I have Ubuntu 8.04 and I tried Kubuntu with "sudo apt-get install kubuntu". It made my system lag so I got rid of it. Now, everything is back to normal except for the screens with the gauge when you boot up and shut down. It'd the blue kubuntu one but should be the orange ubuntu one. It's not really a problem but it bugs me. Thanks for any help.

Well I finally toke the plunge and upgraded my Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon to 8.04 LTS, I recorded the steps and captured it for anyone that would like to see exactly what was invloved in doing the upgrade. Take a look here.

Cheers
PCWizKid

whenever I try 'sudo aptitude install [whatever]' or 'sudo apt-get install [whatever]' in Terminal, I get the message: "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem."

Then, I run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'. The following happens:

Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.124.0ubuntu1~gutsy1) ...
Downloading...
--00:07:46-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...9_linux.tar.gz
=> `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 84.53.154.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|84.53.154.70|:80...

(A few weeks before this problem, I wanted to get a flash player for internet content, trying all sorts of things :-?). The abovementioned happens and it just never ends (It keeps reconnecting,struggling to connect to a website even though my internet connection is open)

Please Help

hello guys i get this after installing the update can you help me out plz?;


E: ttf-opensymbol: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 49
E: openoffice.org-core: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-common: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-style-human: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: python-uno: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-writer: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-calc: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-draw: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-impress: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-math: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-java-common: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-base: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-evolution: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-gtk: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: openoffice.org-gnome: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured


here is the output for :
sudo dpkg --configure -a
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Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-opensymbol
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-writer
python-uno
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-evolution
openoffice.org-style-human
openoffice.org-gnome
openoffice.org-java-common
openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-math

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and the output for :
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

#
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

Hi all,

I've just installed the beta for 8.04, to once more see the problems that drove me away from 7.04 & 7.10. I can't get dual screen working on it. The machine is an amd x64, using a radeon 1950 pro.

After the upgrade i got the popup stating the message about the proprietary driver, which i enabled.. reboot, do some searching to find the catalyst tool.. and discover that once again.. it doesn't work properly.

My question: is there a guide somewhere that explains how to set up a dual screen machine, for ATI, on amd x64, whith both screens in their native resolutions?

thanks in advance,
kristof

I have downloaded the et-linux-2.55.x86.run Enemy Territory version for linux and when I try to install it, it comes up with AbiWord and slows my computer down alot. The slow computer i understand, but why is it not working as a .run? If you can please help.

I erased by accident the Xsession file from /etc/gdm/Xsession. Now I can not run the Destop and I get the error message:
Please contact your administrator to resolve the following problem:
Could not open or create the file "(nul)";this indicates that
there may be a problem with your configuration, as many
programs will need to create files in your home directory.
The error was "Failed to create file '/temp/gconf-test-locking-
file-A4WH9T': Permission denied' /errno =13).

Thks

I have read many threads regarding how to do a 'minimal' install. But none actually give the steps taken. I have tried with the mini.iso and the 7.10 alternate ISO using cli-expert. But both get me a standard install that is around 590 - 600MB, which is about the same as if I just did a regular command line install or server install.

Is it possible to install just the very basic (no sound, no video, no GUI) using far less space (maybe more like 200MB instead of 600MB)?

Even with cli-expert mode I was never given an option of packages to install or not install and it appears to just go ahead and install many things that I do not want or need (pcmcia modules, wireless tools, sound tools, video tools, etc.).

Not sure if what i am trying to do is possible. But I would like to trim down the size considerably and do a real 'minimal' install.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm sure this has been answered, but I can't seem to find it via search - I must be using the wrong words.

I have been thinking about installing Xubuntu as well as the Ubuntu I've got installed currently, as this PC isn't the fastest machine. It's fine for most things, but I definitely like the idea of a faster desktop. :D

What I'd like to know is this: As Ubuntu likes to add new kernel updates to GRUB's menu.lst, keeping two or more Ubuntu-based distros (Linux Mint, Xubuntu, etc) updated would involve adding a lot of stuff manually to one menu.lst, correct? I know it's possible to have several distros sharing the same /boot partition, but I have been recommended against doing this here.

I have looked at the chainloader info, but it seems very technical and I don't want to mess around with anything that might screw this system up... It's my main box, not a test machine, and as much as I enjoy fixing problems (I'm weird that way), I don't like fixing them in a panic when I've got stuff that needs to be done on a broken box. :)

So is there a simpler way of doing this? Will sharing a seperate /boot partition do the trick if I stick to just Ubuntu variants? Would that still run the risk of a corrupted menu.lst? Or does it not really matter anyway?

Thanks a lot in advance! :D

I've got a fresh install of 8.04-rc, and rungetty is segfaulting.

I compiled the package locally, and the resulting binary does NOT segfault.

Anyone know why this would be? It's supposed to be the same source package, the same everything pretty much, so in theory if the package's binary segfaults, the locally-built binary should also segfault. But it runs just fine. (The reason I built it locally was to enable debugging symbols.)

I'm debating whether to open a bug to rungetty, but this seems like more of a compiler issue.

Hey -

I upgraded to the 8.04 LTS RC on Friday and since then have had a lot of trouble being able to use my PC.

So far I'm seeing the following issues:

1. The 10-key on the keyboard seems now to be intermittant. I've never had problems with this before, and it seems like the keyboard will sometimes work correctly when I first boot, but then for whatever reason the 10 key is lost... I can use the numbers above the letters on the keyboard, but this is definitely slower and a pain, not to mention that it should just work. Any thoughts? I have the US keyboard layout for a standard 105-key keyboard set as the default.

2. My PC is now locking up - A LOT! I've never had this kind of an issue with Ubuntu. Seems though that it happens mostly when Nautilus is open, but I'm not sure if that's the cause of the issue or not. Also, its unpredictable - yesterday when posting something to craigslist and going to add a picture, I I couldn't navigate through any windows for like 5 minutes, but it cleared on its own to the point where even though I couldn't use the mouse to select the pic I wanted to upload, I was able to type in the full path, hit enter and then all was fine. I couldn't select anything with the mouse in that window or any others until that point.

Today as another example though, I was playing music videos, got a phone call, hit pause in Totem and 2 minutes later the computer was locked up hard when I tried to start the video playing again. Nothing was responsive... even the number lock key on the keyboard wouldn't effect the light right above it, the mouse cursor was gone, etc. Nautilus was open on screen 1, Totem on screen 2.

3. Everytime my system goes to screen saver it either logs me out, or the computer locks up. I'll get the window to enter my password and then one of two things will happen, after I put in my password I either get nothing but two blank screens until I hard reset or my system goes back to GDM and I have to log in all over again and start my programs back up.

4. This one is kind of a nit, but even going to the screen saver, screen 1 dims before hand, screen 2 does not... not sure if this might have something to do with the problem above.

5. I've had to hit the reset button on the computer quite a bit in the last few days. When it goes to scan drives, at first I was getting a nice little message at the bottom of the standard loading Ubuntu screen saying soemthing along the lines of "Checking /mnt/sda1... etc." Now I don't even get that, I just get the 80x25 text screen and instead of the checking line getting updated, it gives me a new line for every update. I have 5 different partitions on various drives not including my swap, so this is getting pretty old. Seems like that form of updating the screen is not correct.

6. Another issue related to the drive checking... the drives are getting scanned as sda#, sdb#, sdd#. but in fstab they're showing up as hda#, hdb#, hdd#. They are IDE drives... not SATA or SCSI, so I'm not sure why this is happening either.

7. Immediately after upgrading, I had problems with the screen resolution on my nVidia card. I was getting 800x600 resolution and couldn't get anything higher. On recommendation from another forum post from someone else having a similar problem, I loaded the nVidia drivers again using EnvyNG... and they work now... sort of. I'm able to have the first screen at 1280x1024 and the second at 1024x768, but "Screen and Graphics" has disappeared from my System Preferences and Screen Resolution will not open. I just get an error saying: The X Server does not support the XRandR extension. Runtime resolution changes to the display are not available.

Here's the weird part... and it might explain it to a degree. After setting up the screens using the NVIDIA X Server Settings, my screen layout now works just like I'm using Xinerama, which I've never been able to do before. I love the way the screen layout works now as far as being able to drag windows from one screen to the other and maximize them within their own screen. I know Xinerama wasn't compatible with NVIDIA, but for whatever reason... that part at least seems to be working. I'm just wondering if its working right.

I know 8.04 was supposed to have some better multiple monitor support and I'm not sure if this kind of configuration should work under that, but in any case, I can't adjust it now from the way it is which is nice, to the way it was. I'm thinking I should be able to if this is actually supported at all now... just not sure what to do about it.

8. When I plug in my digital camera to a USB port, I get the normal "Camera Import" window saying a camera has been detected, would you like to add these pictures to your album, with the buttons Ignore and Import Photos. The camera also shows up as a drive on my desktop. However, when I hit import photos it now opens F-Spot instead of gThumb and pops up a window to pick whether to import from Camera: Mass Storage Camera at port disk:/media/dsk or Camera: Panasonic DMC-LC1 at port usb:. If I click on the "Mass Storage Camera," then I get an error that I don't have a ~/Photos folder, but it does find the pics on the camera. If I click on the Panasonic DMC-LC1, the icon for the camera disappears off my desktop and I get an error saying "Error connecting to camera" Received error "Unspecified error" while connecting to camera.

However, if I hit ignore and manually open gThumb and go to File -> Import Photos, I can still get the same import dialog window that I used to get when I hit Import Photos before in Fiesty and Gutsy, but it says "Mass Storage Camera" again like what worked in F-Spot instead of the name of my camera and now importing goes REALLY slowly.

9. Also - I noticed that it takes me 200mb of RAM just to boot up where it used to only take about 160mb. I'm not sure that I really see a lot of reason on why... kind of disappointed that this version might just be a little more bloated.

Please help! I suspect a lot of these issues might be fixed on their own by future updates, so I'm not really wanting to try to downgrade back to Gutsy (if that's even possible w/o doing a fresh install), but I also really don't want to have to do a fresh install either. I'd like to just be able to fix my problems and keep going.

Thanks,
spamking2000

AMD XP1800+, 1.5GB RAM, 200GB + 160GB + 15GB HD's, nVideo GeForce4 MX440 dual head

I have a WinXP machine with two HDs. Ubuntu was recommended to me by a friend, as I'm looking to teach myself Linux. So, I now have an XP machine with Ubuntu on a second HD.

Since I am only just learning Ubuntu, I don't have any real understanding of anything as yet. I'd like to have Grub default to booting to my XP partition instead of the Ubuntu one. Could someone give me some simple steps to follow to accomplish this?

Thanks so much --

Hi I recently installed ubuntu gutsy on a vista partition i made and all has been well in the land of dual boot no major problems.

I have an ati radeon card and due to lots of problems i have messed up the graphics and all i see is is a very fuzzy screen.

I would like to know if its possible to do a fresh install of ubuntu on my partion i have got alot of issues with vista so i thought it was a good chance to learn about ubuntu AND I LOVE IT. im going to keep it for good and once i get more comfortable i will remove vista.


So is this possible.

Thanks for the help

Ben

Also i dont realy want to run from ubuntu when a problem comes so if i can fix the graphics from the safe mode i would love to learn

I burned a copy of Hardy RC amd64 onto a disc.

I inserted it into my disc drive (running Gutsy i396.)

It won't do anything.

Is this because the versions are different?

My computer is capable of the amd64 one, just to let you know.

So does this mean I have to make a fresh install?

guys
am trying to use eclipse CDT for building c++ apps, but it keeps generating g++ commands,
now am trying to install g++ but its not working with me..i tried the following:
<sudo aptitude install build-essential> on the terminal, i also tried
<sudo apt-get install g++-3.4> which prompted an error about dependency stuff

finally synoptic and adept manager are not being helpful (am new at linux so lets say am not getting along yet :))
how can i install the g++ ??

Hi all, trying to make the switch over to linux and am only missing one thing. Dual Monitors.
I have been googling high and low and have come up with semi success.

1)Two monitors... 1 1600x1200 and 1 1280X1024
2) Radeon 9200 PRO

I am using the Radeon driver and am getting two clones. The max resolution that is being shown on the 1600x1200 monitor is 1280x1024. There is no option for dual monitor for some reason, although i do beleive i configured the xorg.conf file properly.
The most frustrating thing is I make a change to the xorg.conf file, reboot, and for some reason it reverts to the vesa generic driver with which i get a max res of 800x600 and an option to do dual monitors which doesnt work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to recover data from disk D: of our HD, there is no system anymore as windows crashed due to virus. C: was formatted.
When running liveCD ubuntu 6, (ubuntu 7 does work with the screen well and is unable mount D:) it does mount D: however it asks for root password. what is the root password on liveCD? thanks

How do I move items from the lower toolbar into the upper toolbar?

FF lets you move navigation buttons, address bar, and google search bar, into the menu [upper] toolbar.

Any ideas?

Dear Readers,

I have a question about automatic mount my internal HDD.
I have configured my laptop HDD in 2 partitions, one for Vista and one for my data backup.
So I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on an external 80GB HDD.
It runs really well, but hereś the catch, every time when Ubuntu starts I have to manualy mount my internal partitons, by double clicking on it en give my sudo password.
No big deal, but I would like to see that my internal drive is mounted automatic when ubuntu starts up.

I tried by a Dutch tutorial to edit my /etc/fstab file, but without success. Probably I do not understand enough of it, so hopefully someone can help me out.


Regards,

Erik.

hello
i try everything i can but immpossible to install ubuntu 8 ans 7 ...
install freeze during begininng (with progress bar)

i try with alternate,
install is good, but when the system start , during progresse bar i have to make ctrl+alt+supp to unnfreeze and after the progress bar restart and big crash and error message (kernel panic)
i take pics of the creen but dont know how to put here


I have:

Athlon x2 64 bits 4400
2 Go RAM
Ge Froce 7600 GT
Nforce 4
Sound AC97
DVBT Card DVT 2000 H
Soundgraph VFD led display and remote control


an idea?