I will try the Wayland parameter option, but for what it's worth, the
only way I've been able to recover so far is to boot off a USB thumb
drive, mount my actual boot drive, download and run boot-repair. When I
reboot, I finally get a grub menu and can institute the usual menu-
driven repairs from
Take a look at the script fix suggested on the Ubuntu site. It worked
for me.
BIll
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 03:52 +, Ozzyprv wrote:
> How can I get the fix? I think I am getting the same error message.
>
--
update-desktop-database segfault
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59392
You received t
Paul,
After I sent my last message, I removed two completely empty
placeholders for my NVDIA card from /usr/share/applications (plus
discarded a small number of "dead" entries for applications which no
longer exist on my system) and as they say in Gay Paris, "Voila!", no
more segmentation faults w
Paul,
Very interesting I found one file without a "[Desktop Entry]" --
one for my NVIDA graphics card that I had to add using "restricted
drivers" for a GeForce FX5500 (which, no matter what I try, does not
work as well under Ubuntu as under Windows -- perhaps because Ubuntu
lacks drivers for
Here is the output you requested:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-desktop-database -v
Search path is now: [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/applications,
/usr/share/gdm/applications]
File '/usr/share/applications/screensavers/antinspect.desktop' lacks MimeType
key
File '/usr/share/appl
Paul,
No can do. Running this command produces a segmentation fault ...
exactly the same problem that I encounter when attempting to remove Yelp
or OpenOffice.
Bill
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:27 +, Paul Dufresne wrote:
> Bill, could you in a terminal issue:
> update-desktop-database -v 2>~/u
Paul,
I've attached the ls.out file. You'll note some links between
OpenOffice as originally installed by Ubuntu and an aborted effort this
afternoon to download and install the latest OpenOffice code from
OpenOffice.org Just haven't had time to clean things up.
Bill
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:
Paul,
Oh yea, get the "group_name" error you describe below. For whatever
reason, the apps that are associated with this problem are OpenOffice,
Java runtime, and Yelp. Any installation which touches these apps
provokes the error and leads to a "139" exit. None of these apps can be
removed or r
