Whereas many questions are geared towards implementing hibernation, mine is how to disable it.
I've just encrypted my swap partition, and I such my system can still hibernate, but cannot resume anymore. So, to avoid mistakes I would to disable hibernating system-wide.
Note: I still want suspend!
I would like to manage my bank accounts in a secure manner on Ubuntu.
I saw several applications in the Software Centre, but I don't know which one to choose. I don't need fancy features like stock options. I just have regular accounts which I want to follow, I don't want complicated stuff.
As bank data are quite sensitive, I would highly prefer an application that does encryption of the data. Though, if you have a really cool app but it does not have this feature, as long as it offers to store the data in one dedicated place, I could do with encrypting that place.
So what tool do you use that could fit my needs?
I am behind a web proxy server at work (no authentication) and I have set it up in Gnome (configuration applied system-wide).
It works fine for accessing internet with a browser, but numerous applications do not make use of this setting (Empathy, Gwibber or Ubuntu One to say a few) and cannot connect.
The question here will be specific to Ubuntu One which is for me more critical.
How did you manage to connect to Ubuntu One when behind a proxy? The easiest solution will be preferred ;-)
Have you used some tools to tunnel the data? Corkscrew? Proxychains? If you have done that sucessfully can you share your experience and configuration instructions?
Note: for those interested, here is the Ubuntu One bug report.
The Ubuntu One is currently (20111031) conducting a user survey on the topic of proxy access. If you are also behind a proxy, please fill up their survey to help them address this problem: Ubuntu One Tweet for User Survey.
Since a few weeks, Ubuntu freezes almost everytime when I shut it down.
I know it because the shutdown animation stops and nothing is responsive: Ctrl+Alt+Del or AltGr+Syst+reisub don't make any difference.
I have tried to look at various log files in /var/log but only INFO level message are logged.
My hope to solve this problem would be to do a verbose shutdown, one where I could see what's going on, and so what's causing the problem, so I could start solving it.
Therefore, as the title suggest it. Is there a way to see what's going on during shutdown? I could even go to the extreme of doing a step-by-step shutdown if this is the only way.
Thanks for any tips.