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Not sure if this is a long term fix but digging through some other forum posts I found running;

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

And selecting "Acer Laptop" (As I have an Acer)...

Hey guys, I am running 15.04 with Unity and for some reason recently when scrolling using the arrow keys somewhat fast they stop working, a reboot always fixes this but gosh its annoying. When it...

Nailed it! This is embarrasingly simple and it worked well for me however the sensitivity can be a pita off and on. Go into Universal Access > Pointing & Clicking and enable "Simulated Secondary...

Your not alone, I am also looking into a way to do this however I am using a different model laptop Acer Aspire R14. Out of the gate all things worked really well with some minor tweaking and I am...

I do this all the time so this is such good protip. I remember the first time I accidentally deleted /lib going too fast on my home system. In fact..... I think I posted on the forums asking for...

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I hope this reply finds you well and perhaps you are well on your way or have already achieved your goal. Forgive me for the delayed reply I have much happen this year and not been very...

Id have to agree, the symptoms that you explain sound very indicative of some hardware issue, especially because they are all across the board. I once had some bad capacitors on a motherboard that...

FYI, the CompTIA Linux+ gets you 3 different certificates as its recognized by two different vendors. 2 tests, about 160$ each

CompTIA Linux+ (lifetime, for what its worth)
LPIC -1 (Linux...

There are ways to do this, easiest if you have an SSH server setup. Another option is share out a folder (either on a windows box or via samba), mount the share and specify the directory as your...

Alongside Clonezilla exists partimage which is also handy though not as packed with features. No matter the utility that you use I highly suggest if your looking for a way to really explore all your...

I may be stating the obvious though try changing your default 'windows version' or setup a custom configuration for the *.exe explicitly. Both of these actions can be done via winecfg.


To...

I should have anticipated running into this problem again 3 years later.. damn me for not posting a link to the fix;

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/enable-smooth-fonts-on-ubuntu-linux/

Hey dave thanks for the reply. I tried to let it auto-detect but it gave me an error telling me i needed to specify the FS type so thats why i used -t udf. I noticed the I/O errors but wasnt sure...

Hey all, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I backed up about 19GB of my Web Server today compressed into a .tar.gz. I then split these files into 4300MB chunks (approx 4.2GB). I then used...

from the iwlist man pages about the 'scan' parameter:


Its safe to say if Ubuntu's Network Manager does not 'see' the network but iwlist scan does, its hidden. Wireless Network Detection suites...

Finally, a question I can answer!

http://goo.gl/4n6CS

Glad you figured it out, just an FYI that strange number is the UUID, The Universal Unique Identifier of that drive. I believe if it had a label it would be mounted by its label, if you manually...

I think the easiest way to determine if you deleted windows and the disk without going through too much trouble is probably to do the following;



If you don't see an NTFS partition (and have...

Hoping there is someone out there who can help me with this. Just purchased and installed an ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card and installed the proprietary drivers via System > Administration >...

Its been a few days but today my bug report was just updated to 'Affects initramfs-tools' as opposed to Grub2 also two other people have now stated that they are having or seeing similar issues.
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I have filed a bug report on this error @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/573615 for package: grub-common

Converted001,

Wow, I am glad to see that at least someone else is affected by this. I have yet to file a bug on this but I will do so now, I guess ill file it under grub2 however I am not sure...

mseewald,

Sadly it looks like that didnt fix it either. Just a side-note; I am able to use the machine and get into gnome and I dont seem to have any adverse effects caused by this error. I also...

nanog,

Thanks for the reply, I went ahead and attempted update-initramfs as you suggested. First I just tried to update the existing and that still left me with the same results, so I then...

After solving a separate filesystem issue I yet again face another problem. On a cold-start of the PC I often recieve one of the two errors. Both of these occur right before grub2 shows the gdm. ...