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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.10 and 11.04 complete freezes

    Thanks. Am wondering if you could elaborate a little. What logs should I be looking at? I can create a USB stick and install Sabnzbd and test but I'm wondering how this is different to installing on...
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    [ubuntu] 10.10 and 11.04 complete freezes

    Approx 2 months ago my 10.10 machine, which is used mainly to download media,started to freeze on a regular basis. Freezes are complete, i.e cant restart x , cant bring up terminal or ssh into the...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: The VPN connection 'xxxxx' failed because there were no valid VPN secrets.

    Rebooting worked a treat for me in 10.10
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    [ubuntu] Maverick adobe-flashplugin wont install

    Am running Maverick RC1 and when I try to install adobe-flashplugin in synaptic i get the message " Depends:libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0(>2.21.6) but this is not installable"

    Any help much appreciated.
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    [ubuntu] Re: I *wish* I could make my VPN auto-connect!

    Worked a treat. Thanks!!
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    [ubuntu] Re: I *wish* I could make my VPN auto-connect!

    Am struggling to get this to work when I try and manually start my connection from the command line I get the following:

    paul@IBM-Frontend:~$ nmcli VPNUK start
    bash: /usr/local/bin/nmcli:...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    Thanks capscrew, sorted now.
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    Not related to samba but for consistency I decided to change the machine name in /etc/hosts to tippomediaserv as well as in smb.conf
    I must have missed something because I now get the following...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    Morbius1, that got it!
    Thanks again for your help much appreciated.
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    Morbius 1 thanks for your help. I followed you instructions and made some progress as I can now see "Workgroup" and "Tippomediacenter" however when I try and acces it I get the message:
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    I've checked that I can ping both ways between the Ubuntu mediaserver and the xp laptop.
    I deleted all the files in /var/lib/usershares so should only be using classic samba.
    Changed smb.conf to ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    My client machines are windows xp so don't have an etc/host file.
    Server has correct ip and name in etc/hosts
    Nothing seems to work.
    I tried removing all the samba packages, deleting the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    Permissions on /mnt/musicmaster are set at 755

    Thanks
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    [ubuntu] 10.04 Simple Samba problems

    I'm having a bit of a nightmare with samba in 10.O4. The machine is set up as a media server and I simply want to give all machines on the network read only access to the media folders with no...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Jaunty Skype Video problems

    Have resolved the problem it was caused by Cairo-Dock 2 when I remove this skype video works fine again. Will post in Cairo-Dock forums
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    [ubuntu] Jaunty Skype Video problems

    When I first installed Jaunty Skype worked perfectly out of the box with my logitech webcam but now I have video problems in that I cant see either the callers or my own video (just blank window) but...
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    [ubuntu] Re: What is the best music player software?

    Did you come up with anything that works ok with various artists? I play my music through XBMC so am looking for a program to rip disks to flac, tag properly including the albumartist field and cover...
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    [all variants] Re: Restricted driver problems

    I managed to find a solution, I decided to try another live distribution to see if I could get the nvidia drivers to work. PCLINUXOS Gnome installed the drivers and worked fine so I copied the...
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    [all variants] Restricted driver problems

    I have installed Linux Mint 6 on a PC with a built in ATI graphics chip and have had problems installing the restricted driver so that I can activate desktop effects. (Note I also have identical...
  20. [ubuntu] Latest update kernel 19- problems relating to permissions?

    Have just installed the latest updates which include the 2.6.24.19 kernel and have a bunch of different problems which seem to relate to changes permissions:
    1. Ktorrent wont run from the menu ( am...
  21. Re: How to search for files in Xubuntu / XFCE with just Thunar and a Bash script

    When I run the integrate-catfish script I get the following message:
    Cannot found uca.xml, please configure UCA, in Thunar. [Click Edit, Configure custom actions..., OK] or create it manually!...
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    Re: HOWTO: Lirc in Edgy

    Was told by superm1 that currently the only option is to avoid the packages and compile from source. I used the instructions fron the link in my original post and now remote and ir blaster working...
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    Re: HOWTO: Lirc in Edgy

    I am installing mythth backend on a headless server which has gone smoothly with the exception of getting the pvr 150 irblaster working to change channels on my satellite box.

    I have been...
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    Re: HOWTO: Improve orange Dapper look

    This is a great piece of work and looks fabtastic. With the latest versions of the Compiz software everything works fine for me with the exception that the progress bars in Synaptic come up blue...
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