Just ran the installer again:
1. The problem is reproducible.
2. The installer fails when trying to install grub-efi-amd64-signed. I guess
the installer mis-detected the system as an EFI one (it's actually still using
a normal BIOS) and therefore runs into trouble when it tries to install an
EFI
Public bug reported:
Tried to install Xubuntu 16.04.2 to a USB harddisk from the desktop ISO.
Installer reported an error about being unable to install Grub to /target (no
problem there, I can do that myself), but then crashed completely (without any
further error messages) and launched the erro
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353480
Title:
Most settings panels suddenly missing from gnome-control-ce
$ env | grep XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=i3
If I unset XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP before starting gnome-control-center, it
lists all the settings panels, just as usual. That's probably also the
reason why `sudo gnome-control-center` works, since the environment
created by sudo doesn't have
Public bug reported:
When I launch it from my default (non-root) user account, the
gnome-control-center is missing all settings panels, except "Printers" and
"Software & Updates".
Launching it with a commandline parameter to open a specific settings panel
fails, too:
$ gnome-control-center di
** Attachment added: "gnome-control-center, started as uid 0 (via sudo)"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1353480/+attachment/4171118/+files/gnome-control-center_started_as_uid_0.png
** Description changed:
When I launch it from my default (non-root) user
Public bug reported:
When I enable "Run as superuser" in the extra options, I cannot stop the
transfer via the "Stop" button in the progress window (probably because
as an unprivileged user I'm not allowed to send signals to root's
processes).
I'm using grsync 1.2.3 (compiled from source on 2013-
Apparently, this issue was fixed in revision 30 (i.e. 1.56ubuntu1):
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/os-
prober/trusty/revision/30#linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/40grub2
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Public bug reported:
When linux-boot-prober (from os-prober 1.51ubuntu3 on Ubuntu 12.04.3)
finds a grub.cfg containing a line like
menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux x86_64-3.8.13-gentoo' --class
gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-x86_64-3.8.13-gen
