Here we go again. During the final testing to make sure that Edubuntu was working correctly before handing the machine to my granddaughter, when a new problem occurred. All worked well, as administrator, but when I logged out and then tried to log in as my granddaughter an error message appeared telling me that it was not possible to start the ISD server because some port or other was occupied and requested that I sort things out. On closing this message, Edubuntu seemed to work OK logged in to my granddaughter. When I logged out and then logged into administrator the error message did not appear but, as soon as I tried to log in as my granddaughter, back came the message. I repeated this process a few times until, eventually, the machine refused to log in as my granddaughter and the screen was just blank.
Now, what to do? I know, I will go to my friend Google and, behold, the error message was well known. It appears that an application called 'italc' was causing the problem and uninstalling 'italc' would cure the situation. So, System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager where I searched and found that, sure enough, the offending piece of software was installed, The software was removed and the problem went away. The point I am making is that the software causing the problem was installed by default, causing a problem which had been well documented but that nothing appears to have been done to put things right. Is Ubuntu or Edubuntu just there for those who are prepared to put up with having to rectify things before the system can be used or are they there for the general user? It seems that every time there is an update, either something which worked well stops working or a new problem occurs. I will not bore you with the many difficulties I have encountered, please just accept that, because I like the ideas behind Ubuntu, I am prepared to try to find ways around them. If I depended on the use of the computer for my living I probably would not be so patient. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
