Is there a way to "reset" ubuntu to when you installed it? My Ubuntu won't let me install packages. I get an error that says it cannot find the selected packages and then I click okay and it says "installed" but obviously, it wasn't.
View 2 RepliesI installed kubuntu few days back. By clicking blindly I lost my desktop - I mean it is working fine but there are no icons on the desktop and there is no task bar with list of programs.
How can I reset to the initial stage when i first installed?
I'm unable to reset using either the reset option in gnome shell or the command using a terminal. When I select it the shell exits and displays the graphic "exploding" and then it just sits there. Shutdown works fine; just no reset. Any ideas? I've installed from the DVD. I booted the live CD and it resets just fine so I know it's no my hardware
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnyone know how to reset a Ubuntu password? I've pulled up the "recovery mode", but when it gets to "Starting Ent Vol Mgmt Sys" the open fails, and then I get a series of timeout-resettings. I really just need to get into the recovery menu, but I can't get past this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I've made a bit of a mess of things. I installed Tilda and had it working like a charm.I bound it to the tilde key (shares a key with ~, maybe it's called grave?) and it was great.I also have a Logitech MX Revolution mouse and decided to use xbindkeys to fix the thumb wheel which is the only set of actions that doesn't work out of the box. I decided to set the wheel press action to the tilde key, hoping to have a button on my mouse to open Tilda.
After fumbling around trying to figure out how to identify the tilde key I somehow managed to bind it to xterm. This wouldn't do. So in an effort to clear the binding to default I bound it to "". Well now the key does nothing unless I use it in conjunction with the shift key, in which case it produces the normal ~.So here's my question: how do I restore that key to it's default function? I should point out that I just started using Ubuntu 10.04 exclusively a day ago and have had limited experience on Linux before this.
The default ubuntu plymouth theme looked like it was realy small and stretched and made it look weird. anyway i tried to fix that problem by installing another theme This theme now when i reboot my computer it is still small and stretched and the colours are not correct. How can i reset plymouth to how it was by default.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 9.10 server 64bit
without X
On running
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Code: Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
[code]....
i ran this
Code:
iptables -N rate-limit
iptables -A rate-limit -p tcp -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -m limit --limit 3/min --limit-burst 3 -j RETURN
iptables -A rate-limit -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 22 -j rate-limit
i am no longer able to ssh in to the machine , how can i reset iptables and firestarted back to default?
All of a sudden my terminal output changed from the traditional looks to giving only lists(one item per line) as output to "ls" command. Because of this, when there is a large number of files in a directory, I have to scroll up and down to see all files. A link to the screen shot is given below.
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I tried "reset" and did not make any difference.
Whenever there is a kernel upgrade, "update-grub" is run and my customized "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" is gone. is there any way to prevent this?
View 1 Replies View Relatedjust installed ubuntu10.04 has set monitor resolution to 800x600 i need 1920x1080 i have been at this for two days now and getting absolutely no where , i could set this on windows in 5 minutes , why does it need to be so hard on ubuntu, i really prefer ubuntu to windows but problems like this really can drive one to despair. i have tried so many different web sites and follow instructions but keep getting command not found which i dont understand why. here is an example of something i tried in terminal xrandr --output VGA --mode 1920�1080 --rate 50 i get warning: output VGA not found; ignoring.many other things i have tried come up with command not found .
View 4 Replies View Relatedjust got a secondhand laptop that already has ubuntu loaded on it but ithas been registered to the previous owner can i reset to my username and password or do i have to reinstall it thanks mark
View 2 Replies View RelatedI used to have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my old IBM Thinkpad R40e. I upgraded to 9.04 LTS and seem to have updated to the 10.04 LTS kernel - didn't know about that until now.
Recently I created an Ubuntu 10.10 Persistence Pendrive. I tried to readjust the booting sequence in order to boot from my USB stick Ubuntu 10.10. It somehow failed. - actually I know what to do in a BIOS
My computer still only boots via the harddisk - it does not boot via the Ubuntu-Pendrive nor does it boot if I insert an Ubuntu 10.10 CD. Further I cannot access my BIOS.
Is there any possibility to reset my BIOS manually - I know that some Dell computers have such an option? Any other way to update to Ubuntu 10.10.
After a regrettable typo, I reset all the permissions in my filesystem. What is the easiest way to restore my permissions to how they were? Is there a list where i can find the recommended permission settings for each directory?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI installed Sysinfo 0.7, unfortunately I set 'Section to start in' to System. As some of you probably already know, and I didn't, is that there's a bug in Sysinfo, that crashes the app, when System is selected[URL]... What this means, is that I can't run Sysinfo anymore, because it crashes on startup. Starting it as superuser works, but since I use Gnome Do, I would like to launch it w/o having to go through the terminal.
What I've tried: Did a complete removal from Synaptics, thinking this would delete settings as well. It didn't. Ran locate sysinfo from terminal, looking for a settings file. no luck
My question (finally): How to I delete og change the current settings in Sysinfo for my user?
I recently installed the new 11.04 release and was messing around with the Compiz settings on Ubuntu Classic. I tried logging on to regular Ubuntu and everything crashed. When I start up there is no log in screen, only text shows. (I enter my log in information then type 'startx' in the terminal to show my desktop.)
The desktop shows a messed up version of my custom configuration with Cairo-Dock all weird and everything in the wrong place. Also my custom start-up screen that I installed is distorted, and the GRUB screen shows up in purple.
If there was a way to reset Ubuntu 11.04 to the default settings? I tried typing 'unity --reset' in the terminal but it gets stuck at the line 'Setting Update "fullscreen_visual_bell"'.
I was given an old computer running Ubuntu but the guy that gave me the computer didn't know the user name or password. So I booted into full root shell and did ls /home and the computer responded with mskbxI then did passwd mskbxand it responded withpasswd: unknown user mskbx
View 7 Replies View RelatedWe have an employee that left our place of business on bad terms and his computer has been locked out since. The comp runs Ubuntu 10.10.
We have followed the regular password reset methods online but the Kerberos password seems to be getting in the way. We have no idea was this password is and it seems impossible to work around. Does anybody know a way?
Were were about to gain access as the root user but cannot access other user accounts as the root user.
How Do I reset passwords in Ubuntu 10.10?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 installation with english-only language but with a German keyboard.
So, once booted into my (only) account, I use the Keyboard Preferences app to change my Layout from US to German. Which works. I also remove the US keyboard so that the only layout left is German.
But upon a reboot, not only the US kbd is back in the layouts list, but the kbd also has defaulted back to US, so that I have to open the Kbd Prefs to again remove the US layout to get my German layout active again.
I also tried "Apply System-wide" and even logged in as root to make the same changes, but the system always goes back to US layout after a reboot.
This is also a problem when logging in after a reboot - I want the system to use German layout there, too.
So, how do I change the layout globally so that even at the login page I have my German layout already active?
I've installed UBUNTU 9.10 on ( windows 7 ) when I was interested to discover Linux, now I began to understand this AWESOME system and I began to get ride of Microsoft " Windows " .. But I face a problem that when I installed It I created only one account with a password, but It's not the root, when I tried to login as root, I didn't success, It tells Failure authentication because of the wrong password, because I enter my account password which I entered when I installed the system, Now I want to know how to solve this ISSUE, how to get the root password or how to reset It
View 3 Replies View RelatedGot a Windows virus
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just bumped into somewhat embarassing error, and i cannot find any way to get rid of it. I was installing postgresql-common from the ubuntu repos. The blue configuration box appeared in the terminal i was using (blue configuration tool with the red scrollbar on the right). The thing is, there is nothing i can do with this box (clicking <OK> on the bottom, keybord shortcuts, i tried everything). After a while i just rebooted the terminal and started all over again. I recieved an error "dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem." Running dpkg configure command results in resuming postgresql installation and the blue box of death.
Now the apt-get is useless for all the users on my machine, and 1st core of my CPU is used in 100% all the time. How can i reset the dpkg?
A few hours ago I upgraded my system, from Karmic to Lucid and I'm glad with it.But I have a problem, (two actually, I posted the second in other thread), Gnome is not remembering my Visual Effects configuration. I mean, I select the "extra" option and when reboot, it's back to "none".It will be a pain having to edit this every time my laptop starts.
View 2 Replies View RelatedEver since I upgraded from karmic to lucid my user account has been really buggy. The other profiles on the computer are acting normal but I believe mine is acting strangely because of the way I had my desktop set up before I upgraded (conky and a terminal on my desktop, compiz). Is there a way to reset my account to the default settings? I figured if I could delete my account and recreate it everything would be okay but I can not delete the account.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been looking at possible options - I might install new from the CD if I have to. But before I do that, I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to restore the system to the way it would have been if I'd actually done a clean install - but to leave /home intact and perhaps the application also. (I haven't installed that many). I'm running 9.10, upgraded from 8.04>8.10>9.04 - it's working but There are some issues I can't seem to resolve such as stuttering audio.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I ran 8.04, force check would be run every 23 boots. The ESCAPE key allowed me to skip it that boot and it would again start force check at the next boot. In 10.04, it gave me an option to use the C key to cancel, but it does not attempt force check at subsequent boots. It does not seem to do an automatic check any more.
How can I restore the original 10.04 setting? Or better yet, get it to perform as it did in 8.04
OK I feel silly having to as this as it probably some setting I changed but cant figure out where I did it..
So when I click on the minimise button of an open window instead of dropping to the bottom panel it disapears completely. Likewise if I have say a folder open and then open something new the new one replaces the old one instead of al being available in the panel.
Where do I reset this?
I have installed Ubuntu Lynx 64 bit on my dell latitude e6410 with nvidia graphics. I have it running smooth thanks to the posts in this forums. today I was downloading a file and I ran out of battery (my laptop shutdown) I plug it to the charger, and know My network connection is disabled. How can i re enable my network connection?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am on 10.4 with a Dell Notebook (E6400). I use it mostly with a USB mouse. Everything worked fine for about 2 months. Then I shutdown, unplugged the mouse, restarted without the mouse, and my trackpad is broken. It works a little, but text fields and some apps capture the mouse events and won't let go. For instance, the cursor gets stuck in a text field and there is no way (keyboard or mouse) to get out.
I've tried several times to fix this and I cannot. If I boot from a LiveCD then everything works fine. My theory is that the mouse configuration files somehow got corrupted in my plugging/unplugging of the external mouse. How can I reset the mouse to factory defaults? Are there a set of files I can copy over from the live CD?I tried to delete and recreate my xorg.conf file and this did not work either.