Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

2016-01-19 Thread Colin Law
ent about your machine. Have you tried a fresh install? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupt VLC problem in 4.2014

2016-04-04 Thread Colin Law
e your personal settings for vlc remove the folder .config/vlc as mentioned above. However it sounds more like a hardware issue to me. Does the drive still work in a different player? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupt VLC problem in 4.2014 THREAD CLOSED

2016-04-04 Thread Colin Law
e next week. Colin > > On 04/04/16 20:32, Michael wrote: >> >> I tried deleting in terminal but did not. >> A DVD causes drive-chatter, sometimes a box of error messages, but no >> playback possible, just shows the disc title. >> Was good, looks like VLC corrupti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-19 Thread Colin Law
ve and so I ran fsck on it. This > failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block bitmap > differences. If you have not already done so then check the SMART data for the disc. Also look in syslog to see if there are any rude messages. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Colin Law
r contacts? Then it knows who you called, knows his number and made >>> the connection. >> >> >> As I understand it this would not be possible on the Ubuntu phone. > > There's is a great advert for the Ubuntu phone Even better don't use facebook. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 -incomplete

2016-08-04 Thread Colin Law
een: > ... > Flashing cursor at bottom, I am unble to type anything. Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 which should take you to a terminal. Login there and run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade if there are any errors come back to us. Then reboot using sudo reboot and see if that helps Colin -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

2016-08-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 August 2016 at 13:43, Lois McNab wrote: > Hi Colin, > Thank you for the advice. > > Excuse my ignorance , how do I run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade? First a couple of points about protocol on this list. Please don't top post. Insert your reply int

[ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
t I could write a script to use fdisk to get the sector size and the highest value of end sector and call dd accordingly. Any better ideas? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 14:21, Colin Law wrote: >> I do a fair amount of work with SD cards and use dd to create an image >> for backup or for burning onto other cards. If I burn an image from an >> 8GB card onto a 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 September 2016 at 18:37, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 17:49, Colin Law wrote: >> On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam wrote: >> Is not the partition table in the space before the first partition? So >> in the example I posted whe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
mage does not handle ext4 which would be a problem (at least that is what [1] says) I had thought about clonezilla and will have another look at it. The last time I used it (which was some time ago) it seemed overly complex, but perhaps I just need to put a bit more effort in to see how to use it from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 September 2016 at 08:55, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > > On 19 September 2016 21:07:13 BST, Colin Law wrote: >>On 19 September 2016 at 20:13, Neil Greenwood >> wrote: >>> Sorry for the top post, I'm on my phone. >>> >>> I think partimage d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard " and @ change.

2016-10-20 Thread Colin Law
be En1 probably. If so see if there are options there, perhaps you inadvertently select the USA one. On mine En2 is the USA one. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard " and @ change.

2016-10-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 October 2016 at 16:33, Michael wrote: > > > On 20/10/2016 16:39, Colin Law wrote: > > On 20 October 2016 at 15:27, Michael > wrote: > >> My " and @ symbols have changed from the UK layout to the American one. >> >> I have checked 16.04 keyboa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

2016-11-30 Thread Colin Law
any will work personally I have tp-link ones that work fine. I have never come across one that does not work with Ubuntu. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xubuntu Display Settings

2017-07-14 Thread Colin Law
anything useful in /var/log/syslog when you plug it in? If, in a terminal, your run tail -f /var/log/syslog then it will show the end of syslog and wait for new stuff to be written there. Then plug in the mains and see what happens in the terminal. If necessary you can copy/paste the extra stuff he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] AMD APU support in 18.04

2017-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
f the 4.15 kernel is a pre-requisite and 18.04 > uses 4.14, will this make support for AMD APUs in 18.04 less than stellar? https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-December/040061.html says that 4.15 is "tentatively" going to be the baseline

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 18.04 on line updates not available yet

2018-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
oblems. > Anything to do with the last minute bug that was found (and fixed) on release > day? No - that was confined to ubiquity (the installer), and is unrelated to upgrades. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Colin Law
t that didn't work with a similar > error message. There are now two vlc packages visible in synaptic too, which > may be the result of something else I've tried. I would start off by uninstalling it. Colin > > -- > JimP > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 June 2018 at 22:07, Jim Price wrote: > ... > Lesson learned - don't just delete PPAs which have been disabled by a > dist-upgrade. That's true, but in fact the better lesson is to purge ppas before upgrading and then put them back again. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adobe Flash problem

2018-08-21 Thread Colin Law
If not then try installing it. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] launchpad and ubuntu

2018-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
o start with, so I'm not sure how you managed this. Normally the private key is mode 600 and the public key is mode 644. The default permissions for files are 644 rather than 755, unless you're on an unusual filesystem. (755 indicates executability, so programs and dir

Re: [ubuntu-uk] todoman bug

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
r the update policy. Ubuntu 18.10 has 3.4.0 by the way. Colin > > -- > ___ __ ___ __ __ __ >/ _ |___/ /__ / _ |/ /_/ /___ ___ ___/ / > / __ / _ / -_) / __ / __/ __/ |/|/ / _ \/ _ \/ _ / > /_/ |_\_,_/\__/ /_

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repo speed

2019-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
> already known about? This is known and being worked on. (I'm not involved myself so don't have a lot to add beyond that - I've just seen it going past on internal channels.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu List Team i have something to draw to your attention

2021-06-24 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:25, Mark Dorrington wrote: > I am posting the ubuntu technicians e-mail address in case ubuntu does not > fix any > technical issues within ubuntu so he can report it to his developers. > Who are you asking to contact the technician? Colin -

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