[Bug 1289807] Re: User Accounts endless loop (never opens)

2015-02-14 Thread John Matthews
I'm having the same issue. Any developments? The symbolic link solution didn't work on my end. Thanks very much. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289807 Title: User Accounts endless

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 18:25, Rob Beard wrote: John, have you tried maybe contacting your local Linux User Group (assuming there is one near you?). You can find a list of LUGs here: http://lug.org.uk/listings If you can find a local LUG which is active (seems like some of them aren't so active) then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread John Matthews
On 14/10/10 11:26, Barry Drake wrote: Ubuntu folk are (for the most part) really helpful people. If you happened to live close to Nottingham I would happily pop around and spend a couple of hours, especially if you were to offer a beer! I'm sure the same goes for many of us around the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread John Matthews
On 14/10/10 19:39, Alan Bell wrote: Seenhttp://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and it seems quite popular. Something wrong with link, wont work. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread John Matthews
On 14/10/10 19:52, Paul Jones wrote: John, http://askubuntu.com/ Paul (peejay1977) That one works, dont know why the other one didnt. :( Thank you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 11:49, chris cundy wrote: I think the point of any Linux desktop distro is not that everything will work perfectly with every combination of hardware available but to work with most hardware. The issue with computer users is not that they can't solve problems or get a particular

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 13:49, Alan Pope wrote: On 13 October 2010 12:08, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Those who know, always seem to be those that stand there and say Ubuntu is easy, easier than windows. It's easy if you know what you're doing. Same as rocket science or brain surgery. It's all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 16:09, Alan Pope wrote: On 13 October 2010 14:54, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: On 13/10/10 13:49, Alan Pope wrote: It's easy if you know what you're doing. Same as rocket science or brain surgery. It's all about perspective. Many people who say 'ubuntu is easy' are almost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 16:35, Paul Jones wrote: If you ask me (and I know noone did) there will ALWAYS be as many people claiming it worked perfectly without any configuration at all as there are people who claim it was a nightmare, I couldnt get it to work and I couldnt get any help either

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 16:34, Alan Pope wrote: Hi John, You've clearly had problems with Ubuntu, and your problems haven't yet been resolved. I can understand the frustration you're feeling. On 13 October 2010 16:19, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Yeh, but there you go, for you, its never a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 17:05, Roy Jamison wrote: Windows fanboys flame me, linux fanboys pat me on the back;) lol I rest my case. Sorry, this is verging on becoming abusive.. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses -discuss

2010-10-13 Thread John Matthews
On 13/10/10 17:35, Paul Jones wrote: I've been a user of support forums for years and have never had the issues you or Mel describe, I've asked questions on all manner of forums ranging from PC's to dishwashers to cats and never found a lack of people willing to help and point me in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 07:32, Sean Miller wrote: Surely this is all back to front? If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are creating blank sites and fix your own site? Then you end up with a bonus - you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 07:58, Colin Law wrote: It is not his own site, his initial question was worded slightly ambiguously. He said that he 'had a page' that failed, but did not mean that it was his own site. But you are right that the fundamental problem may be the invalid html. The new version of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:28, Sean Miller wrote: If the petsathome site is completely awful HTML then that's rather a sad reflection on their brand... who is to know whether the pet food is edible, the fish being sold healthy or the staff knowledgable if they can't be bothered to spend at least a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Your right, I just disabled all my plugins for Google Chrome, and the page renders. So I will now go through and check which one it was. First time I have known that to happen with Chrome. That is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:40, Roy Jamison wrote: Actually if p...@home staff are anything to go by, I wouldn't exactly expect their website to be any good. Think...mass breeding at the sibling level with the rabbits and other animals they sell. Most of them die within 2 years because of health problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Spoke too soon, the page disappeared, but took longer to go than with the plug-ins. :( So its not the plug-ins. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
Is there a way using the terminal or an error report in Ubuntu, that might show why it wont stay in view? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 10:27, Colin Law wrote: I still don't know which version of google-chrome you are using. Colin Working, it was the Chrome version, had the unstable version installed. Sorry I didnt notice your post about the version I was using. As soon as you mentioned version, and when I saw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
Problem is now, how do I set up a new profile in Chrome. I am now getting a message when I start this version saying 'Your profile cannot be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome. Some features may be unavailable. Please specify a different profile directory or use a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote: Google for google chrome profile yields many hits, alternatively you could uninstall and purge google-chrome and re-install it. That should clear the settings (in ~/.config/google-chrome I think). Colin I did google above, and it was mainly about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote: sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer Did the purge, it worked, but cant install, no google chrome to install. looked in Synaptic, not there. Where is the official site for google chrome for

[ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
I am having similar problems to the gentlman with the bank page. I have animals, and have a page called www.petsathome.com which I was able to get on till I got the upgrade to beta last week. I use Google Chrome, and it worked ok till then. Now, the page loads, and goes white after a couple of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
So how do I get over it. It wont load, its not the only page, but that is one I use the most. John On 10/10/10 18:10, Jacob Mansfield wrote: seems fine to me, by the sound of what you said I would guess that it's a css style sheet problem Jacob Mansfield Programmer -- Ubuntu User #30817

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/10/10 18:20, Colin Law wrote: Is that your web site? It is full of html errors, see http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.petsathome.com Colin Hi, no its not my website. Up till the upgrade, it worked no problems. As I said I viewed it a lot. On 10/10/10 18:26, Rob Beard wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/10/10 18:26, Rob Beard wrote: I've got the same problem on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running Chromium 8.0.551.0 (62097) (it's a nightly build I believe). I have seen it with a couple of web sites. I tried the Pets At Home web site in Firefox 3.6.10 and it works fine, so I suspect rather than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
Just started my netbook, running 10.10 as well, and it wont open on there using Chrome either, so it isnt just the pc, its the netbook as well that has a problem. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/10/10 19:00, Jacob Mansfield wrote: try in firefox, what happens? Jacob Mansfield Programmer That works, I'm running 3.6.10 on my netbook, so its a problem with Google and the new version of FF. So what has changed in the upgrade to 10.10 to make that happen, that is annoying. I hate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread John Matthews
How can I go back to 3.6.10, and how can I get Chrome to show those pages. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-04 Thread John Matthews
On 04/10/10 10:23, javadayaz wrote: Well it was working fine before...and i havent disabled anything! i will have to check if its somehow manage to disable itself!!! On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk mailto:phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 4 October 2010

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-04 Thread John Matthews
On 04/10/10 18:36, javadayaz wrote: So the changing the usb settings did the trick. The keyboard is now operational. The cpu thermal seems to have been a waste though..and in vain...its still showing at the 53c...although I suppose its better than before. Ok, so how did you change the usb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-09-18 Thread John Matthews
On 17/09/10 11:39, azmodie wrote: secure-delete is a command line tool and must be run from the terminal. i believe the command you are looking fro is srm. try typeing man srm in terminal. i personaly have not used it. i have used wipe command in the past .

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-09-17 Thread John Matthews
On 11/08/10 13:07, Alan Pope wrote: On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I cant find it any where. Where would it install to? This lists the files in the package:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread John Matthews
On 16/09/10 13:37, pmgazz wrote: FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I check Twitter is unauthorised

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread John Matthews
On 16/09/10 13:37, pmgazz wrote: FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I check Twitter is unauthorised

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.10

2010-09-08 Thread John Matthews
On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote: im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time... /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so . is anyone else getting this? happens more when I open the ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.10

2010-09-08 Thread John Matthews
On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote: On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote: im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time... /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so . is anyone else

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.04

2010-09-07 Thread John Matthews
On 07/09/10 11:50, Neil Greenwood wrote: Do you have a proxy server between you and the internet. If so there's a bug that prevents the download of the new Flash version (although the package says it has installed successfully). If that's the problem, let me know and I'll tell you the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating Website on server.......

2010-09-06 Thread John Matthews
On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote: On the advice of somebody on here, I installed Vanilla Forums, which seemed to go ok and is working sort of. The problem is, it needs updating, and I have tried and tried to update it, and it wont work. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating Website on server.......

2010-09-06 Thread John Matthews
On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote: On the advice of somebody on here, I installed Vanilla Forums, which seemed to go ok and is working sort of. The problem is, it needs updating, and I have tried and tried to update it, and it wont work. I

[ubuntu-uk] Updating Website on server.......

2010-09-05 Thread John Matthews
On the advice of somebody on here, I installed Vanilla Forums, which seemed to go ok and is working sort of. The problem is, it needs updating, and I have tried and tried to update it, and it wont work. I just dont know how to update using the Terminal. God knows I have tried. I just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does a hard shutdown actually damage anything?

2010-09-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/09/10 09:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, Once again I lost my shutdown function; not only did shutdown vanish from my main menu, but when I added the Session Indicator Applet to the panel, the shutdown option on this did not work either; only the user switcher option worked. Therefore,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get update / apt-get upgrade question

2010-09-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/09/10 10:12, Alan Pope wrote: On 3 September 2010 10:09, Steve Fisherxirco...@gmail.com wrote: I am a Mandriva refugee! I know rpm inside out, but not apt. When I issue the above, sometimes I see e.g.: 26 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 132 not upgraded. (KDE

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread John Matthews
On 18/08/10 22:07, David King wrote: With a name like that, how long before the media call it the NUTTY Narwhal? Or the NUTTY KNOW-ALL? Worse name ever for an Ubuntu release. Calling any product Natty is a recipe for disaster. They could have chosen something more positive, such as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread John Matthews
On 18/08/10 23:19, Sean Miller wrote: On 18 August 2010 18:11, Colin Lawclan...@googlemail.com wrote: I did not say that it was necessarily a generally accepted definition, merely that by that definition GIMP is recursive and therefore my original statement that 'it depends on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-08-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/08/10 11:46, Vince Marsters wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke. http://www.dban.org/ I would echo Alan's recommendation of DBAN. Choose one of the DOD options and you will be erasing to a level approved for use on Gov drives

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-08-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/08/10 12:19, Alan Pope wrote: On 11 August 2010 12:15, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: What about hd you are still using, but have deleted stuff on them. Is there any way to bring that back, or even completely delete it? http://packages.ubuntu.com/secure-delete

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was Apps for kids)

2010-08-07 Thread John Matthews
Top posting.. On 07/08/10 11:15, Sean Miller wrote: On 7 August 2010 11:07, Tony Pursella...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these discussions. It's interesting, the way that people don't perceive Digest users having no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-22 Thread John Matthews
On 21/06/10 22:59, Alan Pope wrote: On 21 June 2010 20:16, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: did you use MS DOS? I never used a pc till about 10 years ago, and most of it is self taught. I think my first PC was 20 years ago :S and also self taught :) I cant

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-22 Thread John Matthews
On 22/06/10 00:34, Bruno Girin wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 22:59 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 21 June 2010 20:16, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I cant remember having a computer that didnt use a mouse, The first mouse I bought for a PC was a 3-button white

[ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-21 Thread John Matthews
Its very basic at the moment, adn allows for improvement, but has any body seen this. I actually added a calendar date into google calender, via the terminal, and it worked, seems quite impressive. http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/downloads/list What do people think? John -- Ubuntu User

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-21 Thread John Matthews
On 21/06/10 09:09, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: On 21 June 2010 08:20, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Its very basic at the moment, adn allows for improvement, but has any body seen this. I actually added a calendar date into google calender, via the terminal, and it worked, seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-21 Thread John Matthews
On 21/06/10 19:23, Alan Pope wrote: On 21 June 2010 17:24, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: It seems that the powers that be with Chrome and Chromium consider its not needed any more. http://googlechromereleases.blogspot...update_17.html The url got truncated, I guess you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-06-13 Thread John Matthews
On 26/04/10 11:45, Stephen Garton wrote: I gave up on both the Java uploader on the FB site and the F-spot plugin (this one was because I fell out with F-spot - the plugin itself worked fine!). I now usehttp://fbuploader.damoxc.net/ (standalone pyGTK application for uploading photos) Steve

[ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about problems I was having, and one of those was recovery, though the grub. Didnt matter what kernel I clicked on it froze and nothing happened. This week, we had a partial upgrade, which cleaned up my grub for me, removing all but two kernels. Problem is, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 08:20, John Matthews wrote: A couple of weeks ago, I posted about problems I was having, and one of those was recovery, though the grub. Didnt matter what kernel I clicked on it froze and nothing happened. This week, we had a partial upgrade, which cleaned up my grub for me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote: snip / Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help please? Hi John, we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice for free. If someone has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote: snip / Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help please? Hi John, we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice for free. If someone has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 21:19, Alan Bell wrote: John Matthews wrote: Yes, but unfortunately, that hasnt been a very good option for me either. I prefer the e-mail to be honest. John Email is good when you just want one answer to a question. If you want someone to help you do something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote: snip / Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help please? Hi John, we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice for free. If someone has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 20:50, Alan Bell wrote: One interesting effect of the group support vs one on one support is that with group support if there is some weird problem that nobody understands (which may be down to the way it is described) then you get silence as a response, rather than I haven't got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 23:00, Chris Rowson wrote: What is the point of having IRC chat and this e-mail chat, when nobody is prepared to help. Its kind of really a piss take when you get threads that talk about changing the way support is given, but all you get is those same people can just barely post to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 23:04, Alan Bell wrote: I would encourage you to take steps that would lead to more information being available, the more information you can provide the more likely it is that someone will understand what is occurring. Installing a small dual boot partition might provide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 21:19, Alan Bell wrote: Email is good when you just want one answer to a question. If you want someone to help you do something then IRC is better. People don't reply to emails saying I have no idea because it isn't a particularly useful response and a few hours later someone else

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 22:39, Chris Rowson wrote: John Matthews wrote: Isnt it funny really, you are all too busy to answer an e-mail, because you are all volunteers, yet you arent too busy to chat quite avidly about games and things like that on IRC. From what I see that happens all day on IRC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 19:33, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/06/10 19:08, John Matthews wrote: snip / Ok, I posted this almost 12 hours ago, I just wondered can somebody help please? Hi John, we are all volunteers and normal people on this list offering advice for free. If someone has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 21:03, Alan Bell wrote: John Matthews wrote: I have actually asked if I could get some paid help, and all I got was this pre written e-mail sent telling nothing useful. John Another thing you could do if you want a more interactive conversation (which the rapid

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

2010-06-10 Thread John Matthews
On 10/06/10 23:21, Alan Bell wrote: John Matthews wrote: Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub, and it freezes after about 20 secs. Nothing else happens, no script comes up, no other

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
My invidia card her been working ok for ages now, but suddenly I get an update, go to reboot andit now wont work. When I click on the invidia link in System Administration, it now tells me 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X drivier. Please edit your x configuration file (just run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 12:11, John Stevenson wrote: It could be that the update changed the configuration, if so this is a bug. You can check by looking at the time stamps for the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it is the same time as you update. In a terminal window, type the following command:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and loging back in again. If you are still having problems, is the only problem that you cant run the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:47, John Stevenson wrote: It sounds like you are running the open source driver for your graphics card and not the nvidia closed source driver. The open source driver does not support 3D, but should work well as a desktop in all other respects. In System Administration

[ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things

2010-05-27 Thread John Matthews
I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got. LSB Version:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things

2010-05-27 Thread John Matthews
On 27/05/10 10:04, Alan Pope wrote: On 27 May 2010 09:48, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got. LSB

[ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread John Matthews
I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread John Matthews
On 25/05/10 15:56, Stephen Garton wrote: On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to

[ubuntu-uk] Error in google chrome abotu flashplaer

2010-05-11 Thread John Matthews
It seems that I might have found one reason why I cant play some flash movies on Ubuntu. In Google Chrome and Chromium at least. The past day or so, I have been getting an error saying the following plugin has crashed : /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so Is there anyway I can get around

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
Ok, Its now been four days since I started this. Am I being completely ignored here. I see other people getting help as soon as they ask a question. I'm just getting a message here and there and then nothing at all. I really need help here. I have even gone to Cannonical, which sent me back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 10:43, Alan Pope wrote: I see other people getting help as soon as they ask a question. I'm just getting a message here and there and then nothing at all. Perhaps being rude to people is putting them off helping you? Um, can I ask, where in this thread have I been rude.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 11:54, Alan Pope wrote: On 5 May 2010 11:43, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: What else can I explain. I explained in my first e-mail that I did the final upgrade to Lucid from the last release. It didnt finish. It didn't finish in that it crashed out? Did you use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 13:28, Alan Pope wrote: dpkg --configure -a Which should attempt to finish configuring any packages that have not yet finished being installed/configured. If that finishes to completion okay then do:- apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade If the dpkg --configure -a does_not_

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 14:24, NTLWorld wrote: I've been following the thread. Someone suggested that you get rid of most of the redundant kernels then update grub. Did that help? If the problem began with Wine, try Un-installing Wine using purge, then re-installing the latest. I am not aware of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 15:12, Alan Pope wrote: On 5 May 2010 15:08, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: well, I really have no clue why this should be happening, but it wont allow me to go into any covery more, it just as soon as you click on the grub, it goes whoosh, like lots of frying and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 15:33, Alan Pope wrote: On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevensonj...@jr0cket.com wrote: If you boot of an Ubuntu live CD or USB stick, then you can mount the hard drive partition you have your root ( / ) partition on and change the path that is your root from the live partition to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-05 Thread John Matthews
On 05/05/10 15:33, Alan Pope wrote: On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevensonj...@jr0cket.com wrote: If you boot of an Ubuntu live CD or USB stick, then you can mount the hard drive partition you have your root ( / ) partition on and change the path that is your root from the live partition to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-04 Thread John Matthews
On 04/05/10 13:55, John Matthews wrote: On 03/05/10 11:55, John Matthews wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 10:32, John Matthews wrote: On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-04 Thread John Matthews
On 04/05/10 14:28, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 4 May 2010 13:57, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Hi, I am not sure about hacking, the fact that so many things can go wrong, and I dont have enough experience to work things out, it makes me kind of worried. I am still having problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so forth and automatically generates the config file for grub. It*should* find any kernels in /boot so perhaps when you ran it the relevant partition wasn't mounted? You can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 10:32, John Matthews wrote: On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so forth and automatically generates the config file for grub. It*should* find any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/05/10 14:47, Stuart Bird wrote: I suffered this problem some time ago when I had 9.10 installed as a dual boot laptop (also on a Sky router although I do not think that is connected to the issue). In the end I found that it was the gnome network applet that was causing the issue. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

2010-05-03 Thread John Matthews
On 03/05/10 21:13, Tony Pursell wrote: On 3 May 2010 at 20:25, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi all I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-02 Thread John Matthews
have to close the pc down using the on/off button, then when you turn it back on again, it goes straight to loading ubuntu. That isnt good at all. Anybody know how I can get around this? John. On 30/04/10 12:01, Paul Sladen wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, John Matthews wrote: Does anybody know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-05-02 Thread John Matthews
I have done that. It seems to be a bit of a way out really, it doesnt get rid of the problem, and its gone back to a previous kernel. I tried updating from there, and it didnt work. John On 02/05/10 12:33, Ronnie Tucker wrote: I had a similar problem with my laptop when I upgraded to Lucid.

[ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

2010-04-30 Thread John Matthews
I did my final upgrade, via SystemAdministrationUpdate Manager...but unfortunately, towards the end of the update, Wine couldnt be installed, and it halted the installation. Now in the grub, I have old versions of Ubuntu showing, and about 10 of them, and I know it should show the updated

[ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-04-26 Thread John Matthews
Is anybody on face book, and using google chrome. A couple of days ago, I went to use the upload tool for pictures and it asked me to down load a plugin. This plugin says its for Firefox, even though I was in GoogleChrome. I did download it, and its called FacebookPlugin-1.0.3, its an upload

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-04-26 Thread John Matthews
Hi Mark, thank you for your message. I wonder, do you know if there is only one version on fspot. I have tried to use it, but it doesnt seem to do much. At least I cant get it. It seem to find every picture and open it, it doesnt do folder, so you have to look. I managed to find the plugin to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-04-26 Thread John Matthews
On 26/04/10 11:45, Stephen Garton wrote: On 26 April 2010 11:40, Markiemark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi John, I seem to remember seeing talk of a plugin for F-Spot for facebook. I just had a google around for fspot facebook and found a few promising leads. I dont use FB myself

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