I'm using Ubuntu, and I've got the same problem with Lucid and Maverick. From time to time, especially a few minutes after boot, the iowait goes between 50-100% and the box is unusable. Everything that tries to access the disk freezes. I have the following setup: Hard disk: Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green family Devic...
I have a problem with installation of java j2sdk 1.4.2 on 64bit linux (Ubuntu 10.04). Did anybody handle it? uname -a 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:05:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux I run a self-extracting file sudo ./j2sdk-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin but I get tail: cannot open `+473' for reading: No su...
Hey guys, I did not run into this problem until I upgraded my Ubuntu box to Maverick Meerkat (10.10). Basically, whenever I start my computer, conky runs as expected, except it gets drawn over any windows that I load (see screenshot). To fix this for a single session, I simply restart conky by running killall conky; conky in a term...
Hi All, I am running a Ubuntu inside VMware player and it was working fine. But then I updated the ubuntu to latest version of it and from then it is not able to connect to the host i.e. Windows 7. Thus it is also not able to connect to internet. Can anyone tell how do I restore the connection with host. FYI - I have VMware Player netwo...
i installed ubuntu9.10 on my PC and works with XP very great. after install grub lead the system startup and i have to choose between ubuntu and xp. right now,here's another version of ubuntu i want to install,so i have to get rid of grub and ubuntu9.10,i tried fdisk /mbr but id doesn't work. so please anyone tell me how to get rid of...
It's been a couple of decades since I've done any programming. As a matter of fact the last time I programmed was in an MS-DOS environment before Windows came out. I've had this programming idea that I have wanted to try for a few years now and I thought I would give it a try. The amount of calculations are enormous. Consequently I want ...
Hello I am trying to install ububtu on an external drive. I am a programmer that wants to start using linux. I installed the usb installer from the ubuntu website and followed all the steps . when I get to the part where I have to choose the disk space it says an error when moving forward "No root file system is defined". Ive been do...
I'm having trouble with one of our Rails 3 app's. When a lot of requests are sent to the server (10 / second) the whole server stalls. I tried a lot of different passenger setups and sometimes I noticed a slight improvement but none of them ended up to be a solution. My setup: Intel i7 (8 cores) 8GB ram Ubuntu 10.04 Server Ruby 1.9.2 ...
i'm trying to install oracle 11g database in my ubuntu 10.10, following this tutorial http://oracleabc.com/b/archives/167 but, at the step 11, the system asks for oracle password! which password is it? i did not set anything yet! i've tried 'oracle', 'password', , (my system's) root password, but doesn't work! are there some 'default pa...
I have booted my system from a live Ubuntu CD, and I need to fix some package problems. I have mounted my hard drive, and now I want to run apt-get as if I booted normally. ie change the working directory for apt-get so it will work on my hard drive. I have done this before, but I can't remember the syntax. I think it was only some flag,...
I have just installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 10.10. I installed perl 5.12.2 following brian d foy's recommended outline and then installed cpanminus by invoking curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl5.12.2 - --sudo App::cpanminus. Now, cpan5.12.2 works fine, but whenever I try to install a module using cpanm5.12.2 it fails finding it. e.g.: ...
I have a mysql database with 4 different databases. 1 of the databases has a lot of read/write activity that would benefit from being run on ramdisk. Due to the nature of the data layout and types of reads needed, memcached is not an effective option here. Therefore, I would like to run one of the databases in a ramdisk (data persistence...
Does anyone know when VMware will publish a version of VMware tools for Ubuntu 10.10? The small screen is killing me...... Bill Roth ...
Hi, I find the question on stackoverflow related to font issue and because of that alignment problem on Ubuntu FF. After reading that question's answer, I understood that on Ubuntu may be the font is not by default installed like "Arial", "verdana" etc. So, can somebody tell me how to put a css hack for Ubuntu OS Firefox so that all ...
I have a simple python program .py and I want an executable version ( for UBUNTU LINUX ) of this program and avoid to run it by terminal with "python myprogram.py". How can I do that ? ...
How can I uninstall Ruby on ubuntu? Need to reinstall - please help ...
I have created a simple program in python. Now I want trasform this script in an executable program ( with hidden source code if possible ) and when I click 2 times on it, the program install itself on the ubuntu ( in the /usr/lib or /usr/bin I think ) and it will create a new launcher in the Application -> Game menu. How can I do that ...
I'm currently trying to test out beanstalkd I have installed ubuntu (on vmware workstation) Running ifconfig, I can see the ip address is 192.168.0.190 I start beanstalkd on port 11300 From my host machine (windows) I try to telnet to the ipaddress / port, however it tells me I can't connect... What's going wrong? (ps- im a linux n...
I want create a new launcher in the Application -> Game menu with bash shell. How can I do that ? ...
Hay I ve installed oracle-xe 10g sever version on ubuntu desktop 10.10 32 bit. for installation i ve followed the these steps: [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Oracle10g] Now im working with my dbms. its just working fine. for php setup i've followed this: [http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/configure-php-environment-ubuntu.html] now ...