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Important to know! Thanks!

I turned off backports and the problem still exists.
Anyway, I've reported a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1813626
and referenced this discussion in the bug...

Thanks for trying, 1fallen!

Anybody else out there who knows about the GUI? Should I post a bug and, if so, where?

Thanks in advance!

Here are the outputs of the commands you suggested:

username@computer:~$ xprop | awk '($1=="_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL)") {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o cmd
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager...

"Now click on a running instance of the GUI (Software updater)."

Click where? Anywhere in the window? On a particular button?

The GUI Update Manager keeps asking for a partial upgrade. This started happening recently. sudo apt-get update and upgrade yields:


$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done...

OK I'm back and I can now do sftp again. I am now waiting to see if our sysadmin is still complaining about netbios traffic. I will give this a couple of days and if I don't hear from him I will...

Thanks again. I will try this and report back with results.

Thanks Morbius1! I intend to apt-get install ubuntu-desktop using the -d option, unplug the network cable and then run apt-get install again to complete the installation. After I do this, I expect...

Hello,

I have a linux box connected to our company network. The network sysadmin (he's a Windows guy) has been complaining to me that my computer has been sending netbios packets which he claims...

I also noticed this in one of the plugin directories:



ls -al /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
total 188
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-03-17 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-04-17...

So, it looks like we might have a permissions problem.

To me, Linux permissions have always been a royal pain in the you-know-what.


lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2012-03-17 17:02...

OK but I will post my results anyway.

For one thing, I could not create the links in two of the three places you mentioned without running them under sudo.

But then, when I run Firefox, it...

OK bye for now (back shortly)

Should the ln commands going in /usr/lib/... be under sudo?

Here are the results of the "java -version" and "update-alternatives --config java" commands:

result of java -version:



java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.4.3

Copyright (C)...

OK but, when I enter the command "java -version", I get the same version that is listed when I enter the command "update-alternatives --config java". Will that be a problem?

What about update-alternatives?

Here is the script file.

Sorry, had to step a way for a few minutes.

I will do the above and get back to you shortly.

My desktop is back to normal: I brought up the system->preferences->appearance applet and suddenly, I am back to normal again. Whew!

In addition, I repeated the update-alternatives --config java and here is the output:


There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

Selection Path ...

Hi Cherz,

So, I opened synaptic and searched for "java" in the name only. I then found a package called "java-common" and selected that for removal. A bunch of other packages got selected as...

Thanks Cherz,

I will decline the suggestion to install Opera for the time being; to me, that just seems to be yet another variable to worry about. I would like to keep things as simple as...

Hi dino99,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have thought of that but that is advised against in the howto

So, after I remove everything, should I install openJDK before re-installing the Oracle...