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Have you been using this laptop successfully before? Using Windows? If yes I guess it could be a driver issue.

I just updated my Kubuntu to 12.10 and I still experience GPU lockups. I guess I'll...

Here's a story of what can happen with self-referencing tables.

I'm currently working on a project where we've tried this. We have a production database and a test database that have identical...

I didn't find a solution but instead I started from scratch with Kubuntu 12.04. I kept my home directory so apperently the problem was somewhere outside it.

I had Firefox freeze twice today while using Facebook. The first time the screen just went blank and the computer didn't respond to ctrl+alt+1, ctrl+alt+del or alt+sysrq+reisub. The second time the...

The second last line suggests the problem: "Can't get required utilities make, tar, echo, grep, rmmod, insmod". Why this happens is beyond me - I imagine that these utils (except make) should be...

I used the patch today. I read it briefly before using it but I didn't think it looks suspicious. But I don't know for sure.

Today KDE stopped working for my current user and I renamed ~/.kde away so that KDE would create a new directory when I log in next time. It did, but now KDE apps can't read directory listings. For...

Thanks for the help... But it seems that I can't even reproduce the problem right now even though I haven't touched anything under /etc/modprobe.d and I just rebooted the computer. Maybe I'll try...

Interesting. The commands ifconfig wlan0 down and ifconfig wlan0 up fixed the issue for me at least today.

It seems that my kernel didn't have the module iwlwifi loaded so it couldn't be unloaded...

I may be having the same problem. My kubuntu network applet tells me that I'm connected to my wireless router fine and the signal strength is good but I can't connect to the internet. At first I also...

The problem is serious. It apparently corrupted my MySQL database, too. I wasn't able to repair the tables so I had to rename /var/lib/mysql and let mysqld create a new directory in its place. This...

Thanks, I haven't tried REISUB and the mnemonics for it sound useful. I've usually tried alt+sysrq+k in order to kill X (or the TTY and X along with it), but often this hasn't worked so I've pressed...

I seem to have a recurring problem with files on my partition getting corrupted. It happened today again, and my Opera browser lost its settings, Eclipse IDE complains about something missing and...

I found this post helpful. I was trying to install Kubuntu 11.04 using the alternate install cd, but the partition manager in the installer (called partman, I believe) wouldn't recognize /dev/sda, it...

The short question: how do I tunnel HTTP requests through a SOCKS proxy?

I've learned, though, that when asking for help, you shoud tell what you're trying to achieve, not ask about a specific way...

I voted Upgrade - worked but had few things to solve.

The upgrade was pretty easy. At first it failed because xserver-xorg-core (or something) failed to download, but that was unrelated to the...

If I understood the first message correctly, you should append " | libqt3" to libqt3c102-mt in opera.tmp/DEBIAN/control .

I wrote a small script to automate this. Obviously, you should save this...

Oh crap........

Guess what? The problem is back once more.

This time I'm ditching my current installation of Ubuntu and starting from scratch again. Will see if it helps.

Ok. So I got it all working again now.

I asked the people on #ubuntu (@freenode) about this and they (too) suggested I'd try another NIC. I decided to try the one that's integrated into my...

It's possible in the sense that the NIC is old. More than five years at least, possibly even more.

Is there a way I could be sure without having to try another NIC?

So far the affected programs seem to be:

wget
nmap
traceroute
sudo
OO writer


Many of them are network-related but some are not.

Oh crap... the problem is back again. And my kernel is still the same 2.6.12-10-686 that previously fixed the problem.

Problem solved by updating the kernel from 2.6.12-9-386 to 2.6.12-10-686.

Firefox works just fine. So does ping.



traceroute hangs and becomes unkillable. It seems this problem is more common than I thought.

OpenOffice Writer (...

My wget seems to hang every time I try to download anything from the net. For example:


And that's all. It hangs and doesn't respond to ctrl+c.
(Actually, my computer seems to have some weird...