I have a bug in the latest release of Ubuntu wich is stoppping me running update manager, or syn package manager. I cannot run a bug report as it comes back error. Is there a way to run using a command line. My system was fully up to date about a week ago.
View 3 RepliesIf I put
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$r = exec('whoami');
echo $r;
into my php script, it works fine. However, if I put
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$r = exec('myX11application');
echo $r;
it doesn't (to be precise, the script still works, but myX11application is not executed). Of course, scripts are run by user "apache", who doesn't have access to X11 server and doesn't even have DISPLAY variable defined.I installed virtual framebuffer Xvfb, created a small bash script:
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Xvfb :2
export DISPLAY=:2
myX11application
and called it with exec from php, but it still doesn't run since it looks like Xvfb can't start if the normal X server is running (I need that for development purposes). The reported error from Xvfb is
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(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
Is there a solution to have php running your X11 applications with normal X server running?
note: acct and acct2 are not the actual account names. I spent a long time figuring out this ubuntu problem on my own and decided to share it with the ubuntu users out there. I will give a summary of what had happened and what I had done to resolve it. I did a lot of complicated account password changing as well. I wanted to get rid of the login keyring thing.
I had tried messing around with some of ubuntu's settings when I first installed 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I changed settings in: System>>Administration>>Users and Groups, and System>>Administration>>Login Screen. I got terrible results, but ended up solving it on my own. The first account I had was named "acct". I had an issue with the keyring always needing to be unlocked, meaning I had to type in a password twice. I did not like this. So I decided, why not delete this "acct" account and make a new one that I can use?
I made a second user account called "acct2". I messed around a lot with the settings, just to see what would happen and what would work. I tried to cut out some of the files that were in the other account, the account "acct", while I was in user account "acct2". I could not because I did not have the rights to do it.
I realized I had to change those files to shared. I logged back into the other account "acct", which was an administrator account. I made them all shared files. Next, I went back into acct2, then cut all the files out of acct that I needed, then I deleted the home folder for acct. This is probably where the problems all started. I always start with the purple screen and have no choice to log into my usable acct2 account and have to wait 7 minutes to get that option to do so. When I rebooted, the screen popped up a couple windows reporting errors to me:
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Today morning I logged on to one of our servers (through ssh -X) to perform a routine maintenance. When I tried to open a GUI application, it failed to connect to the X server of the workstation. Eventually I ended up issuing the command
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df -h /
and shockingly it showed that / is 100% used. I checked / using
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du --max-depth=1 -xh /
to check the sizes of the individual directories, which showed that only about 18% of the / is used and that confused me badly. There was no quick solutions when I googled around; but luckily I found the following link which nicely explained the issue I had:
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All I did was found out the services responsible for those unreleased files (using lsof +L1) and restarted them. That is it. Now df reports only 18% of the disk is used and all my X things started working again, thanks to Walker.
When trying to execute the apt-get update i got the following error
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I have succesfully installed Debian with gnome-core, iceweasel and other useful packages and also followed this guide to autologin and start X. I noticed that the sudo chmod +s /sbin/halt and adding /sbin/halt
in ~/.bashrc made Debian refuse me to log out (from X) and 'log out' turns off the computer insted.Removing /sbin/halt from .bashrc turned everything to as i want it. Should I "repair" or remove something I created with chmod +s command or should I leave it as it is?
Also I would like apt-get(or aptitude) update to run after login (and before startx), so i added sudo apt-get update to .bashrc but it will prompt me with password. Is there someway I could do this without the password(s) which su/sudo needs to execute? This is not so important but it would be very nice to update the system on startup.
I am a relatively new user to Linux and Ubuntu. i have added a few applications.This morning I was attempting to add an application and thought I had followed the instructions properly but the install failed and now I cannot install any application through the package manager nor check for updates through update manager.
I get the followng error message:
E: Type 'Remmina' is not known on line 64 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
I have been trying to update Ubuntu, and install applications, but for some reason, when I go to the update manager, it says "It is unknown when the package information was updated last." and shows an error message, that says the repository indexes could not be downloaded, and shows this.
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E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (20: Not a directory)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
How can I fix this so I can update Ubuntu and install software from the software center?
I installed ubuntu 11.04, enabled the repositories (I'm a ubuntu user since 9.04, so I think I know what I'm doing) and then updated the package list. But I dunno what the hell is the matter with it! It fails to install new applications, it fails to get new packages, it fails to even get a full list of packages and software! I can't install adobe flash player.. I supposed I did something wrong so I just wiped ubuntu 11.04, and reinstalled it again.. Same ****! I'm so angry I can't do anything on ubuntu I can't find java packages I cant do anything! my laptop is just a worthless piece of junk now because of this broken piece of software, and what angers me the most is wiping my already configured and WORKING ubuntu 10.10 for this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering why some programs are removed when doing a (partial) upgrade. For instance the Nvidia drivers, the network manager and some other server components are removed.
This is very annoying since you're receiving updates on a regular basis.
(screenshot of the update manager announcing the programs it's going to remove)
RemoveApplications.png
Today (25 of March) Fedora 10 asked to install latest security updates. I allowed it to install them and everything seemed ok. But after the next boot I understood that some applications won't launch. Skype, last.fm player, VirtualBox - all the qt ones. I've reinstalled those apps, and reinstalled qt. They still don't launch.When I execute one of them from terminal - it just waits and nothing happens.The process really starts, I can see it from ps -A and gnome's System Monitor.Here's the /var/log/yum.log for March 25th:
Mar 25 00:20:37 Updated: libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:20:39 Updated: lcms-libs-1.18-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:20:44 Updated: gtk2-2.14.7-7.fc10.i386
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Just installed OpenSuse 11.3 kde version on my laptop. After install added few repositories and updated the system. Now the whole desktop looks very polished however problem started after that. When i tried to open Dolphine, Fire fox, Terminal or for that mater any application nothing happens. None of the applications opened successfully. Then i tried to configure plasmoid widgets and for my surprise all worked fine. With this problem i can not login to opensuse desktop.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and at some point I realised that the Update manager application will not open when I click on it the hard drive spin a little but nothing happens.I realized that the Software sources et Hardware drivers apps are in the same states. I was not able to see after what operation/installation I did that I they stop working.I am a beginner with Linux, and I feel that if I reinstall I will fall into the same hole .
View 8 Replies View Relatedi created a /tmp partition amd mounted it like this:" mount -o loop,noexec,nosuid,rw /usr/tmpDSK /tmp"
I know i can't execute things in /tmp now but is there a way to execute only one file and no more???
I'm getting a yum crash when I try to execute "yum update". How could I resolve this.
[root@some_system]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
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I am new to Ubuntu, so I do not know how to report bugs if and when found. Could anyone tell me how to do so?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs this seriously the ONLY way to report a bug? I can't just fill out a form somewhere without running software to do it? When I try to do it the way explained in the guide, it tells me that I'm using a stable version of Xubuntu, and that only people running dev versions (like 11.10) can report bugs.This seems absurd. Are they saying that all stable releases are perfect in every way? Surely one must be able to report a bug for them...
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just did a fresh install of 10.10. I was running 10.04 but formatted that partition when installing from a USB key. Pre-install, I ran:
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sudo dpkg --get-selections > package.selections Post-install, I moved some of my etc files back in. I updated my sources.list. Then I ran
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sudo dpkg --set-selections < package.selections
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
However, lsb_release is reporting 10.04. When I boot the system it doesn't show the typical boot screen but rather "Ubuntu 10.10" and output of what's loading up. On my laptop (upon which 10.10 installed fine), the splash screen shows the dots loading up with the new Ubuntu splash (10.10 style).
I go into Update Manager, and it thinks I need to upgrade to 10.10. Thing is, I'm already on 10.10. My kernel version is 2.6.35.22 and I'm running Gnome 2.32.00 according to the System Monitor. I'm wondering if I'm getting 10.10 updates or 10.04 updates since my system incorrectly thinks I'm on 10.04.
230Gb HD, I recently partitioned a 90Gb slice, and ran 10.10 on it for a while, but due to not using it, I fired up gparted off a live disc last night and got rid of the partition. I got Gparted to make a 5gb swap, and the rest for 10.04, all is fine, rebooted to 10.04, updated grub, it removed the entry for 10.10, but reports that my hd is only 140gb, and sda2 is a 5gb swap. What gives? Where's my disc space?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUBUNTU 10.10.This is almost funny but maybe useful: As I am working around my desktops, at times I was getting a sudden changes where shorter screens of my open programs and workspaces appeared. I pressed Esc and all went fine again.Since this was happening frequently I tried to find out what triggers it.I discovered that when I move my mouse pointer over the right bottom corner on my desktop all workspaces will be shown in reduced size in my desktop. When I moved my mouse in the left bottom corner, all open program in the active workspace where shown reduced in size (even the auxiliary pop up toolbars. Esc works fine to return to normal. When I move my mouse over the top right corner then all open programs in the open workspace will get minimized, Esc will not bring them back, you have to click in the task bar. When I move my mouse over the top left corner, unfortunately nothing happens.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an computer that mounts an external hard drive for backups. The Computer hard drive is about 110 GB; the external drive is 120 GB.
When I do a df -h it tells me there is 97% in use.
Checking the computer harddrive I am using about 52.8 GB (of the 110 GB) 501,579 items, totalling 52.8 GB (some contents unreadable)
The external drive is using roughly 49GB of the 120 GB available.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/xanadu-root
114536088 104995108 3768692 97% /
udev 1030572 328 1030244 1% /dev
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It seems like the total % is a reflect of total space consumed calculated off of ONE of the hard drives.
How do I report a code of conduct violation. I received some spam off of one of my posts.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI delete the file and within about a week i am back to a "out of space error" I have tried root owning the file with no permission to write, but it still gets written, just with a number on the end
the system appears to be working fine otherwise. I could set a cron remove but that seems a bit more hacky than telling it to shut up.
This is not exactly an urgent issue, but when I recently checked the amount of file usage on my main drive Ubuntu was claiming that I had used over 128 terabytes of space on a 650 GB drive. I was wondering what could be causing this issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running Lucid server (for a Moodle install) and have sucessfully mounted a cifs partion that resides on a Win 2008 Server to be used for backup purposes.I fist tried using Webmin to backup files but have subsequently also tried using rsync.Whatever method I try to use to copy files across I am getting an error "No space left on device 28", yet the Windows partition has over 800Gb free. The root partition on my Ubuntu server also has over 25Gb free. I have also checked /tmp and /var/tmp and am unable to find anything that might cause the problem. The Windows share is mounted as follows:
//windowsserver/share$ /mnt/backup cifs credentials=/pathto/.smbcredentials,rw 0 0
I am attempting to install a small rpm that will give command line access to an integrated array controller on my system so that I can add more local disk. When attempting to apply the package I am receiving an error indicating that there is not enough space available on the filesystem. I have expanded the filesystem several times today in order to try and resolve this issue and also moved ~1.5G of files to another filesystem but I am still receiving the error.
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[root@frenzy1a.mgmt.qa:~]# rpm -ivh /tmp/hpacucli-8.35-7.0.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
installing package hpacucli-8.35-7.0.i386 needs 18MB on the /opt filesystem
[root@frenzy1a.mgmt.qa:~]#
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I have rebooted the server a couple of times and ran fsck as well.
I am trying to set up SARG to provide reporting from a squid proxy server.After installing Squid & SARG, I am a little confused as to how SARG has configured itself to run.Should this conflict? Or at least create a race condition? In any event SARG and sarg-reports looks like they have not been updated in a few years.is there anything better that offers per-user location reporting?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am developing/testing a PHP app on my netbook. For some reason apache/php are returning nothing but a "500 internal server error" response when there is a problem with my php script. For example, if there is a semicolon or closing brace missing, it should cause the script to die with a hint about which line caused the script to stop working. Instead it displays nothing but a "500 internal server error" message.
View 5 Replies View Relateddf -h reports that my /var partition is full..
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 2.0G 1.4G 454M 76% /
/dev/sda1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot
/dev/sda2 9.7G 2.2G 7.1G 24% /usr
/dev/sda3 7.7G 7.4G 0 100% /var
/dev/sda7 989M 17M 922M 2% /tmp
/dev/sda8 52G 9.0G 40G 19% /home
none 493M 0 493M 0% /dev/shm
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Does anyone know of anything that might be on the /var partition and taking up space that I can't see, or just why df -h is reporting that it's full?
When I install some packages Yum seems to behave correctly until the the very end when it gives the error: xxx-package was supposed to be installed but is not! I am lookng for any advice which might solve the issue. Below is an example of the yum output.
libgcc-
4.4.2-7.fc12.x86_64.rpm | 75 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
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