Fincer
April 8th, 2013, 11:20 AM
Hey,
today after having run a disk check for my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation (Asus 1215N laptop) I encountered a strange bug that not only annoys me but also makes my laptop unusable. You can see the bug in the following video I recorded while ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbdWJdrXqkc
I know the bug is related to netbook-launcher. After prompting to terminal and killing process netbook-launcher I get no blinking at all. However, the sidebar is not also available.
Before having run the disk check everything worked as charm. I have tried dpkg-reconfigure command for all packages related to Xorg and Netbook-launcher + reinstalled all netbook-launcher packages to solve the problem - however, without success.
I doubt this bug is caused by some misconfiguration either in my personal settings of gconf, xorg or netbook-launcher but I'm unable to specify the source of the bug in more detail. I wish you have some ideas how to approach the problem in more professional way. I'm really stuck with this now and I don't certainly want to install newer Ubuntus in my laptop, so that's not a solution for me. What might cause the strange blinking behavior for the netbook-launcher?
I have bumblebee package installed.
Edit: As I've studied the problem in more detailed way, the netbook launcher seems not to be the only program messed up -> topic title changed. See below posts for further information.
today after having run a disk check for my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation (Asus 1215N laptop) I encountered a strange bug that not only annoys me but also makes my laptop unusable. You can see the bug in the following video I recorded while ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbdWJdrXqkc
I know the bug is related to netbook-launcher. After prompting to terminal and killing process netbook-launcher I get no blinking at all. However, the sidebar is not also available.
Before having run the disk check everything worked as charm. I have tried dpkg-reconfigure command for all packages related to Xorg and Netbook-launcher + reinstalled all netbook-launcher packages to solve the problem - however, without success.
I doubt this bug is caused by some misconfiguration either in my personal settings of gconf, xorg or netbook-launcher but I'm unable to specify the source of the bug in more detail. I wish you have some ideas how to approach the problem in more professional way. I'm really stuck with this now and I don't certainly want to install newer Ubuntus in my laptop, so that's not a solution for me. What might cause the strange blinking behavior for the netbook-launcher?
I have bumblebee package installed.
Edit: As I've studied the problem in more detailed way, the netbook launcher seems not to be the only program messed up -> topic title changed. See below posts for further information.