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  1. Natty upgrade breaks Unity on netbook

    X is working, I get a desktop, all updates are current, just no Unity menus/window/widgets/whatever, blank desktop with single mapped network folder and no working keyboard shortcuts after initial...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 10.10 stuck at plymouth after upgrade

    mine hung half way through the upgrade, lost the UUID's of my primary and secondary hard drive, which I fixed with Knoppix, now it won't get past Plymouth, won't boot in rescue mode, or any other...
  3. [all variants] Re: kvm virtual machine manager create image fails

    did that but it didn't solve the problem, it seems virt-manager doesn't have permission to generate the .img for some reason.
  4. [all variants] kvm virtual machine manager create image fails

    Lucid server, I loaded up Gnome to experiment with virtual machine manager, it won't create an .img file automatically, so 2 questions:

    1. /var/lib/libvirt/* is owned by root.root, should it be...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Eset's NOD32 and Ubuntu

    there is an upcoming Desktop Linux release with a GUI installer, you might find that easier.

    Are you using some sort of mail server software on your Ubuntu box, like Postfix, Exim, etc? NOD32 can...
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    [all variants] install latest ffpmeg with codecs

    It took me awhile to figure out how to compile all the codec/libraries I needed for my conversion purposes, this is a down-and-dirty cut/paste howto on it, YMMV, but it's about the fastest way to get...
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    make reinstall best practices?

    After I install source:


    ./configure
    make
    make install

    and I want to go back and update my source to the latest svn snapshot, how do I recompile correctly, do I need to delete my build...
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    [ubuntu] Re: vmware jaunty seg fault, modules missing

    got the network up, basically NAT on the guests crashes things, so I deleted the NAT network and just bridged everything to the host, then gave the guests a static IP and it works. Hope this helps...
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    [ubuntu] Re: vmware jaunty seg fault, modules missing

    unless vmware updates 6.5 before jaunty releases, I don't think it will know that it needs to rebuild the kernel modules, so others may still have the same problem.
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    [ubuntu] Re: vmware jaunty seg fault, modules missing

    ok, I figured it out, at least partly, you have to:

    mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

    then

    vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

    now I'm screwing...
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    [ubuntu] vmware jaunty seg fault, modules missing

    I just upgraded to jaunty alpha3 and the kernel doesn't seem to find the vmware modules, then it seg faults with a core dump, does anyone know why? Everything else on my upgrade works fine. I'm using...
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    [all variants] xen reset guest root password

    I need to reset a root password on a xen guest DOMU, does anyone know how to reset it some other way besides remounting the vm and chrooting into it? I'm not confident I know the commands involved in...
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    Poll: Re: VMware vs VirtualBox vs QEMU?

    I've used Xen for years, still use it in production for serious uptime, basically never breaks, nothing close in speed (e-mail servers, nameservers, etc.), but when it comes to writing python code...
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    [ubuntu] vmware x11 xwindows memory leak

    I've been running workstation 6.0.4 build 93057 on an Ubuntu Linux Hardy host for 3 months successfully, sudddenly my guest WinXP VM (and any other VM's) is taking up tons of memory for /usr/bin/X,...
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    Re: Python script test run as root from IDE

    well, I "fixed" it by logging in as root, since my IDE SCITE will run the python app, but since it needs to run os.system("runmyrootbashscript") then the IDE (which is gui-based) needs to run as...
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    Re: Python script test run as root from IDE

    when I attempt to run it as root I get an error

    (scite:5602): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
    which is a similar error I got trying to run OpenKomodo and Eclipse as root wile logged in as...
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    Python script test run as root from IDE

    I'm logged in as a regular user running SCITE Python IDE and the script I'm writing needs to run as root, is there code I can add in the script to sudo and run as root? I don't want to login as root...
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