcb_io.c:385: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret !=
[Code]....
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Sep 15, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS i386 on my desktop after not having it on there for while then decided to do a clean install on my laptop, which had 10.04, but I had screwed a few things up on it... (and a fresh install is always nice
Anyway, no big deal, just kinda weird: Whenever I google something that I had just googled before on my desktop (ie, a program or something that I had installed, and wanted to install on my laptop also), the link for the result is purple, as if I had already visited that link. But I know I haven't because this is a completely fresh install, I reformatted and everything. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the history/clicked links got transferred to the live CD from my desktop, as I used the same disc for both installs, but this seems a bit improbable imo.
EDIT: I just realized that I did NOT use the same disc for both installs, I couldn't find the original so I burned the .iso onto another one for my laptop install....
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Oct 5, 2010
I have a >5 year old laptop, running Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) but I need to do a clean install since the video driver is all screwed. The laptop is without USB boot option in BIOS. The CD drive is physically removed.
The HD partitions are
/dev/sda1 (ext4) 15gb mounted as /
/dev/sda2 (extended)
/dev/sda5 (linux-swap) 2gb
/deb/sda6 (ext4) 20gb mounted as /home
How can I do a fresh install??
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