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Re: strange files created in $HOME

Lucio M Nicolosi — 2012-05-26T07:54:52

Perhaps because Nautilus tags them as "plain text documents"?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11630634/Screenshot%20from%202012-05-26%2004%3A30%3A16.png

L.

Re: strange files created in $HOME

Lucio M Nicolosi — 2012-05-26T07:25:59

It is a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/984785

It might be related with performing a shutdown command without logging
out previously.

L.

Re: strange files created in $HOME

Basil Chupin — 2012-05-26T06:17:07

(Have to ask.......)

If the files are empty, how do you know that they are "normal text file[s]"?

[.............]

BC

strange files created in $HOME

Jkhatri — 2012-05-26T05:44:17

Dear all

I'm on 12.04 LTS , recently I've observed that some strange files like 
".goutputstream-AXYZ" are often created, which are normal text file with 
nothing in it

what is the purpose of that file creation ???

does anyone facing this problem ????

how to resolve it


Warm Regards

Re: Can you retrofit the non-PAE kernel to a Precise install LiveUSB?

Liam Proven — 2012-05-26T02:18:22

To answer my own question:

No, you can't just install the generic kernel on a bootable USB stick.
The USB stick doesn't use GRUB (but rather syslinux or something) and
the root FS isn't writable, so kernel installation fails.

The Alternate CD doesn't work either, AFAICS.

But if you use the "mini" ISO - the netboot CD - then there is a
non-PAE version of this. It boots and runs just fine on a Pentium-M. I
picked one package to install - "Ubuntu desktop" - and the result is a
plain, standard Precise system.

Minor tweaks to /etc/X.11/xorg.conf (to force 16-bit mode, which is
faster & allows a 2nd monitor, at least in theory - not tried this
yet) and /etc/default/grub (to add "nomodeswitch" to enable suspend
and resume and "mode=791" to get a clean, unfuzzed graphical bootup
screen) and it's working just fine.

Also, because with the mini ISO, everything is installed off the 'net,
there was no need to install any updates when it was finished.

And incidentally, the advice to use Unetbootin was good - Startu

Re: howto monitor iptables activity

NoOp — 2012-05-26T01:48:57

Do you mean iptstate?
$ apt-cache search iptstate
iptstate - top-like interface to your netfilter connection-tracking table

$ sudo apt-get install iptstate

$ apt-cache policy iptstate
iptstate:
  Installed: 2.2.2-2
  Candidate: 2.2.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.2-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ sudo iptstate

$ man iptstate
for further info.

Re: modem question

Basil Chupin — 2012-05-26T01:11:35

Gosh, haven't used one of those modems for years.....but isn't there a 
setting in the modem whereby it drops carrier and goes back to 
waiting-for-call state after there hasn't been any traffic on the line 
for a specified period (say, 3 minutes)?

BC

RE: [12.04] "List of changes not available yet" for every update

compdoc — 2012-05-25T18:53:09

Happens a lot lately on my Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop systems...

Re: [12.04] "List of changes not available yet" for every update

Hans Muecke — 2012-05-25T17:57:53

Am 25.05.2012 12:16, schrieb Marius Gedminas:
Can't confirm this ...

Re: [12.04] "List of changes not available yet" for every update

Marius Gedminas — 2012-05-25T17:16:14

Yup.  Ubuntu 12.04, every update I remember since I upgraded from 11.10.

Marius Gedminas

[12.04] "List of changes not available yet" for every update

Robert Spanjaard — 2012-05-25T17:01:21

On Xubuntu 12.04, I keep getting this message when select an update:

---
The list of changes is not available yet.

Please use [link to online changelog]
until the changes become available or try again later.
---

This has happened for *every* update for the past two weeks or so.
Anyone else with the same experience?

Re: howto monitor iptables activity

Jkhatri — 2012-05-25T16:24:13

is it [1] [2] the same what you need

[1] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=513732

[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMonitorInternetTrafficTotals

Sorry if I misunderstood ... I'm not sure

Warm Regards

Re: Stock Tracker in Ubuntu Software Center

Jim Byrnes — 2012-05-25T15:30:08

Thanks for the link.  I wanted to report it but hadn't had time to find 
out where to do it.  It has now been filed.

Regards,  Jim

howto monitor iptables activity

oxy — 2012-05-25T15:04:02

Hi

ipstate isnt coming in my iptables distro.
I cannt install it with apt-get.

How do u monitor iptables activity in real time?

thx

modem question

Linda — 2012-05-25T15:04:06

I have a computer set up so you can dial in and work on it from another location. Lately I am having problems that if the line disconnects (our phone lines have problems) the computer is not releasing the modem so you then can not call back in and reconnect without having someone on site shutdown the computer and restart it.
My question is should I be looking at settings for the modem or for mgetty to ensure that if the call is broken that ttyS1 is freed back up and the modem is reset so it can answer the new call.  In the past the most I had to do was get someone to turn off the modem and turn it back on in a few minutes to reset everything so you could call in.
                 Thanks
                 Linda

Re: thunderbird stoped saving sent msgs

oxy — 2012-05-25T14:36:06

its not Gmail, its a local email server from my work.
I logged in to the web interface of this server and sent
mail is there in the folder called sent-mail.

I had deleted it on thbird. Recreated the account n it works now.

Thx ...

Re: thunderbird stoped saving sent msgs

Dave Woyciesjes — 2012-05-25T14:13:55

Did you verify in the account settings as to which folder sent messages 
are being saved?
I assume this is for your GMail account. Did you login to the webmail 
interface an dsearch through all the folders to see if they are getting 
stuck somewhere else?
Keep in mind, GMail has a de-dupe process in place for thier email. 
Simply put, in reality you don't have actual email folders. THey are all 
stuck in one folder, and each message has tags that say which "folder" 
the message should appear in.

Re: open iptables to connect as client to windows network

Tom H — 2012-05-25T12:54:29

AD = active directory

Re: open iptables to connect as client to windows network

Tom H — 2012-05-25T12:53:57

If you load your iptables rules from "/etc/network/pre-up.d", I
presume that your iptables rules will supersede the ones loaded by ufw
but they won't overwrite the on-disk ufw rules. So you cannot work
with both simultaneously.

Whether you use "pure" iptables or ufw, you can display the active
rules with "iptables -L" or "iptables -S".

Re: What started using a keyring?

Pritam Baral — 2012-05-25T11:14:01

The password is most likely your first Ubuntu password when you installed
Ubuntu. It get's set when a user account is created. It can be changed
graphically. Or, if you don't remember the password, the keyring can be
deleted too.. Just make sure you create a new keyring and set it as
default, some apps (Google Chrome/Chromium) use the keyring to store their
passwords..

I think the GUI app that let's you do this is called "Passwords &
Encryption Keys". Look for it.

*Regards,*

*Chhatoi Pritam Baral*



On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: open iptables to connect as client to windows network

Steve Flynn — 2012-05-25T10:11:12



Active Directory.