On Xubuntu Lucid, How do I kill Xfce's desktop (xfdesktop) without it restarting almost immediately? Right now, when I kill it (using built-in kill; /bin/kill; pkill) it restarts. I don't want that. Xfce seems to no longer have the option to choose if I want a desktop or not.
View 1 RepliesI use Fedora 11 and xfce from official repo. Xfce started to behave unstable two weeks ago. Unstable I mean, when I log in icons on desktop blinks few times, applets don't appear and the result of ps -A command is:
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I've have found the same error with workaround on Ubuntu bug tracker: [url]
I'm running Xfce 4.6.1 and xfdesktop 4.6.1.1 (or so aptitude said). When I use 'None' image option - just colour - I get the colour I ask for but if I change that to either 'Single image' or 'Image list' then both the image and the background colour are made greyscale.
I have tried looking through all the options I could find to do with Xfce and searching Google but I don't know how to phrase it as my searches tend to bring up black and white wallpapers.
Running X as a different user on the same computer does not cause the same problem which makes me think it might be cause by a user setting though I spent a long time with a black and white wallpaper and do not know when the issue first arose.
Today I run OpenOffice.org extensions update and it freezed fter showing me that everything was successful.When i xkilled it it refused tolaunch without any problem indication.killall soffice.bin didn't report "No process found" after 1,2,3...20 times.So I tried killall soffice.bin -i
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$ sudo killall soffice.bin -i
Kill soffice.bin(3319) ? (y/N) y
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the process is mcelog. When I do as root kill -9 2323 which is pid of mcelog the process is not killed. I tried doing the same from top, press K and enter pid of mcelog. doing ps auwx | grep mcelog I see there are several results. I tried killing all of them like kill -9 2355 2341 3425 2345. But re-running the above commands still shows them as running. How else would I troubleshoot this to avoid restarting of the box.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI installed UNE on my desktop pc just to see what it's like. It starts okay, but whenever i moved my cursor over the left side app bar the entire interface closes and restarts. I therefore can't use the app bar at all. Has anyone else encountered this? Any recommendations?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am new using Fedora. When ever I am installing fedora 13, it is not getting ip address. Everytime manually I am opening gui mode for network as system-config-network and then checking activate when system starts option manually. After then if I restart, it is getting ip address. without doing like this, cant we do something like ifdown eth0, ifupeth0 like this so that without restart it takes ip address? Is there any command like this do get ip without restart?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm wanting my linux machine to set it's network settings during boot, so I've done the following Changed my /etc/network/interfaces to
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
[code]....
Ok so it boots up ok and it's sitting on the login screen, when I try to ping it however it doesn't reply!
I just finished a fresh install of Lucid netbook remix on my new Sony Vaio netbook. Everything seemed to go fine until a restart was required after installation was complete, when the monitor went black and the netbook just hung. The only way I could restart was to manually power off and on again. The installation seems to have completed fine and everything works after boot up. However, the netbook continues to freeze if I select restart from the power options. I know its not critical, but it is annoying. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrading to 10.04 I've had to run /etc/init.d networking restart to get my internet connection to work after startup on my desktop computer. Any ideas on how to find out what's wrong and how to fix it? I didn't uprage my laptop yet and it still works just fine so I'm thinking this is related to the upgrade. Softwarewise the only relevant networking related difference between my desktop and laptop is the ubuntu version and that I have openvpn set up on the desktop for work related stuff.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat happens if I restart GDM? And how do I do it? I think I did it once and I lost all my configurations, or maybe that was something else. i just dont want to have to redo all my customizations.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have upgraded a friends notebook from 10.04 to 10.10. Everything was fine with 10.04.The upgrade process runed smoothly but after booting 10.10 the X system randomly restarts. It seems to not be able to run for more than 10 minutes without X abruptly restarting and the login page being presented. I still couldn't even identify some pattern nor relate the restarts with some specific software.I've looked in /var/log/messages but there is nothing registered there that seems to be related to this issue.Despite being an old notebook, I don't think it's hardware related because the problem appeared for the first time after Ubuntu upgrade and it keeps repeating itself after that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI dual boot my ubuntu 10.04 with my windows 7, I had 4 partitions on my machine, 2 ntfs and 2 ext4 partitions. But I noticed I still had an unallocated 10gb on my hdd, I couldn't see this unallocated space from ubuntu, fdisk, gparted etc. So I used diskmgmt in windows to create the 10gb ntfs partition, when I restarted I couldn't boot into either windows or ubuntu. I used my livecd to reinstall grub and everything was fine until I booted into windows 7 and restarted. Again my grub has been messed up.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just installed the newest version of ubuntu on my Alienware desktop. It installed fine and I was running everything perfectly. Then I restarted the computer, just to test that out, and now it won't let me get back in.
It takes me to a screen which asks me to select the OS. I select "Ubuntu with Linux 2.6.35-23-generic-pae", but then it goes to a black screen with the blinking cursor, and nothing happens (even after waiting >10 minutes)
I'm booting off of the internal hard drive, since that is where I installed Ubuntu initially.
I have Xubuntu 10.10 installed on my PC. On language bar in panel I have installed 2 languages - English and Slovak. But always after restart, only default language remains - Slovak. Also Num Lock is default turned off after restarting. Can anybody help me with this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to run a sudo script on startup. Is it possible to run it without typing in a password?
The script is simply "sudo killall gcin". This restarts the Chinese input method gcin. My understanding is that gcin has a bug, doesn't load properly upon startup, and only behaves correctly after a reset.
Thus, I would like to have a script that executes the command "sudo killall gcin" upon startup without my typing in a password. Or even better, an easier workaround for gcin.
I got a prompt for an update so I went thru with it. I restarted my PC but it wont boot up. I keep getting a black terminal screen which asks me for my log in. But when I put it in, nothing happens. I tried to reinstall gdm but it says its already installed.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to if there's any plugin for firefox or so that can save your incomplete (still in process) downloads and can resume after the next boot.i just lost my broadband connection and now i am stuck with this mobile internet (android on ubuntu) and sometimes when i want to go outside i have to shutdown my computer because i have to carry my phone with me.so is there any app or plugin for firefox so i can resume my download after i get home.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn restarting networking service, i am getting the following error,
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karthick@karthick:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces.. ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 5427
start: Job failed to start
[ OK ]
Newbie to the Linux/Ubuntu world. I thought that installing Ubuntu would solve all my problems with an inherited PC. It has worked well for a couple of months but I am seeing an issue with firefox closing on its own and when trying to restart PC it shows i/o errors. Maybe power supply? Cooling fan? Anything else?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI do not know which is the right way/proper way to restart an X server. The Debian shows tells the following :- [url]
There is another one which I know of :-
Now does the wiki page have that obsolete bit of code or is that one much more better/preferred.
I recently did an install from CD of Kubuntu 8.10 on a system. When I first went to boot, my BIOS screen kept saying invalid system disc. Now, I have another HD in there but I thought for sure at the time that I had changed the boot drive appropriately. So, I went ahead and re-installed grub using the instructions from this site. Went and switched the boot drive to the correct one (it wasn't correct after the re-install of Grub which is why it was probably set wrong before) and now the system just keeps rebooting. It gets past BIOS and then black screen and post beep. I don't see a grub screen or anything resembling linux. I'd rather not re-install the whole OS again.
View 11 Replies View Relatedin Ubuntu 10.04 I have updated my system with command: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and I see new kernel was installed. Now restart is required. I don't like to restart this computer, because it should be up and running as much time as possible. Is there any way I could only re-run some kind of kernel module or something like that instead of restarting whole computer?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 in one of my notebook's HD partitions. It all runs smoothly, except for wireless. For some reason, Ubuntu only finds my wireless connections after I boot into Windows and then restart. If I boot straight into Ubuntu, I always get the 'device not ready' or 'disconnected' message under 'Wireless networks'.
Does anyone know what might be the cause of the problem and what can I do to solve it?
Below are some information about my computer, as requested in the 'How to post a wireless issue' thread.
These are the results AFTER restarting from Windows.
Machine brand: Mirax - XT8000 NTL 243200
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lspci
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
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I am getting following error messages when trying to re-start the apache2 on Ubuntu Server 10.04.
[warn] The Alias directive in /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpldapadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
...waiting [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpldapadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
[OK]
I'm attempting to write a web service that works only on my LAN and is not accessible via the internet. I need to restart the DHCP service without granting full root access, but I'm having trouble using the [/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart] command. It gives back a failure message that reports nothing:
$ /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart
dhcpd self-test failed. Please fix the config file.
The error was:
$
Looking at the script itself, I found the command its trying to execute, and it came back with this:
$ /usr/sbin/dhcpd3 -t -cf /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
drop_privileges: could not set group id: Operation not permitted
So I went and changed the dhcp: and dhcpd: AND www-data: in /etc/group so that www-data (The apache user) was part of the group, and still the init.d script wouldn't run.
I would prefer to NOT give passwordless access to the www-data user as I do other web services on this machine, however, giving access to stop my DHCP server is a risk I'm willing to take.
how can I restart the DHCP with apache so I can apply changes?
Windows 7 and Kubuntu 10.04 on separate HD partitions. I have three partitions: /boot, /root and swap .
I donno why but after several boots somehow GRUB gets corrupted or something so that when i restart the laptop, it displays "Grub 2 loading..." and restarts again. This seems to go on in an infinite loop, restarting the machine again and again trying to load grub.
When I re-install grub, everything is fine (I am able to see the Grub menu of ubuntu and windows and able to boot into both) .
I am using a Dell vostro 1320 .
I have a machine running Hardy that is restarting itself when "shut down" is selected. happens everytime and this just started yesterday. OS has been on the machine for months, very confused.
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhose still learning the ropes, I've installed a new printer on my Debian (2.26 version, unstable, tho' duly updated ) - a HP Photosmart C4600 ,through CUPS and all [b]seemed[/b] well ... applied /etc/init.d/cups restart.Result: it appears to oblige for a moment then straight back to 'STOP' mode so that I can't even get a test page printed.I'm at a loss to know what the issue might be, except if the message coming up on the CUPS admin page - "Filter "foomatic-rip-hplip" for printer "Printer" not available is of any pertinence: I've tried getting/installing/enabling such but -no joy.s
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've had an issue in KDE where each time I restart my computer, I get 5-7 notifications that it wasn't able to connect to my ethernet port. (Or something close to that) I think it's trying to connect to my marvell port over and over. Has this happened with anyone else? I think I remember this happening with Ubuntu as well only it only tried to connect to that port once and then stopped trying.
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