So I finally got around to trying this again.
After pulling many, many teeth, I finally have a working package in a working PPA!
I call this fork of indicator-cpufreq "indicator-powersave". In...
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So I finally got around to trying this again.
After pulling many, many teeth, I finally have a working package in a working PPA!
I call this fork of indicator-cpufreq "indicator-powersave". In...
I've finally launched my own PPA: QQ Desk.
The first package is indicator-powersave, a fork of indicator-cpufreq with additional toggles for system-wide powersaving. It is neither a detailed...
Solution: Don't install Ubuntu under any circumstances.
The issue was indeed hard disk corruption--caused by software. Spinrite was able to correct the error. Given the number of reports of this...
ldconfig is what they have in common.
I downloaded the source package for libc-bin, and poked around in the debian pakaging. libc-bin.triggers contains only:
interest ldconfig
There's another...
This is what happens to libc-bin during installation/removal of packages:
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...Bus error
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/i386-linux-gnu' given more...
Yesterday, I experienced a nightmare upgrade failure with apt-get. It removed a few dozen packages, including the ubuntukylin-desktop package, and installed numerous (~80) unrelated, unrequested perl...
...and (super-)wingpanel?
You can customize XFCE panel to look and do the same as wingpanel, but not super-wingpanel.
Wingpanel is gtk3(+granite?) and a little shinier than xfce-panel, with...
So it's 2015, and I still trust this kind of method more than 3rd party installers.
I had a very good experience this time with aptitude.
Aptitude's decision making is better than it used to be....
Her desktop is this snappy Ubuntu Kylin Custom Unity gig:
http://s4.postimg.org/7sf0prlm1/2015_04_20_12_51_04.jpg
Ubuntu Kylin's compiz is reduced! Only 2D features included :(
It's highly...
It's 2015, the old how-to was updated, time for a new thread!
-Do check the old one for background and updated, detailed how-tos on Pantheon 3d and Pantheon Lite.
Ubuntu Kylin (Vivid)...
Unity is enabled by default in compiz, which makes it difficult to use compiz with another DE.
In fact, compiz was originally designed to be modular and can still be used with other DE.
To...
Back in Saucy, I noticed that ubuntu was packaging openbox with the .desktop file from 3.5.0 and I thought that the package had somehow been misnamed in launchpad.
Apparently this was the case,...
Well, there was never going to be a solution to this problem because it is caused by the existence of upstart.
Resolved by switching to Archlinux, which uses systemd instead. It may not be...
Issue resolved by giving up on the concept of using GRUB with UEFI.
Users should be warned: The problems are very serious; dm-raid is not being maintained and should be deprecated for mdadm,...
>>oldfred
Thanks for the advice.
In fact, I finally got the system booting and grub installed.
That thread may be old, but the failure of the grub installation process it describes has not...
Well, no one ever replied...
If anyone ever has the same problem: delete the conflicting requirement from the init script and hope for the best.
The installation finally came to an end, but...
I already filed a bug report for this.
No gstreamer1.0 applications are usable for me. Gstreamer itself seems to be what's broken. I can't get a full list of the installed plugins from...
Carrying on, I've had to perform similar surgeries on about a half-dozen initscripts so far.
Since there isn't any particular documentation on the changes made to the init system for Saucy,...
Having the same problem as this thread that was closed before the issue was ever solved for some reason, blocking upgrade to saucy.
The problem is definitely GRUB. The drive is correctly...
Can anyone tell me what level of good/bad idea this is: to proceed with the installation, I simply removed "checkroot" from the initscript header.
What I really need is to know what the header for each of those scripts looks like on a working system. That is how this problem gets fixed. It doesn't matter what's going on with upstart at all.
I had never heard of "checkroot" (apparently responsible for running fsck at boot on a schedule or when poorly rebooted) until today, and then this is blocking upgrade to saucy:
insserv: Service...
Then what happened to the LSB headers they used to have? Those should NOT be removed, even if the job was converted to upstart. My entire init system is in pieces and insserv won't allow me to...
I've actually posted about this before, when it caused my computer to be unable to shutdown. In that case I got lucky, in that I was able to find proper start and stop runlevels for the shutdown...
It WORKED!
My instincts were right. Something stripped my init scripts and ruined the shutdown sequence. I suppose I've been lucky, all this time, that anything worked at all.
So next up: How...