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Oh, yes, it looks like that indeed.



Hum... Here the system reboots instead of shutting down, and it also happened before I learned how to power off the second card. I do consider this to be an...

On shutdown, I see error messages scrolling away too fast to read them (I think it's the same one repeated forever), after which the computer reboots.

Right now I'm running on the patched 2.6.32...

@rufferson: I have problems at shutdown with your kernel packages. Does it work fine for you and others?

On a more positive note, I reported this bug earlier on Launchpad as...

Thanks, I subscribed to the bug.

Hello,

while trying to upgrade, I keep getting this error from APT:


Err http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main libmysqlclient16 7.0.9-1
403 Forbidden [IP: 91.189.88.30 80]
Failed to fetch...

OK, I'm onto something here. I used


firefox -ProfileManager

to create a new profile, and Firefox starts correctly, but, when closed, it doesn't restart, neither with the old profile nor with...

hum... I do want Firefox, though! I'm going to try a little bit harder and the file a bug.

tawmas@tylke:~$ sudo lspci -v | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1)

Using 190.53 nVidia driver from the Lucid repositories (package...

I*have the same: Firefox does not start, or it crashes right after starting before displaying its window.

If invoked from the console, no error message is displayed. Nothing is logged to...

Hi folks!

While using SoundJuicer to extract selected tracks from an audio CD, I discovered that I cannot access all tracks on the CD.

What happens is that the first few tracks work as...

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation.

I don't care for MM, NN and OO nicknames, so long as PP is declared the Predominant Penguin! :-P

Thank you, SevenMachines, this works fine for the eclipse-platform package as well!

Hello all,

I'm trying to install the PDT (PHP Development Tools) plugin over the packaged Eclipse 3.5 available in the official repositories. I followed the instructions at...

Out of sheer ignorance and curiosity, could you please explain what those not-too-uncommon circumstances are (or point me toward something I can read by myself)?

hesser, I think I have that bug as well. As a temporary workaround, I disabled compiz and enabled metacity compositing, which used to be too slow under 9.04 but seems workable so far with 9.10.
...

Yes to both questions. The video card is identified by lspci as:


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

And what did you do to fix that?

Turns out the password prompt for unlocking the desktop isn't showing either. I can unlock the screen by typing the password and pressing return, and the mouse pointer turns to an I-beam when...

Hi!

Since I upgraded my work PC to Karmic yesterday, Nautilus is no longer showing the desktop background and icons. Nautilus is running and, for example, the desktop contextual menu is showing...

Well, you can always add a diversion so that no package upgrades will ever overwrite your chosen background...

See http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/118 for reference.

I carried over the jaunty version when I upgraded, and it's working fine, except that the camera is always enabled at startup...

I just renamed my /var/lib/gdm/.gconf directory out of the way... I didn't have any side effects, but keep the old directory around just in case.

Probably it got fixed with an update.


sudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

is working for me.

I actually marked the bug confirmed so that it can be looked upon by a developer.

I'm now heading to bed for the night. Thanks again for your help.