Epilogue of problem, The same thing happened to me again after I fixed it the first time. I finally concluded that the problem was the Muon Package Manager. I took it bout and put Synaptic and Ubuntu Software Center back in and it worked fine. I can only guess why.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Robert Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > No, it's not fixed. Because I am putting the identical system into the > identical computer in two places, I got confused. I still have the sudo > running. > > Mark > > > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > 26-200 Fitch Street, Suite 135 > Welland, Ontario L3C 4V9 > Telephone: (289) 821-9898 > If it goes to voicemail without ringing, try (905) 963-0926 > > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 07:01:46 PM Robert Mark Wallace wrote: > > I think that I have it. System monitor reported that I was running xorg > in > > root. I terminated it in System Monitor with the GUI. > > > > But this KDE 4.7 is magnificent. It makes Windows 7 look like KDE 1. > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > Robert Mark Wallace > > 26-200 Fitch Street, Suite 135 > > Welland, Ontario L3C 4V9 > > Telephone: (289) 821-9898 > > If it goes to voicemail without ringing, try (905) 963-0926 > > > > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 06:50:42 PM Robert Mark Wallace wrote: > > > When I try to use Muon, it says that another package manager is > running. > > PS > > > command says that only bash and PS are running. > > > > > > I did have a problem with Muon hanging just before. I pushed the power > > button > > > as computer was refusing to shut down and wasn't doing anything. > > > > > > I bought four cheapie Compaq laptops for the family. I was sick of > Windows > > 7 > > > after two weeks. > > > > > > It took my six year old three weeks, so I am doing installs of KDE in > two > > of > > > them. My wife will take longer as she only checks facebook. > > > > > > KDE has done a remarkable job of working the bugs out of 4 and now > looks > > more > > > stable than Windows 7 which kept asking me if I wanted to force a > shutdown. > > > > > > I suspect that I have to terminate something in command line but I > can't > get > > > the syntax right. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Robert Mark Wallace > > > 26-200 Fitch Street, Suite 135 > > > Welland, Ontario L3C 4V9 > > > Telephone: (289) 821-9898 > > > If it goes to voicemail without ringing, try (905) 963-0926 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > > > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > > > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > -- Robert Mark Wallace Tita Palaca Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 (845) 541-7396
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