Re: [ubuntu-uk] CFLAGS Manipulation in Ubuntu

2010-05-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 20:53 +0100, LeeGroups wrote: Cpu11 : 4.5% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.2% id, 0.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si Now that's just showing off Alan... :) Heh, I didn't notice that before! Is that a Tri-Quad-Core machine Popey or is it some kind of weird bastardisation of

[ubuntu-uk] Min/max buttons on 10.04

2010-05-05 Thread Dianne Reuby
I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved, and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another theme and they're back on the right. Is it just that 10.04 is using some legacy themes which haven't been updated? (These are in the pre-installed set, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Min/max buttons on 10.04

2010-05-05 Thread David Jones
On 05/05/2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote: I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved, and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another theme and they're back on the right. Is it just that 10.04 is using some legacy themes which haven't been

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem

2010-05-05 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
I had the same problem trying to update a laptop that was setup to show only LTS release. 10.04 didn't show itself in the update manager I had to set it to show all updates. Is that a problem with the released not labelled properly or whith the update manager?   Aymeric

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 Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 10:34, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Ok, Its now been four days since I started this. Am I being completely ignored here. Perhaps people don't know what the problem is? I see other people getting help as soon as they ask a question. I'm just getting a message here and

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 Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 11:43, John Matthews jake...@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 update manager or do-release-upgrade to perform

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Min/max buttons on 10.04

2010-05-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:40 +0100, David Jones wrote: On 05/05/2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote: I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved, and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another theme and they're back on the right. Is it just

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 Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 13:13, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I can get to a recovery mode kernal yes. What should I do when I get to one? dpkg --configure -a Which should attempt to finish configuring any packages that have not yet finished being installed/configured. If that finishes to

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

2010-05-05 Thread NTLWorld
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:43 +0100, John Matthews 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. I also explained that Wine was the reason the upgrade failed. In the grub it shows about 10 different

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 Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 15:08, John Matthews jake...@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 freezes. That didnt happen before. That's

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 Stevenson
On 5 May 2010 15:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: 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

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

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevenson j...@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 your hard drive partion using chroot. 

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

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 15:42, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: When you do the screen cast, when viewing, how do you get the screen bigger so you see the writing and what is going on more easilly. if there is any writing. I watch some of the screencasts and what I see is so small I cant get what is

[ubuntu-uk] [VACANCIES] Tech Support / System Admins at Positive Internet

2010-05-05 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
Hi all, Just a quick message. My employers are currently looking for techies to provide customer facing and sysadmin support on Debian machines around Cambridgeshire/Peterborough area. Salary based on experience, hiring junior and experienced staff. We do shared hosting, hundreds of sites on

[ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Liam Wilson
Hey everyone, I just bought a couple of windows games on CD, and I installed wine and such, but I can't actually execute them. On double clicking them, I get the message: The file '/media/RCT2/Setup.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Pope
On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? So you dont accidentally run virus.exe. It makes it more of an intentional thing to execute

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? So you dont accidentally run virus.exe.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Liam Wilson
On 5 May 2010 21:38, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked