Ubuntu Installation :: Get "upgraded" Right Into Another Distribution Kind Of Idiocy Continues
Mar 7, 2010
This new feature of either making me wait a full minute or yet a confirmation of what I have already prompted the machine to do, ie. reboot or shut down, is a brainless waste of code. If it were a little easier to "accidentally" reboot it would be a different story. But to manually open the shutdown menu and click "shutdown" or "reboot" and then have the machine make me wait or manually instruct it to proceed with the command I have already issued is just, ... well, it's just plain dumb.
It's probably derived from the same logic which "upgraded" the package manager to only allow one package selection at a time. Yet another brain fart. I'm going to get "upgraded" right into another linux distribution if this kind of idiocy continues!
View 1 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
May 2, 2011
Upgraded to 11.04 last night. On reboot, everything goes fine. I logon, my wallpaper shows, I get the Ubuntu sound, my icons appear, then the icons disappear, wallpaper shows for a number of seconds, icons reappear - then this loop continues. I've booted into recovery, run repair packages and update grub - but makes no difference.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Oct 11, 2010
I've just updated my Dell Inspiron Mini to Maverick Meerkat (10.10), and I've very quickly run into quite a few problems. First, it took an awful long time to install all of the updates. Is that normal? Perhaps it's just because I'm using a puny netbook?
When the updates were finished and I rebooted, I logged in without any problems, but then got a gray screen. I've seen that screen before, when Ubuntu loads (especially with Lucid), but it doesn't go away. I rebooted using Desktop Edition instead of Netbook Edition, and there was an improvement, but the top toolbar is blank.Additionally, and most importantly, I can't get an Internet connection of any kind, wired or wireless.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Feb 12, 2010
Yast completely overwrites my very customized /boot/grub/menu.lst. I wrote a Perl script to restore the customizations from the previous version (retained in CVS) but this is more than a little annoying. At least Ubuntu asks. How do I stop this idiocy when upgrading the kernel.
View 8 Replies
View Related
Mar 5, 2009
I would like to install a program (R for statistical computing). I am using Slackware. On the download page of R (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) there are options to download the code for Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu. Which one should I download in my case (using Slackware)? Is there any of them which I should not download?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Apr 26, 2011
Is there any good way of distribution a ubuntu installation on workstations using PXE?And is it possible to pre-configure the installation with various settings?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 17, 2010
How to customize the Ubuntu Installation for your Distribution - TUTORIAL I have looked a lot in almost every page in Ubuntu, Google and some other Linux Distributions Forums, Help Guides and Tutorials, and have never been able to customize, or even find a valuable source on customzing the Ubuntu Installation, also known as Ubiquity. Now if you are planning on creating a LiveCD or Ubuntu-based Distribution using Remastersys or some program like that, then you will love this tutorial, as do I. First of all, make sure you have Ubiquity installed.Quickly goto Synaptic now, and check. Once you have that, go inside a terminal and type sudo nautilus.Then goto /usr/share/ubiquity. You will see some system files which I will now mention again in this tutorial for the sake of my tiredness.
Here you will see the images that are presented when you select your region in the installation process. You may customize it, but I hardly recemmond it as the areas I tell you to customize are far more rewarding. Now, just go inside the "ubuntu" folder and see the "logo.png". Customize it to have your own Logo and Distribution Name. After you finish that come out of it, all the way back to /usr/share. Now we go inside the big area, where we customize a LOT. Go inside "Ubiquity-Slideshow" folder. In this folder you will see the images and text that pop up during the installation of Ubuntu. Do you remember?
Now just go into Slides/icons and here you will see the beautiful icons of all the slides. You may notice the extroadinary graphics and input the Ubuntu team has put into most of these, and so I have decided not to customize this, but you can surely go ahead. However, for legal sake, I had to customize the logo which I have changed it to be mine (that is I deleted the Ubuntu logo and replaced it with a High-Quality version of my logo). Once you feel you have done enough, please go out of that folder and scroll straight down to customize the writing on the slides in the installation.
Here you will see 13 .html files. HTML is simple, you do not have to know anything in HTML to customize these files, however you must understand to not go out of the boundaries. Stay in the templates, because saying too much will look un-Professional and dodgy when it comes to size issues. I prefer Cutting huge paragraphs of writing in between the "" and starting to type about the subject in My Distributions way. Making sure that I do not exceed the previous 3-4 sentence that Ubuntu already had. Ok, to customize these .html files I will quickly show you one of them and customize it before I fall asleep on my keyboard. Right-click "accessibility.html". Click OPEN WITH and select GEDIT.
You will see something like this, however where it says Gosalia, that is my operating system, it used to say Ubuntu. CAUTION - Do not copy my work, there will be severe consequences, considering I took 5 minutes to write it and the rough work your Operating System installation will look...
Quote:
<h1 class="title">Accessibility in Gosalia</h1>
<div class="main">
<div class="content"><ul>
[code]....
Enjoy, do this to all of them remembering to only write in between the <li> and the </li> Remember one thing, where it says "UBUNTU" you can change it, unless it is a file name, then DON'T CHANGE IT! Oh yes, and now when you create your ISO with Remastersys (or equivalent) then you will have your customized Installation ready in the LIVECD process, check it out! It worked for me, and it is spectacular. Making a Video about this now...
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 4, 2010
I'd like to upgrade my 9.10 desktop to 10.04 but I can't get past step 1.I've done alt-f2 and issued update-manager -d, but no "New distribution" option is presented.I've clicked the "check" button and updated all my repo information but that doesn't help.I've done a wireshark trace and observed that the update-manager's requests get through the corporate firewall, and responses come back.Somehow it determines that no new distro is available.I'll explore further if someone could help me out with getting hold of the relevant update-manager source code.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Apr 13, 2011
I am on a 10.04 desktop, it was previously set to only upgrade to LTS releases. I have change it to do normal distribution releases. This is checkable in the update manager and /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
[Code]...
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 30, 2010
Since 9.10 was available, I've been unable to upgrade to the next distribution. Today I actually took the time to copy down and make note of the error given. The pop-up error is this: Could not calculate the upgrade
[Code]...
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 2, 2010
I am trying to upgrade my ubuntu distribution from 9.10 to 10.04 using update-manager. I have only 2G free in my / partition, and update-manager complains saying it needs 4G free in the / partition to upgrade.
I presume the space is needed to store downloaded packages. Is there any way I can change the download directory to some other partition (i have plenty of space in other partitions)?
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 31, 2011
I've had a few different versions installed in Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit and now every so often, no rhyme or reason, flash crashes. Sometimes its in the middle of a video, I have no answer for whats causing this. I have the 64bit Square Flash installed at this time through the sevenmachines PPA.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Oct 29, 2010
i have updated my ubuntu 10.04 to ubuntu 10.10 and now when I boot the pc, it choes ubuntu logo, and than the monitor goes to sleep but boot continues, cause i can hear the sound!
View 3 Replies
View Related
Mar 10, 2010
I have such kind of problem recently. I need to run a command in the remote machine. The script's first line contains "source profile.xxx"
#!/bin/sh
. ${CONF_XXX}/profile.perf
Therefore, when I run it this way: ssh root@pprh4 /scratch/pa/pa701/path/1.2/bin/plcclient.sh -s it says "profile.xxx No such file or directory" And another one is how can I use a specific file for storing my password so that I don't have to type it?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 2, 2010
I have winfast tv200 expert tv-tuner. I am using TvTime to watch tv through it. verything is working fine except that sound continues to come even after i quit tvtime. is there any solution for it?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 15, 2011
I'm using vsftpd to setup an ftp server, but whenever i attempt to connect, it asks me for a user name ( which i enter and it accepts) but it then asks for a password, which i am clueless as to what it is. I'm certain that i havent specified a password in any config file. Is there a default password i should know about?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 19, 2011
I've been yum upgrading since Fedora 3. For the first time, I did a fresh install with Fedora 15 and I found that ibmcam.ko is no longer part of the distribution in any way (even through rpm fusion). Is there a replacement for ibmcam.ko so I can get my cam working again?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Apr 15, 2009
In the past I have used Slackware, but I changed to Gentoo because Slackware don't have a nice package manager. I like Gentoo very much, because you have control over your installation from the very beginning. You can tweak your installation, before it's a running installation.
The main problem is that you need to compile everything from source (this has some benefits), but i haven a 3.0ghz pentium 4, so compiling a full system takes days. That's not I want.
Because of that I tried Debian, it's nice because of the large collection of precompiled packages. However, it's seems like it is less Stable then Gentoo (i run debian sid, because i need the newer applications). It's also harder to configure to my needs.
Is there a (Gentoo-based) distribution that gives the user a lot of control on the installation proces (like gentoo) and afterwards gentoo-like configuration (it was so much better then Debian, for example: Where is the xorgconfig utility in debian? I know there is something called dpkg-reconfigure to configure X, but that didn't asked me about videocard and monitor settings, only keyboard related options)
But the distribution must have binaries for all (or at least a lot of) programs.
Is there such a distribution? What does come closest to my needs?
View 11 Replies
View Related
Oct 21, 2010
I upgraded a week ago to ubuntu 10.10 (amd64). I was unable to boot in 2.6.35-22 so I have been using 2.6.32-25. I tried again last night after installing updates to 2.6.35-22. Still no luck.I gave up since this was much like what happened a week ago and I couldn't find any solutions then. (I ran memtest then.)
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 12, 2010
The software manager has been nagging me to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 for some time now. I finally gave in and clicked on Upgrade. After the upgrade completed, my computer won't start. It just flashes Ubuntu for a split second and goes to a black screen. I happen to have the 10.04 CD from Canonical, and I tried that, and it won't launch the installer either; just a logo and a black screen. Since I can't even get to the terminal to diagnose and fix whatever's wrong, I'm installing 9.10 from the CD that I ordered from Canonical a long time ago. I went through all the graphical options just like the first time I installed 9.10, and it's in the process of installing right now.
I don't really have time to futz with it because I need my laptop for when I go and visit my mum for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll try after the holidays if I can get some feedback on what might have gone wrong with 10.04.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 10, 2015
At my current job it is my responsibility to update all the servers, as well as some of the workstations. Its an easy enough job, I just remote in to each "machine", and use Synaptic to update. Well, we have a package that was created here "key-build-tools-g6" and for some reason, after I update and go to close Synaptic, it says "There are still marked changes that have not yet been applied. They will be lost if you choose to quit 'Synaptic'". If I cancel and "Apply Updates" then look at the "Details" it says "key-build-tools-g6 (version 18) will be upgraded to version 18". I go ahead and update it again, it downloads, and installs, but then when I go to exit... Same thing.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Nov 2, 2010
software can I use to monitor the performance of apache on my dedicated server?Anything free that can track why the program crashes or the processes that are running when it does?It continues to crash "starting today" and I can't seem to find out why.
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 14, 2010
Sound continues to drop out of flash in firefox. Reinstalling flash will bring it back, but it will drop out next browser session. All audio works in other applications. Skype, Last.fm, Rhythmbox, Amarok, Movie Player, etc. Even downloaded swf files will play sound. It's just in firefox, from what I can see so far. I don't know if Steve Jobs flying overhead in a black helicopter has anything to do with it, but perhaps.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Nov 2, 2010
Ubuntu works pretty well on most of the desktop computer (drivers support), the basic functionality like, keyboard, sound card, network card generally works well. But when it comes to laptop computer, really need luck. Some laptop's keyboard works weird, some cannot play music. I am recently thinking of buying a new laptop. Is there any website shows you which brand of laptop recommends which version of linux? or ubuntu works better on which brand of laptop?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Apr 29, 2010
I've looked in the grub.cfg file, and it has :
Code:
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
[code]....
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 11, 2010
I have a 10.04 installation upgraded from 9.10 somewhere around the first beta.However, since a couple weeks I have the problem that I cannot use nano anymore.
Code:
mypc:~$ nano
Segmentation fault
I've tried to do apt-get remove nano then installed but stil the same,Even tried apt-get purge but with no avail.
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 27, 2010
I upgraded 9.10 to 10.04 and now it won't boot. The way 9.10 used to boot was after turning on the computer it would go through the bios screen and then a screen would come up and list both operating systems, Windows Xp and Ubuntu. XP would be highlighted and would normally boot if I did not change the highlighted area. If I changed the highlighted area to Ubuntu it would boot into Ubuntu 9.10. Now after doing the upgrade, it gets to the same screen with the two operating systems listed.
When I change the highlighted to Ubuntu an error message is briefly displayed and then it goes back to the screen that lists both operating systems. I think the error message says something like couldn't find Ubuntu, or something similiar to that. Windows XP runs fine when I highlight Windows XP in that first screen, but I want to be able to run Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu on a secondary drive, but shouldn't it have rewritten the upgraded files on that same drive that had 9.10 on it?
View 9 Replies
View Related
May 30, 2010
I upgraded the Ubuntu 10.04, and afterwards I can't print. Cups won't detect printers, hp-setup won't, hp-probe won't. Tried rebooting, reinstalling HPLIP, & CUPS. Installed latest version of HPLIP. did a purge of HPLIP and CUPS, and reinstalled, rebooted.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 20, 2010
I had upgraded to 10.04 but can not use kernel 2.6.32-22.32+, I had to go back to kernel 2.6.31-21. because of the default video driver had change from the one kernel to the other, and I do not know how the correct it. In 2.6.32-22 the font would change and to a smaller size and I can barely view anything because it looks like some two year old puke a box of crayons all over the screen.
Second issue is it does not matter what power-saving mode I am in, in 5 minutes time it with go into suspension. Or right after coming out of hibernate, it will go into suspension indefinitely and no coming out of it and must to a hard boot.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jun 24, 2010
i just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and now i cant get win xp to boot. win xp will show up on the grub list but when i select it all i get is a blank screen with a cursor flashing in the top left corner. i dunno whats happend, i have never had many problems with dual boot.
View 6 Replies
View Related
