ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 77
Kelly Alford
alford_kell at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 6 07:46:22 UTC 2008
I am having a very difficult time understanding. I am very new to Ubuntu. does anybody know how I can make the web pages fit my screen? My monitor is a 22 inch lcd! In plain english?
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Subject: ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 77
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Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 12:19 AM
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Today's Topics:
1. using a launcher to run a script (marc jackson)
2. Re: Eee PC os install advice (Dave Hall)
3. amaya: When I try to start Amaya the program closes itself
after 1 second (gian)
4. upstart: no equivalent to 'init q' (jasen)
5. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks failed to read
CD-ROM (John Mok)
6. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks failed to read
CD-ROM (John Mok)
7. Ubuntu and 3ds max (sandrs)
8. alacarte (ike)
9. help (ghan ghan)
10. Regression: Since the last update the USB mouse is
deactivated after resume (from suspend) (Roland Lezuo)
11. Re: Web GUI for server administration (Onno Benschop)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:36:46 +0000
From: marc jackson <dechon at hotmail.com>
Subject: using a launcher to run a script
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <BLU110-W28F784573BBF4BA222A936C4BA0 at phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I'm trying to run a shell script on 7.04 & 7.10.
The script is kept in /etc/init.d. Let's call it foo.
#!/bin/sh
sudo /etc/init.d/foo stop
rm -rf /var/tmp/*
sudo /etc/init.d/foo start
# end of script
This script runs fine from the command line. It doesn't from a launcher.
Yes, I've told it to run in a terminal.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:15:47 +1000
From: Dave Hall <ubuntu at skwashd.com>
Subject: Re: Eee PC os install advice
To: James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com>
Cc: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <1212538547.20751.23.camel at noby>
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:31 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Currently I have gutsy on both the internal 4gig drive and on a 16gig
flash
> drive. I'm looking at scrubbing gutsy from the internal and installing
> something else as I mainly boot from the flash drive at the moment.
I'm
> guessing that will require some changes to my grub file on my part so the
> flash drive wont throw up errors when gutsy ain't there on the 4gig
drive?
> Would I be better off scrubbing the lines relating to the internal drive
and
> installing on it and then just using the bios to switch between internal
and
> external boots? Would rather the dual boot facility. How much work would
that
> entail? I'm guessing likely not that hard just not used to this my end
as of
> yet
I installed eeexubuntu on my partner's eee pc. It was the best solution
I could find. She has since left it out in the rain and it aint working
so well atm. I will leave that story for another day.
You can do the manual BIOS hack, or you can just leave /boot and MBR
intact on the SSD and just remove the entries for the SSD. I personally
found using SSD for the OS and the SD card for /home and some other
mount points great - except when the thing went to sleep and woke up and
would allocate a new block device for ?the SD card.
Cheers
Dave
PS Cross posting probably isn't the best approach getting a good
response from people.
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:35:30 +0200
From: gian <progjava2 at yahoo.it>
Subject: amaya: When I try to start Amaya the program closes itself
after 1 second
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <20080604033530.9148.12202.reportbug at gian-laptop>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Package: amaya
Version: 9.55~dfsg.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Amaya is unusable because it ends as soon as you try to open
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'),
(500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages amaya depends on:
ii amaya-data 9.55~dfsg.0-1 Web Browser, HTML Editor and Testb
ii libc6 2.7-10ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-0ubuntu1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1ubuntu4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.3-2ubuntu7 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa [li 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libraptor1 1.4.16-1 Raptor RDF parser and serializer l
ii libstdc++6 4.2.3-2ubuntu7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwww-ssl0 5.4.0-11build2 The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-2ubuntu4 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-2ubuntu4 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7ubuntu1 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages amaya recommends:
pn amaya-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:08:51 +1200 (NZST)
From: jasen at nikita.treshna.com (jasen)
Subject: upstart: no equivalent to 'init q'
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <20080604040851.1F53B471CF6 at nikita.treshna.com>
Package: upstart
Version: 0.3.9-2
Severity: normal
no obvious way to make upstart re-read and retry /etc/event.d entries
sysvinit does something similar with `telinit q`
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'),
(500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages upstart depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii sysvutils 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45 System-V-like utilities
Versions of packages upstart recommends:
ii startup-tasks 0.3.9-2 definitions of essential tasks to
ii system-services 0.3.9-2 definitions of essential system se
ii upstart-compat-sysv 0.3.9-2 compatibility for System-V-like in
ii upstart-logd 0.3.9-2 boot logging daemon
-- no debconf information
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:34:03 +0800
From: John Mok <john at sml.citizen.co.jp>
Subject: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks failed to read
CD-ROM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <4846375B.7060900 at sml.citizen.co.jp>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi,
I tried to install 8.04 LTS server on Tyan S2518 motherboard :-
- ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset
- Dual PIII CPU 1.26 GHz
- 3 GB RAM
- IDE CD-ROM
The installation continued without problems, until the steps of reading
installer components from CD-ROM. The installation stopped and prompted
an error of "failing to read from CD-ROM....". I tried the options to
disable ACPI and the problem remained the same.
The installation process of 6.02.2 LTS server on the same server
completed without any problem. Can anyone advise what went wrong and how
I can install 8.04 LTS server successfully?
Thank you, John Mok
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:34:45 +0800
From: John Mok <john at sml.citizen.co.jp>
Subject: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks failed to read
CD-ROM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <48463785.50207 at sml.citizen.co.jp>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi,
I tried to install 8.04 LTS server on Tyan S2518 motherboard :-
- ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset
- Dual PIII CPU 1.26 GHz
- 3 GB RAM
- IDE CD-ROM
The installation continued without problems, until the steps of reading
installer components from CD-ROM. The installation stopped and prompted
an error of "failing to read from CD-ROM....". I tried the options to
disable ACPI and the problem remained the same.
The installation process of 6.02.2 LTS server on the same server
completed without any problem. Can anyone advise what went wrong and how
I can install 8.04 LTS server successfully?
Thank you, John Mok
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:00:33 +0300
From: "sandrs" <sandrsi at mail.ru>
Subject: Ubuntu and 3ds max
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <900EF7A741DC4AF6BE9E8B0E427D5B1D at sandrs>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r"
Hello
During the last 4 years I have worked with 3ds max (on windows). But I want to
use OS Linux (Ubuntu). However I can't do it. Becous 3ds max is
incompatible with Linux. I have a lot of friends who work with 3ds max and want
also to work in Linux.
May be new Ubuntu 8.04 and 3ds max compatible now? Or when you project this?
And do you project it generally?
Or please give me a note to read about it.
Best
Alexander
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:08:32 +0100
From: "ike" <bryan19574 at hotmail.com>
Subject: alacarte
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <BLU110-DS45DC08E48EC7BFCDEC60697B50 at phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
hi,
I just installed ubuntu 8.04 but when I tried to launch alacarte in order to
modify my main menu preferences, it does not respond. I logged in as root
and tried again but it failed to open. I got a message indicating a crash.
please how do I resolve the issue.
thanks
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:33:45 +0200
From: "ghan ghan" <amachahoo at gmail.com>
Subject: help
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID:
<54054d20806041833vca3d408n21c3923334b75c8d at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
sir;
I have received a free cd from you (ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition) thank
you for that. so after the installation it show this message in the
monitore "out of range h: 74,6khz v: 59hz". please help me to resolve
the probleme else how can I use ubuntu.
thanks in advance.
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:13:17 +0200
From: Roland Lezuo <roland.lezuo at chello.at>
Subject: Regression: Since the last update the USB mouse is
deactivated after resume (from suspend)
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <20080605071317.6611.21639.reportbug at balkon>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
Version: 2.6.24-18.32
Severity: normal
This system always work fine with many suspend/resume cycles. But since the
last update
after the system woke up from suspend (if it even does, it sometimes crashes)
the USB mouse
is deactivated (it does not turn on it's lights). In addition the whole
system feels
slugish.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers hardy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'),
(500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 6.10-3ubuntu2 The GNU core utilities
ii dpkg 1.14.16.6ubuntu3 package maintenance system for Deb
ii initramfs-tools 0.85eubuntu36 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4ubuntu5 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic recommends:
ii grub 0.97-29ubuntu21 GRand Unified Bootloader
-- no debconf information
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:38:05 +0800
From: Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au>
Subject: Re: Web GUI for server administration
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <484797DD.6080701 at itmaze.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 29/05/08 06:33, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I'm a member of the Ubuntu Server team and I'll raise this issue
at our
> next weekly meeting (we just had our meeting 30 minutes ago).
>
> If there are specific concerns that you wish to raise, can you please
> email me with the concern and a reference and I'll endeavour to put
> together a statement which I'll post here before I take it to the
Ubuntu
> Server team
This issue was raised in today's ubuntu-server meeting.
The discussion was fruitful in that a number of items were discussed:
1. Webmin is a tool that works, but it has the capacity for shooting
yourself in the foot. It is very powerful, but the user base for a
web GUI is generally not the same as a low-level administrator,
which means that while it's fine for an experienced administrator,
it's not too careful to protect others. It's options are very
detailed and require lots of skill with little or no way to
recover from mistakes.
2. eBox is a tool that has a higher level view of administration
tasks. It was acknowledged that it is still not feature complete,
but many essential tasks can be accomplished today. Further
development by the ubuntu-server team and others is already under
way. It was suggested that eBox is more of a Ubuntu-like tool.
3. A side by side comparison has not been made to date and a simple
summary does not yet exist to our knowledge. Some team members
expressed interest in furthering that.
4. A Debian package is distributed from the webmin site, but you
should be aware that it is *not* a Ubuntu package and it will and
cannot be supported.
5. Debian's webmin maintainer asked to remove the packages back in
December of 2005 and it was removed from Debian unstable in
January 2006. It was last published in Ubuntu as version 1.230-1
in Dapper in December 2005.
I am personally not aware of any discussions that were had about webmin
vs. eBox, but I'm confident that at some level they were had. While the
ubuntu-server team existed during that time, I believe that it only
became active when Canonical hired a bunch of developers a year ago and
became responsible for a server product.
This won't answer all your questions, but I hope it provides some
background to your discussions and considerations.
Personally I would encourage you to investigate eBox and to log any bugs
for missing or faulty functionality. If you are a developer, please feel
free to submit patches.
Note that due to the high level of traffic on this list, I am no longer
subscribed. Please CC me if you require any response. I'll endeavour to
monitor this particular thread for the next week.
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