The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

I'm running uTorrent under WINE since I couldn't find a Linux torrent program with comparable features that wasn't Azureus.

It worked great for about a week. Recently, for some reason, uTorrent has started acting as if the main program window has been dragged offscreen somewhere. There's no icon in the Gnome taskbar and I can't get to the program at all. It's definitely still running though, it shows up in System Monitor and I can open new torrents from Firefox and the Add New Torrent dialog box pops up.

Is there any way I can have WINE reset window positions or something like that?

# ¿ May 21, 2007 13:59

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:20

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Bonch posted:

Not really the answer you're looking for, but qBittorrent is pretty good.

Any one know of any application that will enable window snapping? I know Beryl will do it, but sadly I'm a dual monitor ATI user and Beryl won't run with my monitors at their native resolution. Any others?

I actually tried qBittorrent before I moved back to uTorrent. For some reason it never seeds, which is obviously a dealbreaker for me. It seeds while I'm downloading, but once I hit 100% it never starts again. uTorrent worked as expected.

I'm going to try kTorrent on the new WoW patch, but I'd really like to get my uTorrent back.

# ¿ May 23, 2007 14:54

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Leathal posted:

I'm running uTorrent under WINE since I couldn't find a Linux torrent program with comparable features that wasn't Azureus.

It worked great for about a week. Recently, for some reason, uTorrent has started acting as if the main program window has been dragged offscreen somewhere. There's no icon in the Gnome taskbar and I can't get to the program at all. It's definitely still running though, it shows up in System Monitor and I can open new torrents from Firefox and the Add New Torrent dialog box pops up.

Is there any way I can have WINE reset window positions or something like that?

I fixed this by running wine taskmgr, right clicking on the uTorrent process, and selecting maximize. :downs:

Oh well, at least it's fixed.

# ¿ May 27, 2007 14:21

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Wow, I always thought I just had a hosed up install, but it turns out Firefox has never had a "Copy Image" menu option in Linux?

Is there any way to get that functionality back?

# ¿ Jun 10, 2007 04:00

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

teapot posted:

Then you will need a "Paste Image" menu in whatever program you intend to use that image -- it's not there, either.

Save image to a file, then use that file.

That's retarded, I thought X11 had a universal clipboard. In Windows I can do Copy Image in Firefox and paste it into just about any program that handles images, from Photoshop to Nero Cover Designer.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2007 13:54

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

covener posted:

Relatively recent developments in standards and higher-level toolkits are helping, but this kind of interchange hasn't traditionally been a focus for X11 apps.

That's a shame. I really miss little things like being able to drag and drop files from a zip archive to the folder I want to put them in.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2007 15:38

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

This is a really dumb question, but google has failed me.

How do I flush the DNS cache in Ubuntu? I just moved a website to a different host, but the address still resolves to the old one. If I boot into Windows and do ipconfig /flushdns, I'm able to get to the new host.

Edit: Okay I cleared the cache in my router. Now I can get to the site fine, but if I put a www in front of it I still go to the old site. :argh:

Leathal fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 10, 2007

# ¿ Aug 10, 2007 17:16

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Alright I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for about two months now and I'm finally ready to make it my permanent OS. Up until now, I've always had bad experiences with Linux, so I shoved this install on to a small (20gb) secondary partition on my secondary HDD. I'm very close to running out of space now, but resizing the secondary hard drive again isn't an option.

Is there any way I can move everything over to a new, bigger partition on the primary hard drive? I've spent a lot of time tweaking stuff on this install, and I'd really hate to have to do it all over.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2007 20:48

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

teapot posted:

You should be able to copy and resize that partition with gparted. If you have /etc/fstab with uuids instead of device names you won't even have to edit that file when physical device names change. You may need to re-create the main boot record or boot record in the partition to reflect moved bootloader and kernel -- boot from CD, mount and chroot into the new filesystem, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, re-run grub-install on the new device.

Gonna try this today.

My fstab appears to be using UUIDS, so that's good. I know how to edit menu.lst and use gparted, so I'm confident about that as well.

Going by the other stuff I've read in this thread, I should install Windows XP first and then use a Live CD to get back into Linux and recreate/copy partitions right? Oh god I hope I don't gently caress this up.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2007 17:31

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

The Remote Viewer posted:

I think I'll stop replying to you since you think you know everything. You've made a ton of assumptions about things you think that I did or didn't do. You're not really being a good advocate for the OS when you talk to down to someone that had problems with it.

In your defense, I had the exact same problem with Amarok and I certainly didn't do anything more advanced than install it.

Then I found mpd and Sonata and fell in love. :love:

# ¿ Aug 23, 2007 14:58

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

I finally got around to copying Ubuntu to my primary hard drive today, but I have a problem. It keeps booting or mounting my OLD partition on the secondary HDD.

Originally my partition table looked like this:

code:

Main HDD
- Windows Vista (NTFS)

Secondary HDD
- Files (NTFS)
- Ubuntu (ext3)
- Swap

Now it looks like this:

code:

Main HDD
- Windows XP (NTFS)
- Copied Ubuntu (ext3)

Secondary HDD
-Files (NTFS)
- Source Ubuntu (ext3)
- Swap

I have grub set to boot hd(0,1) which SHOULD be the new Ubuntu partition, but if I go to System Monitor it shows the root drive as being /dev/hdb1 which is the original Ubuntu partition. To make things even wackier, the free space shown is what it should be if it was in fact the new partition. :psyduck:

Also, only one Linux partition is being mounted, and because of the weird poo poo I mentioned (drive size vs label saying /dev/hdb2) I don't know if it's the old partition or the new one.

Halp.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2007 21:05

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

thenameseli posted:

Can you post your /etc/fstab, /boot/grub/{menu.lst,grub.conf}, and the output from
code:
fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-z]
?

Here's the fstab

code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config -- 
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hdb2 :
UUID=0cb0ff40-2401-4795-a298-3fb9bf47a544 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=FCA4BE0BA4BDC882 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :
UUID=01C570ECD9499C80 /media/hdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hdb3 :
UUID=8c780b7b-cc17-4312-8ffb-85f5701b443f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

There is no grub.conf, but here's my menu.lst

code:

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default		0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout		10

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1
#
# title		Linux
# root		(hd0,1)
# kernel	/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=0cb0ff40-2401-4795-a298-3fb9bf47a544 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd1,1)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=0cb0ff40-2401-4795-a298-3fb9bf47a544 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

title		Ubuntu, memtest86+
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title		Windows XP Professional
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

and finally the output of fdisk

code:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            3825        9732    47456010   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1       32657   262314625    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2           32658       36182    28314562+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb3           36183       36481     2401717+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

# ¿ Aug 27, 2007 05:04

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

teapot posted:

You have partitions with identical uuids. To change the old partition's uuid, run
code:
/sbin/tune2fs -U random /dev/hdb2

Worked beautifully. Thanks for the help.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2007 15:05

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

I could have sworn it used to work, but for some reason Brasero doesn't burn discs for me.

It stops on "Getting size" right after I hit the burn button, but it doesn't freeze. I can hit cancel and go back to the project screen.

The only thing I can find on google is this. I poked around some more and found this, which seems to say that Brasero gets installed without the proper dependencies being installed.

I popped up Synaptic to see if I could install the stuff mentioned in the second link, but I can't find cdrtools or some of the other ones.

Any ideas?

# ¿ Oct 6, 2007 17:25

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Is there a macro tool for Linux that works with WINE?

Basically I need a tool that will essentially press a series of keys every few minutes, and I need it to work with a program running under Wine.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2008 18:13

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:20

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Anyone know if the b43 wireless drivers will ever support interference mitigation? I couldn't understand why my wireless kept cutting out randomly and after some massive googling I found out the open drivers don't support dealing with interference at ALL, which is pretty terrible for anybody that doesn't live on a farm.

I don't get why Ubuntu defaults to b43 and b44 for Broadcom chipsets with such a massive feature being totally absent.

Spent some time setting up good old ndiswrapper and the connection is much more stable, but I randomly have to take down the wireless interface and put it back up again because the driver will decide it hates me and stop working.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2009 19:45

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