**Update:
OK, so it seems it was the boot order in the legacy boot options that was set to Network before USB storage device.

But now on to the next problem...

I'm stuck in a loop.

I try to run Ubuntu Studio without installation and it just keeps restarting my computer and coming back to the same screen (boot options for Linux OS)

**Original Post:

"Hi everyone,

I used to test linux distros all the time back on an old desktop tower...
Now times have changed (a lot, even in a year..) and I have a windows 10 Dell Inspiron 5-something.

After a while of frustrations with windows (just name any problem, I have it, grhhh windows), I remembered about Linux, and so I went ahead, downloaded the OS (ubuntu studio, since I am making Audio Prod.), installed it on a partition(100GB) of my USB-HDD (Seagate 1TB).

So now I have a boot-able Ubuntu Studio USB-HDD.

The problem is when I try to run it, after getting past the BIOS/UEFI, Secure Boot options, I was able to boot from the drive but then I got this error:

"Realtek PCIe FE family controller series v1.34 (10/17/13)
PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Check Cable" *Image of a screenshot is attached.

After a little reasearch it seems to be that it is trying to boot from network instead of the USB-HDD.
At least that's what I got online, but I have a feeling this might not be it because when I am using Windows 10, the Realtek driver ALWAYS ****s up. The sound starts to crackle and clip.

Could this be as simple as a boot order? Is it a bad cable coection? Is it because of Realtek?

Any help would be appreciated, meanwhile, I will check the bad boot order possibility.

Best to have one thread on each system, if that is what you want. Then also include in title brand/model system.

For Toshiba, that should be an UEFI install. And some UEFI have fast boot which is different than fast start up in Windows. Fast boot is also a Windows requirement to speed booting of Windows. It assumes no changes to hardware or configuration, and if everything is the same it just reboots without taking time to scan system for hardware. But often then you do not have time to get into UEFI to change settings or get system to recognize changes. Some have to totally power down, including removing battery if laptop, and hold power switch for 10 secv or so, then cold boot and immediately press correct key to get into UEFI/BIOS. Others have to jumper pins on motherboard or even remove coin battery on motherboard to totally reset. And then all changes to UEFI revert to default. Also a UEFI update from vendor reverts to default so keep track of changes. In my UEFI systems I have had anywhere from a few to many settings to change.

But may be best to see details:
Post the link to the Create BootInfo summary report. Is part of Boot-Repair:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

Always best to use Windows own tools to shrink Windows NTFS partitions and reboot immediately so Windows can run its chkdsk. It always requires a chkdsk after a resize. But do not create partitions with Windows. And Linux NTFS driver will not mount Windows that is hibeated nor needs chkdsk. Grub will also not boot systems needing chkdsk or are hibeated. Best to have Windows repair disk or know how to use Windows repair console. With UEFI you can still directly boot Windows from UEFI boot menu or one time boot key, if fast boot is not so fast as to prevent pressing key.

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I swapped a server in my closet from Windows 7 Pro to Ubuntu. On windows, I used remote desktop to get on this server. I would put it to sleep and then use WOL (wake on LAN) to bring the server back up. With FreeNX, when I suspend the server, it hangs the NX client up for waaaayyyyy too long and I'm forced to just sit and look at a frozen screen I can't get out of. Does anyone know of a better to solution for this problem? A command to force close FreeNX? A way to just force minimize the NX client? A remote, easy way to suspend the server? I've searched and can't find anything.

I know I can SSH into the server and suspend it from the command line, but it seems rather much to log out of the NX session, fire up SSH, log in and suspend the server. There has got to be a more elegant solution. I have even thought of scripting an SSH command, but nothing has just jumped out at me as The Way to go here.

It seems people have gone to a lot of trouble to make WOL work. I find it hard to believe that Sleep On LAN was never contemplated. Yeah, I understand putting other people's computer to sleep, haha, but a person would think someone would have written a snazzy client server gui that automates remote commands like this.

As a user of Mikrotik Routerboards, something scriptable similar to the gui Winbox, that would let you execute commands on a remote server would be neat. Does anyone know of anything like this?

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System did its normal upgrade of headers and image, and now my wireless doesn't show up.

Lsusb output:

 lsusb
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1058:0748 Weste Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport (WDBKXH, WDBY8L)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 006: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 005 Device 007: ID 1997:2433  
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 045e:0752 Microsoft Corp. Wired Keyboard 400
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:thopiekar/mt7601
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mt7601-sta-dkms

As you can see, it is no longer detected as a usb device. I checked to see if the driver was still installed and got this output:

sudo apt-get install mt7601-sta-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
mt7601-sta-dkms is already the newest version.

[sudo] password for wolf: 
modprobe: FATAL: Module mt7601-sta not found.

I am using the 3.16 keel, and Ciamon 2.8 on Ubuntu 14.04.4

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I lost the sidebar on the desktop (on the left side) that pops up that includes applications such as firefox, a mail client, file browser, etc. Me being the new noob that I am, have been searching for a solution.

It looks like I accidentally installed unity. I have a sidebar now but it is not the original one and I do not like it.

How can I uninstall unity and get my old sidebar back?

Thanks

I'd like to buy a new laptop, and I have found that PC Specialist allows me to configure a Windows-free system. Unfortunately, they don't know whether their systems are compatible with Linux. Here is what I am contemplating buying. Is there anything here that has a risk of not playing nicely with Ubuntu?

Chassis & Display
UltraNote: 14" Matte Full HD IPS LED Backlit Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5 Dual Core Processor i5-6200U (2.30GHz, 2.8GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
8GB HyperX IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 520 - 1.7GB Max DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 12
1st Hard Disk
1TB WD SLIM BLUE 2.5" WD10SPCX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
M.2 SSD Drive
120GB KINGSTON SSDNow M.2 2280 G2, SATA 6Gb/s (550MB/R, 200MB/W)
Memory Card Reader
Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)
Sound Card
Realtek 2 Chael High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-8260 M.2 (867Mbps, 802.11AC) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery
UltraNote III Series 32WH Lithium Ion Battery
Power Cable
1 x UK Power Lead & 40W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language
14" ULTRANOTE III SERIES UK KEYBOARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 1MP HD WEBCAM

Hello,

I have been experimenting with i2p and Freenet; but have found the content in these places unsophisticated and out of date. Quite a disappointment. These projects apparently offer up-to-date installation candidates; but frankly there doesn't seem to be anything of value to coect to. I don't get the impression that there's any Free Speech going on in these places. The documentation I've been able to find seems to indicate that the technology is sound and in many ways more secure than TOR; but the Onion sites certainly have obtained greater popularity; and have mode web interfaces, which the aforemention systems do not.

Would it be possible to get a few informed opinions about the viability of these projects; and where they might fit into an overall security and anonymity strategy? For example, I have an HMA IP over UDP router; and have TOR, i2p and Freenet on my laptops. Is there some combination of these technologies that will provide the greatest security with maximum spam resistance? WoT appears to have a lot going for it; but Freenet appears to be deprecated as well as i2p. Are there any other projects that I should consider? Oh, and how about some real content?

Thanks, Grace

Hello,

I am trying to use libvirt on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.

I tried with libvirt 1.2.2 (which comes with apt-get) and also compiled a 1.3.2 version, and had the same problem.

problem:
I have VirtualBox VM working fine. I can manage it through VBoxManage.
I installed libvirt, and i tried to use virsh.

If i do virsh -c vbox:///session list -> i see my VM
If i do virsh -c vbox::///session destroy myVmName -> i see the vm destroyed.
if i do virsh -c vbox::///session start myVmName -> I got:

error: failed to start domain 'myVmName'
error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown

I am confused with the logging, because a tail -f /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log doesnt show any changes (but also when doing virsh list or destroy it works and i still dont see any changes in this log ... this log only dumps stuff when I do a service libvirt-bin restart, then i see a couple of debug messages). It looks like the deamon is never used or something like this.

on the virsh client side, i have plenty of "debugs" and "info", but no "errors", only "unknown dumped out on the terminal from which i do the virsh start).

If i do a virsh vbox::///session create .xml i can see the same error (caot create, unknown error). I think it could be the same issue, something stupid i m sure.

I have attache here the virsh client logs with plenty of stuff in it but no error so far ,

If someone has experienced the same problem and want to help me, it would be fantastic
(also if someone can explain why doing a destroy or a list doesnt make logs appear in the daemon, i must have missed something big, it doesnt make any sense to me
(i have a :
log_level = 1
log_outputs="1:file:/var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log"
in the /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf file,
and i run the daemon using
sudo service libvirt-bin start,
but i believe deamon will be spawned when first vbox:///session is sent from client)

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Hi!
I recently installed xubuntu 15.10 and I also installed the keel 4.4 since I had problems with my radeon r9 390 card and I read the the newest keel should fix those problems.
I don't have those issues any more: the desktop doesn't freeze and the gpu:s fans are not always on as they did before.

The problem now is that the CPU is doing all the work, if I use Gnome, then gnome-shell takes 70-80% out of the CPU.
Same occurs in xfce where the process "xorg" takes up the 30%. Much better then Gnome yes, but still unusual. I have read several threads about similar issues but I couldn't find a solution.

This maybe can help:

glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
    GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND     
 6992 root      20   0  428792 192372  21896 S  22,6  0,6   2:31.58 Xorg        
 7826 orlando   20   0  770140  69096  58324 S   5,6  0,2   0:09.80 gnome-syst+ 
 8399 orlando   20   0  791184  27436  22520 S   1,3  0,1   0:00.45 xfce4-term+ 
 7607 orlando   20   0  253356  23840  18068 S   1,0  0,1   0:11.75 panel-10-w+ 
 7409 orlando   20   0  174616  21992  15944 S   0,7  0,1   0:06.03 xfwm4       
 8432 orlando   20   0   33372   3236   2632 R   0,7  0,0   0:00.04 top         
  110 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,3  0,0   0:00.88 kworker/6:1 
 7413 orlando   20   0  652732  23492  18504 S   0,3  0,1   0:00.32 xfce4-panel 
 7650 orlando   20   0  340416   6500   5636 S   0,3  0,0   0:00.04 indicator-+ 
 7877 orlando   20   0 1676860 441176  96344 S   0,3  1,3   2:34.65 firefox     
    1 root      20   0   33900   4512   2728 S   0,0  0,0   0:01.41 init        
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 kthreadd    
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 kworker/0:+ 
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:01.33 rcu_sched   
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 rcu_bh      
    9 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.02 migration/0

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I get some crashes but I have no idea which log file to have a look at, since there are so many, both in /tmp and in /var.
I suspect the cause is the GPU (but I'm not sure), so I should probably focus on those logs, wherever they are.

System
I use Xubuntu with Xfce (as it is by default).
Radeon HD 5770.

Crash
Sometimes, usually watching YouTube, the screen gets kind of dark green with probably some vertical lines.
The last second of audio gets played in loop for a while, and then it stops and I have to hard-reboot the PC.

This is something you will do only once, so you need not set up a perfect environment in the live system.

- Have you mounted the partition with your data? In that case maybe it is mounted with read permissions only for root (the superuser), not for your regular user.

Either you change the mounting so that your regular user will get permissions, or you save the file with a tool, that runs with root permissions.

- Do you need help with mounting the partition with your data?

- Do you want a graphical user interface, or can you use terminal window commands for saving the files?

cp and rsync are good command line tools

sudo cp ...
#or
sudo rsync ...

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gksu

gksudo nautilus &

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Hello Everyone!

Getting back into the tablet game, and what better way than to try to track down the sensors on a new Lenovo Yoga 14!

From what I've seen, everything (on Windows 10) is going through this new fancy Intel Integrated Sensor Solution, which then goes to another device, then splits out into four different devices within Windows 10 device manager (ambient light, gyroscope, rotation, GPS?). What do we get in Ubuntu?

From lshw:

...

        *-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Non-VGA unclassified device
             product: Intel Corporation
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 13
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
             version: 21
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:d564b000-d564bfff

from lspci:

00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Device 9d35 (rev 21)

...

[ 4818.251001] pci 0000:00:13.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 5191.273767] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment

Brain is a bit but up right now from banging on this for a bit (4AM where I'm at right now), but if anyone has any pointers on probing PCI devices, or ways to get devices that are under this one to enumerate within sysfs or appear for the i2c devices (so many modules modprobed, got back a lot of nothing) it would be greatly appreciated.

There are many people who encounter this problem: after they installed Nvidia/CUDA library, after reboot, they got a login loop, caot login to desktop.

I also encounter the same problem today. So I switched to TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and created a new user and found out that I can login using the new user. Then I realize that if I use the new user's $HOME/.profile, I can login too. Finally, the problem lies in the $HOME/.profile, the problematic line is surprisingly: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=*/cuda*:*/nvidia*:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

It tus out that if your current graphics card is not compatible with the Nvidia driver or CUDA library, or if there is some conflict in Nvidia/CUDA, or in my case, I blacklisted Nvidia device in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules for a GPU passthrough, then desktop login will crash the X session despite the fact that X session can still reach the login screen. It is a bug that deals with the fail-safeness of the ubuntu-desktop.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used to specify dynamic library path when linking programs, no matter how incorrectly set, it should not cause desktop login to crash.

Thus, I hope the developers can make desktop login more fail-safe, and DON'T do fuy stuffs like dynamic GPU module compilation during login, which if fails, causes a infinite login loop.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Forums

It is a known bug. There will be a new and much more robust version of the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator in the next version of Ubuntu, 16.04 LTS, which will be released in April. But now I suggest that you use another tool to make the USB drive an Ubuntu boot drive. I suggest that you try mkusb, according to this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb

You run standard Ubuntu, so you need an extra instruction to get the repository Universe. (Kubuntu, Lubuntu ... Xubuntu have the repository Universe activated automatically.)

sudo add-apt-repository universe  # only for standard Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa  # and press Enter
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mkusb

Installation/FromUSBStick

Hi all. Is this normal for the contents of these folders directly after boot?

$ dir /var/tmp
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-colord.service-X50gy3
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-rtkit-daemon.service-PEEa3z
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-systemd-timesyncd.service-5rNeMz

$ dir /tmp
config-err-HdRP7Y
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-colord.service-axGfFO
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-rtkit-daemon.service-osktJd
systemd-private-5865b17aff664ec69d18a2659e6b07f6-systemd-timesyncd.service-4V2rtl

After that, no space left on disk messages every time I tried to launch anything. I couldn't open gparted to see if the disk actually was full.

Anyhow, I'm on 15.10 with 16.04 on another partition so booted into 16.04 and, sure enough, the 15.04 / partition had about 700mb left available and was full. Crazy thing is, there is virtually nothing on that partition. So I mounted it in a file manager and started to hunt. There is nothing anywhere that is anywhere near big enough to fill 20Gb (the size of the 15.10 / partition). The only thing of consequence was the 2Gb Uni folder which contains all my work. I backed that up, deleted it from the / partition and rebooted into 15.10 which now had enough headroom to allow me to dig a bit deeper.

I can still find nothing, but the output at the begiing of this post might give a clue. What I did discover was that both those folders had about fifty lines like it and a few other bits and pieces. Where have they come from? Deleted the lot, rebooted, and without doing anything else, I get what is shown in my output above in those folders.
_____

Hunted and grunted (to put it mildly) and found a bunch of clues about what might be happening, a link is still open for a deleted linked file looking promising, then there's this and this, none of which has done anything for me (although they might if I had any idea what to do with the output ... clutching at straws there).

I've always had issues with USB on this machine (new build, i7, 16Gb RAM, NVidia GTX 970, Gigabyte MB) where the keyboard dies and comes back to life randomly and less often the USB network adapter does the same, so wondering if related.

Frankly, fairly clueless with what to do at this point and deep breathing (ain't deadlines fun). Have found a workaround (mount 16.04 partition in 15.10 to access the backed up Uni folder stored there) but it is pretty important I get to the bottom of this. And yes, there is nothing in trash (although something about hidden trash was in some thread I read). About to get back to work and half expecting the /var/tmp and /tmp folders to start filling up when I do. Is there anything I should report? Any log that would help folk help me diagnose?

For now I'll get back to what I need to be doing via my workaround (after six lost, valuable hours screwing around with this) and check back later. Appreciate any and all clues, I have all digits and eyes crossed, and TIA.
_____

*** NOTE: I just booted in to 16.04 and before doing anything this is what I have in those same folders here:

$ dir /tmp
config-err-fPbv94
systemd-private-eff1f475153245fd9f05e62f79fcda58-rtkit-daemon.service-QbtlvI
systemd-private-eff1f475153245fd9f05e62f79fcda58-systemd-timesyncd.service-MBo1W2

$ dir /var/tmp
audacity-bucky
systemd-private-4db87bd99aec489eae4f4550e794d9fa-rtkit-daemon.service-QO1cAl
systemd-private-4db87bd99aec489eae4f4550e794d9fa-systemd-timesyncd.service-6d3NEe
systemd-private-8aafe2f854634f41ab28bde4f7d52fda-systemd-timesyncd.service-dF9DyW
systemd-private-b688b69e31e442df987172be2aac0be0-rtkit-daemon.service-oq7gsR
systemd-private-b688b69e31e442df987172be2aac0be0-systemd-timesyncd.service-Gvyxxb
systemd-private-eff1f475153245fd9f05e62f79fcda58-rtkit-daemon.service-z8MDtC
systemd-private-eff1f475153245fd9f05e62f79fcda58-systemd-timesyncd.service-fDZY6S

And just for good measure, have attached a pic of htop from 15.10 with no apps launched on desktop. I see some suspiciousness there (sbin action?) but no idea what to do to dig further.

It's time to revisit this topic again. The last I saw when I searched was 2013.

Parallels 2x RDP no longer installs on Ubuntu 15.10, citing dependency issues. I have not been able to make any of the other RDP clients in Ubuntu work. They all log onto my employer's server without difficulty, but fail to bring up the login screen to access the applications on said server.

For the time being I've switched to Fedora because the .rpm client works fine. Also fyi, my Chrome app Parallels client works ok, just slow as molasses. But the .deb client is now non-functional.

Has anyone been able to get Parallels to work? Suggestions?

ps - My skill level: I'm a 14 yr Linux user and am pretty skilled generally. Not a programmer but can handle basic command line stuff. But I've always been stymied at dealing with complex dependency conflict resolutions. My social worker mind just glazes over with that stuff.

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Is there any way to install the latest version of Gutenprint in 14.04? There isn’t a printer definition for my new Canon Pixma MG7560 in the 14.04 standard repo version (5.2.10-pre2) and building from source seems to produce something that wants to install in /usr/local rather than /usr. But I think I’m in well over my head here.

Should/can the other version be removed first? I’m dubious.

Is there a way of just using the printer definition or is that dependant on the code?

The closest printer models (e.g. MG7100 series, MG8100 series) in 5.2.10 have very different options (e.g. paper trays, etc), so it doesn’t seem like I could use them.

Hello.

Previously I was a windows 10 user and I installed ubuntu ( It was stupid of me to select the '2nd option' that would erase the whole hard disk, I thought it would just erase the 'C' Drive completely so no more windows...)
So now I am I am with only one partition and it is messy... I am new to ubuntu ofcourse. Never have tried any linux distros before. Before installing ubuntu I tried it first, felt nice. And then I did a install ( in a stupid way )

I don't mind loosing the data, it was mostly movies that I have already seen, and a few other applications that I often used.
But the problem for me is, I want to have partitions so that I can organize is better. Or is there a better way to organize 'My Computer'
Like I said, I am a windows user making a jump to linux. I tried searching in google, but in vain.

To give a better understanding of what I mean.
Is this.

http://imgur.com/a/2NJEr

Thanks.

Hello friends. This post is going to sound like I'm asking for Android help, but please understand I'm not. I'm at the end of the road troubleshooting this situation on my Ubuntu laptop, and I'm questioning if what I'm seeing here on Ubuntu is somewhat conclusive to whether the Micro SD card is good, bad, or somewhere in between.

Long story short, I have a Micro SD card in my Galaxy S4. I've taken a lot of pictures and video in a short amount of time (to the tune of about 1,600 files). I use FolderSync to automatically sync everything when coected to wifi to my NAS. The catch is, two videos in particular (253 MB and 350 MB) continuously fail to transfer. As a result, I've tried other means to transfer these two video files, including:

1) Uploading to my ownCloud server
2) Uploading to my Google Drive account
3) Uploading to Dropbox
4) Firing up AirDroid and attempting to download them through a web browser
5) Transferring them manually to my NAS via Astro File Manager
6) Using a USB cable and pulling the two videos off via Nautilus
7) Putting the Micro SD card in an SD adapter and copying the videos to my laptop
8) Through terminal, copying + rsyncing the videos to my laptop
All failed, with most citing an input/output error.

It's worth noting that one video fails to play period. The other video will play on my phone just fine.

I checked the card with GParted, but saw no errors.

Ultimately, I ran a command I found online (scary, right?) to check the SD card. Here are the results:

jason@mobile-hq1:/media/jason/0F28-1B01/DCIM/Camera$ dosfsck -vtr /dev/mmcblk0p1 
fsck.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
open: Permission denied
jason@mobile-hq1:/media/jason/0F28-1B01/DCIM/Camera$ sudo !!
sudo dosfsck -vtr /dev/mmcblk0p1 
[sudo] password for jason: 
fsck.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
0x41: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt.
1) Remove dirty bit
2) No action
? 1
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSWIN4.1"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     32768 bytes per cluster
       144 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 73728 (sector 144)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   3895296 bytes per FAT (= 7608 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 7864320 (sector 15360)
    973696 data clusters (31906070528 bytes)
16 sectors/track, 4 heads
      2048 hidden sectors
  62331904 sectors total
/DCIM/Camera/20160131_155009.mp4
  Cluster 3429 (45977) is unreadable. Skipping it.
/DCIM/Camera/20160131_155009.mp4
  Cluster 3433 (45982) is unreadable. Skipping it.
/DCIM/Camera/20160131_155009.mp4
  Cluster 3433 (45983) is unreadable. Skipping it.
/DCIM/Camera/20160131_155009.mp4
  Cluster 3437 (45988) is unreadable. Skipping it.
/DCIM/Camera/20160131_155009.mp4
  Cluster 3437 (45989) is unreadable. Skipping it.

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Getting confused here. I've written some simple scripts to transcode videos that work perfectly some times, and not so great at other times. For example, I just ran "2mkv" against a single file is a separate folder, and got an error message upon completion that it could not move the original file to the directory "old", no such folder and yet the script quite clearly says on line 3 mkdir -p new and on line 4 mkdir -p old. Nowhere in the script are any folders removed.

I have another script that employs ffmpeg's af volumedetect to find the volume level and apply the difference between that and the ideal level of "0" (89 db). As bash does not handle floating decimal points I've had to call up bc to handle the mathematics end of things and, again, sometimes it adjusts the volume level and sometime it does not.

It isn't just my scripts. In Gnome Sudoku you can right click a square to enter in possible values, again, sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Now, I'm the kind of person who leaves their computer ruing 24/7, and have noticed that things usually work perfectly just after a boot or login, but if its been ruing for some hours it is more likely to act up and the only cure is to logoff (which occasionally fails) or reboot. In the meantime this has caused me endless hours of frustration.

Just how stable is xfce4? Is there anything I can do to make it more stable? Please do not suggest moving to unity or kde - tried them, hate them. I like a simple interface - I usually don't even change from the stock settings. No themes, no bouncy icons, just my wallpaper selection changing every 10 minutes. How about Openbox for stability? It has the right-click menu I like, and I don't mind tinkering to get the settings right. Anyone have a opinion/suggestion/magic wand?

Amd 64 bit /w 8 cores, 16 Gb Ram, Watercooled (so it is not overheating)
Xubuntu 15.10 from clean install with all update.

I have been using skype successfully for a long time now, both with 14.04.5 ubuntu and windows10. But when in Ubuntu, I have to go into system settings, sound, output devices...and choose my mic from a list. After doing this, the person that I call (or whose call I answer) is able to hear my voice. But upon closing system settings, this setting is not saved. Therefore, the next call I make, I must go to sound settings and change to my mic, well, long story short I have leaed to leave system settings active after making this change. I would like system settings to save this change and save me the trouble. Any suggestions?