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Why is the command in /etc/rc.local not executed during startup?
I have a single command in my /etc/rc.local script that is supposed to start the update daemon for Tiny Tiny RSS during startup, but the script is not executed during startup. Why?
The entire ...
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How to fix Ubuntu server 13.04 slower boot when network cable is unplugged
I have noticed that when I unplug the network cable, system waits about 100 seconds to configure the network, So I edited /etc/init/failsafe.conf and comment two wait() lines (thanks to tutorial here)
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Ubuntu server boots, then shows blinking cursor
My Ubuntu server boots but then shows a blinking cursor. It passes GRUB and I get the boot log output and all seems fine, however I get no shell after booting. I can boot into recovery just fine ...
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Triple boot win 7, win server 2008, and Ubuntu
I have a system that dual boots Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2 Datacenter. I'm trying to add Ubuntu for a triple boot. Every time I install Ubuntu, it installs, but when I try to boot it, it ...
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Ubuntu server - Make sure server can always boot and a hard drive is mounted before sharing with Samba
I have two 2-TB hard drives (not the boot/system drives) with a single partition in each, that I share with Samba. Mountpoints are in /mnt/drive01 and /mnt/drive02 .
These are also the path of two ...
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boot failed ubuntu
I got this error when I was rebooting my server?
How should I do? Is there a way to auto reboot if this happened. I knew windows are doing this way.
I don't want if there is a power failure the OS ...
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WiFi and Apache/VNC server services (Ubuntu 12.10) after boot
WLAN USB stick assembled successfully to my Ubuntu Apache server. It also automatically connects to network after reboot. Thanks developer guys, greate work from you.
But I have found some strange ...
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12.04-server update failure after full /boot, apt not working, unmet dependencies to non exiting linux-image kernel
Unattended upgrade failed after full /boot partition. Creating disk-space by deleting old kernels with the recommended command
sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-x-generic
does not work and gives ...
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directly deleted my windows patition directly and now without the bootloader the windows wont boot [duplicate]
I deleted my ubuntu partition directly and now as it can't boot so I tried a bootable windows usb to reinstall windows or repair Windows but can't because the hard drive has been locked or write ...
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How do I choose a graphical or text boot at boot time? [duplicate]
I have a 12.04 in desktop, but sometimes I just want to boot without X-windows. I don't want the GUI.
How do I disable X at boot time?
Can I add both options? Or do I just start the GUI and then ...
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How I can build an image to run Ubuntu server 12.04 as a stateless linux on a diskless baremetal pc
How I can build an image to run Ubuntu server 12.04 as a stateless linux on a diskless baremetal PC, PXE booted and partially preconfigured and the rest configured on a boot using attribututes passed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 boots into black blank screen
I installed Ubuntu server 12.04 about 2 weeks ago. It had been working well and running 24/7 until I accidentally restarted it yesterday. Shouldn't have been a problem, yet now it just sits at a black ...
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Swapped graphics card, ended with dead system
Where to start.... My OS is Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 AMD64 (no specific reason to get server other than avoiding any preset desktop environment right out of the box).
I was having the fun of my lifetime ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.10 not obtaining IP address until a user logs in
I just did a recent install of Ubuntu Server 12.10 (no GUI, command line only) on a new system. I noticed that upon booting the server does not obtain an IP address from my router. However, once I ...
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run a command as user at boot time Ubuntu 12.04
I want to run a command at boot time that basically looks like this:
python /home/me/.hidden/commnd.py
Also, this needs to run as me, not root.
I know it can be done, but my google-fu is weak ...
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Initialize Script on Startup
Is it possible to initialize a script upon startup in Ubuntu (precisely, Ubuntu Server 12.10)? I need to initialize a script to let the network card work, and so far I couldn't find a way to do so ...
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Boot my Mac into External USB Ubuntu Server 12.10
I recently downloaded ubuntu server 12.10 and created an install disk. I then proceeded to boot into the disk and install the server onto an external usb flash drive. After the installation was ...
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The /boot partition in my server is full, how can I re-size it without re-installing the whole system?
I'm having some troubles because the partition in which /boot is allocated in my server is full, so I can install neither new linux images nor upgrades.
Here is the server's file system usage ...
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How can I set up a regex to rename files automatically for Atftp?
I've a question about the package named 'atftp'. I've got the atftp daemon finally working. Previously I was using tftp-hpa with a custom rule that replaces filenames with capitals into non-capital ...
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Reboot only shuts down and doesn't actually boot again
I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 Server on an abmx rack mount server. When I attempt to reboot with sudo shutdown -r now, the machine just shuts down and doesn't come back up without me ...
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How to troubleshoot a non-booting EC2 Ubuntu instance?
After upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10, my EC2 Ubuntu instance won't boot. here is the system log:
Fri Oct 26 17:05:57 UTC 2012: shutting down for reboot [up 18892807s].
* Stopping web server apache2 ...
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Ubuntu Server hangs when booting
It just hangs on the loading screen. When I go into safe mode from grub and then pick resume normal boot I get the message:
[35.438644] init:lg.c:796: Assertion fail in log_clear_unflushed: ...
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Failed server upgrade to 12.04 (RAID 1 needs to be mounted)
I attempted to update my headless server to Precise Pangolin 12.04 restarted the box and get error message "kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block oo swapper not ...
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Unable to free space in /boot
Running:
Linux ips-svf-1 3.0.0-22-server #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 12 17:56:20 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm trying to free space in /boot with apt-get -y purge, but every time I run the ...
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ubuntu server 12.04 new installation does not boot
I've just installed server 12.04 on a new machine.
It's got two network cards and two hard drives.
During installation it asked me if I wanted to make it RAID and I said ok to that.
Finally, it ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 start fails after update
I did an system update on Ubuntu Server 12.04, which requested a reboot.
Since that, the system never reaches the login. It hangs on:
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or ...
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Is it possible to run an application as superuser within boot without input?
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop machine running as a server with no input devices accessible after initial setup. I need to place any application that I want to run within the boot process. I have one ...
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Server boot degraded RAID
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a new server and set up the 4 hard drives with 3 RAID 1 devices, the configuration is such that the first two drives have md0 (swap space) and md1 (/) with the third ...
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Ubuntu Server Edition won't boot with second hard drive plugged in
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu server edition running on my home server. I cannot (for the life of me) get it to boot with a second hard drive plugged in. I have checked boot priority and made sure ...
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How can I run update-grub if I can't boot into linux?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 onto an old HP DL320 G2. This has a ATI Rage XL video card built in. Everything seems to install okay, but I'm having problems with booting.
Once the server ...
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How can I set my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to boot to console without GUI?
So I installed Ubuntu server to run some tests on a VM. For various reasons I couldn't get a specific DEB file, and instead of using a shared folder I decided it would be a good idea to install ...
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server 12.04 boot dhcp, can not find hard disk
I am trying to set up ubuntu server 12.04 LTS on my old Dell desktop for a LAMP home testing server. The install went fine, but when I start up, I do not see the the grub boot loader (which i ...
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no bootable medium found system halted
When open ubuntu on virtual box , it doesn't work , and the following message appear
"No bootable medium found system halted"
How i can solve this problm?
Thanks
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Why does 11.04 server fail to boot with 'can't find /sbin/init'?
I just restarted my server and now when I boot up one of my Ubuntu 11.04 Server instances I am greeted with errors. It doesn't boot up.
I am pretty sure this is not a hardware error as I have other ...
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How to get verbose output on Ubuntu Server while booting?
There is no output form the init scripts on Ubuntu Server.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/542666
Is there any workaround? Such as installing plymouth or anything else?
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Having tried differen ways but none worked - How do I disable a service from auto-start at boot in Ubuntu?
This really doesn't make sense. I've been using many other distros and never had such difficulty managing autostart services.
I found three ways of disabling autostart services, and none of them ...
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Lucid hangs at booting after kernel upgrade
This weekend, one of our servers running Lucid has installed some upgrades:
libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5ubuntu2.1
linux-firmware 1.34.14
linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.91
linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-41.91
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How can I update from 10.04 to 11.04 (including Plymouth) on a virtual server?
I'm unable to upgrade. Every time I try the boot process gets stuck in Plymouth.
It's a virtual server, so no graphics and no grub either. How can I solve this problem?
Thanks,
Pete
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Ubuntu 12.04 Fails to Boot after Reboot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on several Dell c6220 servers. The install was successful and all hardware is recognized.
The problem that I am running into is that when issuing the reboot command or ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 (server): Failed to load fallback graphics devices?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 (server, x64) under ESXi 5.0 and it appears to be working fine, but when it boots I get the following message:
* Starting load fallback graphics devices [fail]
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postgresql server fail to start ubuntu?
I have an ubuntu system and installed postgresql server on ubuntu. Till yesterday evening its working fine and I did shutdown it properly. Today morning when I started it then it boot and gave the ...
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Install Problem (Ubuntu Server 10.04) with USB as it reboots when I hit 'enter' for 'Install Ubuntu Server' option! Help
We cannot seem to install Ubuntu Server with USB as it reboots when I hit 'enter' for 'Install Ubuntu Server' option.
My friend wants to try setting up a server so; we downloaded Ubuntu Server ...
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My Ubuntu Server filesystem just crashed. Need some help! How to recover files or filesystem?
None of my sites worked, saying that the /tmp/ folder was not writeable.
I ssh-ed into the server, and indeed, everyting was read only. I restarted with the fsck flag, and now I get a grub error.
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Ubuntu Server 11.10 boot, white terminal with garbled black text
I just installed Ubuntu server 11.10 and the install went fine. This system is running on an Intel Pentium II board with onboard graphics.
However when I try to boot into Ubuntu I get a white ...
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Server stuck at black screen after reboot
I recently put together a new server running Ubuntu Server 11.10 and it's all working great except for one little detail. Whenever I run "sudo reboot" everything works fine until I get to the grub ...
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Is there a way to determine progress on a disk check at boot?
During the boot process, a disk check can be run, but during this process there is no indication or detailed information available to gauge how far along the process is.
Is there a way to display any ...
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Ubuntu won't boot after plugging in wireless network card
I plugged a Skyr@cer Pro PCI 154 into a Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS and tried to boot. It won't get further that launching AppArmor, sometimes even not that far. Without the network card, everything ...
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Restore Ubuntu after power outage [closed]
the problem is after short power outage I'm getting message like "gave up waiting for root device. Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/{long_guid_} does not exists. Dropping to a shell".
How do I fix it?
ubuntu ...
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NFS Mount fails on startup
I have multiple Ubuntu servers, recently I've installed a few 11.04 servers (and 1 desktop) and I've just found that upon rebooting the nfs mounts will not mount.
I've tried upgrading nfs-common to ...
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Disable Computer from booting into gnome
I have a laptop running Ubuntu Server. I installed Ubuntu Desktop onto it by running sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. Now, by default, the computer boots into gnome. What can I do to make it boot ...
