Wubi Users: Status after installation

[Sushubh]

A poll to see how many users faced problems with running Ubuntu after installing it using Wubi!

[spaceship9]

I did

when shutting down or hibernating I am faced with a blinking cursor... and nothing else... doesn't really shut down or hibernate, just blinks at me....

occasionally a window freezes in ubuntu but the OS itself is still fine...

[Sushubh]

shut down does not work for me.

and my wubi installed ubuntu is at the moment totally unusable due to a bad system restart. am hoping to get a solution... posted the problem here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=460424).

[MikeM709]

i have some pretty big problems right now. any help would be appreciated.

i saw about wubi on download.com but unfortunately they did not say anywhere that it would break your vista boot manager. i jumped right to installing with out reading the fine print probably because i was bored and i love linux (and im daring, considering i only have one computer :P). so for now my family has to contend with ubuntu after the recent switch from xp to vista, which has still left them scratching their head.

slight off topic, is there a way to uninstall wubi without starting up windows? like using a live boot cd of ubuntu and just basically doing the manual uninstallation?

[omgDarkWillow]

No problems. :D

[varchar255]

I did

when shutting down or hibernating I am faced with a blinking cursor... and nothing else... doesn't really shut down or hibernate, just blinks at me....

occasionally a window freezes in ubuntu but the OS itself is still fine...

Same problem with hibernation (shut down works for me though), but it has been acknowledged here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=436910

But sometimes Ubuntu freezes randomly for me, not just specific windows but the entire OS.

[ago]

Again can you please specify your wubi version? We expect no issues with test3 for instance.

[minhmeoke]

I've been using Lubi, the Linux Ubuntu Installer (to my knowledge, there is only one version), and had to hard-reboot several times due to the black-screen error that occurs with widescreen laptops like my Compaq V6000, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=457109 for the solution. As a result, I experienced a lot of random problems after installation, probably due to ReiserFS corruption.

Here are the errors I have found had so far:
1) Window borders don't appear when initially starting an Ubuntu session; I have to type in metacity & to get them back.

2) For about 2 minutes after I start up Ubuntu, I cannot get the "Run Application" prompt when I press Alt + F2. When I select System > Quit, the options also take about 2 minutes to appear. However, I can restart the computer any time from terminal with sudo init 6 right after I start Ubuntu.

3) I was installing/removing packages in Synaptic when I started having problems with dpkg; first /var/lib/dpkg/available got corrupted with a newline character; then I tried apt-get update which caused missing headers and other problems, so now I can't change anything.

I'm going to try reinstalling (without hard-reboots); hopefully I'll have better results then.

[hummingbird59]

I used an early May version (don't remember details) - and it was flawless!:D. Convinced me to go Ubuntu full time!