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Henri

Hand to forehead - smack ! Thanks, howefield - I beg to be allowed to excuse myself for missing the obvious by appealing to the fact that it's been some years since I've used Ubuntu....

Thanks...

I've just installed the Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu 17.04 (which itself was installed on an ancient Dell Inspiron 1525 machine), and a search on Synaptic confirms that it has been...

On my main box running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I​ use the Firefox Nightly PPA to update my Nightly build. The last two updates, on 7 and 10 March, respectively, have led to my seeing the error...

Cinnamon is getting better and better - more powerful and easier to configure - with every release. Kudos to developer Clement Lefebvre !...

Henri

Thanks, recluce ; those instructions worked like a charm ! However, the launcher icon that appears on the panel after applying the procedure is the default rhombus ; do you know any simple way to...

Recluce, might I inquire as to just how one goes about manually adding that Ubuntu Software Centre launcher to the Cinnamon menu ? I've attempted to do it by right-clicking on a Software-Centre...

Glad you found it helpful !...

Henri

Not that this thread has generated an overwhelming amount of traffic and responses, but for the record : My mistake was that I had searched for a solution on Gigabyte's website : instead, given the...

I've recently rebuilt my main desktop, installing a new Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard, processor, PSU, RAM, and an CD/DVD-reader. Everything works fine on this dual-boot (64-bit Ubuntu 11.04,...

Yesterday afternoon, upon booting my 64-bit Ubuntu Maverick box which was installed with Swedish as its system language, to my great surprise I was greeted with a notice in English recommending that...

Ever since the first version for Windows was released in 2008, lots of us Gmail users have been nagging the developers to release a plugin that worked with Linux. A few days ago, our prayers and...

Callius, the problem seems to be the manner in which the update rewrites your machine's MBR file. You might want to take a look at the testdisk workaround, which repairs the file. This has worked for...

Drs305, thanks for your suggestion ! I doubt, however, that the problem is a failure to run as root - as can be seen from my post on p 46 of this thread, entering
sudo chroot /mnt in a terminal...

Thanks again, ranchhand, for your response ! A problem - perhaps the problem ? - is that I find myself unable to comment the line «GRUB_TIMEOUT=5» ; I have no problem inserting a «#», but I can't...

Thanks, ranch hand, for your response ! I've tried to follow the instructions to which you refer in a terminal with the following results :
So far so good ! But when I perform 'nano...

All that business about fools rushing in does seem indeed to be the case ; despite my experience with the difficulties that GRUB2 carries in its train, I took the liberty of reinstalling a (32--bit)...

See Launchpad bug #571893. The Sourceforge testdisk procedure mentioned there should quickly resolve the problem for most multi-boot users, but it is rather disappointing that the Ubuntu developers...

As a follow-up to the discussion we had on pp 38 and 39 of this thread regarding the problems I had in accessing the Windows loader from GRUB2 after upgrading from Karmic to Lucid beta 1 (problems...

Notacluenoob, try disabling smilies in your postings by ticking the relevant box under »Miscellaneous options«. That should restore the «8»....

Henri

VLC works well, as well....

Henri

Thanks for staying with me here, kansasnoob - and for your very pedagogical instructions, which even I could follow ! Interestingly enough, when I ran

sudo apt-get --purge remove grub
I got a...

Thanks for the reply, kansasnoob ! Below the contents of the RESULT.txt file created by following the instructions at SourceForge :

From what I can see, the problem seems to manifest itself here :...

Thanks for your speedy reply, dino99 (cool penguin, by the way) ! Below what displayed in my terminal upon my performing

sudo grub-mkconfig
and

sudo update-grub

Alas, no joy ; I still can't...

I've discussed my trials and tribulations with upgrading from 64-bit Karmic to Lucid on this thread. I thought they were over and marked the thread as «solved», until I discovered that while I can...