Ubuntu :: Installation Runs Silently And Then Gets Stuck / Resolve This?
Jan 11, 2010
I tried installing Ubuntu 9.10 using both Ubuntu Desktop CD and the Netbook Remix on a EEEPC 1005HA with an external CD drive.
In both cases I don't get any graphical interface during the installation. The CD is apparently installing everything silently, without letting me change anything on the way, and then it gets stuck.
The only screen I get is the first one, with the options to "try Ubuntu" or "install Ubuntu".
What's going on?
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Feb 22, 2011
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and it was running all smoothly, but all of a sudden when i booted, the only thing i could see were the desktop wallpaper and mouse icon, no panels, no shortcuts, nothing, meaning i can do pretty much nothing, i can move the mouse but can't click anything, the last thing i did was download and goof around with compiz and i was too happy because it worked and looked really great, even though i didn't want to activate restricted drivers for my ATI video chipset, but again, it was working cool and then boom, only wallpaper and mouse, nothing more
Laptop Sony VPCEE27FL AMD Athlon II 2.1 ghz (64) 4gb RAM
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Feb 4, 2010
I'm a Linux noob. I'm using Karmic on a laptop with 1.5GB RAM and same as swap partition. Generally I'm happy with the mem usage. I have MySQL, SVN, Apache/PHP/xdebug, firefox w/ dev addons, Eclipse PDT and, of course, my music :) running at the same time, generally ok. I have the System Monitor's mem display on the top bar (dunno proper name) and can watch usage increase. Also the swap file's often only 100 - 300 megs.
However... from time to time I notice that as the programs' mem use gets close to 100% in the little sys monitor display the HD thrashes for 5 - 10 mins, after which some progs have silently crashed. AFAIR it always involves Eclipse (so maybe I should post on their boards), but not only. This last time I lost VLC and therefore my music. Obviously losing your music's far more important than losing some coding, so that's why I'm trying to resolve it now:)
I'm running Munin on my system (tho not because of this issue) and took a look at mem usage immediately before it happened. Here's the pic - you can see the sudden drop as the two progs (only AFAIK) closed on the very right side of the image. I'm not a guru here and am not sure if there's much to infer. I know some recommend 2xRAM for swap, but max committed was only 2.29 compared to potential 3, so that shouldn't be a problem? In fact the swap file never got large at all AFAICT. (Btw swappiness = default = 60.)
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Dec 8, 2010
After updating recently VLC does not play audio or video, and it does not complain about not being able to do so, even when running from terminal.
The version is VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye.
I have tried resetting the preferences.
I don't know how to troubleshoot any further..
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Jun 2, 2011
This comes at some point after installing GNS3 and Dynamips, which require administrator access as GUI's. Although, the first couple times I tried to run GNS3 as administrator, it worked fine. I do still receive the password prompt, whether running from the command line or the context menu. Note that GNS3 is the first application for which I've needed to run gksudo, so this may have been an issue before the above were installed, although I've always been able to run "Open as Administrator" in Nautilus and "Synaptic Package Manager," which now will not run either.
Running Ubuntu 10.10.
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Mar 22, 2011
I am running the testing version and am fully up to date. When I try to run evolution, I get the following errors in a terminal. When I launch it normally, I don't see any messages, it just never loads.
$ evolution code...
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Feb 19, 2010
I am working on a bash script which among its operations creates directories using the mkdir command. However, when the directory already exists mkdir mentions that in the command line output.
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Aug 4, 2011
Using sendmail, I am trying to setup a catchall address to silently discard spam mail sent to undefined users. I don't want to bounce a reply for "no user" as this often goes back to munged or innocent addresses.
I have a number of domains, so my virtuser table currently looks rather like this:
Code:
The last line is the "catchall" which is intended to ensure that any undefined users from either my_domain.com or my_domain.co.uk is forwarded to the non-existent "catchall" user account. Note that all mail sent to my_domain.com is passed across to my_domain.co.uk at the very start so all the following rules should apply to messages received at both domains. (Both of these domains appear in the
Being non-existent, I setup the following rules in the access data table:
Code:
This way, if I send an email to 'user1@my_domain.com' it is received and delivered to user1@my_domain.co.uk, but if I send an email to 'rubbish@my_domain.com' it *should* be received and silently discarded.
Unfortunately what actually happens is the server responds with:
Now, (just for testing), I made "catchall" an alias for the "postmaster" account and the mail was then received and delivered into the postmaster mailbox. So I know the virtuser rule is working. The account "catchall", however, is not being silently dropped as desired in either configuration.
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Feb 16, 2011
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Feb 19, 2011
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Upgrade to Fedora 12 (Constantine)
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layer1/Scene.c:4557:11: internal compiler error: in set_jump_prob, at stmt.c:2319
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
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It seems that
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when i tried to boot the system today, i got something like a dos screen with all kind of running commands, about USB input or something like that. i took screen shots with my N85 celphone, but i can't place them here since it's shown as black screen when i try to open them!
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As a struggling nubie (i have only been using Ubuntu on my laptop for a year and loving it!) i tried to install ubuntu onto my other PC (Powermac G5 dual core 2.5ghz sata hdd PPC). I Originaly wanted to install to a seperate harddrive but with the open firmware on the ppc it seemed a little complicated and i went for a normal instalation.I was told that the alternate CD would be the only one that would install to my type of pc correctly. The instalation seemed to go okay, though at the end of the software install it flashed up with an error message saying that i had not finnished this task corrrectly. seeing as the error message was only after all packages had been retrived i carried on regardless.
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