For some reason Ubuntu won't boot.
I want to recover my files from /var/www/.
When I boot into live session, and go to /var, the /www folder isn't there anymore.
I try using blkid, and the HDD is listed as /dev/sdb1, however when I mount that using sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt, I just get the same as navigating there from Nautilus.
How can I access the files there?
Okay heres the problem.
On my desktop, I had windows 10. I put another SSD in there and installed Ubuntu on that. And when I booted the machine, Ubuntu loaded the boot loader and I could select the operating system I wanted to use, great.
Then I reinstalled Ubuntu because I got in a mess with my SQL server. But ever since then, the boot loader looks different. I lists Ubuntu at the top, and at the bottom instead of Windows Boot Manager (or something to that effect) it says Windows 7. When I select the Windows 7 I get a windows error message which basically says that it cannot load (I cannot remember the details of the error message, but it was large grey text on a DOS like screen).
So now I dont have the option to boot to windows, I have to do it manually from my BIOS which is a huge pain. How can I get this functionality back? I tried mounting the Windows Disk (by clicking on it and viewing the files) in Ubuntu and running os-probe, but that didnt seem to sort anything. The OS is there, so why can't I boot to it from the GRUB boot loader?
I am trying to get the following shortcut to work:
notify-send -i rhythmbox "RhythmBox Is Playing" "$(rhythmbox-client --print-playing)"
It works fine If I run it from the command line, but when I set it as a keyboard shortcut I just get the text printed out and the program (rhythmbox-client) doesn't run.
What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to run gkSudo. This is my second day as a linux user.
Yesterday I could do
gksudo gedit
and input my root password fine.
Today, when I run that, the GUI comes up and asked for my password, however then the program fails to run and all I get is:
(gksudo:3262): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
I cannot sudo, I cannot su, I can't do anything. I am trying to add myself to the sudoers file but I can't even view it without being root. What can I do?