For some reason I keep getting the follow on my desktop:
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This is only on my desktop. I don't have this problem on my netbook on the same network. This has been going on for days.
I've been having some problems with my desktop. My windows and my sidebar work fine, it's just nothing updates on my actual desktop(like the wallpaper, files, etc.). For example, if I mouseover one of my files on my desktop, nothing happens. I can right click on it and it comes up with the right menu, but it doesn't select the file or anything. I just changed my wallpaper and nothing happened.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've had Fedora 15 installed on this machine for about three weeks. Today I installed Q-cad for the first time and open it to make sure it would launch. I left the machine for about an hour and when I opened the desktop, I was notified of 879 updates. A quick glance and the updates applied to everything from grub to gimp and lots in between. is it normal to have so many updates dumped to me all at once?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am Running opensuse 11.4 (64 bit) KDE desktop with all the updates & proprietary ATI driver installed. My processor is Athlon II X2 250 & motherboard is gigabyte MA785GPM-UD2H. I have 4 GB (2 +2) of DDR 2 RAM installed. I have turned off automatic updating & usually update my machine once a week. But just couple of days ago I had just updated my system and KDE desktop effects stopped working!!
I went to the Application launcher -> Configure Desktop -> Desktop Effects and everything was grayed out!! except for the following message Desktop effects are not available on this system due to the following technical issues:"
But, what technical Issue?? there was nothing else written! Googling for the issue has actually left me more confused; but I am still posting the content of my ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc file
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update_info=kwin_focus2.upd:kwin_focus2,kwin_blacklist.upd:Blacklist-4.5,kwin_blacklist.upd:Blacklist-openSUSE-114,kwin_focus1.upd:kwin_focus1,kwin_on_off.upd:kwin_on_off,kwin.upd:kde3.0r1,kwin.upd:kde3.2Xinerama,kwin3_plugin.upd:kde3.2
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So I just recently installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx over my old XP system and I have been loving it so far. I did run into a problem though. Shortly after installing Ubuntu, it prompted me to install updates and I did so. After the updates had installed, my computer restarted and the whole desktop theme/look changed to a older looking version of Ubuntu. I really liked the look of Lucid Lynx and have been trying to get it back.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04, gnome, nvidia 7000 series card. Recent kernel and nvidia updates caused this situation. I boot to a login selector,like normal. When I login I get my bootup sound and background, but no panels. Right clicking does nothing. I booted up a puppylinux cd, deleted xorg.conf, and can now get to a working desktop. I have, through the additional drivers utility, deleted and reinstalled nvidia current driver. Twice. No change. Windows XP (On another hard drive) works well, so it's not a card problem.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have some PCs still on Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop including one that's remote - I realise that desktop updates will be stopped from May 12th, but will the Server packages still be available to Desktop installations for the next 2 years? I believe that APT doesn't know the difference anyway.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI hadn't used my laptop in a month or so and it had a couple hundred updates to install. Everything went fine and upon reboot I am met with a bizarre login screen. It shows my like every process and program in a list, my username is in the list as is root. I can login as either, but when I do it only boots to terminal.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed ubuntu a few days ago, today I got like 250mb of security updates to I let them run, then restarted, now it keeps running in low graphics mode, everything looks rubbish and I have no desktop effects, the sound has also stopped working. Everything was great prior to this, I was beginning to love the switch from ms to ubuntu. The sound/video are both via hdmi so I am imagining its something to do with the graphics. I would wipe the system and start fresh but it took me so long to get my sound and wireless working.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe reason why I'm pissed because so many people out there that use Linux aways say Microsoft sucks. But I have more problems with Linux, at least with Microsoft problems I can solve. Now since I got that out of my system, here's my issue.
I just installed LTS 10.04 everything was working fine, I have an ATI 5700 card installed so I installed the ATI drivers not the open stuff. After install the drivers worked perfectly no problems. After several days of using the computer, I said I'll run some updates. I did so and rebooted my computer and BOOOM now my ATI drivers do not work. I can't enable desktop effects, can't use cube etc. Not only that but if I go to the prior build it won't work there either. If this was windows 7, I would just reinstall and it would work.
Luckily for me I made a image of my Ubuntu 10.04 and did a restore and everything went back to normal because I restored the image prior to the update. Now just for kicks I ran the updates again to be sure the updates did indeed break the vid drivers. Yep, after the updates ran, reboot, BOOM broke again. What gives? Is it the kernel updates? If so then I guess I'll run updates without updating the kernel. By the way I did try to install the drivers that come with Ubuntu but that work either. I guess I have to do the restore again. I rather use the ATI drivers vs the open stuff.
Questions are the updates unstable? If it is then why release? Can anyone provide any solutions? Should I run updates but skip Kernal changes? If not then what is blowing up the drivers?
The icon for check for updates in the tray, it's blank or scrambled. If you search google for "birthday images". Then click on "Images for "birthday images". They are scrambled. I don't have the nvidia driver installed. Reloading the page doesn't affect it. suse 10.3 64bit nvidia 9800gt video card
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using Opensuse 11.4 for the past 3 months and for the past 2 weeks the system freezes regularly due to multiple errors.Iam using Kernel 2.6.27.6-0.7-desktop under KDE4 with regular updates
Errors 1 & 2 occured during Normal mode
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Aug 28 15:11:52 linux kernel: [ 1153.000036] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
Aug 28 15:11:52 linux kernel: [ 1153.000036] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
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During a software update the machine froze for a long time, I had no choice but to hard-crash (hold the power button to shutdown) starting up again I can get to the login screen and log in but there is no desktop environment visible, just a mouse pointer (which can be moved about) on a blank screen. I'm using Karmic Koala with Gnome (I am relatively new to Linux, I am essentially using the default package)
View 9 Replies View Relatedis it save to install linux kernel 2.6.35.2 on Debian Lenny 5.0.5 or stick with automatic updates...
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I login and run apt-get to perform my updates. it always says there are "no" updates. I installed Debian via net-install over 2 months ago, and I have trouble believing there haven't been any updates. Here is what I get:
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I see all the "Ign" tags before the repositories. I have never "ignored" or told apt-get to ignore a repository. Have there really been no updates for a long time, or what is causing me to not get the updates? (How to I "un-ignore" a repo? If that is what is needed. I did not setup any automated process for performing updates.
The following packages will be upgraded:
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66 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
When installing updates, I am getting a warning that some updates are unauthenticated and may be malicious. These are all "lib" files. I am not willing to corrupt this laptop. That's why I moved to Linux in the first place..
View 12 Replies View RelatedI recently reported a bug in a package, which was fixed upstream and in the Debian package, but the bug was not security-related. The Debian settings on all of the computers is set to receive only the security updates. The other setting for proposed updates, is currently not enabled
Must Proposed Updates be enabled, in order to receive the non-security updates, including the update to the package in question?
I'm running Debian testing, and am very happy with it. But, I have a question. Let's say that package A has a dependency (package B). A new version of package A is released into testing, but package B, it's dependency hasn't been updated yet. What happens in a situation like that when I try to update my computer?
View 3 Replies View RelatedFor some reason Update Manager is not installing updates as of yesterday.I have it set to check daily and notify if updates are available. It has been working without issues for well over a year now.
Update Manager tells me updates are available and presents the list of security, recommended, and other updates. All are selected to update, but when I select Install Updates in Update Manager it returns with a Reading Package Information window overlaid on the main Update Manager window - building dependency tree then reading state information and dumps me back to the main Update Manager window without performing any update actions.
I just learned that warsow 0.6 is out, and went to see if it was available in the ubuntu software center yet, as opposed to going and downloading and installing it manually from the warsow website. The ubuntu repo's still have version 0.5, and at the bottom of the page it says:
"Updates: Canonical does not provide updates for Warsow. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community."
So if I wanted to 'update' this item in the repo's for the better of the community what would that entail?
I was trying to install recent updates, but apt-get couldn't do this. Here's the output I got:
Code: Select all(Reading database ... 187979 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../udev_215-17+deb8u1_i386.deb ...
Failed to execute operation: Connection reset by peer
Message from syslogd@debian-LAPTOP at Jun 6 14:56:49 ...
kernel:[357720.299647] systemd[1]: segfault at b87cf92c ip b765e480 sp bf872e60 error 4 in systemd[b762f000+130000]
Unpacking udev (215-17+deb8u1) over (215-17) ...
Failed to execute operation: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
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Now I can't continue upgrading because every time it tries to finish the previous update and fails to process udev.
I don't know if it's relevant, but while upgrading udev for the first time, my laptop switched to tty1 on its own. When I switched it back to graphic subsystem, it still was in process of upgrading udev or systemd and after all failed to finish.
In the past i used OpenSUSE for a few months, in OpenSUSE all updates related to security labeled as "Security Update" like updates related to Firefox, unlike OpenSUSE in the Debian i did can't find a way to detect security updates.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been looking for an aptitude command to search for security updates. This information is being shown when running the screen. So far I reached to this command: aptitude search '~S ~VCANDIDATE ~Asecurity ~U' It looks like producing the correct results, but I still don't quite understand the how the filter (~S) command works.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running Squeeze AMD64 and install updates every couple of days. I installed the latest batch yesterday and got a "restart system" message, so rebooted. The usual messages scrolled past for a while, then the screen went blank, and that was it. I tried a couple of times with same result. I booted into maintenance mode to try to find the cause of the problem. Looking at /var/log/messages there is some strange activity going on. Unfortunately I can't easily paste the relevant portion of the file into this posting as the network isn't working (I am posting this from a laptop), but roughly what I am seeing is this:
PGD <some stuff>
CPU 0
Modules linked in: <long list of modules>
Pid, 1841, comm: Xorg Not Tainted <some stuff>
<about 20 lines of assorted values>
--[end trace <long hex number>]
and this repeats several times (presumably stopping when I hit the reset button). Sometimes it's CPU 0 and sometimes CPU 1, it mostly involves Xorg in Pid line, and apart from the first instance mostly reports Xorg Tainted.
I could just reinstall but would rather repair as it would be both quicker and more instructive.
Cannot install updates. Click on icon which says 65 updates available but update manager opens and is blank and frozen .Reboot and same results. apt-get install updates says Unable to locate package updates. Everything has worked perfectly upto now I am running Squeeze.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I reboot and log into my account ( I am the only user ) I get the following message at the bottom of the screen.Software Updates Failed An important OS update failed to be inst...
Package Mgr Error
The offline update failed in an unexpected way.Detailed errors from the package manager follow:Cannot download packages whilst offline..It is always the same message and it never says what it was trying to install. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. The only error I ever see is: E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
I've recently installed Mint XFCE (Debian based). After activating the backport repos, a lot of things were upgraded, one of them being XFCE, which upgraded to 4.8. After that, I can't listen to songs or hear any kind of audio. Prior to the update, everything was OK. Why do I get only the "dummy output" indication? I've been using Linux for more than three years, so I have some knowledge on the sport. Nevertheless, I've never had such an issue.
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View 4 Replies View Relatednmap does not update the scripts when launching Code: Select allnmap --script-updatedb from ANY debian i EVER tried.
I cannot find a workaround, just old bug reports that this is fixed.
Why, is this not ever working on debian. I expected an update-nmap-db command to be Debian conform but there is no such thing.
Running Wheezy with latest updates.