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How do I reset a lost password (using recovery mode requires me to type the password)?
I need to reset my password. I have followed these steps:
How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password?
However, then I go to "root" or "netroot" recovery options, it tells me:
Give root ...
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How to reset the terminal properties and preferences?
I fooled around with the colors and stuff, in the terminal, and now want to go back to the maroon and white default config of the the terminal. What files do I have to delete?
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How to reset evolution settings to defaults?
I have not used Evolution for long time now and I would like to reset all the settings and start from scratch. How would I be able to do this?
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Shell does not show typed in commands, “reset” works, but what happened?
My problem is that the Bash shell stops showing the characters I type into it. It does read the commands though.
I've come across this problem quite a few times and I don't understand what causes it. ...
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Application lens installend but missing in dash
I have a very strange problem: the "Applications" lens does not appear in unity dash. The unity-lens-application and unity-places-applications packages are installed, i tried also unity --reset but ...
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How can I reset the permissions of /var?
My friend did a chmod -R 777 /var by mistake. Now he has his /var folder permissions like this:
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Dec 29 17:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 10 11:15 ..
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Ubuntu 11.10 resets to default settings after reboot
I upgraded to kernel 3.2 last night. Now:
Gnome 3 resets to default after reboot and/or log out.
Cannot change theme, font, etc through gnome tweak tool.
cannot add any keyboard shortcuts that ...
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Password Reset Disk
I use Windows 7 as my secondary OS and it has an option for creating Password reset disk i.e. a flash drive when inserted to a locked Win 7 (in case password is forgotten), would reset the system ...
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Where are my rhythmbox library folders stored?
I tried
rm ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/ ~/.cache/rhythmbox/ ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/ -r
but that only ended up removing the database. I want to remove some folders in particular. How do I do that? Are ...
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How to reset the Xorg / xserver?
xserver keeps crashing on my general user account both in unity 3d and 2d.
It doesn't do it on the guest account.
That's why I want to reset / rollback everything xserver related, hoping this is ...
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Cannot boot after BIOS / UEFI reset to defaults
I have a ThinkPad X130e. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64 on it. All worked fine until yesterday. While diagnosing another issue I reset the BIOS / UEFI to defaults. Afterwards Ubuntu did not boot ...
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How to reset all themes
My themes have gotten pretty messed up (installed different icon sets and controls etc, made custom themes combining different elements)
Is there an easy way to just remove all the custom themes and ...
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Resolution Resets After Every Reboot
I know this question has been asked before, and I know I've fixed this before, but I can't find anything that works for some reason.
Background: Every time I log in, my resolution resets to 1024x768, ...
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set for boot without password still while installing it asks for password. How to reset or recover the password? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?
I have only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on my system. I set logon password as "boot without password" and removed the ...
