LemonLime
April 25th, 2013, 01:45 AM
So a few months ago, after browsing the forums and Linux websites for technical information, I downloaded GnomeTweak for Ubuntu 12.10. This tool is also known as Advanced System Settings, I believe. I also downloaded GNOME Color Chooser, as well as several GTK3 themes. I had these themes more or less working.
A week or two into my experience, everything failed. It was buggy to begin with and I don't have the expertise in Ubuntu that I do in *******. Every time I put my computer in Sleep, Hibernate or Suspend mode, it completely freezes on waking. This happens about 100% of the time. I'll open my screen back up and the only thing I can see is my desktop wallpaper. Everything is missing and/or greyed out, the "warning this program is not responsive" type of greyed out. I have no idea how to fix this issue. I got rid of GnomeTweak but I don't know how to erase all of the features I downloaded (maybe I should have been more careful with my root commands when installing GTK3?).
In addition to constantly freezing, the side bar/dash seems laggier than before; it often freezes temporarily while launching programs. Another issue? I can't right-click on the desktop anymore. No menu comes up. It just creates massive lag spikes and/or nearly crashes the desktop environment. The only way I know that my computer hasn't frozen again is if I open the Guake terminal in an attempt to xkill, which changes my cursor and seems to kickstart the computer back into action.
I have tailored alot of settings on this install of Ubuntu, such as VPNs, internet programs, etc, and it'd really be a shame to have to reinstall the entire OS. However I'll do almost anything to fix this problem so I can return to using Ubuntu 12.10 as my main OS (this is a dual-boot computer with Win7). Is there some log I can look at to see what happens when my computer freezes? Any and all help will be extremely appreciated.
Edit: I ran sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and, after telling me I was up to date, told me to remove old packages. Here's the terminal log.
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libatk1.0-0:i386 libcogl9 libcogl-pango0 libidn11:i386 libnss3:i386 libcaca0:i386 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 gir1.2-json-1.0 libcairo2:i386
linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic libmozjs185-1.0 mutter-common libmutter0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 libpixman-1-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386
libclutter-1.0-common gjs libxft2:i386 libclutter-1.0-0 libvorbisfile3:i386 gnome-shell-common libnspr4:i386 gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 libjasper1:i386
gir1.2-mutter-3.0 libpango1.0-0:i386 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 librtmp0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libcogl-common libgjs0c libgtk2.0-0:i386
gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gjs gnome-shell-common libatk1.0-0:i386
libcaca0:i386 libcairo2:i386 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgjs0c
libgtk2.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libjasper1:i386 libmozjs185-1.0 libmutter0 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386 librtmp0:i386
libsdl1.2debian:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic mutter-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 37 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 109 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 368832 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gir1.2-mutter-3.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-clutter-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-cogl-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-json-1.0 ...
Removing gjs ...
Removing gnome-shell-common ...
Removing libgtk2.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libatk1.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libsdl1.2debian:i386 ...
Removing libcaca0:i386 ...
Removing libpango1.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libcairo2:i386 ...
Removing libmutter0 ...
Removing libclutter-1.0-0 ...
Removing libclutter-1.0-common ...
Removing libcogl-common ...
Removing libcogl-pango0 ...
Removing libcogl9 ...
Removing libcurl3-gnutls:i386 ...
Removing libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libgjs0c ...
Removing libidn11:i386 ...
Removing libjasper1:i386 ...
Removing libmozjs185-1.0 ...
Removing libnss3:i386 ...
Removing libnspr4:i386 ...
Removing libpixman-1-0:i386 ...
Removing librtmp0:i386 ...
Removing libvorbisfile3:i386 ...
Removing libxcb-render0:i386 ...
Removing libxcb-shm0:i386 ...
Removing libxft2:i386 ...
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-37 ...
Removing mutter-common ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for man-db ...
daedalus@ubuntu:~$
A week or two into my experience, everything failed. It was buggy to begin with and I don't have the expertise in Ubuntu that I do in *******. Every time I put my computer in Sleep, Hibernate or Suspend mode, it completely freezes on waking. This happens about 100% of the time. I'll open my screen back up and the only thing I can see is my desktop wallpaper. Everything is missing and/or greyed out, the "warning this program is not responsive" type of greyed out. I have no idea how to fix this issue. I got rid of GnomeTweak but I don't know how to erase all of the features I downloaded (maybe I should have been more careful with my root commands when installing GTK3?).
In addition to constantly freezing, the side bar/dash seems laggier than before; it often freezes temporarily while launching programs. Another issue? I can't right-click on the desktop anymore. No menu comes up. It just creates massive lag spikes and/or nearly crashes the desktop environment. The only way I know that my computer hasn't frozen again is if I open the Guake terminal in an attempt to xkill, which changes my cursor and seems to kickstart the computer back into action.
I have tailored alot of settings on this install of Ubuntu, such as VPNs, internet programs, etc, and it'd really be a shame to have to reinstall the entire OS. However I'll do almost anything to fix this problem so I can return to using Ubuntu 12.10 as my main OS (this is a dual-boot computer with Win7). Is there some log I can look at to see what happens when my computer freezes? Any and all help will be extremely appreciated.
Edit: I ran sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and, after telling me I was up to date, told me to remove old packages. Here's the terminal log.
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libatk1.0-0:i386 libcogl9 libcogl-pango0 libidn11:i386 libnss3:i386 libcaca0:i386 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 gir1.2-json-1.0 libcairo2:i386
linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic libmozjs185-1.0 mutter-common libmutter0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 libpixman-1-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386
libclutter-1.0-common gjs libxft2:i386 libclutter-1.0-0 libvorbisfile3:i386 gnome-shell-common libnspr4:i386 gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 libjasper1:i386
gir1.2-mutter-3.0 libpango1.0-0:i386 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 librtmp0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libcogl-common libgjs0c libgtk2.0-0:i386
gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
daedalus@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-mutter-3.0 gjs gnome-shell-common libatk1.0-0:i386
libcaca0:i386 libcairo2:i386 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgjs0c
libgtk2.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libjasper1:i386 libmozjs185-1.0 libmutter0 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386 librtmp0:i386
libsdl1.2debian:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic mutter-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 37 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 109 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 368832 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gir1.2-mutter-3.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-clutter-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-cogl-1.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 ...
Removing gir1.2-json-1.0 ...
Removing gjs ...
Removing gnome-shell-common ...
Removing libgtk2.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libatk1.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libsdl1.2debian:i386 ...
Removing libcaca0:i386 ...
Removing libpango1.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libcairo2:i386 ...
Removing libmutter0 ...
Removing libclutter-1.0-0 ...
Removing libclutter-1.0-common ...
Removing libcogl-common ...
Removing libcogl-pango0 ...
Removing libcogl9 ...
Removing libcurl3-gnutls:i386 ...
Removing libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 ...
Removing libgjs0c ...
Removing libidn11:i386 ...
Removing libjasper1:i386 ...
Removing libmozjs185-1.0 ...
Removing libnss3:i386 ...
Removing libnspr4:i386 ...
Removing libpixman-1-0:i386 ...
Removing librtmp0:i386 ...
Removing libvorbisfile3:i386 ...
Removing libxcb-render0:i386 ...
Removing libxcb-shm0:i386 ...
Removing libxft2:i386 ...
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-37 ...
Removing mutter-common ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for man-db ...
daedalus@ubuntu:~$