Ubuntu :: Locked Out Of Nautilus And System?
Sep 1, 2010
Dual boot sys with ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04 on Windows 7 host.I created a dot directory (.rams) yesterday and decided to do a chmod on it. Stupidly,(you can call me a moron) I used the asterisk as a shortcut notation and in effect chmod-ed all the dirs starting with a dot. So when I tried to login, this AM,an error mesg appeared that advised me to change the permissions but I could not get into a console or the desktop. After trying several things on Windows, I simply moved the exisitng ubuntu install into another folder, ran uninstall and re-installed. But is there any way that I can access the sys to undo my stupidity? I have a ton of docs on this install.
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Jan 21, 2010
I followed some badly-spelled online instructions to get rid of the last panel (because I'm using Avant Window Navigator instead), which had me do this: Ok some people realize that the gnome panel in ubuntu is very annoying and if your like me you dont want it there anymore, so you wnat to get rid of it (only suggested if you have something like AWN ), ok first push alt+f2, then in that type gconf-editor inside of it. Now in that a box should apear. Click on apps, thenGnome, then session, then required sessions. Then there should be a file called gnome -panel right click it then choose edit, then make it empty. then save it press ctrl+alt+delete, then it should not be there but if it is run killallgnome-panel, and to run it again type in gnome-panel. I did it, and now I cannot startup. ( I just get a 'busy' cursor on a blank screen.)
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Jun 20, 2010
My main PC has AN Athlon X2 4600+ on an Asus M2npv-vm. Has been working fine for ages running Ubuntu. Today it the system locked up and I had to do a reset. Since then it will not connect to the router or cable modem. I can connect another PC to the router, so that looks okay.
What can I do to test the network connection from Ubuntu? It's not even getting an IP.
I suppose it could be something has died in the hardware, but want to eliminate other possibilities first.
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Jan 28, 2010
I am new to Red Hat Linux. The other day I downloaded some files from the internet. The download manager placed them in the Filesystem "tmp" folder.
I determined that one of the files was 330 megabytes and the other were about another 76 Megabytes.
When I attempt to view the folder, I get a dialog box asking if I want to cancel the operation. The folder does not open.
I tried copying the folder to the desktop and was able to do this and only five files appeared in the folder... none of my downloads appeared there.
Question:
1.- how do I view the contents of the folder?
2.- Can I fix this problem?
I have rebooted the server several times, no change in tmp file access.
I tried to delete folder, system will not allow this. I am experiencing a small problem, "fooling" with this folder sort of wipes out the desktop - eventually it is restored after I tell the system to restart the Nautilus.
By the way I downloaded the files on another machine.
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Feb 12, 2010
Wednesday I went to work, docked and fired up my older Dell C840 laptop (running Fedora 12). It had a long list of updates that it downloaded and installed (it had been off for about a week). When the updates were finished, I noticed that my laptop had locked up. After waiting a while, I ended up doing a cold reboot. After that, I get the Fedora symbol that fills up, and then the screen goes black with a single cursor. You can type in anything and it is reflected- even control and ALT codes. If you hit CTL- ALT-F2, it goes into a terminal mode. You can do almost anything that you'd normally do in terminal mode. The video driver is the original off the install disk, and it's never been changed- it works fine right out of the box.
If I try to start up X-Windows, I get a segmentation fault error. I've tried deleting and then re-installing some of the packages that were updated (trying this via yum), no difference. I don't know what else to do. I need to get this laptop going before next week- it's my work computer and I do use it a lot. Is there any way to get in touch with the people who wrote the updates, and file a bug report? I'm using my main (home) system right now, that for a couple of reasons needs to stay on windoze XP for a few more weeks. I've been around computers for years, but not Linux.
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Mar 3, 2011
i am running openSUSE on virtual box bt when i try to install applications i got
system management locked by the application with pid 5084
i have try to kill the process with kill and process id command but when i try to install appn again i got the same prob,
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Aug 29, 2010
I was getting low disk space notifications so I used LVM to increase Ubuntu's volume from 10GB to 50GB. LVM and Disk Utility show the correct new size, but System Monitor and the Properties of the File System (in Nautilus) show the old, smaller size. Do I need to update something to get them to see the new size?
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Mar 8, 2010
I'm trying to install KDE 4,4 on my Netbook, Asus Eee PC 1201n. I've just done a clean install, instlaled my graphics drivers and now trying to upgrade to KDE 4.4. This is the message I get when trying to use the 1Click installer from the OpenSuse site. "System Management is locked by the application with pid 3249"
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Nov 15, 2010
As stated in the subject when I click on partition in Places or try to open a folder e.g. by selecting open containing folder in transmission the system will load music player instead of nautlius. Is this some kind of problem with file associations??
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Dec 31, 2010
Every time I go to Places and select a folder, it displays in Firefox. How do I get my system to revert to Nautilus for this activity.
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Nov 9, 2010
I've got a fun one for you. What makes absolutely any attempt to view a flash video crash Ubuntu 10.10, both in firefox and chromium? Lately, firefox began doing this. I switch to chromium, same thing. Also, the system completely locks up after about 30 minutes online if I can get the thing to work at all. When this happens, the rounded edges of all windows disappear, the menus become unresponsive, and any attempt to open the system monitor to end the offending process results in an "Unable to fork new process, system resource unvailable" something like that.
My entire online routine goes like this: open terminal, su to admin account to enable ufw (which will not run at boot no matter what I try), su to normal, limited account, open web browser, things explode (or work for 15 minutes before freezing completely.)
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May 29, 2011
All of these freezes happen either while I'm in Nautilus or I'm opening Nautilus. The usual Ctrl+Alt+Fx (x being one to six) to get into the backstage does not work. If I have some music open then it would start looping the last couple of seconds.Now generally I would go check the logs, but I see no nautilus logs so what should I check?This is all pretty recent. I think that this started to happen when one day exim4 (and some packages all marked exim) got updated but I cannot be certain. Major playing-around after that would be some Wine issues but the system froze once before all that Wine fun.So step one, what should I check?
EDIT: OK, .xsession-errors ouput:
Code:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
[code]...
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Feb 11, 2011
Is it possible to change my current nautilus window to have sudo capabilities,? e.g. to delete locked files. It may be lazy but if it takes a lot of navigation then it would be handy to somehow activate sudo from the open window without the terminal command (gksudo nautilus) which always begins at root.
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Jun 20, 2010
I attempted to install Nautilus Elementary...the results were not what I expected however. First of all, it doesn't seem to even have installed correctly, but thats not the main issue...after installing, Nautilus looks like this...
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May 16, 2010
I've added a new Nautilus action and I'd like to use another icon that those provided in the nautilus item con list (see attachment).
But whatever image I try (some PNG or even SVG files) I can't get them to be displayed. It seems there is a very special format, size, type to match the Gnome/GTK+/Nautilus icon requirements...
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Apr 11, 2010
Does anyone know how I can move the location bar in nautilus up by the toolbar, as shown by this pic:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2qdsyll.jpg
I'd rather not have to download the source of nautilus and edit the code / compile it myself.
By the way, a guy on Ubuntu Forums thought this was a mockup. It's not. It's the regular version of Nautilus, only I removed some toolbar buttons through the /usr/share/nautilus/ui xml files.
I just want the location bar next to the toolbar to conserve screen space, and be a bit more like Finder.
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Apr 28, 2011
I was transferring data from one computer to my laptop and crash error came up on my laptop...
Error 1:
Nautilus-2.32.0-1.fc14 Reason: Process/usr/bin/nautilus was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Error 2:
Openoffice.Org-Brand Crash
Reason: Process/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin was killed by signal (SIGABRT)
What could be the problem? Is it serious issue? I have been having security issues with Windows and are those issues begun once again? I have been under targeted attack since 2005.
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Jul 28, 2010
what's the difference between Nautilus and Nautilus-Elementary?
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Aug 8, 2011
My system boots, I login and am brought to my desktop. I click on the file system icon in the launcher to open a Nautilus window. The window opens, but is unresponsive (i.e., I can't move it, clicking on the icons does nothing, etc.). If I press the super key to get the dash and the press escape, the window becomes responsive again, just like normal.
If I open a folder in the window, the window becomes halfway unresponsive in that I can't move the window, but I can select more folders and toolbar icons. The top menu no longer appears at this point, and I can't access any of the system icons on the top right of the screen. Alt-F4 closes the window even if the close button doesn't work.As another example, suppose I open a Nautilus window and then a Chromium window. Both are immediately unresponsive. If I super-esc again, I can move the Chromium window around, and it seems to work normally. I can click on the Nautilus window, but it always stays greyed out. Even if I'm clicking on things in it, the Chromium window always has focus.
I had a similar experience to this with VLC and Chromium. After clicking around enough I eventually got it to the point where VLC apparently always had focus, but I couldn't access any of VLC's controls. Double clicking anywhere on the screen fullscreened the video, and that's all I could really do. Not even escape worked to bring it back.I can usually press super to get the dash and Alt-F2 to get a command prompt. Also Alt-Shift-T seems to usually work to bring up a working Terminal (at least one that accepts commands, even if I can't move the window).Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this? The behavior is highly unpredictable and extremely frustrating. I should note that key commands don't always work, even though they seem to in my examples. So I don't think it's just a mouse issue.
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Feb 12, 2011
How to call Nautilus file browser with root permissions? "sudo nautilus" does not work. Under Ubuntu there is a command:
"gksu nautilus"
but this does not work in CentOS either.
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Jul 14, 2011
Now I find myself locked out of SSH! I have another SSH user and I logged in on him but he doesn't have permission to chown the file back! I also tried using su root -c but it is rejecting my root password as if it is invalid, but I know it is valid! I have 2 root accounts on the system and both return "invalid passwords" ever since I chowned the damn file..Does anyone know what I can do? I am very far from the server I must be able to do it remotely. Maybe a server reboot will help?
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Nov 8, 2010
I recently had CentOS installed, but felt that I didn't need the whole server thing, so I picked ubuntu as my OS as I have used it in the past and quite liked it. I formated my first hard drive and installed Ubuntu 10.10. My second drive is a ext3 data drive only. After installing Ubuntu, I can see the drive on the desktop, telling me that it is mounted...i think? But when I goto the drive all the folders are protected. I tried to chown with root to see the stuff but to no avail. I can't seem to change permissions on the drive either or the files.
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Feb 10, 2011
Was able to use a dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu Maverick Desktop version) with only minor microphone couldn't be accessed issue. Had the system lockup completely, even power on and power off or Magic AltSysRq combinations does not help. This happened once before but after parking the laptop for a day, it restarted without issue.
Just prior to my shutting the laptop down, response went to a crawl, the system took much longer to shut down but did. Upon restart (and since) the machine just hangs. I do not see the machine on my network.
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Jun 2, 2011
2.After a year on Lucid 10.04 I installed all updates and did an online upgrade to 10.10 Great!3.Enthusiasm got the better of me and I clicked the upgrade to 11.04. Big mistake.4.I get the 11.04 desktop, but it has no response to mouse clicks. I'm locked out - can't click to log in to my private files.Is all lost? The cursor moves OK and the keyboard works (They are wireless and I guess I'll put on wired ones to eliminate any problem there as I fix stuff.)5.I have never done my own installation or partition work.6.There are a few things I did not back-up, and I'll miss them. Some bookmarks in Firefox may be impossible to ever find again.I really need the Evolution e-mailI dual boot with XP and am now booting up from an old 9.04 disk that I found.I thought I was doing a minor upgrade to Natty 11.04, but the screen tells me I have 2.6.32-32-generic kernel Is there any going back?
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Aug 1, 2010
I was using my laptop and mozilla only to read a few posts and the laptop just locked up. I looked i the /var/log/messages files and I dont see anything there. I was also looking at the /etc/log/kern.log and saw a few things. so my question is how can i tell if this is a hardware issue or a software issue?
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Jun 5, 2010
A few minutes ago I accepted a suggestion from update-manager for restarting my system, such that some security updates could be effective. After restarting and login in as usual, I discovered that I could not use my adminstrative rights as a sudoer. To recover them I booted again, as root, and added my username in the "admin" group. Rebooting, all seemed well again. As an extra check I installed and ran 'chkrootkit' and nothing suspect was found.What could have hapenned? Just a glitch in the system? Can a user disappear from a group for nothing?What further checks can I make to be sure that my system is safe?I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty Jakalope amd64, with kernell 2.6.28-15-generic.
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Sep 22, 2010
I have a rather frustrating issue here that's been giving me hell since about 5:00AM this morning. I just got a new laptop (a Compaq CQ42-138TU) and was hoping to dual boot between Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit).So, I partitioned the HDD (leaving the HP/Compaq restore partition and other partitions alone) and resized the partition that held the bundled copy of Windows 7 (32-bit). I resized it into two parts, installed Windows 7 Ultimate on one, and Ubuntu on the other. That's where the problems began.Selecting "Windows 7 (loader)" in Grub presented me with the first few second of the bootscreen, then a BSOD for less than a second. After that, the machine immediately rebooted and got back to Grub. Ubuntu still booted fine, but I wanted to get access to Windows back, soI attempted to fix this by running:
Code:
bootec.exe /fixmbr
through CMD.exe on my Windows install disk. Now Grub is gone, and I'm stuck with Windows that still won't
[code]....
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Nov 4, 2010
I can't log in from a locked screen anymore, such as when returning fromeep or hibernation. I can, however, work around the problem by clicking "switch user" and logging in from the GDM greeting screen. Logging in from a terminal also works.I recently had a problem where /etc/passwd, /etc/groups and some other files were deleted. But I have restored them - otherwise I couldn't log in at all.
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Nov 10, 2010
I have a few files on my desktop that have a lock on the top right corner of the Icon like this..
How do i delete it? it tells me that i do not have sufficient permission to delete this file..
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Jul 27, 2011
I have a small problem with my Acer netbook (ao521) on which I dual boot windows7/ubuntu. I am new to linux and I didn't know much about dual booting so I made some errors when pratitioning and installing ubuntu (originally I had windows 7 only) but that is another issue.
The problem is that I accidently wiped the /C partition of win7 thereby deleting windows (). I had made a backup since I knew something like this could happen and I saved it in /home so now it is in /home/backup. Here it gets interesting though..I tried recovering Windows (with the built-in Acer eRecovery) and apparently this messed up Grub so I couldn't boot ubuntu..Now, I don't have a problem installing windows from scratch and then installing ubuntu afterwards (I have learned my lesson and I think I would do it right this time), but there is one folder, which contains some valuable documents and I want to access it and save the documents on a USB drive.
So, I ran ubuntu from the live cd(usb) and I mouned the /home partition (of my previous installation) and I tried accessing the backup folder that I made earlier but it said that I do not have such permission. I did some searching arround and I found out that I should mount the partition as root and copy the contents of the folder from the terminal. So far so good, but when I wrote
Code:
sudo mount /dev/sda9
it said that no such mounting point is available in /etc/fstab.
It occured to me that I could use the data in the initial /etc/fstab (from the initial ubuntu installation) and insert what I need in the current fstab. I did that but when I write /home as mounting point it apparently confuses it with the current /home so that doesn't help.
Well my question is: how can I edit fstab so I would be able to mount the partition and use it or is there any other way to access the folder in question.
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