Questions tagged [ubuntu-11.10]

Ubuntu 11.10 (aka Oneiric Ocelot) is the 15th release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

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Can't connect to Wi-Fi hotspot in Ubuntu 11.10

I'm having a wireless network problem in Ubuntu 11.10 with KDE desktop. I made a hotspot using Connectify from a computer which is running Windows 7. I can access it in Windows 7 but not in Ubuntu 11....
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Connect and disconnect a monitor in Ubuntu

I replaced OSX with Linux on my Macbook Pro. When I had OSX in it, I could connect an external monitor and it would be automatically detected and used. When I disconnected it, everything would move to ...
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Ubuntu Server 11.10 interfaces file unreadable

I am configuring ubuntu server 11.10 to go from dhcp to static and whenever I try to restart my networking manager, I get the error: command ran: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart output:...
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How to set the laptop screen brightness programatically?

I'm currently migrating to openbox without gnome session. In unity i can use the vendor keys to set the screen brightness, but in openbox I'm on my own. /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ...
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Linux: coloring bash prompt will break carriage return

When I try to colorize the bash prompt like this: export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m " it breaks the carriage return (instead of going to a new line when line is full, it starts in the same line ...
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Copying a file to my htdocs on ubuntu

Am trying to move a folder from my desktop to to the following directory on ubuntu /opt/lampp/htdocs please help me out i don't have a clue about this.
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Can't connect to FTP server: 425 Unable to build data connection: Connection timed out

I have a Windows 7 installed on my laptop. I installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 with Ubuntu 11.10. I'm trying to connect to my site via FTP but I got an error when I do ls: ~> ftp <my_site> ...
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Ubuntu Audio device not detected

I have a Dell Optiplex 780 running Ubuntu 11.10. Recently I had to hard reset that PC. After that restart, my audio device was no longer detected. Previously, audio had worked fine. The audio/speaker ...
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What DBus signals do I send to players to imitate Gnome's multimedia shortcuts?

I have Xubuntu 11.10, XFCE. I want to send DBus signals to the players so that they worked like in Gnome: you press 'play' key, it plays, 'next' - it forwards, and so on. For that, I need to bind to ...
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How do I scroll up using a keyboard using the terminator terminal emulator?

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and recently switched to terminator for my terminal. I'm happy with it with one exception, I cannot figure out how to scroll up using the keyboard. I used to use gnome-terminal and ...
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Execute Selenium at the startup

I'm using Selenium to automate a browser in a Server from a client, but I want that the server execute selenium automatically at the startup. I have 3 files in /etc/init: proxyserver.conf: respawn ...
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How can I fix the Chromium browser's "Aw, Snap!" bug without losing all of my user profile info?

I'm getting the "Aw, Snap!" bug quite often these days when trying to watch videos with the Chromium browser on Ubuntu 11.10. The help page says that my user profile is broken, and while creating a ...
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Detecting audio playing in a bash script

Is there a way to detect if any sound is playing (using a bash script)? (I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 using pulseaudio.) I plan on using it in an indicator to visually remind me sound is playing while the ...
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Restore sound configuration

After install some packages, I don't have sound! I installed Rosegarden, VMPK (piano software), Drumstick Virtual Piano and TiMidity. At the beginning, all works fine, but when I reset my PC, I don't ...
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Linux and Windows Dual Boot

I set up a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Server 11.10. Everything works fine until I boot into Windows. After booting into Windows, the machine reboots when I select Linux from the grub menu. ...
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Samsung series 7 Chronos fan runs constantly on Ubuntu 11.10

First off, I'm a Linux Noob - I successfully installed it on an older laptop, so I went out and bought this Samsung series 7. After dual booting Ubuntu alongside Windows I noticed the fan would ...
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HP LaserJet P1005 Stopped Working on Ubuntu 11.10

I am using the HP-LaserJet-P1005 result of lsusb Bus 002 Device 013: ID 03f0:3d17 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet P1005 I had a queue of ~10 jobs at the point in which it was unresponsive a few days ago. ...
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After closing the ssh terminal, the thin server is down

I have a rails project run on the thin server(1.3.1) on a Ubuntu server. I connect with SSH to the server and start thin with command thin start -C config/thin.yml, following the thin.yml: port: 3000 ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 ATI Drivers vesa park

This is probably not an issue, from all I can get it seems my hardware and drivers are properly installed. However when I go to system settings -> system info -> graphics. I get Driver: VESA:PARK. ...
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ubuntu report wrong disk usage on /

On my ubuntu 11.10, /dev/sda3 (150GB) is mounted on / and /dev/sda1 (80GB) is mounted on /home. My entire disk has 250GB and the system is reporting I am running out of disk space. Here is the output ...
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Can offlineimap do a one-way sync?

I love the free webmail services out there but hate having years of mail tied up in one of these products. I'm looking for a way to cache a mailbox locally but still be able to access it from a ...
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Bluetooth pairing on the command line in Ubuntu 11.10

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and try to connect to a Bluetooth device from the command line but I always need to enter the PIN in a graphical dialog box. The commands I use: root@ubuntu:~# hcitool scan ...
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Make GRUB 2 boot Windows 8 safe mode

I have a dual boot configuration: Windows 8 Consumer and Ubuntu 11.10. I tried to install the Asus drivers for my motherboard (P8Z68-V LE EFI) in windows 8, and i now get bluescreens when starting ...
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Changing Ubuntu Wallpaper Using Terminal or From command Line

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell and unity and I was wondering how to change the desktop wallpaper form terminal or command line . I found the following but i can't seem to get it to work , ...
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Have a desktop wallpaper show as one image across three monitors?

I am running Ubuntu 11.10, and I have three monitors plugged in. How can I have one single image across every single monitor plugged into the machine?
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Ubuntu/Toshiba Fan Speed Issue

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 AMD64 on my Toshiba laptop (L505D-S5965). After I boot into the OS, my fan works perfectly being mostly quiet. Recently, I noticed that whenever I resume from system suspension,...
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Cannot install or build virtualbox kernel driver in Ubuntu 11.10 64bit

I'm trying to install virtualbox-4.1 (from the virtualbox.org apt source) on Ubuntu 11.10 and it will not install the kernel driver: * Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...
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Default printer drivers vs. Manufacter's printer drivers

I have an Epson Stylus CX 3700. I plugged it into a laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 and the printer works just fine without me installing the driver that came with it. Is there an advantage to using the ...
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Small font all 'new' messages suddenly in Gmail on Ubuntu in Opera, why?

This seemed to happen out of the blue. I have been using Opera for years. I can't find anywhere in Gmail to change the default font that is used in Opera. Ubuntu is Version 11 Opera is version 11.6 ...
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Firestarter device not ready when booting Ubuntu

I am trying to get firestarter running on Ubuntu 11.10 and I am getting an error: Failed to start Firewall The device eth1 is not ready. Please check your network device settings and make sure ...
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Will Network Simulator work in Ubuntu when it's installed on an external hard drive?

I want to install Ubuntu 11.10 on my external hardisk in order to do my assignment running NS (Network Simulator). Can NS be running or working properly if my Ubuntu installed on an external hard ...
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System restarts automatically

I have installed both Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7. My system was working fine when suddenly I got the blue screen of death (bsod) while logging into windows 7. It said about the ACPI compliant and when ...
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How do I install SOX on UBuntu 11.0 with all format supported packages?

I tried to install SOX ( Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs ) on Ubuntu 11.10. At first, I tried with apt-get install sox, it installed successfully but it couldn't convert wav to mp3. Then ...
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How do I properly dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 on an UEFI system?

I have an HP Z210 with Windows 7, which is UEFI based. I'd like to dual boot it to Ubuntu 11.10 with GRUB2, but am having problems due to the UEFI. The install CD goes to the end, but then the ...
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Black screen appears when booting new install of Ubuntu 11.10 on my desktop, cannot access Grub menu to fix

I installed 11.10 on my desktop PC but get a black screen after the BIOS screen when I try to boot it. I was able to run 10.04.04 on my hard drive before installing 11.10 and I am also able to use 11....
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Can Git be used when "experimenting", changing drivers and software on Linux?

I have no idea how to use any backup software with Linux, but I do know Git. I hope this isn't a silly question as the obvious answer is to use some form of backup software, perhaps - but, I was ...
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Key bindings in zshrc do not take any effect

I have just switched to zsh, and I would like to bind Home, End and Delete keys such that they would act similar to how they do in bash. I have found some commands that work if I enter them directly ...
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Can I use an RSA SecurID software token on Ubuntu Linux?

I have Windows, Mac, and Linux computers; but I am only able to connect to some of my company's websites through the Windows and Mac machines at the moment because they are the only ones with RSA ...
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Can I make Ubuntu 11.10's desktop look like 11.04's Ubuntu Classic?

I updated to 11.10 today and Unity has absolutely driven me nuts. Is there a way to bring 11.04's Classic Desktop back to 11.10? I tried KDE and I don't find it similar enough to be happy. I tried ...
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How can I add a script to the Gnome 3 launcher

Programs like eclipse and intellij are launched via scripts, how can I add those programs to the gnome 3 launcher? Thank you.
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Ubuntu server: ssh login is very slow

I have a server hooked directly up to the internet, no router. But when I go to login to ssh it is VERY slow. It is not the connection as you can see here by the response time on this ping: What ...
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Ubuntu error Cannot mount USB drive Not Authorized

I have a Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop. Until now I was able to mount any external drives (USB flash drives which have FAT, SD Cards having ext4 partitions/filesystems using USB SD Card adapters). Both of ...
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Error trying to get tmux 1.6 installed - E: Unable to locate package libevent

$ pwd $ /home/durrantm/Downloads/tmux-1.6 durrantm.../tmux-1.6$ ./configure && make checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... ...
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chown does not apply owner change

I'm having a problem with Dropbox which seems to be quite common (the problem apperas on all sorts of systems - I'm running on Ubuntu 11.10). From the reading I've done, it seems the problem is that ...
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“error: no such device” at boot in Ubuntu Server 11.10 with Raid1

I have a configuration of 4 HDD's as RAID1 2 pairs of 2 HDD's. The first RAID1 pair is for the system, so I just made an 40GB space for swap, and the rest of it for the root. The second pair of ...
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check what uses the disk space on ubuntu

I don not know what is using my disk space. I tried df and du commands to check the system storage used they both show diff results ubuntu@ip-111-121-42-198:~$ df -h Filesystem Size ...
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How do I prevent Skype notifications during a call

If I am on a Skype call with a person (with Share Screen Option switched ON), I don't want to get notified if someone calls me or messages me. They shouldn't know who my contacts are. What should I do ...
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Recover Linux terminal command history behaviour after Ubuntu upgrade

I would like to recover Linux terminal command history behaviour after updating from Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.10. I lost the great terminal feature of accessing recent commands through the up and down ...
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I want to install openresty in my ubuntu

I had downloaded ngx_openresty-1.2.6.6.tar.gz (stable release) from http://openresty.org/ and I had done these commands on terminal: tar xzvf ngx_openresty-VERSION.tar.gz cd ngx_openresty-VERSION/ ./...
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Unable to install rvm-rbx in ubuntu 11.10

When i run the "rvm install rbx-head" in my ubuntu 11.10.There seems to be some error in the installation errors as follows: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/filezilla/ubuntu/...