My goodness, I've not seen that before. I've tried googling for a solution for you but not much seems to be forthcoming. This was the only one that seemed hopeful. http://superuser.com/questions/256856/ubuntu-alert-dev-mapper-localhost-root-does-not-exist-dropping-to-a-shell Ian. i found that too a...

yesterday i noticed putty and VncViewer were both running a little laggy. I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo aptitude safe-upgrade and then this afternoon restarted my server cause it was still running ridiculously slow. before restarting my server i attempted to physically look at it via monitor an...

things that come to mind that i have no clue about include vpn's, port forwarding and what the hell is ftp. i know that vpn's can be secure and i have no clue how to handle any bit of port forwarding but i know there's websites out there that'll walk me through it all i really wanna do is basically ...

i'm having some issues getting and installing this as several different sites tell me i need to download/install this several different ways...so far all i've done is the mercurial bit as suggested by their site http://ushare.geexbox.org/#Download and then followed through with hg clone http://hg.ge...

i've currently created a user for my daughter and am attepmting to create a file share for her of all her super squishy awesome kid friendly stuff...i'm attempting; chmod Millie=r /home/family/Storage/Millie/ but the error message i'm getting is; chmod: invalid mode: `Millie=r' Try `chmod --help' fo...

Hi there, If I understand your issue correctly it sounds like the folder you're trying to write to on the internal hard drive does not have the necessary permissions. Linux permissions override samba permissions so although samba has permission to write to a folder linux itself is not allowing it. ...

i'm running windows 7 and i the most recent version of ubuntu server....i was able to mount both my external hard drive and the extra 300gb i had left over after installing to only 20gb of the hard drive in my tower. when i go through the steps to create users and file shares everything pushes throu...

the other issue comes in the form of this message " /bin/sh: cannot create /dev/nul: Permission denied " it's what i get for my drivetemp and..... Hi, You need to run the DriveTemp script as root. Your own username does not have sufficient permissions to run it by default. Re the "no...

and on the e-mail bit below is a list of my exact setup with obvious modifications ...i've left everything the same as your listing on the site outside of adding my personal info, sir # Config file for sSMTP sendmail # # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 # Make this empty to disable re...

maybe i'm doing something wrong but i just ran sensor-detect again and i can't get the full copy of every probe it does, sir..at the end of the entire test i get Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: YES Driver `sbs': * Bus `Radeon i2c hw bus MM_I2C' Bus...