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Hi, I upgraded to Ubuntu Trusty about 1 month ago, and the first time I rebooted, grub could not find a bootable Linux.

I have had this before during upgrades, and usually the common fix of...

I used update-manager to perform at least the last two upgrades: from 11->12 and 12->13.
Now that the new Trusty release is out I expected it to work as it has before.

However, after some...

I think that did the trick! Not sure what it was that I haven't tried before (feels like I've tried all possible settings at least twice) but huge thanks!
This is also a good link...

When I installed (k)Ubuntu on my work laptop it was connected to the internet with an all-fixed (IP address, hostnames, etc) setup.
After a few upgrades, and lately an overhaul of the networks at...

I still have no idea what caused this, but I solved it with booting via the boot-repair disk and manually mounting the root partition.

It turned out that the directories had been moved to a...

Dear all,

This error on my laptop has left me puzzled: after an upgrade from Quantal to Raring, nothing came up but a blank screen. After ~1 min or so it says:
error: failure reading sector...

Thanks, but that's not it (if I understand you correctly) - I don't have a UK keyboard.
Changing to the UK region does not change the layout of my keyboard. On UK keyboards the pound is above the...

Hi -

I have a US keyboard which produces a Euro sign (€) with the combination (Alt Gr)(5). When I try to implement the pound sign using xmodmap, it does not seem to work.

My current xmodmap...

Dear all,

After my upgrade to Oneiric, every reboot (luckily not that many) comes with the notification "waiting for network configuration" and then "waiting up to 60s ..." before continuing.
...

Hi,

I was trying to compute people's age in years (as a floating point number, so 16 years and 3 months would be ~ 16.25 years)

To do that I computed their birth date in seconds from 00:00.00...

Found out that the solution above, which worked on my office computer, did not work at home :(

AMW

You may have a point :). Then again, I just clicked 'update' when the graphics software management tool suggested to update. Maybe that suggestion should appear a few weeks later? I was updating not...

Dear all,

After a system notification I upgraded my (K)ubuntu from Maverick to Natty. Everything went seamlessly and in the background (some funny behaviour eg from acroread, as it was being...

Dear All,

I am trying to play some iPlayer downloaded files (iPlayer is a tool to watch and download BBC shows) on my computer.

After moving to the Netherlands I cannot play these files on the...

Hi -

At work I have a laptop with a USB keyboard and mouse (health & safety etc). The keyboard is a standard US layout (with € sign below the 5), Kensington model pk1100u.

Theweird thing about...

Hi,

I'm compiling a project that I worked on, with configure, make, make install
(contributed code but never had anything to do with the automake stuff)

Now I'm running the whole thing again...

It looks like I've cracked it :)

The solution, for those who have come across a similar problem, was twofold in this case:

1. Make the driver working.
The suggestions on the WWW often...

It looks like I've cracked it :)

The solution, for those who have come across a similar problem, was twofold in this case:

1. Make the driver working.
The suggestions on the WWW often...

Hmmm... Found a phone cable (!) and got a wired connection.

The wireless keeps not working, the ired connection (eth0) only works when all the security on the router is switched off. The problem...

Wow!

During one of my trial-and-error sessions and with WPA(1) security off (that's what it's set to for all the other users) I suddenly got a DHCP offer from the router.

So the setup of...

There is definitely something wrong with my wpa_supplicant setup. When I turn of the WPA(1) security on the router and remove wpa_supplicant from the /etc/network/interfaces files (just add the line...

Hmm. My card is working now, it finds my router with SSID 'madness', and wpa_supplicant was already installed. So I skipped to step, and changed /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
...

kwacka, points 1, 2, and 3: yes. The SSID is madness, the passphrase (which I use in Windows on the same computer) is correct.

Will try and do the wicd thing, but again, hopefully there is...

Thanks guys,

I found a way to make my card work (TXpower not 0 any more) and find the wireless router (it's listed in `iwlist wlan0 scanning`), what I haven't got working is the DHCP communication...

Thanks for your replies. I have been trying out things, with limited success,

Buuntu, if I type 'iwconfig', for wlan0 it shows ESSID "madness", so I have already done what you suggested? Or are...