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You could testparm your config file!
Or better still use NFS if your not serving to a windows machine.
try findsmb on the client to see if the share is available.

You should check your keyboard is configured correctly! not sure about Gnome as I use KDE. In your settings there must be an option to change keyboard layout - try using the standard 102 key option.

Ben,
I already have alltray working to minimise my firestarter window. I assumed it would not work for the terminal.
I can get this to work with the terminal by manually selecting the window after...

I have a desktop computer and a NAS, running Kubuntu & Ubuntu. I use WOL to wake the NAS and then mount the drives (NFS) on my desktop.
I've placed an icon on my KDE desktop which wakes the NAS and...

I still use this for my NAS but it's a shame it doesn't quite manage what it promises! The documentation seems to be scarce too. It does work monitoring ssh, as I've set mine up to shut down the NAS...

Plasmate is a program for editing plasmoids - in case anyone wants to know. Still don't know where to edit though!

I've installed a plasmoid 'stock quote'. It will only show Nasdaq quotes and I would like it to show FTSE quotes instead. I'm assuming there must be a file with a URL that could be edited to...

Sorry IA, I assumed you knew about sudo! I've ammended my original post; that should get rid of the errors.
You will be asked for your admin password.

Carriage return the end of your script!

You can use the 8.10 version. When you boot your computer with the live CD, it makes no changes to your hard drive. One cd I use which makes everything easy should any problems occur is 'Gparted...

Start the computer from the Live CD.
Enter the terminal and type;


fdisk -l

'thats an ell not a one'!

from the list, find your boot partition - maybe /dev/sda1

I use digikam. not sure how it works in Gnomen though.

I gave up with shared folders as mine was very slow to access. I use dropbox for small or medium size files.
Maybe it was just my settings!

Just tried it, worked for me! outputted to my home directory.

can you get to the command line?

find / -name xxxx | nano

During boot press and hold the shift key. Select another Kernel from the list and try and boot into that. If you can get to a command prompt, type;


touch /forcefsck

try restarting by typing;...

Well, I abandoned the live CD and tried GParted live instead. I can access my data so some good news.
I still have Kubuntu starting up to a blank blue screen with coloured dots around the top of the...

For some reason blkid is showing the following;


root@ubuntu:/# blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda: TYPE="nvidia_raid_member"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Volume_3"...

My output!


root@ubuntu:/# fsck -v /dev/sdd1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdd1

The superblock...

Starting Kubuntu 10-04 this morning - attempts to boot with drive activity then hangs.

fdisk -l shows all drives.
started a live CD and ran gparted to check drive - Could not find a valid system...

Missing out what may seem an irrelevant step can lead to hours of messing about! It's happened to me so many times!
Earlier this year I spend days trying the above only to find out my /home...

Maybe setting Samba to run later in the boot process!
This should be something like this;


sudo update-rc.d samba defaults 99

However, There are other people here better qualified to help...

Yes, just open a terminal. Just to correct my previous post;


sudo visudo

then enter the line I gave you.

I havent altered the config file other than set the no-activity time and apply it to ssh.
I noticed that using ps -ew args and applying the process into the config file didn't work so I just ssh...