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I have come across a very strange issue. I recently upgraded from xubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 and it started coming up to a black screen at the point where the XFCE session normally loads. So I logged...

I guess https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames suggests that they will just start with A again and continue with animals. Would personally like to see something completely different.

Will Zippy Zebra (or whatever is after Yakkity Yak) be the final alphabet based Ubuntu codename? What does the future hold for the codename scheme?

SOLVED! There was an innocuous seeming setting in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which I commented out as follows:

#Section "Files"
# FontPath "unix/:7100"
#EndSection

This fixed the...

Just noticed that my Steam doesn't work on 13.10 anymore either (perhaps related, so posting info)... gets the following:

Running Steam on ubuntu 13.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled...

I redirected output from skype running on the command line to a file and here is what I get:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module...

I have a GeForce GT 520, and I wanted to rule out the nvidia driver so I changed to the nouveau driver and rebooted. Issue still exists. I notice that sometimes I get the Skype login screen and it...

I recently upgraded to xubuntu 13.10 and everytime i start my Skype, Xorg crashes and I have to re-login. I have tried "sudo apt-get purge skype" and also deleted my .Skype directory but nothing...

I have a DLINK DNS-321 NAS unit and was having the same problem. It's been working for years and all of a sudden after updating, it stopped. Adding the sec=ntlm to my fstab worked for me as well.

Have a request for 12.10 users... if you have been running 64bit Ubuntu 12.10 can you please go skim through your /var/log/syslog file and see if you have any suspicious looking ext4 write errors.
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I bought a 64Gig OCZ SSD and it lasted me a little less than a year. It was fast while it lasted. I went back to regular HD, won't return to SSD until the technology matures some more because I'm...

Yup, sometime in the past week new updates came in that fixed the problem.

I use a Goldtouch ... actually have 2 of them. Love this keyboard.
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Look at the list of supported Linux webcams at this site ... http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/

After updating to 12.10, my geeqie loads and stays up for about 2 seconds,
then crashes with a segmentation fault. There are a slew of errors similiar to

"Fontconfig warning:...

I am not having this particular issue as I do get the top bar and the side launcher bar BUT the side launcher bar only appears when I press the special window key on my keyboard. Otherwise, moving...

It seems there may be an issue with the filesystem randomly going into read-only mode. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1063354

I am running AMD 64bit and updated from...

I upgraded to 12.10 yesterday and noticed my networked samba HD was not mounting anymore as well.. but changing the "smdbfs" in /etc/fstab to "cifs" worked for me.

So I did manage to get the installer to complete by restarting it about 20 times (ugh!). Each time it downloaded a bit more before crashing. Now to wait until launch to see if it actually works.

You can download the GW2 installer exe file from your account page at guildwars2.com (if you've registered an account by entering your key code which you should have by now if you've pre-ordered). ...

This problem seems to have gone away for me since I updated to Ubuntu 12.04.

I run the game Pocket Legends on my Android tablet but would like to play it in Ubuntu as well. The Chrome app gets installed fine but when I try to launch it I get the following error:

"Yikes!...

Thanks amr-maro! That setting did the trick.

Just updated to 12.04 and I use auto-hide for my unity dock/launcher. I've noticed that it is actually difficult to get it to appear now... seems kinda flaky. I have to move the mouse over to the...

After eventually getting nvidia driver version 295.20 installed and working I thought the problem was fixed.

Ends up I am still experiencing it occasionally. Any other ideas on what could be...