Questions tagged [ubuntu-12.04]

Ubuntu 12.04 (aka Precise Pangolin), is the sixteenth release(version) of Ubuntu from Canonical.

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The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook suddenly stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04

The trackpad on my HP ProBook 4540s notebook worked perfectly on both Windows and Ubuntu 12.04. Then suddenly it stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04 but it work perfectly on Windows 7. How can I enable ...
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How do I set an http-interface password on VLC 2.x?

I'd like to set up a password for my VLC's HTTP interface server. I'm using VLC 2.x on Ubuntu Precise. How do I set this up? I see numerous mentions online of this being possible. Ideally, I'd like ...
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Unable to capture authentication handshake using airodump-ng

I am using airodump-ng to capture authentication handshake, so I ran airodump for almost 49 minutes and the output appearing as CH 9 ][ Elapsed: 49 mins ][ 2013-04-14 10:58 ][ fixed channel prism0: -...
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How to properly configure xstartup file for TightVNC with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS GNOME environment

I'm trying to configure Gnome-Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I'm able to view the desktop with Real VNC Viewer, Apple VNC Screen Share and other VNC viewers, I can run my applications, the desktop ...
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Install Linux with two hard drives

I've a machine with two hard drives. The first one has 80 GB and the second has 120 GB. I'm about to format this machine and install Linux, and I want to install all the main partitions (/, /...
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Displaying an opengl program on tightvnc webviewer

I'm using TightVNC, because I want to display an opengl program running on linux on a webpage. When I run the program ubigraph, I get the following error message: freeglut (./ubigraph_server): ...
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Can't detect my Android mobile phone in network using NMAP

I want to find all devices using my WiFi connection. I used: nmap -vv -sP 192.168.1.1-100 I can find my local PC and Router, but I cannot detect my Android mobile phone using this command. network:...
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Connect to VPN when `wicd` delivers the internet

wicd and nmcli conflict, so how can I get onto a VPN if not through nmcli con up?
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"Caller rejected because extension not found" in asterisk

I'm an asterisk newbie and I've just installed it on my ubuntu 12.04 server with sudo apt-get install asterisk. I'm following the tutorial for asterisk from here: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/...
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Ubuntu installation will not boot, throws error missing file: /dev/sdc1

I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 and received the continuous message loop: udev[number]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdc' [number] I suspect this error happens due to a missing /dev/...
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VMware vmplayer failing to launch VM on Ubuntu: "Could not open /dev/vmmon"

I get the following error when trying to launch an ova VM using VMPlayer on Ubuntu 12.04 Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure the kernel module 'vmmon' is loaded I ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu VM doesn't automatically sync time with host even with Guest Additions installed

I'm running a Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox and I have both the dkms and virtualbox-guest-additions packages installed. I read in this answer that the system clock should sync with the host automatically ...
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ubuntu 12.04 su fails : cannot execute /bin/bash no such file or directory

After adding a user as sudoers as, su to this user fails with error message: Cannot execute /bin/bash : No such file or directory I googled and found a lot of similar issue, mostly due to /...
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Bridged Network: No IP address on Guest OS

What I want: I want a virtual machine guest running Ubuntu (on VirtualBox) for various web development test servers (running on different ports, e.g. Grunt.js is running on port 9000). I want to ...
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Windows 8 Pro Hyper-V Manager network connection

Need to create a VM instance of Ubuntu 12 hosted on Windows 8 Pro. Discovered Hyper-V. Got it installed like a charm with OS booting up real nice. However, for the life of me and at least two hours ...
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How to disable a keyboard key in Linux (Ubuntu)?

my keyboard is damaged, the keyboard key [é] is always pressed and it prevents me from working. On windows I found the software sharpkey to disable the [é] button but on Ubuntu I can't found no ...
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How to tab completion when typing command in tmux?

Some commands (kill-session and kill-server) have the same prefix. When I type (prefix:kill-seTab), tmux won't give me any result. Is there a option to show wildmenu for auto-completion inside tmux? ...
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How to switch PHP 5.5 instead PHP 5.4 in Bitnami

Details: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise Bitnami used in AWS I want to install PHP 5.5, so I do next step: php -v PHP 5.4.26 (...
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How to make a Bootable CD from a HDD image

The title says the idea, i need to make my ubuntu server and all the modifications & instalations i do on it be imaged into a CD, with the idea, of course of use this CD to install the clone in ...
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Unable to use networking (apt-get) in Docker 12.04 under Windows

I must create a Docker container for Ubuntu 12.04. I am setting up the container into a Windows 10 VM. To get build tools, I need to get apt-get install to work, but it can't reach its sources. I am ...
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Unicode Composition in Sublime Text

I'm not able to use unicode composition (The ctrl+shift+u method) to enter unicode characters in Sublime Text 2 (v2.0.1, Build 2217) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity). To reproduce, just open up a tab and do ...
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How to connect bluetooth headset via command line on ubuntu 12.04

I want to connect my computer to a bluetooth headset. My computer has ubuntu 12.04 64 bits server operating system with no gui. So I must connect my computer via command line. But at internet ...
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Install public key via ssh-copy-id for other users

ssh-copy-id can be used to install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys. Could the same command be used to install other users' public keys, if you have sudo ability? Update: both ...
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Windows 7 BSOD, safe mode working,

I need help getting my dualboot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 to work, and since I'm not to experienced with computers I've been pretty dumb. Here's what I've done, quite shortend though: First ...
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Push entire account from one IMAP server to another IMAP server

My institution recently reshuffled our email accounts. I'm forced to shift years' worth of carefully curated email (= more chaos than a 3 year old's birthday party) from IMAP account_old to IMAP ...
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Kate's "open file" in Ubuntu doesn't show all files

When I go to open a file from Kate (in Ubuntu), it doesn't show me all the files in the current directory. What's more, it shows me some files that aren't in the current directory. Only when I select ...
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sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

echo $PATH gives me below result : /home/dagda/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-...
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How to control the height of the title bar in xfce?

How can I control the height of the title bar in xfce? I only have medium experience with linux desktops, I could change some settings in a text file or install a package, but an instruction that ...
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ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 12.04 reports "not running" but it is running and listening to it's port... why could that be?

I installed ActiveMQ on Ubuntu using the command sudo apt-get install activemq which seemed to work fine. Then, I activated a configuration by copying the sample configuration provided with the ...
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How can I remove the ssh last login info?

Whenever I log into a server using ssh. The prompt gives me "last login" information. I was wondering where this information comes from. How can I remove this record so when someone else log into the ...
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Automounting SD card when inserted in Ubuntu

I am trying to write a BASH script that automounts an SD card once it is inserted in the card reader, then move all pictures to a folder in the HDD and renaming each file to the date and time the ...
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Kali/Ubuntu doesn't detect windows partition

I am trying to dual boot Windows 7 with Ubuntu or Kali Linux but i am unable to do so. I have backed up all my data to an external hard drive. So it is safe to work with partitioning. I have a 500 ...
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How to interpret state and log files written by preload program in Linux?

Preload is a program which prefetches files from the disk needed by various applications to reduce application startup time. It seems to be very popular and useful (just google preload+linux) but the ...
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Ubuntu server remote connection from Ubuntu desktop

I'll start by saying that I'm new to Linux and I want to use it for a MySQL cluster. I installed 2 Ubuntu servers on different machines that have no GUI. My question is: Is there a way to install ...
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Why is my .thunderbird folder so big?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I just found out my .thunderbird folder under my user home directory is 7.4 Gigabytes... However I'm pretty sure I'm using IMAP for all my email accounts, so why is it so ...
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How to shutdown ubuntu server from shell script?

I wrote a simple shell script to shutdown an ubuntu server. Then I created a cron job to execute this script at 23:59 everyday. #!/bin/bash sudo shutdown -h now I got this error message: sudo: no ...
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How to check allocation unit size on a hard drive on Ubuntu 12.04

How can I check on Ubuntu 12.04 allocation unit size on my hard drives? Is there any simple way (as a terminal command), I've been searching for this info in Disk Utility, but couldn't find it.
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Samba netbios aliases throw an inexplicable usershare error

I am trying to set up netbios aliases in Samba on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2). My primary share (not on the aliases) work fine. The shares on the aliases can be listed but fail when ...
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Linux boot - stop the kernel switching to a new framebuffer mode clearing output

I'm working on an embedded system (based onUbuntu 12.04 LTS) and I'm customizing its kernel. I'm having some problem with upstart, mountall and plymouth. Nothing unsolvable I suppose, but the real ...
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How to use arguments with 'find -exec'?

I'm trying to generate static html files for all php scripts inside dir: find . -name "*.php" -exec php {} > {}.html \; But it just dumps all results to {}.html. How to do it properly? And how to ...
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Ubuntu on login don't ask password

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. I have set a password for login. It doesn't ask at startup but when I lock the screen it asks the password. How to make ubuntu to ask password at login? Can anybody help? I ...
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HiDPI mode on Windows or Linux

OS X has a very nice looking HiDPI mode where the effective screen resolution is only half of the monitor resolution, but with very smooth looking fonts. Is something like that also available for ...
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How to install libfaac-dev?

I edited /etc/apt/source.list to have restricted and partner repository, but the results always: sudo apt-get install libfaac-dev .... .... E: Unable to locate package libfaac-dev The package is ...
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Can Windows and SAS be installed inside virtual box of Ubuntu and on an external USB hard drive?

Does it work if Windows is installed inside virtual box of Ubuntu and on an external USB hard drive? My laptop is Lenovo T400. I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and would like to install SAS 9.3 (its system ...
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vertical green stripes on the screen

I had ubuntu installed on my laptop (Sony vaio vgn-fz470e) was working with it, suddenly it restarted and then screen showed colorful squares at first and vertical green stripes remained on the screen....
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How do I recover data from only a single drive in RAID 1 setup on Synology DS214+ NAS?

I'm doing this so I know how to recover my data in case the NAS itself dies out and I'm only left with just a single drive from the 2nd bay (or from the 1st bay). Setup Synology DS214+ NAS 2x 4TB ...
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How to add Force Quit Icon in Ubuntu 12.04?

I have just migrated from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. As most of the UI elements have been changed I don't know to add Force quit icon, which is needed for most of the not responding applications. So, how ...
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What is rotating my haproxy logs?

I have a haproxy logrotate configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d/haproxy that looks like this: "var/log/haproxy.log" "/var/log/haproxy-status.log" { daily size 250M rotate 1 create 644 root ...
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Setting up networking on local development server under VirtualBox

I'm a web developer and want to move away from using XAMPP on my machine for developing. I'd like to have my own development server however don't have the hardware so I'm setting one up with ...
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How do I automatically gain root access with Putty?

Putty is set up to run like: putty.exe -load mysession -l myuser -pw mypass But it logs me in as myuser. For root access I need to type in the console: sudo -i Then it asks for my password again. ...

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