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OK, so ACPI was a clue. The upgrade had changed a power management setting to put the computer to sleep after an hour of inactivity. Suspend was crashing the machine everytime I got up for an hour or...

I did run the software updater, at the beginning. Will try the acpi stuff tonite and report back.

Thanks so much, here are details:
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Processor 64 bit, reported temp 79-88 degrees F
Onboard graphics and sound
some kind of nice motherboard with extra durable copper layer,...

hi,
I used 12.10 for years and had some problems but nothing like this.
After a clean install of 14.04 LTS, i am experiencing multiple HARD crashes where the mouse pointer moves but everything...

Thanks. Did a fresh install of 14.04 LTS and GDM is better now. i actually really like Unity (that makes me a minority?) so i'm ready to leave Gnome Classic behind forever.

Lots of hard crashes so...

hi,
I've upgraded through many versions of Ubuntu and am now at 12.10. I was using gnome classic before my upgrade.

* X will not start from GDM. When I enter my password, the screen goes blank...

sweet.
I wonder if it works with my RFID keyboard.
Hopefully i won't need it again for awhile, but now I know!

Hello,
Banshee crashes when I run it, but I am getting a different error than the others who posted the problem last year.

Here's what I get:

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thanks. I ran an apt-get update, then tried running gdm manually and it actually worked! Next time the keyboard does not respond, i will try to remember to SSH in from elsewhere to fix.

Help!!
My ubuntu box (12.04 LTS) is suddenly not booting correctly. While the normal text bootup messages are scrolling by, it stops/freezes ... the last message to display is that apache server is...

thank you so very much! Just knowing it's a bug, and that I can turn off logging, is actually good news!

Two quick questions about installing another OS alongside:

1. can i use my RF keyboard...

ding ding ding!


mary@mythbox:~$ grep -i 'vino' ./.xsession-errors
(vino-server:2781): EggSMClient-CRITICAL **: egg_sm_client_set_mode: assertion `global_client == NULL || global_client_mode...

My main problem is periodic random probs like this .xsession thing that break the system intermittently.

I wonder what would be the best distro for me? I use this box as a jukebox, music and photo...

yes, I enabled desktop sharing, and I do use it (my Ubuntu box is in the basement and i look at it from a mac often).
output of these commands:

mary@mythbox:~$ sudo lsof :5900
[sudo] password...

More data on the most recent .xsession-errors. The only thing I've done this session is to browse to songza.com using google-chrome:


(gnome-settings-daemon:2730): libappindicator-CRITICAL **:...

OK, my bad, I now see I have Precise (LTS version)

mary@mythbox:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04...

hi,
I have a fully updated version of Karmic.
every few days, my .xsession-errors grows to such size that breaks my system.
Based on "tail", the error this time is:
05/04/2014 08:59:20 AM ...

After upgrade to 12.04 Unity worked for me (sort of) but did not support my dual monitors. research suggested this was some sort of bug involving the Nvidia proprietary driver and dual monitors ... ...

Okay, I can't even begin to guess why, but I solved these by going to a command prompt wth
ctrl-alt-F1

then trying a command that others found helpful:
rm -rf ./.config/compiz-1

then logging...

More info:

running Gnome from command line gives the following error:
Gconf WARNING Got Disconnected from DBUS

running unity --replace gives errors like:
Checking if settings need to be...

Hi,
After upgrading to 12.04, Unity has some weird problems. When I start a terminal, I get a window with a black background but the command prompt is not visible (even if I maximize the window!) ...

Thanks, I didn't realize they were two different things. I'll give LXDE a try. Classic Gnome worked equally badly for me with or without effects! :)

Um, isn't that a whole other OS? I have a working install of Mythtv, I don't want to do a rip-and-replace.

The login screen has an option for "gnome classic," does anyone know how to get that...

Hello,
My living room PC also serves as my personal computer, using 2 displays (monitor and TV). I had not upgraded the system in quite a while, and finally last weekend I had some time and put it...

hi,
My home partition is 37 GB, and the only things I have (consciously) stored there are a few documents and files, nothing that should be anywhere near that size. But the /home/ partition is...