I wonder if something else is locking the port.
Try this before starting the Arduino IDE:
ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
Please paste the output here
And try:
cat /dev/ttyUSB0
if it shows nothing or if it shows some serial data being sent from the Arduino then it should be ok.
If something else is locing the port it would show cat: /dev/ttyUSB0: Device or resource busy
What kind of sketch is on your chip? Something that send serial data?
You will have to upgrade or disable Upower to solve this but I'm not sure how to do it. As the problem is not with your board or with the Arduino environment there may be better support forums than this one.
You may have to Google a bit.
thanks alot guys and special thanks to perhof it work now i update my xubuntu to 12.04. your answer about the upower bug. i google abou it and its fixed in the 12.04 thanks
A few questions:
What kind of Arduino board do you have?
Which Arduino version do you have installed on the server.
Was it when you upgraded to 12.04 that it stopped working?
avrdude stk500_recv() programmer is not responding
This means that the IDE thinks you're using a specific programmer device, rather than a bootloader-based serial uploader.
You must have edited your boards file, or selected "update using programmer" in the IDE. Re-select the right board using the serial port, and you should be good to go.
You probably configured the wrong programmer type, then. What type of programmer are you using? The name of the USBtinyII is "usbtiny" not "usb" for example.