Is there a way to get to a shell if the installer using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text hangs at a certain point?
I need to do this because of a bug in hardy heron on SPARC.
for an explanation, see: http://ops.3rivers.net/wiki/index.ph...Hardy_Heron.29
So, my company has a new web-based VPN client. I go to a specified URL, log in, and then a Java widget starts and tries to install some stuff. I get this screen:
It's asking me for my root password. I know how to set the root password, but I want to avoid that and use sudo instead. But as you can see from the image, the install is initiated in such a way as to prevent me from doing anything but entering my root password. And apparently my sudo/admin password isn't the same as my root password, because it doesn't work. And I can't access the executable from any other way. Is logging in as root briefly my only option here?
Had occasion to visit a user group meeting to resolve partition concern. While there installed 10.04, good install, but it was WiFi connection so I waited to get home to update. Receiving a security error msg both for update and e-mail set up. I am wireless if that makes difference.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Fedora 15 today, and after the install, the boot loader would not allow me to access my Ubuntu partition. I have been doing on some reading on this, and have figured out that the issue is that my grub.conf doesn't have a title for Ubuntu. My problem is that I don't know how to add the title successfully. There is also a windows partition on here. At this point, i just want ubuntu back. I could scrap both windows and fedora if I had to.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to set up my 11.04 ubuntu install so that php can access ms-sql servers. I have done this twice before once with ver 9.10 and centos 5. So I figure I would follow the same steps again as I did last time. but its not working this time around. I get to building php and get the following error. I do not often build packages as I dont know much about it so I figure I have missed something some place. Can anyone tell me what this means and a clue to where I can find the fix.
>> dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor):
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package php5
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I am about to setup my WLAN which sadly isn' that easy. I have followed some instructions which use the wpa_supplicant for the WPA setup and router connecting. In this example the tutor uses a -Dmadwifi flag. Well, I am sure this works for many users, but obviously that madwifi is not MY wlan driver. So, actually my quite simple question: how can I find out my driver's name?
btw: wlan works, I succesfully connected to a non wpa/unsecure wlan router (I can't use it for surfing though. Trying -Dwext made the wpa_supplicant at least try to connect but without success. Well, maybe that isn't my driver either? Grepping for wext in /etc or dmesg to see if it actually IS didn't show me anything.
Also, I do not have hwinfo installed which is said to yield drivernames. Certainly, I cannot install it without internet access. So what can I do?
I'm still running 9.10, but now would like to install 10.10. Now I'm wondering about how to keep access to my encrypted home folder.
Usually, I don't do an 'upgrade', but a fresh re-install. I have a separate /home partition, so normally this works just fine. However, my home directory is encrypted (a feature that was introduced with 9.10, I believe).
So, if I whack the system partition and do a fresh reinstall there, will the new install still be able to read my home directory? Or do I need to save a key file from somewhere?
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple years, and have really enjoyed the experience. Recently though, I also felt like installing Arch Linux onto my laptop which already had a Vista/Ubuntu 10.04 partition. In doing so, I lost access to the Ubuntu partition on my hard drive. The Arch linux grub had replaced the Ubuntu grub.
So the main question is, does anyone know how I could re-access or re-install the original Ubuntu grub? If not, then can someone help me with adding a boot option in Arch's Grub? I've already tried some things, though obviously, none have worked so far.
I'm a little security paranoid, there are a lot of times that my terminal is available to prying eyes and listless fingers. As a security minded individual, I would like to make sure to lock down my Ubuntu (11.04b3) install in one of the best ways I can think of, and require a dongle to access my box. Is this something any of you other security minded people have done?
What are other great ways to lock my terminal? I would like to make sure that not only the "average" user, but also the ABOVE average user will not be able to penetrate my system without a key. Let me know what you think, and other measures I can take.
Having read quite a few of the contributions about Unity, I am still looking for a solution to the following problem, which, I am sure; others have encountered also:
1. Clean install, no access to Unity
2. Additional drivers install - done
3. Driver installed but not active - no matter whether it's current or 173)
4. Unity works for a while, after updating the system, unity doesn't work anymore.
5. Back to Gnome 2, downloading the org Nvidia driver, trying to install it on the command line (init 1) - black and white vertical stripes!
I have downloaded Kernel 2.6.39 from whateversource, but have not installed it yet. Is it the kernel, is it whatever in Natty that courses these problems, or is it my Nvidia card?
My hardware: AMD 2.9 Mhz dual core, Nvidia 7200 GS (258 Mhz), 4 GB Ram
I really want to use Unity, but if nothings happens soon, I will have to give up. Fedora 15 enables Gnome 3 (shell) on nouveau; to install the propriety Nvidia divers, however, is also impossible...
I've been trying to install the latest driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run. I do ctrl+alt+f1 and login, then sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run and it gives me the license agreement, but after I accept and right after it gets to 100% it says it can't install the kernel or access or whatever. Has anyone done this installation and had the same problem but figured it out??
View 4 Replies View RelatedI really want to drop Windows, but wireless connectivity and frequent crashes are really discouraging me. I have a dual-boot W XP with Ubuntu 10.10. I do not have the computer on, so I'm writing this from my weak memory
USB Adapter - Netgear WNDA3100-100NAS = v2
The adapter works under W XP with no problems
The router, Linksys WRT54G sees the adapter in the dhcp table
lsusb lists the adapter.
I have copied the drivers from the install CD onto the desktop. I cannot figure out how to install or access those drivers for the installation. I tried to install the ndiswrapper from the software center, but the center shows it's available from the "main" source. I've looked in the package manager, but can't find it. When I go into terminal, and enter one of the suggested commands in the forums, it can't be located. I have a Belkin F5D8010 installed on this computer, and it works great under W XP. I want to try to get this installed, but until I can figure out installation of the ndiswrapper and how to access it, and get the drivers recognized, I'm at a standstill.
Ubuntu 10.10 has crashed and I'm resigned to a re-install, however is there any way to recover or access my files via the CD, live, during install or after ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm completely new to ubuntu and Linux for that matter, i have a TBS 6920 dvb stat car, but have no idea how to install the drivers, i have downloaded them nd had a look at the read me file and it mentions creating a directory in root/ but cant access the root folder for some reason or other, is there anyone who can help me?? also is it possible to install through terminal instead as that would be easier no?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a 10.04.3 installed with a specific set of packages: nothing obviously special about it, just ubuntu-desktop, a few devel tools, and with a pre-seed file that sets up a few non-default parameters.
Everything works exactly the way I want it to, except for one important detail: the install always pulls packages over the network (and possibly updates to the apt database--it's not always easy to tell, during the install, exactly what it's doing). In any case, it stalls if the network goes away in the middle of the install, and since the install is intended for places with poor, intermittent network connectivity, so this is an issue for me.
I tried doing an install without any network connectivity, and it succeeded, so all the necessary packages are in the ISO. It's only when the network is available that it tries to pull over something (possibly apt files, since that's where the process seems to hang for hours when there is a slow network). So I can install from scratch in 10 minutes when the network is disabled and 2 hours when the network is enabled--and no other changes!
I don't care if the resulting ISO file doesn't fit on a CD (as long as it fits onto a DVD), but I want an ISO that doesn't insist on reaching out over the network during the install.
I've just installed mysql-server (apt-get install mysql-server) in my debian vps, it ask for password of which i had provided. However after the install finishes, i run the command "mysql -u root -p", i entered my password but says "ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES".
View 3 Replies View RelatedAnyone know what happened to the nvidia repos and are they going to come back up?
Can't access it through yast, ftp, or a web browser.
This problem does not happen on every boot so I am confused about the cause.
Here is the section of the boot log when it does not happen -
Here is the section when it does-
how to create an access on a local Suse server v10.1 started on virtualbox...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed windows 7 after I installed fedora so now i can't access my fedora OS. I've tried all the guides I found on the internet but fedora 10/11 guides doesn't seem to work for 12.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a 160gb Hard Drive, I partitioned like this:
1. First partition 16GB, ext4, mounted / I have my Lucid filesystem on this partition and boot flagged.
2. Second partition 112GB (extended- 110gb as /home, and 2gb as swap memory)
My disk list:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1946 15631213+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1947 15647 110053282+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1947 2274 2634628+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2275 15647 107418591 83 Linux
I have my system upgraded from Karmic 9.04 (automatic distro upgraded), but I have too many problems with this upgrade, (nvidia video card not working properly, I can't mount my mp3 player (sansa), and another issues with sounds, etc.) Since I have a separate /home partition, and separate / partition, I would like to do a fresh install of lucid on my first partition (/dev/sda1), thinking of maybe it will fix all my problems with a fresh install from a Lucid CD,
My questions are:
1. If I do a fresh install on /, will I be able to access my home folder on the extended partition?.
2. If I do a fresh install on /, the Lucid installer will recognise my /home partition, or will install everything again?. (meaning another home folder), I don't want 2 home folder,
3. Am I going to have a permission problems between the fresh install and all my stuff in /home partition?
I am trying to install Jinzero a media server on my ubuntu server.
I already had apache2 installed and have installed php5 etc.
When I try to access index.php I get an http error 500 and when I check the logs of my apache2 it shows:
PHP Code:
I can't get WLAN or wireless drivers for my hp pavilon v5000 notebook
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running ubuntu 10.10 on a sony vaio f115. I am trying to install the printers for a brother mfc5460cn. I have used apt-get and aptitude, I have used sudo and sh all to no avail. I always get the same messages: cannot lock administration library (var/lib/pkg/) (11 temporarily unavailable) and cannot get lock/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 temporarily unavailable)
How do I gain access to these libraries?
I know this is probably something small that I'm missing, but I haven't got a clue to be honest with you. I've setup a proper LAMP and everything on the server is working properly. I'm thinking maybe it's a file permission..? Well let me get to the problem. Everything is installed and it's time for me to complete the web-based install. I've tried going to just phpBB3/,phpBB3/index.php, phpBB3/install...etc! When I insert any of those in the address bar with my FQDN obviously, it decides to just download .php files all over my desktop.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install VSFTPD on my Fedora instance of Linux. I have a Wordpress blog that I want to access through FTP. I did an install on VSFTPD and am kind of stuck. I try to FTP into my IP through [URL]
View 2 Replies View RelatedI went to download a typing tutor and it says if you have linux, it should come with most new distros in a file library called KDEEDU ... how do I access and install programs from KDEEDU? I'd like to install kTouch.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install openSUSE 11.2 with Gnome desktop from the DVD in February's Linux Magazine which I hope guarantees a good disk. However both the live DVD and a trial full installation load to a green screen without taskbar or icons meaning I cannot run any applications or even close down. The live KDE version runs OK but I wanted Gnome because I have had problems backing up Kmail in the past. I have run version 10.3 with Gnome successfully on this computer previously.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI know 10.3 is old, but my main reason for using Linux is that I can build a machine and then just use it for 3-5 years without dealing with stupid degradation issues like Winblows.
The problem is that I can't access any 10.3 online respositories anymore, so package management is a big mess. Basically I'm down to manual rpm-ing. If I try to install anything with Yast, it attempts to access 10 different repositories for dependencies, all of which fail because I guess they just don't have 10.3 directories anymore.
I really hate updating my Linux all the time to the newest version, because frankly that usually breaks things.
Not sure what do to. This conundrum often makes me consider if any distributions are better in this regard. But then I don't have a lot of time to play with Linux. What started out as a hobby in 1994 is now a tool, like any OS, that I just want to work. I don't use Linux to use Linux, I use it to run programs.
I am trying to access my package manager. However it tells me that is unable to access it. Is there a fix for this?
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