Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area
On 19 September 2016 21:07:13 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 19 September 2016 at 20:13, Neil Greenwood ><neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for the top post, I'm on my phone. >> >> I think partimage does what you want already. Clonezilla gives a >(very >> slightly) friendlier front end, but I've not used either for several >> years... > >I believe partimage does not handle ext4 which would be a problem (at >least that is what [1] says) > You are right. It looks like it may work with ext4, but it's not supported. fsarchiver is an alternative that does support ext4 and is written by the partimage developer. >I had thought about clonezilla and will have another look at it. The >last time I used it (which was some time ago) it seemed overly >complex, but perhaps I just need to put a bit more effort in to see >how to use it from a script. > Clonezilla definitely supports ext4, using partclone which may be more easily scripted... >Thanks > >Colin > > >[1] https://www.partimage.org/Main_Page > Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area
Sorry for the top post, I'm on my phone. I think partimage does what you want already. Clonezilla gives a (very slightly) friendlier front end, but I've not used either for several years... Neil On 19 September 2016 17:49:44 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> >wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 14:21, Colin Law wrote: >>> I do a fair amount of work with SD cards and use dd to create an >image >>> for backup or for burning onto other cards. If I burn an image from >an >>> 8GB card onto a 16GB card then I get a card which is only half used. >>> If I then make an image from that one then I get a 16GB image (of >>> which only 8GB or less is partitioned) which is larger than it needs >>> to be and also if I burn that onto another 8GB card then it fails as >>> the card is not large enough (or at least it says it has failed, the >>> card will in fact be ok). >> >> You can copy a single partition by pointing dd at the partition >rather >> than the device, e.g. sda1 rather than sda. I expect that would >achieve >> the same thing as giving dd offset and size that you can get from >fdisk >> (but less likely to get those wrong). >> >> Neither approach will give you an image that you can (reliably) put >back >> onto a card with (just) dd. It won't include the partition table. > >Is not the partition table in the space before the first partition? So >in the example I posted where I had > >Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >/dev/sdb1 8192 137215 129024 63M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) >/dev/sdb2 137216 4233215 4096000 2G 83 Linux > >is not the partition table in sectors 0 to 8191? So if I copy sectors >0 to 2333215 that should include the partition table and all the >partitions. Is that not correct? > >> It >> will work if the destination card is partitioned the same as the >source >> and you write to the same offset, or if you've got a partition the >same >> size and you update the offset to hit that, but otherwise you'd need >to >> update the partition table (and other partitions) to make an >> appropriately sized gap for it and then write to that. >> >> I think it's better to look at what you're trying to do, and see if >dd >> is the right tool. I can understand wanting to use dd for archiving >or >> backing up cards since it'll also catch things that have been deleted >or >> lost to filesystem corruption that you can then (try to) recover once >> you've noticed that something is missing. I'm less convinced it's a >good >> idea going the other way; it causes the problems you're seeing when >> sizes aren't the same and it means you're writing more to the cards >than >> you need to. I think you'd be better to mount the image file and copy >> the files across to the card. > >To do it that way I believe I would have to write a script to pick up >the partition info from the original card, mount and copy the files in >each partition, and save the partition info with the files. Then to >restore it I would need a script to re-partition the new card and copy >the files across to each partition. > >Colin > >-- >ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment
On 17 November 2015 18:55:16 GMT+00:00, Stuart Ward <stuart.w...@bcs.org> wrote: >On 17 November 2015 at 16:34, Matt Wheeler <m...@funkyhat.org> wrote: > >> internet <--- (x.x.x.x :router A: 192.168.0.1) <--- (192.168.0.2 >> :router B: 192.168.1.1) <--- (wireless devices) >> >> >What you should do is turn off DHCP and NAT on router B and give that >router a fixed IP address on Router A, Then all your devices will be on >the >same subnet. > >Router A >IP 192.168.1.1 >DHCP on addresses 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.254 > >Router B >IP 192.168.1.2 >DHCP off > To get this working properly, you might need to configure Router B to forward the DHCP packets to Router A, rather than just disabling DHCP. That's what I had to do with my very similar configuration. Neil >Stuart -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clock settings greyed out
Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Today my clock doesn't show in my menu bar, settings on clock tab are all OK but greyed out. Time is set to auto from internet, and I can change settings on this tab OK. I'm sure it was OK yesterday! No updates to system yesterday, though I've had quite a few over the previous few days, and I'm sure clock displayed OK since those updates. Thanks for any advice, Dianne Mine does that occasionally. 'Restart' has always cured it for me. I imagine the hardware can sometimes glitch the boot up sequence and not load everything as it should. hth, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues
On 29 January 2015 10:53:10 GMT+00:00, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It works for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it hammers home exactly why I stopped using them. The version of Adobe Reader I'm using is working nicely. Now if only I could find a replacement for HMRC... Unfortunately their helpline is an 0845 number so I can't call them (the only phone I have is a pay as you go mobile) otherwise I would have a bit of a go. www.saynoto0870.com has a list of alternatives to lots of 08xx numbers. Try that. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icons go missing ...
On 12 January 2015 13:42:57 GMT+00:00, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-15-04-Gets-Linux-Kernel-3-18-467083.shtml Ubuntu 15.04 (Vidid Vervet) is now under development and this is a time when new features and components are added to the distribution. The same is true for the Linux kernel, which has been updated to version 3.18. ... It's still unstable and it can prove to be quite unstable in this particular stage or the development cycle, I think the OP is trying to assist in this development process by the early reporting of regressions, rather than actively trying to use an unstable version for day-to-day use. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace
On 17 September 2014 22:31:28 BST, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 September 2014 20:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of your source in a version control system such as git. Then if the site becomes compromised you can just replace it with the correct code. Git is trivially easy to setup and start using. Colin I have taken a quick peek and it says git-hub is free for public, open source projects. I of course require private hosting as I wouldn't want people to peek behind my site. So is there a free option for doing this? I really don't have a budget for doing this sort of thing. Gitlab [1] is an open source alternative to Github and has unlimited free private repositories. It is not as full featured as Github especially in the team collaboration area but is more than enough for your use case. It takes 5 minutes to create a repo and the only gotcha is how to generate an SSH key to let git interact with it, which is explained in their help pages [2]. If you need more help with git, the git book [3] is available online for free. Using a VCS like git takes a bit of practice but once you're used to it, it is very liberating to know that you always have a golden master and that you can roll back any changes should you need to. [1] https://gitlab.com/ [2] https://gitlab.com/help/ssh/ssh.md [3] http://git-scm.com/book Bruno I recommend the Git book, when you have several hours free. I also recommend making lots of commits. I keep forgetting to commit often enough, then it's a bit of a pain to split up the changes I've made into the right commits. You can easily join multiple commits into one bigger one, but it can be tricky to split a larger change up into smaller bits. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comparing installed packages
On 4 May 2014 13:39:40 GMT+01:00, Joe Alam yothsogg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There's probably a far better way that someone with some more experience will suggest, but the first thing that came to mind is to write a little program/script that does the following: - read all the files, into their own list of packages - combine the lists, filling a list of package names, sorted in alphabetical order and removing duplicates - iterate through the combined list, for each package check each of the four individual lists and if it is in there output it, otherwise leave a space That should achieve it in a fairly simple way, and can be done with any language. Best of luck, Joe On 4 May 2014 13:29, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I've got 4 computers here that I would like to compare the installed packages on each one together. I've done dpkg --get-selection installed.txt on each computer, but now I'm trying to merge each one into a single file and leave a space where a package isn't installed. Instead of: Acpi-support acpi-support Acpi-supportacpi-support adduser acroreadadduser adduser Adobereader-enu acroread-binadobereader-enu adobereader-enu I'd like: Acpi-support acpi-support Acpi-supportacpi-support acroread acroread-bin adduser adduser adduser Adobereader-enu adobereader-enu adobereader-enu Any ideas how to achieve this? My first idea was to try Libre Office Calc. Import the files into separate sheets, cut 'n' paste to 4 columns on one sheet, scan down manually and insert a cell where necessary. So it depends how good your scripting is whether you follow Joe's suggestion, or go with the more manual process I've suggested. It also depends how often you intend to do the process. If it's just a one-off, don't script it unless you enjoy the challenge. I would also suggest ignoring the automatically installed dependencies from the list of packages - aptitude search ~i!?automatic should do the trick... Of course, if you are feeling particularly masochistic, you could try to automate the whole thing in sed! :-) Neil. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?
On 18 April 2014 11:31:40 GMT+01:00, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/14 11:26, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread My thoughts confirmed, and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in stores it's temp files. I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video (or part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or /home/pete/.adobe Does anyone know where it downloads it's cache to? Or is there a CLI way of following the data (the tail command looks promising but I don't know what to tail!) I seem to recall that swf files are cached in their browser config directory but also that they're compiled to bytecode so you might not be able to identify them. The best command tool to start with would be lsof, which should show you open files. I have a feeling that you might find that a plugin library is causing the problem but that it runs inside the browser so isn't visible to the OS. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib Hi, lsof gives unknown command ls -of the same! Odd, it's a standard Linux command. How about /usr/bin/lsof? s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly gli hi, pete@petes-lappy:~$ /usr/bin/lsof bash: /usr/bin/lsof: No such file or directory pete@petes-lappy:~$ lsof bash: lsof: command not found Just to confirm, the command in uppercase is LSOF, but you type it in lowercase to run it. I just wanted to check that it wasn't a confusion caused by a sans font... Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot
On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: dpkg -l | grep '^i' -- dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or otherwise known to the system (such as those packages you've removed but not purged). To filter the list to just installed packages we pipe the output (that's the | character which is shift+\) to grep which checks for lines beginning (^) with the letter i which is what dpkg -l outputs for installed packages. On 9 March 2014 17:34, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, I failed and top-posted :-( -- Daniel Llewellyn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ You probably want to exclude automatically installed dependencies from the list of packages, otherwise you lose the ability of the tools to tidy up the things you're not using for you. I can't remember how to do it just with dpkg - I have a script that uses aptitude to get the list of packages for me. IIRC you want an i in the first column and not an A in the second, so the grep would be grep i[^A] I have another script that runs through all installed packages and tries to mark them as auto installed. Any that would cause something to be uninstalled are written to a list. This list is then the minimum set of packages to install to re-create the package collection. Plus you get a system where auto remove works nicely! Although one thing you need to watch for is that you don't uninstall something you still want when removing a package... I'll dig the scripts out later and post links to paste bin. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot
On 11 March 2014 07:08:03 GMT, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: dpkg -l | grep '^i' -- dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or otherwise known to the system (such as those packages you've removed but not purged). To filter the list to just installed packages we pipe the output (that's the | character which is shift+\) to grep which checks for lines beginning (^) with the letter i which is what dpkg -l outputs for installed packages. On 9 March 2014 17:34, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, I failed and top-posted :-( -- Daniel Llewellyn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ You probably want to exclude automatically installed dependencies from the list of packages, otherwise you lose the ability of the tools to tidy up the things you're not using for you. I can't remember how to do it just with dpkg - I have a script that uses aptitude to get the list of packages for me. IIRC you want an i in the first column and not an A in the second, so the grep would be grep i[^A] I have another script that runs through all installed packages and tries to mark them as auto installed. Any that would cause something to be uninstalled are written to a list. This list is then the minimum set of packages to install to re-create the package collection. Plus you get a system where auto remove works nicely! Although one thing you need to watch for is that you don't uninstall something you still want when removing a package... I'll dig the scripts out later and post links to paste bin. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Sorry to reply to myself... I forgot the ^ to anchor the grep pattern to the start of the line. D'oh! -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 103, Issue 2
On 5 Nov 2013 22:59, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers, guys, maybe you're right, I might need to up my game a bit in the Shell script stakes at least (and with aliases). To answer the question of why I need so much history - I forget stuff! I'd never be a programmer (I reckon) as I forget things - the command history is a reminder of the syntax I've used previously - it's also a reminder of what I've actually done - like a paper trail. As I am learning the commands and their syntax, the history is creating a document of my learning, in a way. An example was in setting up a VPN and installing some CMSes purely with the command line - I look up the syntax for SCP and stuff but forget it when I've not used it for a while . So next time I want to set up a new SQL database I can look at my history to help me do it again without researching it all over again. Also, I get in the zone sometimes - looking up stuff and learning etc - so I can't remember how I got there even!! Maybe I should just install Webmin!! ;) PS This is my first (brave) attempt at inline posting - I hope it formats well. Thanks again for your tips though!! In that case you'd be much better off keeping a Google document with the things that you need to remember pasted into it. Easier to search too. You do know how to search the history without opening the file in an editor, don't you? Otherwise even 1000 commands is too many! CTRL-R will start an interactive search in reverse, so as you type more characters from the command you're looking for it will search further back. And using an exclamation mark followed by some characters will repeat the last command starting with those characters, e.g. !ls will repeat the last directory list command. Search through the bash man page for history expansion to find lots more shortcuts. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck during boot
On 3 Oct 2013 19:44, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I realised the other day that I hadn't seen my computer run fsck during boot for quite a while. Running dumpe2fs I get this: Mount count: 220 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Wed Mar 20 21:20:51 2013 I understand that I can run tune2fs -c 35 To get it to check every 35 mounts, but do I have to do this when the partition is unmounted? Not even sure why it has been set up this was as I don't remember changing it. You can run that tune2fs command while the partition is mounted without problem. It will then take effect on the next boot. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung might be getting rid of Android and using their own Linux based OS
On 14 Sep 2013 07:00, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-09-13 17:10, Kris Douglas wrote: I get my handsets from Three. They come with about 1 app and once Android is rooted you can remove it or put a custom ROM on. I also benefit from quick, easy replacement of the handset should something go wrong, rather than dealing directly with the manufacturer. Those are valid points. Although I think many of us have not experienced this quick, easy replacement program with other providers. :) I don't buy my handset from the manufacturer, although I'm aware that some people buy Google handsets directly from them. I usually use eBay or Amazon for my handsets. And Amazon are really good about replacing a handset if necessary. Mine got bricked by an over the air update and they sent a new one immediately, telling me to return the faulty one free of charge in the packaging after it arrived. As someone in work put it, you can have great customer service *or* a company that pays UK tax... :-( Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung might be getting rid of Android and using their own Linux based OS
On 12 Sep 2013 11:29, Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I agree, $700 is a lot for untested software, I would happily install alongside Android, even at beta test stage, but I will not pay a months rent for the privalige! I hope the project lives on but feel that a major error of judgment was made setting the price point, and perhaps a tie in with manufacturer / service provider was a better route to take. I don't know anyone who buys their handset, they are bundled up with their service contract. Umm, me. I haven't bought a handset on contract for more than 5 years now. I have a SIM-only contract with 3, and got my last few handsets from amazon or eBay. There are about a dozen others in my office who do the same. But then we are gadget geeks! Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] proxy settings with log in for package manager?
On 8 September 2013 08:07, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote: El 07/09/2013 21:11, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com escribió: On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I finally came up the solution: looking up in askubuntu [1] it seems I need my username and password on a plain text file the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ [snip] I need to use a proxy, but I don't have to authenticate. This is the correct place to store the configuration. Bear in mind that this file is only readable by root, so the credentials aren't at much risk. I was pretty sure i was able to read it with nano without root. But I will check. Thanks for the piece of mind. OK, I wasn't quite correct in what I said. When you created your file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, it was probably created using your default permissions setting. However, in order to work for the proxy authentication, it only needs to be readable by root. So after creating it, you can 'chmod go-rwx filename' and 'sudo chown root: filename' to protect it. I actually prefer using octal numeric permissions with chmod, which would be 400 in this case. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] proxy settings with log in for package manager?
On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: I am using kubuntu 12.04 but it should be a cross platform problem I think. The problem I had was that the proxy was not letting me get online. I changed the proxy settings via the network settings GUI and it was all fine for rekonq web browser but muon (the package manager) did not update . Of course it did not tell me it was the proxy setting (I do not think it could tell me) it just told me that I could not reach such and such web pages. I finally came up the solution: looking up in askubuntu [1] it seems I need my username and password on a plain text file the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ Is this solution the best? is there a more elegant solution? Also, it keeps asking me for my username and password to use the web browser but does not do this for package manager. I much rather have it ask me for username and password on both aplications. Rather than having my username and password written in plain text. Or is this the normal way things work and I should not be too fussed about it? I need to use a proxy, but I don't have to authenticate. This is the correct place to store the configuration. Bear in mind that this file is only readable by root, so the credentials aren't at much risk. Also, when using apt-get it finds the packages fine now but it is telling me that some of the files are not authentificated and that I should not trust them. It is a fresh install and I have not set any PPA. I was only installing gimp and gwyddion which normally do not give me any problems. If you update the list of packages, it will get the keys that are missing and everything will be authenticated again. Thanks for any pointers! [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/23666/apt-get-does-not-work-with-proxy Neil. P.S. Sorry for the delay in replying, I tried sending it yesterday but the gmail app on my phone is playing up... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common
Hi all, Is anyone else using Saucy yet? A few days ago I was presented with a unity update that won't install because of a conflict between libunity-core-6.0-7 and unity-common 7.0.2+13.10.20130705.1-0ubuntu1 The proposed solution is to remove unity-common. I left out a few days to see if it was a temporary issue. Should I remove unity-common? I tried Google and came up blank... Thanks for any suggestions, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common
That wants to remove unity and ubuntu-desktop and... I still see a candidate version for unity-common, even though I've just done an update. Hmm, I wonder if it's because I'm using aptitude instead of apt-get. OK, that is much better! Thanks for the reassurance, and the prompting to sort it all out. Neil On 23 Jul 2013 13:39, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 July 2013 13:29, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else using Saucy yet? A few days ago I was presented with a unity update that won't install because of a conflict between libunity-core-6.0-7 and unity-common 7.0.2+13.10.20130705.1-0ubuntu1 The proposed solution is to remove unity-common. I left out a few days to see if it was a temporary issue. Should I remove unity-common? I took the plunge and removed unity-common a couple of weeks ago (I have a number of staging PPAs enabled). The package itself is no longer available in the saucy repos (check $ apt-cache policy unity-common), so I'd go ahead and remove it! J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common
On 23 Jul 2013 16:26, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: That wants to remove unity and ubuntu-desktop and... I still see a candidate version for unity-common, even though I've just done an update. Hmm, I wonder if it's because I'm using aptitude instead of apt-get. OK, that is much better! Thanks for the reassurance, and the prompting to sort it all out. Neil Bah! Sorry for the top-post. Stupid phone gmail app, and associated user error. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup [lucky] backup
On 31 May 2013 17:47, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote: then there are tools out there [citation needed] which can scan each block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition structures, optionally re-write your partition table back to what it found, and then there are tools to recover filesystems after this. It can be a long, drawn out process... or it can take 10 minutes, depending on the size of the drive, the amount of data and the amount of destruction. But seriously, what do you recommend? It's useful to know before these things are needed. :) J Testdisk and/or photorec. There are even dedicated live distros that specialise i'n disk recovery, as far as I remember. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql
Hi Patrick, To return to your original request about Java, Oracle have prevented it being easily available in distributions' own package managers because of a license change. There's a PPA that gives you easy access to the latest versions of Java 6, 7 and 8. If you go to https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/java it has instructions on how to install and use the PPA. HTH, Neil On 15 May 2013 16:52, surfer pmul...@gofast.co.uk wrote: I have just updated my system to 12.10. I have been looking for both recent versions of Java and Postgresql, but cannot find a key or lock that I can use to download them. Before I used Synaptec, which seems no longer to exist. I wonder if somebody could assist me Many thanks Patrick Mulvey -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox
Top- posting because the rest of the thread is... I have rhythmbox running fine in 13.04, with 6000+ tracks (not sure how many albums). I've had it open since I booted, about 2 weeks ago. I suspend every night too. Plays fine, although I have seen problems like those mentioned previously. Neil. On 10 May 2013 15:19, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: I use gmail, so it all appears in the correct order to me. I believe there is a seperate thread on the way email clients work. As Rhythmbox is searching my music collection, I don't want to stress the computer out too much - It's using 100% of one of my two CPU's. I'll have a look at what is needed for 2.99 and let you know. Regards, Phill. On 10 May 2013 15:08, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: H'mm. I've also tried reinstalling from the repository, using Synaptic, and it doesn't make any difference, and looking at it, the thing in the repository is also 2.98. But if I was to download 2.99 from the FTP page you indicated, wouldn't I have to do all the configuration manually? That would be totally beyond me. By the way, we shouldn't be top posting like this. It forces people to read the conversation from bottom to top as well as from top to bottom. On 10/05/13 14:44, Phill Whiteside wrote: 13.04 has installed 2.98 have a check on 'help -- about Regards, Phill On 10 May 2013 14:42, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: According to that ftp page, 2.99 was the last version they made before they stopped, evidently imagining it was as perfect as it could ever be. I assume that's what I've got, because I assume that's what's delivered in the complete Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit ISO, which is what I have installed. On 10/05/13 14:21, Phill Whiteside wrote: Just while I install it and vlc, it is time to ask the usual silly question... So do forgive me! Have you got the latest version from http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/ I'm a VLC fan, but have had rhythmbox running well in the past with a large library. Regards, Phill. P.S. this is a clean 13.04 lubuntu install, so I need to 'add' things to it :) On 10 May 2013 14:07, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/13 13:55, Alan Pope wrote: On 10/05/13 13:33, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I find that in 13.04 (though not as far as I can recall, previously), it is impossible to leave Rhythmbox running after use, ie for instance having played an album to leave it running and an hour later to try to play another one. It goes berzerk. Most usually it will skip through tracks at great speed, That sounds like your media is on a mounted / removable device which has since gone away / been unmounted? The skipping through tracks is often when it says ok, what track is next, lets play it, oh, it's gone, ok, next track.. etc. Cheers, I don't mean it looks for them one after another in rapid succession and doesn't find them; I mean it literally skips through each track, jumping e.g. thirty seconds at a time. But this is just the commonest immediate symptom of a general haywireness that sets in if it has been left running but idle for more than a few minutes. By the way, AFAIK, I only have this on one of my three machines, but they are all identically set up, with completely fresh installs of 13.04 and then all files, including the 1850+ albums, reloaded from an external hard drive. This takes an hour or two for each fresh install, but it gives me maximum free space, so I do it happily, rather than install the new versions keeping the old files and settings. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider
On 7 May 2013 08:44, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 May 2013 08:36, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote: Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were mostly useless. There is a bit of bittorent going on, so I'm looking for an uncapped adsl2 service. Virgin Media is not available in my area. I've moved to PlusNet for fibre and their ADSL offerings might be worth a look. If nothing else, they're honest about their traffic shaping (practically all ISPs do it, they publish their prioritisations on their website). They're owned by BT but their support and infrastructure remain separate. +1 for Plus Net from me too. I've had to phone their tech support a couple of times, and the first Tech's you speak to are very knowledgeable. They quickly go off-script and aren't phased by Linux clients. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider
On 7 May 2013 15:12, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 07/05/13 08:36, TT Mooney wrote: I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? +1 for PlusNet Fibre. Local firm (oop 'ere, any road - they're based in Sheffield) with local tech support, who are knowledgeable, friendly, and flexible (especially when they spot that you are a bit competent). Great communication systems that keep you fully informed and updated about your account queries and support tickets. (Not that I've needed much of either - rock solid service with good performance.) mac I agree. My only problems have been with adsl congestion from the street cab. They might start by asking if you've rebooted Windows or purged your browser cache, but mention ping or traceroute and they get much more helpful. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files
On May 1, 2013 5:49 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On May 1, 2013 5:27 PM, Alan Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com wrote: Foxyproxy is a good plugin for firefox if you cannot get the PAC file working. That allows setting exceptions and redirecting to different proxies based on regular expressions. I've used foxyproxy in the past, but I don't think it's particularly easy to copy the settings between machines. At least, I haven't found an easy way... I've filed bug #1175479 about this issue, so hopefully I can get some help from the developers and help them in return. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response
On May 1, 2013 1:28 PM, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: When I last mentioned Linux in PC World it was quite obvious that the assistant had never heard of it. Now that most PC World shops are integrated with Currys, there are staff with apparently little experience on the PC side. They may know a lot about fridges and hoovers but not IT. Maybe that will improve with time. Perhaps if enough people ask about Linux drivers and support, even if we already know the answer, the message might slowly get through. As an aside, when I told an assistant in a Tesco mega-store that I would be installing Linux on a laptop I was considering buying, his response was I wouldn't do that, Sir. Linux has a reputation for burning out hard disks. I hope you complained about that comment! Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files
Hi, I'm having a problem with Ubuntu in work when I try to use a PAC file to configure the proxy. The result is that the http_proxy variable is not set, and everything tries to connect directly. Does anyone have any idea how I could try to debug this? By the way, the same file works perfectly for all the windows machines, so I doubt it's a syntax error but it is a possibility. I downloaded the source for libproxy, but I can't easily see where to start - my C++ is very limited, I'm a Java programmer. Thanks, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files
On May 1, 2013 4:16 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2013 16:06, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with Ubuntu in work when I try to use a PAC file to configure the proxy. The result is that the http_proxy variable is not set, and everything tries to connect directly. Does anyone have any idea how I could try to debug this? By the way, the same file works perfectly for all the windows machines, so I doubt it's a syntax error but it is a possibility. I downloaded the source for libproxy, but I can't easily see where to start - my C++ is very limited, I'm a Java programmer. It's been a while since I've needed one but Firefox used to honour HTTP_PROXY when set as an environment variable so you could just set it in your .profile. I think Chrome might not and a quick search seems to confirm that. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib Thanks for the suggestion, Simon. I have internet access working by manually setting the proxy. However, the PAC file is about 50 lines long with exceptions including various subnets. I haven't been able to use no_proxy with CIDRs, so I'd prefer to get the PAC working if possible, especially since there are 40+ other Ubuntu users in the same office and it would be nice if we could have the same experience as the few remaining windows users! Any other ideas? Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files
On May 1, 2013 5:27 PM, Alan Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com wrote: Foxyproxy is a good plugin for firefox if you cannot get the PAC file working. That allows setting exceptions and redirecting to different proxies based on regular expressions. I've used foxyproxy in the past, but I don't think it's particularly easy to copy the settings between machines. At least, I haven't found an easy way... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless in 13.04
Thanks for posting the solution. Neil On Apr 29, 2013 1:24 PM, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I posted a message to the effect that the procedure for reinstalling the Ralink RT3290 wireless driver, which worked on 12.10, doesn't work after online upgrade to 13.04. Since posting that, I found an online report at askubuntu.com which gave the exact same error messages as mine: http://askubuntu.com/**questions/285163/ralink-**rt3290-cant-be-installedhttp://askubuntu.com/questions/285163/ralink-rt3290-cant-be-installed I have found that the best solution is to put a copy of the 64-bit version of 13.04 on a USB stick then do a complete reinstall from the stick. If you do this, the Ralink RT3290 wireless driver will be found and configured correctly and permanently. But not when you use the online upgrade from the Ubuntu site. This is similar to the problem I had with the boot protect in UEFI BIOS. There also, the USB stick with the 64-bit version was the answer. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers
On Apr 23, 2013 9:22 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've got, for sure. You mean, like this? sudo apt-get install dkms ;) No, that's not the solution. The package that contains the wireless driver needs to be changed by its maintainer to use DKMS to core with kernel changes. Sorry if I missed some sarcasm, but I don't think your answer helped the OP. Regards, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] User Testing
Umm, I'd suggest la...@lczajkowski.com :-) Neil On 18/03/13 17:22, Laura Czajkowski wrote: Aloha folks Wondering if there are 4 people on here who would like to do some user testing in the Bluefinn in London where Canonical is, must be available on the 2nd or 5th April. It's only for an hour and you will be paid for it. If you up for it, and in London, or willing to be in London that day, contact me off list. Thanks Laura I'd love to do some testing, how do I reply to you off list though? Gareth -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages
With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Neil. On Mar 11, 2013 3:31 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: PAGER=/bin/cat man command Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... In what situation does ps page the output? ps -ef, for instance, doesn't. Regards, Tyler -- Copyright is a bargain, not property. We agreed not to copy because they agreed it would only be for a short period of time. They have broken their end of the bargain; we are now breaking ours. -- Russell Nelson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages
Ok, that works too, but COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef has a unique prefix in the history, so I can rerun it with !C Horses for courses... Neil On Mar 12, 2013 8:30 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Consider: ps -ef | cat Regards, Tyler -- The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -- Plato -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages
On Mar 7, 2013 10:08 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: man command | cat where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I hope), Put this in your .bashrc or .profile: export PAGER=/bin/cat Now paging programs like man will dump output direct to the terminal. And you can set it just for one command by starting the command line with a variable override: PAGER=/bin/cat man command Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages
On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled, and discovered that man uses less to display the pages, but all the things I've tried from Googling have failed to solve the issue. I've tried setting options using the LESS environment variable, lesskey, and played with the scrolling settings in Gnome terminal, but all to no avail. The same issue happens in XFCE terminal, so I think it might be something to do with less rather than the terminal used. Can anyone suggest what might be happening here or does anyone know of a solution? [snip] That's a reasonable workaround. Curiously the problem seems to have fixed itself now, and I have no idea whether it's because of something I did or not. I did do a re-install of gnome-terminal - maybe that did it. I saw something that might explain this only today. I was looking at the documentation for the terminator command that replaces gnome-terminal. It mentions the separate buffer that vim, less and similar programs use. It mentioned VTE, and how Ubuntu had patched the mouse wheel scrolling to make it optional. Sorry I can't remember any more detail than that, but it might give you some google-fodder... Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow
Doesn't look like the swap is thrashing the disk - there's memory and swap free, but I/O is blocking 56% of the CPU time. Next time it happens, try getting the vmstat output that Alan suggested. Neil. On Feb 10, 2013 5:49 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/02/13 18:54, Alan Pope wrote: On 07/02/13 15:55, Gareth France wrote: On 07/02/13 15:50, Alan Pope wrote: On 07/02/13 15:12, Colin Law wrote: On 7 February 2013 14:18, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.comalan.p...@canonical.comwrote: On 07/02/13 12:47, Gareth France wrote: I've just had a peek and apparently it's using swap memory right now! Memory 1.5Gb of 3.5Gb used Swap 658.9Mb of 3.7Gb used Using swap is not a problem. Swapping is the problem. It is unusual though to see half a gig in swap when less than half of the RAM is is use, is it not? For example mine has been on all day and is still showing zero swap (I have 4GB RAM). Does it not mean that at some point something has been using a lot? Not necessarily. It means some was _allocated_. Doesn't mean the box was swapping heavily. I am not inclined to take those numbers at face value. I'd rather see the first 10 lines from top pasted. Cheers, Ask and ye shall receive. www.cliftonts.co.uk/top.png So no swap problem there. You have gobs and gobs of free RAM. Cheers, Just as I was beginning to think we'd got it sorted my system really ground to a halt. After about 20 minutes of patiently trying to switch windows I got a screenshot (sorry) of top. Copying text just wasn't an option as everything was virtually unusable and I'm not sure if I captured it too late or not. Thoughts everyone? www.cliftonts.co.uk/top2.png -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking screen.......
The Cog In... I hope you were actually asking what it meant now, or I look silly - but that's not unusual! Neil On Dec 3, 2012 9:51 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 03/12/12 21:17, Colin Law wrote: No problem, any time. I always keep up to date with the latest buzz words. DASH, HUD, TCITTRHC. Colin TCITTRHC ??? Oh, I'm feeling really old and out of touch. Sorry. Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Odp: alien arena problem
You'll have to log out and back in before that takes effect too. Neil On Dec 3, 2012 11:06 PM, bu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I am running Lubuntu 12.04 and have just installed Alien arena, psutton@E-machine:~$ uname -a Linux E-machine 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:19:45 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux psutton@E-machine:~$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Distributor ID:Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Release:12.04 Codename:precise if any of the above helps, I have lubuntu_desktop installed hence it is saying Ubuntu but the base OS is the same, or pretty much the same. upon running i get the following output psutton@E-machine:~$ alien-arena ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/psutton/.config/alien-arena/data1': Permission denied using /home/psutton/.config/alien-arena/arena for writing Could not exec default.cfg Could not exec config.cfg Could not exec profile.cfg Console initialized. - [Loading Renderer] - Master server at 69.136.224.226:27900 Sending shutdown to 69.136.224.226:27900 recursive shutdown Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx psutton@E-machine:~$ any suggestions welcome please Paul -- sudo usermod -aG games $USER -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] unable to connect extras.ubuntu.com
I had a failure earlier, it's now working for me. Neil On Nov 1, 2012 9:26 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 November 2012 08:16, Anton Kanishchev antonk20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, the update worked 20 hours ago-i didn't change anything and now it seems that it cant connect. Have switched to best server, and have checked for internet connection. the output from terminal: W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release.gpg Unable to connect to extras.ubuntu.com:http: W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources Unable to connect to extras.ubuntu.com:http: W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Unable to connect to extras.ubuntu.com:http: W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/i18n/Translation-en_GB Unable to connect to extras.ubuntu.com:http: W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/i18n/Translation-en Unable to connect to extras.ubuntu.com:http: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Probably just a temporary issue with the servers. Give it a couple of hours and try again, it will likely be ok. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java
You may find that you need the java plugin installed too, that's the bit that runs java applets in Web pages. Also, even the BT engineer that came to my house didn't recommend using their speed test! I can't remember which one he did use though... Google should find something. HTH, Neil On Oct 21, 2012 3:47 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Royal mail using acrobat
Maybe it's some DRM that prevents the file being re-used, and is tied to Acrobat. Just a guess, since we still use the stamps you buy in the post office! On Oct 21, 2012 4:48 PM, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: ** - Mensaje original - On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Andres Muniz wrote: cannot open pdf postage from the royal mail website? Could you give a URL/link, and some additional context about exactly what you're seeing. For myself, the following PDF opens automatically in Evince: http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal%20Mail_Our_Prices2012.pdf -Paul the pdf was of a printed postage, so it's after paying for it and the postage is valid only for the next day luckly i had a windows machine and i could log in to royal mail from there. A bit difficult to send the link I think. It seems some one else managed to print postage, so i guess i was being daft. What i got was a pdf that evince could not open. i have to send a letter (snail mail) soon so i'll try again. Thanks for your help. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java
For reference, you don't need to remove it and install the other. You can install the new one and mark the old one as automatically installed. On Oct 21, 2012 8:26 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 21 October 2012 18:20, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin, On 21/10/12 16:44, Colin Law wrote: On 21 October 2012 16:42, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin, You probably need the plugin. Install icedtea-plugin, which is the one that is part of openjdk. icedtea-6-plugin in fact. Both will work. icedtea-plugin depends on icedtea-6-plugin. I presume when Java 7 becomes the default icedtea-plugin will eventually depend on icedtea-7-plugin! I see. I had not noticed that there is a generic icedtea-plugin. Perhaps I should remove the version 6 and install the generic. However having looked further I see that on 12.10 this will actually pull in version 7 so I think I need to check how I installed java in the first place. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grsync equivalent
On 20/07/12 19:58, Bill B. wrote: Hi folks, Rather than risk a dodgy download to firms WinXP enforced laptop, does anyone know of a good, *safe* equivalent to Grsync [graphical front end of/for rsync] available for WindowsXP. I want to sync a USB of work tech docs stored on their [enforced XP] laptop - much as I do to sync from their laptop to my Ubuntu netbook desktop. To have the 2 way sync would really help as I often edit some of these docs [on my own desktop or netbook] want to keep both machines aligned in the docs folder.. 2 way sync is provided by Unison. IIRC, there's a Windows version too. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring Wammu
You can use -i for case insensitivity in grep. But that's the wrong thing to do here. Wammu wants the serial port, not the USB address. This will be something like /dev/ttyS0 or maybe /dev/ttyACM0. You might be able to find the correct address by looking at the last few lines output by dmesg, or by trial-and-error. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Jul 16, 2012 10:36 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/07/12 10:25, Kris Douglas wrote: On 16 July 2012 10:23, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 July 2012 10:16, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to configure Wammu for my Nokia X3-02 and it's asking me for the NAME of the device (USB port) the phone is attached to. How and where do I find this name? Hello Gordon, I think your best bet is to try lsusb | grep nokia You will get a result which resembles the string below, but will say Nokia x3-02 or something similar. I presume the software is either after the ID or the Device Number. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub In addition to the above, the search term is apparently case sensitive so it could be NOKIA, Nokia or nokia. Please let me know if there's a way to remove case sensitivity. Using Nokia I get this: Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0421:03e0 Nokia Mobile Phones However, inputting any of that string into the Wammu config dialog just gets the return Device doesn't exist!!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting information in The Register that may be useful in evangelism
On 18.05.12 20:18, Barry Titterton wrote: It seems that Microsoft will be shipping Win8 without the ability to play DVDs. They justify it by citing the rise in popularity of streaming media such as Netflix. Users who really want it will have to pay extra. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/04/windows_media_dvd_playback_dead/ MS tried this in the past, I think it was with MediaPlayer9, but back then users just shrugged and installed a free option such as VLC. But now, with Secure Boot, MS can make sure that users do not have another option. Except for upgrading to Ubuntu of course! I don't think secure boot would stop you installing VLC, but it may stop you installing Ubuntu. That's my uninformed understanding, anyway. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....
I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 10:48 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: I found a forgotten HDD the other day that I didn't know what to do with. Installing Quantal pre-alpha on it sounds like a good idea. All the bugs in Quantal can't be worse than what's on it right now anyway. Thanks for the idea! Bruno Hey! 12.04 is the best thing since sliced bread. Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work?
Since it came from a .deb, you can also run dpkg --listfiles xgnokii Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 4:24 PM, Joe yothsogg...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know anything about the program itself, but as for finding the installation directory you could run 'whereis xgnokii' which should show you where the executable with that name is stored. If that doesn't work there's also 'locate xgnokii' which should show the position of any files and directories with that name. Hope that helps, Joe Sent via BlackBerry® from Orange -Original Message- From: Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:23:24 To: UK Ubuntu Talkubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work? I've installed Xgnokii from the Ubuntu Software centre, hopefully to administer my Nokia X3 phone. It's installed OK but when I click the icon nothing happens except a very faint splash screen in the middle of my screen that just disappears. The User guide http://gnokii.org/docs.shtml doesn't seem to be much help as it talks about copying files from the installation directory but doesn't tell you where the installation directory is located! Anyone know anything about this app? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem
Hi Norman, I think the only mistake you made (for future reference out to help others) was to install grub to the partition rather than the whole of the boot drive. To recover now, you boot the live CD and reinstall grub, as others have suggested. The complete list of instructions is on the grub (or grub2) page of the Ubuntu wiki, something like http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub. Hope this helps. I followed the instructions about a week ago, and they were easy to understand. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 13, 2012 8:45 PM, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: Barry, using gparted, the HDD containing Windows XP Pro was partitioned as you described and all seemed well. The installation process was started and do something else selected. The partition allocated ext4 was chosen and then I was warned that I needed to indicate a boot partition so I chose this partition. The installation completed but, on reboot, it went straight into Windows. I have confirmed that the two OSs are on the same drive so I assume I need to do something about Grub. Still, progress is being made. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade
I've raised bug 982954 about the intermittent failure to show the launcher, even when the sensitivity is set to high. I'm using Unity 3D though. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 9, 2012 9:34 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 09:05, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 09/05/12 07:56, Colin Law wrote: 2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all windows have been minimised or closed. I have a work around for this problem by setting the launcher to be permanently visible. Is this a bug or normal behaviour for 2D Unity? That is a bug, even with maximised windows the launcher should reveal if you push the mouse against the left hand side. On the appearance settings have you got Reveal Location set to Left Side or Top Left Corner? I have it on Left Side on a Satellite A100 using 2D and it reveals ok. I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 'gently' taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 'hit'. Even when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I am simply not feeling like hurling the cursor around the screen, although I can guess that if I was a dev I might a lot more :-) On the Appearance Behaviour app there is a Reveal Sensitivity setting which I think is supposed to adjust this, though I have not tried it. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- low-graphics mode crashes
I think if you log into your launchpad page, there's a list of bugs that you've raised. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 9, 2012 8:27 PM, Matthew Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 21:02, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I also have both installed, but gdm is not used. run this command sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm That should give you the option to set the default. Cheers Philip, I had just that second made the change... my default was lightdm, and that was firing at the same time as gdm, and failing. I have run a few tests, and lightdm won't start at all. So: I have used ubuntu-bug to raise a bug from the virtual terminal against lightdm, and I will stick with gdm for the time being! Anyone tell me how to track a bug report retrospectively? I wasn't able to save the reference from the virtual terminal. Thanks again for all the help Philip!! Mat -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precise - some thoughts .....
My wife could install and use an Android app, but she couldn't get to the boot menu without help. Only one data point, I know... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 8, 2012 1:17 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 8 May 2012 10:25, Sarah Chard sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk wrote: ... At the moment we are compiling a database so we can create an android app to help people - they can put in their make and model of pc/laptop and it will tell them how to get into the boot menu - we feel this will be useful not only to our project but also the wider community - If you want to help go to http://www.tuxedu.org/tell-us-how-you-get-your-pc-into-usb-boot-mode/ Are you sure that an Android app is the best way to do this? I would have thought that most who understand Android apps would have little difficulty getting into the boot menu. Perhaps a web site would be better. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account
If there is a broken user account, it definitely is a config file issue with one of the hidden files in that user's directory. It's not a global config issue though. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 3, 2012 11:33 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/12 13:35, Barry Drake wrote: The time I've been spending on the Ubuntu answers team has shown me that all kinds of nasties are occurring after an upgrade. In nearly every case, a clean install has been the best answer. I find this response very frustrating. It's not only inaccurate but it means we'll never get to the bottom of the problem, so can never find out how to fix it. If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the state that Windows is in. Everyone thinks that's the solution, and it isn't, by some margin. Thank you for that Alan, that's exactly why I'm persisting. I'm building a knowledgebase to allow me to fix such issues for my customers as efficiently as possible. Here's an interesting one. I've logged in as a guest and been able to create a new account. I have renamed my home folder and used the new account to copy the contents of it's home folder into a new home folder for the old account. It still doesn't work so I now have one working admin account and the original still broken one which doesn't appear to be a config file issue. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 oddities
Since 8.04 I think, if you choose not to format and install over your previous partition, the /home directory will be left intact. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the top-post and brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 1, 2012 10:20 AM, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy Jamison wrote: I think what we're trying to say is maybe it's time to upgrade ;) On May 1, 2012 12:13 AM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com mailto:alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote: on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as follows / 50mb That's not big enough. /home 100mb Neither is that. Also, why have a separate home? swap 10mb Nor is that big enough. Cheers, Ok all that should be GB, so its a 160gb hard disk, what my question was is why would it not let me create a 100 gb partition and made it 110 gb, when i told it to make it 100gb, so I had space at the end for the 10gb swap partition. Anyway 12.04 is up and running, i need to get wireless working, so not sure why when I am sure it worked out of the box with 11.10, and below. Separate home, i was under the impression this made life easier and was the right way to do things (been using linux for years), if I want to wipe / later on and install something else, I can do, and it will leave /home intact and not wipe the data from it, Paul -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange question: record audio on time delay.
Try the sox package. It has utilities to play back and record, which you can then script from cron or at. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 1, 2012 2:38 AM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Ok Guys, This is an end-user question... which is strange because I usually think I should know the answer to a question like this... but I don't. It is reputed that I snow. Allegedly, when camping, people have confused the sound with that of a quadbike due the the volume and consistency. I'm not however, asking for anti-snoring advice - I have that in hand. Given, that I've not heard it myself, it's difficult to empathise and so I'd like to record myself snoring. This creates some problems: I don't want to record 7 hours of PCM audio. I don't know any commandline tools to record from pulseaudio. What I really need is a: at 03:00 recordfrompulsemic1 for 600 seconds to ~/file.wav Or something along those lines. I don't care if it's graphical or shell, but I'm sure this isn't too difficult to do, so I'd be interested in hearing what people thought. Cheers, Tim -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Install problems...
Einstein said doing the same thing and expecting different results was a sign of madness - but then he didn't like quantum mechanics and had no experience of PCs! I think there might be a wiki page with a list of boot options you can try if your boot freezes, but I can't remember where it is. Try google with the site: option? My connection's rubbish or I'd have a go myself. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Apr 26, 2012 9:58 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tony, I have just tried a Lubuntu 12.04 beta on USB in my old EEEPC (and I mean the original 7 with Celeron processor and 512MB) and had no problem. Yes, its been great using 11.10. I set up the same machine as you have for my mother using 11.10, and it worked like a charm. It does reach a stage where the dots stop changing colour, but after about a minute or so of that it does boot OK. I waited a fair while. I'll try it again and just leave it to sit there and see what happens. What is your machine? Asus ARp6, 1GB or RScreen size - 15.4 in - 1280 x 800 Processor - Intel Celeron M 420 - 1.6 GHz RAM - 512 MB (added another 512) Hard Drive - 80 GB Optical Drive - DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM Graphics - ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Webcam - Integrated j -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
One thing to check - you located the file, but check that it isn't a broken symlink by using ls -l. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Apr 5, 2012 4:26 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Try installing the following packages: libqwt5-qt4 libqwt5-qt4-dev qt4-dev-tools qt4-qtconfig (n.b. this is in the universe repository) This is the suggestion on this page, but it is in Spanish, and not particularly recent: http://www.espaciolinux.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=34081 Yes, I found that page and followed those instructions. So now i think that i have all the dependencies. Like i said it seems that libQtSvg.so.4 is on the system but not in the correct place. j -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?
I think it's by design. It used to shutdown regardless when users were logged in, but this isn't desirable for multi-user systems. Now, it wouldn't matter whether you tried to shutdown as the admin user or the normal user, as I understand it. It will only log you out until no more users are logged in. As Daniel said, you can force it with the right command. I guess it could be clearer that there is still someone logged in, and I believe this used to be clearer than it is with unity. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 30, 2012 1:14 AM, Daniel Case danielcas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andres, I have the same problem, so I will be monitoring this thread if anyone has any answers. What I did as a workaround was create a keyboard shortcut with gksudo shutdown -h now and it does the trick, just press the key combination, type my password and the system is on its way to a clean shutdown. Daniel On 29 March 2012 22:11, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi all, I do not know if this is a bug nor do i know how to call it to report it. And maybe it was reported. If I am logged in with one user(a) i then choose to open another user(b) without logging out of user(a). When logged in as (b) and tap shutdown button on my computer and the message apears to saying it will shut down in 60s. I choose shutdown. But it sends me to the log in screen with no feedback as to why i can not shut down. In the log in sceen i tap the power button once like befor but nothing happens. I then go to the top right and select shutdown and nothing happens. What i need to do is log into user (a) and shutdown from there. (A) is a normal user. (b) is admin group. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] libreoffice
Just to correct the assertion below: /tmp is writable for all users, typically files downloaded there might have their permissions set to read-only though. Sorry I can't help with the original question! Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 26, 2012 6:56 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: There is a little button that looks like a document with a pencil on it about 5 icons to the right of the new document button. (Called Edit Document). Pressing it will make a copy of the file and open it for editing. The usual reason for this is a file is downloaded from the Internet to the /tmp directory, which is read-only to all except the root user. Regards, John Oliver On 26 Mar 2012, at 18:23, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi I am trying to fill in an application form sent to me in docx format, I have saved as odf otherwise editing saving and reopening a docx file results in seriously messed up file. I have a table for work history etc, which when i try and edit I get things like read only content, modified content will not be applied, I need to edit these sections to add stuff. I NEED to get it filled in, how do I remove what ever is causing this to be read only, I should be able to simply edit the document, but I can't Getting realled stressed out with it. Please help, there must be a way to edit the file properties, the file it self is NOT read only its internal to the file, i can't find where to go in libreoffice to make parts of the file writeable. thanks Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....
Well, you can volunteer to support it, and put the option back in. Or pay someone to do it if you don't have the skills yourself. That's the joy of free software. However, Canonical decided they weren't going to keep paying to support it. That's their right too. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 23, 2012 10:45 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: Personally, I think that the code should continue to be maintained. The argument being put forth sounds to me like It is not the default, therefore no-one can have it. This argument does not work - look at Windows - the taskbar has an autohide option. Look at OS X; the much gone-on-about full screen mode (a.k.a. hide the dock) has just been added. -- Kind Regards, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does AV chat work with Jabber?
My day job is testing VoIP/SIP, and I've not had much luck with Empathy, but I have more success with Linphone for A/V and Twinkle for just voice is hard to beat for its configure-ability Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity and top-post, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 22, 2012 11:57 PM, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote: On 22/03/12 22:16, Tony Pursell wrote: Does anyone know if Audio and Video (AV) chat works with Jabber from Empathy? [snip] However, when we tried Jabber AV chat we got no connection. I would like to show him that we can move away from Skype, especially as we can expect no more Linux support for it now that Microsoft have bought them. I have just been trying to make a Jabber AV connection between two computers at home using Empathy and that has been a failure too, although I have had it working OK in the past. Both ends just showed 'Connecting' and even when I hung up both ends, my desktop computer showed Pulseaudio and zeitgeist-daemon taking up to 100% of both CPU cores and 80% of the 2GB ram, until I killed them both. What experience do other people have? Although I don't recall seeing the PulseAudio and zeitgeist-daemon problem, your experiences largely match my own. I work away from home for one week every six months or so, and have tried various solutions for calling my wife and two boys. Skype stopped working for us altogether, so we decided to try Jabber. When it works, it's fantastic, but it does seem very temperamental. I thought it was probably due to NAT traversal issues, but configuring a STUN server didn't help[0], and even on the same WLAN we had problems. I haven't had chance to look into it any further recently, but I really should before I go away again. The last time I went away I used SIP from my Android phone using the hotel wifi to our land line via VoipFone. No video, but crystal clear voice calls from Argentina for 1.2p/min. JT [0] How did I do that? Good question, but I don't think it was using Empathy. Maybe it was Psi+. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....
It's policy. The decision was made after usability testing, where users got confused when first maximising a window. where's the launcher gone now? And because the option was being removed, the decision was also made to remove the code to reduce the maintenance requirements. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity and top-posting, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 23, 2012 6:50 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there ... I used to like the way that the launcher used to slide away when there was a window over it and re-appear when there wasn't. Now in Precise, we seem only to be able to have autohide or permanently in place. The Compiz configurator and MyUnity both seem to suggest that I can configure settings that do the slide: they don't seem to do that. Anyone here know whether this is current policy on Unity or a bug? Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....
I know some find it a bit annoying, but Canonical didn't just decide this. They spent lots of money testing different behaviours with users with a range of experience of computers. I believe all the users tested had little experience of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth even had to say that the results were the opposite of what he first thought before the testing. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 23, 2012 8:17 PM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On 23 March 2012 19:54, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: It's policy. The decision was made after usability testing, where users got confused when first maximising a window. where's the launcher gone now? And because the option was being removed, the decision was also made to remove the code to reduce the maintenance requirements. soap box Treating users as idiots is not a policy, it's a mistake. As soon as I find a distribution worth installing everywhere, I'll be switching. Mint doesn't cut the mustard. I'm a Kubuntu/Lubuntu user on desktop and Ubuntu server but I don't want to anymore, I don't want to have anything with Ubuntu products. I know the PR spin, it's to make new users' life easy yada yada yada. But the new users don't discover Linux all by themselves, in most cases someone shows them and I don't want to show and talk about Ubuntu to anyone anymore. /soap box -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update
It is very possible that temperature is the problem. It's not a bug though, it's a hardware issue. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg high CPU usage
On Mar 7, 2012 10:50 AM, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@cornwall-it.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:45:23 + Pete Smout wrote: On 06/03/12 18:15, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 + Pete Smout wrote: On 05/03/12 21:10, Pete Smout wrote: Hi, For about a week now my laptop (ubuntu 10.04 LTS fully updated) has been freezing up for approx 30 secs, with gkrellm and top showing xorg using 100% cpu usage? There seems to be no pattern to what programs I am using, everything from open office to clementine to smplayer or thunderbird, not at any certain time of day or day of the week, or even weather using the inbuilt screen or external one. My understanding (admittedly limited) is that xorg is the bit that works the display (screen). Has anyone else come across this? For reference the laptop specs are: Acer Aspire 5720 Intel T5250 Dual core processor Ram 2.0 gb Internal graphics (intel) Internal sound (intel) Thanks in advance for any ideas Regards Pete just for reference my xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device Driver fbdev EndSection Might want to look into that bit. You should have a specific Xorg driver for your onboard Intel graphics chip. Run the following command to find out your graphics chip: lspci Look for the line that has VGA on it. If it does indeed say something about an Intel chip, then make sure you have the following package installed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (That package deals with all i8xx and i9xx chips) Once that's installed, remove the xorg.conf file and restart X. You can restart X by going to a terminal (NOT a terminal window... press CTRL+ALT+F2 and log in) and then run: sudo service lightdm restart (Or just reboot... up to you.) Grant. Hi Grant, Thanks for your reply, the lspci command produces (relevant lines only I hope) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Synaptic shows xserver-xorg-video-intel is installed (reinstalled for good measure) moved the xorg.conf file to my documents folder and rebooted, opened t-bird to reply to you and the machine 'greyed out' for approx 20 secs with gkrellm showing xorg as using 100% CPU! Please note that last time it happened was with clementine running, when playback stopped mid song so I cannot blame t-bird! As an aside but possibly related?! when I open a tty shell (ctrl-alt-f1) log in it tells me 'Your CPU appears to be lacking expected security protections. Please check your BIOS settings, for more information please run /usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose which produces smouty@smouty-laptop:~$ /usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose This CPU is family 6, model 15, and has NX capabilities but is unable to use these protective features because the BIOS is configured to disable the capability. Please enable this in your BIOS. For more details, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/CPUFeatures I am unable to find any related settings in BIOS, if this is unrelated to my original question please ignore it and I will do further research Regards Pete Hi Pete, That is interesting, about your CPU security extensions, but I do not believe it is related to this. Your original post showed that your xorg.conf file was using fbdev as the graphics driver - this *should* work on most machines and so it is useful as a fall back if all else fails. The fbdev driver means that the CPU is doing all the graphics donkey-work rather than the GPU. Essentially all I suggested was that you ensure you have the correct xorg driver available (which you do) and you (re)move the xorg.conf file so that xorg regenerates it (or creates on on-the-fly) when you reboot... which you've done. It is still entirely possible that xorg is still using fbdev, so you may want to re-instate your xorg.conf file but edit the fbdev entry to say intel instead. Essentially, as I understand it, if there is an xorg.conf file present then XOrg will use it; if there is no xorg.conf file then XOrg will try to detect what's going on and make up a configuration on-the-fly. Since the on-the-fly thing doesn't seem to be working for you, let's try *making* it use the Intel driver by having an xorg.conf file that specifies to use the Intel driver and nothing else. I hope that makes sense. Grant. As well as the xorg.conf file, there is also the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory that should be checked to see if it has an override for the auto generated file. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update
On Mar 6, 2012 5:34 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since my last update a number of things have stopped working. 1. Brightness controls no longer work (fn+F8 and fn+F9) 2. Only skip forward works (fn+F12), skip backwards (fn+F10) no longer does 3. Suspend on lid-close appears to have stopped working - the box is checked in my power preferences 4. Fan appears to have stopped working. I am using the Gnome 3 desktop and running a thinkpadx121e. Does anyone know how i go about finding out what's causing the problem, or how i can fix it? Thanks, j You don't say what version of Ubuntu you're using. Was it an update between versions, our just a daily/monthly update within a version? Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.10
On Feb 17, 2012 2:38 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: If it is only Firefox and Thunderbird affected, check the settings of those applications for stray proxy settings etc. Whilst I don't see how such peculiar settings could have come into force, they could have done, and my advice is to check the network settings in Firefox/Thunderbird preferences. Regards, John Oliver And of course, if it's from behind the firewall in work, you might need to tell it about your proxy server! Cofion/regards, Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Precise .....
On Feb 17, 2012 10:55 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 17/02/12 18:47, Piskie wrote: Never had a partial that way that caused me issues - update manager is prone to causing 'issues' during the dev cycle so I never use it, nor the software-centre. Doing the update from the commandline has fixed the problem. Hadn't thought update manager was prone to problems! I'll be a bit more aware in future. Thanks to all of you for your response. Regards,Barry. I think it was more of a timing issue, and whatever method you used to update would have had problems with the state of the repository at that time. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Precise
On 12.01.12 23:29, Pete Smout wrote: Hi, Just upgraded the HDD in my laptop and decided to reinstall ubuntu, so I went for the daily build of 12.04. Although this is still in the Alpha test stage and issues are to be expected, the issue I encountered was that it would not install! It got to the point of asking to install updates during install and third party software, (good idea!) and just hung there for 2.5 hrs (so was a hang not a delay). has anyone had any joy with this or is it just me with this bizzare issue? regards Pete I tried updating today and there seems to be some package breakage. I installed perfectly from the Alpha 1 ISO a few weeks ago. I'd try that, and complete the install before trying to update. HTH Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer? HPLIP
On 04.01.12 20:22, alan c wrote: On 04/01/12 20:00, Andy Braben wrote: 2012/1/4 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 18:10 +, Andy Braben wrote: [...] Is that not worth a bug report? HPLIP package not kept up to date on automatic updates? That's a very good point. There's a policy about updates after a release: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates Should HPLIP be listed in the special cases? Well I think it probably should as the wiki above says: For Long Term Support releases we regularly want to enable new hardware. Such changes are appropriate provided that we can ensure to not affect upgrades on existing hardware. For example, modaliases of newly introduced drivers must not overlap with previously shipped drivers. Does that mean that a 'special message' or whatever may need to appear on screen in certain circumstances - for example - the previous version needs to be remove before install of the later version? I don't think so. The updated package will automatically replace the older version. It's just a case of getting the HPLIP package added to the list of ones that get updated after the release. You friend's problem was that the update scripts in the .deb package are not included in the archive that he downloaded, so it wasn't correctly removing the currently installed version. Hope that clears any confusion. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu one and google +
On Dec 22, 2011 11:56 PM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 22/12/11 23:00, Andres wrote: i do not get it. At least through facebook/twitter you could use your gwibber. And you'll be able to use G+ through gwibber once Google make the API available no doubt. Since g+, linkedin, diaspora* et al. Are not as mainstream and do not even make there way to gwibber (there are bug reports for each) what is the point of adding another link clogging up the gui? How does something become mainstream? By people using it. Why do people use it? Because their friends and other people/companies/products they're interested in are there. So in my opinion we should be where people are. People most definitely are on G+, whether you are or not. Let's look at an example. Matthew Inman who runs the insanely popular 'The Oatmeal' web site/comic which appeals to 'normal' people, not just geeks has this to say:- https://plus.google.com/u/0/100193529331792590881/posts/1TeRkifBeZc He took ~1 year to get ~17K followers on tumblr. He took ~2 years to get ~209K followers on twitter. He took ~1 month to get ~190K followers on Google plus. That was back on October 15th. Now he has over 400K followers on Google. More in ~3 months than it took 2 _years_ on twitter. https://plus.google.com/u/0/100193529331792590881/ Google+ is mainstream. Is it, or is it a reflection of how much more popular he is now? Just playing devil's advocate! Neil. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?
On Dec 2, 2011 11:00 PM, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: I was unable to do the script, lack of knolwdge on how paths, and bash scripts work. For example if my bash is called skype how do i make it call that instead of the normal skype? Ok, paths are quite easy once you understand the concept. bash stores a list of directories that it will look in for programs (and scripts). It looks through the list in order, and uses the first program or script it finds with the right name. So you put your replacement in a directory that will be checked first, and use the full path to the program you're replacing - otherwise your replacement calls itself again and again! To find out what the path is, so you can find where to put your replacement, you can look at various scripts that are run when you log in, but it's easier to open a terminal and type the following: echo $PATH HTH Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?
On 03.12.11 18:27, Andres wrote: Neil: in, but it's easier to open a terminal and type the following: echo $PATH Thanks! That just made it very clear! i understand that if I get /usr/bin:/bin it will check /usr/bin first and later /bin I'll give it a go. Glad it helped. You might find that if you create a bin directory in your home (also called ~/bin), and maybe /usr/local/bin too, these will get added into the path after you log out and back in again. This would give you more options about where to put your replacement script. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Problem
On Dydd Gwener 02 mis Rhagfyr 2011 19:56:42 GMT, Michael Daniels wrote: From: clan...@googlemail.com Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:52:16 + To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Problem @Michael. If you go to System Settings Printers and right click the printer and select Properties what do you see for all the Settings? Also what do you see under Access Control? Colin Thanks, Colin, Access Ctrl; Allow printing for everyone (no exceptions) Device mff:/dev/mfp4 O/S is Ubuntu 10.04 HI Michael, The access control is what I was thinking of when I last replied (from my phone, so I couldn't see the settings). Try turning the access control setting to deny everyone, add your user to the white list and try again. Then try setting it back to allow everyone and delete your user from the list. See if either of those help with the problem. Ahh, I've also just noticed on the Policies tab (I'm using 11.04, so it might be slightly different), there's an Operation Policy setting, which has the values Default behaviour and Authenticated - mine is set to Default, so check yours isn't set to Authenticated. HTH Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification
Hi Michael, There's an option to require authentication on the printer sharing settings, if I remember correctly. You can see this either through the printer configuration applet, or through the local cups interface on http://localhost:631 HTH, Neil On Nov 30, 2011 9:09 AM, Michael Daniels michae...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Local Printer, thanks, Daniel. From: danielcas...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:04:52 + To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification Hey Michael, Is it a local printer, or is it done across the network with CUPS? Daniel On 30 November 2011 00:08, Michael Daniels michae...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I now get a request to enter authentication for each print job, 10.04, have never previously needed a password to print something, have looked everywhere for help, nothing found. Any ideas, please ? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification
Sorry, I've just realised I didn't make it clear that these settings might apply locally too. Worth a try anyway. Neil On Nov 30, 2011 5:43 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, There's an option to require authentication on the printer sharing settings, if I remember correctly. You can see this either through the printer configuration applet, or through the local cups interface on http://localhost:631 HTH, Neil On Nov 30, 2011 9:09 AM, Michael Daniels michae...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Local Printer, thanks, Daniel. From: danielcas...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:04:52 + To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification Hey Michael, Is it a local printer, or is it done across the network with CUPS? Daniel On 30 November 2011 00:08, Michael Daniels michae...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I now get a request to enter authentication for each print job, 10.04, have never previously needed a password to print something, have looked everywhere for help, nothing found. Any ideas, please ? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Watch and backup folder
On Nov 20, 2011 4:24 PM, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] To reiterate, all the software has to do is: a) Monitor the Documents folder (and all subfolders) on a continuous basis b) If a file or folder is created or modified, then copy the changes to another drive or folder of my choice (e.g. an SD card) I have yet to find anything that does this, or that does it without entailing a lot of scripting knowledge (at which I'm rather a newbie!). Incron will do this. I have it set up to create a symlink when I plug in my USB drive. You configure it with a path to watch and a script to run when something under that path changes. I don't have access to my config file at the mo. I think the man page is good though. HTH, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Team Google+ page?
On 12 November 2011 15:10, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 12/11/11 14:57, Colin Law wrote: On 12 November 2011 14:47, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 12/11/11 14:05, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Alan, On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:35:03PM +, alan c wrote: I am starting to use G+ and have just written an item, shared (I think)with the Ubuntu UK  Team (circle). If that is a circle that you created, I think that only influences what the people you put in that circle see. Is it actually there? Anyone? I don't see a post from you on the Ubuntu UK page. When I look on your specific page, I get alan hasn't shared anything with you. Thanks Andy. mmm what to do. I have a Circle named Ubuntu UK Team, with only Ubuntu UK Team in it. I enter this circle and put text into 'share whats new' at the top. Then 'share', and it gets shown when I look in my Ubuntu UK Team Circle as if it is posted  to Ubuntu UK Team. If you share it with the user Ubuntu UK Team then only a user logged on as Ubuntu UK Team will see it what exactly does 'logged on as Ubuntu UK Team' mean? I have Ubuntu UK Team in a circle I made, I am signed in to G+ and am viewing inside my Ubuntu UK Team (circle), I see my own post and one about a song written for Ubuntu etc. What is the status of my own post? Isn't it shared with others also viewing the Ubuntu UK Team? tia -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- If the people are following youyou in a circle and you have them in the ubuntu-uk circle - then they will see it.. ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] That annoying lock-screen ....
No, ignore me. It's under screen. Neil. On Nov 8, 2011 10:18 PM, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote: I am mobile at the moment, but I believe you need to install gnome tweak tool. Neil On Nov 8, 2011 10:16 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there A couple of weeks ago, we were talking about getting rid of the lock-screen on Ubuntu 11.10 and I've just put 11.10 on a new computer and can't remember how to do it. Ca someone remind me please? Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] help needed testing upstream kernel
F On Nov 7, 2011 10:21 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 07/11/11 22:07, alan c wrote: Can somebody please offer some off list support to guide me through 'testing using the upstream kernel'? I found a bug re a particular webcam, which is being diagnosed, and I have been asked if I can test using the upstream kernel. There are some guidance notes, but I need help to get my head round it. I am willing to try, but not having done anything similar I want to avoid wasting lots of time or getting an invalid result. It's pretty easy actually. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ That folder has a giant list of upstream kernels, both i386 and AMD64 builds. This page describes how you do it:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds With this bit being the specific part you need:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds#Installing_Mainline_Kernels So what I'd do is:- 1) Figure out what version of kernel you're currently running with uname -a 2) Look up the kernel on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/info/kernel-version-map.html and see which mainline one it maps to 3) Go to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and find the mainline one you need 4) Download the files as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds#Installing_Mainline_Kernelsto a folder 5) Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the kernel deb files to. 6) Use sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb to install them 7) Reboot to the new kernel (use shift at boot time to force dpkg to show a menu) and test your device. Do you mean grub Mr pope? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loss of 10.04 headers.
On 31.10.11 15:58, Michael Daniels wrote: I searched Google for ubuntu 10.04 reset gnome panels (without the quotes). Near the top of the results, I found a link to an Ubuntu Forums post[0] that includes a couple of ways to do this, in the terminal. You might want to copy all the contents of the .gconf directory beforehand in case it goes wrong or you lose some customisations. Open the terminal and type (without the quotes): cp -a .gconf backup.gconf to do this. HTH, Neil. [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1520623 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thanks, Neil, all correctly displayed if I create a new user, but still have to use Alt F1 on my admin login. Looks like I shall have to look further unless anyone can suggest a quick fix ? OK, so if the new user was fine, reset the panels for your admin login. Look at that forum post I linked too, and it shows 2 ways of doing this. One thing I didn't mention is that you need to be logged in as your admin user, not the new user. After doing the reset, you might have to log out and then back in as the admin user, and everything should be reset to the standard layout. Let us know if you have any problems. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loss of 10.04 headers.
On 29.10.11 22:17, Michael Daniels wrote: Somehow, I have completely wiped my 10.04 headers, even the clock on the right ! I get everything, except maybe the clock using ALT F1, can I restore the headers, without a complete reload, please ? Thanks, Michael Create another user, and log on as that user. If all the headers i.e. applets and indicators, reappear, then you can probably just reset the panels for your normal user. I searched Google for ubuntu 10.04 reset gnome panels (without the quotes). Near the top of the results, I found a link to an Ubuntu Forums post[0] that includes a couple of ways to do this, in the terminal. You might want to copy all the contents of the .gconf directory beforehand in case it goes wrong or you lose some customisations. Open the terminal and type (without the quotes): cp -a .gconf backup.gconf to do this. HTH, Neil. [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1520623 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 0 bytes free
On 22 October 2011 12:05, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: ** On 22/10/11 11:57, Alan Pope wrote: On 22 October 2011 11:40, David King linux...@avoura.com linux...@avoura.com wrote: Is this a bug in Nautilus? Have you emptied the Rubbish Bin? Cheers, Al. Yes, I emptied it a couple of times. Has un-mounting and re-mounting done anything? Thanks, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight
On 20.10.11 11:09, Alan Bell wrote: On 20/10/11 10:55, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: Hi Alan, Good to be reminded about the meeting, one I might have been able to attend. Sadly, I shall be in Birmingham watching The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain instead. For those attending via IRC, what is the time of the meeting? The content on the event URI still details last month's meeting. time is 9PM, and wiki is now fixed, thanks! Alan Won't be able to make it I'm afraid. Just moved house and have no internet until next week - cock-up with the simultaneous broadband provision... I'll try to be there next month. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyring password error
On 13.10.11 16:58, dianne reuby wrote: I have 10.10 Ubuntu. Used my machine with no problems this morning. Just switched back on and logged on to my account OK. But I get a message that my login password and my keyring password don't match, and to enter the password. Are the admin password and keyring password usually the same? And what can I have done to change the keyring password? Updates yesterday included linux headers, and today I think was only Chrome. Password and Encryption shows only one password, and that's login - but it's blank, including date created. I can't reset - I don't know what the old password is set to, as it says it isn't my admin password. [snip] Sorry for the late reply. I've seen this happen before when I've changed my user's password using the Change Password option on the About Me applet. The keyring password is the same as your user's login password normally (I think that's what you mean by admin password, the login password you enter to administer your machine). There's a bug in that Change Password screen, where it updates the login password but not the keyring password. If you open a terminal and use passwd to change your password, that correctly keeps the 2 in sync. It's been reported and was marked as a papercut at one point, but IIRC there's too much work involved to fix it and no one has actually done the fix. If you have changed your password, you can get them back in sync like this: 1. log in as normal 2. Open the Passwords and Encryption Keys application 3. Right click the login option and choose Change Password. Enter your old login password followed by your new password twice. Of course, that only works if you can remember your old password. If you can't I think you have to delete the login entry and create a new keyring, but I have never done this so I'd search Google for some help. At the moment it won't even let me send email, even though I know the server passwords! TIA Dianne You know them, but the email program can't access them! If you unlock or delete the old entry, a new one should give the email program its memory back... HTH Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....
On 19.10.11 12:22, scoundrel50a wrote: On 19/10/2011 12:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 19 October 2011 12:00, scoundrel50ascoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the desktop cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the desktop. I stupidly pressed it, and now I have no desktop.Please can somebody helpI am running 11.10 Boot, press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get a console, login, type unity --reset, wait a moment or two, press CTRL+ALT+F7 to switch to GUI, login. Al. Brilliant, that worked, I was panicking that I would have to set up a new account again.thank you so much... John Setting up a new user account probably wouldn't have fixed that - it's a system setting rather than a user setting as I understand it. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus transformer
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ Thanks Neil On Sep 13, 2011 3:54 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 September 2011 00:22, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Oh so good. Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 A Desire HD owner writes to ask: what is CM7? -- Liam Proven • Info profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition
On 16.08.11 13:03, James Morrissey wrote: Hi all, I have just received my new laptop. Its a Thinkpad x121e, with Intel (Core i3). I am trying to put ubuntu on it, but i am having some problems with the 64 bit live USB. When i run the USB i get i get a GRUB-looking screen, with options to: 1. Try Ubuntu without installing 2. Install Ubuntu 3. Check the disk That means it's booted OK as far as GRUB. Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get the exact same result when i 'Check the disk'. That sounds like a video driver issue. I think when the menu is displayed it mentions pressing different F-keys across the bottom of the screen. IIRC, one offers a failsafe video option. Use that and see if you get further. The other thing to try is to edit the boot entry and remove the 'quiet' option at the end - this will hopefully display a more-helpful error message than a blank screen! Let us know if you need help with how to do that... To check the USB, i tried it on my old laptop (32bit, Celeron M). When i did so i got a purple screen with an image of what looks like a keyboard and a man, and then a message telling me to try a kernel which matches with my machined architecture. That's expected behaviour when booting a 64-bit live 'disk' on 32-bit hardware. The purple screen probably briefly appears for the 64-bit laptop too. I then tried a live USB with 32 bit ubuntu and the live USB works fine - i am sending this email from this live instance. The same can be said for a 32 bit Mint live usb. On your new hardware? If you don't have more than 4Gb of RAM on the new laptop, you won't get much (any?) benefit running the 64-bit version. Even if you have more than 4Gb of RAM, the installer will install a special PAE kernel that will use the extra RAM - each process will be limited however. Other than that, the 32-bit version will do what most people need, even on 64-bit hardware. So i am not sure what is going on. If anyone could tell me why the 64bit install is not working, it would be great as i'd like to get it up and running. The only thing i could think of was that i have downloaded the amd64.iso, and this is an intel machine, but all the sites on the web suggest that this shouldn't make a difference (if it does, where might i get an 64 bit version for intel). In addition i am not sure why, if this was the problem, my old celeron laptop brings up the error message while the new machine just hangs. amd64 is the correct image. The reason for the name is that there was an earlier, non-compatible, Intel 64-bit architecture, codenamed Itanium. This is only used for servers. amd64 will work on 64-bit AMD, Intel and other desktop processors. One more question i have is about dual booting and maintaining my recovery partition (something i have not had to do before). From GParted i see that the recovery partition is located at the end of the hard drive. I am wondering two things: 1. If i resize the windows partition will the recovery partition move next to it? Not by default, no. 2. If not would i do well to install ubuntu between the windows and recovery partition, and how do i do this since the 'install into largest continuous space' option seems to have been replaced by the 'install alongside windows' option in the installer. Will the alongside option put the install in the right place? I don't know. However, if you select the Advanced or Manual partitioning option, you can make the changes you want and then select the partition into which Ubuntu will be installed. As always, any and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks, James. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition
On 16.08.11 15:15, James Morrissey wrote: Hi Neil, Thanks for the response. Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get the exact same result when i 'Check the disk'. That sounds like a video driver issue. I think when the menu is displayed it mentions pressing different F-keys across the bottom of the screen. IIRC, one offers a failsafe video option. Use that and see if you get further. The other thing to try is to edit the boot entry and remove the 'quiet' option at the end - this will hopefully display a more-helpful error message than a blank screen! Let us know if you need help with how to do that... When i get to the GRUB screen i can't seem to see any F-keys listed at the bottom. All i have is the following; Use the (up arrow) and (down arrow) keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting or 'c' for a command line. I am not sure what to do with this, i am guessing that possibility of editing command lines is the one you were referring to in terms of the 'quiet' option. I have no idea how to do this so if you think it would be useful, some instructions would be great. I'm getting confused with an older live disk then! Yes, this is the editing bit I referred to. Move to the 'Try Ubuntu...' option but press 'e' instead of 'Enter'. This changes to a different screen which displays several lines and similar e/c/Enter options at the bottom. Move to the line that starts 'linux' and press 'e' again. Delete the word(s) 'quiet' and/or 'splash' from the end of the line, then press Enter several times until your machine starts booting (I think it's 3 times, but I'm not sure). Hopefully, your machine will then boot successfully! If it fails, hopefully it will display an error about what caused the failure... There are also the ACPI/APCI/etc. options that might be causing the boot failure. There are 5-10 different options you can add instead of the 'quiet splash' that disable various checks that could be causing the boot to hang. But that will depend on what you see when you try my suggestion. [snip] If you don't have more than 4Gb of RAM on the new laptop, you won't get much (any?) benefit running the 64-bit version. Even if you have more than 4Gb of RAM, the installer will install a special PAE kernel that will use the extra RAM - each process will be limited however. Other than that, the 32-bit version will do what most people need, even on 64-bit hardware. At the moment i have 4GB of RAM installed, but space for another 4GB, which i will likely buy in time. So i would like, at some stage, to get the 64 bit version working even if i have to install the 32 bit for the next while - until video driver issues get sorted. Again, having more than 4GB of RAM is not going to force you to use the 64-bit version. You can use all the RAM you have by switching to the PAE kernel after upgrading the memory, if the installer doesn't put that on for you now. I don't think it's necessarily the fact that video drivers are not working on the 64-bit version, it's more likely that the installer hasn't picked the right one. Maybe you could check which driver the 32-bit version uses, and force the 64-bit one to use the same... but I'm getting out of my depth about how to actually accomplish that! [snip] Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop
On 25.07.11 06:44, richard wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 21:24 +0100, Dino T. wrote: Seen the Fujitsu LifeBook E751? 10 hours battery life. 15.6 inch screen, i5 Core processor. Bit pricey though as VAT runs it to £700+. Acer Aspire Timeline X 4820T is another one. £500 odd but only 14 inch screen. Lasts 8 hours. Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons) you might have problems with intel integrated graphics, I have had lots of stuff not work properly with mine. I've had no problems at all with the Intel integrated graphics in my Dell Inspiron, ever since 7.10 with an upgrade to every version in between that and 11.04. So, your mileage may vary. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Call for creating and testing localized ISO images
On 22.07.11 10:57, Alan Pope wrote: Anyone fancy helping out with this. We're looking to make localised en_GB ISO images, at the moment the default ISO is en_US (so American keyboard layout, dictionary etc). Cheers, Al. I'm interested. I'll also look at making some cy_GB images for the Welsh translations. Neil. PS. Is this why Canonical stopped Ship-it? :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble
On 19.07.11 15:00, Dave Hanson wrote: Steve - mine starts with #! /bin/sh, which from some 'googling' tells me it's a bourne shell, the Ubuntu variant is bash. So does that mean it cannot be ran on Ubuntu or is it possible to use a different shell? That might be the problem. On Ubuntu, /bin/sh is a symbolic link to dash, which is mostly compatible with bash (and the original Bourne shell sh), but has some slight differences. You could try typing bash /media/runInstaller to see if that fixes the error message. The error looks like you're hitting one of the syntax incompatibilities. HTH Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?
On Dydd Gwener 08 mis Gorffennaf 2011 17:37:49 BST, alan c wrote: On 08/07/11 10:56, Yorvyk wrote: 'The adoption of compulsory open standards will help government to avoid lengthy vendor lock-in' What does this mean? Are the government's open standards the same as we would understand them? Is open source and open standards the same thing? To follow up with an example: OpenOffice.org and Libre Office are two open software (actually Free/Libre software) programs that both support the Open Document Format (ODF) open standard. So ODF says how the software must store the documents: that's the standard. Other open standards (although not being referred to in this policy) include things like TCP/IP, HTTP, POP and IMAP for email, etc., etc. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?
Ar Dydd Iau 07 mis Gorffennaf 2011 08:11:40 BST, ysgrifennodd john beddard: Linux doesn't seem to give a warning message when the hard-disk is full, instead the system seem to die and shut down. Has anyone come across this before. They said it was their main reason for not using Ubuntu ? John Ubuntu definitely pops up a message when the disk space gets low (as long as it doesn't happen too quickly!), and offers help cleaning up to make more space. I can't remember exactly which program is included in the link: it could be baobab, a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyser. I saw it a couple of times while I was dual-booting this work PC, but then I removed the Windows partition and I haven't seen it since! Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7
On 05.07.11 18:04, alan c wrote: 2) My understanding is that both vista and windows 7 are likely to place system files at the end of the partition, which means that a third party partition editor (such as gparted, as used in Ubuntu etc) may resize the partitons ok, but you may find that the windows file system is damaged. It may be repairable I expect, I am not sure. A frequent reccommendation is to let vista or windows 7 resize its own partition first, using its own tools. The disadvantage of this is that it may not release as much HD space as you may want. I don't know the answer to the OP's question, since I normally manually partition in the installer. However, the Ubiquity installer uses GParted's libraries to handle filesystems. These can move files, including system files, and fix partitions as they get resized. There are a few occasions where MS has changed the proprietary format when it's better to use a newer version of GParted (e.g. a GParted live CD) rather than the version on the Ubuntu CD. Normally, I've found everything works OK though with a recent Ubuntu CD. I'd probably use a GParted CD to partition now if I was installing 10.04 LTS, but 11.04 should be fine. 3) Consider and prepare for a reinstall or full recovery if things go badly for you, just in case. This is *very* *good* *advice*! Especially when you're dealing with proprietary filesystems, make sure you have a copy of anything you couldn't bear to lose. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Education software - purplemash anyone?
On 06.07.11 11:32, Byte Soup wrote: Quoting from the site: An annual licence costs just £500 +VAT a year and includes unlimited use both at school and at home. This price is based on schools with 100-500 pupils. Please contact 2Simple if your school is outside of this range. Does this seem expensive if there are foss alternatives? That sounds very reasonable to me. Think of how many developers that will pay for... The bit I object to is that with FlashBlock and NoScript, I see no content on the front page. :-) Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Regional pages was Re: Ubuntu South west loco team page
On 27.06.11 17:46, Alan Bell wrote: We have pages covering all the diagonal compass points listing people, LUGs and other resources in that general direction. This is awesome, but on a point of terminology they can't be called LoCo teams, the NorthEast page is a good model and I would like to see the others like this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NorthEast if they get called LoCo teams it would cause confusion and trouble for our Ubuntu-UK LoCo reapproval application, so lets call them focus groups, or pages listing stuff in that corner of the country for reference here are the corners: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NorthEast https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NorthWest https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SouthWest https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SouthEast and it would be great if folk could update their respective corner using https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NorthEast as a template. We are going to have a bit of a day of updating the reapproval application tomorrow in advance of the team meeting at 9PM so it would be great if people could pile on to IRC and help http://ubuntu-uk.org/join-the-conversation/ thanks, Alan Bell Ubuntu UK LoCo Team Leader So, where does Wales fit in here? Possibly the south Wales team could fit in the SouthWest page. Or maybe there ought to be a separate page for Wales, like Scotland has. WDYT? Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites
On Jun 11, 2011 2:40 PM, Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] aren't going to spend the time reformatting a newsletter in HTML format once they've made it in Word (or even worse, Publisher). Hence, save as a PDF, done. I couldn't agree more. PDF if by far the easiest option for many schools and probably the most widely viewable format. Whats more interesting is the variety of tools schools are using to create the PDFs, our local schools appear to all be using different tools, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, Serif Page Plus etc. At least they have the sense to convert from these to a largely universal format. I couldn't imagine or wouldn't expect a school to be converting a well laid out newsletter produced in dedicated publishing software which is no doubt primarily designed for print into an equally appealing HTML representation. We don't get the PDF version, just the .pub file gets emailed! I must speak to other parents and see how easy they are to view on Windows. I've found a website that converts them... It's a matter of training, time and having the right software - our children brought home a note before half-term apologizing that the Welsh language school cannot do dinner money statements in anything other than English. The software only does English. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script
On 2 June 2011 18:07, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I would say it depends on what you mean by 'wrong' I handle the backups for a local government, so yes, that is wrong, very wrong. I know where you're coming from. I think the list has quite a few public sector members in various capacities ;-) But it depends what you need it for. If you are happy with the retention that that gives you, then that's fine. Sorry. I've probably given you the wrong impression. Data from the backup directory would be backed up too another box. That box in turn is backed up elsewhere. 7 days is the local retention only. The only suggestion I would make is that you should create the backup first, and only if the backup is created successfully should you delete the old one Again, my fault, but the final script would run validation checks. I was basically asking if people use find rather than over complicating things as I've seen elsewhere. I wouldn't use that script as is. Chris I've started using rsnapshot. It does something similar with the local retention, but each file which is identical (between retained backups) is hard-linked rather than taking multiple disk blocks. I set up the config file once (which took 2 attempts and maybe 2.5 hours in total), set up cron and it just runs. The problem I find with hand-rolled backup scripts (which I've used in the past) is that you're the one maintaining them... Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/