Here is my GRUB boot menu and the older versions of Ubuntu still appear there. It also uses very much disk space. How can i uninstall the old versions and set Ubuntu to do it automatically when i update it?
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"checking for applications currently in use" before updating packages is taking too much time! ( around 20 min till now ) ... what might be the reason
View 11 Replies View RelatedWhen we use either apt-get or/and aptitude to update the index. Does anybody know where this index is kept ?The thing is when I remove an entry or two from /etc/apt/sources.list and run $ sudo aptitude update and then run apt-show-versions -a it still shows me packages whose paths I have deleted.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have looked for existing threads on this issue, but found no matches, so I am starting a new one.I first installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop from a bought CD last year. When I later installed the kernel updtates with the Update Manager, I noticed the the list of versions growing when I booted up. Then something horrible happened. After installing maybe the third or fourth kernel update, I couldn't boot into Ubuntu, it failed every time. After that I left Ubuntu broken on my laptop for a while.I have now reinstalled from the CD again However, I am now very wary when it comes to installing even the important security updates, never mind the recommended ones! I prefer to keep it simple, because I don't want to do any more reinstalls for a while. So far I have just one kernel headers update on the boot list, and I am trying to figure out how to remove the previous one. I do not see the point in having a growing list of them again.
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Result : I can't modify my WLAN-Connection.
I'm not to clear on the difference between LTS versions and other versions, but think I may want to go with LTS. Can someone tell me if my thinking is correct given the following situation: I have some very cool, but very expensive software installed with a group license from my school, a school which I am not going to be attending for too much longer. So I want to go as long as possible without reinstalling Ubuntu, because once the product is licensed it will be licensed until I reinstall Ubuntu (or I uninstall the program). So I think this is going to require me keep the Ubuntu version I install as long as possible.
So in this case, should I go with 10.04LTS or should I just install Natty Narwhal and keep that as long as possible? It looks like 10.04LTS will be "supported" longer, but I'm not exactly clear on all that "supported" entails. Presumable it means security and software updates will be available for 10.04LTS for much longer than 11.x versions? So I'm thinking I should go with 10.04LTS
Is my thinking correct in going with 10.04LTS? Edit: It was pointed out that this would be against my contractual agreements. Which I suppose is probably true.
I cannot uninstall Firefox, nor can I uninstall Chromium; one always stays if the other is uninstalled. For example, if I remove Firefox, Chromium will appear in its place and vice versa. This has got to be one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen on Ubuntu! So, how can I uninstall both web browsers?
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#!/bin/bash
ipt=/sbin/iptables
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i'm havng issues
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bahie@bahie-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install screenlets python-rsvg
[sudo] password for bahie:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-rsvg is already the newest version.
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I installed SLIM and rebooted. gdm failed to start so I went to the terminal and ran gdm manually from there. Then i logged in and removed slim package, reinstalled gdm and rebooted. Gdm still fails to start at boot up. When i try to manually start it, i get the following warnings:
Warning: unable to load file 'etc/gdm/custom.conf'
Warning: unable to find users: no seat-id found
I just play around with apache and php, everything was working right, but, suddenly nothing works, I tried to open a terminal and nothing, Firefox and nothing, then I realized that the OS was freeze, my next step was restart the PC, and guess what, nothing happens, then I Wait, and wait and wait and finally turn off the PC, wait 30sec and turn on, then it shows the PC manufacturer, Ubuntu logo, Ubuntu wallpaper, and nothing else!!! :'( Where in the name of god is my login screen??
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIt tells me (as in speaks to me) to go looking in the logs but they are all blank.
View 4 Replies View Relatedright now im using the nm-applet but i dont like it. it produces lags. i think the periodical ssid/broadcast check might be the cause :/it lags every minute or so...in games and skype it is very annoying! if there is a possibily to disable these scans in nm-applet it would be fine too.for the moment im "using" this wpa_supplicant config:
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
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cd /Desktop/ ??
I can change to just about any dir of my file system with cd /filename/
eg cd /var/ or cd /opt/
it will skip me up or down the tree to get there but when if go cd /Desktop/or cd /myuseraccount/
is get: bash: cd: /Desktop/: No such file or directory
i have to be right next to the directory to get there.i dont get it. why is this?
how can i make grub2 show on startup, at present, it boots, shows post screen, then there is a black screen with an underscore (_) then the desktop is there.
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I have previously installed 8.04 on my computer with out such error and all of the hardware is the same (even the hard drive), and i lost the 8.04 disk. <(it was a live disk)
Im trying to do a new install(32bit to 64bit) but Ubuntu installer doesnt see my partitions nor does this installation. "Disk utility" sees them fine and im running my Ubuntu and XP on that disk. I dont wanna lose my XP and /home(Koti) partition so help needed.
Theres my fdisk -l:
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Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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got a problem after running updates on my 10.10 install. PC doesnt boot at all gets to loading OS then just powercycles. UBUNTU is installed on a 2 disk raid0 array which seems to have changed. It used to run /dev/dm-1 for the root and /dev/dm-2 for the swap
Ive booted to a live cd and it now shows /dev/dm-2 for the root disk and -3 for the swap so im guessing grub is failing. Unfortunately I cant seem to get the device to mount and I fear im going to have to reinstall to fix this.
I am running xubuntu 11.04 (ISO from early this week). During install, I selected to NOT auto login but to present this gdm panel where I have to enter the password (or other users could log in).
Now I decided to enable auto-login (and to start the screensaver right afterwards) ... so I opened up the "login screen settings" (systems menu), unlocked that window and changed it to "login as xxx".
Then i rebooted and would have expected to be greeted with my screen saver on a logged-in session afterwards. But what happens is that there is a gdm panel sitting ... showing me
AUTOMATED login
Other
Where the first item wont do anything.
So I have to select other and enter user name + password ?
Is that how it is supposed to work?
I am using eiskaltdc in Ubuntu 11.04. Its working very fine. But after I clicked on the "cross" button its gone. Normally in 10.10 there was a small icon in the bar for that eiskaltdc, but in the new Unity its not there. I checked the system monitor and it shows eiskaltdc. Any idea how to maximize it?When I logged in with Ubuntu Classic GNOME desktop I was able to find the minimized window. But in Unity its totally hidden .
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