Tag: Ubuntu

Fixing a broken Xen DomU after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.4 (Natty)

My Xen DomU's that I upgraded to 11.4 no longer booted, because the xen-blkfront module is missing from the initramfs. To fix, do this when you get the initramfs prompt: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on September 02, 2011, at 12:09 | No comments

Fixing locale message in Ubuntu when logging in or SCPing

I've encountered this error occasionally when loggin in: -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (nl_NL.UTF-8) Read More »
By halfgaar, 10 months ago, on March 22, 2011, at 11:03 | No comments

Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.35-25 shutdown problem as Xen DomU

The current kernel in Ubuntu Maverick has a problem with shutting down when running as a Xen DomU (guest). When the VM has more than 1 VCPU, it won't reboot or shutdown. Read More »
By halfgaar, 12 months ago, on February 18, 2011, at 15:02 | No comments

Ubuntu Desktop Linux and Acer TravelMate 7513WSMi

My youngest sister has retired her big-ass (17") Acer TravelMate (model 7513WSMi 7510) with a more modern offering from Sony. That was last year. Now, she thought it'd be a good idea to donate it to our oldest sister. But since the thing has always “run” like a pig with Windows Vista, her girl-geek instincts thought it better if I'd equip the old monster with Ubuntu Linux instead. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on February 03, 2011, at 00:02 | No comments

Ubuntu and SiS 671 VGA chipset driver

The video on my mom's laptop, A Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535, had recently gone awry. At the time, the laptop was running Ubuntu 9.04 (I think). Reconfiguring the driver didn't do much good, so I upgraded the machine to 10.04, hoping that that would fix it. It didn't. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on January 18, 2011, at 23:01 | No comments

Disabling exim port 25 listening when zimbra is installed

When you're installing zimbra in an Ubuntu or Debian machine, it seems it installs the MTA in such a way that command line tools like mail and such don't work. But when you install exim, it conflicts with the postfix in Zimbra. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on December 12, 2010, at 19:12 | No comments

HP LaserJet 6P under Ubuntu

Because Arnold Pilon is migrating his workplace to Apple, I could get his old PC and peripherals for free. Among its peripherals was an old HP LaserJet 6P, still perfectly working. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 30, 2010, at 01:01 | 5 comments

Adding locales in Ubuntu

I wanted the dates on my Kubuntu system to be shown as Dutch dates. Therefore, I needed to add a locale. The place to do it is in /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local. It now contains this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on June 16, 2009, at 11:06 | No comments

Getting my sister to forget the Google Desktop newsticker

My sister was so fond of the RSS feature that came with Google Desktop's sidebar that she kept it permanently visible at the right side of her screen. (What a news junkie!) Now that I got her stuck with Linux, she misses her precious Google Desktop and I'm trying to figure out an alternative for her. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on November 27, 2008, at 21:11 | No comments

The road through Ubuntu

My mom bought a new laptop because of a broken screen on the old Linux machine that she had inherited from me (which wasn't wasn't a laptop, so I'm sure that the Golden Arrow of Consumption can explain why she didn't just replace the screen, although the new boyfriend who is kind of Windows-but-not-Linux-literate qualifies as a more probable reason for getting a laptop that is needlessly dragged down by Vista). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on November 27, 2008, at 00:11 | 2 comments