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Got it fixed. Did the following:
apt install --reinstall python3 python python3-minimal --broken

my command line history quoted below:


282 sudo apt-get --reinstall python3
283 sudo...

I was doing dist-upgrade to my system, but something didn't work as expected, and I also was running the upgrade while doing some other work.

Result python 3 got messed up and I can't run apt...

Ok, got it working with the following line in my /etc/fstab:


//192.168.1.1/wd_elements_10b8_65/ /media/FAV-backup cifs guest,nosetuids,noperm 0 0

All is fine, except that I'm getting errors...

Got it mounted manually with:

sudo mount -o nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000 //192.168.1.1/wd_elements_10b8_65/ /media/FFV-backup/

Now trying to figure out how to include those options in the /etc/fstab

I unmounted the FS, and tried


sudo chown flow:flow FFV-backup

which changed the permisson, but as soon as I mount it, the permissions are back to root:root

WD My Net N600 Router, with an USB port. I have hooked a WD Elements 1TB external hard drive on it. The router recognised it correctly, and I have configured the storage through the router admin...

I just could not figure out how this thing works, and had to manually add over 200 videos one by one.
It took ages. There must have been easier ways, but now they are in the queue, so done. But I...

I made a bug report in Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289991

I have a strange issue with Libre Office.

I have my Libre running in the Workspace 2, with multiple documents and spreadsheets. There switching between them works fine. But if I swich to Workspace...

Yes, this solved the issue. :) Thank you all :)

thanks for the tip, heir4c :)

I tried it a few minutes ago and so far no clics. But today the laptop was quiet anyway most of the day, without any settings. So I really don't get what is causing...

Thanks guys.

As suggested, I installed iotop, but it tells me nothing useful. I dont think it is any program polling the disk, but rather what Varunendra wrote.

Anyhow, I have taken backup, and...

Hi,

I recently installed Ubuntu on my new Asus F202X after previous one got stolen. I had the same laptop model previously, and all was working fine. After I installed 13.04 on this one, I have...

Ah, found a post in ubuntu questions, and now my screen has the resolution I was wishing for. Though so far it is not persistent after reboot, working on that.

Here is the link:...

Aha,

It seems it might be due to this VGA-DVI adapter. As when I run xrandr command, it says "DVI1 disconnected". But is there any way to solve this?

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200,...

Adding to my post above (the account was duplicate due to SSE login confusion), the screen has a VGA plug, connected via an adaptor to a DVI connector.

Can this cause the issue of the screen not...

You can use this tarball setup given in the first post of this thread and advise the users to save the midi files in the /var/guest-data folder. You can even rename the folder to your liking, for...

Got it solved :)

After booting up, once the Guest is logged in automatically, had to go to the network indicator applet in the in the panel on upper left, and select "Auto Ethernet". It asked...

I just noticed: This issue comes up only on one of the desktops - in others it works just as it is supposed to. All have almost identical HW (Dell OptiPlex), and all run Ubuntu 12.04. So there must...

I have a small net-cafe type setup with three public desktop computers for our visitors to use for their emails, web etc. They are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have configured them to auto-login to...

Thanks matt_symes :)

The following solved the problem:



And I learned tons in this process :) Ubuntu has changed a lot & Linux has evolved so much in these 15 years that I have been using...

Ok,

Did the following:


And now it looks like this:


Next I will test whether it works.

Found!!!!



Now just have to learn how to change it. But really, I did not even know about the existance of gconf and dconf.

Here is the output of these two commands:





Now using gconf-editor, but so far not found there nothing that would help here.

Yes I did, and it worked - it shut down the system cleanly.

I think the stuff is in the policy kit file
Looking into that now. The syntax is not the most straight-forward.