ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 230

Geogre Thaxton thaxxman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 19:43:42 UTC 2007


can ubuntu lan with XP (service pack 2) cause me and my buddy use lan to
play starcraft all the time i just want to know if i download ubuntu if i
can still do that
        -Thaxxman

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>    1. openssh-sever missing in gutsy? (Josef Wolf)
>    2. Re: openssh-sever missing in gutsy? (Akshay Lamba)
>    3. Re: Kernel panic at boot? (Jef Driesen)
>    4. Re: Can't locate gconf-2.0 needed by gnucash (Froylan Lapid)
>    5. Re: Suspend and hibernate still not working on my laptop (Michele)
>    6. Re: GuTSy is slow! (NoOp)
>    7. Re: GuTSy is slow! (Mario Vukelic)
>    8. Re: openssh-sever missing in gutsy? (Josef Wolf)
>    9. Re: Ark download and istallation problem (Haneef Bashir)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:10:14 +0200
> From: Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de>
> Subject: openssh-sever missing in gutsy?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hello,
>
> I have just installed the final gutsy release.  When I do
>
>    apt-get install openssh-server
>
> I get the error message that this package has no installation candidate.
> Strange, a couple of days ago I installed gutsy rc, and openssh-server
> could be installed without problems..
>
> Any ideas what is going on here?
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:18:29 +0400
> From: Akshay Lamba <akshay at lambaweb.com>
> Subject: Re: openssh-sever missing in gutsy?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> Josef Wolf wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just installed the final gutsy release.  When I do
> >
> >    apt-get install openssh-server
> >
> > I get the error message that this package has no installation candidate.
> > Strange, a couple of days ago I installed gutsy rc, and openssh-server
> > could be installed without problems..
> Do you have all your repo's setup? I had the same problem this morning,
> check the repos you've enabled in synaptic.
>
> Best,
> A
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:27:17 +0200
> From: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Kernel panic at boot?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> > Jef Driesen wrote:
> >> When I boot my Ubuntu desktop, the system often freezes at the point
> >> where the splash screen appears (in a very early stage of the boot
> >> sequence, because the progress bar is almost empty). When this happens,
> >> the LEDs on my keyboard start flashing and I believe this indicates a
> >> kernel panic.
> >>
> >> This happens quite often and as a result I often have to reset the
> >> machine multiple times to make it boot. But once the system is finally
> >> running, it works just fine.
> >>
> >> How do I find out what is causing the problem?
> >
> > Detailed logs are written on boot.  You can view these logs by clicking
> > on "System -> Administration -> System Log".  Click on "kern.log" and
> > "messages" in the tree on the left.  That should give you a start on
> > finding the problem.
>
> I can't find anything useful in the log files. I think the kernel panic
> occurs before anything is written to the logs? I booted without "quiet
> splash" and made a photo of my display:
>
> http://users.telenet.be/sacn/tmp/kernel_panic.jpg
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Froylan Lapid <froy02 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Can't locate gconf-2.0 needed by gnucash
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> Message-ID: <392223.9859.qm at web62402.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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> open up synapics package manager and scroll thru it and you'll find it
> there. mark it for installation then click apply.
>
> Mike Adolf <mlnx at mho.com> wrote: Greetings,
> In my attempt to install gnucash 2.2.1, the configure step resulted in
> an error stating it could not locate gconf-2.0.  I searched and also did
> not find it. I am using Ubuntu 7.04. Any suggestions.
>
> Mike
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:45:56 +0100
> From: Michele <m.zarri at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Suspend and hibernate still not working on my laptop
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> Hello Marius,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Some additional details inline.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michele
>
> On 10/19/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> >
> > [snip] Suspend issues are rather hardware-specific and it's nearly
> > impossible to give general advice.
>
>
> Sorry, I forgot. Here's the laptop specs. Compaq Evo N610c. 1Gbyte RAM,
> 30Gb
> HD (1GiB swap, 20GiB /home 9GiB /) Pentium 4 Mobility, ATI Radeon Mobility
> 7500.
>
>
> [snip!]
>
> > Hibernate instead is something I use quite a lot and at present the only
> > way
> > > to suspend is to issue a
> > > sudo s2disk
> > > from the terminal or from TTY?
> >
> > It seems that you use uswsusp instead of Gutsy's default
> > suspend/hibernation infrastructure, which is acpi-support.  Why?
>
>
> If I try to suspend or hibernate from the GUI, I end up with a locked
> screen. Enter the password and a message tells me that suspend or
> hibernate
> failed and to check the help.
>
> > When resuming, all the USB ports have gone and I have to issue
> > > sudo modprobe -r -v ehci_hcd && sudo modprobe -v ehci_hcd
> > > to make them restart.
> >
> > But everything works after that?
>
>
> yes. Everything is ok after that.
>
> I'm not familiar with uswsusp.  It is likely that there's some
> > configuration file that would tell it to remove and reinsert the
> > ehci_hcd module.
> >
> > If you used Ubuntu's standard acpi-support, that configuration file
> > would be /etc/default/acpi-support (the MODULES setting).  Hm, I see a
> > comment there mentioning that USB drivers are automatically unloaded if
> > you use acpi-support.
> >
> > > Is there a way to get Gutsy to hibernate/resume properly?
> >
> > As far as I understand, you already found a way that works, it's just
> > rather inconvenient.  I don't know if you can integrate uswsusp with
> > Gutsy's GUIs that control suspend/hibernation.  In your place I'd try to
> > get acpi-support to work instead.
>
>
> That is exactly why I wrote the email in the first place ;-)
>
> If you want to continue using s2disk, and want GNOME Power Manager's
> > menus use it instead of acpi-support, I think you can get that if you
> > remove the acpi-support package (but this may break other features, e.g.
> > brightness or volume control keys) or edit the
> > /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux script to
> > try s2disk before /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh (I do not recommend editing
> > system files managed by apt-get either; upgrades will silently overwrite
> > them).
>
>
> I have learnt to live without the GUI (I have removed the power down
> button
> from the panel) and yes, I'd rather not touch the system files as I am too
> scared to make some serious damage :-) (I already suffer having to
> recompile
> the WLAN module at every upgrade).
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:46:55 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: GuTSy is slow!
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 10/18/2007 05:58 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Mario Vukelic wrote:
> [snip]
> >>
> >> Still, how hard is it to click menu System | Administration | Services,
> >> and remove the check mark from "bluetooth management"?
> >
> > OK, I take it back.  I AM stupid.  I've never spotted this one.  Works
> > perfectly ... :-)
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >> I should have added "... as long as it isn't perfect". I say, of course
> >> bluetooth should only be started if the hardware is there. Of course it
> >> would be nice if NM did not load any code needed only for wireless
> >> cards, when the NIC is plugged in. Etc.
>
> However, even if you uncheck bluetooth management, if you check System
> Monitir you'll find that 'bluetooth-applet' is still there - sleeping,
> but taking up memory nonetheless. On a system with only 256Mb every
> little bit helps, so I just blow out bluetooth and other similar apps
> that are useless to me so that I get a little better performance out of
> the machine. I've found that using synaptic (Mark for Complete Removal)
> is a better choice for me when doing this, as sometimes I miss the side
> apps when doing from the command line. For instance, in bluetooth's
> case: bluez-cups, bluez-gnome, bluez-pin, bluez-utils, etc.
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:09:13 +0200
> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: GuTSy is slow!
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:46 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > However, even if you uncheck bluetooth management, if you check System
> > Monitir you'll find that 'bluetooth-applet' is still there - sleeping,
> > but taking up memory nonetheless.
>
> See he very next sentence in the post to which Derek replied:
>
> "Still, how hard is it to click menu System | Administration | Services,
> and remove the check mark from "bluetooth management"? Which immediately
> shuts down the daemons on my machine. The applet can be removed from
> startup in System | Preferences | Session (where, incidentally, you can
> also disable trackerd)."
>
> > I've found that using synaptic (Mark for Complete Removal)
> > is a better choice for me when doing this, as sometimes I miss the side
> > apps when doing from the command line. For instance, in bluetooth's
> > case: bluez-cups, bluez-gnome, bluez-pin, bluez-utils, etc.
>
> Just FYI:
>
> "aptitude show <package>" will give you a list of Depends, Recommends,
> and Suggests. "apt-cache showpkg <package> will give you the, often
> particularly helpful, reverse dependencies (which other packages depend
> on this package).
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:01:11 +0200
> From: Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de>
> Subject: Re: openssh-sever missing in gutsy?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20071019190111.GE19465 at raven.wolf.local>
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:18:29PM +0400, Akshay Lamba wrote:
> > Josef Wolf wrote:
> > > I have just installed the final gutsy release.  When I do
> > >
> > >    apt-get install openssh-server
> > >
> > > I get the error message that this package has no installation
> candidate.
> > > Strange, a couple of days ago I installed gutsy rc, and openssh-server
> > > could be installed without problems..
> > Do you have all your repo's setup? I had the same problem this morning,
> > check the repos you've enabled in synaptic.
>
> Thanks for your quick response, Akshay.
>
> I have done exactly the same modifications to 7.10rc as to the 7.10final.
> I know for sure since the modifications are done with a script.
>
> The modifications are:
> - remove the cdrom source after installation.
> - add restricted, universe and security repositories.  This is done via
>    preseeding:
>
>      d-i apt-setup/restricted boolean true
>      d-i apt-setup/universe boolean true
>      d-i apt-setup/security_host string security.ubuntu.com
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:12:00 +0300
> From: "Haneef Bashir" <darkfena313 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Ark download and istallation problem
> To: jdangler at terremark.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for
>         general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> how do i get my /etc/apt/sources.list??
>
> On 10/19/07, jack <jdangler at terremark.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:02 -0400, Haneef Bashir wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > [snip]
> > Post the output of your /etc/apt/sources.list here
> > [snip]
> >
> >
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