Ubuntu :: Unwanted Automatic Shut-down, Lucid?
Jun 13, 2010
Lucid was working okay for a few weeks. I believe this issue came up anew in the past few days after a recent system update. The (desktop) system when idle for x amount of time (likely > 1 hour) just shuts down while I am off doing something else. That is bad when downloading a large file that has to be started from scratch again (826 Mb of an 875 Mb file).
I have had to revert back to Hardy (kept in a separate partition) in order to get these wanted downloads. But I do a lot of downloading of film files, so this will be an ongoing issue until I can somehow correct it. I went through the screen-saver options/power management settings, found nothing unusual there, though I am not real certain of all the terminology there.
View 2 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
May 28, 2010
I've setup pam_usb to allow me to log in with just my usb drive. This works fine, save for one issue. When I log in using pam_usb, my session dies abruptly if I unplug the usb drive.I am _not_ runing pamusb-agent.It seems like there may be some issue with policykit, but I'm not sure./var/log/auth.log:
Code:
May 28 20:42:10 nitrogen gdm-session-worker[1836]: pam_succeed_if(gdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" not met by user "dschep"
[code]....
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 4, 2010
I'm new to Ubuntu so bear with me. I installed 9.10 from a CD and it looks fine and works OK wired. However, my wireless keeps picking up a connection at home via my Linksys router that is not mine and I can't get around it, blacklist it or delete it. No matter what I do it keeps showing back up as an AutoConnection. It is the same type of router as mine but the security is different (I use WPA-Personal and the offender is WEP). How can I permanently blockdisableetc the extra connection? I can't get on my home network until the bad autoconnection is gone. More info: I use an IBM R40 into which I installed a Toshiba mini-PC wireless card. I know it works as I have used it to connect to other wireless networks other than my own. I prefer to leave my router configured as it is due to other users at home and the configs I use for them. I read about WICD if that is a possibility, but actually connecting wirelessly is not the issue.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 16, 2011
still facing some challenges getting full control of my computer. One problem I can't figure out alone it seems, is that when I open a "place" via Places, Ubuntu immediately launches the first media file it finds in that place, instead of opening the folder. If there are no media files, it often just launches... nothing. The media player pops up empty, and the folder still does not get opened. I can't get into my folders via Places because of this.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 3, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 9.04. Years ago, I did UNIX and DOS line commands, but I am 66 and dim, though my doctor says he still thinks I have my marble.Anyway, my Linux shuts down automatically faster than I want it to.How does one control this?
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 3, 2010
I have just upgraded my old work horse from 9.10 to 10.04 and on the surface everything looks ok. However there are a few annoying issues that I have not been able to resolved. One of these is an annoying auto shortcut that links the 'm' key to the Indicator applet while running my desktop inside an XRDP session (Windows Vista client). Everytime the m key is pressed, the focus is autotragically hijacked by the Indicator applet. Attempting to type any text from any application such as the terminal or text editor is excruciating since everytime the m key is pressed the focus jumped to the Indicator applet, the only way to disable this 'feature' is by removing the Indicator applet.
This problem is not seen in the native console, only in XRDP sessions.
There is another thread that deals with similar issue [URL] but only for users with Apple keyboards and does not apply to my situation.
I use XRDP alot so this affects me severely. How do I go about diagnosing this problem, xev doesn't even see any event when the m key is pressed, the focus just jumped to the Indicator applet?
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2010
I cannot shut down Lucid on the roper way, only from terminal with "sudo poweroff".
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 9, 2010
i have this problem i cant find how to remove the automatic lock when i left my laptop open i want to change it for 2 hours or remove it all.
View 7 Replies
View Related
Oct 13, 2009
Offlate I installed F11 i586 on my laptop. F11 shares the hard disk with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. The problem is that when running F11 (or even Ubuntu), my system shut off suddenly(not a normal OS shut down, but a sudden power off without any warning). This could have been a hardware trouble(heating) but it doesn't happen with Vista.
Machine specifications:
Maker: Toshiba
Model: Satellite L305D-S5881
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile Processor RM-70
3072 MB 800 MHz SDRAM
I don't want to open up my machine unnecessarily, if it isn't a hardware issue.
I am not sure how to verify the bit length of the machine and the OS and does it create a compatibility issue ?
Your advise would be highly appreciated.
Raman
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 20, 2009
I installed Fedora 12 and after I wantd to shut down the system. I waited but fedora not going to shut down. I got black screen with Power Down
View 7 Replies
View Related
Jan 4, 2010
How do I get rid of unwanted things on my desktop
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 18, 2011
When i log into to a non root(user) mode, i am always greeted by a small terminal window before the desktop starts up. Also, after desktop starts a new window opens which displays the contents of my windows desktop.
I am unable to stop this from happening. I am running Ubuntu 10.10(32 bit) along with Windows 7(64 bit) on different partitions.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 30, 2010
I've been using mail-notification from the repos for ages to monitor my gmail account with no problems. Since I upgraded to Karmic, it's been popping up an irritating dialog window whenever a new mail arrives (as well as the standard notification). how to turn it off without losing all notifications?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 20, 2010
I have a number of partitions in my Places menu that refer to either System Reserved or NTFS partitions which I have no interest in accessing and would just like to unmount/hide.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 2, 2011
Evolution is presenting many incoming email messages as double-spaced when they weren't written that way. The unwanted double-spacing is also retained in replies, which show the original messages as having repeated carriage returns.How can this be prevented so that Evolution renders the messages as they were written?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 11, 2010
I have an icon for what seems to be universal access preferences modifying that is residing near my notification area on top GNOME panel. I have been trying to figure out how to get rid of it, but can't seem to. I took the program off of autostart apps, and have checked running processes to see if I could find which program has it going but I have exhausted my limited knowledge base in solving this.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 18, 2010
These days, every morning I boot my PC up, Ubuntu Software Center 1.0.3 says "upgrade your Firefox browser to the version 3.5." However, the current version of my Firefox is 3.6.3 which has been upgraded via the software's automatic self-update.I'd like to silence the Ubuntu Software Center for the Firefox upgrade.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 6, 2010
I am using ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to keep only the main menu,and i have to disable all the other options including recovery and memtest in the GRUB menu..How to do this..?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Dec 14, 2010
Because of a hard disk failure I had to buy a new disk and reinstall Ubuntu 10.04. Prior to the install I was running the live cd version of 10.04. When I connected to my wireless network and entered the password the key manager wanted me to enter a password to protect the network password. Now every time I boot up the system the network will not automatically connect. (It used to do this). Now I have to click on the network manager and select my network. When I do this I get the key manager asking for a password.
So how do I stop the key manager nonsense and get the network to connect automatically as it once did.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Apr 8, 2011
I have so many entries in GRUB and have to actually scroll down so much to see windows entry. How do I remove unwanted entries in GRUB? Also How can I make a background picture appear when grub manager comes up?
View 9 Replies
View Related
May 11, 2010
I've got a few processes running on my machine called simply '3'. I don't know what they are or where they have come from but all I know is that I don't want them there. I have to periodically type killall 3. This is the output from top, all processes listed are of this '3' type.
4804 tom 20 0 3356 752 656 R 2.3 0.0 3:40.75 3
4837 tom 20 0 3356 748 656 R 2.3 0.0 2:55.98 3
4844 tom 20 0 3356 752 656 R 2.3 0.0 2:50.06 3
[code]....
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 22, 2010
I noticed after uninstalling Firefox that the folder is still listed in the files/etc ... how do I delete these files?
/etc/firefox
/etc/firefox-3.0
/etc/forefox-3.5
View 4 Replies
View Related
Dec 5, 2010
How do I uninstall unwanted applications? Is there a log of all installed applications? When I ran setup and chose my packages, for KDE, and I am sure others the options came in bundles, ie KDEbase-version... Is there a way to see all package contents to remove individual programs?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Apr 30, 2010
I just upgraded to 10.04, all went well, except now the "s" and "m" keys on my keyboard open the login menu and the "Me" menu (with the mail and chat options) respectively. Obviously this is very irritating, I can only type those letters by holding down alt. I can't think of how this happened, it didn't do it before the upgrade. I'm using an Apple aluminum keyboard with a Dell. When I run xev and type the s or m key, I get this:
[Code]....
There are no relevant shortcuts under keyboard shortcuts. I am using a xmodmap file that looks like this:
clear mod1
clear mod4
keycode 133 = Alt_L
keycode 134 = Alt_R
keycode 64 = Meta_L
keycode 108 = Meta_R
[Code]....
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jan 26, 2011
In order to keep my system clean, normally if Update Manager wants to update a package I don't want or never use, I use this as a trigger to first go to Synaptic Package Manager and de-install the unwanted package, then refresh Update Manager and continue with the wanted updates.
However when it wants to install something completely new that clearly I don't want or need, how do I tell Update Manager to permanently remove it from the update list?
View 7 Replies
View Related
Mar 3, 2011
my computer is often very slow, to the point of stalling. I tty'd in and when I ran ps -ef I noticed about 10 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start I dont even want 1 apache running. Any suggestions why these are running, or how to stop it? Well, I can stop it with a sudo killall, but how can I make sure it doesnt happen again?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jun 29, 2011
I have UBUNTU server 10.04 LTS with 3 NIC "eth0" local and eth1,2 as internet connection and it acts as firewall, http proxy and samba file server ,I installed Zentyal panel manager for my server for easier management I did not configure any specific rule for my firewall but I have some problem with my clients who wants to connect to my server as gateway or as file server even my self experienced these problems too. these problems are as follow:
1. some time for a few minutes (maximum 10 minutes) my server block some of my clients to access it or internet but just for minutes but it is very annoying.
2. all of my clients those who login to an https servers or login to their mail or those who has some software like team viewer say that they are logging out from their session randomly I mean some of them logging out from their mail(yahoomail or googlemail ) or disconnecting from teamviewer connection or as I saw team viewer disconnecting for a few seconds and then comes back again. but I did not set any thing in my firewall or other services. this is my complete iptable rules:
View 9 Replies
View Related
Aug 14, 2011
I have successfully build .deb im my box and it is running well. But during the debuild process I got followingdpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libatk-1.0.so.0 could be avoided if "debian/retrovol/usr/bin/retrovol" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libdl.so.2 could be avoided if "debian/retrovol/usr/bin/retrovol" were
[code]....
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 1, 2010
I've just installed Squeeze with KDE. I was wondering what is the best way to remove some unwanted apps without breaking everything (I want to get rid of Kopete and a few other apps like Dragon Player as I don't use them)?
I tried to: apt-get remove kopete
but it said it wanted to remove a whole bunch of other stuff as well. (I'm a recent Fedora convert).
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 29, 2010
I am using Fedora12 with latest update, and am using kde4.3.4.
To decrease the memory consumption on one of my system I disabled many services presently only following services are running:
NetworkManager
abrtd
acpid
akmods
[Code]....
Now I want to stop some default running process like modem-manager, seapplet, ksmserver, krunner and sometime knotify4. I could not locate the initiation point of these services. So that I can manage (start/stop) these services.
View 5 Replies
View Related
