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All,
Anyone know why if I remote into my Ubuntu 10.10 home machine using NX and then open say chromium browser it will kill the sound on my computer at home if my wife is listening to music.

I...

Hi all,
I am having a difficult time with a VM I have created from a VirtualBox image.

I can attach everything just fine and it starts to boot, but when I select start windows normally, it just...

I as well am getting disconnected automatically after trying the fixes as well.

It is the juniper client and I am running 10.04 32 bit.

It worked before the upgrade.

Dave,
I have 9.10 and I had the Java plugin enabled, the restricted items installed (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras), and everything I could find on the internet.

I still could...

All,
I play a lot of movies for the kid on my computer with video to a tv, but I'd like to be able to plug headphones into my onboard audio and listen to language software while the audio for the...

All,
I got it installed, but I am getting the crashout "failed to open information store" after I tried configuring my profile. I have tried deleting the profile settings for outlook to try and...

I am trying to switch my session at login to KDE from gnome, but I do not see the options button in my VM guest of 9.04. Anyway to switch to KDE after logging in?

I am having a similar issue on reboot. It comes up but has lines all through the screen and the lowest resolution.. I can go into the xserver settings and tell it to set to auto and apply then it...

Also check your DNS settings and see if anything is in there:

/etc/resolv.conf

Try this link for more troubleshooting:
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Try setting your environment variable

$http_proxy=proxyaddress

wget www.google.com

if it downloads it works.

To set it permanent set it in your ~./profile

So, the wired ethernet got disabled in windows and you say you can't enable it? Seems odd to me. It shouldn't be hardware dependant and you should be able to enable it in the bios or something.
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Ok, I found the issue. I have vmware server installed and NAT. NAT was setup to use my routers address and therefore causing a conflict.

All,
I cannot figure out what the problem is here. I can connect to other networks and i can get out just fine.

What happens with mine is I get connected and I can load one page, then it just...

All,
I have installed ubuntu 8.04 but I cannot get it to boot into it or even get to a grub screen.

When i boot into the livecd and try to run setup(hd0) it doesn't work. If I try to grub...

Ok, I figured out what it was and man this was a doozy. I had to get sherlock holmes on this one.

Ok, so I booted into my ubuntu, but my external drive did not mount to /media. Well, I had a...

All,
My root disk space filled up and I cannot figure out why. All of a sudden it just filled up like a log was expanding or something. I can't think of anything i instaleld that would have...

Thanks, I figured it out. I didn't install the xorg portion of it hehe.

Also, if anyone is looking to change the login screen background. It had this really lame flower. Use gdmsetup

All, I installed gdm, gnome-core, firefox etc using apt-get. Yet, when I reboot I do not get any desktop coming up. I cannot start a gnome-session either. Any help on what I may be doing wrong?
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Anyone? I'd really like to make sure I am backing my data up properly.

I just tried to open one of my archives and it says:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


Any ideas? Also, can this be...

Update for all. I have found that freenx server and the nomachine client past 2.0 can have issues. I downloaded the 1.5 client and it worked fine. I ended up switching over to Nomachine's free...

Kev,
I have no firewall turned on and I can SSH in fine. I have decided to wipe a clean slate and try 7.10. I will then try nxserver from there.

I think the root of my problem is something...

Nope, never been able to actually create a session :/

I had set it to 6 before I just remembered, but I am still getting the same output. :confused:

Where do I bump up the log level? Not real familiar witih where to do that. would it be in nxserver.conf? What level should I set it to?