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Long story short, I need a Ubuntu Desktop to inside a Docker container.

Ubuntu installed fine, however when I try to start lightdm it throws this error, any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

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Thanks to all of the above

these 2 commands sure comes in handy when your SSD runs low in space

sudo find / -size +1G
sudo find / -size +500M

:D

Thanks everyone for the updated script and tips :)

it might be nicer if you submit the changes to the source library on PPA
after all that's what Linux is all about ;)

Thank you! :KS

works like a charm

unfortunately, the Box.Net service is forever slow as it has always been, but that's a discussion for another topic

Thank you very much this fixed the no sound from headphones output problem on the ASUS G60VX with a Realtek ALC663

solution here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649956

Thank you OP

that solution worked for me :D

however i'm on Linuxmint 12

Thank you!

yes arrived here via google and indeed
sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap was indeed the setting that was causing the issue (ubuntu 10.10)
ironically in ubuntu 11.10 there was no need to...

Thanks Ganton for the super clear and extensive guide, made the drivers patching a breeze

I wouldn't have been able to figure all that stuff out by myself.

However I'm facing a weird problem...

I did it with this way, it looks much more informative, also you can see exactly which drive it is.

Doing it just with temp, and then manually entering text in conky might get you the wrong info,...

this is definitely the best workaround thus far.

using gparted directly to format to ext4 without using the WD aligment software, doesn't work all that great

but as you said, if you first...

the solution that worked for me was


sudo passwd root

thank you very much!!

this worked

and same here, i'm stuck using a FDD drive to update the Firmware / BIOS of some RAID controllers that can only be done in DOS in a FDD

really wish hardware...

well after much googling the 1.4.6 is only available for Natty, and there are some support issues in Natty that prevents me from using it.

So i'm staying in 10.10, that means i had to undo all the...

Darn it!... i knew it was too easy.

after reboot i got a black screen and everything froze

restarted again into safe mode (command line)

found out there were a few dependencies that was left...

This is exactly what I was looking for

THANK YOU! :KS

seems like my brain conveniently dismissed the boring memories of waiting forever for the RAID to finish syncing/rebuilding before being able to format the drive

LOL :D

were you able to install any mesa / gpl driver for the on board video?

the motherboard works out of the box of course

same goes with basic video

don't expect any flash video playing with the...

sounds like the problem it's not so much about the Ubuntu 11 itself, but rather specific apps that is chewing up memory and cpu resources.

you should also mention the spec of your computer for...

here's an exact same one that i created on another machine using the same drives and same commands



sudo mdadm -Q -D /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Mon May 9...

This is the error message I'm getting when trying to Format the mdadm RAID5 created with 4 drives


Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition:...

indeed that was the issue
removed them all, and it's finally back to normal
thanks

That's a good tip

Thank you!

Does anyone have an idea where else i can look up samba shares configuration that are NOT listed in the smb.conf?

some how these got created after playing around with GADMIN-SAMBA

i've removed...

Thank you!

force user = name

did the trick for me :)