On 1 May 2010 15:49, <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just upgraded and find four irritating features: > > I use a standard theme from 9.10 now transformed as "custom" > > 1 the window control button --snip > > 2 the main menu and other icons on the main screen bar --snip
These are "features" of the new themes. > > 3 I have two BlackBerry phones,--snip > Can't help here. > 4 most disturbing is that I have two usb-connected hard discs. Upgrading to > 10.4 has resulted in the following distinctly odd situation: > > each disc's designation has been changed during upgrade by the addition of a > space (shown as an underscore) and it is this which continues to be > accessible to me as the logged-in user, while another location under media > has been created with the original designation whose owner is root, to which > I no longer have access as a logged-in user . Thus each full address of files > on these drives has been altered through upgrading and all programmes which > refer to these files can no longer get access to them. All file references in > these programmes have labouriously to be changed manually. > > Moreover, I can see no point in these root folders, and am uneasy about their > function and very existence. Making sure none of the drives are connected, I'd suggest deleting anything in /media/ which refers to those drives. The underscore mountpoints are used when a name already exists, i.e. there is a conflict. Also check /etc/fstab to make sure the "old" mount points haven't been made permanent by the upgrade procedure. > > Best wishes > > Allen > Sale Cheshire > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
