Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) was released on 29 April 2010 and is a LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu. This means that unlike normal releases, it will be supported until 2013 on the desktop and 2015 on the server, in contrast to the 18-month support period of non-LTS releases.
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Device Major Number Conflict
I am trying to install a video frame grabber in my Ubuntu 10.02 LTS machine. The problem I am facing is that the frame grabber's major number (which is being allocated dynamically to 251 as a char ...
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How to point cinelerra back to original AVCHD files when rendering project with DNxHD proxy files
....now I am finally up to rendering my whole project but I made a mistake of moving my original .MTS files (AVCHD) that were shot at 108060fps and were encoded with ffmpeg to DNxHD proxy files at ...
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Where from/to install my.cnf for percona db
I am new to Percona db. I just realized that by default percona does not have a my.cnf file installed. I found this from,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/673844
In case, I need a ...
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problems encoding 1080p60fps MTS files with ffmpeg to DNxHD proxy; plays too slow in NLE compositor window.
I was advised to encode my HD files with ffmpeg to DNxHD proxy with 220M bitrate rather then 45M so the image doesnt have too much artifacts. I reduced the framerate to 29.97 fps when I encoded the ...
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Firefox can't access internet in Ubuntu 10.04
I installed Ubuntu 10.04. Firefox will not access the internet. It works fine in 10.04.
This happens every time Firefox opens. Do I have to update the kernel, is there another way?
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Dell FX100 KVM Host card clobbers onboard audio
I have a Dell Precision server with a PCIe FX100 KVM Host card installed (manufacturer is Teradici but it's rebranded as a Dell solution.)
I am not using this card (it's installed in the machine but ...
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captive portal session lockup
I'm using an internet at an apartment where they utilize a captive portal. All seems to be fine, but sometime when I try to use I got a message saying that "You are already logged in" but I can't use ...
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On Ubuntu 10.04 Server, make mysql start at boot?
I did a apt-get update & installed few updates on my server which runs 10.04LTS. But this has broken mysql. it doesn't start at boot. I tried to manually start it using the following commands:
$ ...
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Ubuntu VirtualBox guest not showing wireless extensions in iwconfig
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my Mac using Oracle VirtualBox. My machine is connected to Wi-Fi and am able to browse the internet from within Ubuntu as well. However, iwconfig does not give an ...
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Only output part after last “/” with find
This command:
find ./ -name "mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm"
gives the output:
./DirectoryName/SubDirectory/mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm
but I only want the output:
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dual screen won't work / ubuntu 10.04
I have an old computer, on which i'm running Ubuntu 10.04.
It has a graphical chipset built in the motherboard (Intel) but has some PCI slots.
I added a ATI Radeon 9200 graphical card, in order to use ...
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ubuntu shell script checking for
I'm looking for something like this:
if [ "`python2.7 -V`" == "Python 2.7" ] ;then
echo "woh"
fi
inside the if statement ... check to see if running the command
$ python2.7 -V
returns the ...
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Downgrading from g++-4.4 to g++-4.3
I'm using ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I have now the both g++-4.4 & g++-4.3
there're some software don't work with the v4.4
when I do uninstall it, the software center also uninstall the g++ compiler
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adding a user to a webserver
How can I setup a user on my Ubuntu 10.04 VPS so I can login through FTP and upload .php .html, etc files. I know the default path is /var/www but I'd rather not login through root and upload to ...
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Windows 7 running Virtualbox 4.1.12 with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS guest but no full screen
After a recent windows update (though may not be the issue), I am unable to run Ubuntu in the virtualbox with full screen mode. I can no longer stretch the window to any resolution. It is locked at ...
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Need to configure perl
I was going to run a perl program and then I got this error message:
Can't locate JSON.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 ...
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I would like to edit the layout of my keyboard just a bit - what's the best way?
I'm using an Apple keyboard which has some annoyances compared to other keyboards. Namely, the Alt_L and Super_L keys are swapped, and the bar and less keys are swapped ("|" and "<").
I've written ...
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Got blue screen with a warning that I boot loader may not be properly configured, workaround?
After running
sudo apt-get update
got this message:
Configuring grub-pc
You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. If you continue, the boot loader may not be properly
configured, and ...
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Which trackers to use for a torrent? [closed]
I'm new to bittorrent seeding and I'm experimenting with an audio file that I'm adding to create my first torrent. I'm using transmission but at the field where I should add trackers I'm stuck and I ...
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Why does cron task run twice?
I have a task that should run each day in Ubuntu10.04. So I use crontab and copy the scripts of the task to the directory /etc/cron.daily.
Here is the my crontab:
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
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sysctl.conf is not applied at boot
What script is responsible for applying sysctl.conf at boot time? Looks like I've broken something and now have to start sysctl -p manually.
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Ubuntu Linux “su” disable password
I am trying to get rid of the password prompt in Ubuntu Linux, during the "su" command. Basically, I need to do something like:
su otheruser
to enable a few of my applications to run in batch mode. ...
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remove tasksel lamp-server
I was tricked in running "sudo tasksel install lamp-server" on the wrong server (UBUNTU 10.4).
Now I am stuck with a system where apache won't start because of a "Address already in use: make_sock: ...
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How to check filesystem of a vmware virtual machine?
My Ubuntu 10.4 running in a vmplayer seems to have problems and I'd like to run fsck.ext4 on it. I've tried to mount -n -o remount,ro /dev/sda1 /, but it keeps to say "/ is busy". Switching runlevels ...
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Firefox error when restoring bookmarks from JSON file
When I tried restoring the bookmarks from my Firefox profile from the JSON file dated March 6, 2012 that was located in the profile folder of Firefox on my previous hard drive that was used with ...
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Private Gaming VPN
My buddy moved to Korea for the military, and we play Star Wars: The old Republic together. While connecting to the servers he gets an okay ping, but since the game uses a lot of data streaming, when ...
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Not able to login in Ubuntu box with root password
I have ubuntu 10.04 on my system. I run
apt-get install csh
and try to change the shell by
chsh -s
When I try to log into the system with ssh, I can't login with any account except for one, ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 web browsers do not render some fonts
I tried opening page which uses this font http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poiret+One however my web-browser whether it's chrome or firefox doesn't render it and just shows simple font (I thinks ...
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Why would postfix be unable to contact remote domains?
I'm trying to get postfix working on a server running Ubuntu Lucid. Testing using thunderbird on my local machine, I can receive emails no problem. I can also send emails if the destination is also my ...
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Encrypt non-home partition on login
I want a partition which gets encrypted on my login and unmounted on logout, just as the automatically mounted home partition using ecryptfs. The partition will contain my own data only, nothing ...
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Installing sun-java6-jdk with apt-get on Ubuntu 10.04
I have followed the instructions on numerous pages, such as this, which say to run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get ...
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Acer Aspire 5750 broadband issue on ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I've recently purchased the Acer Aspire 5750. I've installed two OS(Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). Till now, everything on Ubuntu is working fine except that I can't access my cable model ...
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No boot menu after installing ubuntu
I installed windows 7 on my laptop at C:\, and then I installed ubuntu with a bootable usb stick, but when I restart my computer, it boot to windows 7 directly, there is no boot menu to select which ...
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How to get filename colors back in Midnight Commanders?
I've upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, and my Midnight Commander has been upgraded to 4.7.0. As a result of that, the colors of the filenames on the panels disappeared. Previously an executable file had a ...
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ubuntu 10.04 command “# type php” returns nothing
I have 2 LAMP servers with ubuntu 10.04... both with php5 successfully installed.
on server1 i run the command # type php in terminal and the response is:
"php is /usr/bin/php"
however in server2 I ...
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Error when mounting more than one truecrypt
I'm trying to mount two truecrypt volume. After I mounted the first one I can't mount the second one. If I unmount the first one than I can mount the second one. I'm getting the following error:
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Send Mail not working properly on Ubuntu server 10.04
I am trying to send a test email from ubuntu server 10.04 using the sendmail service.
Below is the command.
cat /var/gs/livecron/design.txt | mail -s "Cron Job Duration Notification" ...
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No Internet connection in VMware Player (Guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04)
I don't get internet connection in the guest OS. Could you please help me to find out why?
The host OS is Windows 7, guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04.
Type of network connection: NAT.
ifconfig command ...
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How Can I Print Under A Username Different Than The One I'm Logged In As?
I bring my own personal laptop to school where my login is nickname. However, in order to print to the school's printers the username that sends the print job must match my school's AD login, ...
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sudo make install: permission denied
I have a most annoying question about building from sources. I've searched for an answer for a long while and nowhere can I find one... I've compiled software from sources before and this just baffled ...
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GUI not working on my Ubuntu 10.04.3 after restarting
GUI mode is not working on my machine after I restarted it and it is throwing error
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP ...
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Warning with gedit in Ubuntu
I keep getting this irritating warning when i open a file with gedit in the background in the Ubuntu terminal
GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
It doesn't hamper me in any way, but ...
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running perl/cgi-bin in Nginx server on ubuntu lucid
can you give me an exact tutorial on how to run perl on nginx server?
i am able to run perl on apache, lighttpd but i want to run it in my nginx server, it is because i want to run a file hosting ...
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How to avoid aptitude to repair broken packages?
I'm using a version of rubygems needed for running one of the application of my server installed this way :
dpkg --install /tmp/rubygems1.8_1.3.7-2_all.deb
At each usage of it, aptitude want to ...
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Keys stuck down using Linux with Wireless keyboard, any way to fix or recover?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS without Compiz, and I have a problem where occasionally (2-3 times a day) keys get stuck down (not physically!). It's often Ctrl, although sometimes even mouse buttons or ...
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Toshiba satellite C665 P5010 network devices not functioning in Ubuntu 10.04
I got a brand new Toshiba satellite C665 with Ubuntu 10.04 installed. But NetworkManager shows, 'No network devices available'. But when I ran the system testing, test detected Atheros Communications ...
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Can't boot into Windows after removing Linux
I had Linux Ubuntu and Windows dual booting from my computer. I used Gparted to remove the Linux Ubuntu partitions, now I can't get into Windows.
I think it's got something to do with the Linux ...
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iMac user can't access NFS mounted home directories with sudo
I've just reinstalled my iMac on my home network, and have mounted the user home directories via a NFS share (hosted on an Ubuntu server).
The problem I have is that when I use sudo, I get permission ...
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Ethernet port not showing up in ifconfig
I asked this question on ubuntuforums.org, but haven't gotten any responses.
I am new to Ubuntu, and am having trouble getting my onboard ethernet port working on a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 ...
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There isn't boot with Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
I installed Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS in my PC in December, 2011. It was working good, but yesterday when I turn on the PC, I see a black screen with the following messages.
A group of numbers and at the ...
