For questions regarding the function of the entire operating system and issues that affect users system-wide.
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What processes should be ioniced for a responsive desktop?
My goal is to intelligently and permanently ionice the processes on my desktop for responsiveness under heavy disk and network load. By permanently, I mean that any changes made to the system will ...
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Selecting ubuntu 12.04 restarts my HP 540 laptop
Every time I select Ubuntu 12.04 when booting my HP 540 laptop, the machine restarts. How can I fix this, so I can successfully boot my Ubuntu system?
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Phonon - Audio Hardware Setup
Does anyone know what configuration file is modified when I change settings within this area of the system settings?
I keep choosing my Logitech USB Headset as the soundard, and, when I hit apply, it ...
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Disable discovery or listing of HDD partitions
I would like to disable auto detection or listing of certain partitions in applications such as Nautilus. I have a HP laptop that contains a recovery partition along with a EFI partition and I would ...
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How to adjust text color, contrast in ALL system features & apps?
Why is there no system directory where a person might access all system utilities, like background, text size, color, etc. Must I download a separate utility for everything?
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Terminal (Ctrl+alt+F1-6) text colour
Is it possible to change the default foreground text coulour in the F1-F6 Terminals or the machines bios colour. I Love Green on Black and change it in the konsole/uxterm/Term ect as soon as I install ...
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Large loss of files
Here is the situation. I was playing with wine settings to see I could get to play some old games. Long story short I ended up removing wine. Right after my wife asked me to help her with something.
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how to access system preferences in Ubuntu 12.04
Recently had to install Ubuntu 12.04 as my previous Ubuntu which I'd used for 3 years stopped working. I'm finding 12.04 extremely frustrating, I can't seem to access anything, for example now I'm ...
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how to install system settings
I installed synaptic, and it wiped out the default system settings. I didn't like synaptic so I uninstalled it, but now, I don't have system settings anymore. How can I just install the system ...
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Looking to access system on ubuntu 12.10
I'm a newbie and am trying to get to the system menu - to get a 2nd monitor to work from my hdmi output (on a laptop). I see "system settings" in the "shut down" menu in upper left, but no matter what ...
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I got a General Protection Fault while transferring files
SO I was transferring files from one portable hard disk to another (I had two of them connected to the laptop and suddenly the whole thing crashed. Any idea why this could happen? Should I be worried?
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How can I distribute mandatory settings (system and LibreOffice settings)?
I'm a Linux sysadmin and I maintain 100 Ubuntu desktops. We're about to upgrade to 12.04, but before we can do that we have to make Ubuntu PCI complaint. Meaning we have to lock some mandatory ...
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How to set global System Settings that can apply to all new added users.
To say specifically, I mean preferences that can be configured in System Settings. How to make them apply to each new user account I create?
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Suspend or hibernate Ubuntu running from an external USB Hard drive (or flash drive)?
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on a external USB hard drive and I have been using it without any major issues in different computers. However, I recently was working on something important and decided ...
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Ubuntu freeze, google chrome closed unexpectedly and systems logout unexpectedly?
kernel image 3.2.0-38-generic-pae
Partition Table
\boot
Extended
swap
\root
\home
I have read the solution about system freezes; but the solution doesn't answer me why this happens. And I have to wait ...
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I have no sound in my computer
The sound card seems disabled. How can I fix it?
I reinstalled my system but when I wanted to watch some videos, there was images but no sound.
I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance.
Phil.
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System files lockdown
I'm thinking of reinstalling Lubuntu and want to make sure that system changes are not made permanently until I choose to dump it to disk. This is so I never have to reinstall and can try programs to ...
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how to automatically clean dhcpd.leases?
I'm using isc-dhcpd under Ubuntu and I'm looking for a clean and secure way to "purge" the leases that are expired.
Is there a way with dhcpd.conf ? or with a script ?
Is there any risks to do that ...
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Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
All of the suggestions in the forums here is using 10.10 on a USB boot drive. Mine is from a cd that I burned. What should I do. It runs the install and then tells me to take the disc out and it ...
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Advanced Settings not opening in Gnome 3.2
I'm trying to change my Gnome 3.2 theme, but whenever I try opening Advanced Settings it refuses. It shows at the top of the menu that it's loading but it never shows up. It opens up perfectly in ...
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Best practice to monitor Ubuntu Server
I have an Ubuntu Server that is intermittently rebooting. I notice the reboot once every 3 weeks or so. I have a feeling that this is occurring more often and I want to get an accurate picture of the ...
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64-bit Ubuntu Runs very slow
I recently replaced my 32-bit 12.04-LTS by 64-bit 13.04, but the 64-bit version runs VERY slow on my current computer (compared with the speed when I run 32-bit). Here is the info of the hardware:
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Boot sometimes hang in single OS Ubuntu 13.04
When I turn on the laptop, until a desktop interface appeared yet, it sometimes hang (freeze) or system not respond to start-up. Recently, I boot my laptop, but the screen won't turn on. However, my ...
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Internal error and crash then ubuntu get blocked and I have to restart…system very slow
I'm new with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
I have an internal error:
Executablepath
usr\lib\gnone-disk-utility\gda-notification-daemon
Package
gnome-disck-utility3.0.2ubuntu7
Problem
crash
Title
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How can i fix my video driver?
I'm a noob to Linux software and I started getting annoyed with the fact that I couldn't suspend my system without it blacking out on me when I woke it back up.
In an effort to solve the problem, I ...
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12.10 shows 'System program problem' and sometimes hangs
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on a Dell 3520 Inspiron.
A window pops up quite frequently telling me a system program problem has been detected.
Sometimes the pc hangs and the only way ...
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Screen freezes on HP pavilion, ATI Radeon
Two months ago I opened up my Notebook and cleaned it. I followed istructions and I remember putting everything back in place.
Immediately after I started experiencing some problems. At the begining ...
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I had failed to boot Ubuntu
I know, how fix it within text processor, but system loads only in fail-safe modes, with READ ONLY file-system.
How to loads with rights to write?
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How to change Android 4.1 to ubuntu?
Is it or will it be possible to change my tablets opareting system. It is now Android 4.1 and my device is restarting and crashing all the time.
Is Ubuntu lighter OS for my A-LINK PAD9 tablet:
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Image version mismatch
Update crashed because my boot partition ran out of space (lots of old images not deleted - I learned my lesson about that). But now I cant seem to recover from the half installed new version. I ...
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How to get a snapshot of system processes on a specific day
Hi I was wondering if you can get the processes running on a specific day? I was getting the output of this command a few days ago :
> /usr/sbin/lsof -ap 18790 | less
but i only get a short ...
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Why won't my PC recognize external hardware or my wireless network card?
I downloaded Ubuntu OS 12.10 a few days ago and everything was working fine, aside from a lot of bugs and a lot of glitches and freezing. Today when I turned on my computer my Keyboard (which is ...
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kern.log reports times in UTC instead of local time zone
I attempted to set my local timezone to America/New_York by doing (as root):
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
# echo "America/New_York" > /etc/timezone
# dpkg-reconfigure ...
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System Problem Detected
I installed system updates today, and now, every time I boot up my computer I get the System Problem Detected dialogue box described in this post: System always start with "System program problem ...
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My computer keeps showing up 'system error' message - what can I do to fix this?
My computer shows up a system error message whenever I turn it on.Ii can cancel this and work on my computer, but I'm worried that if I keep ignoring the message, Ubuntu will stop working. This has ...
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Cannot install ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386
I bought brand new laptop -
Toshiba Satellite C850D-11C 64 bits;
bios: InsydeH29 rev. 3.;
AMD Dual-Core E1-1200 APU 1.4 GHz
Gráfica AMD Radeon™ HD 7310
I decided to get rid of win8 and install ...
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Numblock wont shut off 12.04
after turning off my computer yesterday my computer was working fine but today i cant get the numblock to switch off normaly this wouldnt be a problem for someone but iam using a netbook (acer aspire ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 is showing dotted marks and doing my system hang
I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 with my Asus x54H model laptop. Every thing was working fine on it. Today I saw that on my screen when I was trying to type something it showed only dotted lines. I made ...
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How to make applications and system use Goagent?
I live in China and I'm using Goagent with chrome to browse Facebook and twitter.
I found that applications like lightread and system account authentication directly connect serve without using ...
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Installing SystemTap errors
I am trying to install SystemTap but I get the following error:
dpkg: error processing samba4 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 126
Errors were ...
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Ubuntu window randomly stop drawing
After using Ubuntu for a while, application windows will begin to stop drawing. The application will continue to run (if I'm using keyboard shortcuts, the application exhibits normal behavior, like ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 hangs
I installed Ubuntu while I was login in the Win7 OS using wubi.exe all the things were complete then I chose reboot now... it said some installation option but i didn't pressed and i was able to see ...
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Media players doesn't see audio CD
After upgrading to 12.04 Banshee 2.4.1 and Rhytmbox don't show anymore my audio CD. I can play them with mplayer in command line or VLC. More over nautilus doesn't show them automatically. I have to ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 presents a lot of errors
Every time I get in my computer, the system presents an error in the taskbar, it says a problem occurred when checking for updates. When I click the Show Updates option it says could not initialize ...
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Unstability Ubuntu
Since Linux on my desktop was updated from 11.04 to 12.04, I experienced problems of system instability few times a day: during the work the system restarts suddenly.
What should I do?
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Viewing problems
I have been having problems with browser and general areas that my right click on the mouse will generate a slim menu with a few icons but most of the selections will not show up with words even if ...
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System hangs (response slowly) when there is no window opened in Desktop 1. There is no problem with other Desktops
When I close or minimise all windows on desktop 1 my system lags. In this time there is a blinking on the top portion of the display. Amazing thing is that when I keep any window on desktop (say ...
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After installing programs and Drivers Ubuntu became slower
**I installed Ubuntu. It was very fast at boot and opening programs. I installed some needed programs and drivers, after that i upgraded the system. And then , Ubuntu became very slow. I followed ...
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How to detect ur audio system
My speakers were working all right some two days ago before i installed updates. Now it is not. I tried detecting the audio settings (all the three) but cannot get the sounds back. How can i set it ...
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aptd crashed with AttributeError in_inline_callbacks(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'send'
It says 12.04 internal system error. Please help me out.I am not able to connect to internet and not able to edit network connections
