I use Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.I've heard of a newer version:Ubuntu 11.04(AKA,the Natty Narwhal).My question is:shall I upgrade to Natty?Any recommendations? When was the Maverick Meerkat released?
View 2 RepliesI'm just wondering if there's a page out there that lists the improvements and other changes to Ubuntu from Maverick to Natty.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an 10.10 Maverick Ubuntu, and I've tried to update it to Natty version, but when I try it says to I check my connection with Internet and then close the update app, but my connection is fine, I think this could be something related to the host, since when I try to use sudo or play Frets on Fire it says that they "couldn't resolve the host".
View 2 Replies View RelatedI browsed on internet to find how to upgrade to 11.04 and find the answer.Press Alt+F2 and enter the command update-manager -dAfter authentication, the manager showed the updates and at some point of time, I got the following error.
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E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList
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this is on three separate laptops; an HP Pavilion 4120se, a Sony Vaio VGN-S5XP and a Dell Studio XPS1340. All are showing the same symptoms, though the first two are running 10.10 and the last is dual-boot Win7Pro and Natty 64-bit. All are UK models with a Region 2 restriction. The dual boot machine will run all legal movie DVDs perfectly under Windows 7 Professional. All three installations will run educational and similar DVDs. On all 3, Medibuntu repo is enabled, Ubuntu Restricted Extras are installed, as is libdvdcss2 and libdvdread4 (if those 2 can co-exist!). I'm using Movie Player and VLC.
I have tried UK retail commercial Region 2 movie DVDs, foreign region-free movie DVDs, Chinese pirate movie DVDs. None work. However, Licklibrary guitar instructional DVDs work fine - so the drives are OK! I've tried the oldest movie DVDs I have, and the same result. MP in Maverick tells me, "Could not read from resource" (VLC just does nothing!), and in Natty it says, "Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed".
I have read as much as I can of the sticky above, and searched through every 'can't play DVDs' thread - hence the installation of all the above-mentioned software, codecs and libraries, all to no avail. Is it simply that the lack of commercial kick-backs from open-source software means Linux users will not be allowed to view movie content, or is there something fundamental I'm missing?
I upgraded from Maverick to the Natty beta a little while ago. It all worked fine for a couple of weeks. Then, this morning, I was unable to boot. I got to GRUB, picked the first option and it went to the Ubuntu 11.04 with the dots, then returned this:
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fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sdb2: clean, 330122/2170880 files, 7302496/8683520 blocks
init: udevtrigger main process (367) terminated with status 1
init: udevtrigger post-stop process (372) terminated with status 1
init: udevmonitor main process (366) killed by TERM signal
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I have a couple of 64bit Maverick installs from the minimal CD.They each have about 1100 packages installed. When I started to upgrade one to Natty with the Upgrade Manager, it told me it wanted to install 205 new packages (along with upgrading 877).205 new packages seems like a lot of growth in the minimal install.Why do I need those 205 packages?Then I looked at the minimal CD page where I saw that the minimal CD itself (which has lists of packages not the packages) grew from 15.6 to 22MB.So, did the minimal install just bloat up with Natty or what? Is there an even-more-minimal install?
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow do I connect to a PPTP VPN (router) using Ubuntu server (Maverick/Natty)?
View 3 Replies View Relatedalong with Aiptek, Hanwang, N-trig, Waltop, & WizardPen (Ace Cad, KYE Systems, UC-LOGIC) Tablets Last updated: July 24, 2011 Preliminaries
1) You must have X server 1.8 or up (Maverick has 1.9).
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I upgraded my dedicated server using the do-release-upgrade command, and it seems to have installed many extra packages I do not require. This is a headless server in a datacentre, yet the upgrade caused me to install GUI packages I do not need. Is there a way to quickly remove all but the default server packages?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUpdate Manager is inviting me to update from my Maverick Meerkat to Natty. Is this a good idea?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to disable the "upgrade to natty" pop-up window on Maverick? I currently have no intentions on upgrading, and the pop-up is very annoying when I'm typing, and suddenly There It Is
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I wanna upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04. I boot from the 11.04live cd, I select "install", but there's NO upgrade option.. How do I upgrade??
View 8 Replies View Relatedcan we upgrade lucid to maverick by using maverick live cd. what are the other methods for upgradation
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter installing 10.10 I was asked to do a partial upgrade. During this upgrade several packages relating to the U1 service were removed.
I now do not have the U1 client, nor the Music Store service in Rhythmbox.
I was running Ubuntu 10.04 and yesterday I decided to test drive the 10.10 beta. After updating to 10.10 and rebooting, all I now get is the login screen with all the icons displaying as an 'X' and more importantly, no actual login prompt. I know just enough about Ubuntu to properly break it, but I am at a loss as to how to fix this, since it doesn't give me the option of opening a terminal.
View 3 Replies View RelatedToday I upgraded my Lucid to Maverick. After upgrading, from "update-manager -d", I tried a couple of new programs (games, actually) and re-enabled the third party repositories. I don't have exotic things, just google chrome, transmission beta, and some more of this sort. After rebooting, the system enters in terminal instead of the regular gui. I tried to search online for possible solutions, but none worked. I tried
(1) startx
output: fatal server error, no screen found.
(2) sudo service gdm stop; sudo service gdm start
Output: gdm start/running process 1265
(3) removing the option nomodeset from the boot. To do this I edited /etc/default/grub, the line with the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and ran grub-mkconfig. After a reboot, the computer returned to the terminal.
(4) some even suggested removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I don't have that file...
I have an acer timeline with initial hardware. I don't know which graphics card it has, if any... I really need to get my computer running, and I was looking for suggestions before reinstalling 10.04.
Box specs below. Compiz (effects) won't work. fglrx, proprietary drivers, uninstall, reinstall, software center, synaptic, drivers not working - effects can't be enabled. Is this a bug?
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I have installed a Maverick machine and was utterly annoyed by the removal of XDCMP chooser in GDM (why in the world one would do this?!). The common wisdom seemed to install xdm or wdm instead.
I did try both of them (dpkg-reconfigure gdm and select xdm or wdm), BUT none is working. The only relevant point I found in xdm log: it fails to start X correctly, where spawned X instance claims that no usable screens can be found.
At the same time, gdm starts just fine.
Was anyone successful in getting any of these running?
I have just installed Ubuntu 10.10 and it does not mount usb sticks. Simply nothing happens when i connect a flash disk. Through "disk utility", i can see the device, and it is named /dev/sdb1. When i click "mount", however, it says:Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /mount failedIs there a solution to this problem?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.10 installed and i can't write to USB or delete the files that are already inside the flash disk
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I upgraded to Natty, didn't like it and decided to go back to Maverick. Got out my trusty Live CD and reinstalled, no problem. Unfortunately now it just takes me to the screen with the list of possible OSes to start, and when I press enter it says:
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error: symbol not found: 'grub_os_area_addr'.
I don't appear to be able to do anything from there. I've had so much trouble with this blinking computer lately that I'm even considering going back to Windows.
How Do I Undo the Maverick Meerkat (Beta) Upgrade? Is that possible?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've heard that Compiz is not working in Maverick. Is this true? Has it impacted computers with decent graphics cards much, or is it no big deal? I'm kinda confused, because of the Ubiquity thing. Is that replacing compiz?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAbout an hour ago I completed the Network upgrade to Maverick from Lucid. Immediately I see some changes over Lucid: my computer can now hibernate successfully, a feature that worked in Hardy, but was broken in Karmic and Lucid. But a small annoyance is the strange colors. There is an abundance of purple colors in icons, in links, in indicators. I have attached a small snapshot of my browser. The circled purple area should be blue in normal contions.
View 9 Replies View RelatedPrior to this version of ubuntu my laptop (an old P4 gateway) shut down just fine. It acted fine in windows xp, and ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04. Starting with my first shutdown after upgrading to maverick (as opposed to a fresh install, which is what I've done for every time I went to the new version before this), it just reboots the computer instead of shutting down.I've tried clicking the icon in the corner, I've tried pushing the power button and clicking shutdown on that screen, I've even tried shutting down from the command prompt, but each of these just reboots the computer.
View 1 Replies View Relatedalthough VLC playback triggers it, I suspect it's actually a kernel problem. After moving from 10.04 x64 to 10.10 x64, I've been noticing the following problem: When watching a DVD .iso using VLC Media Player, the system will become "jerky" and "stutter" after a random amount of smooth playback. At that point, the only way to make the system smooth and responsive again is a hard restart (normal shutdown hangs and refuses to complete).where I can start looking to find where the bug lies? My laptop is an Acer Aspire 6930 with 10.10 x64 and the current NVidia display driver.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIbus is very familiar to some users. And they find only one way to use Ibus as their keyboard layout. But its not possible to use ibus on Maverick Meerkat by default. you need to follow some instruction to do that. Here I am telling how I have done this...
Go to System> Administration> Synaptic Package Manager (you have to give your password) type " ibus-m17 " on search box. then just install the one appears. After installation the package, just close the synaptic. Now you are done to use Ibus.
Now go to System>Administration>Language Support (it may ask you to install the Language support, just click on the "Remind me later") Then select ' ibus ' from the "Keyboard input method system" under the Language tab.
Then close the window and restart the PC.
Thats the work I have done to get the iBus on Maverick Meerkat.
I'd like to upgrade my netbook from Lucid Netbook Edition to Maverick. However, in trying the live USB, I found Unity to be unusable. Is it possible to use Maverick and keep the interface from the Lucid Netbook Edition?
<rant>Unity is painfully slow and missing several essential features. Also, who in their right mind would make a sidebar that's reminiscent of the MacOS dock? Mixing launchers with icons for currently-open programs is brain dead.
I have machine, which has 7 hard drives. 5 connected to normal controller, and 2 connected to (still on-board) marvell controller. Till 3 days ago, it was running on jaunty (server kernel, 2.6.28-19-server). Then I upgraded the machine to Maverick, and this is when the problem started. When I boot from Maverick kernel (2.6.35-22-server) it doesn't see my drives attached to marvell controller.
Which is problematic, as I have /home and /usr on raid devices that are build on those drives. I do not know why it happens,
I did gather some evidence, though:
Output of dmesg on 2.6.28-19
Output of dmesg on 2.6.35-22
Output on lshw (on 2.6.28, as I can't run it on 2.6.35)
Output of lspci -v
Output of lsmod on 2.6.28
Output of lsmod on 2.6.35
If there is anything else that I should provide,