Mea culpa. Yes, should have clarified. And the important thing in Neil's
message is USER password not root, though a default Ubuntu setup won't have
a root password set anyway.
Sean
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Hi Caroline,
On 07/11/2007, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens when you type sudo dpkg --configure -a as instructed? Does
it resolve the issue? If not, what does it do?
Sean didn't specify, so just in case you're puzzled, you need to type
that command into a terminal.
When
norman wrote:
Does any one else have a problem with printing? For no obvious reason I
am unable to print from a Windows box which is connected via wireless to
my Ubuntu machine and the printer works OK from the Ubuntu machine. I
changed recently to 7.10 and I think there were some changes to
snip
Can your Windows machine still see the printer?
I mean, if you open up Windows Explorer and type in \\ubuntuboxhostname
(replacing ubuntuboxhostname for the name of your Ubuntu machine) does
it list the printer amongst any folder shares?
I'm just wondering if for some reason
Quoting norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip
Can your Windows machine still see the printer?
I mean, if you open up Windows Explorer and type in \\ubuntuboxhostname
(replacing ubuntuboxhostname for the name of your Ubuntu machine) does
it list the printer amongst any folder shares?
I'm
On 07/11/2007, Neil Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Caroline,
On 07/11/2007, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens when you type sudo dpkg --configure -a as
instructed? Does
it resolve the issue? If not, what does it do?
Sean didn't specify, so just in case you're
There is no problem in opening the image, I cannot understand why the
image does not appear,in the folder, as a thumbnail.
Check 'View' menu - you are probably viewing icon' not 'preview'
- my previous post re file associations was in case they were
associated with a program that
Spaces shouldn't matter...
When you say nothing happened what do you mean? If it returned to the
prompt that is not necessarily a bad sign... it has probably worked...
Sean
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On 07/11/2007, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Neil Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Caroline,
On 07/11/2007, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens when
norman said the following on 07/11/07 15:24:
I loaded a collection of photographs into an empty folder and, instead
of appearing as thumbnails, they appeared as icons which looked like a
sheet of printed paper with the top right hand corner turned down and a
clock at the bottom right hand
Check 'properties' and see the file association to see what app is
supposed to open your file format
There is no problem in opening the image, I cannot understand why the
image does not appear,in the folder, as a thumbnail.
Norman
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Ahh I see. I did notice that the Printer application had changed since
the last release.
It seems to me that the first thing to do after loading a new release is
to go through all the settings etc. to see what has changed and what the
effect, if any, of those changes would be.
Norman
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norman wrote:
snip
You should find smb.conf in /etc/samba
To edit it, open up a terminal and then enter the following on the
command line:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
The problem was solved by selecting System - Administration - Printing
- Server settings and ticking the box
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:23 +, Chris Oattes wrote:
norman said the following on 07/11/07 15:24:
I loaded a collection of photographs into an empty folder and, instead
of appearing as thumbnails, they appeared as icons which looked like a
sheet of printed paper with the top right hand
I believe that the clock icon you are talking about means that the
system is thinking about it (i.e. Trying to generate the thumbnail) -
is the computer particularly slow, or is the collection of photos
particularly large? When I open a folder of 70 photos, the clock icon
appears for half a
I have never ever seen this happen in all my years using Ubuntu.
I have to agree with you there. Are there any leads of information on the
Forums? Maybe someone knows a thumb refresh command...
I'll have a quick look now.
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On 07/11/2007, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have never ever seen this happen in all my years using Ubuntu.
I have to agree with you there. Are there any leads of information on the
Forums? Maybe someone knows a thumb refresh command...
I'll have a quick look now.
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On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:43 +, Pascal Khoury wrote:
Hi guys
Hope everyone's well. I am new to the forum. I have installed Ubuntu
on my Dell Inspiron 6400, and I am trying to configure my screen
resolution with no success. The resolution is by default 1024x768, and
this is too small for
norman wrote:
There is no problem in opening the image, I cannot understand why the
image does not appear,in the folder, as a thumbnail.
Check 'View' menu - you are probably viewing icon' not 'preview'
- my previous post re file associations was in case they were
associated with a program
Hi Norman
Check 'properties' and see the file association to see what app is
supposed to open your file format
Eddie
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I loaded a collection of photographs into an empty folder and, instead
of appearing as thumbnails, they appeared as icons which looked like a
sheet of printed paper with the top right hand corner turned down and a
clock at the bottom right hand corner with the hands at 5.00. I dragged
one of the
On 07/11/2007, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Neil Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Caroline,
On 07/11/2007, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens when you type sudo dpkg --configure -a as
instructed? Does
it resolve the
snip
You should find smb.conf in /etc/samba
To edit it, open up a terminal and then enter the following on the
command line:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
The problem was solved by selecting System - Administration - Printing
- Server settings and ticking the box
snip
You should find smb.conf in /etc/samba
To edit it, open up a terminal and then enter the following on the
command line:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Hope this helps.
Thank you, I will give it a go.
Norman
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Ok, I got:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=469859amp;highlight=nautilus
+thumbnails
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=585606amp;highlight=nautilus
+thumbnails probably more relevant.
That's about all I can find.
I did a bit more digging and found a bug report
Freinds When I made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu last March, I
spent about a fortnight trying to get wifi working in Dapper on a Dell
Inspiron 8200 laptop. I really had no clear idea of what I was doing,
and stumbled about copying lumps of HowTos into the terminal and getting
into a
with the SSID hidden?
(I've seen comments that using a hidden SSID doesn't really add much by
way of security if you're using WPA encryption. Is that right? And is
WPA2 'better' than WPA? - I think my set up is only managing WPA, 'cos
it won't connect to the router when I set the
Hi,
I cant write to an ext2 partition, what should i do?
Regards
Javad
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Anyone recommend a webcam for use with feisty?
Cheers,
Michael
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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:57 +, Michael Rimicans wrote:
Anyone recommend a webcam for use with feisty?
I have had no trouble with a Philips Toucam 740K which I bought some
years ago. It just works.
Cheers,
Al.
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I cant write to an ext2 partition, what should i do?
Provide more details?
Contrary to popular opinion, we're not psychic. :)
If we spend all our time working out the possible reasons for your
problem then we'd never get any work done. If
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wrote: I cant write to an ext2 partition, what should i do? Provide more
Hi all,
I've installed XEN-desktop onto my Gutsy desktop system and when ever I
try and use xen-create-image, the entire system hangs.
The mouse cursor continues to move, however I cannot access anything in
Gnome and the CAPS and NUM lock flash on the laptop. The only
resolution appears to be
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sOn Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:39 +, STONE COLD wrote:
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject) On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:57 +, STONE COLD
wrote: I cant write
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:59:34 +
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I posted this and no one replied. I've met Alan Pope and Dave Walker at the
gutsy party as well as Mark Shuttleworth who tried to help me out also.
Please does anyoen have a clue to the below.
Ok, some additional information. It seems that I got it wrong in the previous
Michael Rimicans wrote:
Anyone recommend a webcam for use with feisty?
Cheers,
Michael
Logitech ones also work well
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Hi All
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg worked perfectly.
Thanks
Pascal
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)
On 08/11/2007, Rohan Omard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can still see the drive, it would not mount. It gave me some error about
improper shutdown or it still being in use. Also something about ntfs and a
Post precise error messages.
1.) The drive mounts and is able to be accessed normally from
On 07/11/2007, STONE COLD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
access files SElinuxcontext: unknown last changed: unknown sudo
chown -R -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Ok this is what i got:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo
Mark Shuttleworth does technical support? Wow, very hands on...
Seriously, this error sounds like the one that is given if (for example) you
try to mount a Windows drive and it hasn't been shut down properly... the
easiest solution normally is to boot into Windows, let it do its Scandisk
or
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