CaptSaltyJack's questions

I'm on Ubuntu Server 14.04.2, and when I run sudo apt-get upgrade I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic-lts-utopic linux-headers-generic-lts-utopic
  linux-image-generic-lts-utopic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

As I understand it, on a production server it's probably not wise to run apt-get dist-upgrade, so I'd like to know if it's possible to hide "kept back" packages.

It's also strange that the kernel for Utopic is listed. Why would Ubuntu 14.04 want to upgrade to a kernel used in 14.10?

I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 on an Acer nettop and randomly, Ubuntu locks up and the screen looks like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6t3npxqvbi3zvh/ubuntu_lockup.jpg

Desperately need help. Any advice? Video card is an NVIDIA Ion GT128.

I'm going to set up a new Ubuntu install for my dad. I know there will be times he'll be asking for help, so I need a way to remote into that box (a free solution). What do you guys recommend?

It used to be that you could make a file ~/.xinput.d/en_US and put xinput commands in there, such as enabling drag lock. Now, for some reason, in 13.04 this does not work. Anyone know why this changed, and how to set these? I suppose I could just put the xinput commands in a script file and have it execute upon login. I'm just wondering why the old method stopped working.

EDIT:

Current file /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/en_US:

xinput set-prop 17 316 1
xinput set-prop 17 317 350

But I've realized that for some reason, the touchpad ID changes. Right now it's 15. Also, the actual properties such as "Drag Lock" can change. So this method doesn't work.

I was just doing a fresh install and decided to enable LVM and full disk encryption. Now it's asking me to create an initial user and asking if I want my home folder encrypted. Is that kind of redundant? Can I leave that option unchecked?

I saw an official list that said the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 phones support Ubuntu. The thing is, there are all kinds of Galaxy phones. Nexus S, Nexus S2, Nexus S3, and I think S4 is out. Does it work on all these? Some better than others?

Thanks in advance!

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10. For some reason, every time there's a kernel update, it does not install the linux-headers-* and linux-header-*-generic into /usr/src anymore. So every time I update my virtual Ubuntu in VirtualBox, I have to manually install the kernel headers before running the Guest Additions package again.

I'm pretty sure 12.04 automatically installed kernel headers because I never had to do that before. How do I fix this?

I need to take make a script that takes a particular log file in /var/log/ and puts it somewhere where I can easily get it (most likely a web or FTP server I have access to). I don't think I want to use mail to send it. Webdav might be an option. It just needs to work without any user interaction, and be pretty fast and painless. Any suggestions? (no password needed, basically)

As of Ubuntu 12.04, what is the proper/clean way to make the system execute a script upon boot? (not upon user login) e.g. running a daemon.

Is there a nice GnuPG/PGP front-end for Ubuntu? There used to be a package called something like seahorse-plugin, that let you right-click on files to encrypt them. I don't see it anymore in the software repository though. Is there something else?

For some reason, I never get an X session going. I see a bunch of startup text messages, then it just stops. I checked the Xorg.0.log and it looks like there's some issue with the vesa driver? I tried the 'nomodeset' boot option, that didn't help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Trying to manually "startx" results in these errors:

vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Output of lspci | grep -i vga:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)

I heard this error has something to do with Linux kernel 3.0 and something about a kernel-based video driver?

Is there a PDF reader that supports bookmarks? I'm reading a book and it would be great to bookmark where I left off. I can't seem to find a PDF reader that does this very simple thing.

I love Reeder on the Mac and iOS. Is there an RSS reader for Linux/Ubuntu that syncs with Google Reader?

There's something odd about my autocomplete in the gnome terminal.

I used to be able to type cp Downtab to get cp Downloads/, and then type Jettab to end up with cp Downloads/Jet\ Pack\ Instructions.pdf

But now, when I have cp Down typed and hit tab, I get cp Downloads with a space afterwards. And if I backspace that and make it say cp Downloads/Jet and hit tab, I get cp Downloads/Jet Pack Instructions.pdf without the backslashes.

It wasn't like this before. How do I fix this?

EDIT: There's a problem with my /etc/bash_completion file, it seems. Just not sure what.

FileZilla is really kind of "meh," when it comes to user interface. I'm wondering if there's something simpler/cleaner/slicker out there?

I'm an experienced programmer who is interested in developing apps for Linux, specifically GTK, and more specifically apps that are Unity compliant. Aside from the obvious step of learning Python, what's the best way to learn things like:

• How to develop a GUI interface (probably using Glade)? Are there any good Glade2 tutorials?
• Where are the Unity specific API calls? (such as putting a notification icon on the top panel, and using "badges" on the launch icons (a la Unity Mail's message count).

Also, are there any good Python IDEs that are similar to Xcode or Visual Studio, where you can design your interface, and then double click on buttons and widgets to tie code to them?

Thanks for any help.