DevastatorIIC posted:

My laptop has those specs (Pentium M instead of 4), and runs Kubuntu fine. If you really want something lighter and faster, use Xubuntu.

m3jsh posted:

Can someone please explain this error to me?

code:

start-stop-daemon: Unable to set initgroups() with gid 1000 (Operation not permitted)

As I understand it, since I am trying to run this daemon as my user (in group ID 1000) I am rejected. However if I modify my group file and change the following line:

root:x:0:

read

root:x:0:myusername

I should be able to execute files within the root group, or am I completely wrong here.

quote:

I'll explain my dilemma and why I want to run this daemon as my user. I currently have samba set up with my user, however when I run this daemon as root (which will sometimes create files within my samba shared directories I am unable to delete them through my share, which I find very inconvenient.

I know I have been pretty vague, but any suggestion would be appreciated, this whole permissions thing is killer.

m3jsh posted:

I guess I will be a little less vague. I have set up SABnzbd which I am running as root. When it saves the binaries I retrieve from newsgroups they are saved as root:root with permissions of 751. Is there any way to force root to allow the write permission (so I can delete/rename things if I so wish?)

I don't know if there is any legit way but I suppose I could create a script that runs every so often that sets all the files in a particular folder to the permission levels I require.

quote:

Or I suppose I should just give up trying to use my own personal user as I will be the only person using the box and I am not really in danger of the server being compromised. I don't know though.

m3jsh posted:

I guess I will be a little less vague. I have set up SABnzbd which I am running as root. When it saves the binaries I retrieve from newsgroups they are saved as root:root with permissions of 751. Is there any way to force root to allow the write permission (so I can delete/rename things if I so wish?)

Anunnaki posted:

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my home PC, and I've got a couple of questions:

1. The GRUB loader shows an entry called "Windows XP Home Edition", but I don't have XP installed on this machine at all... Wtf?

2. How do I change the order in which the OSs are displayed? I want Vista to be the default entry.

Following this guide, I went into the text editor and changed the title of the Vista boot entry to "Windows Vista Home Premium x64" and deleted the whole entry for XP, since that's not even installed. But I don't see what it means by changing the number from "0" to "4". Can someone help me out here?

Would it work just to move the whole "Other Operating Systems:" section to above the Linux kernels?

Scaevolus posted:

1. It's just guessing based on NTFS, and XP Home is most common

2. If you want to change display order, just move the chunks around. If you want Vista to load by default, put the line "savedefault" after it, and remove any other savedefaults in the file.

Anunnaki posted:

The Vista and XP entry were the only ones with "savedefault" in them, and I deleted the XP entry, but the Ubuntu kernel was still the first entry on the list; and the message at the bottom says that it will load the first one that's highlighted.

Harokey posted:

I want to copy everything in a folder (which is actually the old hard drive's / partition.) into another folder (which is the new hard drive's / partition)

I was trying

cp -r --preserve /mnt/old /mnt/new

But this creates an "old" folder in /mnt/new.

What should I do?

admiraldennis posted:

Add a trailing slash.

code:

cp -Rp /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/

Harokey posted:

Thats what I had thought before too but that creates an "old" folder in there as well.

Keep in mind that /mnt/old and /mnt/new are existing folders.

Harokey posted:

Edit: *sigh* I knew I would do this. I just did an rm -rf /mnt/old Now I have to figure out how to undo that... If I even can.

jdonz posted:

Try:

code:

ps -ef | grep nautilus

You should see:

code:

[joshua@jupiter ~]$ ps -ef | grep nautilus
joshua    9569  9540  0 08:20 pts/0    00:00:00 grep naut
joshua   24742     1  0 Oct22 ?        00:00:16 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
[joshua@jupiter ~]$

admiraldennis posted:

Harokey posted:

EDIT: But back to the point:

code:

cp -Rp ~/test/old/* ~/test/new/

Won't work because it won't copy over any dot("hidden") files.

teapot posted:

code:

cp -Rp ~/test/old/* ~/test/old/.??* ~/test/new/

will copy everything except files with a name that is a dot and single character other than a dot.

LesserEvil665 posted:

I'm using ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon with two monitors. One is on my laptop, the other is an LCD flat screen. I've been able to extend my desktop but the view on the secondary monitor exceeds its physical borders. I literally must drag my desktop by the borders to get to my desktop's borders. It's not critical, but it's anoying, and I was wondering if anyone here knew how to solve this dilemma.

Ozean posted:

Apologies if it's been asked before, but I need a good cd/media ripping app for kde. Or just in general, you know. I tried using k3b to rip a cd, but it keeps giving me an error when I try to rip to mp3s.

Ozean posted:

code:

lame -h --tt song --ta band --tl album --ty year etc.

Ozean posted:

So. Any advice to make this work, or just an alternative app I can use?

Soggy Chips posted:

Hi guys,

heres a nub plead for help, I have a wee mdadm raid5 array of 5 x 400gig drives on my Ubuntu box. Long story short the array is playing up. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Some things think the drives are down and some things don't. Device 3 appears to be stuffed in most of the reports however when I try and start array it does this

code:

mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.

mdadm --examine /dev/sda yeilds this

code:

/dev/sda:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 00.90.00
           UUID : e10e5fd1:1584c8fe:f7f338c5:ef182b41
  Creation Time : Fri Feb  9 19:28:20 2007
     Raid Level : raid5
    Device Size : 390711296 (372.61 GiB 400.09 GB)
     Array Size : 1562845184 (1490.45 GiB 1600.35 GB)
   Raid Devices : 5
  Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0

    Update Time : Mon Aug 20 06:26:59 2007
          State : clean
 Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
       Checksum : 2ac277c4 - correct
         Events : 0.792890

         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 128K

      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     3       8        0        3      active sync   /dev/sda

   0     0       8       16        0      active sync   /dev/sdb
   1     1       8       32        1      active sync   /dev/sdc
   2     2       8       48        2      active sync   /dev/sdd
   3     3       8        0        3      active sync   /dev/sda
   4     4       8       64        4      active sync   /dev/sde

/dev/sdb does this

code:

  Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     0       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda

   0     0       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda
   1     1       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb
   2     2       0        0        2      faulty removed
   3     3       0        0        3      faulty removed
   4     4       0        0        4      faulty removed

/dev/sdc

code:

      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     1       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb

   0     0       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda
   1     1       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb
   2     2       0        0        2      faulty removed
   3     3       0        0        3      faulty removed
   4     4       0        0        4      faulty removed

/dev/sdd

code:

 Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     2       8       32        2      active sync   /dev/sdc

   0     0       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda
   1     1       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb
   2     2       8       32        2      active sync   /dev/sdc
   3     3       0        0        3      faulty removed
   4     4       8       48        4      active sync   /dev/sdd

/dev/sde

code:

      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     4       8       48        4      active sync   /dev/sdd

   0     0       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda
   1     1       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb
   2     2       8       32        2      active sync   /dev/sdc
   3     3       0        0        3      faulty removed
   4     4       8       48        4      active sync   /dev/sdd

quote:

annoyingly, prints out every line in an orgy of "declare -x" statements - sometimes including lines that are presumably in /etc/bashrc or some other place, which I have not touched. I really don't what this to happen and would like some way of switching it off. Sometimes it doesn't print all this crap out, though, and I can't put my finger on the conditions under which it does and does not occur.

quote:

[I moved all the exports out of .bash_profile and into .bashrc as someone said
that .bashrc is "the silent one" of the two, but it still seems to keep running its gums].

covener posted:

404 on latter

quote:

a VT is a login shell, which automatically reads .bash_profile

see INVOCATION in the bash manpage

by default not a login shell, so it reads .bashrc

quote:

you have an errant bash -x or set -x; try grep -r -- -x ~

quote:

sounds like a bogus suggestion

quote:

if these are settings you want to run for every imagineable shell, source your bashrc from bash_profile and stuff all your content into bashrc.b

hooah posted:

Any help on my desktop background disappearing on startup?

covener posted:

On non-gnome systems, you might end up w/ gnome-settings-daemon being launched as a result of opening gnome-control-center.

Any persistent change in your process list between before/after you see the background change? If there's nothing persistent, how about something like strace -e trace=process -o /tmp/strace.txt gnome-control-center?

guy debord posted:

I'm having an issue with Firestarter. I want it to run when I log into my GNOME session, but after putting it in the Sessions menu, it tells me "Firestarter couldn't run because of administrative privileges", or something like that(I don't recall off the top of my head.) Now, I can start it simply enough, but I just wish it would start on its own at load time.

Any suggestions?

teapot posted:

Either change the frequency in desktop resolution settings, or use monitor's menu to make it autodetect or adjust and "remember" the timings.