I have Lubuntu 16.04. It is running on a Thinkpad X201 using Intel graphics devices (no Nvidia here).
After I watch a video on Youtube or use mplayer to watch a video, the screen flickers black right up to where my mouse cursor is.
It looks like this.
Logging out and logging back in resolves the issue.
Update: This only occurs when the mouse cursor is more than about an inch from the right hand side of the screen.
Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Whole message lines disappear in the Thunderbird 38.8.0 mail client on Lubuntu 16.04.
The Alt+Tab switcher shows icons, but shows no text. So the problem is likely not specifically with Thunderbird, though Thunderbird is the only app that exhibits the problem.
It looks like this (I've whited out most of the columns for privacy, but you can see the issue in terms of lines that have no text):
Closing Thunderbird and reopening resolves the problem until the next time
the computer is put to sleep and wakes up again. Only other programs running are google-chrome-stable and sublime-text-3. The problem does not occur 100% of the time.
Running from the command line did not generate any useful debugging information.
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.1.
I tried to boot into it several times, waiting >4 minutes each time, and saw only a fat blinking cursor in the upper left.
I chrooted into the OS from a LiveCD flash stick, updated all packages, and told GRUB to give me the debugging output.
I tried booting again and got this screen:
~4 minutes later, this came up:
A reasonable (albeit untimed) amount of additional waiting did not result in additional messages.
I've searched my /var/log files for the key words here, but apparently the log was not saved.
Installing bootchart did not yield a log either.
I'm not sure what to do, but am considering installing an older kernel.
Any thoughts as to what the issue might be?
Recently, when I've been starting my computer I'm informed that it is recovering the journal for one of my ext3 partitions.
One might expect this behaviour if the computer shutdown improperly, but, as far as I can tell this is occurring after normal shutdowns.
Additionally, the number of inodes which are found to be orphaned and cleared is only one or two in these cases.
I have performed an fsck, but the situation continues.
Which logs files can I check to try to find out why this is happening? What are some reasons it may have happened? How can I resolve it?
UPDATE
fstab is as follows:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ead12a48-4a3b-4e3a-b611-d3fc62e8716a / ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=217f1c44-5d04-4c75-9d4a-2a70b1726434 /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
UPDATE 2
cat /var/log/fsck/{checkfs,checkroot} returns (Nothing has been logged yet.) twice.
I have a large number of photos which have the correct DateTimeOriginal set in EXIF.
I have about 300 photos for which the DateTimeOriginal is completely wrong. The DateTimeOriginals of these photos are not correlated, so I cannot change their time en masse. It must be done individually.
I'm looking for a program that would essentially allow me to drag and drop the incorrectly time stamped photos into their place in the sequence of correctly time stamped photos. It would be nice to then be able to have the DateTimeOriginal tag updated, or the photos renamed chronologically.
Thanks!
I have perhaps ten or fifteen windows open.
I'd like a program which automatically resizes all the windows and arranges them in columns and rows across the screen (a grid formation), automatically figuring out the largest size for the windows so that they still fit.
This isn't an "Expose" type program - I want the windows to stay resized.
I am using OpenBox to do my window management and am otherwise happy with it, I don't want to find a whole new window manager just to solve this problem.
The program Tile is almost perfect, but it doesn't know how to lay the windows out in a grid formation.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
I'd like to change the default size of /dev/shm in Lubuntu 11.10 (also known as /run/shm now, I guess).
It doesn't seem to appear in my fstab:
# / was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=66ac63f0-45fa-4766-9d20-7c56bcd0460d / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=227f1b29-5d04-4c28-9c9c-ea70b1726434 /home ext3 noatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
#UUID=9e13b7cc-1f75-4b4e-9e79-c0f7368de353 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid 0 0
I'm using Lubuntu and have an external hard drive.
I would like to safely unmount the external hard drive.
Clicking the eject button in the file manager unmounts the drive, but does not power it down. (EDIT: Clicking on mount and then unplugging the drive means, at least on my machine, that the drive is still spinning when it's unplugged. This isn't good for the drive, so it's not good for my data!)
Naturally, 'umount' does not perform this function.
I can issue 'sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdb', but this still leaves the drive's light on and I don't think it syncs the drive.
I seem to recall 'sudo sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdb' powering the drive down appropriately in the past, but this doesn't seem to be working now, and it's a mystery as to why the GUI doesn't have an option to do this.
Any suggestions?
So, I installed Lubuntu minimal and built the system from there on the 11.10 packages.
I'm wondering what package it is that includes the hardware manager I remember from Ubuntu 10.04?
Thanks!
I connect to a server I don't control via SSH.
I use public key access and don't need to be able to connect with a keyboard-interactive password.
I would like to disable keyboard-interactive access to my user so that there is no way for others to hack in this way.
Since I don't control the server, is there a way to set up my user's config file to prevent keyboard-interactive access?