Questions tagged [10.04]
Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", this is the third Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Released April 2010, and no longer supported since May 2013 on Desktops and April 2015 on Servers. Questions about unsupported versions are likely to be closed as off-topic.
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In what order do cron jobs with the same schedule run?
Let's say that I have the following cron jobs:
* * * * * /path/to/taskB
* * * * * /path/to/taskC
* * * * * /path/to/taskA
Is there any guarantee to the order in which they will be run?
I've seen ...
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How often are packages updated in Lucid?
I'm using Ubuntu since Dapper and I really love it. Right now, I have three production machines running Lucid with some PPAs. And I don't like this scenario since PPAs apps usually make badly-made ...
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How do I add a notification for process completions
How can I add a notification of some sort (like playing a .wav file or creating a pop-up on the status bar) when a process finishes. For example, I am compiling a program that takes a couple of hours ...
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Skype doesn't find my audio input
Skype doesn't find my audio input. If I click on the "Microphone" no other suggestions appears, my web camera works.
In windows everything works.
This is my audio preferences.
audio settings.
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How to disable auto play MP3 files?
When I put my mouse/cursor over an MP3 file, a few seconds later the music/file starts playing. Is there any way to disable this?
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How to create a Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 Unity VM under VirtualBox
I'd like to run the new Unity interface from Ubuntu 10.10 inside of a VirtualBox VM (host is Ubuntu 10.04). Is that possible? Thanks!
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How can I bind a key to cycle between workspaces?
I'm using 2 workspaces right now, and I'd like to be able to cycle through them using a single shortcut. At the moment, I can do Ctrl+Alt+Right to switch to workspace 2, and Left switches to 1, but I'...
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Best way to remote login on a Ubuntu machine from Ubuntu/Windows and OS X
We have set up a Ubuntu workstation with accounts for all the group members.
Nxserver from nomachine seems to be what we need, but it is restricted to two users. FreeNx isn't easily installable and ...
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How do I block people with Empathy
I'm trying to block a user from contacting me, but can't seem to do this from the Empathy interface. How do I block contacts?
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Closing lid freezes laptop
Closing the lid on my Dell Studio 15 which is running Ubuntu 10.04 freezes the screen. This is a new problem in Ubuntu 10.04 which did not exist in 9.10
I have tried playing with all the settings in ...
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How can I force the usage of a repository?
I have added the following to my sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/experimental/ubuntu/ lucid main
Unfortunately, whenever I do a sudo apt-get update, the repository is ignored. ...
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How do I lock/unlock my screen using my iPhone and USB dock?
My iPhone is connected via USB to my Ubuntu desktop via a dock. How do I configure it so that when I dock my phone the screen is unlocked and when removing it it locks it?
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How to repair/restore after 'sudo chmod / 777'? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What if I accidently run command chmod
I changed file permissions recursively on the root directory '/' with sudo chmod / 777 -R and after that i run "save mode" and i was ...
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By default, what system messages get mailed to root?
I recently installed ssmtp on my server to enable e-mail notifications for a redmine install. While I was verifying everything was setup correctly I got an e-mail notification about a failed cron job....
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Laptop immediately suspends when going onto battery power
I've got an MSI Wind, model U100 that's been running Ubuntu without trouble for a long while. After upgrading to 10.04 a few months ago, I've had this strange problem. As soon as I unplug the laptop ...
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How do I change the background colour of Leafpad? (changing .gtkrc insufficient)
All the information that google returns says to change ~/.gtkrc2.0-mine. Here is my .gtkrc-2.0:
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN BY gtk-theme-switch2 DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Dust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
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How do I enable GNOME system tools?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME 2.30.2. This is a VMWare workstation image provided by another company that I do not have support in this regard. I am trying to access the graphical tools for ...
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How can I quickly recompile the kernel after changing the configuration?
I'm trying to fix a suspend problem on my Dell Inspiron 600m. I think the problem is that the video driver modules aren't being reloaded properly. So, I'm going to try to compile the video drivers ...
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apt-get ignores all packages with "Translation-en_US" [duplicate]
Having a problem on an EC2 Ubuntu Lucid instance where if I run (sudo) apt-get update all packages with Translation-en_US are ignored.
Hit http://ap-southeast-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release....
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Single mouse clicks behaving as double clicks?
Some time ago I started experiencing strange issue when single clicks would intermittently act as double clicks.
Replacing the mouse doesn't help.
Ubuntu forum seems to have few threads related to ...
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Set up a Serial-to-Ethernet Converter With a Virtual Serial Port
I have a '3one data' brand serial-to ethernet converter, that plugs into a serial device at one end, and allows bidirectional communications with the device over an ethernet connection, like this:
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Moonlight stopped working on tvp.pl
I'm watching The Bold and the beautiful on the site:
http://www.tvp.pl/seriale/obyczajowe/moda-na-sukces/wideo
Yesterday I wanted to view next episode, however it didn't work. I checked various ...
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GDM locale problems
I have two problems with GDM on Ubuntu 10.04.
The first is with locales.
In my system I have defined:
$ cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/...
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Downgrade from one version to a previous version? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?
Is it at all possible to downgrade from one version of Ubuntu to a previous version without doing a re-install similar to the ...
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Deleted apt sources.list file
I accidentally deleted my sources.list file in the apt folder and now none of my apt commands are working. I tried to download the list again but couldn't find the link. I am using Ubuntu 10.04. Can ...
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How to configure TATA Photon+ EC1261 HUAWEI
I'm running ubuntu 10.04. I have a newly purchased TATA Photon+ Internet connection which supports Windows and Mac. On the Internet I found a article saying that it could be configured on Linux. I ...
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How do I change the "Default" password
here's my problem. When I log in I'm beeing asked for a password connecting to the internet which is strange because I'm the only user and the admin. I have auto log in and it never asks for passwords,...
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Ctrl+C won't close man pages
I'm setting up a Linode server, and connecting to it via SSH with PuTTY.
When I bring up a man page, and don't want to go through the whole thing, I'm used to doing a Ctrl+C on the Unix boxes I've ...
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How do I get the Wubi installer to use a pre-downloaded ISO?
I have this iso file ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso and then I downloaded the corresponding wubi installer for this version. Place them inside the same directory in Windows, but instead of making use ...
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Why are the *.04 releases supported for three years and the *.10 releases aren't?
I've been wondering why canonical releases a *.04 release (ubuntu), advertises that it is supported for three years, and then a *.10 release comes out and isn't supported for three years.
My question:...
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Changing console font on Ubuntu 10.04 Server
How can I change local console font on Ubuntu 10.04 Server to Inconsolata?
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Starting byobu with a config file, but getting all the byobu niceties, too?
When one starts byobu by saying:
byobu -c myconfig
unfortunately the whole session looks like a bare bone screen session. How can I get the full-fledged byobu interface with the status bar and "tabs"...
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How do I hide the drive icons of my other partitions from the desktop?
I have the hard disk icon for each of my partitions on my Gnome desktop.
I want a clean look, how do I hide them?
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Show Icon instead of text for the gnome menus?
Is it possible to use icons instead of text for the menus in the top pannel (shown above)?
If so, How can we do that?
I've tryed gconf-editor setting the Key:
/desktop/interface/toolbar_style
with ...
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Can you still defrag Vista if you use Wubi?
Would like to defrag Vista seperately,understanding that Ubuntu does not need it. While Ubuntu files are included on the c drive will it cause problems?
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Can not upgrade Server Edition
Can someone tell me how can I upgrade my ubuntu server 10.04 to ubuntu server 10.10?
I try:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
Output:
Checking for a new ubuntu ...
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Keyboard layout on Ubuntu won't go away!
So, I installed Ubuntu (Using Gnome) with keyboard layout US International with Dead Keys enabled. Now I've set this to US International with Alt-Gr Dead Keys enabled. I added the latter and deleted ...
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Set up eth0 network interface using DHCP in initramfs
I created my own initramfs script (based on live-initramfs) and I need set up network connection (using DHCP) to get remote file.
So what do I need to add to initramfs hook file (ifconfig, dhclient?)....
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External microphone not working
gnome-volume-control does not recognise external hardware. My headphones work nonetheless, but an external microphone does not. External microphones used to work, but at times were temperamental - I ...
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How do I install drivers for an HP LaserJet Pro P1102w?
I've bought the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w.
I want to use it with Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), but it is not in the list of supported printers. How can I install this printer on Lucid?
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Two finger scrolling on touchpad
I can scroll with 2 fingers with my touchpad on Win7 but when I switch to Ubuntu 10.04 it doesn't work, the option is greyed out.
Could anyone help?
My touchpad is Synaptics V7.2 PS/2 Port
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add default route on boot [closed]
I'm trying to add a default route on my ppp0 connection, I want the default route points to that connection. I tried to add it in /etc/rc.local but I don't think that is the right place to do so. I ...
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How can I monitor DVR Cameras?
I have a DVR installed and works great... I have the IP address and when I write it in IE9 works perfect (via web service)... How can I monitor them via web?
I tried with every Browser at Ubuntu ...
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Where should I start in tracking down Firefox malware
Switched my sister to Ubuntu because I got tired of re-installing the other OS every 6 months. Now she managed to get some malware in her Firefox on Ubuntu. Without access to the computer (or when I ...
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Can you force open links that create a new tab, in the same tab?
I use Chromium. Many times, I am following links, from one page to another, and I am done with the current tab and don't want to open a link that might possibly open in a new tab. I tried some ...
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How do I set up automatic login?
How do I get 10.04 (Lucid) to log me in automatically on each reboot?
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How to shrink a partition without using GParted?
Unfortunately all the answers I found involve GParted. I thought I could be using parted, but apparently the "parted resize" command has some limitations with respect to GParted when working on a ...
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How can I read system mail on my admin account?
On a new server running lucid, I get "you have new mail" in my admin account. However, I don't have a mail command available to read it. Do I need to install it manually (or mutt, etc.), or is a mail ...
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How to upgrade from 10.04 to 11.10
I just tried 11.10 on virtualbox and it seems to be fine. Rather than making another partition, transfering files, and then deleting 10.04 to make sure everything's all right, I would like to just ...
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wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltoimage: cannot connect to X server
I compiled wkhtmltopdf from source on Ubuntu 64bit server 10.04 as described in manual. When I try to convert it exits with an error message:
wkhtmltoimage: cannot connect to X server
There is X ...