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• Post mortem: on 3 april 2018 last backup to Toshiba 1TB under backup-pc34_Fujitsu. Latest dir in ls -lrt dates Jul 2014 (post avvio Toshiba?)

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• Had to reinstall again betavine install first python-messaging, then usb-modeswitch-data (e.g from beta3 lucid), then usb-modeswitch (from Synaptic) then (close synaptic!) wader-core_ and finally bcm_
• Had to reinstall betavine for Huawei Vodafone key. Follow link below and install first latest python-messaging_x.x.x_all.deb, then wader-core_x.x.x_all.deband finally bcm_y.y.y_all.deb. Main problem: the APN of vodafone is web.omnitel.it!
• switched to vmware player
• Upgrade to vbox 4.1.4. Have first to remove 4.0 (from Synaptic). Works fine. upgraded also extension pack (ownload and click on it) and guest additions (from Devices, when WIN7 is fired)
• new webmailer at http://www.fis.unipr.it/roundcube
• grub repair after attempt to migrate /home (/dev/sda5 on 10.04 installation, whereas / is /dev/sda7, but mind, the partitions may be assigned to different devices by the live distributions) to ext4 (see here). Get a 10.04 live on USB (min 3GB). Run live.

 sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt
 sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
 sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
 sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
 sudo chroot /mnt
 grub-install /dev/sda
 grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
 update-grub
 exit
 sudo umount /mnt/dev
 sudo umount /mnt/proc
 sudo umount /mnt/sys
 sudo umount /mnt

then reboot.

• mount space as root: from terminal sudo gnome-terminal and from this root terminal
  smbmount //samba.fis.unipr.it/space /mnt/pier/ -o user=roberto.derenzi
• VLC from synaptic for Rai

• Huawei K3765: installed https://forge.betavine.net/frs/?group_id=76
  2.99.12 (beta 3) - ubuntu lucid//

   Not sure it works yet (does not work under Windows 7 either)

• General recover Grub2 (follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Copy LiveCD Files
  start with LiveCD of the same release (10.4 for 10.4)
  mount the partition that contains the primary linux
  sudo mount /dev/sdxY /mnt (e.g. /dev/sda8 /mnt)
  sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdx (e.g. /dev/sda)
  reboot and refresh grub with sudo update-grub

• Upgraded virtualbox-3.2 to 4.0
  Backupped .VirtualBox into /media/System/.../Saved\ Games
  Uninstalled 3.2 by apt-get remove virtualbox-3.2
  Installed the new OSE dowloaded from the VB site
  Did not fire because USB required installin extesion pack
  Did perhaps the mistake of having two Oracle windows: symptoms, Start and Settings gray
  Maybe just two conficting Managers, however mv .VirtualBox VirtualBox.Old
  starded anew, which created a new .VirtualBox, copied Machines and HardDisks back
  Now works
• June 2011 Tablet buttons works!
  

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:khnz; sudo apt-get update;
    sudo apt-get -y install fjbtndrv
  

• April 2011 reset Thunderbird to English (was set to Italian during an update where the locale
  was switched to italian temporarily). To do that:
  Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General Config Editor search for locale
  found intl.locale.matchOS true (with general.useragent.locale en-US)
  changed to false, now tabs are back to English
  Works with Mozilla as well (type the URL About:config)
  For OpenOffice see Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages
  
• April 2011 Ethernet Expresscard hotplug
  To get it working after suspend see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1415671
  1. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
  2. edit the line with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and change it to:
  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”pciehp.pciehp_force=1 pciehp.pciehp_poll=1 quiet splash”
  3. sudo update-grub2
  4. Restart the system
  
• Dec 2010 proxy from PSI
  first of all smtp from Parma with STARTTLS normal password & username
  at PSI no authentication security none
• This does not work! Ethernet card problem on T5010?
• July 2010 Problems:

OpenOffice does not see the system defaults for printing.
Remember to select A4 instead of Letter
samba is not seen under pc34 wired connection (static IP)
works under Auto eth0 (dhcp)
Installing Nexus libraries for x64
search for Fedora, found rpm for x64 under Fedora 12 (nexus-4.2.1-0.x86_64.rpm)
installed alien (with Synaptic)
alien nexus-4.2.1-0.x86_64.rpm produces nexus_4.2.1-1_amd64.deb (now on the download page)
Same for mxml: found mxml-2.5-5.fc12.x86_64.rpm and alienated it to mxml_2.5-6_amd64.deb
They are enough for mulab, but to get nxbrowse to work (with errors) one needs also a workaround:
to install libreadlines5 (with Synaptic)

Installing SCX-4200 at home
Side-effects:replaces lpr with a gui version that alters the printing
behavior of Acrobat and OO. Fixed by relinking /usr/bin/lpr.orig to /usr/bin/lpr
used install.sh in /usr/local/src/drivers/SCX-4200/Linux
from the 8.10 root Fine but cannot connect to laptop-claudia
does not see it on smb:
Install Ubuntu 10.04 on a 64 GB partition,
dev/sda9/ squeezed out of /dev/sda7 originally 77 GB for 8.10
Initially /home on the same partition
Try it out, eventually cancel 8.10 and migrate /home to /dev/sd06

Install missing software with Synaptic

 gimp
 inkscape
 xfig
 emacs 23
 texlive
 octave
 openafs
 texlive-publishers (old revtex included)
 openssh-server
 acroread
 vpnc (copied export from 8.10) key point is gateway 160.78.253.150, groupname v. LCA,
       optional username nome.cognome@unipr.it domain fis.unipr.it NAT Cisco UDP Disable dead peer detection ticked
 qtplot (math)

Install from APS zip

 revtex4-1 

(requires also textcase.sty; works with tx (dvi) or directly with pdflatex, whereas a paper with \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} that was compiled correctly by tx with revtex4, now complains about pdftex.def.

Matlab 2009b from lca (etc+licenses, same, with dat and lic respectively)

Firefox plugins (flash for you-tube: try the site, open popdown Tools/Manage Content plugins)

Created user root

After that, renamed old myhome with another name, copied new 10.04 /home/myhome/ onto old partition /home, then from a root desktop changed the user name to the name.surname standard with /root/cambia_utente.sh, changed /home to the old partition in fstab and restarted.

Then copied all non-hidden directories plus a couple of files and extra dirs (e.g. .emacs.d/) Copied the .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird directories. At first call the system gets automatically upgraded to the 10.04 level keeping addresses, passwords, bookmarks etc.

Installed math and virtualbox

• Note for upgrade to 9.04: X server crashes when using a wacom tablet

The wacom driver in Ubuntu 9.04 supports automatic configuration, but it conflicts with manual device entries for wacom tablets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, causing the X server to crash either on startup or shutdown. Please comment out or remove the entries from xorg.conf to get rid of the crashes. (358643)

• ssh fast-track for use with batch (e.g. rsync in crontab). Run on user_a of client host_a
  ssh-keygen -t rsa

(do not generate passphrase)
copy .ssh/id_rsa.pub into /home/user_b/.shh/authorized_keys on the server host_b side. Now user_a can run
ssh user_b@host_b which logs in without password.

• samba: apt-get install samba

edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and uncomment (remove ; in front of)
[homes]

 comment = Home directories
 browseable = no

set password for samba server as root with

 smbpasswd -a myusername

• issue: Adobe Reader 8.1.13 does not open url links (problems with libgtkembedmoz, even pointing it to either /usr/lib/thunderbird or to /usr/lib64/thunderbird where to identical copies of libgtkembedmoz.so exist.
• issue: problems with samba at home: several programs (ooo, evince) screw up the Samsung printer. Also problems with permissions
• samba and autofs: installed smbfs, was missing as default.
• installed inkscape. Can import pdf as single page, distinguishes text and figures, add a layer for handnotes,two for writing and highlighting (opacity 30%). then export as pdf. Must be a way to handle multipage pdf.
• Acroread, First add medibuntu:

to get the key and added

  http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free 

at the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list, finally

  apt-get install acroread

• jarnal, used jarnal-install.zip, into /usr/local/jarnal with links of jarnal.sh and jarnal.jar into /usr/local/bin (see inkscape)

keyrings reset. To reset keyring password out-of-sync with LDAP. Simply type as user
killall gnome-keyrings-daemon
gnome-keyrings-daemon.
First wireless connection will ask passwords and other secrets again.(used in 8.04, check first if needed in 8.10)

Just after installation

• Twin Head xorg.conf and Laptop alone xorg.conf

• Installed mozilla-thunderbird, emacs22, ssh, sshfs,
• Installed matlab (working only within fis.unipr.it)

• Samsung: follow older installation? instructions (driver in /usr/local/src/drivers).
• AFS: follow older installation? instructions.
• Flashplayer 10 Downloaded libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz from Adobe.
• Skype download http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu, install libqt4-core and libqt4-gui, then run @@dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian_2.xxx_i386.deb
• No mic under ALSA,

On 31/03/2009 didn't work any more (after upgrade of packages?) New attempts here finally successful. Had been originally solved by adding

options snd-hda-intel model=basic

• vnp download vpnc with Synaptic. Configure VPN (left-click on net applet on panel). Set

• g77 not in the repository. See gfortran or downgrade. TODO, compile muzen.
• NeXus: zlib1g-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libhdf4g, libmxml1, libmxml-dev,

Start installation from here: Hardware:: 320 GB disk, 4GB RAM, Intel P9400,

• Ubuntu 8.10 live cd on USB

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