*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 283500 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283500
Can I make a suggestion:
The flashplugin installer package should use a script instead of wget.
The script should dig the proxy setting out of the synaptic preferences
file, set http_proxy, then exec wget $*
The apport-collect program doesn't seem to work - I'm behind a firewall.
I've tried running
apport-cli --package=linux
and that reports
No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.
which is not surprising because nothing is crashing.
What information does apport-collect gather
I spoke too soon. After 2 weeks of faultless operation, the PC failed to
shut down yesterday (automatic shutdown from cron).
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Title:
Maverick fail
Some more information:
I enabled "Wake-up on LAN" in the BIOS. Now both the alarm clock and the
shutdown are working as expected!
My guess: something in the kernel detects that the machine has started
automagically, misdiagnoses it as a lan wakeup, sees the feature is
disabled and handles the wak
Public bug reported:
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) my PC won't power down
(sometimes: see below) after shutdown. The disk spins down but the PC
doesn't go to standby. The problem may be connected with the BIOS alarm-
clock feature that I'm using that also ("sometimes") doesn't work an
If it helps ...
I just installed Jaunty (64-bit) on a new machine with a GeForce 9800GT
and the Free driver doesn't control the fan. The proprietary driver is
OK, but obviously not the ideal solution.
Personally I think this is a hardware issue, as the machine is very
noisy until the OS loads the
I hit this problem too. I tried setting http_proxy from the xterm before
launching synaptic with sudo, but sudo discards environment variables.
If I'd had my brain in gear I might have tried "sudo su" and then set
http_proxy before running synaptic, but I worked around the problem by
creating a wra
