Questions tagged [ubuntu-10.04]

Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Questions on this site should generally refer to Ubuntu Server. Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Ubuntu is named after the South African philosophy of "humanity towards others," and the community observes a Code of Conduct in an effort to keep the project civil and appealing to novices.

Ubuntu versions are released every six months, following a YEAR.MONTH pattern. For example, the release codenamed Maverick was officially published October 10th 2010 as Ubuntu 10.10.

Ubuntu 10.04.x is the LTS edition (Lucid Lynx). It has been designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) release, indicating that it has updates for three years for desktop use and five years for server.

There is a Stack Exchange site dedicated to Ubuntu which is a good place to ask any Ubuntu-related questions.

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I can't ssh to remote server on only one wireless network

I am having problems trying to ssh to a remote server from my wireless at work. I tried removing the .ssh folder and such but I can't make it work. At first, I found it was a wireless driver problem in Ubuntu 10.04, but after that I could access…
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Automatic External Hard Drive Mount

I've been having problems with an external drive that doesn't mount automatically on Ubuntu but mounts fine only on Windows. I normally have to manually mount it. What could be the problem?
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EC2 Ubuntu 10.04 publickey error on a new instance (key works for an existing instance)

Tried booting through the aws dashboard. Also tried creating from the command line api tools. Checked ssh with -vvv and made sure it was trying the key (note that an old instance with the same key is accessible)... Checked the system log on AWS…
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How to get rid of grub error on aptitude safe-upgrade

This is a new ubuntu 10.04 root server at the hoster. I did the initial sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Now I am confronted with this message each time I run sudo aptitude safe-upgrade root@Ubuntu-1004-lucid-64-minimal ~ # sudo…
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Generating a proper ssh keypair on Lenny for Github

I have a codebase hosted in GitHub. I have 2 ubuntu machines (both on 10.04) that I develop on. On these machines I had no trouble generating my keypairs as per GitHub's instructions. Using the command ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "emailaddress" My server…
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MySQL my.cnf file not being read, Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

I've been researching this for a few hours with no luck. Basically it looks like my server's my.cnf file isn't being read at all. I've searched my server, and there's only one my.cnf file on it, located at /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Its ownership is…
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Create an EBS based EC2 AMI from Ubuntu server with some tools installed

Download Ubuntu Server (last LTS version, 10.04) Install it under VirtualStudio, or any other VM. Install some useful stuff for GIS developers, like build essentials, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and GDAL Upload this image as AMI, to allow other…
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Difference between key_buffers and recommendation

I'm looking to add a bit of memory to MySQL on a Linode VPS server on which I've got a small facebook (canvas app) PHP app using MySQL running. I'm not super familiar with MySQL optimization so I'm hoping to find a simple answer. I think I want to…
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Web application in a network environment

I have a web application running on an apache web server on Ubuntu 10.04. The web application can be accessed via a web browser on the server's computer by typing http://localhost/webapp. I want to make this application available in a networking…
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Copying user account and all settings?

I recently performed a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 and tried to create the username that I wanted to create "Sean.Ochoa" (without the quotes), but it wouldn't let me... saying something about the symbols (though the error was cut off due to…
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Turn off Lynx Commands in Email

How do I turn off receiving an email from lynx that recaps what it did? I have crontab running a PHP script and that works fine. But each time cron runs my lynx browser I get an email from the cron daemon recapping the lynx commands. I don't need…
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401 Errors doing apt-get on new Ubuntu server

I've got a new copy of Ubuntu 10.04 server running and I'm not sure if it's connected to the internet correctly. ifconfig shows I have an IP in my company's private network for eth0 (10.90.140.24) Main problem: When I try to do sudo apt-get install…
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creating a more than 4 primary partitions

i was moving my partitions here and there and i end up deleting my swap partition and currently i have 4 partitions and when i try to format ( note : the unallocated part ) some unallocated space gparted keeps saying : " If you want more…
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execute script when a hardware is plugged in

How can I tell my Ubuntu installation to execute some scripts when I connect a specific hardware? For example: I have an external eSATA disk. When this (and only this) disk is plugged in, my notebook should execute the backup.sh script. Additionally…
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LDAP GDM Ubuntu

I have Open LDAP server running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 with OSX, Windows and Ubuntu 10.04 Desktops as clients. GDM login fails from Ubuntu 10.04 with User Name length(UID length) greater than 9. The same machine can login through ssh. When I tried…
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