Tagged “ubuntu”

  1. Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Issues

    Here are some problems I found with the latest version of Ubuntu (Yakkety, 16.10) and solutions:

    pcmanfm: Could not find network shares. I think the solution was to install fusesmb. It didn't seem to take affect until I rebooted the system.

  2. Playing a file from SMB in VLC under Linux

    I found this to fix my problems when trying to play a movie under SMB (Windows Share) with VLC under Linux (Ubuntu, if that matters).

    • Open VLC
    • Go to Tools > Preferences
    • Under the header Show Settings (bottom left), select the All button
    • Select Input / Codecs > Access Modules > SMB on the left
    • Enter credentials
  3. Ubuntu 11.10

    I switched to Ubuntu 11.10. The upgrade went flawlessly. Well, kind of. Gnome 2 doesn't seem to work anymore. At least, not straight off the bat. I'm running Gnome 3 (with the new Gnome shell). Looks better than the last time I ran it.

  4. Ubuntu Natty complaints

    After having "upgraded" to Ubuntu Natty, the new interfaces were driving me crazy. Unity, in my opinion, is horrible. I couldn't configure it the way I wanted to, and I couldn't hide the top bar. I then switched to Gnome 3. Same complaint there. It would also change the background to a plain white background.

    After a week of agony, I switched back to Gnome 2. I'm happy once more. You try to live in the future, you pay the price.

  5. USB Drive issues in Linux

    I was having drive problems with a USB drive in Ubuntu Linux. It was working just fine, then it started mounting the drive as read only. Looking at the results of mount looked like:

    /dev/sdc on /media/50B5-FF5D type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush) I did a file check, and it gave me some errors:

    james@bossk:~/scripts$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb1 [sudo] password for james: fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN Seek to 499365376:Invalid argument Looking around online said 'try mounting and unmounting it' and 'try formatting it'. Unmounting and mounting did nothing for me, however, formatting it got rid of the seek error. I have heard things that after so many file read/write cycles, you may get this error. This disk is used constantly, writing and erasing files to it, although this is in subdirectories, not the root. So I still have no idea what went wrong, but formatting the drive fixed it.

  6. Converting mp4 or m4v files for Sansa Fuze on Ubuntu

    I have a number of mp4 (actually, m4v) files that my daughter wanted to have on her Sansa Fuze. Unfortunately, the application for Ubuntu (video4fuze) would not accept some of the files. I got around this by running a command like:

    ffmpeg -i "input video.mp4" -r 25 ~/output_video.avi

    This would convert the mp4 file to avi, as well as force a frame rate. Without the "-r" parameter, sometimes there would be fast sound and slow video (unsynchronized). After doing this, run video4fuze with the other file, and you will have a new file to upload to your Fuze.

  7. NaNoWriMo with Open Office

    For those of you who have participated in National Novel Writing Month, and are Linux people who use Open Office, here is a short script that I wrote that does a word count and makes a scrambled output file to submit.

    odt2txt Novel.odt | gawk '{ gsub( /[a-z]/,"a" ); print $0 }' > out.txt cat out.txt | gawk '{ x = x + NF } END { print x " words" }' The problem I had with the Open Office word count is that it gave me a too-high number. This script matched how the NaNoWriMo site counts their words.

  8. Ubuntu 10.10

    I've upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. After a typical update (pretty painful, losing network, getting it back again, and then having to do lots of 'sudo apt-get dist-update/upgrade/update' cycles, I finally got it running.

    The only surprise so far is that gnome-do has been separated from the docky look. Now, you have to 'sudo apt-get install docky' and run that as a separate application. See this blog post for some further details.

    Time to see what else is broken.

  9. Fans of Sage for Firefox

    I use Sage-too for my RSS reader for Firefox. However, when I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu (10.04), Sage-too stopped working. After investigation, it appears to be dead. However, one of the Sage-too developers has branched it again and created Sage++ , which contains the features like hiding read feeds, etc. that I've grown to love.

  10. Running Handbrake on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

    For you Handbrake fans, I found a .deb file created by Fraser Murray that fixes all of the various problems with upgrading. You can download it here. To run, do:

    cd /data/usr/local/bin ghb I think it's being installed in the incorrect directory, but it seems to work pretty good. The new Handbrake seems to be quite speedy compared to the old version, though I haven't checked out how the encoding fares yet.

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