harisibrahimkv's questions

In my Ubuntu 12.04, the hibernation option was working well and fine. However, I installed Debian on another partition recently and when I again tried to boot to Ubuntu, I got a message on the boot splash screen saying :

The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait; or press s to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.

After logging into Ubuntu, I find that my hibernation option has gone missing.

Is there anyway to recover the hibernation option?

EDIT: I solved the disk drive problem and I got the hibernation option back. When I did "sudo pm-hibernate", my system went to hibernation. However, when powering on again, it booted up normally and thus there was no effect of hibernation.

How can this be rectified?

EDIT1: System - Lenovo ideapad s10-2.

EDIT2: /etc/fstab

EDIT3: Screenshot of my hard disk.

In my terminal, I did

 $su nextuser

and logged in to that account. Now, when I try to open a text file in the home directory of that user by

$gedit test.c

I get

No protocol specified
Cannot open display: 
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

How can I use the graphical text editor to display files on the new user's account?

Whenever I type something in my address bar (other than a url), Firefox automatically uses Google search to give me results for it. Where can I change this behaviour in Firefox? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic.

Edit 1: Changing the behaviour as in, making another search engine as the default one.

Edit 2: What I want is: While typing in the address bar, it should use a search engine of my choice to search. However, I want the search engine text box (the text box to the right of the address bar) to use google itself if I type something in there.

Is it possible to type Malayalam language in Ubuntu? If yes, what should I do to type Malayalam in Ubuntu?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic. Obviously playing the music shows there is a sound card present. But I've read that there might be multiple sound cards present on a single system.

How can I know how many sound cards are present on my system? Also, how can I know which all they are?

I would like to download a few videos from youtube and convert them to 3gp so that I can play them on my phone. I would like to know how this can be done using ffmpeg.

I tried the various results on the net only to get the following errors.

1. I used:

   ffmpeg -i dil.mp4 -sameq -ab 64k -ar 44100 dilenada.3gp
   

I got:

Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 2000.00 (2000/1) -> 29.92 (359/12)

1. I used:

   ffmpeg -y -i dil.mp4 -r 20 -s 352x288 -b 400k -acodec libfaac -ac 1 -ar 2000 -ab 24k dilenada.3gp
   

I got:

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 2000.00 (2000/1) -> 29.92 (359/12)

Unknown encoder 'libfaac'

What am I doing wrong?

I can use my function key+stop, next, previous, etc to control totem using my Keyboard. Can I map these settings entirely to vlc?

I was wondering whether I could make my own commands as in if I were to type in 'music' at the command line, my vlc should open up and start playing my playlist. The vlc thing is just an example but the question remains.

Can I make my own commands? If yes, how?

What other official places can I go for getting help on Ubuntu if I do not get the help I wanted on Ask Ubuntu?

When referring to the Ubuntu releases, I've come across something called 'nightly' builds. What do 'nightly' builds mean?

Earlier, if we registered on the Ubuntu site, we would get a CD shipped freely to our home. Why has Ubuntu stopped it?

Is it possible to list out the dependencies of a software/package in Ubuntu?

I would like to use a terminal based mail client for my e-mail activities. I've been suggested to use alpine for it. But how do I configure it in Ubuntu to read my gmail mails?

Yesterday I shutdown my computer and today when I powered it on and logged in to 12.04, certain strings are in Japanese/Chinese (I don't know how to differentiate between the two). The strings are:

1. Applications, places menu selector in my panel.
2. Under 'places', the 'Home folder', 'Desktop', 'Computer'.
3. The menus in VLC!
4. Certain applications like 'sound converter', etc.

How can I change everything back to English?

I'm using Gnome classic in Ubuntu 12.04.

Whenever Ubuntu releases a new version during six months, they offer support for that version for the coming six months right? What does that support mean? Does it mean that I cannot use apt-get to install any more softwares in it once that six months is over?

If that is the case, then is my ubuntu 10.04 of no use to me in installing applications and softwares anymore? If that is not what it means, then what exactly does a 5 year support for an LTS mean?

I'm using Gnome classic in ubuntu 12.04.

I can only move the indicator applet as a whole. As in, I cannot individually change the positions of the battery icon, bluetooth, network-manager, date and time, etc.

Is there an option to individually move each of these icons?

I'm using Gnome classic in Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm not able to find the settings that would allow me to display the date and day along with time in the clock of my indicator applet. Any idea how I can make the date and day appear along with the time?

When I click on the clock and then click on "Time and Date settings", I get the "System settings". From there when I click on "Date and time", I get a setting where I can just edit the date and time. I'm using 12.04 with Gnome classic. I removed unity.

I installed 12.04 in a separate partition. Right now, I would like to install the software that I have installed on my 10.04 in my 12.04 too. I was hoping there would be a workaround for this using aptonCD. But I figured out 'restoring' using apt on cd only copies the .debs into the cache file and that might mess things up for me considerably.

The rough idea that I have is :

1. Run an 'apt' command on 10.04 that will give me all the package names that I have currently installed on my 10.04.
2. Bring those names to 12.04 and tell apt to fetch the same softwares, but the versions of them that belong to 12.04.
3. Install them.

Is there anyway to do the above steps or is there a totally different way in which I can achieve this?

The videos that work properly in 10.04 are not working in 12.04.

haris@psycho:~/music$ file Captain\ Tsubasa\ 2\ NES\ -\ 21\ -\ Coimbra_s\ Theme.mp4 
Captain Tsubasa 2 NES - 21 - Coimbra_s Theme.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2

haris@psycho:~/music$ file Captain\ Tsubasa\ 2\ Nes\ Music\ -\ 01\ Opening.mp4 
Captain Tsubasa 2 Nes Music - 01 Opening.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2

haris@psycho:~/music$ file Batman\ \(NES\)\ Music\ -\ Continue\ Theme.mp4 
Batman (NES) Music - Continue Theme.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2

haris@psycho:~/music$ file Starship\ -\ Nothing_s\ Gonna\ Stop\ us\ Now\ \(Mannequin\)\ LYRICS.mp4 
Starship - Nothing_s Gonna Stop us Now (Mannequin) LYRICS.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2

The third and fourth videos are not even being played by Totem while for the second one, I can hear the audio but can't see the video. The first one plays well enough. Once again, all these videos work without any problems in 10.04.

Should I report this as a bug or can it be rectified?

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04. I switched to Gnome classic from unity as I'm more comfortable with the former. However, I couldn't find where the panel setting are. Usually a drop down menu appears on right-clicking the top and bottom panels. But it doesn't happen now.

I need the panel settings so as to auto hide the panels (as my netbook screen is quite small!) as well as to add the "system monitor" applet to the panel which is really useful.

Where can I find the panel settings?