Ubuntu :: Ubuntu 10.10 - Week Review
Oct 22, 2010
I just wanted to take a few minutes to report on my usage of the latest version of the OS.
This is what I'm working with:
Intel Celeron 3Ghz
4MB DDR2 RAM @ 800Mhz
80GB hard drive for Linux
500GB hard drive for XP Media Center and Mandriva Powerpack 2010
Sony Dual Layer 16x DVD-RW
nVidia GeForce 7900GS Graphics
Install was smooth. Once installed, I was able to add the Fluendo codecs for MP3 playback. It detected my iPod Touch right away, and even detect my USB Wireless Adapter without the need to use ndiswrapper. I connected to college Wi-Fi network without problems.
There are updates pending on my installation (yeah, after one week there are updates already....) but I'm gonna hold out till later. So far, the system works. I like it.
The only drawback I see right now is that video playback is not good with Chrome....browsing is faster, but streaming is choppy at times. I use Firefox for video. I think this is due to my hardware; I'm planning on building a better system on winter break....
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Mar 22, 2010
some one using ubuntu 2.5 ultimate speakout about the stability of it
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Feb 15, 2011
I've spent some time trying to get my 3G card connection shared over WIFI and despite the number of sites out there I had a lot of problems putting it all together. So I wrote a small guide about it, but due to several issues (time/bandwidth) I can't retest it from scratch.I was wondering if someone could take a look at it and make suggestions or corrections.The idea is to take your 3G data card and turn your WIFI into an access point so you can connect other devices to it for internet access.
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Jul 10, 2010
13.1 - a distro that gets out of the way (review)
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Mar 16, 2010
EDIT: not fully solved; there is (at time of writing) still an issue about bootlogd buffering until the logfile is accessible but that's probably as far as we are going to get for now, until someone peeks into the bootlogd source code.
Is it possible to review boot messages after boot? Kernel messages are available via dmesg (and many are logged early in the rc.M script by the /bin/dmesg -s 65536 > /var/log/dmesg) but many console boot messages are not kernel messages. During boot, messages can be viewed using Shift+PgUp but when the rc.S script finishes, init starts an agetty on tty1 which prints a login prompt. Then tty1 is no longer the console and Shift+PgUp cannot be used to scroll back through the boot messages. Any delayed boot messages do not have effective carriage returns so "marquee" across the screen, one following another, a line below.
Is it possible to leave tty1 as the console by de-configuring the tty1/agetty line in inittab, thus allowing Shift+PgUp to be used to scroll back through older messages and allowing proper horizontal alignment for delayed boot messages? I would try it but the inittab line x1:4:respawn:/etc/rc.d/rc.4 runs /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm and this grabs the first unused tty<n>. The xdm man page and xdm config file comments do not reveal whether it is possible to make xdm use a specific tty<n>.
Another solution may be something like the sysvinit binary that intercepts all console writes and then dumps them to log at the end of the boot process but if it were that easy or useful it would already be done and publicised (wouldn't it?).
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Dec 1, 2010
I posted a completed version of it a while back and just wanted to post the latest stable version. I'm using it as a pet project to teach myself proper BASH scripting, but also to help my wife get .lit e-books onto her Sony E-Reader since it seems to do a better job of converting the files than Calibre(For some reason some of our books won't convert in Calibre and they will with this). I've added some zenity windows to make it just a little more friendly in regards to selecting the file you want to convert. You no longer have to drag it into the terminal window and make sure you've got quotes around it if there's a space. It's also now completely BASH instead of python. I'm a "beginner" programmer/scripter, so some review, comments, and constructive criticism are welcome because everything I know I've taught myself with Google and experimentation.
To install it, just grab the tarball, extract it, make the files executable if they aren't already when you download them, and then run the install.sh file in the terminal. I tried to be very descriptive and informative in the changelog.txt and Readme.txt files as well so I hope those suit their purposes well.
P.S. If you're wondering about the versioning, I just adopted the same philosophy as the Ubuntu community and just made the date the version number. 10.11.30 equals November 30th, 2010.
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Jul 25, 2009
KVM - virtualization
Fedora 11, 32 bit, as guest (VM)
Other guests (VM) - Debian
There is no partition on hard drive
During installation it comes to following page
Installation requires partitioning of your hard drive. The default layout is suitable for most users. Select what space to use and which drives to use as the install target. You can also choose to create your own custom layout.
Drop window
Code:
Use entire drive
Replace existing Linux system
Shrink current system
Use free space
Create custom layout
[uncheck] Encrypt system
Select the drive(s) to use for this installation.
(it is grey out)
Advanced storage configuration
Code:
How would you like to modify your drive configuration?
(check) Add iSCSI target
[Cancel] [Add drive]
What drive would you like to boot this installation from?
(it is also grey out)
[uncheck] Review and modify partitioning layout
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Feb 21, 2011
I thought of leaving a comment below the story, but figured why bother. The main complaint appears to be about the appearance of the desktop, and the graphical installer "feels old." Then he goes on to recommend Trisquel instead as a "better Debian-based distribution" than Debian.
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Feb 18, 2011
I'd really like to be able to examine all the information that flys off the top of my terminal when my system boots (off of fd0, the only way I've done it, so far): review of "similar threads" yields nothing; seemingly not a man pages item; have not found any how-to's that cover this; the daemons for logging are third-to-the-last before logon prompt (and still displayed, the ONLY reason I know THAT); seems like it should be a compile-time sw-switch settng (sub-optimal since I'm still not comfortable with compiling kernels); but I was hoping it's already being captured in some log file somewhere that I'm as yet unaware exists. I do realize that if I had a printing console, this would be unnecessary.
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Feb 6, 2010
I installed ubuntu a mount ago, since then my vista goes bluescreen almost every week, I have vista business sp2 32bit and ubuntu 9.10 32bit dual boot. Details about one of bluescreens is below:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: be
BCP1: 837020B7
BCP2: 28EA0860
BCP3: 8BB63A18
BCP4: 0000000E
OS Version: 6_0_6002
Service Pack: 2_0
Product: 256_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:WindowsMinidumpMini020110-01.dmp
C:Users
afisehAppDataLocalTempWER-50060-0.sysdata.xml
C:Users
afisehAppDataLocalTempWER8304.tmp.version.txt
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Jan 29, 2010
My system specification:I am using is in my PC(stand alone) with the following system config..AMD Sempron(tm) processor2500+704 MB RAMASUS mother board..buntu version 9.10When I click ubuntu software center ->search any software ->select the software -> click the arrow at right corner->then click install button for me nothing happens. It was installing for one week and now it seems to be not. It gives no error message no action, but just static. Is that a paid version or i am missing something basic? I have tried to do the following
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
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Jun 22, 2010
If i use my Ubuntu some times per week, there isn't any problem. But if i don't use it for a short time (a week), when i want use it again and select it on GRUB.. after the first loading screen (on Ubuntu 10.04 the purple screen with Ubuntu in white and some points under), my screen is black. The computer screen is receiving signal because the led is green and not brown/orange like when is on standby mode. On Windows i haven't any problem.
First time it happened with Ubuntu 9.10. I didn't got solution for it and i format the partition and install the 10.04. But now it happen again with 10.04. I have an ATI 5770 and i have tried drivers since 9.12 till 10.4 (last ones the best i have had) On versions before 9.10 i had no problem, but i can't confirm that, because i had other graphic card (NVIDIA 9800GT). But the 5770 didn't work well on previous version so i updated to 9.10 and after this problem, updated to 10.04.
At spanish forum, people don't know solution for this problem, they never read about a similar problem. I hope you know a solution for it, because the only one i found and work is.. format and reinstall.
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Sep 28, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 which was upgrade from a 9.x install. I never had this problem on my 9.x install, but since the "upgrade" I experience my desktop freezing. I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this.In looking at /var/log/messages the last entries I see before me having to a hard reboot are:
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Sep 27 19:27:07 gingerk sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [me]
Sep 27 19:27:07 gingerk sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: /home/me is already mounted
Sep 27 20:56:40 gingerk kernel: [102839.046817] operapluginwrap[26712]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bf9ce11c error 4 in
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Jun 10, 2010
Back when I was first learning Linux, one of the questions that I kept wondering about was "what are all these files and directories for?" I couldn't find a resource that would explain them in a digestible manner. Specifically, I was looking for one that would allow me to look at a Linux filesystem interactively, collapsing and expanding folders to look at just the ones I was interested in at the moment. So later, when I got the opportunity, I wrote it.
But despite a ton of research, I'm still not totally knowledgeable on the subject. The most important thing I'm looking for right now is for experienced Linux/Unix people to tell me where I got stuff wrong, and for newbies to tell me how useful it is to them and which things need clarification. I'm also interested in technical and graphical ways to improve usability, like better icons, layout, etc. I know I need to be able to collapse long descriptions, but what would you like to see? The Works Cited list and a full introduction are still on the way as of this writing.
Without further ado: Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Explanation. You'll need a fairly recent browser that can handle XSLT; the actual info is stored as XML, and transformed into HTML with an XSLT stylesheet. This is still a work in progress, and I'll be updating it as the thread progresses.
Finally, would people be interested in collaborating with me on this, as an open-source project? I've never done anything like that, and I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to give it in the future, but I really think this should be continued and expanded.
Edit: Works Cited and decent intro are now in place.
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Jun 14, 2010
been running Lucid & Karmic for a while now, after an update last week (with kernel) & reboot sound no longer works.Results of 'sudo aplay -l':
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
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Jan 2, 2011
I'd like to tweak my Conky so it automatically displays the days of the week correctly. So for example, if TODAY were Tuesday, it would look like this:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
[etc.]
And then tomorrow, *automatically*, it would look like this:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
[etc.]
I know I can get it to display *today's* date like this:
${time %A}
But how do I get it to display tomorrow's date?
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Apr 12, 2011
I've installed osmo , and lots of software from Software Center, but nothing suits me. What I need is a lightweight program, with this capabilities : week and day view, (something like google calendar)advanced repetitive tasks(on week criteria[so I will be able to set a task once in a week, once in two weeks , and so on]) and alarm
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Jun 3, 2011
Someone knows how to change the first day of the week in the calendar popup to Monday?I already looked in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/calendar.js but I didn't saw where I have to change that (my knowledge of JavaScript isn't very good yet)
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Dec 3, 2009
I logged on my ibm600e with SUSE 11.1 + on Thanksgiving and auto update started and is still running today 12/02/2009. Pentium cpu is at 77 to 97% 93% memory usage plus some swap usage. Ethernet and wireless are activeily working
also separately the CD ROM is not detecting/detected except by the hardware report I sent in. My external Zip100 Is visible. as is the plug in floppy drive
My linux is very limited
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Nov 10, 2010
I am using the following to find the Day of the Week on my server which is in UTC.
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But say if I want to find the Day of the Week in another timezone, how would one go about it. I had a look at date --help but could not find any timezone related switches so am not sure if this is possible using this method.
Update:
This appears to work but is this the only way?
Code:
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Nov 21, 2010
I have a cyclical problem. After a new fedora installation the calendar week start with sunday and I want to change it with monday. I tried with many guide without success (the latest is this: [URL]). Is possible to say how to change it? The version is fedora 14.
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Apr 20, 2011
Suse 11.3/Gnome 2.30.0
Evolution 2.30.1.2
I cannot get the monthly view to start the week on Sunday. The settings seem right but they don't stick. Restarting Evolution always defaults to a week start on Monday even though the defaults display Sunday. I've viewed the default settings the following two ways:
Within Evolution... Edit > Preferences > Calendar and Tasks > week starts on "Sunday"
GNOME Configuration editor.../apps/evolution/calendar/display/week_start_day = 0 (Sunday)
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May 19, 2011
My manager has asked me to look at memory drop on system while I was doing test on Linux machine. there is a big dip in memory graph produced by another tool. I do not know which processes were responsible for those memory dips. Is there any way I can find memory utilization of process during last week?
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Mar 30, 2010
I have been requested to deliver the logs for last friday, but the problem is that I have configured squid logs to be weekly, not daily. How can I extract the logs generated friday from the week file?
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Jun 24, 2011
How to get the week number in linux using gawk with different first day of the week? the date command can give me the week number with +%V but it is based on Monday (1-53) or +%U (based on Sunday, 0-53).
I tried to to do this: date -d "ddmmyy+2days" +%V, but the result is not correct. I want the first day of the week is based on Saturday.
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Jul 15, 2011
Coming from Fedora, I had a Web/Mail/SQL server with 2 hdd's. One (sda1) was the one with Fedora on, and all backups were on sdb1.
Now, I started having issues with SDA1, so I started copying files to SDB1. 2 weeks later I noticed similar issues, and started copying new back files to SDB1. But once I started doing this I lost connection with the server.
Turns out that (in rescue mode) that I couldn't access SDA anymore, it couldn't even read stored data on it, etc. It didn't show up in fdisk anymore either.
So after a lot of trying I asked to replace the disk and started installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on it. After having installed everything, I tried to restore one of the MySQL backups that was on the SDB disk, but halfway I started getting errors. I stopped the restore and did some other stuff that I wanted to take care of first (apache2 config etc.).
I then tried to reboot to be sure that that was working as well, and then the problems started. I couldn't access the server anymore, and in rescue mode (which is a live cd my host provides, it's a dedicated server btw.) I didn't see SDB anymore.
I told them this and now after they told me that they managed to get it back, I went into the rescue mode and tried to recover bad blocks with the e2fsck command.
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Trying to restore this bad superblock doesn't work. I've tried for almost all of them:
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e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdb1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
What are the chances of TWO hard disks failing? Surely there must be something else wrong? Did a bad driver (which would be weird, since I didn't do any updates like that) screw both of my hard disks up in Fedora?
Also, I must note that when I tried to copy the backups from SDB1 to SDA1 (the new one). I got a read only (??) error, and some other I/O errors.
Just for information, I'll show fstab and mtab as well: /etc/fstab
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I haven't added the sdb here yet, but it was here in Fedora so that can't be the problem.
And this is /var/log/messages when the problems emerged
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Then on the ubuntu forum they proposed me to do this:
I ran smartctl and it gave me this:
Code:
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Feb 5, 2011
i am going to write rhce exam in this month ,i want some tips how to do revision for the same.
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Feb 2, 2011
We need to collect data from nagios once a week and have it sent/mailed.What would be a good place to get it? I am thinking starting with nagios/var/nagios.logscan it once a week and get most recent entries from each hosts.
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Apr 27, 2010
I have been using a ARM device with 512MB ram and flash to send messages via Bluetooth to everyone in the proximity. I am doing this with OpenProximity (Python) and it worked for the last week, it did stop for two times but since I didn't have time to find the cause, I just rebooted it (Windows style ) and it worked again, but suddenly it stopped working again last Saturday. When I did /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart it did not say it failed or something, but when I did /etc/init.d/bluetooth status it said "bluetooth is not running ... failed!". This is what I got in the syslog:
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Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Bluetooth daemon 4.60
Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Starting SDP server
Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Starting experimental netlink support
Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family
Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Failed to init netlink plugin
Apr 27 13:52:45 debian bluetoothd[31243]: Can't create GN bridge
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You'll probably note that the first message is version 4.60 and the second one 4.63, this is because I tried to upgrade, but that did not work completely, but the error above is the same as first before the upgrade.
Don't know if it matters, but I am using Debian Squeeze and the output of uname -a is: Linux debian 2.6.32.2 #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 18 22:54:28 MST 2009 armv5tel GNU/Linux. Hope someone know how this could happen suddenly, and even better, knows how to fix it
EDIT: Forgot to say, I am using a SENA Parani UD100 Bluetooth USB Adapter which uses the Toshiba Bluetooth stack.
UPDATE: It won't crash until the Bluetooth stick is inserted, so it should be a driver problem?
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Sep 20, 2010
there is a way to print the "Work Week" calendar in Evolution? Currently, when I try to print the calendar while displaying the Work Week, I get the "Week" calendar display which isn't nearly as nice or useful.
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