It appears that the kubuntu 12.04 LTS KDE Plasma GUI Muon Update Manager
(now obsolete and replaced with PPASC - the PPA Software Centre, which
currently fails to launch on my kubuntu 14.04 system) might have been
interfering with the install that it was trying to effect. Once removed
and the
Public bug reported:
Updating from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS. Worked fine on an old HP desktop
PC this morning, also running the KDE / Kubuntu 12.04 OS and Plasma GUI,
but does not like updating my Toshiba Sattelite 100 laptop. Don't know
why this should make a difference. Will restart the laptop
Tried again after rebooting, to the same result. Upgrade dialog just
vanishes shortly after the error message one closes. Also the laptop had
issues rebooting, dropped out of the restart screen before login and had
to check the drive for errors before finally working itself out to
display the GUI
Public bug reported:
Was in a new session on my laptop, running only Evolution mail and the System
Monitor when I selected to run Firefox from the Applications Internet menu.
Upon doing so, the screen went black with only the animated wait pointer
working and, within 10 seconds, I found
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Seems to have been fixed in recent system updates since the more recent
version of software-center was rolled out some time ago.
Haven't experienced that issue since the 11.10 roll-out.
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 23:40 +, Michael wrote:
Some of you might have a problem with missing PGP keys,
Good to know, thank you.
FYI, please note that, only this afternoon, I discovered that this bug
also impacts on Gnome FreeCell Patience 3.2.0, which appears to be a
closely related application to Aisleriot Patience.
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 04:16 +, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
This bug was
That response makes no sense as the desktop display of inserted / newly
mounted drives was available under the Unity GUI for Ubuntu 11.04.
This is a massive oversight that needs rectifying at once to restore
essential functionality and usability.
With release 11.10, Ubuntu no longer provides the
Thank you Omer.
There seems to be no option in the preferences for the Nautilus file
browser GUI (that I could find) to permit this.
Please be so kind as to advise how to retore that setting to enable
drive icon display on the desktop, keeping in mind that I varey seldom
use the command line
The sets of floders and messages appears to have duplicated to allow
form my two E-mail addresses. (One complete set under each address
heading). A result that was neither necessary nor desirable in my case,
as my mail was always combined into single, topic or contact name based
mail folders.
On
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Title:
Why do drive icons fail to display on the 11.10 desktop?
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When a hard drive is mounted or a USB stick inserted, unlike any
previous version of Ubuntu that I know, no drive icon displays. This
means that drag and drop to drives is no longer supported except in the
Nautilus file browser, making Ubuntu as unintuitive to use as
Public bug reported:
Slays as a sleeping task when you quit the application. Has to have its
process killed with the System Monitor. Has doubled up all my mailboxes
(for my two E-mail addresses, making for huge backup times and file
sizes.) a thoroughly nasty and constantly problematic update to
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New Evolution mail with 11.10 huge resource hog that won't close.
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Also, when sending mail, the following error message displays:
Your message was sent, but an error occurred during post-processing.
The reported error was Failed to append to
mbox:///home/writeideas/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder
URI
Public bug reported:
Impacts upgraded install of 11.10 from 11.04.
While their has never been a sound using the Centre-wheel button to move cards
up to the stack, there always used to be a clack sound for moving one card atop
another and a sort of dull boing sound for making a mistaken move,
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Cracking cheese madbiologist!
Yes, I closed the playback window prematurely, as I did not have the
time to see the whole movie again just then. (It is one of the many
hundreds of ABC TV Australia shows I have stored thanks to Jeremy
Visser's wonderful Python iView application
Thank you for your analyses and insights. I would suggest that to
advance to a new OS version, firstly one should not break what already
works well in the existing version, then provide some sort on
intelligence to detect what more modern and advanced features are
available on the receiving PC
Sure, feel free to close the bug, but this demonstrates that more
testing needs to be done on older PCs before releasing new versions.
Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest and Ubuntu is supposed
to be developed mindful of community needs and widespread usefulness.
Cheers.
On Wed,
Yes that is unfortunate. I never thought that when I upgraded to
Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.x that I'd be stuck with a cumbersome (although
good in some respects) new GUI (which would not activate on anything but
my laptop and had to revert to classic on my desktop PCs) and my
movies would no longer
Well, I just uninstalled / reinstalled flashplugin-installer using the
software centre to be sure, then restarted the PC, logged in then ran
media player by itself. Sound was fine as before but, also as before, an
image is only available for a fraction of a second if I drag to move
then drop the
Thanks so much for that help. Please find the output of lspci -vvnn
attached.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/774008/+attachment/2505050/+files/videowoesoutput.txt
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Now here is the output of glxinfo | grep render from my desktop PC.
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Thank you Pedro.
I would be happy to assist, however my main desktop PC has only CD-ROM,
not DVD-ROM drives, meaning that it would be futile for me to download
the oversized 11.10 release, which is also too much data for me to
download as a proportion of my monthly data allowance.
As an
Thank you.
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Title:
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gr.archive.ubuntu
This bug also prevents me from using computer-janitor and software-center.
Tried deleting the files under /var/lib/apt/lists using the file manager GUI
tool but it wouldn't let me do so.
Could someone please advise me how to do so? I suspect that this can only be
done using the shell with
Update Manager closes after reporting the following under ubuntu 11.04
Natty Narwhal
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package
information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include
the following
Still unable to play any video files on any media player that comes with
11.04 Natty Narwhal. Likely cause the newly upgraded (from ubuntu 10.10)
video drivers.
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Also impacts Synaptic Package Manager. Will post a bug report about that
application in a moment.
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Just downloaded the file spooks_11_09_04.flv (a 640 x 360, H.264 video
codec / MPEG-4 AAC audio codec, 25 frames a second FLV file) using the
Python iView file streaming application and, with no other applications
running, tried to play it back with the new Media Player
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The same problem afflicts the new 11.04 release Banshee Media Player when
trying to playback video files of any type.
It occurs on this PC with a half Gb of RAM and on my second desktop PC, also
with 11.04 Natty just installed and all updates checked and installed, which
has One Gb of RAM. Both
The 7 year old Toshiba laptop running the Unity GUI has no issue with
playing videos. Seems to be a backwards compatibility issue with PCs
that must use the Ubuntu 10 style classic GUI. Hope that helps.
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That works a treat, thank you Vincenzo.
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On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 15:53 +, Vincenzo Pii wrote:
Just use the terminal to overcome this issue, until it is fixed.
If you want to install package xyz which is not signed, then just do
sudo
That is not a viable workaround. It fails on both of my Ubuntu 10.10
(Maverick) desktop PCs.
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On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:20 +, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: software-center
This is the
Untrusted packages error just prevented me from installing the KompoZer
Web site authoring tool on my main desktop Ubuntu (Maverick) PC. Text in
the dialog described the untrusted application as being kompozer
kompozer-data. This bug is a real nuisance that prevents installation
of important
The suggested workaround that I received (below) failed on two separate
desktop PCs running Ubuntu Maverick.
+ WORKAROUND: Immediately before opening software-center perform at the
+ Terminal:
+
+ sudo apt-get update
The software centre could not complete an install (of Kompozer on one PC
and
Prevents installation of ClamTk (antivirus) and, as of this morning, the
eSpeak speech synthesiser GUI on some of my desktop PCs but not my
laptop, running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick).
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** Tags added: apport-collected
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: update-manager
When I checked for new updates for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) on my 3GHz
Celeron PC, the Update Manager [1:0.142.20(update manager)] presented
new updates for Wine and various
When you mention output files, I presume you mean the text output to the
Linux shell. If not, my apologies in advance but I copy and paste the output as
follows:
writeideas@writeideas-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update | tee ~/Desktop/Update1
[sudo] password for writeideas:
Get:1
Oh pardon me, I had no idea where any files would output, then found them on
the desktop.
Attaching them as requested.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/707431/+attachment/1810389/+files/Upgrade1
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Attachment 2 as requested. (The first attachment was the Upgrade1 not
the Update1 as previously described. They attached individually in
alphabetical order from the desktop.)
** Attachment added: Output text file for Update1
Yes, indeed. Sorry if I seemed a bit of a novice with following your
instructions. It's been ages since I used the shell regularly (I started
with an Amiga in the late 1980s) and forgot how the pipe command
redirects output, which should have told me where the output text files
would end up. If
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
When I checked for new updates for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) on my 3GHz
Celeron PC, the Update Manager [1:0.142.20(update manager)] presented
new updates for Wine and various MS TrueType fonts. These installed fine
on my Toshiba laptop but
This bug also occurs in another of my Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) desktop PCs.
Same Linux kernel and GNOME versions
Hardware
Memory: 1001.7 MiB
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
System Status
Available disk space: 25.4 GiB
Yet no such problem occurred with my Toshiba laptop, updating from
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: software-center
Despite being able to install and working flawlessly on my other Ubuntu
(Maverick) desktop PC and laptop, clamtk 4.31 (antivirus) will not
install on another of my Ubuntu PCs.
I wrote to the ClamTK developer back on January 17th 2011,
Dear Pedro. Thank you for your response.
Here is some more information to assist with recreating this bug:
1. Run game from desktop Applications menu Games Mahjonng.
(I usually run this in a maximised window for improved tile view detail.)
2. Verify in the Settings Preferences Mahjonng
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-games
When down to the last 6 or less tiles in a blocked result, the game shuffles
but substitutes one set of different tiles to those that were blocked, making
the end result unrepresentative and irrelevant to the preceding gameplay.
(Impacts
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I suspect that this could be happening when pidgin detects a mail waiting at
hotmail or a resource conflict with Firefox.
Occurs several times in a row on my Karmic PC without warning. Often when
trying to enter a typed line of text as the person whom I am chatting with is
replying or another
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
As I have written to the support team at http://www.oasisactive.com/
Why, in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 for Ubuntu Linux, am I constantly disconnected
from your messenger service, making it impossible for me to contact other
subscribers? Please
Public bug reported:
Downloaded a 15 minute TV program from
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/
The player suggested that plugins must be downloaded.
Sound did not work on initial playback.
Workaround after failure:
Just tried stopping the media player and restarting and all now
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Well it could be on first installation, Daniel,
Rather, I am saying that it sorted itself out when the media player was
closed then restarted.
So what seemed to be a problem would have been overcome if the installer
either requested the user to restart the player application or forced
restarting
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