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    Problem Setting up New Computer

    I am trying to set up a new computer, and have a problem copying all my apps over. I did this successfully some time ago (2014) using the following commands:

    From old install
    dpkg...
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    Re: Blue Background on Printouts

    Yes, it has been fixed.
    Irritating, these bugs, aren't they? Thanks for your helpful posts.
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    Blue Background on Printouts

    I've been getting a blue background to all of my printouts since the last Ubuntu Base upgrade a few days ago. I have two printers, both HP, and print using HPLIP. I haven't changed any settings. At...
  4. [SOLVED] Ubuntu keeps crashing after upgrade to 15.10

    I have recently upgraded to 15.10, have found that my system keeps crashing. The crash invariably occurs when I try to access a menu item in the program I happen to be using. This might be when...
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    [SOLVED] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer EULA

    Thanks, that worked.
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    [SOLVED] ttf-mscorefonts-installer EULA

    I have just tried the commands that mdarr used, and everything seemed to go ok until I got to a Microsoft EULA dialog that had an <OK> at the bottom. There it all stuck. I can's click on the OK nor...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    Well, after a hectic morning getting Windows 7 installed on my sda drive, I now have Ubuntu 14.04 up and working on my sdb drive, and all seems to be going fine. I must say that, having created the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    I see it's 2 weeks since my last post, and I have finally got my /home/ directory moved to its own partition and working happily. It was not without event, since I created a 50GiB partition and it...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    Yes, I must admit I was a little surprised when the updater gave me the option to upgrade direct from 12.10 to 13.10, but I just assumed it would be OK.

    the output from lsb_release -a is:

    LSB...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    Thanks for the advice, what was worrying me was the loss of data having to restore it all. I will, of course have to reinstall all of my additional programs, I suppose.

    When you say make a...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    Really, I can't think why I didn't think of looking online for the Firefox backup problem. A quick google of Firefox Password Backup took me to...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10 failed

    I have just tried to upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10. During the upgrade process I got two critical error messages (one was inittrans something or other failed to install), and at the end the clean-up...
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    Problem now resolved, with assistance from Alsa Bug team. It turned out to be an incorrect statement at the end of alsa-base.conf, the line 6stack-dig should have read 6stack-digout.
    I now have...
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    Verbose log generated and posted with bug report. Thanks for your assistance!
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    I tried following the instructions given at the link, and this is what I got:
    (user)@(user)-desktop:~$ echo autospawn = no >> ~/.config/pulse/client.conf #use ~/.pulse/client.conf on Ubuntu <=...
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    Treid that, but still no sound, (it took a while before I found the right file on the DKMS pages). I think that the system can detect my sound card, but for some reason, does not seem to actually...
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    This has all gone very quiet! I still have no sound, so I was wondering if anyone out there can suggest a solution for me?
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    I have tried that and get this:

    E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process

    still no sound output.

    I have checked what I have installed in the synaptic package...
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    [SOLVED] Re: No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    OK, I have done that, and got this response:
    http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=c763843ff58a7be592feaeda19f247b87e55ead0
    now what do I do?

    Thanks!
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    [SOLVED] No sound output after upgrade to 12.10

    I have just upgraded to 12.04 and tried to play some MP3 files through Rhythmbox, but am getting no sound. In system settings the sound output is directed to Dummy Output, and there seems to be no...
  21. [ubuntu] Re: 12.04 Upgrade successful but Grub still shows 11.10

    Done, but it still shows 11.04 in GRUB and the initial screen (the one with the four dots).
  22. [ubuntu] 12.04 Upgrade successful but Grub still shows 11.10

    I have just upgraded from 11.10 to 12,04, and all seemed to go well but my Grub menu still shows 11.10 for all Ubuntu boot options. Booting is successful, but the initial screen shows 11.10 until I...
  23. Re: New HP Photosmart 5720 printer experience on Ubuntu Lucid

    Yes I have got network manager installed. I supppose it is just one of the quirks of wireless networking. I wonder if I can get an ethernet adapter to plug into the USB on the printer, so I can use a...
  24. Re: New HP Photosmart 5720 printer experience on Ubuntu Lucid

    Problem solved: it was all down to the IP address, which, for some reason I cannot fathom, changed from xxx.xxx.1.3 to xxx.xxx.1.4. So, uninstall and reinstall and it works. It is all rather anoying,...
  25. Re: New HP Photosmart 5720 printer experience on Ubuntu Lucid

    O dear, I thought everything was going well until I tried to scan today (I have previously tested the scanner and it worked fine, using gscan2pdf). All I got was Communications Error! I ran up the HP...
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