I am using Edubuntu 10.04 and all is fine. I have a puzzle regarding SSH disabling.I started using SSH to transfer files from two of my local computers. Transfers were successful, my problem is on how to disable the SSH server when I do not need it. I read that this can be accomplished from the Se ...
Wow...I can't believe nobody has asked this question before. So here goes...<rant>Is there a way to modify or disable the default password policy for Lucid? I was just recently forced to change my password (and somehow got locked out in the process so I had to drop to a root shell just to get ...
Any idea on how to really really disable IPV6 in Hardy?I've search and found references to this several year old threadhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6841where I've done the usual alias net-pf-10 off and alias ipv6 off to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases but it doesn't seem to work, lsmod | grep ip ...
I have problems with booting to Ubuntu after upgradte to 10.04. All I get is a black screen and nothing happens. However, my Ubuntu boots perfectly if I select "recovery mode" in the grub boot list and select "failsafeX". Any ideas how to fix this?I am not really sure if this bug ...
ubuntu server and destop 10.04 how use 9400m?i have 2 GPU but nvidia x server setting just have 9600gt onlyhow can only use 9400m? ...
I've got a dual boot system with both Vista and Ubuntu. After upgrading to 10.04 my Vista doesn't load anymore. I select it in the Grub menu and the computer just hangs.Are there any known fixes for this? Where do I start? I'm an Ubuntu novice, but I'm an able computer fixer. ...
I'm trying to install Ubuntu GNU/Linux server (10.04 LTS, 64-bit) on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server hardware, and when it comes to the disk and partition detection phase it says:"No disk drive was detected. If you know the name of the driver ..."I switched to another tty and tried to see the ...
Recently upgraded Ubuntu Server to version 10.04 (32 bit) and now I can't print.If I open a browser window for localhost:631 and try to print a test page, I get a window asking for authentication. I enter my username and password and the box disappears, then comes back, over and over. Can't get past ...
I have been occasionally playing snooker using foobillard in all previous ubuntu versions.Suddenly with 10.04 the window for foobillard is almost black, no matter what settings or game I try to play. This makes the game totally unplayable.I have an ati 9200SE card which is seeing a few problems in 1 ...
ok, theres either something that happened one of the latest updates, not sure how to post what i got. ok almost every video i watch that I have to stream through only loads up to half then it hangs. this is something to do with the os, because vista works great for a change >_> i just use expl ...
Ubuntu 10.04 loaded onto a Dell Optiplex GX270. All great but "Service not found" when Firefox started? The desk top is using a Edimax USB WiFi adapter and rt73usb driver which is connected ok to a BT Homehub. The device has an IP address assigned of 192.168.1.66 which I have ping'd to ok. ...
I have been using 10.04 since quite a long time now. and everything was working smooth until last update and all of a sudden my firefox and chrome are slow , really slow on internet. At first I could not believe that ubuntu could be so slow so I called my ISP provider and fight with them. later on I ...
I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 10.04 on VMware Player today. Installation was fine (and really nice, congrats developers!), although there seemed to be a problem with the VMware tools (at first startup, I got some random error), but this shouldn't be the topic here.I went away for a few hours, ca ...
HiI am getting at best half my speed on 10.04 cw 9.10I have applied the ipv6.disable=1 fix to grub, and installed and configured pdnsd in both 10.04 and 9.10.Some evidence:10.04 speedtest.nethttp://www.speedtest.net/result/755503293.png (http://www.speedtest.net) 9.10 speedtest.nethttp://www.speedte ...
Hi, been using Ubuntu just recently since 9.04 Jaunty as a NON-power user so need some "absolute beginner talk" help.I have kept up-to-date with all upgrades since then and just recently had the new 11.04 working for me since the 1st day of release on my old spec Athlon XP desktop but pref ...
I guess I'll add one more to the "oops" column for 10.10.I just aquired an older Gateway 200STM laptop from craigslist EXTREMELY cheap. Loaded 10.04 to it - no problem with graphics. I then did an install of 10.10 - get a black screen with no cursor and have to crtl-alt-F1 to get to a term ...
I am having intermittent startup problems with a dual boot win7 and 10.04. Originally things went ok but I wanted to switch to achi mode for my Win7 SSD. I ended up reinstalling both win7 and Ubuntu 10.04 and now sometimes when Ubuntu boots it just freezes or becomes so slow .Normally on boot the st ...
guys, just installed 10.04 LTS on my laptop. I had shifted all my files over to an XP machine so I could put them back on once Ubuntu had installed. So I started shifting my music folders over and I noticed that the surface of my laptop was really really warm. So I checked on the System Monitor and ...
I had this same exact problem on Mint 10, decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and still having the problem.Anyways, neither OS is reading the mic on my headset properly...whether it's plugged in the front or rear panel. If I use something like teamspeak for example, to test my mic, it picks up bits and ...
http://i52.tinypic.com/2yycadx.jpgAs you can see above I am currently using 10.04 which I was able to update from 9.04 but I can not get it to go to 10.10, and my options in the right click menu for burning an iso to disk is no longer there. Some how when it upgraded from 9.04 it took away my option ...
I have some issues with pidgin on ubuntu 10.04.It seems I've always had them, as my issues happen on the ubuntu repo's version as well as the latest on the pidgin PPA...1- When I close a conversation/message window it, sometimes, leaves a blank window with the name of the contact. If I close that wi ...
So a few weeks ago, I was using my desktop and saw that there were some upgrades available. I opened the window up and saw that there was a system upgrade. I was using 9.10 and saw 10.04.1, so I figured "Okay, we'll upgrade". I've never had any trouble doing upgrades before, so I had no re ...
I upgraded my Dell studio 1555 to Ubuntu 10.04, and now I don't seem to be able to stay connected to the wireless for more than a few minutes. Network manager never notices the disconnect, and it will usually reconnect on it's own in 10-15 minutes, but it just cycles like this endlessly. The wireles ...
all, I'm having multiple problems with Ubuntu version 10.04 and rather than attempt to fix them I'd prefer to just revert to 9.X whatever it was before the latest distro update.Unfortunately I'm kind of a newbie to operating systems and don't really know how to do this, so I would appreciate any hel ...
Yesterday I updated to Ubuntu 10.04. I had a nice dual boot system going with Ubuntu and Windows Vista. After the update I can't boot Vista anymore - and I really need it!I don't know much about Grub, but I know enough about computers to edit config files etc. What settings should I punch into grub. ...
help! calling all linux nerds/gurus...i upgraded ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04... and not only did it take 2 days to download and install, it died at the end after a bunch of bug reports generated (i didnt take time to look them over). now its 3/4 of the way installed, and not working (obviously!) what now? ...
I've recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 and I've put the ctrl key to alt, and the alt key to the windows key. Now what I've done is:went to System > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts and put ctrl + tab to switch windows (ctrl which is now located at alt) Now that I've done this it causing a little ...
HiI installed Ubuntu 10.04, i like this cat :) I upgraded to UbuntuStudio via Synaptic, as i think i might do some audio visual work. anyhoo the window buttons where a little messed up, so i switched back to the Mac layout instead of Windows via gconf-editor and apps>metacity> general ...But I ...
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my workstation at work. I believe that there was a recent update to the Cleartype fonts, and now I have a lot of trouble with fonts in Chrome. This appears not to affect Opera, but for various reasons I don't use Opera. I don't have the kind of RAM necessary to run bo ...
I upgraded from ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 LTS using the update manager and the result is that ubuntu boots into a black screen.Unfortunately I did not test 10.4 before with the Desktop CD, which I tried now, with the same result: black screen. So most likely a hardware screen card issue... which I did re ...
I hesitated on the title, generally can solve problems w/o this (20+ year *nix/linux experience). hardware Dell 1505, ATI X1400 (nVidia went south replaced with ATI, used at this stage of life for this laptop).Acer x221w external monitor.Recently upgraded to 10.04 (should have waited, but hadn't upg ...
I'm pretty much a noob to linux, besides installing one or two previous versions just out of curiosity, but I've never had problems like I've had today.My computer is pretty old but I imagine it can run it fine once I figure all this out (Asus A7n8X-X, 1 GB ram, Radeon 9600, AMD Athlon 1.16ghz). Lis ...
HelloIve poked around the forums a bit and cant see anything that addresses this.I have a new install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Netbook remix on an Acer Aspire one. (From a couple of hours ago.) It was able to boot all the way up once. Now after a restart it hangs after selecting Ubuntu from the GRUB ...
Im almost sure other people must be experiencing what I am experiencing, lots of people use the compizconfig visual effects, especially the famous desktop cube....I just recently upgraded to 10.04.Now when I start up i get that dreaded purple ubuntu screen and the text reads as follows:An error ocur ...
I got a new computer about three weeks ago, and I installed 9.10. As usual, the famed sound problems, but I didn't care that much because I was waiting 10.04. Just two strange things: one, the LiveCDs never started system (and I waited and waited), and I only managed to install on the only chance I ...
I really hope someone can help me with this. I have two disks in my machine, the larger main disk has my Windows XP installation and the secondary disk has an older XP installation I don't boot to and a partition I made to hold an ubuntu install. I installed 9.10 using wubi and everything was going ...
So I have the 10.04 LTS amd64 image, and I went through the install process over the live cd. If I boot from the cd and just let it start the installer automatically, my screen flashes very fast with errors I cant read(they move across the screen from right to left diagonally)and it just sits in a l ...
I have read a few peoples stories regarding their installation nightmares related to the black screen of death while trying to install 10.04. I am about to give it another on my HTPC, but I am wondering if there is something that people are doing to hopefully work around this ... I would really like ...
Ok this is actually my very first post, im really loving ubuntu... XD. To the topic.Basically i decided to upgrade my system to 10.04 the new distribution was downloaded and when my system was replacing and installing the packages somebody turned off my laptop. This must have obviously corrupted som ...
I also have had some sound problems since upgrading to 10.04 this weekend, sound was working fine in 9.10, and if anyone can shed some light on what is going on I'd appreciate it. I'm fairly computer literate, but am new to linux.After the upgrade I initially had no sound and so using some of the tr ...
In Ubuntu 10.04 I keep having issues with the Synaptics touchpad on my laptop. First off, I can't get the touchpad to disable while typing. I tried the setting in the Mouse preferences to disable the touchpad while typing, but this had no effect. Then I tried simply disabling the touchpad altogether ...
Hi. I have an Acer Travelmate 290, and I have had previous Ubuntu releases installed without any problem -- as far as 8.04 as I seem to recall.Now I'm trying to do a fress install of (L)ubuntu 10.04 and I can't even start the installation because of:"no or unsupported wmi interface, acer-wmi ...
I bought a Dell Latitude E6510 with Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. I have tried dual booting with Ubuntu 10.04. The first problem I had was nouveau making the screen go black during any boot, including install. I fixed this with the modeset.nouveau=0 line at boot.Anyway, like a lot of Ubuntu users I get fr ...
I'm having difficulty enabling a linksys USB wireless adapter in the above configuration. I tried to boot with the "pci=noapic" option, but the adapter always showed up as "disabled." Also, even though a physical connection via cat5 cable works fine, I'm now getting this error me ...
guys, I'm fairly new to Ubuntu. I have used it off and on for the past year but just recently decided to make the jump and force myself to learn it. So far so good, really good actually, minus a serious problem I'm having with my wireless.I installed 10.04 just the other night and had 0 problems ins ...
After updating to 10.04, I was able to connect easily to my network.However after getting a new router "Linksys WRT610Nv2", I was initially able to set up my wireless "WPA & WPA2 Personal"-encrypted network, but for whatever reason it stopped working completely.My Asus EeePC ...
Ok.. so this is really weird.On ubuntu 10.04, I just can't get apt-get to work on the terminal behind the proxy here. The weird part is that this has just happened in 10.04.I am something like the Linux-help around my campus, and since lucid has come out I have installed it in 5 different machines o ...
Since I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 my wireless connection is very unstable. I install the needed wireless drivers from 'Hardware Drivers' (Broadcom STA wireless driver) and I got wireless connection, but it randomly disconnect, and also connection is very slow. I see a lot of ppl having this problem, s ...
I did a clean install of 10.04 yesterday, and now my wifi is extremely slow. Web pages either take a long time to load, or dont load at all. However, IRC and chat clients stay connected. It seems that anything that requires a larger data transfer will fail, but things that dont require fast connecti ...
There are too much bugs on ubuntu 10.041. Stop sync button grey out means unable to click1.1 #u1sdtool --list-folders#u1sdtool --unsubscribe-folder=xxxxxxxxxThis actually done to stop sync but on the ubuntu one website the folder still appear there and no delete option.2. After disconnect under ubun ...