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Re: Dammit.

Wed, 19 May 2010 17:04:00 -0700

Alright, my impatience got the best of me while waiting for a reply. I found some suggestions through out the site on a few threads that Mandrake was pretty decent for beginners. Looked it over and it seems pretty tight. Sorry for wasting your time and the double post.

Promise I'll be around though, this sites the bomb. Really helpful.

Dammit.

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:12:58 -0700

Hey, total newb here. This is pretty much the last thing I wanted to do, but suggestions are cool.
I have decided I want to be able to gain access to places I am not supposed to in the digital world. Not a hacker per say, as it seems the term is now days diluted to little meaning in the eyes of beginners such as myself.
I'm interested mostly in network penetration and data collection: not for trivial matters such as money, but much more "noble" pursuit.
So I have downloaded tons of reading material, Hacking Exposed, Steal This Computer Book, The Art of Intrusion, etc...
Many things have come to light and I have decided where to start. I am going to completely revamp my old PC to run a Linux operating system and turn that madafuka into a ghost, then go from there. I realize I could go about doing it other ways, but I want to start the game with a save base..
It hurts me to ask and I know it is an all to common question, but which Linix distro should I start with? I am literally a beginner in pretty much every aspect, no real skills. So I am looking for something that will really help me learn a lot, like which systems could I learn the most from? Sorry to bother, but your help would be very much appreciated.

Re: How to mount NTFS

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:02:40 -0700

Hey, nice article! Got lots of ideas from here including solutions to certain problems too. Thanks for this great write.
form a captive

How to work with parameters in for-loop when making a script?

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:32:36 -0700

I'm trying to make a script that sort's numbers that are passed as parameters.( bubblesort)

#!/bin/sh

MINPARAMETERS=2
declare -a EXITNUMBERS
HELPNUMBER

if [ $# -lt $MINPARAMETERS ]
then 
	echo "The script needs at least " $MINPARAMETERS 
	echo 
	exit
else
	echo "The value of the parameters before the sorting:"
	echo $@
	echo	
fi
for (( h=1 ; h <= $# ; h++ ))
do
	EXITNUMBERS=$@
done
for (( i=1 ; i <= $# ; i++ ))
do
	for j 
	do	
	if [ $j -ge $((j+1)) ]	
	then 	
	    HELPNUMBER=${EXITNUMBERS[j]}
            EXITNUMBERS[j]=${EXITNUMBERS[j+1]
            EXITNUMBERS[j+1]=$HELPNUMBER
	fi
	done
done
echo "The value of the parameters after sorting"
echo ${EXITNUMBERS[*]}

The problem is that I can't find the right syntaxis for:
$[j+1] or $((j+1))
in the nested for-loop.

I'm working with ubuntu.
If you see any other mistakes or have tips, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

securing a users .xscreensaver file as root

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:42:28 -0700

hello,

I have a challenge to find a way to lock down a file in a user’s home directory, such that a user can NOT modify, rename, move, delete, etc. The solution needs to be deployable without, for example, having to switch from unix to windows, etc

We are using NFS. We want to lock the .xscreensaver in the user's home dir and not allow the user to modify this file at all. I chmod the file to 700, owned by root:root but the user can go to his home dir and still do whatever he wants with this file because he is the owner of the parent directory.
Any ideas?

thanks for your help,

New to Linux

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:41:00 -0700

I'M trying to install Limewire on Ubuntu Linux but I'M getting the following error message.

Failed to run gdebi-gtk '--non-interactive' '/home/other/Desktop/LimeWireLinux.deb' as user root.

The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator.

I am also not able to login into the Terminal using the "su" command to install other programs. I the this error message, even though I'M using the same password I use to login to the screen name.

su: Authentication failure
other@garrett-desktop:~$
other@garrett-desktop

Thanks for any and all help.

how can i generate a record of all instructions executed by a given pr

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:49:39 -0700

Hi All,

I have written a small program to tracing a child process instruction by instruction and recording them all. what my aim is to count all the instruction executed inside the child process and maintain their cycle time needd to execute.

My program is as follows: But it not working properly. i am using Linux operating system. please help.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/user.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
int main()
{ pid_t child;
const int long_size = sizeof(long);
child = fork();
if(child == 0)
{
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
execl("./test.out", "test.out", NULL);
}
else
{
int status;
struct user_regs_struct regs;
int start = 0;
long ins;
unsigned char ch;
while(1)
{
wait(&status);
if(WIFEXITED(status))
break;
if(status != 1407)
break;
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, child, NULL, &regs);
ins = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKTEXT, child, regs.eip, NULL);
printf("EIP: %lx Instruction executed: %lx\n", regs.eip, ch);
ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, child, NULL, NULL);

}
}
return 0;
}

regarding pkg-config-0.23

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:50:06 -0700

i need to cross compile pango for arm board and the native system im working on is fedora-2.621 .

as part of this i had to compile pkg-config-0.23 into my own path /root/usr/moz .while i try ./configure --host=i686-linux --build=arm-linux --prefix=/root/usr/moz/ --without-x
i get the following error

checking whether arm-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for arm-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of arm-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for arm-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: ./configure failed for glib-1.2.10

this is what the config.log says in the pkg-config-0.23/glib-1.2.10

configure:20256: checking dependency style of arm-linux-gnu-gcc
configure:20339: result: gcc3
configure:20359: checking for arm-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C
configure:20427: arm-linux-gnu-gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
configure:20433: $? = 0
configure:20453: result: none needed
configure:20477: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:20533: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:20564: checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes
configure:20570: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details.

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_build=arm-unknown-linux-gnu
ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=yes
ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu=yes
ac_cv_env_CCC_set=
ac_cv_env_CCC_value=
ac_cv_env_CC_set=set

could anyone help me sole this error and let know why this error occured , so that i can proceed with my furthur libraries to be compiled

Re: HELP: I need help in installing the gtk+ package..

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:27:32 -0700

: i already have installed glib, atk, pango and cairo.. i am
: currently having this problem when i try to install gtk+ i already
: have specified the path to my pkg_config_path and LD_Library_path
: the path to where i installed my glib..
:
:
:
: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
: checking whether build environment is sane... yes
: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
: checking for working aclocal-1.4... found
: checking for working autoconf... found
: checking for working automake-1.4... found
: checking for working autoheader... found
: checking for working makeinfo... found
: checking for gcc... gcc
: checking for C compiler default output... a.out
: checking whether the C compiler works... yes
: checking whether we are cross compiling... no
: checking for suffix of executables...
: checking for suffix of object files... o
: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
: checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
: checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
: checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
: checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
: checking for egrep... grep -E
: checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
: checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
: checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
: checking whether ln -s works... yes
: checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
: checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
: checking for ANSI C header files... yes
: checking for sys/types.h... yes
: checking for sys/stat.h... yes
: checking for stdlib.h... yes
: checking for string.h... yes
: checking for memory.h... yes
: checking for strings.h... yes
: checking for inttypes.h... yes
: checking for stdint.h... yes
: checking for unistd.h... yes
: checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
: checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
: checking for dlfcn.h... yes
: checking for g++... g++
: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
: checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
: checking for g77... no
: checking for f77... no
: checking for xlf... no
: checking for frt... no
: checking for pgf77... no
: checking for fl32... no
: checking for af77... no
: checking for fort77... no
: checking for f90... no
: checking for xlf90... no
: checking for pgf90... no
: checking for epcf90... no
: checking for f95... f95
: checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
: checking whether f95 accepts -g... yes
: checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
: checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object...
: ok
: checking for objdir... .libs
: checking for ar... ar
: checking for ranlib... ranlib
: checking for strip... strip
: checking if gcc static flag works... yes
: checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
: checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
: libraries... yes
: checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build static libraries... no
: configure: creating libtool
: appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
: checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
: checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
: libraries... yes
: checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
: libraries... yes
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
: checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build static libraries... no
: checking for f95 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if f95 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if f95 supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the f95 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
: libraries... yes
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of
: Makefiles... no
: checking for some Win32 platform... no
: checking for native Win32... no
: checking whether build environment is sane... yes
: checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
: checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1... yes
: checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS...
: -I/usr/local/lib/atk-1.10.3/include/atk-1.0
: -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//include/glib-2.0
: -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//lib/glib-2.0/include
: -I/usr/local/lib/pango-1.12.0/include/pango-1.0
: checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib/atk-1.10.3/lib
: -L/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//lib -L/usr/local/lib/pango-1.12.0/lib
: -latk-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
: checking Whether to write dependencies into .pc files... no
: checking for perl5... no
: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
: checking for indent... indent
: checking for lstat... yes
: checking for mkstemp... yes
: checking for flockfile... yes
: checking for sigsetjmp... yes
: checking whether make is GNU Make... yes
: checking locale.h usability... yes
: checking locale.h presence... yes
: checking for locale.h... yes
: checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
: checking libintl.h usability... yes
: checking libintl.h presence... yes
: checking for libintl.h... yes
: checking for dgettext in libc... yes
: checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
: checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
: checking for dcgettext... yes
: checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
: checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
: checking for catalogs to be installed... am az be bg ca cs cy da de
: el en_GB es et eu fa fi fr ga gl he hi hr hu ia id it ja ko lt lv mk
: ml mn ms nl nn no pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sr sr@Latn sv ta tr uk vi
: wa yi zh_TW zh_CN
: checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... none
: needed
: checking for the BeOS... no
: checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed
: checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.4...
: *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.10.0, but GLIB
: (2.6.4)
: *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
: *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix
: the error
: *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by
: editing
: *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
: *** required on your system.
: *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable
: PKG_CONFIG_PATH
: *** to point to the correct configuration files
: no
: configure: error:
: *** GLIB 2.1.4 or better is required. The latest version of
: *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
:
:
:
: please help me with this problem.. i really need your help..
:
:

hey i need a help from you . since u have already cairo could u solve this one .

i have to cross compile for the arm board and i am trying to build pango as a requirement to compile gtk for porting mozilla
as a basic level i have created my own path to install all the required libraries ie
i give --prefix as /root/usr/moz while doing ./configure

so in order to have latest version of pkg-config in this path i choose pkg-config-0.23
with the same prefix .but i get the following error

./configure --host=i686-linux --build=arm-linux --prefix=/root/usr/
moz/ --without-x
checking dependency style of arm-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for arm-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... configure:
error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: ./configure failed for glib-1.2.10

i need glib-2.17.3 for pango to pass the configuration and hence have built this version of glib successfully .

could you give me a solution for the above error .

system info using shell scrpiting

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:44:56 -0700

hi this is varma...

how can get a system info using shell scripting....

can anyone help me..

Re: Need advise on setting up home intranet.

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:13:39 -0700

Not sure how much you know about networking (or want to know) so I'll try to explain a bit in simple terms.

This is how I understand it:

you have 2 laptops, a PC and a router.

you want to set up a web server (apache) on the pc and connect to it using the laptops.

If this is right, then all you should need to do is setup apache (on linux generally install apache using your distros package management tool and start it, if it doesn't start automatically, how you start it apache depends on your distro but usually something like running "/etc/init.d/apache start" as root)

You should then be able to connect to is using any web browser on your laptops by typing in the ip address on the pc into the browsers address bar. From the pc this would be "http://localhost" and you would see the apache default page, which I think is just a page that says "It works!" or maybe a directory listing.

from the laptops you should be able to type in the ip address on the pc. because you are using a local router (I am assuming the the 3 computers connect to the router, and the router connects to the internet, correct?)

the router is assigned an ip address by your ISP and the router then assigns an ip to each computer that connects to it. the ip's that the router assignes are local ip's and only apply within your intranet. they are something like 192.168.2.xxx where xxx is different for each computer connected to the router. you should be able to find out the ip address of the pc using your routers management tool (often a web browser based tool that allows you to configure certain aspects of the router operation). Find this ip address, type into a browser on one of the laptops and you should be sorted.

hope this helps, if not please reply.

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nugent

Re: DO you use UBUNTU ? - I cannot install & need help

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:48:40 -0700

if it is a problem with your graphics card you should be able to tell the installer to use vesa instead to the ati driver during install, and then switch to the ati driver once the OS is installed. It's been a while since I installed ubuntu so i can't remember how to do this, but it should be fairly easy to find info on the ubuntu site or the forum site.

Hope this info is of some use

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nugent

Re: Installing programs? (General info)

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:44:57 -0700

: How do we install programs/packages on linux? I am not a linux user
: yet. I just want to know if a person wants to install a new
: application will he download source code OR run set up programs to
: install the program like how it is done on Windows?
:
: I think the windows way of doing things is something that leaves us
: in the loop. We don't know what is exactly being installed. Hence
: this may lead to problems like pop ups and lot of other problems,
: mostly without our knowledge.

It depends on the Linux distribution (ubuntu, fedora etc). Many distributions have a package management tool (debian based systems use apt-get, fedora and suse use rpm files). These tools can download and install programs (and all dependencies for the program). Most distros have graphical front-ends for these tools, such as synaptic.

Of course you can always download the source code (if it is available, not all linux programs are open source) and compile it yourself, but then you have to take care of the dependencies yourself (or possibly lose functionality in the program).

------
nugent

Re: Need advise on setting up home intranet.

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:53:50 -0700

: I'm needing to have the same thing setup and I'm hopelessly
: lost...some direction, or even a link to a tutorial would be great!
:
: thanks
: jake
:

Hi Jake,

I found that all I had to do was set my web server(appache in my case) to use my (linux) ip address instead of a domain name. This made it possible to view my web pages from my xp laptop through my linxsys cable router.
I figured this out durring a mad scamble through my Fedora 6 Bible.

Good luck, and keep in touch.
Sounds like we could learn a lot from each other as we go.

Regards,
JoeMc

Re: Need advise on setting up home intranet.

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:55:22 -0700

I'm needing to have the same thing setup and I'm hopelessly lost...some direction, or even a link to a tutorial would be great!

thanks
jake

Need advise on setting up home intranet.

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:19:46 -0700

Hi All,

I'm trying to setup an intranet at home to practice web developing.

What I currently have:
I've got a linux box running Fedora Core 6 in one room of my house,
and I am using Apache 2.0 on that box. Also my fiance and I both have
laptops running windows XP that we use in our living room.

My current hardware set up:
The linux box, and both laptops are all connected to the internet through a common linksys cable modem/router. the Laptops wirelessly, and the linux box through a hard connection.

What I want:
I want to setup an intranet from my linux box with the apache web server
that I can browse from the wireless laptops.

I'm thinking I need to do something with my linux box and router, but not sure what.

Any advise or suggestion would be very much appreciated.

Regards,
JoeMc

DO you use UBUNTU ? - I cannot install & need help

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:43:03 -0700

Hi There

Thanks for responding.

Firstly I am not a programmer but I do write simple C & c++ programs using Borland++.

Problem - I am trying to instalL UBUNTU onto my machine using their free download iso file which I have burnt to a disk. All is well until I try to install UBUNTO via a CDROM boot using the Disk. The iso file is ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso. The intial Intro screen is fine - however when I select install I get this dumped at the bottom of the screen. referring to interrupt 14.....

Int 14 CR2 f8000000 err 00000000 EIP c020c384 CS 00000060 Flags 00100007
Stack c00f8050 c03f129b c0371d8c 00000002 c00f8059 000f8050 00000000 00000000

I have asked Ubunto members what is the likely cause of this and have been told it could be to do with my ATI graphics card (ATI9550).

Are you able to help in any way ?

Thank you in anticipation - Living_Legend

PS I run a Compaq Presario Intel Celeron 2.66G with 1.75G memory WinXPSP2 and have no known problemss at all with any connectd hardware & or Software all of which is/are up to date and all run like clockwork.

Installing programs? (General info)

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:32:45 -0700

How do we install programs/packages on linux? I am not a linux user yet. I just want to know if a person wants to install a new application will he download source code OR run set up programs to install the program like how it is done on Windows?

I think the windows way of doing things is something that leaves us in the loop. We don't know what is exactly being installed. Hence this may lead to problems like pop ups and lot of other problems, mostly without our knowledge.

Re: Need help getting Beryl to work after botched install.

Sat, 19 May 2007 14:56:52 -0700

NEVERMIND......... :)

ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" again and changed the settings to nvidia instead of nv. now it works!!!!

Re: Need help getting Beryl to work after botched install.

Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:44 -0700

# WOOHOO! I entered the following command and configured "x server" for nv (nvidia)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

# And now the desktop loads fine now at a better resolution along with Beryl. Unfortunately, I don't get any of the effects. When I try to change to window manger in the settings to Beryl it automatically jumps back to metacity. However, when I switch it to compitz it sticks, but I still don't get any effects.

Am I failing to see something here?

Need help getting Beryl to work after botched install.

Sat, 19 May 2007 10:04:15 -0700

#I tried installing Beryl on my Ubuntu Feisty system by using the following steps from http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I...ty_with_nVidia

> 1. Open a terminal. Execute:
>
> sudo echo "Beryl & nVidia installation script for ubuntu Ubuntu Feisty"
>
> (this one line requires your password so that, the next text paste is uninterrupted.)
>
> 2. Copy and paste all the text into the Terminal in one action. [Select all the text. Then middle button click in terminal]
>
> sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup.beryl-script
> sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup.beryl-script
> echo "deb [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] feisty main
> deb-src [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] feisty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
> wget [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add -
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get -y install beryl beryl-manager emerald-themes
> sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals
> sudo cp /usr/share/applications/beryl-manager.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/beryl-manager.desktop
> cp /usr/share/applications/beryl-manager.desktop ~/Desktop/beryl-manager.desktop
> echo -e "Logout now and then press \e[0;31mCTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE\e[0m to restart xorg"
> echo "Installation completed !"
>
> 3. Now Logout and then press [CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE] to restart xorg

#After hitting CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE I was brought back to login prompt. From there I logged in and Ubuntu loaded my account normally but as soon as I saw the panel the screen turned white and all I could see is my cursor. Now everything time I restart and login I am brought to a blank white screen.

#I also want to mention that I own a Dimension Dell 8300 with a 128mb DDR Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 graphics card inside of it. This is a pretty fresh install of Ubuntu so I haven't installed any new drivers yet. Please don't tell me to reinstall to OS I want to fix the problem not wipe it out of existence. What went wrong and how do I fix it? Is there still any hope of me getting Beryl to work?

#Then I tried these commands that I got on another forum:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
sudo nvidia-glx-config-enable

#Then when I rebooted rather than going to the login screen it gave me the following text-based prompt:

>Failed to start X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not setup correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? YES/NO

#I selected YES and got this info:

> X Window System Version 7.2.0
> Release Date: 22 January 2007
> X Protocol Version 0, Release 7.2
> Build Operating System : Linux Ubuntu
> Current Operating System: jerry-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP
> Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686
> Build Date: 04 April 2007
> Before reporting problems, check [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
> to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (--) default setting,
> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown
> (==) Log file: "var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat May 19 11:10:14 2007
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instance (Bus ID PCI:1:0:0)
> found
> (EE) No devices detected
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

#Any ideas on what I can do next to get Beryl running? Please tell me that there is still hope.

Re: HELP: I need help in installing the gtk+ package..

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:29:06 -0700

: i already have installed glib, atk, pango and cairo.. i am currently having this problem when i try to install gtk+ i already have specified the path to my pkg_config_path and LD_Library_path the path to where i installed my glib..
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: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
: checking whether build environment is sane... yes
: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
: checking for working aclocal-1.4... found
: checking for working autoconf... found
: checking for working automake-1.4... found
: checking for working autoheader... found
: checking for working makeinfo... found
: checking for gcc... gcc
: checking for C compiler default output... a.out
: checking whether the C compiler works... yes
: checking whether we are cross compiling... no
: checking for suffix of executables...
: checking for suffix of object files... o
: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
: checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
: checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
: checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
: checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
: checking for egrep... grep -E
: checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
: checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
: checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
: checking whether ln -s works... yes
: checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
: checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
: checking for ANSI C header files... yes
: checking for sys/types.h... yes
: checking for sys/stat.h... yes
: checking for stdlib.h... yes
: checking for string.h... yes
: checking for memory.h... yes
: checking for strings.h... yes
: checking for inttypes.h... yes
: checking for stdint.h... yes
: checking for unistd.h... yes
: checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
: checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
: checking for dlfcn.h... yes
: checking for g++... g++
: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
: checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
: checking for g77... no
: checking for f77... no
: checking for xlf... no
: checking for frt... no
: checking for pgf77... no
: checking for fl32... no
: checking for af77... no
: checking for fort77... no
: checking for f90... no
: checking for xlf90... no
: checking for pgf90... no
: checking for epcf90... no
: checking for f95... f95
: checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
: checking whether f95 accepts -g... yes
: checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
: checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
: checking for objdir... .libs
: checking for ar... ar
: checking for ranlib... ranlib
: checking for strip... strip
: checking if gcc static flag works... yes
: checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
: checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
: checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build static libraries... no
: configure: creating libtool
: appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
: checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
: checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
: checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
: checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
: checking whether to build static libraries... no
: checking for f95 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
: checking if f95 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
: checking if f95 supports -c -o file.o... yes
: checking whether the f95 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
: checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
: checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
: checking for some Win32 platform... no
: checking for native Win32... no
: checking whether build environment is sane... yes
: checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
: checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1... yes
: checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/lib/atk-1.10.3/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/lib/pango-1.12.0/include/pango-1.0
: checking BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib/atk-1.10.3/lib -L/usr/local/lib/glib-2.10.0//lib -L/usr/local/lib/pango-1.12.0/lib -latk-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
: checking Whether to write dependencies into .pc files... no
: checking for perl5... no
: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
: checking for indent... indent
: checking for lstat... yes
: checking for mkstemp... yes
: checking for flockfile... yes
: checking for sigsetjmp... yes
: checking whether make is GNU Make... yes
: checking locale.h usability... yes
: checking locale.h presence... yes
: checking for locale.h... yes
: checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
: checking libintl.h usability... yes
: checking libintl.h presence... yes
: checking for libintl.h... yes
: checking for dgettext in libc... yes
: checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
: checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
: checking for dcgettext... yes
: checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
: checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
: checking for catalogs to be installed... am az be bg ca cs cy da de el en_GB es et eu fa fi fr ga gl he hi hr hu ia id it ja ko lt lv mk ml mn ms nl nn no pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sr sr@Latn sv ta tr uk vi wa yi zh_TW zh_CN
: checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... none needed
: checking for the BeOS... no
: checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed
: checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.4...
: *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.10.0, but GLIB (2.6.4)
: *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
: *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
: *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
: *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
: *** required on your system.
: *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
: *** to point to the correct configuration files
: no
: configure: error:
: *** GLIB 2.1.4 or better is required. The latest version of
: *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
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: please help me with this problem.. i really need your help..
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checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.4...
: *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.10.0, but GLIB (2.6.4)
: *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
: *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error

well the above lines tell that glib.pc file in /lib/pkgconfig is not updated properly....check it..u can modify the same..

Re: Pleas help me ?

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:00:21 -0700

the best way to begin your linux experience is probably via a live cd (which is a cd that you can run linux from without having to install it on your computer's hard drive). This way you can see some of the things linux has to offer, albeit a live cd is much slower that when installed on the hard drive.

there is a list of live distros at:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

but i would recommend either ubuntu, mepis or knoppix for a beginner as they are fairly user friendly and all include an installer (if you want to install to the hard drive) and they are all based on debian, a very stable linux distro with a very good package management tool. Ubuntu will even ship you a free cd: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

there is a a fair bit of documentation about (depends on what you are looking for really) but the linux documentation project is a good place to look for information: http://tldp.org/

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Pleas help me ?

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:20:32 -0700

hi, i'm a 17 year old guy i have heard about unix and linux I would like some guidence on were i can start learning more about it and starting to work with it.

so if anyone can help me i would be grateful.

I hope im not asking too much.

Re: Switching from Mandriva to Debian

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:12:01 -0700

you can convert rpm to deb using a program called alien, see http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien.html for details

debian doesn't come with nice user friendly configuration tools like mandrivia so if you are not comfortable with using the command line or editing configuration files you might want to consider using a debian based distro such as ubuntu or mepis

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