Re: Laptops
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 07:19 +1100, David Ryder wrote: Hi, I'm after a notebooks which I will only put Ubuntu (8+) on. I want the internet camera and mic built in (Ekiga, Skype). I went to JB Hi-Fi and Powerhouse yesterday. To my amazement, I was told that all notebooks will take linux perfectly (as in no problems) and one said he uses Ubuntu on 'several' without a problem - though he needed his brother-in-law to install it. Neither would accept my offer of I will buy it if you guarantee my money back if it does not work with Ubuntu (8.04). They would not as they then said They were made to work with Windows XP/Vista. My second question was, do any have dual monitor outputs? No. OK, it was a like-to-have, not a necessity. So, I ask the list, is it true that all notebooks will work with Ubuntu 8.04 (+?) including the camera, mic, Skype for Ubuntu, Ekiga, ethernet adapter to my router, Seagate FreeAgent 500 usb drive, wi-fi internet?? Apologies for asking but I was under the impression notebooks were not so simple? David Hi David, my experience with my Toschiba Satellite P100 where bad in the beginning. With 7.10 it took me a week (evenings) of reading and tinkering until I made the sound work properly (the new audio chipset together with a faulty ACPI setting did not work out of the box). Even today I can't use the build in fingerprint reader or activate the bluetooth module. Don't get me wrong, by now I've read How-Tos on every aspect of the machine and how to get it working and under 8.10 the sound works out of the box. So (my) bottom line is with a brand new notebook and Ubuntu 8.04 you might need to get your hands a bit dirty to get thinks working. A common rule sais that new notebook hardware takes 6 months to be reasonable supported by Linux (list, is that correct or did I remembered it wrong?). I'd suggest the live CD test in the shop, that way you can spot the mayor glitches. good luck, sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much. So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to upgrade to a new release... maybe to 9.10? If you want to give her something solid and won't require upgrading so regularly, throw hardy (8.04LTS) at her. LTS releases are supported for 3 years and have longer release cycles. Wait for the .1LTS release to dodge the nasty bugs that seem to creep in at the end of an ubuntu release cycle. Indeed, thats what I thought as well after I wrote the last post :-) I will make sure here home is on a separate partition and I set up some backup routine for her... maybe simply a dropbox 'mirror'. Given what has happened recently with ma.gnolia and some blog platform, I wouldn't trust cloud solutions as your only backup option. If they go under or stuff something up, she doesn't know about and then something happens, she is left with nothing. I would suggest having some redundancy of providers if you wish to go down this road. I know that you should not rely on the free services as they can stop their service any time without reason. So I though I get her a (cheap) 4 gig usb dongle which will go on the back of her computer. Then I set up sbackup which I quite like to backup ~ /etc and ? on a regular basis. sbackup comes with automatic deletion of old backups and given the fact that she wont store much music or pictures the backups could go back a long time b4 they are deleted. On top of this I can still setup dropbox. What do you think? Regarding the ISP, yes I'd agree that the free quota for the updates is very cool. But last time I checked Internode or iinet where either pricey to change to or not available where I live (the exchanges around me have all already the faster DSL only Narrabeen not...) Internode have the largest number of ADSL2+ dslams of any ISP. I don't know about your mum's situation, but most of my family is more than happy with 512/128 from internode for $40 per month. I can't see that being considered pricey when you look at what you get for your money. With ISPs I have found it is a case of cheap, reliable, good customer service - pick 2. As replied to Barry I will look into this again. Last time I checked the cost for me to switch was quite high Cheers, Seb Cheers Dave signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
beta-live CD vs daily live CD
Hi all, I'm looking into installing a new xubuntu box for my mum next week. I want to give the latest 9.04 xubuntu a spin on her 'new/refurbished' hardware. As I will be away from next week I can't install her the final release so it will be either the latest alpha or a daily live build. What would you recommend? I will test the latest alpha/beta and see how the hardware does but at some stage she will need to run the update. On a 500 MB plan downloading a whole distribution update will most likely leave her without any quota for the rest of the month. So would it be better to install the possibly latest daily live and hope that less packages change or does that not matter? Thanks, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
add buttons in Evolution
Hi all, is there a way to add additional buttons to the Evolution toolbar? I have a 16:9 screen and lots of space where I would like to put some additional buttons. Or is there a keyboard-shortcut command list? Cheers, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
move to Evolution
Hi all, I recently decided to move from Thunderbird to Evolution. The two main reasons where better integration into GNOME (I run Intrepid) and address book supporting birthdays. While I was searching on how to do the move as painless as possible I found many who wanted to move from Evolution to Thunderbird but only a few in my direction. I remember that, two releases ago - Gutsy, Evolution kept crashing on me although I only used it for Contact/Birthday management. Backing up and restoring was a pain as well, especially as it was widely recommended with a always crashing Evolution. Well now I did the move and I have to say it was not painful, what helped me was mainly this one http://gaveen.owain.org/2007/07/howto-migrate-from-thunderbird-to.html Moving mails was successful, contacts as well. Mail filters, well I re-did them or made new ones up, PGP and other certificates where easily installed. I admit I still have some housekeeping to do, sorting though mails and reorganise, setting up filters and labels. Now first I hope someone will read this and give it a try as well! Second I was hoping for some input/answers :-) Is there a way to change default window sizes, particular the filter window and the filter detail window are always very small. I can hardly read the first halve of the filter names... When using the To: button on writing a new mail my contacts have a Mr/Mrs... in front of their name. Can I change that without changing the contacts themselves? Are filters automatically applied to new incoming mail? Is there a way to add more buttons to the menu bar? Cheers, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: AUS LoCo status?
Not sure if you heard or read about it, and yes I know it's not Ubuntu only but the SLUG team have monthly meetings which are open to everyone to join in. I agree with Paul that AU is a huge, vast country and it might be just difficult to meet in large groups more often. (Maybe not in Sydney though :-D ) I assume that SLUG is the biggest Linux related group meeting regularly in the Sydney area. For some time there where quite a few Linuxchix meeting announcements for Sydney if I remember correct. Cheers, seb www.slug.org.au Jason Allen wrote: With Planet and Planet Users participating in the Get to know a LoCo meme at the moment, I thought I find out about the AUS loCo ... 1. The LoCoTeam List (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) leads me to http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ which appears to have had no activity since June 2008 2. LoCoTeamList also leads me to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam which appears to have had no activity updates since Aug 2008 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam directs me to http://ubuntu.org.au/, which is the same as #1 above. 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Members has had a recent update onlya few days ago with an addition for Sth AUS. (and now me) 5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam shows no meetings or newsletters since June 2008 6. Planet AU (http://planet.ubuntu.org.au/) appears to have little Ubuntu activity 7. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseParties shows nothing occurred for AUS So I make the assessment that Australia LoCo is either a very stagnant or dead LoCo? Is this a fair assessment? If not, what/where have I missed for info and activities of AUS LoCo? If it is a fair assessment, why is this the case? Do AU Ubuntu'ites like it this way? I'm not trying to play or stir politics - if there has been any on this topic in the past - but just trying to understand the current status. Is this list the only real communication and activity of ubuntu-au? Thanks. -- Cheers, Jason -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
'Create a USB startup disk' killed my memory stick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm a bit confused but I think my memory stick got killed while creating a USB startup disk with the new Ubuntu tool. I started the usb creator and wanted to create a xubuntu USB dongle, for this I purchased a 4 GB stick. As I wanted it for nothing serious I thought I go with the cheap USB dongle... Well now after the USB creator got stuck on 'starting app' or something the USB dongle (straight from the packing) is dead. I left the USB creator running for several hours as I thought it might need the time but nothing happened. When I plug the USB dongle in nothing happens, neither in Ubuntu nor in Windows. NO empty partition, corrupted partition just nothing. my kernel log shows this and then lots of the FAT: Directory bred... errors Can anyone tell me what happened here? did I do something wrong? was it just to cheap? - seb usb 5-3: USB disconnect, address 8 Jan 1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.080128] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 Jan 1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.216239] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.218341] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.230654] usb-storage: device found at 9 Jan 1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.230665] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.228253] usb-storage: device scan complete Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.229422] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ut165USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.230899] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 7897088 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB) Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233532] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233539] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233543] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.238268] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 7897088 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB) Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242244] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242253] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242256] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.244995] sdd: Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.449132] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk Jan 1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.449525] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Jan 1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.945749] FAT: Directory bread(block 15426) failed Jan 1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.946705] FAT: Directory bread(block 15427) failed Jan 1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.947576] FAT: Directory bread(block 15428) failed Jan 1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.948471] FAT: Directory bread(block 15429) failed Jan 1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.949330] FAT: Directory bread(block 15430) failed -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklf94kACgkQMuBzgG5z7F9a1QCgltKIjVfQENUwRgUjn2g/8mq9 M4UAoImLgnJd+9ipLRYO8l01fAhafVvy =5sA2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: How to save a webpage as PDF? (where is it?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Callan Jefferson Davies wrote: (I have no printer.) The Print dialogue box shows 'Print to file', and I select the only option that's there, PDF, and click on Print. I can't work out where the PDF file is (what folder) - gives no indication of where the resulting PDF will be found. Hi Dave, I can't speak for Hardy as I'm using Intrepid, but when I click print to file and choose PDF, there is also the option for a filename and a folder. Failing that, I'd say look in your home folder then PDF. I might suggest though that you add the PDF printer. I think you have to install cups-pdf (sudo apt-get install cups-pdf), then go to System Administration Printers, add printer, and you should see the PDF printer there. It might even just show up by itself. This pdf printer always seems to write to Home Folder then PDF. You might need to create this 'PDF' folder for it to work properly. Good luck! Callan I second that, on hardy I installed cups-pdf and all worked - no config needed. All PDFs go in ~/PDF The only downside I found was that PDF with the same name er overwritten without hesitation. Cheers, seb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklMsmwACgkQMuBzgG5z7F93LACffpqQJxNSVgKSCCLcmChOLcYC gf4AmgO78c2xIqiCIVoz/5D2tkzpGS2Y =pyUQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: How to save a webpage as PDF? (where is it?) - Thanks Callan, found it!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote: And I will check out adding that PDF printer (at the moment I don't see any field where I can specify filename and destination). Dave There is no option for the name. The PDF will be names as the site is names in the title bar (the one above the file menu... :-/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklMssgACgkQMuBzgG5z7F+KHwCgqHH8R7bRZI8CccaygDIRuRA0 mb8An16AiRo1dGbez84IXFzvTFVDNYPB =YrjO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Stickers and case badges?
Jason Allen wrote: Hi All, I've managed to miss the availability of Ubuntu stickers and case badges over the last couple of years and after seeing a sticker on laptop in an office today, it's reminded me that I really want some and feel 'naked' without any. Are they available from anywhere? Or the hi-res images files of them so I can get some made up for myself? Thanks. -- Cheers, Jason As subscriber of the UK Linux Format magazine you will receive a A4 sheet with various Linux related stickers - seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: xubuntu upgrade/install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi Dan, I hope you can help me in some way... Yesterday I spend some time on IRC http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/11/02/%23xubuntu.html time starting at 09:01 _sebastian1 and we went though all we could think of but nothing helped/worked. so I pulled the xorg.conf from my backup (gutsy) and copied it to the intrepid install it seemed to work as the machine was working. but in the end it X cam up saying it could only run in low gaphics mode. As mouse, thouchpad or keyb did not work I could not press the OK button. I attached the xorg.conf from gutsy and the log file Two friends of mine recently had the same problem post-upgrade. I'm beginning to think this is something that needs to be filed as a bug. It seemed for them that vital input/graphics drivers where not brought across in an upgrade. Your error log says X can't find a driver to match your graphics card. The fix that worked for both of them was the following (each command is one line, prefixed by $ representing your command prompt). I've used ubuntu-desktop in the following. Replace with xubuntu-desktop/kubuntu-desktop as you require. $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all -y $ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg What all of that does is ensure that Xorg, (X|K)Ubuntu-Desktop and all the necessary drivers are installed. Then it moves your config to the side and applies the new 1.5/7.4 Xorg ultra-minimalist config that does a lot of autodetection. (My xorg.conf is 11 lines, and works perfectly on my Toshiba laptop). Give it a whirl and see how you go. -Dan Hi Dan, thanks for your advice, unfortunately I can only boot in recovery mode else the system hangs. In recovery mode my network is not working - this seemed strange to me at first so I did a search and came up with http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-629271.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768875 but no success. I agree with you that this is a candidate for a bug and I would file one BUT I have no idea what I should write and report. Besides, I only wanted to upgrade computer and the give it strait back to my mother so she can do her banking and stuff. Now it's been 5 nights of trying and no success. Hardy live CD runs without problem so I probably go and install it a bit later. Any last ideas? CHeers, sebastian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJEBX6MuBzgG5z7F8RApIhAKCYvHy6LhMki/+s7bcNboBaba1myQCg1pyQ gLOLe8PHiIQCVW0z3qVQzxo= =mJmK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: xubuntu upgrade/install
Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on? It sounds more like there's a mismatch between the driver Xorg is selecting and your actual hardware. You can get back to a terminal/tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, and then logging in with your credentials from there. Have a look at the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there are any notable error messages, particularly towards the end. If it makes no sense to you, post it to the list and I'll have a look over it. -Dan Hi Dan, I hope you can help me in some way... Yesterday I spend some time on IRC http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/11/02/%23xubuntu.html time starting at 09:01 _sebastian1 and we went though all we could think of but nothing helped/worked. so I pulled the xorg.conf from my backup (gutsy) and copied it to the intrepid install it seemed to work as the machine was working. but in the end it X cam up saying it could only run in low gaphics mode. As mouse, thouchpad or keyb did not work I could not press the OK button. I attached the xorg.conf from gutsy and the log file slowly I am loosing it - I had a go with the hardy live CD and it went without problems. I used the intrepid live cd with an even older notebook and it worked... Maybe you have a idea!? cheers, sebastian # xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type man xorg.conf at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section Files EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons true EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver synaptics Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol auto-dev Option HorizEdgeScroll 0 EndSection Section InputDevice Driver wacom Identifier stylus Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type stylus Option ForceDevice ISDV4 # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section InputDevice Driver wacom Identifier eraser Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type eraser Option ForceDevice ISDV4 # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section InputDevice Driver wacom Identifier cursor Option Device/dev/input/wacom Option Type cursor Option ForceDevice ISDV4 # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section Device Identifier Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] Driver i810 BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS HorizSync 28-51 VertRefresh 43-60 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 800x600
Re: xubuntu upgrade/install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop manager' I've had a few people tell me the same, and upon investigation the system did eventually get into GNOME, but could take upwards of half an hour to get there due to slow CPU speed and low RAM. While LiveCDs are a nice idea, they are not practical for low-RAM systems. My advice is to use the Alternate installer instead. FWIW, I use this installer even on high-RAM systems for two major reasons: 1) It's much faster. A full install can sometimes be done in the time it takes the LiveCD GUI installer just to boot to the desktop! 2) It also offers advanced disk setup options like RAID, LVM and Encrypted LVM (a must for laptop users). These can be done automatically by the installer (good for new users wanting advanced features), manually by hand (good for us old greybeards who know exactly what we want), or skipped altogether for simple partitioning. It is not difficult to use. There's no mouse input, but menus are driven via ncurses (a quasi GUI system for console), and all options are selectable with the keyboard arrows. Don't fear the Alternate installer just because it's not mouse driven. I tried different things for booting the machine vga=792 - this was needed in gutsy nosplash... to see what is happening fully live cd live cd with graphics compatibility (or whatever it is called) mode selected (F4 during boot) vga=normal is the way to set a standard text/non-framebuffer mode on standard PC hardware. Also remove the quiet option to see more stuff happening (in conjunction with nosplash, which you use already). -Dan Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on? seb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJDVrjMuBzgG5z7F8RAjwhAJ9ztTPXTi00LTl7MMowU7zk6Zqf8wCfSluU vPIoh+gU+wNKecbcg5i0Ve8= =0JFh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
xubuntu upgrade/install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, yes it is upgrade time again. I want to do a fresh install on a old dell laptop. until now it ran xubuntu gusty. the notebook has ~380 RAM So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop manager' I tried different things for booting the machine vga=792 - this was needed in gutsy nosplash... to see what is happening fully live cd live cd with graphics compatibility (or whatever it is called) mode selected (F4 during boot) as soon as the boot process hits this 'starting GNOME desktop manager' CD-drive and fan spin down and it goes qiet. any ideas? I was hoping to get this one upgraded by tomorow... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJDGBLMuBzgG5z7F8RAk4JAJ45Ecm83NSlNBqWP5rdWtZKLQw62wCgseCm Yuw6bniuUMoJTcMz4Ivzn0g= =iA7X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
9.04 will be Jaunty Jackalope
Hi all, I am sure most of you have read the news about the name for 9.04. Mark Shuttleworth announced [1] the name for the +2 release being Jaunty Jackalope. Just a few days ago I read though https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames and was thinking of nice names for the future versions. So what are your favourites for upcoming versions? Mine are: Mad Monkey - this one I am looking forward to :-) Rapid Roadrunner - beep beep :-) Smelly Sheep - like this one Snappy Snail Traumatized Tapir 1 [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000481.html] -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: DVD - CD BURNING
David Ryder wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:11 +1000, Sebastian Spiess wrote: David Ryder wrote: Hi everybody, HARDY I have 100% failure on burning DVDs and CDs. The programs installed are Audio CD Exctractor, Brasero Rhythmbox. However, if I install Wine and use Imgburn http://www.imgburn.com/ then I get 100% success - which I was used to in Windows. But I really would prefer not to use Wine - does anybody know of other Linux (Ubuntu) programs that are good or what I might be able to do to get successful burns in Ubuntu, please? Many thanks, David Hi David, Hi all, in the beginning I had some trouble with brasero and my Toshiba Satellite notebook and the combined CD/DVD drive. Then I came across this gentoo article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Toshiba_Satellite_P100 where they say that Add combined_mode=libata to kernel parameters in order to setup dma transfers for optical drive. Otherwise, playing or recording DVDs doesn't work correctly. the strange thing I never had CD issues, only DVD burning was a problem. I would suggest to investigate this with your drives, see if you can burn CDs. On the other had it seems unlikely that you having 3 burners have trouble and are alone out there with the combined mode thing. :-\ Cheers, Sebastian Sebastion, I think this is on the right track - I recall many moons ago I had exactly the same problem in Windows until I forced DMA on. However I am having difficulty identifying the cdrom drive letter. Is it: ls /dev/cdrom If so I get /dev/scd0 But when I try to see if dma is on: hdparm -d /dev/scd0 I get: /dev/scd0: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device which, to me, says it is not scd0. Am I doing something wrong? Many thanks, David David, a bit late ... I have to admit I can't help you with this. Never had DMA issues, so I know nothing about it. BUt it might be worth a separate post. Cheers seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: GLSlideshow preferences under 8.04
Paul Gear wrote: Junin Toiro wrote: 2008/8/21 Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, Can anyone explain to me how set preferences for GLSlideshow under gnome-screensaver? Since i upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, GLSlideshow's defaults have changed and i no longer see more than about 60% of my photos before it switches to the next one. I want it to do fairly minimal panning zooming so that i get to see most (all?) of the photos in my collection. ... http://rclermont.blogspot.com/2007/02/modifying-glslideshow-settings-in_28.html Kinda bone headed decision to remove screensaver prefs in my opinion. Thanks for that - worked a treat. Hi all, this is great, I found a nice screensaver I really liked. I set all up as suggested in the blog and it worked. Added some picture folders to the .xscreensaver and ordered it to make random pics. In the glslideshow.desktop I changed not much, some timing. The preview workes, both. the one in the settings window and when I press the preview in full screen. So all should work but it doesn't. When I leave the computer idle the screen dims and goes blank. This is where I think the screen saver should kick in but the screen goes bright again as if I had moved the mouse... Any idea how I can make it work properly? Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
cut and edit JVC Everio HDD cam videos
Hi all, the last couple of weeks a fried was with us. She brought a JVC Everio GZ-MG67E. She did some serious filing over the weeks and before she left I connected the camcorder to my ubuntu hardy. It was soon mounted as a storage device and I could browse the folders on the cam. I found the video files (.mod) and was able to play them in totem right away although ubuntu recognised them as Amiga SoundTracker Audio files. See here for a screen shot of the file listing in case it matters http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jvceveriovideofileyg0.png So the playback works with sound _but_ fast forward and backward will cause totem to produce error messages. My main objective now is to condense the clips in one movie I can put down on DVD and play in a normal DVD player. Which sotware can you recommend to do this. Some years back I used the Windows Movie Maker for some DV-camcorder action and it did all I needed despite is was a MS thing so I am looking for something similar simple but free. I did some search and found this [1] kino forum post, so did anyone have the same problems with the JVC mod files? Any help is appreciated Sebastian [http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topicforum=103topic_id=609] -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: cut and edit JVC Everio HDD cam videos
Matthew Rossi wrote: I wouldn't know as i've never used one of those cameras. I don't really like the JVC camcorders because it uses a strange video codec for it's recordings. Good luck. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Sebastian Spiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, the last couple of weeks a fried was with us. She brought a JVC Everio GZ-MG67E. She did some serious filing over the weeks and before she left I connected the camcorder to my ubuntu hardy. It was soon mounted as a storage device and I could browse the folders on the cam. I found the video files (.mod) and was able to play them in totem right away although ubuntu recognised them as Amiga SoundTracker Audio files. See here for a screen shot of the file listing in case it matters http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jvceveriovideofileyg0.png So the playback works with sound _but_ fast forward and backward will cause totem to produce error messages. My main objective now is to condense the clips in one movie I can put down on DVD and play in a normal DVD player. Which sotware can you recommend to do this. Some years back I used the Windows Movie Maker for some DV-camcorder action and it did all I needed despite is was a MS thing so I am looking for something similar simple but free. I did some search and found this [1] kino forum post, so did anyone have the same problems with the JVC mod files? Any help is appreciated Sebastian [http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topicforum=103topic_id=609 http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topicforum=103topic_id=609] -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- Matthew Rossi Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532 Strange indeed, I installed kino 1.3.1 from getdeb but it would not import the video files... :-( any help is appreciated -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: NAS - recommendations please
Sebastian wrote: Hi all, for a while now I've been looking into buying a NAS for the growing amount of data. I was thinking of something like QNAP TS-209 Pro [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30181/75/] but as funds are short and the need for storage is pressing I was thinking that there should be a less expensive solution out there which still does the job sufficiently. When I look as e.g. Officeworks I can get a external 3,5'' drive with 500GB for less than 150$ So is there a decent NAS out there which brings ~500GB and is still ~200$ ?? Cheers, Sebastian a bit late but thanks to all who gave some help. I know it was OT but I figured that I would get better replies in regards to linux compatible hardware here on the list. Cheers Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: How to load korganizer at boot up?!?
Peter Williams wrote: Hi All, I've been running Linux Ubuntu all years, and then some. However, I've only been running Kubuntu for a few months. Basically, the more I use it, the more I like it. ;-)) My question is this: How do I make korganizer load each time I boot up my Kubuntu system?!? I did it once, but now it doesn't load automatically - and thats what I want it do. Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but I search some discussion forums and could not find out how to do this. I think that part of the problem (for me anyway), is that there is too much info to look thru'. Information overload!!! Best Regards, PEW -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) Have you looked/searched for auto start application in general? Have you checked the Korganizer options? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: DVD - CD BURNING
David Ryder wrote: Hi everybody, HARDY I have 100% failure on burning DVDs and CDs. The programs installed are Audio CD Exctractor, Brasero Rhythmbox. However, if I install Wine and use Imgburn http://www.imgburn.com/ then I get 100% success - which I was used to in Windows. But I really would prefer not to use Wine - does anybody know of other Linux (Ubuntu) programs that are good or what I might be able to do to get successful burns in Ubuntu, please? Many thanks, David Hi David, Hi all, in the beginning I had some trouble with brasero and my Toshiba Satellite notebook and the combined CD/DVD drive. Then I came across this gentoo article http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Toshiba_Satellite_P100 where they say that Add combined_mode=libata to kernel parameters in order to setup dma transfers for optical drive. Otherwise, playing or recording DVDs doesn't work correctly. the strange thing I never had CD issues, only DVD burning was a problem. I would suggest to investigate this with your drives, see if you can burn CDs. On the other had it seems unlikely that you having 3 burners have trouble and are alone out there with the combined mode thing. :-\ Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: IE in wine
Chris Jones wrote: Apparently ATO software developers are working on a linux version of etax for future. Fingers crossed for next year! Regards Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yea while they work on a linux version they worsened the linux/wine experience of the 2008 version. I installed it recently and when I want to select y profession the drop down menu is empty... well done Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
zombie after startup
hi all, for quite a while now I've been having one or sometimes 2 zombie processes showing in my system monitor I tried to kill them using the system monitor. I tried killall and PID but everything I tried did not work. After reboot the zombie is back. PID is always 6000 if that matters. How can I investigate what causes this zombie and how can I kill it. I would prefer the shot gun which worked well on zombies in some games but here in my system probably not :-) Thanks, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: zombie after startup
Peter Garrett wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:03:52 +1000 Sebastian Spiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, for quite a while now I've been having one or sometimes 2 zombie processes showing in my system monitor I tried to kill them using the system monitor. I tried killall and PID but everything I tried did not work. You can't kill a zombie process - that's why they are called zombies :) After reboot the zombie is back. PID is always 6000 if that matters. It is probably a misbehaving program that doesn't clean up after itself correctly. Zombie processes are inherited by init (PID 1), but it would be more useful for you to see which program is doing this. For example, you could run ps auxw | grep PID number here or grep for Z (capital Z is what shows up in the process table). If this is reappearing on reboot you have a buggy program... the parent process (whatever it is) is leaving its children behind. Bad parent :) How can I investigate what causes this zombie and how can I kill it. See above. You *cannot kill a zombie*, by definition. That said, a zombie does no harm, since it uses no resources except what is required to exist in the process list. You would need a huge army ( a horde?) of zombies before there would be any impact on system performance. Why You Can't Kill a Zombie Process http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch38_16.htm I would prefer the shot gun which worked well on zombies in some games but here in my system probably not :-) Garlic and silver bullets, waving crosses etc. don't work on zombies? *grin* Thanks Peter, I did as you suggested ~$ ps aux | grep 6141 seb 6141 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?ZJul25 0:00 [sh] defunct seb 18058 0.0 0.0 3008 744 pts/1R+ 10:54 0:00 grep 6141 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep 14560 seb 14560 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Z10:20 0:00 [sh] defunct seb 18077 0.0 0.0 3008 752 pts/1R+ 10:54 0:00 grep 14560 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep Z USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND seb 6141 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?ZJul25 0:00 [sh] defunct seb 14560 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Z10:20 0:00 [sh] defunct seb 18088 0.0 0.0 3012 772 pts/1R+ 10:54 0:00 grep Z but what does that give me. A shell is the zombie... reading your link tells me that the problem could be a device driver. From what I remember I did not attach any new devices to my notebook, everything I use now I used when I installed hardy. I did though do some changes to installed software, my feeling is ever since I set up tracker to crawl my files the zombie was there, but I can't tell for sure. Another thing is that since I have the zombie (or two) I clicking on the clock/date left of the log out/shut down the panel seems to crash or slow every thing down. the menu with calendar and the locations won't even open. Any ideas here would be great because I am lost with this one :-/ thanks, sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: DVD does not burn any more.
Michael Ritter wrote: To all, Having problem burning DVD's in Ubuntu. Growisofs keeps crashing with an error listed below. :-[ READ TRACK INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error I have found people speaking about it in forums, but no solutions. My problems started after I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. Before that everything was just peachy. Anyone know anything more? Mike Ritter, Adelaide. Hotmail on your mobile. Never miss another e-mail with http://www.livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=343869 hi, have you checked if DMA is activated? for me, I needed to add combined_mode=libata to my default options in menu.lst to get DVD burning working properly -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: evolution, address book and calendar missing
Dave Hall wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:04 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian, it looks like you used the first copy of the HowTo I sent to you. That copy was flawed because Open Office had enabled by default a feature that shifted any text to the left if followed by a space or a tab therefore making double hyphens appear as a long single hyphen. Hence, a second amended copy of the HowTo was sent out on the following day to all those, including you, who had initially requested one, including a brief explanation. In the second copy the hyphens are easily recognised. This is why putting information in publicly available wikis is a good thing, the reader gets the updates straight away. You could even run your own wiki and put adsense ads on it if you wanted get something back for your efforts. Emailing PDFs for documentation is so dated :) Cheers Dave Hi Dave, it took me a while until I found time but it worked! thank you here is what I did (to put it out into the public) :-) $ gconftool-2 --shutdown $ evolution --force-shutdown Shutting down evolution-exchange-storage (Evolution Calendar Exchange backend / Evolution Addressbook Exchange backend) Shutting down evolution-data-server-2.22 (Evolution Calendar file and webcal backend / Evolution Addressbook file backend) Shutting down evolution-alarm-notify (Evolution Calendar alarm notification service) Now I copied the following directories back to ~ from my backup ~/.evolution/ ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution $ gconftool-2 --unload evolution_se I/O warning : failed to load external entity evolution_se Failed to open `evolution_se': No such file or directory $ gconftool-2 --unload evolution I/O warning : failed to load external entity evolution Failed to open `evolution': No such file or directory Although the two error messages don't tell me anything and look as if it did not work, it did. I started Evolution and everything was there again! no import dialogue or anything... Thanks again -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
hardy heron and truecrypt 5.1a
hi all, still reinstating after clean install I came across this IMPORTANT message while installing truecrypt. Has anyone had problems with the hardy kernel? $ sudo dpkg -i truecrypt-5.1a/truecrypt_5.1a-0_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package truecrypt. (Reading database ... 106555 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking truecrypt (from .../truecrypt_5.1a-0_i386.deb) ... Setting up truecrypt (5.1a-0) ... IMPORTANT: Due to a bug in some Linux kernel versions, you may experience a very low performance or stalling when writing data to a TrueCrypt volume. This problem can be solved by upgrading your kernel to the latest version. Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
many questions prior hardy upgrade (clean install)
hi there, I want to do some changes to partition sizes and a clean install with hardy on my notebook which runs feisty by now. Before I start my upgrade to hardy I have some questions and I am hoping for answers :-) - By now my root dir is 5.2 GB big and now after a year filled to 3.6GB. I thought of reducing it by at least 500MB. These 500MB I would then add to my swap (by now 512MB) - In total I want to increase my swap to 1024mb so that I can use hibernating on my laptop. I have 1GB ram so when I am correct I need 1GB of swap space to hibernate, correct? What is your experience with hibernating? (not stand-by) I have a Toshiba satellite P100 if that matters. - By now my /home partition is 6GB and full, so there is no way to fit that on a single layer DVD for backup reasons So I will increase its size as well. - What are your recommendations about moving other parts to separate partitions? /tmp, /var or to much hassle? - Although I want to do a clean install to get rid of the debris of my initial getting familiar with ubuntu period I would like to keep as many settings as possible. But how can I select needed from not needed? What about starting with a clean /home and then copy everything from the backup as needed? This would probably cause some trouble with evolution/amarok/f-spot... Especially with Firefox I've read that 'starting over' can increase stability quite a bit. So what about exporting bookmarks and blocklist and settings and then install all add-ons new instead of copying the whole profile over? - By now I downloaded the alternate install CD and I was thinking about making use of the encryption feature? are USB fingerprint reader (thinkfinger) supported? Any experience? What about using a USB dongle with gpg key? Cheers, Sebastian A note regarding the migration assistant: I've used the assistant when I installed feisty to import everything into a 'windows' profile. By now I don't even know the password for this profile and I never logged in to use it. I migrated Firefox and Thunderbird myself and off I went. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
AAPT linux mirror?
does anyone know about a AAPT mirror for linux distros similar to the iinet one? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: AAPT linux mirror?
Karl Bowden wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Mons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know about a AAPT mirror for linux distros similar to the iinet one? If AAPT is part of PIPE networks, any of the PIPE mirrors will do. eg: 3FL: http://www.3fl.net.au/mirror/ Pacific Mirror: http://www.pacific.net.au/mirror/ etc. But again for popular .iso downloads, I thoroughly recommend BitTorrent. After all, it is designed from the ground up for network-aware, dynamic bandwidth swarm downloading. If it's for iso's I too would recomend bittorrent.I just used it to download both the i386 and amd64 desktop hardy cd's and got a solid 650Kbps download. I even tried to leave the iso's seeding for a day, but it only uploaded about 40meg in total. That's the best bittorrent experience I have had so far! Ugh forgot to do reply all again.. I must say, that is very frustrating. The mailing list is managed by the GNU Mailman software, and it is configurable to re-write the reply-to address to be that of the mailing list. If the list maintainer is reading this, please consider doing so for the sanity of the list users. I subscribe to a number of other mailmain-managed lists, and they all do this to make the users' lives easier. -Dan And yes I would be with you on this point too Dan. - Karl I was not so much interested in the iso download more a general repository mirror. This would ease up my upgrade situation for my mums computer. she has only 400mb per month which is not good for upgrading to hardy... Seems like I have to dowload a CD image. Can I use the alternate CD image to do a dist upgrade (xubuntu)? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Eee-PC 900 in AU?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Asus eee pc 900 is going to be priced at $900 the only thing that makes it different from other laptops is that it is smaller than a conventional laptop. In my view, the 701 model will be remembered in the history books because it was inexpensive, performed all the tasks that were currently technologically possible and came closest to the OLPS (one laptop per child) concept. I am heartened that I live in these interesting times. Andre so true, if the 900 model comes close to cheap DELL notebooks it will loose one of the major pro arguments, the price and what you get for. Of course everyone wants to see the new model offering more but will it still be the geeky portable bargain? On the other side we can hope for a price drop on the old models -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: strange network problems
Cary Bielenberg wrote: I have seen Ubuntu not add the default gateway in DHCP on some DSL routers, does it show from ifconfig? Cary Sebastian wrote: On 22/04/2008, Cary Bielenberg[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like either wrong/no default gateway or incorrect subnet mask. Cary Sebastian wrote: hi all, since yesterday I have network trouble with my feisty installation. I can connect to my router and see that the router is online/connected but that's about it. I can't ping or connect to a address outside my network. The thing is, I haven't changed a thing during the last 3 days, at least not regarding network/Internet/proxy. Or not to my knowledge. What I did during the last days (as far as I remember) was try to get a hald script to run, ran the software for https://www.osscensus.org/ (you should all participate) and use the thing (surf, email, IM, audio, video the usual thing). So I have no idea whats going on or where to start looking... Please help! Thanks, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au I forgot to mention that under windows everything works. Regarding the network settings. the router assigns gateway and subnet etc. I can see that in the connection details and I can connect to the router web interface I am not 100% sure what you mean with __default__ gateway. I started in recovery mode and then I did init 3, logged in an the network worked [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0... ifconfig seems fine to me here. I then restarted, normal, logged in and it worked again. Strange things are happening here ?:-\ ifconfig -a eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 ifconfig shows the same result here. Thanks very much for your help Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: script on unmount
Jackson Cooper wrote:
True..
So then perhaps you could do something if umount's exit status isn't
0... It'll still fail when the device is busy, but won't be stuck in
an infinite loop.
eg.
CODE
while true; do
if [[ -d /media/nameofdongle ]]; then
rsync -switches /media/nameofdongle /some/other/path
error=$(umount -switches /media/nameofdongle 21)
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo $(date): Error when un-mounting: $error
/var/log/usb_rsync_errors.log
exit 1
fi
else
sleep 1
fi
done
/CODE
Also, you could use dbus-send to unmount it, it *may* be a bit
cleaner. The command's in the format of dbus-send --system
--print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_UUIDGOESHERE
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnMount
- Jackson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Frode Egeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, I didn't spot the umount until after I hit send.. apologies. :)
The umount would do the trick, assuming nothing else makes the device busy,
THEN you'd get the infinite loop I was worried about. ;)
Hi Jackson, Hi Frode,
as I am not really familiar with this I wanted to try something I already
figured out (with lots of forum reading :-) )
so I created a udev rule: sudo gedit
/etc/udev/rules.d/85-usb_legend.rules
it reads
SUBSYSTEMS==“scsi”,DRIVERS==“sd”,KERNEL==”[0-9]*”,ATTRS{model}==“USB
Flash Disk ”,ATTRS{vendor}==“General
”,RUN+=”/home/seb/bin/legend_sync_mount.sh %k”
in the shell script I then call rsync
#!/bin/sh
rsync -avS -P /media/LEGEND/Documents/sync/TaskCoach/*
/home/seb/sync/TaskCoach
somehow this is 99% similar to another script I set up to fix my external hdd
the only difference is the command called by the script, the scripts location
(not in my home) and the ATTRS attributes
I am puzzled... why it is not working?
As for your solution it seemed to me that it fits not my usage scenario:
- home after work
- plug in and synch
- do something with the files on local hdd
- before unmount sync new/changed filed back to USB
When I get your idea right it will unmount right away!?
Still I would like to test you idea but I am not sure where to place your code.
in a shell script I assume. I have no idea
about the daemon though.
RE umount of busy drive I could use the lazy option.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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Re: script on unmount
Jackson Cooper wrote: Sebastian, The way I'd do it is create a daemon with an infinite loop (I don't know much about udev though) that looks for the folder /media/nameofusbdongle, and if it exists execute the rsync line, then an umount line. Something like... CODE while true; do if [[ -d /media/nameofdongle ]]; then rsync -switches /media/nameofdongle /some/other/path umount -switches /media/nameofdongle else sleep 1 fi done /CODE Then to make it a daemon, you could use the start-stop-daemon program. Type man start-stop-daemon in the terminal to find out more. - Jackson On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Sebastian Spiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I want to sync some of my USB dongle folders when I plug it in. I think I worked that out: create a rule /etc/udev/rules.d/85-usbstick.rules and call the script to sync. But how about when I want to unplug the thing? Then there is no usb/hotplug event. Would the simplest thing be a script with unmount/eject at the end? How could I call this script through the icon (unmount menu) on the desktop? How to make the eject/unmount wait until rsync is done? by the way what's the difference between unmount and eject? thanks Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au bugger, I missed you mentioning man start-stop-daemon -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
hardy release party
hi all, anyone for a hardy release gathering? When I am correct release is on the 25th. I liked how it went last time when mark took the lead to organise but it seems like no one in the Sydney are is interested :-( Cheers Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
sbackup to DVD
hi all, a while ago I installed sbackup and set it up. I think this link was the inspiration for this http://maketecheasier.com/backing-up-data-in-ubuntu-using-sbackup/2007/12/08 By now sbackup did perform his task very well. As my free disk is getting less and less I was wondering how I can burn these files (tgz) to a DVD. The only trouble I have is, sbackup runs with root rights and the folders where the backup files are placed within belong to root. should I GnomeBacker with root rights? should I change the owner of the files to burn them? How would you guys do this ... this probably simple task. thanks -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Hardy release party
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Harrison Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/08, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that Hardy is an LTS release, all the more reason for a release party. Of course, we don't know the release date yet, but it might at least be worth us thinking about how to celebrate its release. The release schedule wiki page [1] says its going to be released on the 24th of April. I don't think that date can necessarily be banked on. Dapper was delayed by 6 weeks. I too think we can't nail it down to that date by now. Personally I liked the place where we met the last time for the gutsy release. Mark Lambert organised that when I am correct. We could have a combined event release party + install feast which should be not on the precise release date so that the release is available prior to the event. seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
f-spot and the tags, will it get messy
Hi all, lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree events. I started tagging the pictures. People Family Brother People Family Sister People Friends ... Places AUstralia ...Uluru Places Germany ... Events holiday 1 Events holiday 2 other ugly people other cows and so on for 160 photos I created around 20 tags... Then I thought about my other more than 1 photos and all the tags they will need. Of course I know that the tags will grow slower by time but even now all my tags wont fit onto one screen height. So what is your experience with tags, with many of them? How do you guys organise/structure you tas? any thoughts? which struckture is not good, hard to scale Cheers, seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
script in ~/bin
is is correct that I have to replace #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/dash in scripts so that they work? I am running feisty. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Super L vs windows key
hi all, for a while i've been using the keyboard shortcut alt+e to replace the windows behaviour win+e to start nautilus in my home dir (similar to windows behaviour). I would like to switch the shortcut to win+e but as soon as I try to instate the shortcut I can't add the e to the combination. Once I press the windows key the shortcut is sort of done. When I assign the windows key to open the Applications menu it works only for opening, not for closing. Hope one can help me, I don't hope I have to get into xev or xmodmap. Any help is apprechiated -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
automate echo command on usb event
hi all, I have a FreeAgendGo external 2.5 hdd. the hdd is running fine exept that before I can use it without problems I always have to do the following dmesg|tail which gives me something like [ 1280.152000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through [ 1280.152000] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 [ 1280.172000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb [ 1280.172000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 1280.556000] NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel. then I can do a sudo echo 1 /sys/class/scsi_disk/2\:0\:0\:0/allow_restart and the drive works fine. troube is sometimes it is not sdb or not scsi_disk/2\:0\:0\:0 how can I make the command that is will work everytime, or even better, automatically? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking
David Whyte wrote: Hi All, I have found that when I try and access the internet banking site on either of my Gutsy machines it causes firefox to crash. The ANZ home page is fine, the internet banking login popup is fine, but when I enter my credentials and hit the login button, firefox locks up. Anyone here with ANZ and having the same problem? I am pretty sure this was working fine on my Gutsy laptop before the weekend! Cheers, Whytey Hi all, ANZ works for me as always. Ever since I had some problems when downloading account data in (CSV) then the site logged me out. Apart from this, no problems. I excluded www.anz.com from pop up blocker, no script, etc. cheers seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
build f-spot 0.4.1 with feisty
Hi all, I want to start sorting my pictures with f-spot. the thing is I am still running feisty and want to use the latest f-spot version 0.4.1. I downloaded the source from http://f-spot.org - f-spot-0.4.1.tar.bz2 now comes the config, make, make install... am I right. But my real question is: As I want to upgrade to hardy when ready I thought about using the hardy version. so I went to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/f-spot/0.4.1-4ubuntu3 and there I found some more files whith which I have no idea what to do... f-spot_0.4.1-4ubuntu3.dsc f-spot_0.4.1-4ubuntu3.diff.gz and f-spot_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz I assume the last one carries NO modification for ubuntu and the first two files do. so how do I combine them? where can I read about this _ thing _ I need to do next and what is the process called? Thanks for help sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Thunderbird address book/email recovery
The Wassermans wrote: I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave. The HDD comes from a system where XP crashed. I can access all of the files on the HDD but can't, for the life of me, find where the address book and emails are stored or backed up. Any suggestions?? Dave W Hi, my old firefox profile is located in c:\Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles from there windows and linux have the same directory structure so a copy n paste to /home/username/.mozilla/firefox should do. my windows thunderbird profile is at c:\Documents and Settings/username/Local Settings/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles and it needs to go on my feisty machine to /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird I found some ff profile data at c:\Documents and Settings/username/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles though not sure about this one see http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit#profile for the official paths, ubuntu varies here! cheers sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Wireless network card won't connect to router
David Whyte wrote: Hi, I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well. It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog. I enter the key (i use 64Bit Hex) and the icon in the status tray shows that it is trying to connect, however, it always fails. Sometimes, after trying a couple of times, NM crashes and the laptop starts to behave wierd (i.e. System tools don't show when started, commands run in the terminal fail to execute, etc) and I have to reboot. I don't think this is a driver issue as I am at least finding the router and it identifies that it is encrypted, but I have been stumped all night. I am using the acx driver, since this is a D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA card. Does anyone have any ideas? Would it be worth trying the Ndiswrapper and would that still behave OK with NM? Is Ndis as hard to configure as all the different How-Tos make out? Any help is appreciated. Ta, Whytey getting wireless to work with WPA2 was a pain in the first place and I have still some strange symptoms. symptom 1 is at my current configuration I am running WPA2 with 64bit key on feisty, when I want to connect with my win XP booted the key doesn't work... it just wont connect. same thin at my dads place, his network is windows only, feisty would not connect with the original WLAN password chosen after a change it worked. I would suggest to try to get it running without any security... then enable MAC filter... then enable encryption the two links below helped me lots http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blogi=129 and http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html but I am unsure which one did the trick... good luck seb -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ekiga, Skype, Messenger video calling
as I said, no probs on my side. we had two calls between 5 and 15mins long. the only problem was the ligh and the bad cam pic due to the light. not a Skype problem, I know. I also remember something about certain cam types been said but cant remember if it was concerning the linux video or the windows HD video... something with logitec cams... seb newcr wrote: Thanks Sebastian My version is 2.0.0.13. Audio was OK and I could do a video test call, but when trying video with family Skype crashed after about 3 seconds (consistently). Maybe Version 2.0.0.27 has sorted that issue out. Worth a try again. Chris Sebastian Spiess wrote: This might come a bit late but still... I had a good experience with Skype Linux to windows video calls. both parties had a simple logitec web-cam and I am running the latest Skype beta. the other party runs WinXP, which skype version I don't know. We had no problems with establishing the connection, all worked out of the box. Cheers, Seb newcr wrote: I decided to try a video call to family this Christmas day. After research, it seemed Ekiga would work with a video call to family members (Microsoft users - MSN Messenger). While Ekiga seems to work in its own right (including test call to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), I could not connect to the other party (Using MSN Messenger I assume). Not to give up they downloaded the windows version of Skype and I downloaded the Ubuntu beta version of Skype. Audio call was fine but the program kept on crashing a few seconds after enabling video. After a few trails and errors I decided that for it to happen, I would have to /join the dark side/ and set up MSN messenger on my kids XP box (dual boot but the rest of my family always boot to XP). While I realise that there is a Windows beta version of Ekiga and I have suggested it to the other parties, it is not going to happen (Not even interested in non-MS solutions). *Main question Has anybody had experiences ... successes failures particularly when the other party uses XP or Vista?* Has anyone had good experiences with Ekiga to Ekiga video calls? Also tried aMSN video and chat worked fine but audio is not incorporated. Same with a few others I think. My preferred solution is to use Ekiga and call to the other party who uses MSN Messenger. I get the feeling that on Christmas Day it will be a Windows to Windows video call. Thanks Chris -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
