Hi Andreas, I could not reinstall because the installation disk wants to create another new partition for the installation with no option of just reinstalling over the old installation. I have a 6 Gig drive with Win98 in the other partition and there wasn't room for a third partition. I didn't want to make a third partition anyway. I was unable to uninstall the operating system or erase it.
So I got my son involved. He was the one who installed the XFCE in place of the GNOME. When he did, some things got lost. It is not a good way to go from Ubuntu to Xubuntu. He has been poking around in it through the terminal command prompts and restored most all of what was lost. There may be a few things left to do, but the update manager worked at least in the terminal mode. I haven't been able to test it yet in the GUI since no more updates are called for right now. He has also restored the networking capability by filling in the Hosts file and adding required dependentcies. If I can make a suggestion or two through you, Ubuntu/Xubuntu should provide a means to remove the operating system and the partition or provide a clear and easy means to change from one form of Ubuntu to another. Actually, I think both should be implemented. It should allow skipping creating a new partion. I tried to use Super Grub and PartionLogic to clean the disk and that didn't work. PartitionLogic 0.69 just wouldn't boot on this computer, though it does on my newer ones. Also, Fdisk command from Windows didn't do any help and just made Super Grub necessary to at least allow booting back to Xubuntu. It was recommended using Fdisk somewhere in a forum as a way to start over and that should be challenged. My son programmed in the ability to access my computer through my router remotely from his home and any little problems should be straightened out pretty soon. I can say that my situation doesn't seem to be covered in the forums and some of the advice I found there was certainly not all good. The main reason I am trying Linux is because of my son's urging, but I would say a few wrinkles need to be ironed out before it's ready for the general public. Not everyone has someone as knowlegeable as my son to help with it. Thank you, Andreas, for checking back on this. Dave. --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Andreas Moog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Andreas Moog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Bug 256973] Re: update manager hangs/non-responsive To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 1:57 PM Hi! Are there any news on this? Did it work out in the reinstall? -- update manager hangs/non-responsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256973 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The update manager in stock Xubuntu 8.04.1 that was recently downloaded from the Xubuntu website hangs immediately after clicking "Install Updates", will not close when commanded to and is non-responsive. The window is in gray. Firefox connects to the internet and browses while the update manager is still stuck, so update manager should not be waiting for internet response. System installed on is Packard Bell with 233 MHz Pentium MMX, 256MB of memory, 10-100 ethernet card attached to Linksys WTG54 router and DSL. This is my trial computer before installing Xbuntu on newer computers. --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Andreas Moog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Andreas Moog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Bug 256973] Re: update manager hangs/non-responsive To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 1:57 PM Hi! Are there any news on this? Did it work out in the reinstall? -- update manager hangs/non-responsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256973 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The update manager in stock Xubuntu 8.04.1 that was recently downloaded from the Xubuntu website hangs immediately after clicking "Install Updates", will not close when commanded to and is non-responsive. The window is in gray. Firefox connects to the internet and browses while the update manager is still stuck, so update manager should not be waiting for internet response. System installed on is Packard Bell with 233 MHz Pentium MMX, 256MB of memory, 10-100 ethernet card attached to Linksys WTG54 router and DSL. This is my trial computer before installing Xbuntu on newer computers. -- update manager hangs/non-responsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256973 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
