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I have two dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04) desktops and a dual boot laptop in my house. All three are set up to use the same OPENVPN connection. One of the desktop machines will not...

Thanks for your reply oldfred, and for all the tips you included with it. You are right; I have got a dirty install. Before I did this upgrade I had a minor problem in that all the hidden files in my...

This may (possibly) be of interest to anyone else who has this problem. I decided to make one last attempt to install Ubuntu 14.10 having made several previous attempts which all ended in failure and...

Thanks for your replies.

Your description of what happened , kansasnoob, is exactly what happened when I tried installing 14.10. I suppose the thing to do is to wait until the Ubuntu developers...

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I have been trying to do a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10 on my desktop machine. I chose the "Something else" option when the installer asked about where it should be installed because I have a...

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I would be grateful for some help with the following:

I am new to Rhythmbox and have just downloaded a short opera which consists of about 30 MP3 files contained in a ZIP file. I have...

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately my password appears to have become corrupt and I can't boot the machine. I found a way to reset the password by using the live CD but it didn't work so, at the...

Thanks for that, Hilm Tye,

It has worked this time but has thrown up another problem. I now have two /home directories. One is where it should be and contains 9 empty directories and the other is...

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The output of df -h is:


chis@chris-PC1:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 127G 17G 104G 14% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0%...

Thanks for your replies dannyboy and NM5TF

I tried using rsync but it would not work. I followed your link NM5TF and entered:

sudo rsync -aXS /home /sdc5/home

but got the following error...

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My computer has two rather old hard drives with a low capacity and I recently bought a new drive to replace them. One drive contains Windows 7 and the other contains Ubuntu 14.04.

I have...

Many thanks all you guys who have helped; the problem is now solved but it just shows how one can stare at a screen without seeing it properly

Thanks for your messages; first of all I had a look at sources.list and although 'oneiric' heads the list it has a '#' beside it and when I did
sudo synaptic there was no mention of a CD in the...

Hi ian-weisser,

Here is the output from
sudo apt-get update



When I try updating by clicking on the "Software Updater" icon it end by saying it could not download anything, and that I...

Thanks for your suggestion. I did what you said but there was no "404" in any of the messages, so I suppose I will just have to put up with it. Perhaps it will stop if I upgrade to the next release...

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Could someone help me to solve this minor irritation, please? It is not a problem that affects the working of my machine but is just a source of irritation. I am running Ubuntu 13.10

When I...

It does not give any message; it just silently returns me to the login screen

Hi and thanks for your message. I did what you said but it didn't work; nothing happens at all when I do that. Something seems to have happened to the system since I shut the computer down last...

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I have just done an online upgrade of my installation of Lubuntu 12.04 to the latest version and although everything ran without any error messages or other problems, I found when I rebooted...

Thanks again, bapoumba.

I just thought you might be interested to know that I have sorted out the WiFi problem. I realised eventually that Lubuntu had two kernels installed and after I removed the...

Many thanks bapoumba; the "unresolvable problem" has now been resolved and I have been able to do the update. It said after that, that there was also an upgrade that could be done so I did that as...

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Could anyone help me with this, please?

I ran Update Manager to get the latest updates for Lubuntu 13.04 and got the following error:



When it says it is "unrecoverable", that surely...

Many thanks for all that info. I will use Windows to transfer the Windows disc as you suggest. The "horror stories" that I have heard about dd when used by inexperienced people (like me) have put me...

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My computer has two hard drives of fairly low capacity which are also quite old. One drive has 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 installed and the other has 64-bit Windows 7 installed. The Windows drive is...

Thanks ibjs4,

The only e
Evolution stuff that is installed is evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common, so from the list produced by Software Updater I will install...