Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Goh Lip
On 08/12/2010 05:16 AM, Lane Lester wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip mailto:g@gmx.com>> wrote: Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it would be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery console, to do the upgrade. So, if you ar

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip wrote: > Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it would > be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery console, to do the > upgrade. So, if you are still having the same problem booting up, append > "nouveau.modeset=0"

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
There are some solutions now being offered on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 for those still having problems. Regards, Phill. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote: > > The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either > didn't > > do the upg

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Custom Launcher.

2010-08-11 Thread Julien Lavergne
Try "lxshortcut the_name_of_the_file_to_edit.desktop" Le mercredi 11 août 2010 à 14:32 +0100, Phillip Whiteside a écrit : > yes, and even spelled it correctly with gksudo, unlike in my email. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Phillip Whiteside > wrote: > lxshortcut looks good, now if

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Trevithick
> The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either didn't > do the upgrades and your system didn't break, or you did the upgrades and > maybe your system broke. I waited until there was a clear upgrade path, with nothing being held back. And until others on the forums were rep

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Custom Launcher.

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
yes, and even spelled it correctly with gksudo, unlike in my email. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Phillip Whiteside wrote: > lxshortcut looks good, now if someone would just tell us how to launch it > :-) > > I've tried Menu --> Run lxshortcut and both lxshortcut and gksudo lxshrtcut > from LX

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Custom Launcher.

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
lxshortcut looks good, now if someone would just tell us how to launch it :-) I've tried Menu --> Run lxshortcut and both lxshortcut and gksudo lxshrtcut from LXTerminal Thanks, Phill. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 15:24 +0200, Leszek Lesner

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] ubiquity crashes

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hmm, you are not alone (not that that informatio helps), it seems something that happens to some with Alphas for no apparent reason. I'll add http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1547535&page=4 (posts #34 and #35). Can you install by running the LiveCD and clicking on 'install, instead of choo

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote: > But but but.. .. I *did* follow the warnings. :-) I > thought. > > Live and learn. > The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either didn't do the upgrades and your system didn't break, or you did the upgrades and mayb

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Call for testing: jobs-admin

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi Brian, I know that job priorities can be altered, hopefully the below is of help to you. Regards, Phill. Kernel decides how much processor time is required for a process based on the nice value. Possible nice value range is: -20 to 20. A process that has a nice value of -20 is very high prior

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] ubiquity crashes

2010-08-11 Thread Duy Hùng Trần
On 11 August 2010 17:03, Phillip Whiteside wrote: > Hi, > > the usual first thing I ask ... Could you check your iso & created cd > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers#Check > downloaded image file and > CD >

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] ubiquity crashes

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, the usual first thing I ask ... Could you check your iso & created cd https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers#Check downloaded image file and CD Regards, Phill. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Duy Hùng Trần w

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Goh Lip
On Wednesday 11,August,2010 07:26 AM, Lane Lester wrote: Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my problem was nvidia-related. I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with problems updating python packages. I rebooted normally, and it hu