Two video files on my external hard disk refuse to be deleted, renamed or moved. They keep giving the following error message
Error removing file: No such file or directory
or
Error renaming file: Input/output error
I have Natty Narwhal and everything was working. Then I moved it to my HDTV, and I had overscan issues. Following some advice I found online, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf with new information including a ModeLine.
Upon restart, I get my BIOS screen, the Ubuntu splash, then... nothing. The display goes to sleep. I can ping the computer, and everything seems to work except I have no video.
I did backup my xorg.conf file, but I don't know how to get to it without a display. Hindsight tells me I should have given myself a way to remotely control my computer before messing with xorg, but you live and learn.
I've read online that there is a way from the login screen to get to Terminal without loading the desktop environment, but I can't get to the login screen.
I've also tried using a Linux LiveCD to access my filesystem, and that works to view files, but I have no root privileges.
Is there...
...a way to get to Terminal without loading the login screen?
...a way to give myself root access to my harddrive from a LiveCD?
...something else to try?
I installed vsftpd on my fedora 15 system. I tried to edit vsftpd.conf through gedit
(as root su - command). It showed an error message. I couldn't edit this file. Is there any way to revert my system to gnome 2.30(which is better to work ) from gnome 3
I'm taking over as a Linux admin where they use sendmail last week. I've done very little with email on linux, and haven;'t touched sendmail since 2000 so I am really out of my element.Basically the sendmail server for many months has had performance problems, disk, and load.Looking into it I found this doing a tail on /var/log/MaillogAug 25 17:11:49 web8 sendmail[1531]: o7OGF2VH002566: to=postmaster, delay=1+01:58:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=2388694, relay=[xx.xx.xx.xx], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [10.10.20.107]:No route to hostAnd that was all it was spewing, I edited the config files because xx.xx.xx.xx doesn't exist. And running m4, then restarting sendmail.It is still spewing out that message, but I do see some things connecting to the new yy.yy.yy.yy address. I even greped the entire /etc looking for the old machine.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently bought a new laptop (Clevo W760CU) and I've tried several times running 64 bits distros on it. Both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 live cd's simply won't boot into X. They both seem to freeze at the very ending of the loading process. 32-bit releases of both work fine. Using the alternate install CD I managed to install 9.10 but when I try to boot it freezes immediately after the cursor appears (which I assume is equivalent to where the live cd's freeze). If I try recovery mode I can see the following error:
[ time ] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 61s! [some program]
Where and which program it is varies. I've managed to install Archlinux and Windows 7 fine, both 64-bits. I haven't been able to update Arch yet because it wont't find my network card, as with Fedora 11 and 9.04 both of which install perfectly fine). It seems the kernels released in October or later cause my problems How can I fix this? I really want to be running 9.10 64 bit because I have 4 GB of RAM.
[11.04 64 bit amd tx2500]
It seems ububtu is going backwards on driver support,
in 10.04 the driver support of my HP tx2500 was flawless,
and now the wired and wifi connections won't work:
ubunu does no recognize there is any wifi adapter, and the wired connection tries to connect and fails.
I installed the latest driver from realtek manually and no change.
This system was first installed on a 120Gb dual booted hard drive with Debian split with XP. It grew into a development system spanning 3 drives and 360Gb.
The addition drives were NOT mounted under the standard unix conventions, such as sdb being /usr and sdc being /home. They are mounted as /drive1, /drive2. All ext4 (except for the /dev/sda1 XP partition).
For example opt is symlinked to /drive1/opt
Firefox is at /drive1/opt/firefox.
So far so good, and with 20,000 packages installed, the system does work. With however, some caveats.
Certain programs like apt, refuse to recognize symlinks. I cannot move its /archives to the other drives. Some other stuff seem equally recalcitrant. Especially stuff from the lower init levels (that is understandable as they are running before the mounting process).
But others are unexpectedly recalcitrant.
Is there any way to *force* systemwide respect for symlinks?
Reducing size of XP is a non-starter here...
I get something like:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| DirectFB 1.2.10 |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(c) 2001-2008 The world wide DirectFB Open Source Community
(c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
----------------------------------------------------------------
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2010-06-30 18:13)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy()
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when I launch (i.e.):
$ links2 -driver directfb
It's a brand new thing for me, maybe I'm misunderstanding some basic concepts.
I am runnung ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition as a server. I am using a FTP client program to upload some files(index.html, background.png, etc) and everything is fine with that. And currently all my files are in /home/myname/ folder. What I want is whenever I log in with my ubuntu account in the FTP client program, I can actually see the list or contents of the very root directory.
In other word, I can see every folder like /bin, /boot, /etc, /root, so on in the FTP software and I can download it. I don't want to allow to access the parent(or root) directory. Is there any possible way to set up the sutff?
i've written a socket server. when i launch a client, it connects to servers running on various machines on my local network, which then reply to the client with some string messages, and the client exits.
however, when i launch the client repeatedly (say 5 or 6 times in quick succession) the client is unable to bind to its local port. this appears to be because servers are still trying to connect to the client machine's port, even though the client exited and shut the socket down. the actual error i receive is "Error binding socket to 192.168.1.6:44561: Address already in use".
so, is it enough just to shutdown and close a socket? is there some way that in doing so the client machine can send a CONNECTION_REFUSED message to any machine trying to connect to it? i am using PHP, not that that should make much of a difference i hope.
the problem resolves itself after around 20 seconds as the machines trying to connect to the client timeout. i still need to fix this issue though.
i run ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, using firefox 3.5.6 (courtesy of ubuntuzilla) as my web browser. i've had a problem with some flash and/or shockwave objects simply refusing to work inside firefox, despite having 64-bit flash player and all necessary plugins/addons/extras etc. installed.
there is no pattern to the problems, other than all of them being flash or shockwave objects that won't play. the majority of videos videos do play, including hd ones. however, this morning i encountered a pair of videos clips that simply would not play. i could load the page they were on, but all i ever saw was a black box, with no audio, where the video should have been.
i also noticed that on some of the videos that do play, the flash player's built-in volume control does nothing. i can slide it up or down or mute it entirely, but the sound from the flash video is unaffected.
i'll post urls of the problem videos later, so others can try them.
meanwhile i was able to watch other videos videos without issue, on another tab, aside from the broken flash player volume control.
i've also had a problem with the [url] player for a radio station, which i believe uses shockwave. i like to listen to atlanta, ga's wsb 750 am radio in the mornings before work, but so far i have to do it on a virtual windows xp machine running firefox 3.5.6, under virtualbox. if i try to open the player in firefox 3.5.6 running in the host os (ubuntu 9.10), i get only a blank popup window. url is [url]; click the "listen live" box at upper left to try it.
both machines, the host ubuntu 9.10 install and the guest windows xp machine, use exactly the same ad-blocking hosts file. i use the noscript addon in the host os install of firefox, but i allow any and all scripts when visiting the radio station's website.
since the streaming radio works on the virtual xp machine, i'm pretty sure my network configuration, hosts file etc. have nothing to do with this.
has anyone else had this problem? the flash content really should be agnostic with respect to the host os and browser, shouldn't it?
i guess it could be some random problem with the 64-bit vs. the 32-bit version of the flash plugin, so i may try instaling 32-bit ubuntu on a virtual machine to find out whether there's a difference.
What would be a nice, simple command to go through all files in a directory (no sub-directories), and change all the MP4 Video files I have to MP3 audio files (keeping the original filenames except for changing the "mp4" extension to "mp3")?
The files in question were videos taken with one of those Flip cameras, but I only need the audio off of it.
This is my first time creating a video DVD from other video files. I drag and dropped 2 .flv files to the area where it tells you to drag them. They appeared there. Then I clicked "Burn..." and brasero disappeared.
I ran it in terminal and this is what I got:
Code:
I'm using Slackware 13.0 on rather old PC with old Riva TNT2 video card. Default driver is "nv". Everything work fine, but without hardware 2D acceleration under X.
After studying various manuals I
1. downloaded Nvidia binary package suitable for my video card.
2. Recompile kernel without Riva framebuffer support.
3. Start Nvidia script.
Script said: "Error: unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured...""
Kernel sources are in /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6 I have all kernel packages installed. I was trying various switches for script in order to show the right path - nothing! 8 Some people say that Nvidia script don't like 4th digit in a kernel's name and get it from "uname -r" output. Can I change it somehow?
Is there a way to lockdown the panels in xfce so they can't be edited? There used to be a way using an xfce kiosk mode but the documentation for it is really outdated and the files it references don't exist anymore.
See http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/kiosk_mode for the outdated documentation
Last week I attempted to install some software on my computer (on ubuntu) and I edited a couple of files now I can't update ubuntu. I get 2 error messages:
1. Not all updates can be installed.
- I select partial update
2.Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
This is most likely a transient problem, please try again later.
How can I resolve this issue. I don't remember what files I edited to reverse the damage.
Is there any way to make an OpenOffice spread sheet open to the last cell that was edited? I have a friend that has a very large spreadsheet, and would like to have it open to where he left off, rather than cell A1. He says excel does, or can be made to do this.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy PC running 11.04 was showing a blank screen after every 10 mins while watching BBC iplayer (with all the screensaver and power saver settings switched to over 1 hour). The picture returned when I moved the mouse but it was still annoying.
So I googled for a solution and found this page [URL]. Based on this, I did the following in terminal:
"sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Then when the text editor came up, I deleted 'EndSection' from the xorg.conf file, and added the following lines:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
EndSection
My problem: upon rebooting the computer, I just got a purple screen with the Ubuntu logo, it went no further. I tried booting with the livecd and removing the lines I added, but it wouldn't let me save the file. I also tried booting into recovery mode but I'm not very adept at the command line navigation stuff, so I don't know how to find or re-edit the file.
I have been editing MP3 tags with Easytag and it has worked for nearly all files but I have some files that when I open them with Easytag, gtkpod Manager, or MusicBrainz Picard, they display the new tags. But when I open these files with Rhythmbox player and when I look at the file properties I see the original pre-editing tags. I know I can change the artist, album, etc. in Rhythmbox player but that just seems to be a local change and I was more concerned by the audio properties of the file showing the old value because I don't want to have to go back and edit the tags again.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI unpacked a .zip file, and it gave me two directories. Which file must I edit, and how do I integrate the two dir into the edited file?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I save a file edited with the VI editor? How do I get help information on this program?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI use RadHat Linu5.We usually log in to LINUX via putty (remote). Very often many people use the same user and password to log in.I wonder how to tell who has edited/modified a file?
View 9 Replies View RelatedTo make an rpc call I need to sent an xml file as post data.I know how to do this with wget. It works fine when I have the xml already filled in (depending on the node values the response from the call is different).owever I want to be able to edit part of this file, and then sent that as post data using wget. can edit this file using sed (I dont want to rewrite the files each time this gets used; and it does get used alot, with alot of different values).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI use RadHat Linu5.
We usually log in to LINUX via putty (remote). Very often many people use the same user and password to log in.
how to tell who has edited/modified a file?
I wanted to save a bit of ram and so removed wicd from startup. I deleted rc.wireless.conf and edited rc.inet1.conf as per the instructions. A connection is made at startup but it seem to drop quite often ( not too hard to restart, but a bit of a pain ). I am running a k-2.6.37 with a zydas usb zd1121 chip
Quote:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
#
# This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces.
# If USE_DHCP[interface] is set to "yes", this overrides any other settings.
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I have been having trouble setting up a daily backup script with cron. It would basically never worked. Searched the net for answers but didn't find anything. I finally figured it out !! When root crontab is edited the execute flag is removed from #/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. I change it with #chmod a+x /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root and all is good.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried to edit my xorg.conf to try and encourage Debian to handle my joypad better (stop recognising it as a mouse). However, it didn't work and i couldn't get back into X.So, i entered recovery mode and deleted the contents of xorg.conf,got back into X and then edited xorg.conf back to how it was.Right so far so good.Yet, now i cannot use the backlash key in keyboard shortcuts. I have a number of shortcuts set up to incorporate this key and they no longer work, neither in GNOME nor Openbox
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had edited the bashsr file wrongly in my ubuntu while trying to put a "export" command in bashsr for javac. Next when i am writing sudo , its saying :
Command 'sudo' is available in '/usr/bin/sudo'
The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. sudo: command not found
I've recently installed Proftpd to host for someone for a couple of hours.
With the default config it works however when taken the comments out and edited for anonymous, proftpd fails to start
This is the default config file which works if you have a user and password for my machine, but anonymous wont work (when the comments were removed).
What are openSuSE's plans as to the release of an rpm with openssl-0.8.9m which has the solution to the renegotiation man-in-the-middle attack, not just turning key renegotiation down?
As a companion to this version of openssl Apache HTTP 2.2.15 would be very desirable, as it incorporates a patch that allows - at the site's discretion - to refuse or accept the insecure "old-style" key renegotiation.
