I'd appreciate any alternatives people can suggest to an OS reinstall which is the 'nuclear option' for me. In my experience, reinstalls take about a day. It may be the hardware I'm using is not so...
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I'd appreciate any alternatives people can suggest to an OS reinstall which is the 'nuclear option' for me. In my experience, reinstalls take about a day. It may be the hardware I'm using is not so...
Thank you for your post and sorry for the delay in replying. I did the reinstall with the command you wrote above. The reinstall completed without error messages, but unfortunately the problem...
This problem has arisen on one of my computers that runs Linux Mint. My understanding is that Mint is mostly based on Ubuntu so I am hoping that an Ubuntu-based solution might be able to fix it.
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Thank you mc4man. I did your change and I got back the kbd shortcut for BackSpace to go up one dir.
But so much else of the previously available functionality has been removed (many of the things...
I have set up Samba server working on my laptop running Ubuntu 13.04, and I have shared the folder /media/Data, with full read-write permissions for all network users including guests. I did that...
I use Nautilus a lot and instinctively use kbd shortcuts for rapid action. Examples are Alt-B for bookmarks list or Alt-F for File menu. Most of the shortcuts I use are via the standard method of...
Thanks for the suggestions. I have pursued it a bit further using those.
The reason I can't use a LiveCD is that the HW problem seems to cause crashes whenever X11 is activated, so I need a...
Thank you bashing-om
Unfortunately I can't use the LiveDVD because the PC crashes with that due to the hardware problem.
I have tried using your fuser suggestion from the root shell available...
My PC dual boots Ubuntu and WinXP. The PC is about to be thrown out, having unresolvable hardware problems. But all my data is on a 'Data' partition of the hard drive (separate from the Windows and...
Thank you. I attach the two files. I couldn't understand most of what's in there, but there was one interesting line in the syslog file: "nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel." A tainted...
I tried the Windows update and got the message saying the following couldn't be installed. It doesn't sound very important, or very illuminating about the hardware, unfortunately:
Security...
The PC has CPU Intel Dual CPU 3.00 GHz; 3GB RAM; NVidia GEforce 210 Graphics Card.
The graphics card is new. I bought it to replace a previous NVidia card, thinking it might fix the problem, which...
My PC is set up to dual boot Windows XP and two versions of Ubuntu - 10.04 and 12.04 32 bit.
Recently both the Ubuntu versions stopped working. It starts booting but then at about the point that I...
In Unity, as in previous desktop environments, Alt-F2 brings up a Run field into which a command can be typed and executed.
A nice new feature is that as you type, programs that match the command...
Well I finally cracked it. I ran a purge of fglrx files by the following command.
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
Then a reboot and I had my video signal back, albeit without 3D graphics or...
Hello. I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04.
After a few initial obstacles it's now going well, except I can't get the 'Settings>Displays' dialog to offer me the screen resolution native to my...
I think this error log file may be the key one.
/var/log/Xorg.failsafe.log
It's what happened when I tried to go into failsafe graphics mode from the Recovery boot option in GRUB.
I'll attach...
The video card is ATI:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
I would happily revert to the basic Open Source driver at this stage but don't know how to...
I upgraded my PC from 10.04 to 12.04 LTS.
Now the monitor loses the signal from the PC after the screen with the 'Ubuntu 12.04' label and the four orange or white dots. Nothing I do seems to bring...
Well what do you know?! I used Synaptic to remove Rhythmbox and then reinstalled it, and it could see the Nano again.:o:)
Hello. I have an iPod Nano that until today I synced with my Ubuntu PC via Rhythmbox. I recently acquired an iPod Touch (software version 4.2.1) and spent a few hours trying to get the Ubuntu PC to...
When I plug in a USB stick or USB external HDD, the following happens:
1- the device doesn't automount and appear as a desktop icon as it is supposed to
2- the device doesn't appear in the main...
OK. I found a fix. I did the commands set out in the following link to re-set Gnome, and the problem disappeared.
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When I open a directory from the Places menu on the Gnome panel, two Nautilus windows open up. One is the location I asked for. The other is always "/media/Data/ZZZMaint/PC/R stats pkg". I think it...
Thank you very much.
I went through the trouble-shooting thread. The problem disappears with a new profile, but not with any of the other measures, so it sounds like a corrupted file.
I decided to...