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I have just finished a succesfully upgrade from 10.04.4 to 12.04.1 on my remote server. After reboot, I have verified that it is still booting from the old kernel:

$ uname -a
Linux socrates...

No, my machine has always performed great with Ubuntu. This issue is present since no more than a couple of months.

I have the same issue.
My system reaches "System Halted", but the power is not switched off.

I have tried all acpi combinations in grub, with no success.

I have the same symptoms, but I don't have any wireless card!

If I type


sudo halt -p

the system shuts down,

if I type

It is a VirtualBox known bug:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6465

Each time I start my Ubuntu 10.10, I notice this messages in dmesg:

[ 3.133178] device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594b
[ 3.249339] EXT4-fs (sda6): INFO: recovery required on...

I am experiencing a strange behaviour of USB ports in Lucid. When I insert an external USB device which requires a sort of power supply (i.e.:external HD,mp3 reader, etc,) ther other USB ports are no...

I am missing the audio notification icon (loudspeaker) too...

I'm on Karmic, nvidia GeForce 6200 and nvidia-185 drivers.

My monitor is an LCD ACER p191w, 1440x900, but it can't be recognized by xorg. From the log:


(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID...

Sorry, my fault. I was checking thru ssh on a wrong display!



DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | direct
direct rendering: Yes

On Karmic, Nvidia Geforce 6200 and nvidia drivers v. 185, I can't get direct rendering (neither user nor root):


glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try...

I have found a cleaner solution, waiting for Lucid (in which the bug has been fixed).

Just open with sudo grants the file:

/lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-disks.rules

then add the following...

@inkhorn: instead of fixing to /dev/sr1, why not using the LABEL entry in fstab?

i.e.

LABEL=WD\x20SmartWare none udf rw,noauto 0 0

If you inhibit /dev/sr1, it may happen that your DVD will...

Sorry it was my fault: I forgot to have a supybot installed...

This morning, on my 8.04LTS server, I got this warning message from rkhunter:


Warning: Network TCP port 6667 is being used by /usr/bin/python2.5. Possible rootkit: Possible rogue IRC bot
...

Thanks Jose,
I know this but it doesn't work for a simple setup I am trying to put on for first-time users. Just one icon to click on to choose the wireless access point, and another icon to start...

Is there any way to run the NetworkManager-applet outside from the panel? I am trying to setup a minimal environment, with just one graphical application running, without any panel but I am missing...

Oh, ok. Sorry for my misunderstanding!
:p

Don't really understand what are you meaning. A community developer is not a God that knows everything. Each one is skilled on very specific sessions, and the menu configuration is not mine. (...

Thank you Xantrack. It should work, but I need to know how to do it from terminal, as I need to perform the action from a remote connection thru ssh.

Hi,

I am in the need of adding a new menu item in the "System" menu, just right under the "About Ubuntu" menu entry. Cloning and modifying the ubuntu-about.desktop file doesn't work. There should...

Yes, thank you!
I have also found ddrescue...

I have set up a 4 MB USB key with 2 partitions, one for data and another for an ubuntu live system.
I need to make 3 or 4 copies of it for my friends. Should I have to manually re-run all the...

Afkpuz,

thank you. I was well aware of that. But as I am working on a chrooted terminal, I don't have GUI access.

Hi,

in my customized LiveCD, I need a script to be run soon after gnome login.
Whre should I set it (from the chrooted terminal) in order to get it run after each gdm login?

Thanks