I do not need this facility, frequently need to leave the computer, and can find no place to control this having to re-submit password when I return.
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I started out with Kubuntu RC, then installed ubuntu-desktop and updated all the way to the current state of packages.Anyway, from the moment I installed the RC, from time to time the boot splash appears, the dots light up/turn off and then the booting hags. No key seems to work.I the do a hard reset and everything works just fine.As not to open another thread:- how can I see the Ubuntu splash screen? (currently I can see the Kubuntu one)- how can I turn the splash off and have it boot in text mode?
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On Windows, dual boot on the same machine, the monitor does display off. I don't know if this is part of the problem or not, but when I go to "System -> Preferences", there are two different "Screensaver" options.
I had ubuntu 9.10, and every time i turned on my computer it would prompt me to upgrade, so finally i did. I let it upgrade over last night, then finished it this morning. when it went to restart, it turned off fine, but when it came back on, the screen goes through the Gateway first thing where it shows like F10 for boot from etc, and then the screen goes to a black command line looking screen, then it says ubuntu for a second, and then the screen goes black and does nothing. i let it sit for about an hour to see if it was just running slow, but it was still black when i checked it, so now my laptop is useless until i figure something out.
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I understand ALL the security risks, and I accept them.
How to turn off, that Ubuntu ask for password after a while? For example, I go away from the computer for 20 minutes, then I come back, but it asks for my password. How to turn it off?
View 2 Replies View Relatedfor christmas my parents got both my younger sister and i acer mini computers, model d250-1958. my sister was trying to change her password that lets herself as a particular user log in. somehpw she messed up the password and its not what she thought it was and now she doesn't have any way of accessing anything. i thought that there might be an ovveride system or a reseting trick. i've looked in the manual but cant find anything of the sort for either of the two options.
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I am using ubuntu 9.10 and I want to know if I can power on a remote computer working on windows server 2003.
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View 4 Replies View Relatedso every time I want to watch a video or let my computer play some music anything that leaves it without input the screen dulls then the computer locks it self even in the middle of when I am watching something.I have already set every power management setting to never turn off and it is still doing it is there any thing else that controls ubuntu's automatic functions that I have missed that would let my computer stay on without locking up,I am running the most recent version of ubuntu on a Samsung NC-10 netbook if that helps
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View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, I could normally turn off my computer. Every time when I tried to turn off the computer by pressing the 'shut down the computer' button at the upper right corner of the screen and selecting 'Shut down', it will first appear as if it is shutting down normally, but in less than half minute, it stops at a console-like screen with the last few lines of text
Code:
gnal 15, shutting down
init: dbus main process (775)
killed by TERM signal
init: Disconnected from system bus
and then stopped there. I then have to manually and physically power off the computer.
I have critical battery, it's always on 1%. Today the power went down so i tried to shutdown computer. I clicked on Shutdown, it asked me if i am sure and that was it. But when power was on i tried to turn on computer but get error. It's blanc screen with some text. Here is text at the end:
[code]...
What to do to fix this?
When turn off the computer he is half-second off, and then immediately the same turn himself again. Such problems with Lenny, OpenSolaris 2009.06, Windows and Ubuntu 9.04 was not. Noticed on Debian 6.0, Ubuntu 10.04 and above, OpenSUSE 11.4. And only on my computer. How do I fix this?
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Code:
kwin --replace
, but this temporary solution. Where I can to put this on session startup, or choose kwin on KDE permanently with some kind of preferences
The other day I wanted to make a small change to my (user account) password, but I kept getting errors about the new password merely being the old with changed case, or just a cyclic shift etc.Security issues aside, is there any way I can override these checks so that I can make whatever minor changes I like to my password?
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I was told that I should write a script, but I have no idea how to write scripts and where I should place it (I suppose in init.d with some parameters).
Ref; Ubuntu 10.04 new clean installation, fully updated. I have set sharing for some folders so they can be seen on my windows network ethernet. However the sharing option is lost when I next turn on the computer. Can I make the sharing permanent?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI run Debian on my old computer to use it as a server. Everything is configured properly so that it functions as a web server. Now that summer comes closer I will not be home most of the time and I was thinking to use part of my server to upload/download files. Is there some nice package that provides an easy interface for such a task? I am reffering to something like the wikimedia package but for just downloading/uploading files.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I shut-down the computer from OpenSuse 11.4, it does log out and exit the operating system but the computer does not turn off. Can this possibly be corrected?
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