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I'm having a similar problem, but it isn't because I ran Nautilus -- I didn't.

Since updating to quantum quetzal, I'm finding that sometimes one of my fluxbox desktops loses its toolbar, and when...

For those who prefer to use Amazon's GUI downloader for albums, here's a howto someone wrote on how to get it running on a recent version of...

In case anyone is interested, I ended up installing oneiric from scratch, and that worked.

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Sound is also broken.

Is there a log file I should be looking at?

I upgraded to oneiric. When my machine booted, I got a black console with text messages listing the services that were starting up, and then my machine sat there in that state and lightdm never came...

Thanks, CharlesA. Sorry, I'm getting this all second-hand from my in-laws, but what you said makes sense.

I guess the problem must be that she doesn't have admin privileges for her user account --...

My brother-in-law set up an ubuntu box for my mother-in-law and shipped it to her. The three of us all live in different states. Apparently he messed up and forgot to write down the root password...

Thanks, wt8008, changing write permissions could be a much better solution.

Thanks, all, for the help!

Adding the user to the plugdev group did not turn out to help. The solution using the sudoers file did work. I would prefer not to have to do it that way, for security...

Aha! Thanks, folks, I'll try that.

Thanks for the reply -- but it isn't a device with a filesystem on it. It's an interface to a sensor.

How do I grant full privileges to a user to do whatever they want to do to USB devices? For example, I have software ( https://github.com/bcrowell/freelab ) that needs to claim a USB interface, and I...

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Hi, Slavik,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I already understood that an admin user was not the same as a root user. However, this works on older versions of lucid for *any* user, including an...

This may be more of a linux question than a programming question. I have an open-source project https://github.com/bcrowell/freelab that interfaces to some hardware used in school lab courses through...

Having a browser with security patches would be nice, but a secure browser that's too broken to use isn't going to do it for me :-) Firefox seems to be heading down the toilet right now. Too bad...

Thanks for the suggestions! What worked for me was this:


apt-get purge firefox
apt-get install firefox=4.*




My problems weren't related to add-ons. I've had serious rendering glitches...

I did an apt-get upgrade half an hour ago, resulting in an upgrade from firefox 4 to 5, and in that time I've already run into multiple serious problems with the new version. Is there any way to...

Aha, thanks, that's very helpful! That would certainly take care of the security and networking part of it.

I have a classroom (a physics lab) with seven Lucid systems that I administer myself. Seven is not a huge number, but even so, I'm finding that it gets pretty time consuming to administer them by...

Vernier has a beta version of Logger Pro available for Linux. It's OK, although the GUI is somewhat unresponsive, and on x64 machines it crashes frequently.

I've written some open-source software...

An xterm session.


Ah, thanks for correcting me on that. I recently had a machine with a 40 Gb disk fill up after installing lucid+ooo, but on the one I'm installing on now I can see that I still...

I run linux on some machines with 40 Gb hard disks, which turns out to be too small to hold a standard lucid install plus openoffice. I found a list of packages that I don't need on these machines...

I figured out something that works, although it's not really optimal. I can just do an apt-get remove gnome-screensaver.