for our foundation we did our administration in Gnucash, now we have to hand it over to our accountant but I cannot find a way ho to do this! there is one note at the gnucash wikibut I don't understand anything of what they want me to do with this.

I need this by tommorrow because we need to be checked by them and the dutch variant of the IRS.. Can anyone please help me?

hi,
yesterday i uninstalled ubuntu descktop and replaced it with xubutntu.reason being i have a lowish spec m/c.now i tried using update manager for some updates it was highlighting and was stuck doing nothing for 2hrs

Hi all,

I've searched some in the forums, but I haven't spotted my problem there, which is that I chose to keep my old rather accept the new usb configuration during the upgrade. I misread the text and can now "repent at leisure". I have no way, for example, to use my usb mics or other usb peripherals.

I'm not sure afterward what the explanation during the upgrade said. Can I retrieve the text from the upgrade installation for more careful reading? I've located a pile of stuff in /var/log about the upgrade but if someone knows where it actually is, I'd be grateful for the pointer.

Is there a simple solution? Is a second upgrade possible, so I could just say update instead of keep?



Thanks,
Daniel

Hi, am running a website on ubuntu server 7.10 with .co.uk
address. have been asked to change this to a .com address.

would appreciate any advice/assistance in acheiving this ?

thanks

Hi,

I've somehow upgraded my default installation of Perl 5.8.8 to Perl 5.10. The only thing that I think could have done this was my installation of the perl module "Carp"

So what I'd like to do is downgrade Perl 5.10 back to 5.8.8.

Does anyone out there have any ideas?

I have a few minor problems that don't worry me too bad, but if I can fix them... I'd like to.

First, when I unmount a flash drive... sometimes it gives me a notification that says I can safely remove it, and the light on my flash drive turn off... sometimes it doesn't notify me, and the light doesn't turn off. Weird eh? Either way... it looks like it is unmounted... it doesn't even show up in the filesystem.

The other problem... sometimes when I come out of suspend it turns on and the unlock screen pops up... but it freezes. I can't Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or anything. So, I usually just hold down the power button to turn it off and restart. That sort of defeats the purpose of suspend... but it doesn't happen that often... maybe 1 out of every 15 suspends.

Another thing... I have been asking people how to uninstall something that I installed from a script... but I have never received an answer... so if anyone knows how to do that... I'll send the script to you.

I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now... haven't used Windows on my home computer for about 9 months or so. Ubuntu now does everything that I need it to do, it's way more fun to tinker around with, and the Ubuntu community is way more helpful than I expected. So, I'm a pretty happy GNU/Linux user.

Hi all, I am a newbie to Ubuntu, and really want to switch over from Vista (which I have grown to dislike even more and more).

I have a Dell vostro 1400, and am trying to install ubuntu using the Wubi installer.

I want create a new partition, and then install ubuntu solely on that new drive.

When I loaded a Gparted live disk, I saw that I already had four primary partitions.

Can I delete them all except for the one on which Vista is installed?

I have all the backup disks from DELL.

Right, I've done the move, No more shitty windows for me. I've got Ubuntu (7.10) set up quite nicely how i want it, But one thing I want to do and unsure how to find out/attempt on how to accomplish it. I only really used windows to run Football Manager 2008 (It's the only game i play on the pc now after getting a 360 a few years ago) And i was just wondering if it's possible to run it in Ubuntu ? I really hope it's possible as it's the only reason making me want to install windows again to be able to run it

I've just installed ubuntu 8.04 by overwriting my windows drive. So I no longer have windows at all.

The only problem is Grub somehow didn't overwrite the windows boot loader, when I turn on my computer I get the windows boot loader and immediately following that I get a message saying that Windows is corrupt and it couldn't boot.

The only way I can get into the ubuntu thats installed on the drive is by booting into the liveCD and telling it to boot from the first hard disk. In this case I get Grub and can boot successfully into ubuntu.

I've tried redoing the Grub install with grub-install and setup(from within grub's interface) and both failed.

Any suggestions?

thanks,
- legit

So I can see what I'm recording but no sound, playback is just fine.

If I select the playthrough options I get stuttering and garbled sound.

Attached screenprint shows my device selection.
Attached Images Screenshot-Audacity Preferences.png (86.3 KB)

had a problem after i had installed virtualbox from the sun website. (not the ose).

uninstalled that and installed the ose version. but i then installed virtualbox-ose-guest module for linux-image-2.6.24-17-386 , which installed the linux image and played merry hell with my xserver.

sorted that out and reinstalled ose. but now i get the attached message.

any ideas?
Attached Images Screenshot.png (252.7 KB)

How can I uninstall the AMV which looks like an apple application?

Please tell me in simple terms.

im trying to set up a lan on my ubuntu (primary) and xp pc's. I have samba installed and also clicked on the appropriate folder/file rightclicked and set it to share.
On XP ive run the network wizard.
...i can see the files...and i try copying them over to my xp pc. Only thing is it is extremely slow. a 158megabyte file was going to take 84 mins.....i copied a 3gb file last night and this morning only 15% was done....

...so my question is, is there anyway of making this process faster?

background info!

dual core pc-ubuntu
dell pentuim 3 or 4 (cant remember which)- XP
wire connection via linksys BEFRS41 router.
Crossover cable!

Ive searched the net and it seems to be a common problem!

Apologies if this issue has been raised...but i couldnt find an answer!

Hi all

i'm having a bit of a problem with gdesklets. It starts fine, loads desklets fine, but the desklets don't work as they used to work in older versions of ubuntu.

Namely, each desklet that gets loaded shows up as an item in the taskbar called "gdesklets-daemon". This item can be minimized / maximized which changes the location of the desklet, and if the item is closed it removes the desklet. By default the "gdesklets-daemon" item is only visible one one workspace, so when you switch to a diff workspace the desklet is no longer visible. I know that part is an easy fix w/ the right click menu but these didn't work this way in past version of ubuntu.

I recall this happening before when I first started playing with gdesklets, but can't remember how I went about fixing the problem and can't seem to find a way to fix it this time.

I'm running ubuntu 8.04, gdesklets 0.36, and I don't have the "gdesklets data" installed as i've read on a few other forums that that can cause problems.

any help would be appreciated, as the program is currently running it's a bit of a waste of time

If u r the owner of Ubuntu , would u sell ubuntu OS for atleast 10$ or give it for free?

When I copy files from my NTFS partition to /home they are all marked as executable. Can someone tell me why that is?

It is problematic and annoying when opening .txt files etc.

Will this cause problems when copying files back to the NTFS partition? Will it mess with file permissions or kill my data.

I want to try Ubuntu. For now, I'll just be playing around with it and using Windows XP as my primary operating system, so the use of Ubuntu will be general. I'll use it for media (music, pictures), Internet, and depending on what it's like for Ubuntu, maybe some gaming. I have three questions before I dig in and try it on my own and start reading the overwhelming guides.

By the way, I'm new to Ubuntu, but I'm pretty knowledgeable with computers and hardware in general.

1. Does 64-bit offer anything over 32-bit? I hear the advantage of the former is still negligible in most things, especially for my use, and that the latter has better stability. Is that still true? I have 4GB of RAM and my Windows XP installation only sees 3.25GB, so I know you need a 64-bit CPU and operating system to get more.

2. After downloading, how do I burn it? With what software and what settings? I remember trying to burn it before twice and neither disc would boot (but would work fine with autoplay, not that that can do much). Maybe it was just that computer or something, but maybe I didn't make it correctly? I don't burn too often so I wouldn't doubt it.

3. Would I run into anything specific with any of this hardware in the way of drivers?

ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU
4GB of RAM
nVidia GeForce 8800GT video card (I hear ATi is lacking with Linux drivers?)
SupremeFX II (SoundMAX HD) sound
2Wire (not sure of exact make/model) USB wireless adpater

Thanks in advance, and looking forward to Ubuntu!

Hi,

Quick question: is X working on Intrepid right now? I have a spare partition for it (with its own /home) so I don't really mind it being enormously broken.

I'm just bored with a stable release, I think. I need some breakage.

Hi,

I own a HP Pavillion laptop with an AMD Turion64x2 processor. I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.04 on it without any problems so far (_knocks on wood_). The version of Ubuntu is the i386 edition rather than the AMD64 edition as I was not sure if other software is easily available for the 64-bit edition of Linux. I previously used Windows XP/Vista extensively and am aware of the dearth of software available for the 64bit versions of Windows.

So basically my questions are:

• Are 64-bit versions of Linux software easily available?
• If a 64-bit version of a software is not available, can a 32-bit version run on Ubuntu without modifications?
• Are there any driver support issues with Ubuntu AMD64?
• What kind of performance (or other) benefits can I expect if I reinstall Ubuntu AMD64?
• Are there any other potential issues with Ubuntu AMD64 that I should be aware of?

Thanks,
V. Thomas

Recently upgraded to Kubuntu Hardy. Now K3B kills my CD/DVD drive so bad that I need to power cycle the machine to get it working again. Soft-reset/reboot doesn't work.

This worked fine under Feisty.

I think this is the same bug as reported here:
http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-9201.html

System details are:
Kubuntu 8.04 x86_64
HP xw4400 workstation
Drive: CD/DVDW TS H653L
Quote: ~$ uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu May 1 13:57:17 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ k3b -v
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.9
K3b: 1.0.4 Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

When I run K3b dmesg reports the following:

Quote: May 15 16:45:05 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 482.056883] cdb ac 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 00
May 15 16:45:05 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 482.056885] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May 15 16:45:05 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 482.367489] ata4: soft resetting link
May 15 16:45:06 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 482.531083] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
May 15 16:45:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 512.609565] ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1)
May 15 16:45:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 512.609577] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5)
May 15 16:45:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 512.609585] ata4: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
May 15 16:45:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 517.600696] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:45:46 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 523.102502] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:45:51 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 527.626866] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:45:56 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 533.128681] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:01 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 537.653028] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:06 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 543.154830] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 572.583486] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
May 15 16:46:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 572.583488] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 577.582607] ata4.00: disabled
May 15 16:46:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 577.582633] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:47 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 583.487378] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:01 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 537.653028] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:06 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 543.154830] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 572.583486] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
May 15 16:46:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 572.583488] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 577.582607] ata4.00: disabled
May 15 16:46:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 577.582633] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:47 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 583.487378] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:51 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 587.568865] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:57 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 593.473639] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:47:01 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 597.551148] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:47:07 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 603.455910] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:46:51 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 587.568865] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:46:57 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 593.473639] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:47:01 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 597.551148] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:47:07 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 603.455910] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
May 15 16:47:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 632.465159] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
May 15 16:47:36 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 632.465161] ata4: hard resetting link
May 15 16:47:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 637.476256] ata4: EH complete
May 15 16:47:41 h-mhb-md-kub kernel: [ 637.479731] ata4.00: detaching (SCSI 3:0:0:0)