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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

first, then run:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Hi Oldfred,
Thanks for your help with this. The system is working fine now, there is no outstanding problem, so I deffo dont want to re-install any boot loaders!

No, my real question is why...

Hi Oldfred,
Sorry for the delay, it is a company laptop unfortunately so I havent had access to it for the last week. From memory everything is installed like so (NB, partition numbers are out of...

Hi Oldfred,
I appreciate the help. It was a brand new 12.04 install, on a disk already containing win xp, so there was no device.map. I thought the "device.map" held info on the disks, and not the...

Hi Oldfred,



This is the way I usually have done this task in the past, but this time the menu was missing one of my partitions. I'm not sure if the partition was missing a flag, or if it was...

I used http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/2010/10/manipulating-debconf-settings-on.html to manually set the dpkg (debconfig) flag. I had to use this command (nb. this is dangerous, dont use this as a copy...

I am trying to install grub boot loader on a partition /dev/sda3 (ext3 formatted), but it is not showing as an option when I run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc.
My details are: I have a dual boot...

Thank you! Thought it was the new look!

Hi G. Marco,
That works really well! I thought scripting may be the way to do it, but I didn't have time to figure out how to! either way the remote server was disconnected so we didn't even get the...

Thanks, problem is the files on the remote server were not tarred! I just did it the normal way, untarred the archive and then compared md5sums.
Thanks for your help!

Hi All,
I have a large tarball which is bz2 compressed, and I would like to get a md5 sum of the files contained in it, as I have a separate directory on another server containing what I think are...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661060

Does this help at all?
I had a problem creating encrypted user directories when I had a strict umask. Had to change umask to 022 to fix

Yea, you can chalk that down. Sick of wrestling with the standard KDE network manager. This may sound crazy, but I reached the end of my patience when i removed the icon from the tool bar- And...

this worked for me (until a GRUB update overwrote the MBR without confirmation)

Leave the truecrypt boot loader on the MBR.


Boot using ubuntu live disk
Check which is the main ubuntu...

I read somewhere that I could "rewrap" the passphrase file with - "ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphase". However, that didn't work for me.

Hi Mate,
I think the command...

Summary: Error when launching KDE, can't log in
Error: kstartupconfig4 can not be launched or failed error code 3.

It seems Users profile password was changed using graphical KDE tool, but...

Hello,

I just had this strange problem, and I didn't see any posts regarding it, so I thought I would share. I am not sure if this is a bug.

On the computers I manage, I have set the umask in...

hi,
This worked for me twice, so it may work for you. When I went into jockey-kde it showed two drivers, Broadcom B43 wireless driver and Broadcom STA wireless driver.

when I activated the STA...