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Aha, that was indeed my problem. Thank you for the tip!

I have to admit I've become a much more casual Linux user in the past few years. Combination of just not feeling inclined to mess around...

After a catastrophically failed upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 I ended up having to reinstall Ubuntu. I installed 22.04 to begin with, which was an enormous pain due to some issues I won't go into here....

Leppie's fix worked for me as well. I'm glad I finally found this thread, I've been trying to figure out what was wrong with my /etc/default/grub for about a full day now! Turns out, nothing was...

<farnsworth>Good news everyone!</farnsworth>

TL;DR version: it's fixed.

The rest of the story...

As I think I mentioned at the start of this thread, things started to go wrong shortly after...

Gah! Now Netatalk is doing it, too. Didn't notice until I happened to boot up the only Mac in the building today and it was complaining that it couldn't run its last Time Machine backup.

If I...

Well unfortunately the solution that worked for apache2 has had no apparent effect on webmin. And now ProFTPd, which was fine before today, is refusing to start (chkconfig also does not fix it). And...

I think you put me on the right path here. The TL;DR version is that apache2 appears to be starting at boot for me now.


Longer version is below if anyone's interested:




I did what you...

Not much. The word "apache" doesn't appear in /var/log/syslog at all.

I also found /var/log/apache2/error.log but all it has is this:


[Fri May 11 15:46:03 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.22...

Well, there's a couple other services that also are not starting, but I wouldn't mind just concentrating on Apache. If I can find out why it's not starting, the solution might apply to some of the...

Well, if anyone's still listening to this thread, the recent update to 12.04 did not help this issue at all. :(

There has got to be a way to figure out what SHOULD be in place to start these...

Ok, kevdog - let's go with apache2.

Hawkmage - yeah, I've been wondering about upstart. Specifically, once 12.04 becomes available, I wonder if it will only use upstart? If so, maybe some of my...

Hmmm... I wonder if we've stumbled upon the problem already. Of the 4 services I've noticed not starting, not one of them seems to have an associated .conf file under /etc/init. There are plenty of...

Update: It's been a long time, but I happened to find this thread again and thought I'd post what I learned in case it's ever useful to someone.

I've since learned that the .desktop files are a...

I'm starting them manually with "sudo service [service name] start."


*Edited to reflect the ACTUAL command I'm using. I blame the limited visibility of typing on a phone. Or something.

Hello, all. I'm hoping for an older and/or wiser user to point me in the right direction for troubleshooting a problem.

First things first, the platform: I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on my server. It...

Yeah, you're right. The contents are fairly simple, and appear to be nothing more than a file that's designed to show up in Nautilus as a folder.


#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]...

Years ago when you had to be an expert to even get a GUI functioning this would have been a different matter, but now that we have a nice desktop by default, the users who don't know any more than...

I'll try to make this as concise as possible. On my Ubuntu 10.04 server, I have a folder which is /mirror. It is shared out to the network through several protocols, mainly NFS and Samba (a...

Initially, at max speed. But after the first failure, all burns were done at minimum allowed speed (9-something on one machine, 11-something on the other).



The MD5 matches what's found on this...

Trying to install Intrepid AMD64 on my desktop PC, from CD. After selecting "try," "install," or "check CD," the CD drive activity light flashes briefly, then stops. Several minutes later I get the...

Wait, an 8800GT is "legacy?" Seriously?

So I reinstalled networkmanager, networkmanager-gnome, and networkmanager-pptp. Then, I set the VPN connection to use point-to-point encryption, 128-bit.

After saving that setting, I initiated the...

Yep, I am having trouble with PPTP in Intrepid as well.

Before I say anything else, I should probably note that I had to re-create my VPN connections after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 - although...

zippy51's method worked perfectly for me, as far as straight internet connectivity goes.

However, the GNOME Network Manager applet has my VPN's greyed out in the menu. At first I assumed because...