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..., what's the best way to start a GUI program as root without a terminal? I mean, from a launcher or similar where you can't provide terminal input to "sudo". I'm talking about applications that aren't configured to switch to root out-of-the box, of course. I just tried gksu-polkit from EPEL, and it kind of did the job but: 1. It consumed *a lot* of resources - CPU usage was reported at a constant 100 %, more or less. 2. The process did not go away after I closed the application. Which means it's practically unusable, unless someone can provide a way to fi...

Hi, I'm running ubuntu edgy with compiz, switched from gentoo to ubuntu for faster updates (emerge is way slow with source builds..). So far, I like it. but that is not the issue I'm addressing now. I've noted that with both these machines, when I'm doing something that tints the whole screen to gray (like trying to logout, or using some software that prompts for sudo

...to initially work (after asking for the root pwd) then it pops up an error "You do not have administrator privileges on this machine. Setup cannot continue". I have the following: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Wine 1.0 in Ubuntu, I bring up the "run application" window and then type Code: gksu /media/cdrom0/setup32.exe I've also tried adding "wine" before that address. Everything comes up with the same error (with the heading SetupMgr). I have also tried clicking on the setup32.exe icon, running from a terminal window, everything brings up the identical error. I did...

Hello... I am trying to run a program under linux using wine called "Recover My Files". This program is designed to recover data from corrupted harddrives contining FAT and NTFS partitions by reading them sector by sector or cluster by cluster. The thing is, the drive in question is unmountable due to logic problems on the device, which it appears is rendering the drive invisible to

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...an-vr New version: 7.2.44-1~etch-cran.0 r-recommended New version: 2.8.0-1~etch-cran.0 Clearly these are major replacements for the existing installations, and I'm still too inexperienced with Debian to feel sure of what might happen if I just tell the update-mananger[*] to go ahead! [*] gksu /usr/bin/update-manager Are there any known gotchas up there? And, if it should happen that something goes wrong, can I revert to my current installation straightforwardly? And are there precautions I should take to (a) avoid clashes, (b) make sure that things should be safe? And, assuming it se...

...es dotnet35: adjust to Focht's recipe dotnet40: new verb, based on steps from Anastasius Focht. mono210: update to 2.10.8 mspatcha: new verb sdl: new verb vcrun6, vcrun6sp6: don't use its native msvcrt, too old Add a hack for 1.4-rc* support, preliminary support for 1.4/1.4.x/1.5.x Also try gksu/kdesu if the sudo versions are not available. Fixes Issue 164. Fix indentation/typo Use a wrapper function for wineserver, fixes issue 142. Dan Kegel braid: updated. cmd: new verb dotnet30: don't fail on older wine where no fake fontcache service exists dotnet40: fix fail on 2nd run of verb dr...

Hi I try since a week to run my MGE Protection Center under Suse Linux 9.3. At the MGE site i found an HowTo. I have installed NUT an create the=20 configs but at boot the newhidups driver say=B4s "no USB/HID UPS found".=20= Anyone an Idea? Johannes Schatz=

Regarding http://twitter.com/CentOS/statuses/79336297579282432 I don't have a twitter account so I'm spamming the list since it looks on topic :) I'd like to see on the LiveCD the following: 1. latest dd_rescue 2. latest gparted 3. ntfs-3g 4. screen 5. mc How about you? -- Nux! www.nux.ro

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Hello all, I have a Xen kernel running on a CentOS 5.1: xen-users@lists.xensource.com The Xen versions I have are: rpm -qa | grep xen kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-41.el5_1.6 xen-3.0.3-41.el5_1.6 xen-devel-3.0.3-41.el5_1.6 So far I have a few Guest DOMU''s installed successfully - various CentOS flavors ... 1. I am able to successfully install Ubuntu 6.06 as a Xen

I am a rank newbie to Linux and wine. I am running Ubuntu Dapper on an AMD 1800 mhz machine, wine 0.9.15 Everything I have read says use the installer to load windows programs. Where is the installer? Thanks, -- Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA http://www.plansandprojects.com My hobby pages are here:

...850] 1000 4850 3637 60 2 0 0 gnome-pty-helpe Sep 5 18:03:14 pcale kernel: [ 985.495327] [ 4851] 1000 4851 4874 249 2 0 0 bash Sep 5 18:03:14 pcale kernel: [ 985.495330] [ 4862] 1000 4862 70156 862 1 0 0 gksu Sep 5 18:03:14 pcale kernel: [ 985.495333] [ 4869] 1000 4869 17215 222 1 0 0 su Sep 5 18:03:14 pcale kernel: [ 985.495336] [ 4871] 0 4871 3096 82 0 0 0 ssh-agent Sep 5 18:03:14 pcale kernel: [ 985.495339] [ 4879] 0 4879...

On Sun, Nov 07 2010 at 6:05pm -0500, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 10:39:23PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > > On 11/07/2010 08:45 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >> I read about barrier-problems and data getting to the partition when > > >> using dm-crypt and several layers so I don''t know if that could be > >