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I think can answer my own question: It turns out that there is too much existing code which assumes that hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM and hints.ai_protocol = 0 _means_ TCP, and versions of...

I'm using lksctp and I've run into unexpected behavior with getaddrinfo(). If the service arg to getaddrinfo() is specified as a number rather than a name, getaddrinfo() returns addrinfo structures...

Just an update that the .profile issue was simply me forgetting that terminals don't run login shells and therefore don't run .profile on startup. I'm still _very_ interested in how to do a...

I just installed eclipse-neon and ran into two issues. (I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.) First, I wanted a system-wide installation of eclipse, but setting the install path to /opt ran into problems...

I was able to login as root, locate visudo, and add this line to /etc/sudoers:


Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

That appears to have...

Appologies for not including that orignially. I'm using 12.04 LTS, and it's acting strange in many ways. I'm hoping that getting apt-get install to work will allow me to get things "back to normal"....

This:
$ sudo grep ^Defaults /etc/sudoers
Defaults env_reset
$

I'm having trouble getting any apt-get install command to work. They all fail with some dpkg warnings and an error concerning root's PATH. I have no idea why root's PATH might have changed, and I...

Yikes! Ignore this - my account was set to login to the recovery console on the login screen. /wiping egg off face...

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I'm running Ubunut 12.04 LTS. When I login I no longer get my gnome desktop, and instead get only a single terminal window. I've found a few threads discussing this problem, all with slight...

I'll wait a day or two before claiming victory, but all signs are good at this point. My root partition is no longer read only, and various strange behaviors I observed (undoubtedly due to root being...

I tried the fsck first, and also tried it after attempting the mount.


I have done this several times - boot with the install DVD and run sudo fsck -yv /dev/sdb1 without doing anythig else. I...

Yes, at least as sure as I can be. In fact I tried to mount it but the command hung indefinitely - probably because the device appears to be busy to the mount command just as it does to fsck. Here's...

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and yesterday my machine started booting up with the root partition marked as read only. I booted from the 10.04 LTS install DVD and tried to run fsck on /dev/sdb1, but I...

Thanks very much for the response.

That link appears to be dead. :(


I'm just wondering if/how this is different from running the Update Manager. Also, I do have gcc installed.

Can you...

I'm running 10.04 LTS, and I need to rebuild my kernel with a modified config file. I'm trying to following the procedure spelled out at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile, but I'm...

Sadly, no. FreeBSD doesn't have update-grub, but I think update-grub is just a stub for grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which I ran. Perhaps it would have picked up Ubuntu if it were on the...

I have a machine with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on one drive, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on another drive. The BIOS looks at the FreeBSD drive first when booting, and it doesn't have the ability to change the...

Thanks - Ubuntu Tweak is very straightforward to use. Nice suggestion.

I was able to get back to it today after all. Writing GRUB to the SATA-0 drive did the trick, and restored the boot process to the way it was before. I'll go ahead and mark this tread as solved. ...

This Dell Optiplex 745 is at least a few years old. It let's me choose the boot order between such devices as floppy, DVD, and disk, but I can't specify an order among various devices of the same...

It was easy enough to try swapping cables, so I did. Ubuntu booted fine, but Vista and XP squawked and would not boot.

GRUB/Linux may not use the boot flag, but I think what I'm trying to do is...

If I switch the cables, won't that change the meaning of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and leave me completely unable to boot? I'm not as concerned about the boot delay as I am recovering access to the OSes...

Thanks very much. I used the 9.10 Live CD to reinstall GRUB (Grub 2 v1.97~beta) on the drive containing Ubuntu, but the machine still tried to boot into FreeBSD. The FreeBSD/Vista/XP drive is...

I have a multi-boot Dell Optiplex with Vista, XP, and FreeBSD in partitions on one drive, and Ubuntu 9.10 on a separate drive. The multibooting has been managed by Ubuntu's GRUB and has been working...