Kalamalka Kid's questions

I'm trying to open an ISO file, but not having any luck.

So far I have tried:

• Gmount (it doesn't seem to work because it says the folders aren't empty?
• furiusisomount not available for Ubuntu 14.04
• Archive Mounter (nothing happens when I right click the ISO and open with Archive Mounter)
• FuseISO - I right click file MOUNT ISO.. nothing happens.

So I try the old fashioned way with command line:

$ sudo mount -o loop /media/user/Jupiter-8/files/butterfly.iso /media/iso
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Output of file /media/user/Jupiter-8/files/butterfly.iso:

FoxPro FPT, blocks size 0, next free block index 1380078928

What should I do?

I recently upgraded to the 4.4.0-53-generic kernel, and now f.lux is not working. I have it launching on startup, but now it simply is not changing the temperature color settings:

Here is the output of launching fluxgui :

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py:162: GtkWarning: Cannot transform xsetting Net/IconThemeName of type gchararray to type GdkColor

  'gtk-icon-theme-name')
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py:162: Warning: g_value_unset: assertion 'G_IS_VALUE (value)' failed
  'gtk-icon-theme-name')
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py:162: GtkWarning: Cannot transform xsetting Net/IconThemeName of type gchararray to type gint

  'gtk-icon-theme-name')

After thinking the error was simply to do with these GTK related issues I resolved this by modifying line 162 of:

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py.

as described in THIS ANSWER for a similar problem, however this did not get F.lux back up & running. The next thing for me to do was open f.lux up with a terminal with:

fluxgui

and then clicking on the applet indicator and choosing 'preferences'. The output in the terminal is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py", line 99, in open_preferences
    self.get_colortemp()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py", line 90, in get_colortemp
    index = self.xflux.expect("Color.*")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1418, in expect
    timeout, searchwindowsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1433, in expect_list
    timeout, searchwindowsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1521, in expect_loop
    raise EOF(str(err) + '\n' + str(self))
pexpect.EOF: End Of File (EOF). Exception style platform.
<pexpect.spawn object at 0x7f5926029850>
version: 3.1
command: /usr/bin/xflux
args: ['/usr/bin/xflux', '-l', '49.2827\xc2\xb0 N', '-k', '4200', '-nofork']
searcher: <pexpect.searcher_re object at 0x7f5926029890>
buffer (last 100 chars): ''
before (last 100 chars): ' only support 24/32-bit displays right now.\r\nXF86VidModeGetGammaRampSize returned 2048 entries.\r\nc\r\n'
after: <class 'pexpect.EOF'>
match: None
match_index: None
exitstatus: 255
flag_eof: True
pid: 6363
child_fd: 4
closed: False
timeout: 30
delimiter: <class 'pexpect.EOF'>
logfile: <open file '/tmp/fluxlog.txt', mode 'w' at 0x7f592995aae0>
logfile_read: None
logfile_send: None
maxread: 2000
ignorecase: False
searchwindowsize: None
delaybeforesend: 0.05
delayafterclose: 0.1
delayafterterminate: 0.1

After getting nowhere I decided to reinstall Flux, which seems to give me access to the preferences pane which wasn't working before reinstall, however nothings happens when I change my location or even preview, which both used to work.

Running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit

Having an issue with a dual boot setup that is being run from Windows boot manager. I can successfully load into grub2 from Windows boot manager, however it seems that grub2 cannot locate to the Kernel or something, as it is dropping me right into a shell with the following output:

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is suported. For the First word, TAB
list the posible command completion. Anywhere else tab list the posible
completions of a device/filename,]

grub>

I have used Easybcd in the past and successfully loaded a Linux grub through Windows bootloader, but this was when both operating systems were on the same partition, but since my OS installationd are now on separate partitions it seems EasyBcd cant work its magic.

ONe encouragement is that I was able to get Easybcd to load a working Grub if I used the Neo grub bootloader and edit the confg with:

title Ubuntu 14.04
find --set-root /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-61-generic
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-61-generic ro root=/dev/sdc
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-61-generic

however this loads in Grub4DOS which is very slow, and as of today this method stopped working See THIS POST for details).

Here is the output of EasyBcd Settings for all the different methods I have tried for the Ubuntu 14.04 installation:

Default: Windows 7
Timeout: 30 seconds
Boot Drive: C:\

Entry #1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

Entry #2
Name: Ubuntu 14.04 Legacy
BCD ID: {a4f127cf-3150-11e6-8aaf-408d5cb9e442}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_linux.mbr

Entry #3
Name: Ubuntu 14.04 Grub2
BCD ID: {a4f127d0-3150-11e6-8aaf-408d5cb9e442}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr

Entry #4
Name: Ubuntu Neo Grub
BCD ID: {a4f127d1-3150-11e6-8aaf-408d5cb9e442}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\NeoGrub.mbr

*It seems that none of the paths seen above are pointing to my dev/sdc2/ partition which would be considered DISK1 on my Windows Volume manager.

EDIT - In the confusion of attempting to get a working bootmanager for Ubuntu/Windows, you will see that grub and Windows Boot manager have all been installed in numerous locations. Below are the present locations and contents of all bootmanager & Grub installations:

dev/sdb Windows7 drive

/dev/sdb1 - 512 MB fat32 partition which is currently empty

/dev/sdb2 - 110 GB ntfs partition containing Windows7 installation. This partition contains a 'Boot' folder which contains BCD files and a whole wack of langauage folders. THIS IS The FOLDER THAT WINDOWS BOOTLOADER uses.

/dev/sdb4 - 121.53 ntfs partition containing storage for media

dev/sdd - Ubuntu Drive

dev/sdd1 - 512 MB partition containing a 'EFI' folder, inside of which are two folders 'grub' and 'Ubuntu', both of which contain the exact same files (grub.cfg, grubx64.efi, MokManager.efi, shium64.efi)

dev/sdd2 - 48.83 GB ext4 partition that contains the '/' folder and Ubuntu instalation.

dev/sdd3 - 69.91 GB ntfs partition containing storage for media

what do I need to do so that the Grub shell I am being dropped into will load up Ubuntu? HOw can I get this machine to dual boot out of Grub?

I am trying to fix a grub issue issue using the boot repair disk that I created with UNetbootin. I do this by plugging in the bootable disk into the computer, booting into BIOS, and setting the USB drive as the primary boot device. I have successfully done this many times in the past with this disk.Since it seemed to not be working, I formatted the USB and created another bootable Boot Repair Disk.

Upon booting from BIOS from the USB stick I am confronted with the primary grub loader for Boot Disk which gives the option to edit the launch settings for Boot Repair disk. Hitting enter simply yielded a black screen, so I rebooted and this time edited the launch options with -nomodeset, but it never reaches the GUI environment.(It started to load once but never made it fully into the GUI).

I also downloaded Super Grub 2 Disk but could not get that working either as it seemed to get stuck in a boot loop. (there was only one launch option in the launch options which was 'DEFAULT', and when I select that the boot countdown recommences and it stays like that in a loop forever until I shut down or reboot)

I am running a 64 bit installation of Ubuntu 14.04 on a dual boot machine with Windows7 that boots primarily with Windows Loader. I then launch my Ubuntu from a Grub4Dos that is launched by the Windows loader.

Hardware setup is a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, Intel i5-6500 processor, GIGABYTE Z170N-GAMING 5 MOtherboard running F4 BIOS, with 16 GIGS of DDR4 Ram

I am confused as to why this wont work. I have used this awwesome tool on many machines without fail. I desperately need this utility as it is an integral tool for fixing boot options.

I recently installed STEAM and webcamstudio on my UBUNTU machine which is running a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I have found that these applications do not honor the system-wide font sizes, but use instead a different DPI which makes reading the menus very difficult as the text is very small.

Is there a way that I can change the settings so that the GUI font of these apps are not microscopic at this resolution?

I recently tried to check the spin down time of my hard drive with the following command:

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep level

and got the error:

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

The drive reads & writes data just fine and mounts on startup as well. I just simply cannot run this command on this drive without errors

What does this mean, and how can I resolve the issue?

Hi I recently switched from using the regular unity shell to gnome-fallback-compiz. I wanted to try out some Gnome extensions however when I went to the website (using both Chrome & Firefox), I got this error:

"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information"

to fully ensure that I was in fact running home I ran the following command:

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION and output was gnome-fallback-compiz

the next thing I did was go HERE using chrome to make sure the chrome pluggin could work, then I receive this error:

"Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector"

Readin about an answer HERE I then installed a connector with:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ne0sight/chrome-gnome-shell $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell

After this the pluggins page is simply blank:

how do I go about installing these Gnome extensions on my system?

I am not sure about the command, but I would like to know how to determine which theme is currently enabled on Ubuntu 14.04.

I am hoping for a command line solution.

While using Google Chrome I often drag website links from the address bar into a folder on the desktop for later reference. This creates a .desktop file that is essentially a link to a webpage.

These desktop files can be opened easily from Nautilus & PCmanFM by simply by double-clicking to open them, however, when I open them using the SpaceFM file manager, Google Chrome starts downloading the file instead of opening it like it does with the other mentioned file managers.

I am able to open these files through SpaceFM if I right click them and open with Firefox, but not Google Chrome.

An example of the desktop file would be as follows:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to The Hidden Fortress (1958) - IMDb
Type=Link
URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051808/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Icon=text-html

Is there a way to make these .desktop files open in Google Chrome normally when launched from the SpaceFM browser?

I've been considering upgrading my system from 14.04, but have been reading that LTS releases are probably the best for the long run. That being said I noticed that Ubuntu 14.04 will be discontinued after April 2019.

At this point there do not seem to be any other Ubuntu releases with dates beyond April 2019 so my question is what will be the next LTS release from Ubuntu? Or... which release will be maintained the longest?

I recently noticed while installing some packages and using the command apt-get update that I ran into the following error:

Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release  
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

As mentioned in THIS recent question on Ask Ubuntu, Chrome will no longer be supported by 32 bit systems, however I am currently running 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04, with libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 installed for 32 bit application support.

Am I seeing this error because dpkg is looking for the i386 packages as a result of the aforementioned install of libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386?

How do I resolve this error?

EDIT - (I was not able to resolve this question with simply updating Chrome as mentioned in the other thread, and not all the information in the other answer was present at the time I posted this).

Having an issue with Google Chrome resolution/dpi changing when I turn my monitor off. I'm pretty sure that this is all related to the scaling factor from Universal Access Panel. in which I have large text turned on. This setting makes Chrome have bigger tabs, but is not recognized when monitor is turned off. I have to shut down Chrome, and restart it it to recognize the Universal Access setting.

To see what is going on with my display settings while my monitor is turned off I used `xrandr'.

The output of xrandr while monitor is ON is:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 890mm x 500mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9     30.0     24.0     30.0     24.0  
   1920x1080i     60.1     60.0  
   1280x720       60.0     59.9  
   720x480        60.0     59.9  
   640x480        60.0     59.9 

The output of xrandr while monitor is OFF is:

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 398mm
   1280x720       60.0 +   50.0     30.0     59.9     30.0     24.0     24.0  
   4096x2160      24.0     24.0  
   3840x2160      30.0     25.0     24.0     30.0     24.0  
   1920x1080      60.0*    50.0     59.9     30.0     25.0     24.0     30.0     24.0  
   1920x1080i     60.1     50.0     60.0  
   720x576        50.0  
   720x480        60.0     59.9  
   640x480        60.0     59.9

In any case I would like to figure out how to keep chrome's dpi/resolution stable so that I don't have to restart it each time my monitor is turned off/on. Here are two screenshots of before and after.

Please note that the second photo is what Chrome would look like if I did NOT have Universal Access with large text turned ON.

Something interesting that I noticed is that in this larger mode (second photo), the buttons and navigation don't actually correlate to the items on the screen. If I click any of the bookmark bar icons at the top with the mouse, the browser would not navigate to the right one. For example, if I clicked on the UTUBE short cut in the bookmarks bar it would take me to the $$$ link. It seems to be behaving as though the object & frame mappings are still 'calibrated' for when the scale was bigger.

I recently updated my kernel, and noticed that it was affecting my graphics drivers. As a quick fix I rolled back the driver , but would like to know if this affects my system security in any way?

Using 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 - 3.19.0-47-generic

I was about 90% through downloading a torrent when I needed to do a reboot. When I turned the computer back on and went back into Transmission to resume downloading I got the message:

Error no data found! Ensure your drives are connected or use "set location"

I'm not sure why this happened as the drives were never physically disconnected, but maybe perhaps I launched Transmission before they were mounted. In an attempt to fix this, I restarted the computer and allowed the drives to mount before starting Transmission, but I still got the same error about the missing data.

In attempt to fix this, I tried the following:

Right clicking the torrent in Transmission, then clicking "Set Location", selecting 'data is already there' radio button, and then navigating to the folder where the data is. (I made sure I pointed Transmission to the parent directory where the data was downloading to. To double check where Transmission thought the data was, I right clicked the torrent in Transmssion, went to properties, and looked at LOCATION, which showed exactly where I told it to set the folder to.

After setting the location to where the files were I right clicked on the torrent and clicked 'Verify Local Data', but nothing seemed to happen after that and the error remained.

I also did the above actions with 'Move Data File To' the location, with no results either.

STILL NO LUCK.

So, the only thing I can think of at this opint is something I read on another site about the files. Someone mentioned that if I did not download ALL the files set out in the torrent file, that Transmission might think it's not the same when trying to reconnect. In my case when I was prompted to choose which files I wanted to download from the torrent, I did not choose everything (omitting to download some files).

Could this be the reason this is not working? Is there another way to make this work without having to re-download the whole thing (this is a 100 gig+ torrent, and I dont want to lose my ratio, and time spent getting the files).

Using Transmission v.2.82 (14160) on Ubuntu 14.04

Thank you

I am attempting to clone multiple partitions with either Clonezilla or dd without cloning the whole drive which consists of:

1. A boot partition
2. A home partition

Seen below is the original installation on a 128GB SSD, which I successfully cloned to a larger 250GB. This as a backup that I would later try to resize and shrink down.

Below is a photo of a working clone of the operating system, which is now about 41 gigs in size total after being resized with Gparted.

I have tried to clone these partitions to my 64GB USB disk as a working portable backup, but have ran into some issues.

I have tried using:

sudo -s
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc & pid=$!
while kill -USR1 $pid; do sleep 1; done

This bit for bit cloning method tried to copy the unallocated space on the input drive, which obviously won't work because the output disk is much smaller. In a second attempt I was able create a partition table on the destination disk that matched the source's sizes. I then tried to use boot repair and got this output

Moving onto to Clonezilla options; normally a disk to disk would be my choice, but since the destination drive is smaller than the source, Clonezilla will not allow this.

I do see an option to copy ONE partition at a time using the disk to disk option, but do not see how I might clone all three at once. I know there is an option to do this with saving as image but I want the USB to be bootable.

One way I can think of making this work would be to make an image of the partitions I want to clone using disk to image, then restoring the image to the 64GB USB disk later, but after trying this I ran into more errors.

After making an image of /dev/sdb/ I attempted to restore the file but got this error about /dev/sdb2/ missing:

(/dev/sdb is the target for this session)

So perhaps my image was OK, but it didn't properly read /dev/sdb2/ so I checked it with Gparted again and saw this following here:

I checked with Synaptic Package Manager to see, and I already have e2fsprogs v1.42.9-3 installed. So I did some reading and tried the following solutions that have worked for other people:

sudo fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda6
sudo touch /forcefsck
Sudo reboot

this seemed to work temporarily, as after another reboot or two, the problem still persists. I am assuming now that during the device to image process in Clonezilla that my /dev/sd2/ was not read properly, as I can not even access this partition in Nautilus or Gparted. I am thinking that is may have been caused by the re-sizing of the drive, but can not be sure, as it will still allow me to boot to this installation.

I think I can actually clone these two partitions to image, and then restore them but I need to address this problem of:

The following list of software packages is required for ext4 file system support: e2fsprogs v1.41+.

Could this have come from re-sizing the partition? If so, how come I am able to boot to this installation if it can't be read?

I recently noticed during a reboot of my machine that a splash page came up saying Edubuntu, which I understand is a particular flavour of Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, it never used to say that, and it was not the version I installed. I installed 12.04 32 bit.

Can anyone explain how my operating system changed to change to Edubuntu? can this happen through some kind of system update?

I have a Seagate SCSI disk that is installed in my Kurwel 2500R sampler which I send files to via the computer. I had this system running on my Windows machine, but am not able to get it configured properly for Ubuntu 12.04

The SCSI disk is showing up in the BIOS, and in the Kurzweil, but I can't seem to get Ubuntu to see it. I have used GParted with no results. The SCSI drive is connected via a PCI slot in the computer.

lspci output for SCSI is:

04:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Tekram Technology Co.,Ltd. TRM-S1040 (rev 01)

More information:

$ lsblk 
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT 
sda 8:0 0 74.5G 0 disk 
 ├─sda1 8:1 0 72.5G 0 part / 
 ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part 
 └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part (in gparted this partition is unreadable)
 └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) 252:0 0 2G 0 crypt sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk 
 └─sdb1 8:17 0 931.5G 0 part /media/trunk sr0 11:0 1 621.1M 0 rom

(none of these drives seem to be the 4 gig SCSI drive which is a SEAGATE)

lsscsi outputs this:

[0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD800JD-75MS 10.0 /dev/sda
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN00 /dev/sr0
[2:0:0:0] disk ATA Hitachi HDT72101 ST6O /dev/sdb
[4:0:6:0] process Kurzweil K2500 3.02 -

(the bottom is my Kurzweil where the drive is installed, but this is SCSI 7 and I need to access the DRIVE inside the Kurzweil which is SCSI 2)

I have recently discovered that the PCI card I use 04:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Tekram Technology Co.,Ltd. TRM-S1040 (rev 01) would need a driver.

After googling, I found this article:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1535201

I installed the package kernel-patch-tekram-dc3x5_1.41-2_all.deb, hoping that this would get UBUNTU to recognize my drive. After reboot still the drive is absent. Below is a description of the driver. I need to know if this is the right one for the kernel I have?

"DC3x5 is a SCSI host by Tekram which is not supported out of the box by the Linux kernel. This patch adds support for the card to the Linux kernel. The cards supported are DC315 and DC395, both based on the TRM-S1040 chipset. This package supports 2.2.20 & 2.4.18 kernels. Older and newer 2.2.x and 2.4.x should work too. It should also work and will attempt to apply to 2.5 and 2.0 kernel versions"

Looks like I have 3.11.0-18-generic kernel so this won't work.

Ideas?

Greetings I am running UBUNTU 12.04 and logging in on UBUNTU 3D. Wondering if anyone knows the definitive answer to getting xscreensaver to load at start-up? I have removed gnome screensaver, installed xscreensaver with no results.

I have tried adding start-up applications:

> xscreensaver –nosplash (with no results)

also executed:

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/screensaver.desktop

with is output:

> [Desktop Entry]
> 
> Exec=xscreensaver
> 
> Name=XScreenSaver
> Blockquote
> 
> Type=Application
> 
> X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

(with no results)

Also when I manually open the screensaver I get this error:

The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on ":0". Launch it now?

I have also tried following the instructions here (top answer)

Any help is appreciated.

While attempting to create a desktop shortcut for an app that uses wine I came up with this error:

Failed to execute child process "/home/fiver/.wine/drive_c/Program" (No such file or directory)

I have followed all the instrutions at jaypeeonline.net

I need to know how the directory name in order to type it out in the terminal. How do I access the names of directories?

Windows Explorer used to have a title bar with the full path. Can someone please help me figure out how to see the full path of a certain file?