I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my desktop pc with Wubi.I tried downloading Wubi.exe and ran it on WIndows XP but it just pops up an Internal Error saying "Failed to run Pylauncher". So I downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 from the website and burned it onto a disc, and same error pops up.I want to run Ubuntu on dual boot together with XP.
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I receive this error booting from xp sp2. Also; I can load the live cd, it appears to stop loading before The desktop loads. the md5sum is valid.
Asus p3v4x, P3 800 mhz, 1.6 ram
VIA Apollo Pro 133A.
Slot 1
I have configured the remote installation of Fedora 13 with kickstart with nfs installation method. All work ok until I boot the Fedora 13 client system.
Fed13 client system receives the IP address from dhcp, receives the loader, loads vmlinuz and initrd.img from tftp, load anaconda, configures the network and dev eth0, mounts nfs server to load kickstart file, loads kickstart file (language...) but when it tries to mount nfs server to install from Fedora 13 installation tree it fails.
First, I thought that I had an error on my NFS configuration but I was wrong. I opened tty with ALT+F4 on the Fedora 13 client and I sew this error:
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Is this a bug or can I modify anything to correct this error? How?
I've been using Ubuntu since 6.04, not a linux guru by any means but can usually get myself out of trouble.
So, the issue... I installed 8.04 on my mother's laptop some time back as she was having trouble keeping Win 2000 running (she has a low spec no-name generic laptop btw). I live in Autsralia and she in England, i thought i could better support her if she was running Ubuntu... All has been well with 8.04 but with the new LTS release (10.04) i thought i'd talk her through the upgrade... Did the online upgrade via Update Manager, all seemed to go OK but when she went to log on after restart she got an error saying 'authentication failed' even though we are 100% sure we have the user name and password correct... Tried to do a ctrl+alt+F1 to by pass the GUI log on but couldn't get the terminal session to open up, just got a black screen - no command prompt.
So... thought OK re-install... downloaded the ISO, burned and sent her a CD in the post... talked her through the re-install, all seemed to go well (again) - BUT, after restart, couldn't log in "authentication failed" again...
So, remember i'm trying to talk a novice through all this... any thoughts!?!
If i can get her to log in i can then support her via some kind of remote sesion or other screen share... and it wont cost me a small fortune in international calls!!! But if i can't get a log in, i'm dead in the water!?
I i cannot install updates (181). I'm using 10.10, Heres is the error i get: The installation or removal of a software package failed.
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I am trying to install 10.04 32bit onto a new 1.5TB harddrive. I had previously installed 10.04 64bit on an old drive in the same nmachine. I partitioned and formatted the new drive using the old system. I have a couple of windows partitions and restored Win2K images to them, 4 formated Ext3 partions for whever flavour of Linux appeals to me a swap and two huge NTFS Data (home) and work areas. I installed Grub on the new drive, it also has its own partition for boot config files. The old drive has now gone.
Grub2 boots OK and gives me option for all the OS's even the one that are gone, thats OK I can fix that later with grub-update. Win2K boots fine and I see my NTFS partitions.
Now I boot from the Live i386 CD and chosse to install Ubuntu. The only thing that not allowed to default is where to install. Specify partition manually, Choose a spare 20GB Ext3 and the swap is already there too. I let it reformat to Ext3 and mount as /. (In Advanced I let the install boot loader default to ticked on /dev/sda )
The install goes OK until I hit the pop-up "Installation Failed". The installed encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will be run etc etc..
I have tried this at least 10 times no. I downloaded and cut a new CD even though the old one worked fine on another box. Tried unticking the boot loader. Disable the floppy, removed the floppy.
I am relatively new to Ubuntu. Where do I look for the cause of the problem? I'll cut and paste the install log files in a moment.
I have 9.10 installed and working like a charm, due to the problems I had last time, I decided to leave an empty space to try and test upcoming editions, but I can't install it!
I get two error messages and can't get past the point of partition assignment.
Here's the screenshots. I'm trying to install on the free space.
i get this error whenever i update or install/uninstall a package Package operation failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
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I downloaded the 32bit iso from the ubuntu website and wrote it to disc using imgburn.
The problem is that when i boot from cd i get the loading splashscreen with the 4 dots flashing then it loads the ubuntu background and my mouse curser spins around for awhile then tells me the installer encountered and unrecoverable error and a desktop session will now be run so you may investigate and problem or try installing again. When it reboots it asks for a username and password. i use ubuntu and blank and then it does a loop and the logon menu comes up again.
the computer is an old acer aspire running xp home sp2
i tried it on another computer a dell laptop running vista and it worked fine and can up with the menu and i clicked try now and it booted into the gui.
I tried to install JRE 6 After adding partner repository I wanted the updates by this command sudo apt-get updateI got the following errorE: Malformed line 54 in source list etc/apt/source.list (dist parse)what does it mean and how to rectify.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have tried and failed to install the lastest netbook version 10.10 on my Acer aspire one 110 netbook, this is the one with a 8gb ssh.
It booted fine on a usb drive and I was able to test drive the distro. The installation went all the way through without any problems but when it came to rebooting the netbook just showed a blank screen with a dash in the top left of the screen. There is no sign of the computer looking for the hard drive it just sits there!
If I reboot using the usb key I could see that all the files have been installed on the 8gb drive. I have reloaded 10.04 which works just great and during that installation the installer could see that 10.10 was installed.
Has anybody else had this problem? I was wondering is there is a problem with GRUB , however it would be nice to install the new version it's so frustrating to have failed.
I was trying to install a RAR extractor called Peazip (http://peazip.sourceforge.net/) I selected the 64-bit package (I run Lucid) and went for it. Everything extracted ok, and the package met all requirements. However, during the installation process, it hung. No movement. I closed out of the installation, and restarted, to attempt a second try.
Now, when I try to install anything:
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(Only been running this OS for, oh, what, a week? And I already hosed it up! )
I'm install Enterprise Cloud 10.04 and for some odd reason when it gets to the install process "Select and install software" It fails.
I ran the process over and over and it still fails.
explain the following issue I have with Debian IA 64:I tried on a PC (Mobo Gigabyte G41M-ES2H, core 2 duo, 4 GB RAM DDR2) the live CD of Debian Lenny IA64 and everything worked just fine, which was a very good thing because none of all other major ia64/i386 distros of Linux (Mandrake, ubuntu, fedora) did so. In a nutshell it seems that the IGP G41 chipset is the cause of these setup failure (Everything is OK when using a PCI-e graphic card that I need in another computer)rd as someone (viewtopic.php?=17&t=49186&p=282839&hilit=G41M+ES2H#p282839) successfully installed Lenny on a very similar mobo. To go to the point what I do not understand is when I launch the iso Cd to now install the same version of Debian, everything freezes at the very beginning of the boot and the screen goes blank.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI decided to do a clean install of 10.04, the machine was previously running 10.04 from being upgraded day by day from a beta install.I used checked good 10.04 live CD as live and gparted to delete a partition on sdb. My intention was to install into the largest free space on the drive, (which I ultimately did). There are two HDs on the machine, Windows on a partiton and a couple of installs of ubuntu on the first drive, the second drive had unpartitioned space and ext4 data partition and a swap.
I then restarted and after a space bar press, used the menu second option to install Ubuntu.I subsequently saw an error window:Installation failedThe installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again.Just in case, I did the whole thing a second time, but same result.I continued, using the subsequent desktop session. I chose the desktop Icon to install Ubuntu, which all then seemed to go okI am an experienced user, so I have confidence in Ubuntu, however, I believe new users would be suffering a loss of confidence at such situations.
I have a dual boot PC, tried to upgrade to Lucid Lynx and the upgrade failed. Can't boot into it at all. Windows XP still works fine. I have the live CD for a re-install now. I read this post but don't understand the difference between the instructions for the partitions. Have posted my screen shots below.First screen shows that I have 10.04 and offers me the option to partition further.Screenshot 1 I choose manual partition and then it gives me the right sized partitions. . Then in screenshot 2 I edit and choose the mount point as /, is that right? (screen shot 3). Do I then change that option again to choose /home? because otherwise it takes me straight to screenshot 4, the user name set up.There's No Custom User Title Here
View 5 Replies View Relatedi am installing on an hp pavilion a712n with 2.0ghz processor and i believe 2 gb memory i have downloaded the iso on a cd and a dvd both failed( and i did write it at under 4x speed) i go through the entire install process fine and the restart box comes up i hit that and then it resart a few command prompt things flash then ubuntu appears to me loading with the five dots the my cursor shows up on a black screen the my monitor says it is going to sleep then it starts all over
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an EEE PC 4G (701 model) and whenever I try to install Ubuntu Netbook version, or Easypeasy or even EEEXUbuntu (or whatever it is called), I get various I/O errors if not error 5.I'm close to trashing this early adopter netbook as I cannot or dont know how to low level format it. I tried using DBAN 2.2.6 with USB Installer but I also get error msgs when I try to format the drive. Please see the following link I posted on Experts Exchange which shows a screenshot of the problem:So far I have not been able to get a satisfactory response from anyone over there.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am completely new to Linux but having purchased a magazine on the subject decided to give it a try. I have an old Windows XP laptop with 30GB of hard drive and decided to run Ubuntu 10.10 alongside XP. I allowed about 14GB to each OS but unfortunately part way through the installation process the computer froze and I had to force a shutdown. On restarting the computer there is no option to start Ubuntu, as the installation didn't complete and in XP I now find the hard drive is just 14GB in size with no sign of the other half which I allocated to Ubuntu. Where has half my hard drive space gone??? My query is, if I now try to install Ubuntu again but perhaps use all the hard drive (ie deleting XP) will there only be 14GB available for the installation?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI went to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 and it wouldn't upgrade. This is the error:
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
I looked for the same errors on here and on the Internet and these were some solutions, but they did not work (I included the errors form the solutions)
1. I tried in the terminal to apt-get clean, sudo apt-get -f install and this is what I got:
E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
I tried installing the 32 bit version of ubuntu 10.04 on his machine. I gave him 5 gigs of swap and 3 gigs in boot. It worked fine for two days and on the third day he tried to boot up his machine and got the message "primary drive 1 not found, secondary drive 1 not found" and the boot loader never appeared. He waited for a while and eventually the ubuntu splash screen appeared with five red dots, and after a moment of that the screen went totally dark. After "a very long time" (in his words) the desktop appeared but his desktop toolbars never appeared. The one folder on his desktop did appear. He "couldn't do anything" and eventually shut it down.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently tried to upgrade to 10.04 and it failed somewhere on the installation process. I managed to get the machine to boot and go into gnome but now very few programs will actually launch (terminal, nautilus and firefox is about it) and the install/update software reports al sorts of dependency issues
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop on an old drive that previously had Ubuntu 8.x on. There was nothing on the drive worth keeping, so I'm trying to do a clean install.Going thru the install procedure it fails when trying to create the EXT4 file system and I get an error message: ubi-migrationassistant failed with exit code 141.In syslog I get the following:
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Jul 8 14:22:45 ubuntu ubiquity[6479]: dbfilter_handle_status: response 2
Jul 8 14:22:45 ubuntu ubiquity[6479]: debconffilter_done: ubi-migrationassistant (current:
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A few week's back I ordered a Ubuntu 10.04 LiveCD and I recived it just yesterday.So I put it in the CD-ROM drive and rebooted my PC. First off when I went to install it, It gave me and error saying Installation failed because of an unrecoverible error. then I booted into the option "Try Ubuntu"and started searching for a solution for the error online. I found a forum that was talking about the unrecoverible error and it said "Boot into Try Ubuntu and click the installation icon at the desktop" I did. Then I gave my information and such and then it started installing. then when it hit 41% at copying files It gave me the error message saying that it failed and the error code was [errno 5] I tryed following other steps online and they were all a no-go.
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Replaced CD-ROM drive with spare - failed
Moved Desktop to another envirement - failed
Disabled Floppy drive - failed
Move memory chip to another bank - failed
Mark first 3 options in boot menu - failed
I am only able to get online using the live CD because I was dumb enough to delete windows ):
DELL DIMENSION 2500
256mbs RAM
80 Gigabytes of memory
I had installed Ubuntu 8.04 and partitioned my drive to share 500gB with Windows XP. All was good. When I saw that Ubuntu 10.01 was available I downloaded it to update the 8.04. Ididn't want to have to redo all my configurations so told installer not to update config files. No entry in GRUB no boot. Tried to re-install 8.04 to replace 10.01 and get back to intial state. Current state Ubuntu won;t boot, XP still OK but don't know how to clean up my mess. I've attached a copy of a boot info script I ran.
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #6 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1. Originally I was using update manager, but the upgrade failed. Now I have a big icon red with white line on the top toolbar. When I hover over it, it tells me to run Package Manager in order to fix Broken Packages. However, that doesn't work. If I try to run the upgrade again I end up being told to use the terminal and run sudo apt-get install -f. When I do that I get the following ...
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I was trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit from the bootable DVD I burned and I've set the priority in the BIOS to CD-ROM and then to Harddisk yet it keeps loading Windows 7 directly without asking me to press a key so I can load from the Ubuntu CD. I used to have 10.04 a few months ago working well so I tried to insert its CD to check and no, it went straight into Win7 although it worked fine just a few months ago.Any help with that? My DVD rom works well inside Win7.
View 3 Replies View RelatedFrom now on... every update that I try to install, FAILS!
View 9 Replies View RelatedI ran the software manager upgrade/update install of 11.04. When I reboot almost immediately a quick error flashes on screen that says something like "missing prefix" then it goes to an unfamiliar menu with kernel choices that are very old and look nothing like my desktop. I think it may be some old install or something I dont know. I have an eee pc. I originally installed with WUBI but have done other kernel upgrades with no issues.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been experiencing problems with downloading the latest version Ubuntu 11 in my current Ubuntu 10.10 operating system.
I used the Update Manager and tried innumerable times but to no avail. It shows that my Internet connection is somewhat faulty. I have no problems with my Internet ironically.
I grudge to download the Live CD into my hard drive and then to manually burn it into a CD because I don't have one available in my hands. Is there any way to download Ubuntu 11 and install it successfully?
