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Recover Partially Formatted Hard Drive
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and recently tried to safely remove my external hard drive using the GUI, but the "Format" button was right next to the "Safely Remove" button. I stopped the format as soon ...
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How much success can I expect with Qemu On PowerPC Linux?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 for PowerPC and I installed Qemu just for kicks, having experience using it in the past to build an iso for an arm tablet, and upon doing a search I found this installed on my ...
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What does apt need to be healed of a bad setup?
I made a couple of earlier posts regarding a libssl-dev that, it seemed, was not removable. Some of the replies touched on that there was a problem with apt, and now that someone posted the command to ...
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How can I forcibly remove a package from Ubuntu by hand?
I posted this on ServerFault and got some helpful-looking questions, but no answer in terms of what can I do. What, on a low level, can I do to completely exorcise a package that is jamming aptitude ...
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Not able to configure Squid3 proxy server on Ubuntu Server 12.04
When I install Squid3, I configure my network on squid.conf as acl localnet src 192.168.1.0/24, then I configure proxy settings in my browser. After that it stops the browsing and a message displays ...
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Novice Ubuntu 12.04 user needs help! [closed]
I'm new to Unix/Linux and someone suggested I try Ubuntu. I like it but I can't figure a couple of things out and don't really have time to google up ways to solve the problem. Answers from a quick ...
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Starting Resque worker with script doesnt work, starting by hand does
I am trying to figure out why my process doesn't work if started via a script, but works fine if started by hand.
Here's the details:
script is a resque worker start script. The script location is ...
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Find command incorrect results with days filter
I am trying to find all files modified before march 6 in a directory with thousands of files.
I executed the following commands in the PWD where I want to find files.
find -mtime +47 > ...
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Jingle CLI client / Jitsi replacement / VOIP
I am looking for a Jingle client for the command line.
Currently, I use Jitsi, but my dreams of not needing the GUI for more than just web-browsing are not realized due to my reliance on this ...
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How do I update my Debian kernel?
Essentially I have an Ubuntu laptop and a board running Debian. I have installed the same kernel module and a utility for managing it on each, using aptitude.
Unfortunately, the versions of the ...
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Channeling audio
I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like:
INPUTS:
1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player)
1 Microphone Input
OUTPUT:
1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast.
1 connection to ...
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delete file with name --help.tgz [duplicate]
I have file with name --help.tgz. I want to delete but don't know how.
I tried rm "--help.tgz", rm \-\-help.tgz and it did not work. How can I delete a file with such name?
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Time synchronization of machines on LAN to GPS NTP server on the LAN UBUNTU 12.04
I have 4 computers on a LAN that need to have their system clocks closely synchronized within a ms or so if possible. I have just installed a GPS based time server (ESE-104A) on the LAN. At this ...
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Does encrypting my whole Lubuntu slow running programs down?
During the installation of Lubuntu I chose to encrypt my whole HDD (not just the /home folder). Now it feels like my system has slowed down a lot. Especially the startup time of programs increased.
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How to attach elisp function source code in Emacs?
I could use M-x find-function to find the source code of some elisp functions if the function is not written in C code.
But since I am using a Debian binary package of Emacs , some of the source ...
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grub2 ubuntu 12.04.2 flashing screen
Okay, so I've been searching a bit and either by my lack of understanding (I know just enough to be about as dangerous as a fluffy kitten) or because I am just not searching for the right stuff (maybe ...
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Local port forwarding automatically configured on boot?
I have software which needs to run as a non-root user, but needs to listen on port 80 and 443.
With iptables, this isn't all that difficult:
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp ...
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sybase and iconv
I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...
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uploading from Netbeans to remote CentOS server failed
I have a php web application on Netbeans on my Ubuntu , and server is CentOS on a virtualBox .
Suddenly uploading to server stopped and I'm getting these errors for non-root user :
Failed:
file ...
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Xtightvnc: Ubuntu gnome-session-fallback: Fonts problem
I'm running a tightvnc server on Ubuntu 11.04 with a Gnome fallback session. Things seem to work fine except that when I try launching an application that needs xfonts-100dpi. All application menus ...
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Can I put 2 disks into a raid-0 array without reformating the FS?
We have an existing /dev/sda disk, we are adding an identical /dev/sdb
I want to place these two disks in a raid-0 array.
Can I do that without reformating /dev/sda?
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Postfix address resolver + loopback to root problem
Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 With LAMP stack.
The goal is to setup a web server that can send mail via the PHP mail() function, which uses localhost. The mail must then be relayed to an ISP domain ...
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After formatting the linux from the system windows was not booting, it was showing error: nofile system grub rescue
Initially windows 7 was there in my system and i installed ubuntu 12.0 in other drive after i formatted the linux drive then windows was not booting. And it was showing the following error
error: no ...
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Get diff changes between original files installed with apt and current files
I installed php5-fpm package using apt; then I made some changes to the PHP configuration files.
Now I would get the diffs between the original files versions (the ones of the package installed) and ...
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Run service after logging in on an X session
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to automatically start a service after login with LightDM. This service is not meant to start on boot, but after X is initialized.
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Transfer 150GB of files from an old MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 13.04 Live DVD
My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS.
Since she ...
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How to get past “Loading Initial Ramdisk” hang after going from x86_64 to i686 cpu
Long story short, I have a Ubuntu 12.04 64-Bit Server setup as a virtual machine with VirtualBox (4.1.18). I migrated the guest machine from an AMD chipset (a gaming machine) to an Intel Xeon (server ...
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Copyed mysql files from previous system now error while connect, what to do?
Fist of all I have the files but the old system is gone.
I took the folders in /var/lib/mysql/ and gave then the permissions the mysql folder that was in there had. user mysql group root only ...
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cannot mount .img file - “not a directory” error
I try to execute the following command on an ubuntu 12.04 system:
sudo mount minix203.img -o loop -t minix /mnt/myminix/
in order to mount an .img file with minix partition; and get the following ...
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issues booting Ubuntu [Firmware Bug ] : ACPI _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
I am running into an issue booting Linux on a new machine. I started with Ubuntu Server edition. I completed the initial setup via an ISO image, however when the machine restarted and went to load ...
