Lubuntu - One Stop Thread

**ovyovi** · March 24th, 2012

I like lubuntu, but I have a little problem with firefox start.

**mörgæs** · March 24th, 2012

In general Firefox problems should be posted in
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1712247

I don't get what is going on in the video. A well-written explanation is probably better.

**amjjawad** · March 24th, 2012

Hello Everyone,

We had a discussion today on The Official Lubuntu Group on Facebook and some friends talked about www.googlubuntu.com and why "Lubuntu" is NOT yet included?

Well, guess what? it is included starting NOW!

Communication Team has contacted the site admin (I was the messenger) and he responded so quickly. Who knows what else will be included in that wonderful search engine?

Enjoy!

**ovyovi** · March 25th, 2012

@mörgæs
have to kill one of the two firefox processes in task manager to use firefox

**amjjawad** · March 25th, 2012

For those who have facebook account, please feel free to join:

Click on the above banner and join!

Thanks!

**amjjawad** · March 29th, 2012

Hi,

I'm now in involved in other area beside Ubuntu Forum. It's very important to know what users think so I'd like you to Vote for the Poll that I just created it last night on Lubuntu Page on Facebook.

To Vote:

1- Like the page if you did not yet
2- Vote here

Those who voted already, thank you

I'm looking for more vote for the coming days because I need that a lot.

On a side note, there are some news regarding LOST. I will start working on it, hopefully next week. As per Ubuntu Staff Meeting, Wiki Pages will be used for Technical and Instructions stuff and Ubuntu Forum for Discussion.

Anyway, keep an eye on all Lubuntu Channels (Mailing List, IRC, Forum and Social Networks) and you will not miss anything

Thank you!

P.S.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ContactUs

**Herpythebrony** · April 11th, 2012

Sweet! Now I have a reason to get a facebook XD

**amjjawad** · April 11th, 2012

Since 2010 until now, I think I have done more than 100 installations for Ubuntu and/or Lubuntu but never faced the issue when you got stuck for 1-2 mins on Lubuntu Splash Screen with the 5 dots and a message saying:

Code:

waiting for network configuration

then:

Code:

waiting an additional 60 seconds for network configuration

And all that while I was done from this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=152

By the way, YES, that OLD machine is working now with Lubuntu 11.10 and I will write another simple HOWTO to explain how to install Lubuntu on machines with 64MB of RAM

I did a search on Google and found some messed up threads with many users posting at the same time without a direct and clear solution for this issue. The most recent thread was for this year and has only 3 posts so I posted there: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1946216

Since I do have the same issue and I promised that user to find a fix, I guess I did find already and, as usual, I thought it is better to document this so there you go:

Because I fixed that on a very old machine, I decided to go the CLI and Alt+Ctrl+F2 approach so YOU ARE FREE to do that while you are logged in to the GUI

- Okay, I will write the general steps so feel free to use whatever approach you like.

1-

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

If you are typing this from LXTerminal while logged in to the GUI then:

Code:

gksudo leafpad /etc/network/interfaces

2- Remove whatever written there and just keep this:

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

It is very good idea to keep a backup copy of "interfaces" file just in case so please make sure to save a "interfaces.bak" file before you do anything

3- Ctrl + O if you are using nano and Ctrl + S (File > Save) if you are using leafpad.

4- Ctrl + X if you are using nano and Ctrl + Q (File > Quit) if you are using leafpad.

5- Reboot.

6- Done.

On my old machine (HP OmniBook 4150), the booting became much faster now

Enjoy!