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• Reset Windows Password with Ubuntu Live CD

  - by snix

  A friend brought me his PC with Windows Vista to reset the user password because he didn't use it for a long while and forgot his password. So I found a tutorial on how to reset the password by using a Ubuntu Live CD and the software chntpw. After I installed this software I mounted the SYSTEM partition by opening it with the file explorer. It is now available at /media/SYSTEM/ The tutorial says I have to open the file /windows/system32/config/sam with chntpw and reset the password with chntpw -u USERNAME sam After I did this it didn't show me any errors. So I unmounted the partition and rebooted the PC with the installed Windows Vista. It is still locked with the old password. Did I do any mistakes or is there an other way to reset the password?

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• Sluggish/unresponsive trackpad on pre-unibody MacBook Pro

  - by Art

  I am running Ubuntu Natty Narwhal on pre-unibody MacBook Pro (2007 I believe). There seems to be a problem with trackpad - it barely works, in order to move cursor you have to move your finger a lot, and it terminates the 'gestures' abruptly - say you are moving the cursor with your finger and out of the blue it just stops, although the finger is still in contact with the surface of the trackpad. Those issues seem to dissapear as soon as I boot Mac OS X, so I suspect it is something Ubuntu-specific. Also, if I try to move the cursor with not just fingertip but increase the contact area, it seems to work just fine, although it is hardly convenient.

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• Keyword does not work in dash

  - by sev

  Since the last update of my OS ubuntu 11.10, I am not able to type in the dash. In any other application (like Firefox for this message), the keyboard is working fine, but in the dash "window" of unity (I am not sure what it is called officially), the keyboard is buggy. Sometimes I manage to enter one or two characters, but most of the time nothing appears as if the key-press signal was not received. Before the update, I actually was working with gnome-classic (I had removed unity from oneiric). The update seemed to have reinstalled unity, but something apparently is missing or damaged. Does anybody have a clue about what could be done to repair the dash?

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• There's no Sound Mixer menu, missing menu option in Sound Recorder

  - by AlexN

  I am using: -Ubuntu 11.10 -Skype -PS3 Eye Toy camera to input video and sound This setup has been properly working in former Ubuntu releases. To use the mic already built in on the PS3 Eye Toy camera I open de Sound Recorder app (notice: not inside Skype, from inside Skype it is not possible to do this) that is included in Gnome and then I go to FileSound Mixer, from this menu I can choose Gnome to get the input audio from the PS3 Eye Toy, instead of from the Audio-In of the computer. Now in Ubuntu 11.10 this Sound Mixer menu inside Sound Recorder is missing, Gnome says something like this: gnome-volume-control is not installed in the proper directory Note: I have tried this on Unity, Unity 2D, Gnome Classic, Gnome Classic 2D and Gnome Shell. In all of them the problem is the same. What can I do? Basically what I want to do is to be able to tell the computer to get the audio in from the PS3 Camera. Thanks in advance.

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• Cannot connect to Open WiFi hotspot created by Android

  - by Bibhas

  I'm trying to share my 3G data connection via WiFi hotspot. I have an open Hotspot running on my phone(Xperia Neo V - MT11i - Android 2.3.4). But I cannot connect to it from my Ubuntu system. Here is the syslog while I try to connect to it - NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'TheNeo' NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0] NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0] NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'TheNeo' requires no security. No secrets needed. NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'TheNeo' NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1' NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE' NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. NetworkManager[1077]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1 NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating kernel: [17498.113553] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17498.310138] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17498.510069] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17498.710083] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17504.779927] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17504.976420] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17505.176379] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17505.376314] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17511.478385] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17511.674738] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17511.874655] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17512.074659] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17518.152643] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17518.349064] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17518.549051] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17518.748999] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17524.858896] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17525.055404] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17525.255387] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17525.455254] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17531.589176] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17531.785747] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17531.985724] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17532.185610] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17538.329257] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17538.528003] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17538.728024] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17538.927922] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17545.022036] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17545.218339] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17545.418319] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17545.618206] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out wpa_supplicant[29352]: Trying to authenticate with 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (SSID='TheNeo' freq=2462 MHz) kernel: [17551.724177] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 1/3) kernel: [17551.920685] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 2/3) kernel: [17552.120597] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f (try 3/3) kernel: [17552.320526] wlan0: direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out NetworkManager[1077]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long, failing activation. NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: config -> failed (reason 'supplicant-timeout') [50 120 11] NetworkManager[1077]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (TheNeo) NetworkManager[1077]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed. NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0] NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] NetworkManager[1077]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected NetworkManager[1077]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected. Why is direct probe to 5c:b5:24:2f:d1:2f timed out? Any idea?

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• Some websites are not opening. What should I do? [closed]

  - by Jamal

  Some websites are not opening in my system. I am using Ubuntu 11.04. Earlier, when I was using Ubuntu 10.01, there was no such issue. I have tried Firefox as well as Chromium and I am sure the issue is not with the browser. same websites are opening perfectly with Windows. Google, Twitter and Ubuntu related websites are running perfect. Other websites like www.downrightnow.com, easy-mantra.com are not opening. Installed Wubi on windows7 (32 bit). Ubuntu 12.10 is 64 bit. Processor Intel core 2 Duo. $ cat /etc/resolv.conf <-- Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) -- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN -- output --> nameserver 127.0.1.1

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• How to adjust TouchPad edge scroll area in Ubuntu?

  - by MikeVB

  I have an Acer Aspire that I have dual booting XP and Ubuntu. On the Windows side, the driver allows you to set how close your finger has to be to the edge of the TouchPad before it goes into scroll mode. In Ubuntu I don't have the option (at least in the GUI) to change the scroll area on the pad. Is there a conf file or other way to change this? I'm constantly getting into the scroll area during normal usage. I would like to leave it on without losing so much pad area to the scroll feature.

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• Is a disk/ata timeout exception dangerous?

  - by j-g-faustus

  I have a few hard drives in mdadm RAID 5 configured to go to standby after a few minutes of inactivity. (Using hdparm.conf spindown_time.) At irregular intervals I get messages like these in dmesg: [ 1840.251661] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 1840.251722] ata4.00: failed command: SMART [ 1840.251758] ata4.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in [ 1840.251759] res 40/00:14:50:2e:04/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 1840.251858] ata4.00: status: { DRDY } [ 1840.251888] ata4: hard resetting link [ 1840.600742] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1840.601521] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1840.601547] ata4: EH complete [337877.713988] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [337877.714019] ata4.00: failed command: SMART [337877.714038] ata4.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in [337877.714039] res 40/00:04:90:10:81/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [337877.714089] ata4.00: status: { DRDY } [337877.714107] ata4: hard resetting link [337878.063085] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [337878.063743] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 [337878.063764] ata4: EH complete I think the exception is caused by smartd when a drive does not wake up quickly enough. There are no issues (that I can tell) in accessing the drives normally through the file system - it takes a few seconds longer than normal when they are asleep, but there are no exceptions. Is this something I should worry about, as a potential symptom on something that could corrupt a drive over time? Or can I safely ignore it as part of normal operation? Edit: By request: smartctl -a for sdaand sde, both disks are members of the array. If ata4is the same as scsi-4 then sde is the one that gave the error above, according to /dev/disk/by-path.

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• Printing with Lacie Lightscribe requires root privileges

  - by James

  I have installed Lacie Lightscribe software on Ubuntu 12.04. Everything seems to be fine, the drive is detected, the proper media is detected, but when I click print I get the message "Printing Requires Root Privileges". I am the main (administrator) account on this computer, part of the sudo group and I cannot seem to find an answer to this dilemna in plain english. I've seen some apparently relevant posts which say things like "check whether the files /usr/4L/4L-gui and /usr/4L/4L-cli have any setuid-bits set. If so, remove them" but I need more detailed step-by-step instructions than that, please. Is there anyone who knows how to solve this?

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• Coda-like experience for Ubuntu

  - by Dillon Gilmore

  I'm a web developer who's going to transition from using Mac OS X to Ubuntu. I've been using Coda for some time, only because it makes web development easy. I know a full fledged app isn't available for Linux, but would like to know about apps that specialize in the same tasks that Coda offers. I plan on switching to Vim for code editing, I'm extremely proficient and will install the Janus plugin and be good to go for editing code. One thing that makes editing on Coda so amazing is its extremely good at SFTP, you can drag and drop files and/or folders from your local drive to the server. Also, you can edit code directly on the server. The problem here, is that using Vim I don't know of a way to edit code on a remote server, while using my own Vim settings and plugins. To solve this, I would like to know of a good SFTP client OR a good SFTP CLI. A CLI that could synchronize your files after a file has been modified would be perfect, but not necessary. Now, one of the biggest and best features of Coda is its ability to view your databases. You get to create a database, create tables, add stuff, delete stuff and view the contents of the table (all this without writing a single SQL statement). I will admit that databases are my weak point, but is a very important part of my job. If there is a tool that specializes in databases would be perfect. I wouldn't prefer to use the command line for database stuff, but if there is a CLI for databases that I'm missing could potentially be useful. So I guess I'm asking for two things. A tool that makes databases easier to visualize and a tool that assists in pushing my local code to a server.

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• Do I need a wifi card to have internet access?

  - by Sarah

  I am attempting to set up a wireless network on 11.04, freshly download today. The router is on and working. However, I do not have a wifi "card" (which I am assuming is a little USB-type thing that allows internet access, but correct me if I am wrong) and every time I try to type in the MAC address and everything, nothing works. I also get the "firmware missing" error when I scroll over the signal strength, which I have tried looking up but have been unsuccessful with completely understanding it. I guess my main question is do I need another little device to be able to use wifi on my ubuntu? I do have an ethernet cable but another person is using it and I do not want to be tied down to that cable. the problem is that none of the wireless networks show up, however they show up when I go into Windows mode on my laptop. I get an error message at the top saying "firmware missing" which I have tried looking up but still have no straight answer for.

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• Managing arbitrary user permissions under PureFTPd

  - by Sebastián Grignoli

  I need to provide an FTP service that needs to be web-managed in the simplest way possible. My customer wants to create folders and users, and give them read only or read/write access arbitrarily. For example: The folder 'Documents' should be read only for several users, writable for internal users, and invisible for the rest. The folder 'Pictures' should be read only for journalists, writable for associates, and invisible for the rest. The folder 'Media' should be read only, writable or invisible for arbitrary users specified on the admin. There could be a large number of users and folders. I can't find a good way to accomplish that. I thought that I could give each user a home folder and put symlinks for the folders he has read access to, and make the user part of the folder's group when he has write access too, but now I think that this wouldn't work, because with PureFTPd (or ProFTPd) I can only specify the virtual user's mapping to a system user, and only one GUID for each virtual user. My approach requires that I could specify several GUIDs for each user (one by each folder he has write access to). I need to start programming this admin and I still don't know wich approach would work, if any. ¿Any ideas?

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• Install Ubuntu or Kubuntu on a External USB Drive

  - by rihatum

  Hi All, I have a few external hard drives (SSDs and Platters (SATA), is this possible that I can install Kubuntu 10.10 x64 or Ubuntu 10.10 x64 onto one of these external hard drives? My System supports booting off a usb, it will just give me a learning playground without spoiling my existing operating environment. I know I can install as Virtual machines, but installing U/Kubuntu on a External HDD and booting off it would be easier. Will be grateful for your insights....and steps to do so. Thanks

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• Building lirc package from source with patches

  - by joystick

  I'd like to build latest lirc package for 12.04 with two patches from http://bit.ly/17779VW to make USB Infrared toy v2 work: Running sudo apt-build source lirc gave me ? build ll total 960 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 5 07:07 lirc-0.9.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113909 May 5 2011 lirc_0.9.0-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1553 May 5 2011 lirc_0.9.0-0ubuntu1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 857286 May 5 2011 lirc_0.9.0.orig.tar.bz2 in /var/cache/apt-build/build. Running sudo apt-build build-source lirc then gave me Some error occured building package which is not really informative. I have successfully built patched lirc from source but now I would like to get a deb package. Where can I look for this 'some errors' in detail? Thank you, Alexei

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• apt-get failed install of libg15, all package management is failing

  - by Stifle

  I was trying to get my Logitech G510 keyboard's back-lights working so I went into the Synaptic Package Manager and marked LibG15, G15daemon, and all the other associated packages. Synaptic reported a failed install. Now all Package management is failing due to libg15 being "halfway installed." Some commands I have tried to fix the problem follow. . . root@bt:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package libg15 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. root@bt:~# sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package libg15 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. root@bt:~# sudo apt-get -f purge libg15 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package libg15 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. root@bt:~# sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of g15macro: g15macro depends on g15daemon; however: Package g15daemon is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing g15macro (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of g15stats: g15stats depends on g15daemon; however: Package g15daemon is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing g15stats (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: g15macro g15stats I'm not too computer savvy. Any help would be much appreciated!!! Note: I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 under Backtrack 5 R3.

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• Issue with setting up multiple IP addresses on ubuntu server installation

  - by varunyellina

  I want to setup two ip addresses on my system for access through lan. This is my config on my other system. Desktop Installation My desktop installation runs with multiple IP's added through networkmanager both through lan and wifi. Server Installation On my server install I've edited /etc/network/interfaces to the following. auto eth0 auto eth0:1 # IP-1 iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.35.35 network 172.16.34.1 netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast 172.166.35.255 dns-nameservers 172.16.100.221 8.8.8.8 # IP-2 iface eth0:1 inet static address 172.16.34.34 network 172.16.34.1 netmask 255.255.254.0 gateway 172.16.34.1 broadcast 172.16.35.255 After restarting through "/etc/init.d/networking restart" I recieve "Failed to bring up eth0:1" What am I doing wrong? Thankyou.

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• Problem using graphics.h in Ubuntu

  - by blooooomer

  # include<stdio.h> # include<graphics.h> # include<math.h> using namespace std; int main(void) { int gd=DETECT,gm; int r,x,y,p,xc=320,yc=240; initgraph(&gd,&gm,NULL); cleardevice(); printf("Enter the radius "); scanf("%d",&r); x=0; y=r; putpixel(xc+x,yc-y,1); p=3-(2*r); for(x=0;x<=y;x++) { if (p<0) { y=y; p=(p+(4*x)+6); } else { y=y-1; p=p+((4*(x-y)+10)); } putpixel(xc+x,yc-y,1); putpixel(xc-x,yc-y,2); putpixel(xc+x,yc+y,3); putpixel(xc-x,yc+y,4); putpixel(xc+y,yc-x,5); putpixel(xc-y,yc-x,6); putpixel(xc+y,yc+x,7); putpixel(xc-y,yc+x,8); } getch(); closegraph(); } installed graphics.h compiled using gcc filename.cpp -0 filename -lgraph then used ./filename the window apperared for 10 seconds and the error below appears: [xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that. heart: ../../src/xcb_io.c:273: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed. Aborted Any solutions?

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• Network manager indicator missing

  - by Jarmo

  I recently upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04. My first attempt failed, and I received an error stating that not all of the required packages were downloaded. Before (successfully) attempting again, I noticed that there was no longer a networking indicator in the upper panel. The indicator did not reappear with the installation of 12.04. To be clear, my wireless connection has experienced no problems, despite the missing indicator. Here are the solutions that I have found which did not work for me: Editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and replacing [ifupdown] managed=false with =true. Reinstalling network-manager (via apt-get install --reinstall). I am currently running 12.04 on an Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, and I am new to seeking solutions through forums, so I apologize if I have neglected to provide some vital information about my hardware.

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• Settings are not being saved

  - by Gavin Panella

  Several weeks ago I updated a Facebook and Google accounts in Empathy to use per-application passwords. However, it forgets these passwords on each reboot and I have to enter them again. However, settings in Edit with Emacs in Chromium do not persist either, so I think this is more than a bug in Empathy. I tried mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf.bak, but that didn't work. What other common denominators are there that might be at the root of this?

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• Unable to remove the lock by normal means

  - by Loki

  I've been installing ubuntu restricted extras via the software center. Everything was going well at first, but then the installation process froze on 'applying changes' stage. I've had this in the past already, and usually just hitting the 'cancel' button helped, but not this time. Obviously, the install process has placed a lock, and I couldn't issue any apt-get commands. then i've tried doing what was suggested here Fixing Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock : sudo fuser -cuk /var/lib/dpkg/lock; sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/lock but it seemed to me that it has only killed my X server. Okay, i've just pressed the power button on my PC, and restarted, hoping that the lock was finally off and i could reinstall the stuff. No dice. when I open the software center, I still have one operation in process, a weird one: " Searching | Cancelling ". The 'cancel' button is either inactive, or it just does nothing. So I've become desperate and decided to write here. How do I fix the problem? Can't install anything on a fresh ubuntu 12.04 :) Thanks in advance

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• magic trackpad - Ubuntu

  - by UbuntuGuy

  I've been using a mac in my job for a while now. The only feature i like about it above my ubuntu (on an hp) is the trackpad. I love doing the strokes to move between different files. It really makes things quicker. Is it possible to imitate this feature on my ubuntu laptop. (like maybe there might be something that utilizes my mouse pad on the laptop, as well as the scroller) If that is impossible or doesn't exist then can i set up a magic trackpad to ubuntu on my hp.

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• Notebook overheating

  - by user71372

  I'm asking this question because I've tried many tips to solve they don't work and it sounds like a non-fixed bug ubuntu. My problem is with overheating. I've recently installed Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS alongside with MS Windows 7 on my notebook Samsung 530U. I'm using both via dual-boot mode. I've no heating problem with MS Win 7 and the fan speed is normal even with long run utilization. However, when booting with Ubuntu and after short time, the PC got very hot and the fan was running at max speed. I installed a tool called Jupiter, I put it in "Power Saving" mode but no result. Now, I avoid using ubuntu because I fear it'll damage my all new notebook. Please can you give me a "FINAL" fix of this problem (lot of answers exist but I don't know the more accurate and efficient one). Thank you in advance.

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• How to update Adobe's software unattendedly?

  - by jubel

  I would like to use unattended-upgrade to update the Adobe Reader, Flash Player and everything else of the Canonical partners. There fore, I added in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins { "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-security"; "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-updates"; "Canonical ${distro_codename}"; // "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-proposed"; // "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-backports"; }; sudo unattended-upgrade --dry-run -d says Initial blacklisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=oneiric-security', 'o=Ubuntu,a=oneiric-updates', 'o=Canonical,a=oneiric'] Checking: acroread-common (["<Origin component:'partner' archive:'' origin:'' label:'' site:'archive.canonical.com' isTrusted:False>"]) Checking: adobe-flash-properties-gtk (["<Origin component:'partner' archive:'' origin:'' label:'' site:'archive.canonical.com' isTrusted:False>"]) Checking: adobe-flashplugin (["<Origin component:'partner' archive:'' origin:'' label:'' site:'archive.canonical.com' isTrusted:False>"]) Checking: adobereader-deu (["<Origin component:'partner' archive:'' origin:'' label:'' site:'archive.canonical.com' isTrusted:False>"]) Checking: handbrake-cli (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'oneiric' origin:'LP-PPA-stebbins-handbrake-snapshots' label:'HandBrake Snapshots' site:'ppa.launchpad.net' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: handbrake-gtk (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'oneiric' origin:'LP-PPA-stebbins-handbrake-snapshots' label:'HandBrake Snapshots' site:'ppa.launchpad.net' isTrusted:True>"]) Checking: sopcast-player (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'oneiric' origin:'LP-PPA-ferramroberto-sopcast' label:'LffL Sopcast' site:'ppa.launchpad.net' isTrusted:True>"]) pkgs that look like they should be upgraded: Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) blacklist: [] InstCount=0 DelCount=0 BrokenCout=0 No packages found that can be upgraded unattended And it won't update. How can I update the third-party software automatically?

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• MPlayer does not work

  - by Soham Pal

  Using the xubuntu desktop, on Ubuntu Raring updated from Quantal. MPlayer never really worked. No video, no audio, nothing. I really can't be any more helpful, so here's the log: petey@home-pc:~$ mplayer "/home/petey/Downloads/Polar Bear Cafe (480p)HorribleSubs]/[HorribleSubs] Polar Bear Cafe - 01 [480p].mkv" MPlayer SVN-r35984-4.7 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team Playing /home/petey/Downloads/Polar Bear Cafe (480p)[HorribleSubs]/[HorribleSubs] Polar Bear Cafe - 01 [480p].mkv. libavformat version 55.0.100 (internal) libavformat file format detected. [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0 [lavf] stream 2: subtitle (ass), -sid 0 VIDEO: [H264] 848x480 0bpp 23.810 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) Clip info: creation_time: 2012-04-05 21:36:10 Load subtitles in /home/petey/Downloads/Polar Bear Cafe (480p)[HorribleSubs]/ Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied [fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied VO: [v4l2] No such file or directory vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)! [cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [s3_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family libavcodec version 55.0.100 (internal) Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->352800) Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [null] 848x480 = 854x480 Planar YV12 A: 4.7 V: 4.7 A-V: 0.002 ct: 0.083 0/ 0 22% 0% 0.5% 0 0 MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer A: 4.7 V: 4.7 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.083 0/ 0 21% 0% 0.5% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit)

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• How to force a clock update using ntp?

  - by ysap

  I am running Ubuntu on an ARM based embedded system that lacks a battery backed RTC. The wake-up time is somewhere during 1970. Thus, I use the NTP service to update the time to the current time. I added the following line to /etc/rc.local file: sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov However, after startup, it still takes a couple of minutes until the time is updated, during which period I cannot work effectively with tar and make. How can I force a clock update at any given time? UPDATE 1: The following (thanks to Eric and Stephan) works fine from command line, but fails to update the clock when put in /etc/rc.local: $ date ; sudo service ntp stop ; sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov ; sudo service ntp start ; date Thu Jan 1 00:00:58 UTC 1970 * Stopping NTP server ntpd [ OK ] * Starting NTP server [ OK ] Thu Feb 14 18:52:21 UTC 2013 What am I doing wrong? UPDATE 2: I tried following the few suggestions that came in response to the 1st update, but nothing seems to actually do the job as required. Here's what I tried: Replace the server to us.pool.ntp.org Use explicit paths to the programs Remove the ntp service altogether and leave just sudo ntpdate ... in rc.local Remove the sudo from the above command in rc.local Using the above, the machine still starts at 1970. However, when doing this from command line once logged in (via ssh), the clock gets updated as soon as I invoke ntpdate. Last thing I did was to remove that from rc.local and place a call to ntpdate in my .bashrc file. This does update the clock as expected, and I get the true current time once the command prompt is available. However, this means that if the machine is turned on and no user is logged in, then the time never gets updates. I can, of course, reinstall the ntp service so at least the clock is updated within a few minutes from startup, but then we're back at square 1. So, is there a reason why placing the ntpdate command in rc.local does not perform the required task, while doing so in .bashrc works fine?

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