Im trying to run a headless box but grub has no time out so it sits until I plug in a keyboard and hit enter. I have tried to put a timer on using 'startup-manager' but this seems to be ignored.
When it boots I get GNU GRUB version 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu13 and a list of operating systems. Unless I hit enter it will wait forever.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10. Grub timeout is not working and I have to press enter every time I switch on the computer after the Grub menu loads. Here is my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
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# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub[code]......
I just installed kubuntu 910 via cd iso. now i want to change the default grub timeout. It says i dont have permission to edit etc / default /grub so what do i do? i dont know how to login as root user.
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# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
[code]...
Why do I have to press enter to have grub boot the default entry? How can I get grub to start the default entry automatically, without showing the menu? BTW: entries in the list are default:
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Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (recovery mode)
Memory test (memtest86+)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
here is my grub.con
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
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I have been unable to locate an answer to the below.Just installed 10.10 server and noticed that during boot each time the Grub Menu pops up. I have to manually press a key on my keyboard each time to get through this menu. This is a big problem as this is going to be administered remotely. here is my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates[code].......
Now, It seems to me that with the settings above that menu should time out after a few seconds but it is not. I must press enter each time.how I can get this damn thing to timeout after a few seconds?
I have an Alienware M11x r2 laptop running Windows 7-63 and Ubuntu 10.10 Unity installed.It was all fine and dandy until I changed my grub timeout to 1 sec (or perhaps 0, its been so long i can't remember!) to reduce the waiting time until an OS boots.My grub was set to boot to Windows 7 as default.Now when I boot up I cannot halt the boot process not matter what key I press (e.g SHIFT).I am doomed to forever boot into Windows. Its been months and I had written off my Ubuntu OS but I am tempted to try and fix this one more time.Since I cannot access the Ubuntu installation AT ALL I cant use the usual ways to increase the timeout on the grub menu (yes I have searched the forums far and wide).
Is there ANY way of changing the grub menu parameters without actually booting into Ubuntu Unity? Can I modify the timeout settings using a live cd or usb boot?
I have an RHEL 4 server now running 2.6.9-89.0.18. After installing the kernel and rebooting to make this the current kernel, the grub menu to choose the kernel failed to offer a countdown and did not choose the kernel as it should have. I had to manually select the kernel.I inspected the grub.conf file and could not find any clue as to why it didn't work. The timeout directive is there, and the syntax matches other systems we have with the same kernel and OS.Can anyone provide any insight as to what else (other than a typo on the conf file) would cause this?The only difference between the way the kernel update (and the subsequent changes to the grub conf file) took place was a manual install of the RPM on the affected system, versus pulling it down from RHN using up2date.
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(KNode version 4.4.8, KDE version 4.4.5)
I would like to know if there is any differences on how to install and to configure GRUB 2 in the different architectures (BIOS/IBM PC-Compatibles, EFI/MacIntel and Corebbot)? Does the Ubuntu installer automatically recognize the different architectures and install the appropriate GRUB 2 package ('grub-pc', 'grub-efi' or 'grub-coreboot' according to the arch)? Or does it just install 'grub-pc'? Is the location of GRUB 2's configuration files different depending on the arch of the computer? Or are they all located in '/boot/grub/', '/etc/grub/default' and '/etc/grub.d/', no matter the arch of the computer? Are the files' structure and options to configure GRUB 2 ('/etc/grub/default' and the scripts in '/etc/grub.d/') different depending on the arch of the computer?
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My local area network is always time out for few seconds.I have check my memory with "free -m"There are still left 200+ mb left.I am hosting my own ubuntu server, and I share the same internet line with my server and pc. when I access to LAN, I need to type 192.168.2.2, at outside I can access to [URL]It is only the LAN access timeout, but when I access at outside, I didn't face this problem at all.
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I've got Lucid running off a live cd now; does anyone know how I could change the timeout back from there (or any other way!) and get my laptop working again?
My Ubuntu laptop's screen goes black in about 10 or 15 minutes. I went into Screen Saver setup screen. Timeout when computer is considered idle there is set to 30 minutes and black screen screen saves is picked.
Why screen goes black after only 10-15 minutes and not 30 minutes?
I am experiencing horrible name resolution problems in Maverick. I believe this problem is related to having the following line in nsswitch.conf:hosts: files wins dnsI do use Samba and access windows shares in my network (that's why wins precedes dns. I was wondering if there is any way to setup a wins lookup timeout so it can fail quickly enough to try to perform the lookup using dns.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got ubuntu 9.10 installed and can access all partitions on my 3 drives except for one. When I try to access this partition I get the following error:
"Unable to mount location Message did not receive reply (timeout by message bus)"
for the record this is a 805mb partition on a 1.5TB drive.
I woke up this morning to a non-booting 9.10 computer. After my grub screen disappears, I get the familiar Ubuntu b/w logo in the center of my screen. My hard drive cranks for an abnormally long time and then I get the following error:
I booted into a live CD and opened up GPARTED and my sdb4 (my /home location) partition shows up. I do a check on it and it seems ok.
I opened the Palimpsest Disk Utility to see what it said and it shows sdb4 as Unknown or Unused. I can not mount this drive using GUI methods.
I did some research on the forums looking to recover lost partitions. here is the output from fsck
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and the abbreviated output from fdisk -l
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Disk identifier:
This seems ok too.
My next step was to try testdisk. When I ran it, I was able to navigate this partition and apparently see all my files. I then tried to mount the partition manually.
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That also worked.
It seems to me that I practically have this thing where I need it without too many worries.
My question is: What is the next step to get this back booting again? I'm afraid of rewriting the partitions in testdisk until I get some feedback on whether this will really solve my problem. Maybe the partition isn't the problem? Is it something else and I've been going down the wrong path?
I'm using Kubuntu 9.10, my pppd version is 2.4.5 and pptp is 1.7.2 I'm trying to connect to the iPredator VPN service, but I keep running into problems with LCP. I've tried using knetworkmanager, nm-applet, kvpnc and plain old text-based configuration to no avail. Here's a snippet of pppd's output:
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(I've got "defaultroute" in my /etc/ppp/peers/ipred config file.) Any ideas what could be causing this? Could it even be my router? It claims to support PPTP, but considering it claims a lot of other things which aren't true, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the culprit.
I am using Witopia VPN services and used to work just fine on my Ubuntu 10.04. All of the sudden it stopped working. Here is the log:
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May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 11477
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating connections
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'VPN Connection' (Connect) reply received.
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: OpenVPN 2.1.0 i486-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Jan 26 2010
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See [URL] for more info.
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: WARNING: file '/home/saeed/Documents/config/VPN_Connection.key' is group or others accessible
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: /usr/bin/openssl-vulnkey -q -b 1024 -m <modulus omitted>
May 17 00:56:58 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: LZO compression initialized
May 17 00:56:59 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: RESOLVE: NOTE: (address omitted) resolves to 12 addresses, choosing one by random
May 17 00:56:59 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
May 17 00:56:59 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]IP address omitted
May 17 00:57:39 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'VPN Connection' (IP Config Get) timeout exceeded.
May 17 00:57:39 saeed-laptop nm-openvpn[11482]: SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting
May 17 00:57:39 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto Belkin' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
May 17 00:57:51 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1274043471.002409] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 11477 to exit
May 17 00:57:51 saeed-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1274043471.002596] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 11477 cleaned up
I removed IP addresses. I think its a recent update might have created this issue. I tried re-installing openvpn and network-manager-openvpn.
I'm trying to configure internet access using KDE network manager. Added new VPN connection, set gateway and other options but connection breaks. Here is /var/log/daemon.log
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Jul 1 17:35:22 dvinokurov-desktop NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Jul 1 17:35:22 dvinokurov-desktop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 1761
Jul 1 17:35:22 dvinokurov-desktop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections .....
log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 12 'Call-Clear-Request'
Jul 1 17:36:02 dvinokurov-desktop pptp[1773]: nm-pptp-service-1761 log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:79]: Closing connection (call state)
As I understand the main problem is in "(IP Config Get) timeout exceeded".
I installed last ubuntu from windows 7 using wubi and it worked great, i am writing this from ubuntu. The problem is I changed the timeout to 0 on windows 7 startup options as well default operating system to ubuntu, so now i cannot boot to windows because the windows 7 boot manager just flashes and goes directly to the grub boot manager and even if try to choose windows 7 on grub boot manager it only goes back to windows 7 boot manager and the same thing happens.
I have no DVD drive and i only have a 1Gigabyte USB PEN.
I already searched insanely on ubuntu forums, used unebooting, tried creating a windows 7 startup disk with unebooting, tried formating USB PEN with GLParted and choosing FAT32, ex3, NTSF as well with boot flag and then copying files to usb, wich didnt work. I tried to fix it with SUPER GRUB DISK didnt work too....
Is there anyway i can change this little timeout setting from windows 7 boot partition (yes i really learned something) so i can boot to windows 7? By whatever method, it can be from within ubuntu or using a 1Gb pen?
I know it can only be changed using bcdedit.exe but not even with wine it worked.
how I can setup the grub2 menu so that it does not timeout? What do I need to set in the configuration file? I did it once before on my old computer but forget now what I changed.
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