Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty beta upgrade
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:32 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: Well, I upgraded my Thinkpad X31 over the weekend from 8.10 to the beta of 9.04. It mostly went pretty smoothly, but I hit a couple of snags. The installer did not put the new kernel in GRUB's menu.lst file - I just picked the default option and this was to leave menu.lst alone. The result was an error on bootup that CPU scaling was not supported on my processor. I found the new kernel, manually amended the file, checked it worked, which it did just fine, and removed the old kernel using Synaptic - which once again newrote menu.lst and removed my hand-added entries. It's a very good job I checked before I rebooted. Happily I have a docking station for this machine with a DVD drive in, so I could have fixed this by hand, but otherwise, I would have been stranded. I don't /think/ the machine can boot from USB - I do not own any PC that can, AFAIK. Also, 9.04 seems to enable Compiz by default, which is agonizingly slow on my ATI Rage Mobility chipset. The machine was unable to keep up with my 2-finger typing and was unpleasant to use. The transparent notifications from Pidgin and on using my special IBM keys to change volume or screen brightness looked great in Compiz. Now I have disabled it, performance is sluggish but usable, but the notifications appear in an ugly black box overlaid on the top-right corner of the screen. What app produces these notifications, does anyone know? I'd like to investigate its settings and see if it can do its own alpha-blending, and if not, just turn it off... Anyone reckon these things are worth filing as bugs? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 Any bug is worth reporting but always check to see that you don't duplicate :) Your bug report makes ubuntu better. If it is something that can't be dealt with then the report will soon get tagged as invalid or fixed. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel 12-13-14 ??
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: hmm the last post i did got grabbed by the list's spamassassin :S I'll try again: http://pastebin.com/f7d0f623d From that it looks like /sbin/update-grub is failing. It looks like it's asking expr to do calculations with something that isn't a number. First thing I'd check to try and figure out why would be your grub configuration it's trying to update (/boot/grub/menu.lst). If you put that in a paste bin we can have a look and see if that's the problem. Robert Robert McWilliamr...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why Engineers sometimes smell really bad. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Release Party - The Warwick, London - Thu 23rd April
2009/3/27 Kat Kinnie kat.kin...@canonical.com Hi all, Just wanted to let you know the details for the Ubuntu 9.04 Release Party. I know it's still early but is there an official Twitter HashTag for this event? :-) Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
2009/3/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will start at 7pm and go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another pub on Oxford Road). I've had lots of interest for the release party and plenty of people have signed up. I'm really excited about it! However, I'd like to advertise it a bit more widely and need some help! I've informed local LUGs and other tech groups, the Ubuntu-UK podcast and LinuxOutlaws have kindly advertised as well, but I'd like to know what else myself or others can do? Also, can someone submit the event to the Ubuntu weekly newsletter? I'm not keen on signing up to the mailing list just for that and can't see another way to do it.. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:14 +0100, Lucy wrote: 2009/3/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will start at 7pm and go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another pub on Oxford Road). I've had lots of interest for the release party and plenty of people have signed up. I'm really excited about it! However, I'd like to advertise it a bit more widely and need some help! I've informed local LUGs and other tech groups, the Ubuntu-UK podcast and LinuxOutlaws have kindly advertised as well, but I'd like to know what else myself or others can do? Also, can someone submit the event to the Ubuntu weekly newsletter? I'm not keen on signing up to the mailing list just for that and can't see another way to do it.. Could always whack it up on digg I suppose, although anything that doesn't get a lot of diggs (ie: hundreds) doesn't make the front page which in turn means the only people that see it are the ones who dugg it. Someone might want to put it up on the ubuntu-uk part of the forums, I don't have an account there myself. http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=274 -- Gordon Allott gordall...@gmail.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
Been still trying a few things out, to get this to work. I have discovered that I tried to connect to Joiku via a windows xp machine, and found I could connect really easily using both 68 and 128 bits encryption. So it makes me think that there might be something wrong with my network adaptor. Before I try to install the WICD, I wonderd if there might be a way to try repair the Network manager instead. If that doesnt work, and I install the WICD, how will that affect my other wireles connections, for example connecting to my router, will I have any problems? As you can tell, I am not very good with Ubuntu, and I am worried this might get over my head. So, does anybody have any ideas about repairing the Network manager? If will even work? Thanks for your help. John Harry Rickards wrote: Quoting jakewc2 jake...@sky.com: Sorrym to keep on about this, but I am still having problems. i just wondered, could there be something wrong with the networkmanager applet? Could somebody help please? Thank you. John If there is a problem with network manager, you could use wubi, an alternative to network manager. It bills itself as "an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings", and allows you to do pretty much the same as Network Manager. However, if you want a wicd applet, you'll have to set '/opt/wicd/tray.py' to run at startup. To install, you first need to remove network manager by opening a terminal (Accessories Terminal) and running 'sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-applet'. When this is done, run the command 'sudo apt-get install wicd'. Harry -- O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3992 (20090407) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
A) I'd Digg that! 2) If no-one has put it up on the forums by tonight, I'll put it up on there when I'm at my computer. D) I could ask around at my university (Manchester Met) about getting a notice out to all students. I don't know how possible it would be, since it's the holidays now, but it's worth a shot, right? £) We could always put posters up in coffee shops, etc., around Manchester? Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 7 Apr 2009, at 14:00, Gordon Allott gordall...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:14 +0100, Lucy wrote: 2009/3/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will start at 7pm and go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another pub on Oxford Road). I've had lots of interest for the release party and plenty of people have signed up. I'm really excited about it! However, I'd like to advertise it a bit more widely and need some help! I've informed local LUGs and other tech groups, the Ubuntu-UK podcast and LinuxOutlaws have kindly advertised as well, but I'd like to know what else myself or others can do? Also, can someone submit the event to the Ubuntu weekly newsletter? I'm not keen on signing up to the mailing list just for that and can't see another way to do it.. Could always whack it up on digg I suppose, although anything that doesn't get a lot of diggs (ie: hundreds) doesn't make the front page which in turn means the only people that see it are the ones who dugg it. Someone might want to put it up on the ubuntu-uk part of the forums, I don't have an account there myself. http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=274 -- Gordon Allott gordall...@gmail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com: A) I'd Digg that! I don't use digg, but cool :) 2) If no-one has put it up on the forums by tonight, I'll put it up on there when I'm at my computer. I'd completely forgotten the forums existed. There's some interesting topics on there that I will read if I get chance. I'll be home late tonight so if you get chance to post to the forums that would be great. D) I could ask around at my university (Manchester Met) about getting a notice out to all students. I don't know how possible it would be, since it's the holidays now, but it's worth a shot, right? Great :) Will the students be back before the party, for reading week or something? £) We could always put posters up in coffee shops, etc., around Manchester? Good idea. I'll create a poster this weekend - I know that the community have made similar ones available so it shouldn't be difficult. I'll let you know when it's available for printing ;) Thanks both of you for the suggestions so far. I like this community :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
Lucy wrote: 2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com: A) I'd Digg that! I don't use digg, but cool :) fsdaily.com ftw! Good idea. I'll create a poster this weekend - I know that the community have made similar ones available so it shouldn't be difficult. I'll let you know when it's available for printing ;) If you need a hand getting things printed give me a shout. :) -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
The release party is the weekend before term begins, so people should be back in their flats. I just hope they check their student mail over easter! Also, seeing colins email on London party, Twitter? Do we have a hashtag for it? Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 7 Apr 2009, at 15:47, Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com: A) I'd Digg that! I don't use digg, but cool :) 2) If no-one has put it up on the forums by tonight, I'll put it up on there when I'm at my computer. I'd completely forgotten the forums existed. There's some interesting topics on there that I will read if I get chance. I'll be home late tonight so if you get chance to post to the forums that would be great. D) I could ask around at my university (Manchester Met) about getting a notice out to all students. I don't know how possible it would be, since it's the holidays now, but it's worth a shot, right? Great :) Will the students be back before the party, for reading week or something? £) We could always put posters up in coffee shops, etc., around Manchester? Good idea. I'll create a poster this weekend - I know that the community have made similar ones available so it shouldn't be difficult. I'll let you know when it's available for printing ;) Thanks both of you for the suggestions so far. I like this community :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel 12-13-14 ??
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: hmm the last post i did got grabbed by the list's spamassassin :S I'll try again: http://pastebin.com/f7d0f623d From that it looks like /sbin/update-grub is failing. It looks like it's asking expr to do calculations with something that isn't a number. First thing I'd check to try and figure out why would be your grub configuration it's trying to update (/boot/grub/menu.lst). If you put that in a paste bin we can have a look and see if that's the problem. Robert Robert McWilliamr...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why Engineers sometimes smell really bad. er here: http://pastebin.com/f1530e2cf === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel 12-13-14 ??
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: hmm the last post i did got grabbed by the list's spamassassin :S I'll try again: http://pastebin.com/f7d0f623d From that it looks like /sbin/update-grub is failing. It looks like it's asking expr to do calculations with something that isn't a number. First thing I'd check to try and figure out why would be your grub configuration it's trying to update (/boot/grub/menu.lst). If you put that in a paste bin we can have a look and see if that's the problem. Robert Robert McWilliamr...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why Engineers sometimes smell really bad. er here: http://pastebin.com/f1530e2cf === Farran Lee Hi Farran, Two things, I'm not sure why the kernel is updating? I can only find 2.6.27-11 in the repositories, can any one else confirm this? The key for the ppa.launchpad.net can be found on the ppa repository site you are using to get updates from, eg if you are getting openoffice3, then you will need to look here: https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa - go to the ppa that you are subscribed to and follow the instructions on how to get the key. --Michael _ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel 12-13-14 ??
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:58 +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: hmm the last post i did got grabbed by the list's spamassassin :S I'll try again: http://pastebin.com/f7d0f623d From that it looks like /sbin/update-grub is failing. It looks like it's asking expr to do calculations with something that isn't a number. First thing I'd check to try and figure out why would be your grub configuration it's trying to update (/boot/grub/menu.lst). If you put that in a paste bin we can have a look and see if that's the problem. Robert Robert McWilliamr...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why Engineers sometimes smell really bad. er here: http://pastebin.com/f1530e2cf === Farran Lee Hi Farran, Two things, I'm not sure why the kernel is updating? I can only find 2.6.27-11 in the repositories, can any one else confirm this? The key for the ppa.launchpad.net can be found on the ppa repository site you are using to get updates from, eg if you are getting openoffice3, then you will need to look here: https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa - go to the ppa that you are subscribed to and follow the instructions on how to get the key. --Michael _ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com ok thanks well my synaptic definitely lists 27-12 13 and 14 :/ how weird hehe I'll add the key now :) === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P attachment: stock_smiley-1.pngattachment: stock_smiley-9.png-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon
2009/4/4 Kris Douglas webbox...@gmail.com: Hey, I was spotted in Hanley today, one of the staff at the cinema noticed the ubuntu fleece I had one, nice one :) The big Odeon leisure complex, with the snooker club and bowling alley and so on? If so, I wired up the liquor-sales monitoring equipment in the bars there a couple of years back... :¬) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
It's up on the Forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1118879 2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com The release party is the weekend before term begins, so people should be back in their flats. I just hope they check their student mail over easter! Also, seeing colins email on London party, Twitter? Do we have a hashtag for it? Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 7 Apr 2009, at 15:47, Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com: A) I'd Digg that! I don't use digg, but cool :) 2) If no-one has put it up on the forums by tonight, I'll put it up on there when I'm at my computer. I'd completely forgotten the forums existed. There's some interesting topics on there that I will read if I get chance. I'll be home late tonight so if you get chance to post to the forums that would be great. D) I could ask around at my university (Manchester Met) about getting a notice out to all students. I don't know how possible it would be, since it's the holidays now, but it's worth a shot, right? Great :) Will the students be back before the party, for reading week or something? £) We could always put posters up in coffee shops, etc., around Manchester? Good idea. I'll create a poster this weekend - I know that the community have made similar ones available so it shouldn't be difficult. I'll let you know when it's available for printing ;) Thanks both of you for the suggestions so far. I like this community :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel 12-13-14 ??
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:35:44PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote: er here: http://pastebin.com/f1530e2cf OK, I'm only guessing here. I don't know much about how update-grub actually works, but... You've got default saved in there with savedefault=false and updatedefaultentry=true. I think update-grub is trying to calculate a new default entry from that and finding it can't do maths on the string saved. You might get update-grub to run cleanly if you set updatedefaultentry=false but you get no guarantees what the default will be then. My set up here (which would have been default at one time - I think this machine had 8.04 installed and then upgraded to 8.10 - I've no idea if the defaults have changed) has default 0 and both savedefault and updatedefaultentry are set to false. This gives the most recent kernel as the default (this might not work on a dual boot system - I can't remember if other OSs go before or after the kernel list for Ubuntu). I edited your paste bin entry to mirror my setup: http://pastebin.com/m20346f7f Disclaimer: I know nothing about your system and have only a vague grasp of how grub works. Using this config is at your own risk and might render your system unbootable and/or kill kittens through my lack of understanding and/or typos. Robert Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.netwww.ormiret.com What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. -- Oscar Levant -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
