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Does anyone know how to setup a Racoon VPN via network manager in Gnome?
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I have Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 (no Unity), gnome-screen-saver has been removed and replaced with xscreensaver. The screensaver stuff all works fine -- no complaints there. When I close my laptop lid, even for a second, the screen locks (and the dialog box asking for my password is xscreensaver's)…
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I have researched the solution...
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac "nothing"
does not fix it. I have two external monitors and when I close my lid the settings are reset and the laptop's monitor is set to the default.
Thanks!
gsettings list-recursively…
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I'm trying to install Gnome on my Ubuntu 12.04 P.Pangolin and getting the following errors:
root@***:~# sudo apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session-fallback
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-core is already the newest version…
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nm-applet seems to have disappeared from my system. I am running 12.10. Here's what I get when I check my package manager logs:
? ~ grep network-manager /var/log/dpkg.log
2012-10-06 10:37:08 upgrade network-manager-gnome:amd64 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu5 0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6
2012-10-06 10:37:08…
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When I boot ubuntu I get a bunch of windows saying "The panel encountered a problem while loading: OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet", with a bunch of others(5) besides ShowDesktopApplet. I am able to launch a terminal, and I do have the taskbar at the top, although the bar at the bottom that holds the…
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Since yesterday, my wired network connection has been dropping for a couple of seconds every 30 seconds or so. To my knowledge, I had not made any changes to my network.
Output of ifconfig -a:
? ~ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:f0:49:b9:b1:7f
inet addr:192.168…
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I'm using a WPA2 EAP network. I'm sitting next to the access point. The connection keeps dropping and taking ~10 seconds to reconnect. My other devices are staying online. What's causing it?
syslog:
01:21:10 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX on eth1 to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 67
01:21:10…
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I'm having frequent disconnects with my new install of Ubuntu 12.10. I tried updating the kernel driver to the latest intel release to no avail. My expertise is spent. It happens anywhere between 1 min and 10 min. Any ideas?
syslog:
Dec 1 13:51:39 andromeda kernel: [ 972.188809] audit_printk_skb:…
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I've got Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit and installed network-manager-vpnc and configured the connection but I keep getting this:
NetworkManager[1217]: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
NetworkManager[1217]: <info>…
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Since upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 I can't connect to internet using mobile broadband modem Huawei e173. It worked earlier without problems and now it seems to be properly recognized (at least its connections appear in network manager applet), and after selecting connection manually it starts connection…
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