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I suggest you use dconf-editor to uncheck download-updates in org.gnome.software. That solved the problem for me, though now I find that Software Updater doesn't run successfully as often as it...

After just over a week Software Updater popped up with updates to be installed, so it looked like the fix had indeed restored the desired behaviour. Since then, however, I've also upgraded to 16.04...

After 15 days the timestamp on /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp was still Sep 28 07:57, Software Updater still hadn't popped up, and there was a notification that the update information was...

For various reasons I'm fairly sure that this is not the case and that the setting is indeed for how often to check for updates, not for how often to inform the user about them. The netbook in...

Yes, indeed. Given the convenient proximity of T and G on the keyboard, I could try claiming it was a typo, but alas the truth is that 'Metacity' is a word that refuses to stick in my memory without...

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately when I look at Startup Applications, Gnome Software didn't appear there. It occurs to me that in my original post I should have mentioned that I use GNOME...

Ever since I upgraded to 16.04, Software Updater has been running daily even though its settings specify a different frequency. I've tried various settings - weekly, fortnightly, never - all to no...

Ignore me! Either I'm going mad or my netbook is. I've now realised that although the symptoms I was seeing seemed identical to the original poster's, the problem was different (I'm not running...

As I (appear to) have the same problem as you had, I've been trying to apply the solution that worked for you. The first problem I encountered was that the reference to "Indicator plugin" did not...

Thanks (and while I remember it, thanks for your posting about configuring Gnome Classic in 12.04 - it was very useful when I upgraded from 10.04 18 months ago). In the process of trying to do 1(a)...

Using dconf-editor on both the 14.04 system and a 12.04 system, I suspect I have found the cause of the problem, but not the solution.

On the 12.04 system the schema org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout...

Hardware: Dell Latitude 2110
Current Ubuntu version: 14.04
Previous version 12.04

In 12.04 I used Gnome Classic (No Effects) as my desktop environment.

Today I accepted the 14.04.1 upgrade. ...

This is a problem I've also experienced, but I don't think it's specific to certain files. I'll try to explain why I say that. For the last four years I've intermittently experienced this scenario:...

Success! I removed the broken link, i.e.

rm -f /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugins/notestplugin.py

and rebooted, and mobile broadband is now working.

I believe I can also now...

I've been investigating further and that has led me to the following:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/twisted/+bug/631486

which describes how the upgrade from hardy to lucid breaks...

Just a quick update to say that I've discovered that modem-manager is replaced when installing bcm. The failure of the modem-manager to start coincides to the second with the installation of...

Based on some investigating I've been doing, I've come to the following conclusions (you'll note that they contradict earlier assumptions):

It's probably not a file protection issue.

BCM and...

I've been considering how I could test this hypothesis. The only method I can see would be...


Enable root password
Login through the GUI as root
See if mobile broadband works for root
Logout...

Here's the result of comparing the lsmod output for the two systems.

On the desktop I did

lsmod | sort > desktop-lsmod.txt

and copied the file over to the netbook where I then did:

lsmod...

Thanks.

The kernels are different, but with the failing system'having the more up-to-date kernel:
notebook: Linux dell-desktop 2.6.32-27-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 1 23:52:12 UTC 2010 i686...

I'm not really expecting anyone to come up with an immediate solution to this problem. Rather I'm hoping for suggestions as to what I should be doing to investigate it (e.g. which log file to look...

Thanks. I'll take a look at that option and decide whether the Live USB route will allow me to check what I want to check.



Thanks for the detailed instructions. I'm not a fan of messing...

I'm quite embarrassed to be asking this as I'm sure the answer must be fairly straightforward and already present somewhere in one of the threads, but unfortunately all I seem to be able to find are...

I've just encountered this problem and (aided by the suggestions in this thread) managed to find a less drastic solution.

I looked at the contents of ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini, namely:
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Though I'm rapidly going off the idea of an oem install! I recently bought a PC from Dell with Linux installed and have encountered a major problem: it's still configured to log in automatically as...