I asked a Linux expert to help me on this. The following are the steps
I followed.
After checking many files, & running some programs, he identified that the
problem was caused by the line/s above:
"update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin."
He then asked me to edit "/
I use Mythbuntu. I had fallen behind in upgrading, because I was
reasonably happy with the stability of 10.10. However, when the message
came that updates were no longer supported, I decided to upgrade,
progressively, through 11.04, 11.10 & 12.04.
Towards the end of the 11.04 upgrade process, th
Hi Jessie
Firstly, this bug does not seem to affect anything that I (as an end
user, like yourself) could detect. Clearing the message seemed enough
to be able to proceed with booting & using the PC.
I have now moved on to 11.10. This bug went away by 11.04. I don't
know how 11.10 would go in
on-indicator 0.2.20-0ubuntu3
evolution-plugins 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-webcal2.32.0-1build1
I send a lot of mail &, although I appreciate that this is not a serious
problem, it is annoying.
Regards, Garry
I am using 11.04.
I have had problems with displaying the Grub boot menu, plus getting a
warning from the monitor (Dell 24 inch) about matching the resolution.
After much "research" & some trial & error with changing Grub2's input
files (GFXMODE & VGA=), I now have the grub menu, but I do get an U
or what, I will look out for the
tick in future!
Regards, Garry.
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 01:03 +, John Hagerman wrote:
> On 11-10-30 04:28 PM, Garry Leach wrote:
> > Hi,use th
> >
> > I just did a little more testing. It seems to remember the last used
> > application fo
Hi,
I just did a little more testing. It seems to remember the last used
application for .jpg & .avi, but in an inconsistent way.
If try to open a .jpg, it "opens" with movie player.
If I change it to open with image viewer, it opens OK, but if I close
that window, then select another .jpg, it
Hi,
This may be a new bug, or just a nuisance...
I was a subscriber to the original bug; the workaround was OK.
I upgraded to 11.04, earlier this year.
Recently, something seems to have changed:
when I click on a photo (.jpg), I expect it to open with image viewer,
as it has "always" done (I h
Hi Sebastien,
Thanks for looking at this.
Less than 1 week after I submitted this bug report, I upgraded to 11.04,
& no longer have this problem.
Do you still want me to try & do something about this? If so, I need
some guidance.
I appreciate that the following is probably not in your area. C
I posted the following comment to #738982 on 29/05/11. It is my
workaround for this problem.
Regards, Garry.
2 weeks ago, I upgraded to 11.04.
Again Calendar alarms would not work.
I checked file "/usr/lib/evolution/X.XX/evolution". It had 2.32, but
the Evolution Alarm notifier in Start-up Ap
2 weeks ago, I upgraded to 11.04.
Again Calendar alarms would not work.
I checked file "/usr/lib/evolution/X.XX/evolution". It had 2.32, but
the Evolution Alarm notifier in Start-up Applications was requesting to
run file "/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution", which was the value used
in 10.10, i.
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
1. Ubuntu 11.04
2. Firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.3
3. I had used Firefox to get some information from the internet. I clicked on
"save as", expecting it to proceed from there.
4. The "save as" window opened, but it was blank whit
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This morning, I tried to access contacts. Presumably as I had not
cleared the contact's name yesterday, the same contact as yesterday was
in the summary window. Again the window was not responding to open the
contact's detail pages.
When I clicked on "File", "open contact" & "V-card" were gr
I am also experiencing the problems similar to bug #773582 "Windows
blank to white after being resized larger".
Is it possible that #783728 could be a duplicate of #773582, with a
slightly different manifestation?
Regards, Garry.
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1.Ubuntu: I upgraded to 11.04 on Sunday 15/04/2011.
2. evolution: Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
3. I wanted to access a particular contact.
4. From the Inbox window, I selected contacts, then typed a partial name in the
search box.
That name &
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gedit
Ubuntu 10.10
Gedit 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
Firefox 3.6.17+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
This error occurred in 2 different situations.
Firefox:
I had been browsing a website, found some useful information, then saved it
(using save-as). This worked
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I have Mythbuntu 10.10 on one PC, & Ubuntu 10.10 on another.
I haven't noticed this bug on my Ubuntu PC (I don't think that I get any
close-down messages displayed).
On Mythbuntu PC, I upgraded to 10.10 (from 9.10, via 10.04)in in March
2011.
I have starting seeing this bug recently. I don't re
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Since the computer is broken (i.e. it won't boot), I can't access any
details. I am sending this report from a different (Mythbuntu 10.10,
MythTV 0.24) HTPC. I had copied the various error messages into a file
to attach to this report, b
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Note: I have finally resolved this. However, there may be an inherent
bug that needs attention.
Ubuntu 10.10
Evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.3
I regularly add alarms to calendar events. Ever since I changed to
10.10 over 4 months ago, these have n
Robert,
Thanks for identifying that my bug 713319 is a duplicate of this one;
also for providing the workaround in #10.
If so many of us managed to get ourselves into this situation through
ineptness, then it would seem that the "Open with" application should
not have the "Remember this applicati
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Binary package hint: nautilus
1. Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install)
2. Nautilus 2.32.0; Evince Document Viewer 2.32.0
3. I clicked on Places, then Home Folder.
I expected this to open my home folders & files.
4. Instead, Document Viewer opened.
It displayed the messages: Unable t
Sorry, I forgot to include in my comment #25:
On subsequent boots, I still get status 256. It's only on the FIRST
boot after booting from the memory stick, that it doesn't appear.
Regards, Garry.
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I had this problem in 10.04 (see post #13, plus a locked-PC problem).
I did a fresh install to 10.10 in November. I no longer have the
locked-PC problem, but I still get status 256. It's not a serious
problem, just irritating.
However, just recently, I made a USB-stick copy of 10.10, just so th
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Binary package hint: evolution
1. 10.10
2. Evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1
3. I expected calendar alarms to display (at the requested time), as they have
with all earlier versions of Ubuntu, i.e. in a pop-up window.
4. No display of alarms.
I have just upgraded to 10.10 from 1
I added the line as proposed in #16, but it hasn't made any difference.
By the way, is gconf.xml.defaults supposed to be a folder?
Going back to Sebastien Bacher's comment in #3. I have run the live CD
on 2 other PCs (currently with Myth 9.10 installed) & they didn't
exhibit any issues. Perhaps
x things because the HDD had reached its limit for
checking (fsck), & the system wouldn't mount (?) it, so I couldn't
restore the back-up of the file I changed.
Garry Leach.
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:01 +, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> One more question, does anyone affected by th
Hi Graham,
A fast boot time is not critical for me (& I think that we are only
talking of seconds, anyway). In any case, my current boot process with
10.04 involves using several steps in the fail-safe mode, so it is not
only slow, but requires my interaction several times.
However, I am not an
0n 23/05/2010, my wife was checking e-mails when I left for work; she is
not aware of my hibernate technique, so she shut-down using shutdown.
I wasn't too concerned about this, as I had been thinking that I should
try a "proper" boot. So when I first booted the next morning, I used
the normal ke
I also get this message since I moved to 10.04, 6 weeks ago.
I did mention it in another bug (#580755: login screen locks up), which
covers problems of more concern to me. However, I am the only
subscriber, so I am not getting much (any?) attention.
Since I am able to boot up (although by a mess
Sorry guys, I am a bloody old fool. There is no bug.
I had left the "search" feature turned on from a few days earlier, &
didn't notice that the next time that I looked at trash.
I must say, I was additionally sucked-in, because I had read a bug a
while ago that had the symptoms which I thought
One of my sons is a long-time user of Unix & Ubuntu. He upgraded to
10.04, a few weeks after it became available.
He has not had any problem with his printer (or other services).
However, his printer is set-up on his network (i.e. connected to his
router).
Perhaps this may provide some insight
I am also the initiator of bug #580755, Log-in screen locks up.
The lock-up is actually that the keyboard & mouse are not enabled, so I
can't proceed with booting.
Is it possible that these are not "started" during the upstart process?
Regards, Garry.
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I am also a subscriber to bug #554172, CUPS & other services not
starting up at boot.
It has been suggested to me that my lack of keyboard & mouse may be due
to these not being"started" in the normal way, particularly as they are
started when I use the abnormal way to boot (as described above in #
Public bug reported:
1.release:
Ubuntu 10.04
Kernel Linux 2.6.32-22-generic
Gnome 2.30.0
Hardware:
memory 2.0 GB
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.0 GHz.
2. Package: Evolution
Installed: 2.28.3-0ubuntu9
Candidate: 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
Version table:
2.28.3-0ubuntu10 0
500 http://au.a
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HPLIP
1) Ubuntu 10.04
2) HPLIP 3.10.2-2; CUPS 1.4.3.-1
3) I recently re-built 10.04 on a new hard drive. I hadn't used HPLIP
before, so I installed that, & it recognised my HP printer immediately. I
don'
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
HPLIP
1) Ubuntu 10.04
2) HPLIP 3.10.2-2; CUPS 1.4.3.-1
3) I recently re-built 10.04 on a new hard drive. I hadn't used HPLIP before,
so I installed that, & it recognised my HP printer immediately. I don't leave
my PC running all of the time.
4) T
I don't think that I have had the problem recently either. I ran "empty
trash" just now, & it worked as it should.
In the past, I was a bit slack about emptying the trash folder, so it
would build up to a large number. When I started having problems, I
wondered whether the large number of e-mail
I tried another idea:
I thought that, since the lock-up occurs during the sign-on process, I
could bypass that stage by changing "login" to log me in automatically.
A little while after completing the boot menu, The message, as in
comment #2 above, appeared (There is a problem with the configura
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Binary package hint: grub
1. Mythbuntu 9.10
2. Grub1
I just updated to 2.6.31-22.
3. Whenever the kernel is upgraded, the system applies the wrong hard drive
code to /boot/grub/menu.lst, so I usually tell it to keep the installed version.
I then "usually" edit menu.lst t
Some new things I tried:
1. I now shut-down using "hibernate".
When I next switch on the PC, it boots up quickly to the log-in screen,
which behaves with no problems.
I don't know whether this is a good long-term solution for me...
2. I did a complete fresh install on a separate hard drive.
I
I forgot to mention above:
1. After signing-on, the following message appears:
"Message: There is a problem with the configuration server.
(/usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)".
2. From the fail-safe options, I can get a good login screen from either
selection:
. Run
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Binary package hint: gdm
Ubuntu 10.04
GDM 2.30.0-0ubuntu5
On 07/05/2010, I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04.
When I tried to boot, I had problems at the login screen:
I get either of the following:
. A locked screen with no mouse or keyboard capability. So I press & hold
I upgraded to Mythbuntu 9.10 from 9.04 on 07/02/2010. It all went well,
except for the non auto-login (easily fixed) & the non-autostart of Myth
frontend. I changed autostart, but then had the problem of myth
frontend starting too fast, as described here.
Since both of these functions had been s
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub
I am still using grub 1, version 0.97-29ubuntu59.
This problem occurred with both Mythbuntu 9.04, & newly installed 9.10.
I have the following partitions:
hd0,0 37GB for a backup/test Mythbuntu system (currently 9.04); boot flag is
here.
hd0,1 37G
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Hi Pedro,
Thanks for identifying this workaround for me. I implemented it this
morning & it has resolved the problem.
I am a little bit disconcerted though. The web page says to
remove .ev.summary & .ibex.index. However, only .ibex.index has been
recreated. Is this to be expected?
Can you te
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Binary package hint: evolution
Evolution mail 2.2.8.1
9.10
I wanted to delete all of the mail in my trash folder, which had 8 months of
trashed files in it.
I opened the trash folder, went to the "File" menu & clicked on "Empty Trash".
All trash mail was deleted, except fo
I am not certain, but it sounds as though this bug could be the fault
that I am having (I don't understand the technical problem description).
I have been using 9.04 (Jaunty) since May (with all updates), but I
hadn't used the recurrence feature of the Calendar function in 9.04
until yesterday.
I
I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, in mid-May, but had been using a
wired connection.
On 24/06/2009, I tried to install a wireless network adapter. I
followed the comments in the "compatible hardware" guide, & downloaded
ndiswrapper. I noticed that ndisgtk existed, so I downloaded that as
well
I upgraded to 9.04 from 8.10 on 30/05/09; I waited until then, as I had
the idea that any bugs would have been fixed...
I followed the steps as mentioned by LeeWells, but I had the same result
as kit. So I uninstalled pulseaudio, & Myth seems OK now.
I experienced the problem of the frontend cr
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dbus
Mythbuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
There are a number of crashes being reported by the system.
I installed Mythbuntu 8.04 from a live CD, but didn't configure Myth
completely. I upgraded this to 8.10. While I was trying to install the
latest
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Ubuntu release 8.10; kernel x.x.27-9
Using Mozilla Firefox, latest ver 3.05
Accessing e-mail on Yahoo's system.
After reading & sending mail for a while, the whole PC locks-up & can only be
stopped via the power button.
This has been used by a friend who was staying with us f
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