Ubuntu :: How To Pause The Installations/updates
Feb 1, 2010
Is there a way to pause installations/updates? If there is not, would it be possible to implement that?It seems these days that installations through synaptic seem to take ages to download files. While downloading the files, ubuntu will not let you run any other package manager. So if I am updating my system or installing several programs through synaptic, I am unable to install anything else. For example a deb file ive downloaded, or i would like to install a single program while all these other files download.
I can understand not being able to install multiple things at once, but why is it not possible to install things while it downloads the files? Sometimes it days several hours/days to download the files.
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Jul 23, 2010
I'm using Git to get my self an enourmous (2.5 gig) repository. Is there anyway I can PAUSE it?
OR is there anyway I can "half" download it, and keep what I have?
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Apr 21, 2010
Can I Remove Pause in BitTorrent?
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May 3, 2010
I'm using a MacBook 2.1 with Lucid.
After i hit Enter in GRUB, there is a message on top of the screen saying "booting up", and it stays there for 20 to 30 seconds. Then everything proceeds normally. I think i caught a message saying that something couldn't be found, but it flashed too rapidly.
Here is an extract of my dmesg. I'm assuming the part between [] is timestamps, and it takes about 40 seconds to go from GRUB to the Login screen, so it fits. Nothing is happening during 32 seconds.
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[ 2.690053] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 2.894315] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 35.053835] udev: starting version 151
[ 35.059728] Adding 1999992k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1999992k
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Dec 7, 2010
is it possible to pause the downloading from terminal.n how can i resume from same status.
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Jan 19, 2011
what i need to do is to be able to place a command to slow down the sequence of commands in an Ubuntu script.
normally, the system will attempt to execute them all as fast as it can, but i need to be able to specify short pauses between commands
anyone know of a useful command to do this?
btw, the "sleep" command i saw somewhere hasn't quite worked in my scripts for some reason.
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Oct 17, 2010
My system after installing Ubuntu 10.04 has an annoying 30 second pause during the boot process. It comes after BIOS checks and before the splash screen, the monitor is just black with a flashing cursor. The system has two IDE drives (/boot and /home) and a SCSI drive (/). There is a SCSI MO drive on it's own controller.
Partial lspci:
01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892B U160/m (rev 02)
01:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 23)
I attached a clip from bootchart and a boot log file.
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Apr 4, 2010
I have a task that I need to let run while I'm away from the computer. It's very CPU intensive and I've even had to throttle down my processor to 3GHz to keep it from overheating. I'm using a combination of GNOME Sensors App and CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor to control the overheating problem. I have the sensors app set to alarm and "killall" at 61 Degrees Celsius. The sensors app has an option where you can enter a command that it will run for you. All I need is to know what command to run that can pause this task. So later I can resume it.
I know it can be done. System Monitor has an option to "stop" a task. It also has "continue". This is how I've been doing it while I'm at the computer. So if anyone knows what the commands are that System Monitor uses, that would be a huge help. By the way, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with all current updates.
NOTE: For anyone who is about to flame me for having a computer that overheats and wants to tell me that this is the problem I should be after. It only overheats during this process. Not for any games or compiling or rendering or encoding. Nothing else. I have even bought a new heatsink and fan. I have redone the thermal compound on the Processor. My processor usually runs at idle around 36-39 Celcius and under normal load around 47-53 Celsius.
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Dec 11, 2010
First off I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and I use Amarok as my main media player. My question is this: I have hot keys for forwards skip, play, pause and backwards skip on my laptop and I was wondering how I set them to work for Amarok.
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Mar 1, 2011
i have multiple installations of ubuntu 10.10, and i have a windows 7 installation. i was wanting to know how to remove the other ubuntu installations that im not using?
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Jan 7, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu for the first time, and I installed sucessfully World of Warcraft, but I'm noticing some networking issues where my whole network connection seems to pause for about 5-10 seconds at a time, which I finally realized when I played WoW. So i was curious where the settings are that I can change to possible eliminate that, or what others have done to increase their network throughput on their cards.
I'm running Unbuntu 9.10 64bit with the latest version of Wine from the Synaptic Package Manager. The router is a LinksysWRT54G3G-ST and my wireless network card I think is something made from MSI I don't see where to find out what drivers are installed on it I'm probably just looking in the wrong place or I'd give more information on the card.
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Oct 20, 2010
Is there any app that allows the user to pause/stop apps in a way like xkill? My notebook cpu is a crappy CeleronM from 3 years back. So sometimes I want to just devote all my attention to one app or want to stop some apps from sucking up juices. I don't want to tweak with the nice level manually nor go through sys mon.
XKill I have configured xkill with a hotkey. That way, I press the hotkey, and the cursor turns to a 'X' cross, and I click on the app that I want to kill (usually a hung app). This means I can avoid the console and the system monitor app.
XStop / XPause? Can I do the same for pausing or stopping apps? Bind it to a hotkey and a 'X' cross appear for the cursor, and I can pause apps? Ideally, I should be able to unpause it in similar way.
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Oct 22, 2010
This problem has occurred over a few years and with a number of Gnome distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora, and it just won't go away. I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 / Gnome. Almost immediately, windows that opened would grey out and temporarily freeze. The mouse can still move, most of the time. The greying of windows can happen frequently or not a all for a while. The freezing can last a few seconds or many. This inconsistency makes it difficult for me to figure out what is triggering this problem. I don't know if it is hardware related, either.
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May 17, 2011
I need to run a script that I build to build a word list. Essentially what it does is run through a base list and expands that into billions of words. This way I can keep a small dictionary file and a script to expand it into a larger file (about 500 gigs). This script should take anywhere from 12-14 days to run and on my last day the power went out at my house. Is there anyway I can run this again with a fail over system? I know a battery back up is an ideal addition to my home server but if the power is out for an hour it wouldn't have made a difference. Also if I had the ability to pause the script do a reboot and resume it again that would be amazing.
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Jan 27, 2010
Is there a way to have grub2 managing two installations from ubuntu on the same pc ?I have two partitions, one with karmic, another with lucid. Grub is detecting automatically the two or more kernels, but assigning them to the same root partition.Is there a way to make update-grub, detecting lucid kernel, and assigning it automatically to lucid partition, and the same for karmic ?It seems, that os-prober, detects the lucid installation from karmic, and print the correct corresponding partition on the screen, but in the config file, the root partition is the wrong one, and os-prober doesn't detect karmic...
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Mar 10, 2010
I have Ubuntu 9.10 and Win7 both installed on my desktop. I use Windows for gaming (when I actually have the chance...) Anyway, for some reason update-grub is not detecting my Win7 installation, neither is os-prober. I attempted to add a custom Grub2 entry to point to Windows 7, however, when I select it from Grub, I simply get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper-left, after waiting 20 minutes, Windows still hadn't loaded.
Here are hopefully all the relevant files:
sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x059c059c .....
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Jun 9, 2010
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 64bit on Sony Vaio CW and the Screen is 14 inch when I boot from CD it seems to work normal but after i select "Try Ubuntu without installing" or "Install Ubuntu" then the screen goes black like nothing happening but the CD runs for while then stop. Again I reboot to try again this time I press F6 then select "nomodeset" and it boots fine I was happy though, after installation success when I boot again WTF it goes black again and then I reboot and press "E" during the options that showing to select OS then I remove "Quit Splash".
I guess then I add "nomodeset" and control+X to boot, it works fine. So when I log in and of course I activate the Nvidia Graphic Driver then I reboot and WTF again the screen was out sync or something like the the screen didn't show properly. The Application menu normally is on the upper left of the screen but this time it was on the center of screen and the Shut down button came to the left side and i have to move the mouse cursor to the right and then it would appear on the left just like the resolution is to big for the screen.
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Jul 20, 2010
even those "provided by Ubuntu." Instead, I receive an error window that says the source is untrusted. Details reveal only the name of the package I am trying to install. I am using Lucid Lynx on an IBM ThinkPad X41.
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Aug 21, 2010
I installed normally Ubuntu in my lenovo laptop, but GRUB shows two installations instead of one. Whatever happens to one of them, happens to the other, except some command-line work.
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Aug 24, 2010
I was installing a few programs when my computer froze, I rebooted, and the installations never finished. I didn't log in to ubuntu for several days, and forgot the exact programs that I was trying to install. Now when I try to open up Synaptic Package Manager, I get this error:E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.I can't install certain programs, etc.Something is screwed up. I think it has to do with the failed installations.
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Sep 24, 2010
I used to have 64 bit ubuntu, but wanted to try 32 bit to see if I can make a driver work. So, I installed it in a new partition. I'm now happy with my 32 bit installation and I want to remove the 64 bit partition to make room. My partitions atm are:
sda1 (ext4, 64 bit)
sda2
sda6 (ext4, 32 bit)
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Dec 20, 2010
Just installed Ubuntu on a Dell M1730 and working my way around the system. Biggest problem I'm struggling with is the folder structure and privileges. I've downloaded a few programs that don't come in DEB format. Consequently I'm not sure how they should be installed. As a windows user my assumption is that there would be a program files like folder but I'm not sure what the Ubuntu equivalent is. I've tried /opt/ but then I run into lots of privilege issues that can only be resolved by chmod. Can you advise which the location that programs should be installed in for manual installations and under which user (Standard or SU)?
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Oct 27, 2009
I installed linux from a live disk. Now I went through all the nonsense to install and it tells me my user name and password is wrong. This crap is worse than windows. What gives? Dont tell me about well maybe you used the wrong anything proper case etc. I did that all several times to NO avail! Why I cant log on to my own computer?
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Feb 17, 2010
I updated to the newest kernel today ( 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64 ) via software updates and noticed there is a 10 second pause just after the grub screen goes away and before plymouth comes up. This never happened with the previous kernel. Anyone notice this?
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Dec 6, 2010
Sometimes I type 'sudo su - user' in linux and then realise I'm typing it from an application account rather than a user account. I want to ctrl+c to abort the password entry. When I do this, it always freezes for a couple of seconds before it aborts the process and returns me to the shell.
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Jan 22, 2010
how to send any pause process into running condition from one terminal to other terminal in linux!
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Feb 11, 2010
i am trying to configure my NIC to support pause frames(rx on tx on)but it returns error:
ethtool -a eth0 returns error : Operation not supported I need to enable pause settings so as to make my point to point link lossless
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Apr 7, 2011
As you already know there's a command in the "BATCH" language named pause which causes the program to get any random character and then continues the scripts (which is mostly used to keepscript running and preventing it to do its work and close the command prompt).Something like the "getch".Is there anything similar to this at bash?IMPORTANT NOTE: I don't want my script to stay opened, I want it to get a character (without hitting enter) and continue executing the rest of the script so please don't reply "Tick the keep the terminal opened option" or "Use read"
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Aug 25, 2011
If i compile my.tex file using the command:latex my.tex I am getting this error:! LaTeX Error: File `pause.sty' not found.Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
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May 12, 2010
sharing a wine installation across the system but I haven't managed to get them to work (you'd think that this is something that would have been implemented properly a LONG time ago. Crossover has a rubbish version of it but I wanted to get it to work in Wine).Here's what I did (it works insofar as office 2003 can be used but the menu entries don't (as of yet) appear in the different users' menus):
Regular install of wine, start wine on my profile and let it build all its stuff. DO NOT INSTALL ANY PROGRAMMES YET (I did the first time and it didn't work afterwards). Create user and group "wine" with disabled password/login and no home dir. Move system.reg and drive_c to /wine and chown wine:wine, chmod 0775 (both recursively, bien sur).
Add all users to the "wine" group. Make symlinks to drive_c and system.reg in my .wine directory. Copy ~/.wine to all the other users' home directories, delete user specific registration files user.reg and userdef.reg. Chown the .wine directory for each user.
Install Office 2003 (for me at least) or whatever programmes you want (I've only tried this is Office 2003).
chown wine:wine /wine -R because your installation will have messed things up a bit.
Now cd (in Terminal, obviously) to /wine/drive_c/users. If you ls you'll see a folder called Public and a folder with your user name (mine is "gideon"). cp your home directory (recursively again) for each of your other users who you want to be able to use wine. Chown their user folders to user_name:wine (recursively - I'm going to stop writing that, just assume it). su as each user, go into their user directory and you'll see something like this (ls -al):
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drwxr-xr-x 13 gideon wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 wine wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 gideon wine 4096 2010-05-12 13:10 Application Data
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