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Indeed, I've had my fair share of "adventures" while installing and uninstalling packages in the past, so I tend to be conservative when I try things out. But I'll check it out.

Thanks BicylerBoy for sharing your insight. I'm a long-time ubuntu user, but my intimate knowledge of what's under the hood is limited. So I have a couple of questions on your sugestions:

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Thanks DennisN for the tip on disabling Apport. I fully support providing details to the heroic people who fix bugs, but as this message pops up 4 or 5 times or more per session, it simply gets too...

Hi,
I've got this very annoying video performance issue on my fairly new Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A running ubuntu 12.10.

Graphics (youtube, vlc, mplayer, and even sometimes the desktop) is...

Thanks HermanH! As simple as that! I pressed alt+F2 and it looks like the problem is solved.

Caveat: Pressing alt+F2 turns on/off both wifi and BT. I had trouble with serious interference between...

Any ideas on what I can investigate or any logs I could pull and post? Anything? Anyone?

Finally the issue has disappeared! It's impossible to say exactly what fixed it, but then again it's not an exact science.
Basically, I ran apt-get update & apt-get upgrade, rebooted once, still no...

Hi Bashing-om,
The output from sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade is in the attached files. I didn't see anything very probing there, but perhaps your eyes are sharper than mine.
If nothing...

New observation:
the title field for open applications is transparent (refer to the attached screenshot). Something's really f-ed up here...

New observation: The system settings > Network dialogue box always defaults to "airplane mode on", no matter what the actual wireless state is. That is to say that if I have wifi up&running, then go...

Did some further digging and found this post where the issue is similar.

If I run
rfkill list
[...]
1. asus-wireless LAN
soft blocked yes
hard blocked no
[...]

Quick update on the topic:

I played around with taking the wireless up and down:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

==> does not resolve the issue
If "Aiplane mode" is _off_,...

All I did was
sudo apt-get update
(Check the update log in my previous post)
No dist update. I'm still running 12.04
lsb_release -r
Release 12.04


I'm clueless... Any ideas on where I can...

Even the terminal is screwed up!
I went to look in the /var/log/dpkg.log to see what was installed on Oct 19. It turned out there were appx 400 entries, of which 125 vere installed packages. There...

Hi,
I've got this crippling problem since I ran sudo apt-get update two days ago on my Ubuntu 12.04 setup. In Unity 2D, menus, contextual info, urls, file content are all "garbled" and hardly...

Hi,

I have this very annoying anomaly; Ubuntu 12.04 defaults to airplane mode on every boot and on every resume from hibernate. Thus, every time I log on or resume, I have to go to to the system...