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I'm trying to run wmv files, and tryed some advices from here, but without any success. I have vlc and ubuntu-restricted-extras. I also did a purge, autoremove and re-installthem.

This is what I get.

~/Downloads$ vlc test_wmv.wmv 
VLC media player 2.1.6 Rincewind (revision 2.1.6-0-gea01d28)
[0x1260058] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
"sni-qt/11611" WARN  08:10:57.390 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE 
libva info: VA-API version 0.35.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[0x7f24d0c5da78] vaapi generic error: Failed to initialize the VAAPI device
libva info: VA-API version 0.35.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[0x7f24d0c6aeb8] vaapi generic error: Failed to initialize the VAAPI device
libva info: VA-API version 0.35.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[0x7f24c8000958] vaapi generic error: Failed to initialize the VAAPI device
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
[0x7f24c0001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
[0x7f24d80009b8] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR  is called too late (pts_delay increased to 300 ms)
[0x7f24d80009b8] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[wmv3 @ 0x7f24d0c58ee0] warning: first frame is no keyframe
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Last night I as trying to update the flash player plugin, by following the steps from here.

sudo apt-get install firefox ubuntu-restricted-extras

Because the connection was slow and I was remaining without power, I've tried to cancel the command. It didn't get canceled so I've closed the terminal window and shout down the laptop.

Now, I can login as a root and I have access to the terminal but it has a lower screen resolution. Also I've lost wireless and wired sections on System Settings->Network.

I'll like to know if I can restore Ubuntu to the previous system state? Can I do it from the damaged state or from a LiveCD? Which is more safety?

At this moment I'm in hospital and I'm trying to use the Wi-fi network that is available for the patients. Even if I'm connect to the network and the signal strength is excellent I can't browse on the internet.

On the other hand, if I join from an android phone, I can browse on the internet without any problems (and the speed is good too).

I don't think that my computer network has any problem, bc I was using with without any problem from my home wifi network

What might be the problem?

This is what I get from ifconfig->wlan0:

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e4:d5:3d:5c:b4:13  
          inet addr:192.168.1.63  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e6d5:3dff:fe5c:b413/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:30591
          TX packets:2365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:600017 (600.0 KB)  TX bytes:262019 (262.0 KB)
          Interrupt:17 

all I get from ping 192.168.1.1 is:

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.58 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.58 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.58 icmp_seq=11 Destination Host Unreachable

the iwconfig response is

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"HOSPRFR"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: A0:F3:C1:DF:A3:B2   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

and the route -n output is

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0
172.16.68.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet8
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     9      0        0 wlan0
192.168.32.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet1

and finally, the output of cat /etc/resolv.conf is:

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1

I come from windows, and there I had the habbit of selecting the entire line by using SHIFT+Home. Now, when I press this combinations, I get just a 7. No matter which is the state of the Num Lock key.

So, my question is: how can I select the entire line of text, by using keyboard shortcuts? How can I fix this problem. I don't need the 7 character to appear, when I press SHIFT+Home

PS: when NumLock is ON I get the numbers from the keys. When NumLock is OFF it moves the cursor as expected. The problem is that if I press Shift + NumLock Key I get the number.

I need to select the text while I keep shift pressed.

It's true that I'm very new to ubuntu, and that I like to try stuff. Last thing that I've tried and didn't work as expected, was to install mnemosyne app.

I followed the readme, but idk why I chosen to copy the mnemosyne folder content to /opt/mnemosyne and to run the sudo python setup.py install from there.

On the mnemosyne I get the message from the image below. After that I've run the python setup.py install from the Downloads/mnemosyne-2.3.1.

At this point, idk where I've made first mistake or how to fix it. Can I have your feedback?

Many thanks in advance!!!

I don't think that I'm the only one with this problem, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find the proper answer between previously asked questions.

It is a very common procedure on torrent sites where the content is split in many small archives. Sometimes, those small indexed zip archives are containing another rar archives inside.

So, my question is: how to you handle this problem? How to you recursively unpack those files?

I'm new to ubuntu as I come from Win7. In win7 I was using Foxit Reader to open the pdf documents.

Searching online I found this method to install Foxit.

cd Downloads/  
tar -xvf FoxitReader-1.1.0.tar.bz2  
cd 1.1-release/  
./FoxitReader  

As you can see, in order to open foxit I have to run it from cmd, but I'll like to automatically open the pdf files with Foxit. How can I do that?