[ubuntu-uk] Spell checking in Yakkety ...

Hi ... Has anyone else had a problem with the spell checker in Yakkety? I noticed it in Libreoffice writer. The spell checker settings say it is working, and it is set to the UK English dictionary. I can write complete garbage, but nothing is offered by the checker. I have made no

[ubuntu-uk] Bad iso 14.04

Hi ... I've no idea how else to report this. The 14.04 iso on the Ubuntu website is broken. It's less than 50 GiB. I did take it twice, just in case. I've managed to get it from another site. Hopefully, that one will work OK. Regards,Barry -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

On 18/06/16 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences were back. Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could copy files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors due to it being on USB

[ubuntu-uk] bug in ubiquity - yakkety

Hi there I've reported Bug #1590652 - ubiquity crashes when installing yakkety. Please could one of you try to install, and confirm this bug? Thanks. Kind regards,Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert ... I've just sent the below to the Symform team. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 27/02/16 16:15, Robert McWilliam wrote: I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic around that will pick the systemd option. Robert Hi Robert I thought the easiest thing would be to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. Hi Simon I've just found http://linux-commands-examples.com/initctl It seems it isn't deprecated - just missing from recent Ubuntu releases. I'll see if I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Simon I didn't know that. Looks like I have a few more scripts to look through. There are a fair few of them. I might fire up 14.04 again tomorrow and see what's happening on port 59234. I've found out exactly where the problem exists. I've put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything running on it in normal use so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

On 26/02/16 18:21, Simon Greenwood wrote: It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might

[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

Hi Any pointer for me in trying to solve a problem. When I attemp to install the Symform cloud software, on 15.04, when it makes a call to 127.0.0.1:59234 to register the user, Firefox comes up with a "Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

On 27/01/16 15:12, Will Cooke wrote: Xenial, and it is not long to its release date. Hi Will Colin, on the list, asked me a while ago when I had last re-installed. I did re-install, and the problem went away. After the update and upgrade yesterday, it came back. I know it won't go

[ubuntu-uk] Printer problem ...

Hi there I've just installed my printer on xenial. The printer I have, is missing from the database in cups. I had to get the driver from HP. The printer is an HP Deskjet 30558 all in one. Is this something I should report as a CUPS bug, or is it an HP problem that I need to report

[ubuntu-uk] The problems I was having in 16.04

Hi there ... Alan suggested re-installing my system. This, as he thought, did cure the problem. Unfortunately, the daily build I took this morning was badly broken. There is a bad package which is needed for most of the apps I want to install. So for now, I'm back to Wily. I'll leave it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

On 13/01/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: I have reported the missing menus in the top panel as bug #1533826 in respect of Audacity. I have just reported the identical bug as Libreoffice Bug #1535579. Please can someone confirm it, as I have no idea how many other applications it may effect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

On 19/01/16 11:21, Colin Law wrote: I am not seeing it in either app, there must be something a bit different about your machine. Have you tried a fresh install? Thanks Colin. No, I haven't reinstalled for over a couple or three months. Thanks for letting me know. I'll re-install quite

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

>Not sure what you mean by gnome menus in the top panel. Can you be >more explicit? Are you running Ubuntu with Unity? Hi Colin . When you move the mouse pointer into the top panel, many applications show a menu on the left of the top panel. Libreoffice is one example, but the one I'm

[ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

I have reported the missing menus in the top panel as bug #1533826 in respect of Audacity. Regards,Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Hi In 16.04, currently all the gnome menus on the top panel seem to have disappeared. This makes some applications, Libreoffice, not fully useable as some functions can only be accessed from the menu. I can't find an existing bug report for this. What program should I report it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 17/12/15 12:13, Liam Proven wrote: Yes, that is what I thought happened. Ctrl, LAlt/RAlt and Shift are all passed through to the OS for handling -- whatever that OS is. That's what I have found. I also found I had to rewrite the 'play' scripts. 15.04 has changed some of its behaviour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 17/12/15 11:16, Colin Law wrote: Those seem to be talking about FN keys, whereas Barry said it was F3 for suspend, which seemed particularly strange to me. Not quite. I did say that. It was a slip of the finger. +F4 is the hardware suspend key combination, and was one of the key

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16/12/15 20:20, Liam Proven wrote: I think you either did not read my reply, or did not understand it. Sorry not to respond sooner. I've booted into the BIOS settings. I could not find anything that has to do with wake/sleep. The manual than deals with the BIOS setup is at:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16/12/15 12:32, Liam Proven wrote: I think this is a BIOS setting on your laptop. Look for options to disable such things as sleep/wake and hibernate. Then Ubuntu's software versions should still work. There is such a BIOS setting, but I do occasionally want to use 'hibernate', so I'm not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16/12/15 08:06, Simon Greenwood wrote: It may be specific to your model or make as Ctrl-F3 doesn't do anything on my Asus S400CA by default. I would suspect that a keyboard driver for your make has been installed so finding that and disabling it might work. I'll take a look when I've got a

[ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

Hi there The +F3 is permanently hard-coded to sleep/wake. I can't find anywhere a keyboard shortcuts conf file. The locations given for earlier versions of Ubuntu on the internet are no longer valid for 15.04. I need all the F keys to play different pieces of Christmas music (Carols)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16/12/15 07:01, Barry Drake wrote: hibernate/wake really is hard coded into the +F3 combination. In custom shortcuts, you can't grab that one. I'm going to see how many others I am allowed to use. The super key is hard coded too. You can set the custom shortcut to +[anykey] just fine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16/12/15 07:29, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: However, the fact that this combination wakes the machine up from sleep leads me to ask whether the F3 key is the hardware sleep/wake key No. +F4 on this laptop is the hardware sleep key combination. The issue is definitely due to Ubuntu hard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 04/12/15 15:16, Liam Proven wrote: > I talked to the Tizen people at LinuxCon Europe in October.> > It is not as locked-down as all that, not for developers. But bear in > mind, it's for semi-embedded use, for locked-down single-function or > narrow-function devices with a rich UI. It's not a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 02/12/15 12:52, Barry Drake wrote: TIZEN They seem way ahead of Ubuntu in the phone market. I'm sad about that.> I've subscribed to one of their mailing lists to keep informed. I talked to some of the Tizen developer guys - The told me their OS is so locked in, you wouldn't recogn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 01/12/15 14:15, Alan Pope wrote: No, other platforms (Jolla, Tizen) have it. Thanks Alan. I've looked carefully at Tizen. Their site's a bit strange to navigate around, but I found it quite fascinating. They are now listing on ebay some Tizen OS smartphones, and they have a number of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 01/12/15 16:45, Pete S wrote: Too scared of bricking my phone to take the plunge and put Ubuntu on it! One day.. It just so happens that I've scheduled a listing for my old phone on ebay. I won't get a lot for it, and I'm very willing to risk that one. I've just looked on the web

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 01/12/15 20:54, Barry Drake wrote: It just so happens that I've scheduled a listing for my old phone on ebay. I won't get a lot for it, and I'm very willing to risk that one. I've just looked on the web site. There used to be a list of phones that had been tried, and what to download from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 01/12/15 22:57, Barry Drake wrote: Found it. It doesn't have a Huawei in the list, but I might take a chance anyhow. Huawei is my new phone. I meant Samsung Galaxy Young2. The history shows that Samsung worked well on early models, but everything remotely recent; the Galaxy Note

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

Hi there I've just had to get a new Android phone. I still feel very 'locked in'. I'd love to have an Ubuntu phone, but am wondering if it will ever have an Android compatibility layer. Is it Google's policy not to allow it? With regard to the last few emails on the $5 computer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 01/12/15 14:19, Liam Proven wrote: On 1 December 2015 at 15:15, Alan Pope wrote: No, other platforms (Jolla, Tizen) have it. And Blackberry 10, which isn't even a version of Linux. (I have a Passport, a new smartphone with an actual physical *keyboard*. There's innovation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

On 21/11/15 22:21, David King wrote: Does anyone have any good recommendations, looking in the £300 to £400 price range? Dell still do Ubuntu laptops but they are way more expensive than they used to be (the Inspiron only cost £300). I can recommend Cougar - http://www.cougar-extreme.co.uk/

[ubuntu-uk] Seahorse .....

Hi there ... I wonder if any of you might take the time to confirm a bug in Seahorse (linked to another bug I reported in Empathy) in Wily. The seahorse bug is Ubuntu Bug #1512083 The test is very simple - set up a new dummy address - say in an email client. When the password manager is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wily - and my Lenovo Thinkpad ....

On 24/10/15 10:21, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x201. I had 14.04 running on it until recently. I did a complete re-install of 15.10. The audio out used to work fine with 14.04 The last update, together with a bit of time spent cleaning a crackly jack-socket

[ubuntu-uk] Wily - and my Lenovo Thinkpad ....

Hi there I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x201. I had 14.04 running on it until recently. I did a complete re-install of 15.10. The audio out used to work fine with 14.04, but won't work at all with Wily. Sound is OK from the built-in speakers, but I can't seem to find a fix for the audio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

On 04/09/15 09:54, Dianne wrote: That's the strangest thing - all the accounts are pop3, but all the others are acting normally, including one that's on the same server. And if I start in safe mode the problem persists, but goes away if I use Help> restart in safe mode! That is so weird, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

On 03/09/15 17:23, Dianne wrote: > I'm using pop3 - it seems to be a problem with tbird, as they reappear > when I go to safe mode. I wonder if there is a bug in Thunderbird that causes a problem with pop3 accounts? If the problem account is your only one using pop3, I'd be inclined to think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

On 03/09/15 09:07, Dianne wrote: I've been playing with this - if I load in safe mode with no add-ons, all emails reappear. I've tried disabling each add-on in turn (there are only three) but the problem remains. If I load in safe mode but tell tbird to always load without add-ons, the problem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 21:49, Barry Drake wrote: However (thankfully!) the bug I reported is still there. Newbie maybe, but not the same amount of egg-on-face. Thank you Colin. Just a final update on this problem. I've posted the below on the bug report. I think it explains where I am at: &quo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 17:46, Colin Law wrote: That's what is confusing me too. I don't see how there can be any accounts unless they have been added by the user. I see none with Wily. I've been trying to take a screenshot, but the window I want to capture has to be in focus, and without the dash, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 21:15, Colin Law wrote: Make sure you use dist-upgrade not upgrade, or if you are using apt rather than apt-get then sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade Thanks Colin I feel like the ultimate newbie now. I'd never heard of 'dist-upgrade'. It produced many upgrades

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 20:29, Alan Pope wrote: Thanks Al. That's shown me how badly broken my system now is! Alt-F give me the broken dash. I haven't re-assigned any quick keys on this system, so I decided to check. Alt f2, not alt f. Sorry - my typo. Alt f1 gives the launcher, Alt f2 gives

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 18:45, Alan Pope wrote: Alt-F2, gnome-screenshot, set Grab after a delay of to some value, then click Take screenshot and make sure you have the dash or whatever you want to screenshot out when the countdown finishes. Thanks Al. That's shown me how badly broken my system now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 15:14, Colin Law wrote: You say in the bug [1] that you removed interaction with all Google accounts (settings-online accounts) but I don't understand exactly what you mean by that. In the Online Account settings, it lists access by Ubuntu to the following Google online accounts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote: How did you remove them? In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch. I turned all of them off to block access. I didn't remove any software, or alter any other parameters.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 29/08/15 14:20, Colin Law wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1320539 (Dash search of applications is randomly disabled when online searches have been turned off) Hi there I've reported it as: Ubuntu bug# 1490277 If any of you feel like repeating it in in your

[ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

Hi there The dash on my 15.10 desktop 64 bit installation won't show any applications. This happened immediately after I'd tried to 'de-google' the system as far as I was able. I've since allowed google the same access as the default, but still can't get apps to show in the dash. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 29/08/15 11:25, Alan Pope wrote: Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there and you can open the dash (with the windows key) but no apps appear? Hi Alan. Thanks for your quick response. The launcher hasn't changed. The dash appears as normal,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

Hi Colin Thanks for your reply which seems to have disappeared! No, the online search is not disabled - but I think I had it disabled when I was trying to avoid google interference. Re-enabling everything did not cure the problem. Kind regards, Barry. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WIFI sending problem ....

On 11/08/15 21:22, Colin Law wrote: What do you see in syslog when it disconnects? Bless you Colin. Looks like a hardware problem, and I think I've cracked it. Never thought to look at the syslog. Silly of me. Thanks. Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] WIFI sending problem ....

Hi There ... Just about to go off for a couple of days with my netbook. Haven't used it for a month or two. WIFI was just fine then. I'm running 15.10. I did all the updates, and as always, copied the .thunderbird directory over from my laptop. I got all the more recent messages just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 10 - Still a disaster zone.

On 02/08/15 19:24, Gareth France wrote: Today I have upgraded a family member's laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I had Windows7 on a removable drive in a caddy on my desktop. A couple of days ago, I downloaded the Win 10 iso and did the free upgrade. the install process is painfully

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 03/07/15 09:24, Barry Drake wrote: You'll be amazed how tiny the requirements of DSL actually are! But it can actually be made to look really good - it looks just like a modern desktop if you tweak it. And, yes, DSL (and Puppy) will go on a 5.25 floppy drive. If there's enough RAM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 03/07/15 08:37, Gareth France wrote: Just remember, my aim is to get an old 486, ideally with 5.25 drive, yellowed and covered in marks. It should look like it's really had a hard life. The aim is to say 'look, a modern desktop running even on this old thing, imagine how well it would run on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 25/06/15 11:12, Barry Drake wrote: That's interesting! My old pentium 4 has only 256 Mb ram. I'm going to try some old dimm cards to see if any are compatible Hi there ... I've had a very interesting time since then. I didn't have a pair of suitable dimm cards, so I've stuck

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 25/06/15 10:41, Simon Greenwood wrote: I came across PeppermintOS[1] recently, which is an LXDE based distribution but a nicely designed one that replaces Firefox with Chromium and has an inbuilt system for Chrome app integration. I'm running it on a four year old Lenovo AMD netbook which was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

On 25/06/15 00:10, Tony Pursell wrote: In order to report a bug, can you tell me what I should be seeing when my PC boots in EFI mode. Is it a GRUB menu containing Ubuntu and Windows? That should be exactly what you ought to be seeing. It possibly could have been effected by the failed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

Hi there ... I mentioned getting good results with Tori OS on an old pentium 4. It didn't like Zorin, but since then I've resurrected a newer computer that would run 14.04 Lubuntu, but was a bit stretched. I tried Zorin. It has none of the freedom of Ubuntu. It is very heavily branded

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 25/06/15 10:13, Colin Law wrote: Have you tried ubuntu mate? I have found it good on old PCs Thanks Colin I never even spotted it. I'm downloading it right now! It looks as though it is well up to what I want to do. Regards,Barry. -- -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote: Wednesday evenings it is open to the public. Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group. It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK. I rigged it up with an old spare power supply and it booted from a DVD.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

On 22/06/15 15:51, Tony Pursell wrote: The installer (from the USB stick) was in EFI mode, and the installation of Ubuntu is EFI as well. This is according to tests in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI under Identifying if the computer boots the HDD in UEFI mode and Identifying if the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

On 22/06/15 12:27, Tony Pursell wrote: I do, however, have a residual problem. When I start the computer up, I do not get a GRUB menu. I can only start Ubuntu from the computer's F12 boot menu. It will then show a GRUB menu, which includes Windows Boot loader. Is there a way to go straight

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

On 20/06/15 22:01, Tony Pursell wrote: Well, its booted into Windows showing the reduced size Windows partition. This is the first time I have installed on a PC with EFI - is there something I should have done first? Very definitely. You must boot in EFI mode. If you don't see a grub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

On 20/06/15 23:42, Tony Pursell wrote: Currently, it boots to Ubuntu from a USB, if I have it plugged in, otherwise it boots into Widows 8.1. When booted using the live USB, the Ubuntu partition installed on the hard drive seems to be all there, although I wouldn't know if some files The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 12/06/15 21:44, Gareth France wrote: Looks different. What is it based on? Hey - I'm really interested in this. I quote from the Torios website: ToriOS, a GNU/Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu LTS, will be potentially one of the strongest systems available for NON-PAE machines. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 18:29, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: the grub menu is used when booting the disc via native EFI, whereas the orange screen is for El Torito dvd boot. This difference will explain the differences you see from the first install attempt and your subsequent attempts. Thanks for that. I

[ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

Hi there I had a most annoying problem when installing the testing version of Wily - 15.10. I have two internal drives. One currently has Mint installed, and the other had 15.04 testing in use until I installed 15.10. Following the defaults, the installer warned me that it wanted to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 11:07, Colin Law wrote: On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote: I don't think 'sda' is a valid answer to all the questions, notably: As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did you tell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 11:50, Colin Law wrote: You did not answer the other questions on my previous post. Apologies if that is because you still have to sort out the answers. I thought I had better say in case you had missed the questions. Sorry Colin . I saw all the questions - the fact is I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 12:19, Colin Law wrote: How were you trying to boot off sdb (when it would not boot)? What exactly happened when you tried? The installer requested that I restart the system and ejected the DVD as normal. On restart, I first allowed the normal grub screen (from sda) to appear.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote: Assuming the drives were sda and sdb which is which? As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did you tell the BIOS to boot off one disk or the other or did you get a grub menu that allowed you to select which one? If it was the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 16:11, Colin Law wrote: picture of a man and keyboard at the bottom of screen? If so what happens if you immediately hit a key? Yes there is. If I hit a key, I get a menu, but it is not the grub menu I got on first boot from the disk. It does not include the OEM install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 17:03, Colin Law wrote: Is it possible, on your first attempt, that before selecting the erase all option you had gone into the Something Else option and selected sdb as the boot loader destination? Unfortunately I have not got a spare machine at the moment and don't want to go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote: I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to use sdb for boot. As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive into my caddy, and repeated the exact procedure to install onto sdc (the 80GiB drive). 1)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 02/05/15 22:30, Gareth France wrote: Ok, I am really, really needing some help here. I have resolved all the issues one by one, except for an issue with the format. It is set to 3.0 (quilt) but I keep getting this error: Gareth Just over a year ago, I had a go at making a Debian Sword

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 03/05/15 20:04, Gareth France wrote: As most people are now well aware I'm desperate to be able to work out GUI programming, but it does not seem to be my fate. There must be a correct way to submit a commercial command line only program. It is virtually useless if each user must be taught to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

On 30/03/15 00:22, James Morrissey wrote: Doesn't seem to fix the problem mentioned in the bugs offered by Barry: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1414995 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1383214 Can someone tell me how to install an older version?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

On 25/03/15 12:28, Tony Pursell wrote: There is a ppa for up-to-date Wine versions, if you can enable it in Mint. Thanks for that. I'm OK in Mint as it uses an older package. I can't install a legacy package in the current Ubuntu, as the gnu dependencies are what cause the problem. I

[ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

Hi ...I'm currently using Mint more than Ubuntu because of the need for Windows apps installed under Wine. The bug I reported way back, that Wine cannot be made to open Microsoft .msi files, was fixed way back. If any of you are in touch with the Wine packagers for Ubuntu, you might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

On 25/03/15 10:44, Colin Law wrote: Can you provide more details of the package containing the fix. Is that a specific version of wine or what? Also the link to the relevant bugs might be useful. It's a long time since it was fixed. I reported the bug at:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

On 06/03/15 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and why... Mine's currently a Huawei Ascend Y300-100. I got it because it was a cheap option, with a lot of internal memory (I thought). In practice, I haven't found a way

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27/01/15 12:42, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: you mentioned earlier in the thread that you successfully ran the installation on an copy of mint using the same ubuntu packages. Was that possibly using a different .wine directory? Have you tried against an entirely virgin .wine directory Tried

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 20/01/15 10:50, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Some time ago, I mentioned that I could not install .msi files using wine. I've reported this as a wine bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414995 Please, please would somebody take five minutes to repeat and confirm this bug

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27/01/15 14:54, Colin Law wrote: In the working mint and the non-working ubuntu what do apt-cache policy wine and apt-cache policy wine1.6 and which msiexec show? Colin I think you've got it Colin. The packages appeared to be the same, I hadn't spotted the '4' and the '6' after 'ubuntu'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27/01/15 11:53, Colin Law wrote: I see from the bug report that you have used the command wine msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi What happens if you just use msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi Colin Exactly the same happens. I think msiexec is becoming obsolete now.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27/01/15 17:14, Colin Law wrote: I might suggest that high horses are out of order when complaining about problems in an alpha release :) Colin Oops! I hadn't realised I was giving that impression. Apologies to anyone for my own misunderstanding. :( Regards,Barry. --

[ubuntu-uk] Windows?

Hi there I quite like this: http://view.email.telegraph.co.uk/?j=fe8917787060077572m=fe991570766c027975ls=fe1d1d70766c0d7f7d1176l=ff051570746503s=fe1b15767067037a7c1c76jb=ff991674ju=fe2615747c610774741c71r=0 Pity it doesn't mention Linux though. Regards,Barry. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows?

On 22/01/15 13:43, Dave Morley wrote: Why would it mention Linux it is a report on the Windows 10 tech review launch yesterday Because it mentions Google Chrome and Android - both of which are non-Windows operating systems (and both of which are Linux based). Regards,Barry. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Posting conventions - was Re: Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 22/01/15 11:24, Stuart Ward wrote: Be aware that some deluded people are using things like outlook that top posts by default, making it hard for themselves.. Outlook? Ah yes, I remember amazed it's still around. I gave Outlook Express up for Pegasus mail way back in the '80s. This

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 20/01/15 12:12, Paul Sladen wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Barry Drake wrote: impossible to install .msi file using wine under Ubuntu Which precise .msi file? (ie. URL) Several - every single one I tried fails. One in particular is Python - either Python 2.7 from https://www.python.org

[ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

Hi there Some time ago, I mentioned that I could not install .msi files using wine. The suggestions were mostly things I's already tried. I now confirm that it is impossible to install .msi file using wine under Ubuntu - and I have proof that this is NOT a wine problem! I've been

[ubuntu-uk] Posting conventions - was Re: Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17/01/15 22:28, Gareth France wrote: As for inline posting it just seems like a lot more effort and an order of magnitude slower to delete the bits that aren't needed and spread my reply out over umpteen different locations in the mail. Hi folk Inline posting is sometimes a pain to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 18/01/15 09:15, Colin Law wrote: Also if that is the version of ibus then I deduce you are running Ubuntu 14.10, whereas the new ibus is for 14.04, so it won't help anyway. I don't know, but I suspect it may not be back ported for 14.10 as that will be superseded in a few months anyway.

[ubuntu-uk] Icons go missing ...

Hi there I'm running 15.04 testing 64bit, on a desktop pc. For month or two now, the Unity launcher bar loses icons after (usually) the second launch of a particular program during a session. Firefox and Thunderbird are two such icons. In each case, the specified icon is replaced by a

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