Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone web browser broken

[David King]

I am still having a problem with my Ubuntu Phone, lots of it not working 
now. No web browser, no text messaging, no Network Indicator and thus no 
phone connection, no wifi connection and sometimes keyboard not working 
when trying to type.


If I reset the phone, and lose all my data, would everything work again?

And how would I back up my data. This page has some info, but not sure 
how to implement it:


https://askubuntu.com/questions/602850/how-do-i-backup-my-ubuntu-phone

   Backing up /home/phablet will backup everything except the apps
   which are in a number of places including /opt/click.ubuntu.com/ and
   /usr/share/click/preinstalled.


How would I go about backing up these places? If I connect the phone to 
my Ubuntu PC, these places are not all visible to the PC.



David K


On 15/08/16 22:25, David King wrote:
I have been using Ubuntu phone, BQ Aquarius E45, for the past year. 
Until now the web browser has always worked. But today it stopped 
working. I went to use it, and wanted to access my History, as all 
tabs had disappeared that had previously been open.


Then the web browser froze, and I had to close it. I tried to reopen, 
but as soon as I do, it crashes, closes right away. I tried rebooting 
the phone, but that did not help. Nothing else was running at the time 
it froze. Even after another reboot, I have not been able to open the 
web browser. Web apps, like Facebook, still work okay with no problems.


So how would I fix this? Is there a file to delete or edit in the 
filesystem? I have searched online already and found no answer.


Anyone else have this problem? I also checked Launchpad but could not 
see a bug report for this for the web browser.



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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone web browser broken

[David King]

I have been using Ubuntu phone, BQ Aquarius E45, for the past year. 
Until now the web browser has always worked. But today it stopped 
working. I went to use it, and wanted to access my History, as all tabs 
had disappeared that had previously been open.


Then the web browser froze, and I had to close it. I tried to reopen, 
but as soon as I do, it crashes, closes right away. I tried rebooting 
the phone, but that did not help. Nothing else was running at the time 
it froze. Even after another reboot, I have not been able to open the 
web browser. Web apps, like Facebook, still work okay with no problems.


So how would I fix this? Is there a file to delete or edit in the 
filesystem? I have searched online already and found no answer.


Anyone else have this problem? I also checked Launchpad but could not 
see a bug report for this for the web browser.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of OS in work

[David King]

Where I work, it is Windows 7 throughout, although running from remote 
servers.


The actual computers we log on from mostly run Windows 7, but a few of 
the newer ones which have replaced older ones are running Ubuntu. So 
some people use Ubuntu to log into Windows.



David King


On 18/03/16 20:56, Gareth France wrote:
No real point to this but I wanted to share with you my delight in 
finding out they use Ubuntu in the office I now work in.


and the disappointment of finding out I'll only be using Windows!

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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone problems

[David King]

Since the latest system update a few days ago, has anyone else 
experienced some problems?


Cannot connect to my Ubuntu PC on USB any more, PC does not recognise 
phone being there, although it did previously.
Cannot read some emails in Dekko, they just appear blank, but were okay 
before.
When clicking a link to a website from a webapp and the kind of web 
browser lite window appears, it keeps reloading itself (problem since 
last two updates).
Some apps seem less stable in general and more likely to crash, 
including web browser and Podbird.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

[David King]

I found an almost identical Dell Inspiron on ebay but with better specs. It 
has Windows, but I can easily install Linux Mint instead.


Was only £110, and in good condition.

David King



On Sunday, 22 November 2015 19:29:56 GMT, Adetayo Ajilogba wrote:
HP has new laptops within your specified range of budget, you can then 
buy Ubuntu DVD from osdisc.com for 5USD and install?

Ade.ajil

On 21/11/15 22:21, David King wrote:

On 22/09/15 19:59, Alan Pope wrote:
On 22 September 2015 at 19:49, Steve 
Mynott  wrote:

Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook
like form factor) with good linux support?


http://www.ebuyer.com/ubuntu

One of those perhaps.

Cheers,
Al.



Although they look like great laptops, and just what I am looking for 
at present, Ebuyer no longer stock them.



My partner has a Dell Inspiron which is a few years old now, it came 
preinstalled with Ubuntu, and today it will not boot. Might be just 
the battery or the PSU, but if the whole laptop is dead, then she 
needs a new one, so I am looking for a new laptop. The idea is to buy 
one with Ubuntu pre-installed, or another Linux OS, as then we are 
certain that the correct hardware drivers will be available and loaded.


Does anyone have any good recommendations, looking in the £300 to £400 
price range? Dell still do Ubuntu laptops but they are way more 
expensive than they used to be (the Inspiron only cost £300).


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

[David King]

On 22/09/15 19:59, Alan Pope wrote:

On 22 September 2015 at 19:49, Steve Mynott  wrote:

Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook
like form factor) with good linux support?


http://www.ebuyer.com/ubuntu

One of those perhaps.

Cheers,
Al.



Although they look like great laptops, and just what I am looking for at 
present, Ebuyer no longer stock them.



My partner has a Dell Inspiron which is a few years old now, it came 
preinstalled with Ubuntu, and today it will not boot. Might be just the 
battery or the PSU, but if the whole laptop is dead, then she needs a 
new one, so I am looking for a new laptop. The idea is to buy one with 
Ubuntu pre-installed, or another Linux OS, as then we are certain that 
the correct hardware drivers will be available and loaded.


Does anyone have any good recommendations, looking in the £300 to £400 
price range? Dell still do Ubuntu laptops but they are way more 
expensive than they used to be (the Inspiron only cost £300).


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

[David King]

I wonder if the add-ons are interfering with each other in some way that 
blocks one inbox.


Did you try it with no add-ons and with combinations of 2 of the 3 add-ons?

David K


On 03/09/15 09:07, Dianne wrote:

On 01/09/15 11:41, Dianne wrote:
I'm running Thunderbird 38.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There was an 
update to tbird last week, which seemed OK.


I have four email accounts that I download with tbird - my ISP 
allocated mail, my yahoo mail, and two email addresses on a server 
from a place I volunteer, and one of these has a major problem - 
every time I change to another mailbox, or close tbird, everything in 
the Inbox disappears. None of the other three mailboxes have this 
problem, all other folders (such as deleted and junk) are OK. I've 
made no changes to settings or properties - for retention all are set 
to follow account settings, which are set to leave on server (so I 
can at least look at the hideous webmail interface to see them), but 
our server will only keep them for a month.
I've been playing with this - if I load in safe mode with no add-ons, 
all emails reappear. I've tried disabling each add-on in turn (there 
are only three) but the problem remains. If I load in safe mode but 
tell tbird to always load without add-ons, the problem remains.


So at the moment I'm running tbird, and then choosing Help > Restart 
without add-ons.

Any advice?
TIA
Dianne

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

[David King]

Do you have the settings set to leave messages on the server or not?

And where is the mailbox saved for the one that keeps losing emails? You 
should be certain they are set in a location that is always going to be 
writeable and not going to be unavailable at any time (e.g. USB drive).


I have not had this problem, lots of email accounts, all set up for POP3 
access, messages left on server until deleted.



David K


On 03/09/15 20:28, Barry Drake wrote:

On 03/09/15 17:23, Dianne wrote:

> I'm using pop3 - it seems to be a problem with tbird, as they reappear
> when I go to safe mode.

I wonder if there is a bug in Thunderbird that causes a problem with 
pop3 accounts?  If the problem account is your only one using pop3, 
I'd be inclined to think that might be the problem.  If you are fairly 
sure it is a Thunderbird problem, check out if all your other accounts 
are imap.  If so, ubuntu-bug thunderbird, using the terminal would be 
the way to go, I imagine.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[David King]

Thanks, that works. I installed hal and now Amazon Prime videos play in 
Firefox on Ubuntu.


However, for the past couple of days I have noticed that playing a video 
in Youtube no longer works, whether I allow Flash or not. Yet if I go to 
other sites that have videos, e.g. Vimeo, the video playback works fine, 
with or without Flash being allowed (in Firefox 40), also plays videos 
okay on yahoo and nick.co.uk (picking some video sites at random). But 
Youtube works in other browsers.



David K


On 13/08/15 14:22, Darren Hoyland wrote:

This worked for me for Firefox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hal

Then restart.


Source: 
http://www.howtogeek.com/204319/how-to-watch-amazon-instant-video-on-linux/



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[David King]

Thanks, Barry, although that does seem to suggest that Ubuntu is broken 
somewhere, where other Linuxes are not. So maybe we should be asking 
Canonical to fix this?



David K


On 13/08/15 17:45, Barry Titterton wrote:

Hi David,

I have also had a lot of problems trying to get Amazon Prime to work. 
My two Ubuntu machines do not work: I have both a 32 bit and a 64 bit 
install of 14.04 LTS with Unity, and they both have the Ubuntu version 
of Firefox v.40. Pipelight has also been a failure. The only machine 
that plays Amazon Prime streamed video is an elderly Advent laptop 
which runs 32 bit Mint 17.2 XFCE with the Mint version of Firefox 
v.40. The Amazon Prime problem does seem to be a Ubuntu specific issue.


I hope that this info' is of some help to you.

Barry T


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[David King]

I installed Pipelight as well, but that did not work.

I tried Chromium which has Flash 15 installed and that did not work. But 
Linux Mint 13 has only Flash 11 installed and it works. It is not a 
browser issue, I listed several I tried. It must be a configuration 
issue or similar I am thinking.


David K


On 12/08/15 22:32, Aidan Harris wrote:

I just tested this for myself using the Freshplayerplugin[1] and
couldn't get it to work in Firefox. I haven't tried using the much older
and outdated version 11.2.202.508 of flash player (I suspect this is
what is installed with the flashplugin-installer package?) but I doubt
it'd work. If you're okay using a proprietary browser I tried accessing
Amazon Instant Video in Google Chrome and it worked no problem at all.
Another alternative could be to try Pipelight[2] which may work although
I've not tried it myself.

[1] - https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin
[2] - http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html




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[ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[David King]

I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. It's 
Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop.


I have tried it in Firefox, Chromium, Qupzilla, Opera, Vivaldi and 
Midori -- it fails in all of them, including causing Midori to crash. 
However I got it to work perfectly on a friend's laptop running Linux 
Mint 13.


So I tried it in Linux Mint 17 in Virtual Box but that would not work. 
And then in Linux Mint 13 in Virtual Box, which did not work until I 
updated Firefox and installed Flash and then it worked perfectly.


I know that some people get it working in Ubuntu (someone said they did 
in a recent Ubuntu podcast, episode 21 of series 8, but did not say how) 
-- so how can I get it to work in Ubuntu?


I have got it working on my Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC/Kodi, but 
would be great to have it running in Ubuntu on my PC as well.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

I eventually managed to send emails from Dekko -- it is not configured 
all that well by default, i.e. the location of sent items was note 
specified. Once I had specified those, I could send emails.


David King


On 09/04/15 18:42, David King wrote:



Then if I use Dekko, it will not send emails at all. I can paste stuff 
into a new email, but when sending it gives an error -- I posted it as 
a bug online already.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

The current updates are the second lot, released only this week.

David K


On 17/04/15 19:49, Gareth France wrote:
Aah, I did my updates the day I got it so that explains why I had no 
issues.


On 17/04/15 10:48, David King wrote:

Well, I just found out there are lots of updates for Ubuntu Phone, so I
installed those and now the Ubuntu PC recognises the phone when plugged
in -- hooray

David


On 17/04/15 09:36, David King wrote:

My Ubuntu Phone is not being recognised by my Ubuntu PC again -- even
though it was last week on the same USB cable in the same USB socket
on the PC.

Anyone have any ideas on why this might be?

I have searched online but I am finding very little of anything about
fixing Ubuntu Phone problems.


David King


On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote:

I fixed the USB to PC connection issue. I had tried it in Ubuntu
12.04 and Mint, both installed on the same PC, but still no luck with
accessing the phone.

Then I went back into Ubuntu 14.04, and put the phone onto a long USB
cable into the PC instead of the USB hub and now it works -- no idea
why it would not work on the hub when other devices worked okay.

Overall, I am pleased with the Ubuntu Phone -- but today I was out
and using the phone, went online a bit, took some photos, and then it
ran out of power. The battery was fully charged before I went out, so
battery is quite weak. I shall have to buy a new USB portable power
supply -- I had one before but it stopped working.


David K


On 09/04/15 19:29, Gareth France wrote:

Can you try it on another Ubuntu install? Live disc?

On 09/04/15 19:28, David King wrote:

Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls.

But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when
connected
via USB.


David King


On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote:

I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a
message saying 'not implemented'.

It looks like the option to share a URL via messaging is there but
the
issues with copy and paste are well known and being worked on. I 
have
just tried it and was able to load the browser, click on the 
url, the

full url is displayed highlighted. I then hold down on the
highlighted
address and the option to copy was presented. However I can't 
see any

way to paste and email it as you say.

Did you figure out adding contacts in the end?













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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

Well, I just found out there are lots of updates for Ubuntu Phone, so I 
installed those and now the Ubuntu PC recognises the phone when plugged 
in -- hooray


David


On 17/04/15 09:36, David King wrote:
My Ubuntu Phone is not being recognised by my Ubuntu PC again -- even 
though it was last week on the same USB cable in the same USB socket 
on the PC.


Anyone have any ideas on why this might be?

I have searched online but I am finding very little of anything about 
fixing Ubuntu Phone problems.



David King


On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote:
I fixed the USB to PC connection issue. I had tried it in Ubuntu 
12.04 and Mint, both installed on the same PC, but still no luck with 
accessing the phone.


Then I went back into Ubuntu 14.04, and put the phone onto a long USB 
cable into the PC instead of the USB hub and now it works -- no idea 
why it would not work on the hub when other devices worked okay.


Overall, I am pleased with the Ubuntu Phone -- but today I was out 
and using the phone, went online a bit, took some photos, and then it 
ran out of power. The battery was fully charged before I went out, so 
battery is quite weak. I shall have to buy a new USB portable power 
supply -- I had one before but it stopped working.



David K


On 09/04/15 19:29, Gareth France wrote:

Can you try it on another Ubuntu install? Live disc?

On 09/04/15 19:28, David King wrote:

Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls.

But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when 
connected

via USB.


David King


On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote:

I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a
message saying 'not implemented'.

It looks like the option to share a URL via messaging is there but 
the

issues with copy and paste are well known and being worked on. I have
just tried it and was able to load the browser, click on the url, the
full url is displayed highlighted. I then hold down on the 
highlighted

address and the option to copy was presented. However I can't see any
way to paste and email it as you say.

Did you figure out adding contacts in the end?








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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

My Ubuntu Phone is not being recognised by my Ubuntu PC again -- even 
though it was last week on the same USB cable in the same USB socket on 
the PC.


Anyone have any ideas on why this might be?

I have searched online but I am finding very little of anything about 
fixing Ubuntu Phone problems.



David King


On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote:
I fixed the USB to PC connection issue. I had tried it in Ubuntu 12.04 
and Mint, both installed on the same PC, but still no luck with 
accessing the phone.


Then I went back into Ubuntu 14.04, and put the phone onto a long USB 
cable into the PC instead of the USB hub and now it works -- no idea 
why it would not work on the hub when other devices worked okay.


Overall, I am pleased with the Ubuntu Phone -- but today I was out and 
using the phone, went online a bit, took some photos, and then it ran 
out of power. The battery was fully charged before I went out, so 
battery is quite weak. I shall have to buy a new USB portable power 
supply -- I had one before but it stopped working.



David K


On 09/04/15 19:29, Gareth France wrote:

Can you try it on another Ubuntu install? Live disc?

On 09/04/15 19:28, David King wrote:

Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls.

But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when 
connected

via USB.


David King


On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote:

I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a
message saying 'not implemented'.

It looks like the option to share a URL via messaging is there but the
issues with copy and paste are well known and being worked on. I have
just tried it and was able to load the browser, click on the url, the
full url is displayed highlighted. I then hold down on the highlighted
address and the option to copy was presented. However I can't see any
way to paste and email it as you say.

Did you figure out adding contacts in the end?





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

Well, it is taking a long time to recharge the phone, so something needs 
to be fixed.


David K


On 10/04/15 21:48, Gareth France wrote:
The battery is just fine but some changes in the system recently have 
resulted in additional battery drain when the devs weren't happy with 
it in the first place. I assume we will see this aspect improve along 
with all the other issues in the near future.


I'm finding mine is lasting the day just about, I tend to put it on 
charge if I'm in the car though.


On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote:

but today I was out and using the phone, went online a bit, took some
photos, and then it ran out of power. The battery was fully charged
before I went out, so battery is quite weak.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

I fixed the USB to PC connection issue. I had tried it in Ubuntu 12.04 
and Mint, both installed on the same PC, but still no luck with 
accessing the phone.


Then I went back into Ubuntu 14.04, and put the phone onto a long USB 
cable into the PC instead of the USB hub and now it works -- no idea why 
it would not work on the hub when other devices worked okay.


Overall, I am pleased with the Ubuntu Phone -- but today I was out and 
using the phone, went online a bit, took some photos, and then it ran 
out of power. The battery was fully charged before I went out, so 
battery is quite weak. I shall have to buy a new USB portable power 
supply -- I had one before but it stopped working.



David K


On 09/04/15 19:29, Gareth France wrote:

Can you try it on another Ubuntu install? Live disc?

On 09/04/15 19:28, David King wrote:

Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls.

But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when connected
via USB.


David King


On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote:

I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a
message saying 'not implemented'.

It looks like the option to share a URL via messaging is there but the
issues with copy and paste are well known and being worked on. I have
just tried it and was able to load the browser, click on the url, the
full url is displayed highlighted. I then hold down on the highlighted
address and the option to copy was presented. However I can't see any
way to paste and email it as you say.

Did you figure out adding contacts in the end?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls.

But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when connected 
via USB.



David King


On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote:
I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a 
message saying 'not implemented'.


It looks like the option to share a URL via messaging is there but the 
issues with copy and paste are well known and being worked on. I have 
just tried it and was able to load the browser, click on the url, the 
full url is displayed highlighted. I then hold down on the highlighted 
address and the option to copy was presented. However I can't see any 
way to paste and email it as you say.


Did you figure out adding contacts in the end?


On 09/04/15 18:42, David King wrote:

I am having trouble sending things by email, such as if I see a webpage
I went to email to myself and then view on my PC. I try to select and
copy the URL from the address bar, but although I can highlight the
whole lot at once, there is no option to copy. If I select part of the
URL, then the option to copy appears. So I can only copy it in bits.

Then if I use Dekko, it will not send emails at all. I can paste stuff
into a new email, but when sending it gives an error -- I posted it as a
bug online already.

If I try to use gmail to send an email, when I try to paste into the
email, all I get is a blue box filling the area to enter text with the
word Copy above it, thus giving me only the option to copy and not to 
paste.


If I want to share a URL from the web browser, the options are so
limited as to be useless -- only by text message or Telegram, there is
not even an option to share via Facebook (using the Facebook app
installed) or by gmail (using the gmail app).


So what is the solution to this? How can I share a URL from my Ubuntu
phone to send to my pc to view it on there later?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

I am having trouble sending things by email, such as if I see a webpage 
I went to email to myself and then view on my PC. I try to select and 
copy the URL from the address bar, but although I can highlight the 
whole lot at once, there is no option to copy. If I select part of the 
URL, then the option to copy appears. So I can only copy it in bits.


Then if I use Dekko, it will not send emails at all. I can paste stuff 
into a new email, but when sending it gives an error -- I posted it as a 
bug online already.


If I try to use gmail to send an email, when I try to paste into the 
email, all I get is a blue box filling the area to enter text with the 
word Copy above it, thus giving me only the option to copy and not to paste.


If I want to share a URL from the web browser, the options are so 
limited as to be useless -- only by text message or Telegram, there is 
not even an option to share via Facebook (using the Facebook app 
installed) or by gmail (using the gmail app).



So what is the solution to this? How can I share a URL from my Ubuntu 
phone to send to my pc to view it on there later?



David King



On 08/04/15 18:28, Dan Chapman wrote:



On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote:


I have noticed that the Dekko email client is quite unstable and 
keeps crashing -- surely the Ubuntu team should be developing this? 
We need a decent email client. One of the main reasons for having an 
Ubuntu phone is to get away from Google, yet the only email client 
that is installed by default is for gmail.
Please file bugs with log files for issues you come across, along with 
a description of the exact point it happens.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/dekko/+filebug

We are aware of people experiencing crashes, and alot of it seems to 
be specific to the bq devices, which I currently do not own. I have 
been unable to reproduce the issues on my nexus 4 so it's been hard to 
pinpoint the problems. I've been at the mercy of users trying out 
patches for me, until I can get my hands on one of these devices.


A lot of improvements are being made, so the stability should improve 
considerably over the next few updates.


Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

Okay, let me show you via some screenshots (taken with the camera on my 
Android phone as Ubuntu Phone does not seem to have any of its own 
screenshot capture)


First look at this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingdavid/17055877646

This is the phone with a list of received calls on the Today Scope (they 
also appear on the Calls Scope just the same)



So I touched on the number and this is what comes up

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingdavid/16461692083


Then I touch on the red Call button and get this

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingdavid/16461692283


This is where the head and shoulders icon with + sign to the left 
appears and from there I could add the number to my contacts, but from 
what you wrote below I am guessing you found another way to do that?




David




On 08/04/15 18:29, Gareth France wrote:

What red button?

On 08/04/15 18:27, David King wrote:

Okay, I finally figured it out. I had to press the red button marked
Call even though I do not want to call the person, I want to add them to
the contacts list -- this needs redesigning as it is unintuitive at 
present.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

Okay, I finally figured it out. I had to press the red button marked 
Call even though I do not want to call the person, I want to add them to 
the contacts list -- this needs redesigning as it is unintuitive at present.




On 08/04/15 18:15, Gareth France wrote:

Not the number, to the left of the number is an icon of a person with a +

On 08/04/15 18:14, David King wrote:

I had already tried that, but touching the number does nothing.



On 08/04/15 18:07, Gareth France wrote:

When you click on the number in the received calls list it loads it
into the dialer screen. On the left of the number is a + icon to add 
it.


On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote:
When I receive a phonecall from someone not in my contacts list, 
how can
I easily add that number to the contacts -- I see no options at all 
when
looking at received calls other than info relating to the call. It 
needs
to have the option to add a caller to a contact, either an existing 
one

or create a new one.









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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

The phone is not locked. Actually I just tried it on my netbook running 
Linux Lite OS which is based on Ubuntu 14.04. My PC runs Ubuntu Studio 
14.04 but does not see the phone.


In a terminal I typed lsusb with it connected and with it not connected, 
and there was one more entry when it was connected but no device info, 
so it is recognising that something is connected via USB but Ubuntu on 
the PC cannot recognise the Ubuntu Phone -- some sort of problem in 
Ubuntu on the PC it seems, as netbook can see it and access its files.



David King



On 08/04/15 18:11, Gareth France wrote:
When you do this is the phone unlocked? If you do not unlock the phone 
screen it will not release access to the computer.


On 08/04/15 18:08, David King wrote:

The other main problem I am having is that when I connect the phone to
my Ubuntu PC via USB, the PC does not recognise the phone at all, as if
it were not connected, yet the phone is charging from the cable. An
Android phone on the same cable was recognised perfectly well, as were
ebook readers. So why not the BQ Ubuntu Phone?




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

I had already tried that, but touching the number does nothing.



On 08/04/15 18:07, Gareth France wrote:
When you click on the number in the received calls list it loads it 
into the dialer screen. On the left of the number is a + icon to add it.


On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote:

When I receive a phonecall from someone not in my contacts list, how can
I easily add that number to the contacts -- I see no options at all when
looking at received calls other than info relating to the call. It needs
to have the option to add a caller to a contact, either an existing one
or create a new one.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

The other main problem I am having is that when I connect the phone to 
my Ubuntu PC via USB, the PC does not recognise the phone at all, as if 
it were not connected, yet the phone is charging from the cable. An 
Android phone on the same cable was recognised perfectly well, as were 
ebook readers. So why not the BQ Ubuntu Phone?




On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote:


I have noticed that the Dekko email client is quite unstable and keeps 
crashing -- surely the Ubuntu team should be developing this? We need 
a decent email client. One of the main reasons for having an Ubuntu 
phone is to get away from Google, yet the only email client that is 
installed by default is for gmail.


When I receive a phonecall from someone not in my contacts list, how 
can I easily add that number to the contacts -- I see no options at 
all when looking at received calls other than info relating to the 
call. It needs to have the option to add a caller to a contact, either 
an existing one or create a new one.


In the web browser, there is an option to share the page. This should 
have in the list other apps, including the option to send by email, 
share on Facebook, save to Pocket, save to Evernote, etc. Sending a 
link by text message is not what I want to do.


David King



On 08/04/15 15:16, Tony Pursell wrote:

Hi All

A few problems/observations from me:

1) For the second time I have been given a notification of 
'1819631974 voicemail messages'. When I touch the phone icon on it, 
it just goes away.  First time I had it, I didn't even have voicemail 
set up for the new number I put on the phone.  Is it a bug, or a 
scam, or what?


2) Wifi doesn't let me choose what to connect to.  My Moto G Android 
phone gives me a list of Wifi networks in my locality - mostly 
secure.  But there is a BT Wifi and a BT Wifi with FON which are not 
secured, but have a poor signal and will always give me a Network 
error as I'm not registered to use them.  Every so often, my Moto G 
locks onto one of these, but I can tell it to disconnect and forget 
it.  Now my Ubuntu phone has locked onto one of them and I cannot 
find any way to get it back to my home Wifi.  Even turning Wifi off 
in System Settings has no effect.


3) Battery Life is poor - between a day or two at the most.  My Moto 
G used to be as bad, but has improved a lot with Lollipop.  I notice 
at least one bug has been posted about this, so I hope it will be 
improved for the Ubuntu phone.


4) Closing apps I find a real pain.  Perhaps someone will tell me how 
to do it easily.  The only way I have found is to do a really precise 
slow swipe from the right edge to about 2/3rds the way across the 
screen to get it to show open apps, then swipe down the one I don't 
want.  The swipe from the right edge has to be so precise that it 
take a few goes to get it right.  What I would like is for the < 
symbol at the top of the app window to change to X on the home page 
and mean 'close'.  See System Settings as an example of an app where 
this would work.  At the moment, only the browser has a greyed out < 
on the home page, but just doing it for this would help due to the 
way may apps 'offload' to the browser.


5) I've been tapping notifications to get to what they are telling me 
about and nothing has been happening.  Now I find that tapping the 
icon, and only the icon, works. Not very intuitive, especially for 
ex-Android users. Also, swiping the notification to the right, gives 
me a 'Delete' option.  It's not clear if this is to delete just the 
notification or the object (email, for instance) it is telling you 
about.  Scary!


Those are the things bugging me at the moment. More to come, maybe.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

[David King]

I have noticed that the Dekko email client is quite unstable and keeps 
crashing -- surely the Ubuntu team should be developing this? We need a 
decent email client. One of the main reasons for having an Ubuntu phone 
is to get away from Google, yet the only email client that is installed 
by default is for gmail.


When I receive a phonecall from someone not in my contacts list, how can 
I easily add that number to the contacts -- I see no options at all when 
looking at received calls other than info relating to the call. It needs 
to have the option to add a caller to a contact, either an existing one 
or create a new one.


In the web browser, there is an option to share the page. This should 
have in the list other apps, including the option to send by email, 
share on Facebook, save to Pocket, save to Evernote, etc. Sending a link 
by text message is not what I want to do.


David King



On 08/04/15 15:16, Tony Pursell wrote:

Hi All

A few problems/observations from me:

1) For the second time I have been given a notification of '1819631974 
voicemail messages'.  When I touch the phone icon on it, it just goes 
away. First time I had it, I didn't even have voicemail set up for the 
new number I put on the phone.  Is it a bug, or a scam, or what?


2) Wifi doesn't let me choose what to connect to.  My Moto G Android 
phone gives me a list of Wifi networks in my locality - mostly 
secure.  But there is a BT Wifi and a BT Wifi with FON which are not 
secured, but have a poor signal and will always give me a Network 
error as I'm not registered to use them.  Every so often, my Moto G 
locks onto one of these, but I can tell it to disconnect and forget 
it.  Now my Ubuntu phone has locked onto one of them and I cannot find 
any way to get it back to my home Wifi.  Even turning Wifi off in 
System Settings has no effect.


3) Battery Life is poor - between a day or two at the most.  My Moto G 
used to be as bad, but has improved a lot with Lollipop.  I notice at 
least one bug has been posted about this, so I hope it will be 
improved for the Ubuntu phone.


4) Closing apps I find a real pain.  Perhaps someone will tell me how 
to do it easily.  The only way I have found is to do a really precise 
slow swipe from the right edge to about 2/3rds the way across the 
screen to get it to show open apps, then swipe down the one I don't 
want.  The swipe from the right edge has to be so precise that it take 
a few goes to get it right.  What I would like is for the < symbol at 
the top of the app window to change to X on the home page and mean 
'close'.  See System Settings as an example of an app where this would 
work.  At the moment, only the browser has a greyed out < on the home 
page, but just doing it for this would help due to the way may apps 
'offload' to the browser.


5) I've been tapping notifications to get to what they are telling me 
about and nothing has been happening.  Now I find that tapping the 
icon, and only the icon, works.  Not very intuitive, especially for 
ex-Android users.  Also, swiping the notification to the right, gives 
me a 'Delete' option.  It's not clear if this is to delete just the 
notification or the object (email, for instance) it is telling you 
about.  Scary!


Those are the things bugging me at the moment. More to come, maybe.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

[David King]

Has anyone else experienced the BQ Ubuntu phone charging slowly? It 
seems to take longer than my Android phone to charge up and too quickly 
it is running down the battery at times, and I have not used it much 
yet. Not even put a SIM card in yet (waiting for a cutter to cut my SIM 
card down to micro size).


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

[David King]

It seems to work now after the latest update, maybe that fixed it.


On 27/03/15 23:08, David King wrote:
So has anyone yet managed to do a copy and paste on an Ubuntu Phone? I 
cannot find a way to do this.



David King



On 24/03/15 19:21, Gareth France wrote:
Having spent my first whole day with the phone today I have to say it 
has been a real mixed experience. It feels like I could really get to 
like the interface but it is currently suffering from a few show 
stoppers (as you would expect right now).


I have spent the whole day on the move today and the nearby scope 
offered up some interesting content on the motorway. Unfortunately 
the first time I tried to use it, it disappeared and hasn't been seen 
since. For most of the day the scopes were virtually blank, the 
facebook app loaded essentially a facebook skeleton and the software 
centre wouldn't display anything until you did a search. My sneaking 
suspicion is that my 3g connection is simply too weedy when on the 
move as all of this content returned as soon as I got back home and 
on the wifi.


The handset froze a couple of times today, once it left me unable to 
make a call for over 5 minutes and the second time it let me answer 
the phone but didn't let me hear the other person, then the other way 
round and only on the third time did it work. Hopefully this one will 
get identified and patched in an update.


The bluetooth partially gave up on me yesterday and today wouldn't  
let me make voice calls either. I gave up and just used a lead 
instead. It should be noted that this is on a par with my experiences 
of using bluetooth on android, it just seems to have an attitude 
problem whatever your setup.


On the whole I love the phone and I'm looking forward to seeing the 
software mature and develop over time. Could anyone tell me is there 
somewhere I can report issues that crop up or should the phone be 
passing all the crucial info automatically?





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

[David King]

On 23/03/15 19:38, Alan Pope wrote:
https://static-bqreaders.s3.amazonaws.com/file/Ubuntu-Aquaris_E4_5/Manual_Aquaris_E4.5_ubuntu_EN.pdf 
is the manual.



Thanks for the link. I have no idea why this is not on the Ubuntu site 
nor on the Ubuntu Facebook page, was searching Google for this and found 
nothing.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

[David King]

On 23/03/15 18:47, Gareth France wrote:



Having said that I've had it since about 2pm and I've broken it 
already! Looking at the scopes there is a star icon at the top right, 
it took several clicks before I realised it was removing my scope 
screens (nearby, weather etc). I don't have the manual with me so does 
anyone know how to put them back?






Me too, not very intuitive at all. Eventually I managed to get them 
back. Sometimes, but not always, you can swipe up from the bottom to get 
a list of possible scopes, including those that will show and others you 
can add. Then you can add back the ones you want.


But having a star icon on a scope suggests to me that if you press it 
then it will be a favourite, but it seems that a star means it is 
already a favourite, although I do not like the idea of pressing it and 
it disappears, because someone might press it accidentally.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

[David King]

So has anyone yet managed to do a copy and paste on an Ubuntu Phone? I 
cannot find a way to do this.



David King



On 24/03/15 19:21, Gareth France wrote:
Having spent my first whole day with the phone today I have to say it 
has been a real mixed experience. It feels like I could really get to 
like the interface but it is currently suffering from a few show 
stoppers (as you would expect right now).


I have spent the whole day on the move today and the nearby scope 
offered up some interesting content on the motorway. Unfortunately the 
first time I tried to use it, it disappeared and hasn't been seen 
since. For most of the day the scopes were virtually blank, the 
facebook app loaded essentially a facebook skeleton and the software 
centre wouldn't display anything until you did a search. My sneaking 
suspicion is that my 3g connection is simply too weedy when on the 
move as all of this content returned as soon as I got back home and on 
the wifi.


The handset froze a couple of times today, once it left me unable to 
make a call for over 5 minutes and the second time it let me answer 
the phone but didn't let me hear the other person, then the other way 
round and only on the third time did it work. Hopefully this one will 
get identified and patched in an update.


The bluetooth partially gave up on me yesterday and today wouldn't  
let me make voice calls either. I gave up and just used a lead 
instead. It should be noted that this is on a par with my experiences 
of using bluetooth on android, it just seems to have an attitude 
problem whatever your setup.


On the whole I love the phone and I'm looking forward to seeing the 
software mature and develop over time. Could anyone tell me is there 
somewhere I can report issues that crop up or should the phone be 
passing all the crucial info automatically?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

[David King]

Me too, looking forward to receiving my Ubuntu Phone. Til then on an 
Android phone made by Star (Chinese) but the screen is starting to fail 
and is flickering, so need to get a new phone, Ubuntu Phone seems the 
obvious choice, although I also have a cheap Firefox OS phone which is 
not bad but lacks a few features. I had also considered a Jolla phone 
but did not much like the look of the way the OS works. I realise Ubuntu 
Phone is different to Android but it is at least a known OS in regards 
to desktop use.



David King


On 06/03/15 09:11, Gareth France wrote:
Ubuntu phone once it arrives, because it's the first time I've ever 
been able to afford to be at the front of the trend!


On 06/03/15 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

Hi all,
Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
why...

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

[David King]

My main PC I built myself, so various bits are different ages, the most 
recent update of hardware being earlier this year. Case is less than 4 
years old, running Ubuntu Studio 14.04


I also have a netbook which dates back to 2009 and still in good 
condition, although long ago I replaced Xandros, currently running Linux 
Lite OS (based on Ubuntu 14.04).



David



On 04/12/14 15:26, Barry Titterton wrote:

Hi All,

How old is the oldest computer that you have in regular use?

I was prompted to ask this question by a comment that I over heard while
doing some Linux advocacy at my local community centre. They run
beginners computer courses (Windows only) so I popped along to see if
anyone would be interested in Linux and FOSS. There was a conversation
which included the statement "If your machine is 3 to 4 years old it
must be getting worn out, so you need to think about getting a new one".
This got me thinking about my own machines and I realised that my main
desktop PC (Pentium D 3.2GHz), that I use every day, will be 9 years old
in February, and it is still capable of running Ubuntu 14.04 very well.

So how old is your machine?.

Regards,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

[David King]

I have an Asus EeePC from a few years ago which still runs well. I was 
using PinguyOS (based on Ubuntu and Mint) but that became quite out of 
date and I did not like the newer versions (but was never too slow). So 
I decided to install Linux Lite which is based on Ubuntu, using version 
14.04 so it has an up-to-date kernel and software. Nothing fancy, but it 
works smoothly on my netbook, even with Cairo Dock installed and a few 
tabs open in Firefox, plus running LibreOffice Writer and a couple of 
other small apps at the same time. Not had a problem with it at all, so 
maybe you just need to install a new distro.
It has a CPU speed of 1.6 GHz and 1 GB of RAM so similar specs to your 
Samsung.



David King



On 04/10/14 15:25, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there .   I just got back after some time away using my 
netbook.  It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it 
had become far too slow on recent Ubuntu releases.  I want to upgrade 
to something faster that can run Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair speed.  The 
thing is, I don't want to go much larger in physical size.  10" or so 
is ideal for me. I tried an Android tablet, but really prefer the 
netbook.  I could get by with a tablet running Ubuntu if there were 
such a thing, but I can't understand why netbooks are now in a 
minority.  I could possibly go for a low-end Windows netbook if I knew 
for certain that it was fully compatible with Ubuntu. Obviously I 
prefer not to pay for an OS that I'm going to wipe!


Any thoughts or suggestions?  I don't do gaming - I just want 
something that will do e-mails, internet and documents.  I use cloud 
sync for documents and I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my 
desktop.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[David King]

Although I would like to resolve this, I have now found a prebuilt 
Drupal install in a VM at


https://www.drupal.org/project/quickstart


which I am now going to use to develop some Drupal sites, rather than 
continue with a non-working installation. Although it would be nice to 
at least know why it did not work.




David K



On 03/07/14 17:48, Simon Greenwood wrote:




On 3 July 2014 17:28, David King mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:


The last entries from the error log are:

[Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928]
AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519873 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 20002]
AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4 configured --
resuming normal operations
[Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519996 2014] [core:notice] [pid 20002] AH00094:
Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'


These lines are repeated several times.

So no sign of any actual errors. How about  /var/log/apache2/access.log?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[David King]

The last entries from the error log are:

[Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928] 
AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519873 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 20002] 
AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4 configured -- resuming 
normal operations
[Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519996 2014] [core:notice] [pid 20002] AH00094: 
Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'



These lines are repeated several times.


David K


On 02/07/14 23:24, Simon Greenwood wrote:

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[David King]

I get 404 error for http://localhost/drupal/install.php so must be 
something wrong with LAMP, although I have no idea what.



David K



On 02/07/14 23:05, Simon Greenwood wrote:



On 2 July 2014 22:24, David King mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:


I have installed Drupal 7 into Ubuntu 14.04, following instructions
from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal

I got as far as the bit that says Complete the Drupal Installation
through a Browser
and clicked on the links for install.php but in Firefox all I get is
404 not found.

I tried just entering /var/www/drupal/install.php and then Firefox
found the file but a dialog box popped up asking me what to do with
the file, rather than allowing me to continue with the drupal
installation. It suggested opening it with gedit.

I am not sure if I did it all correctly in installing or setting up
localhost properly, as the instructions were not entirely clear nor
complete on that page.

So how do I get this to work so I can have a working Drupal 7
installation?


Is apache running and do you get a page when you go to http://localhost
in Firefox?

If so, then try http://localhost/drupal/install.php. If that doesn't
work then something isn't working with your LAMP setup.

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[ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[David King]

I have installed Drupal 7 into Ubuntu 14.04, following instructions from 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal


I got as far as the bit that says Complete the Drupal Installation 
through a Browser
and clicked on the links for install.php but in Firefox all I get is 404 
not found.


I tried just entering /var/www/drupal/install.php and then Firefox found 
the file but a dialog box popped up asking me what to do with the file, 
rather than allowing me to continue with the drupal installation. It 
suggested opening it with gedit.


I am not sure if I did it all correctly in installing or setting up 
localhost properly, as the instructions were not entirely clear nor 
complete on that page.


So how do I get this to work so I can have a working Drupal 7 installation?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC slowing down and freezing after upgrade of hardware

[David King]

On 08/03/14 14:39, Liam Proven wrote:



Is your new BIOS/firmware full updated?

What kernel are you running?

Have you tried the newer backport kernels?



After searching online I found that others have the same problem with 
Firefox 27



https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/986641


The kernel is 3.2.0-59-lowlatency. I have not updated the BIOS or 
firmware, nor used a backport kernel.


So far since not using Firefox but using Qupzilla all seems to be well.

So I am assuming it is a bug in Firefox.


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[ubuntu-uk] PC slowing down and freezing after upgrade of hardware

[David King]

I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 on my PC which I built myself. I 
recently upgraded some of the hardware, including the CPU, RAM and 
motherboard. I am using the same hard drives and the same installation 
of Ubuntu Studio.


When I boot up and if I press ESC during the splash text to see what is 
going on (such as when it is doing disk checks), I see a 
constantly-repeated error message as follows:


[first some changing numbers] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB 
device on port 2


and the same line appears below but the first number is 5 instead of 2, 
i.e. hub 5-0:1.0:


Today I am finding after logging into Ubuntu, that Firefox is working 
okay and then suddenly it freezes when opening a new tab, and then the 
whole PC goes very slow and is unresponsive. Pressing ALT SysRq REISUB 
does nothing. Other programs were running as well, and when it happens 
the RAM usage goes to maximum (8 GB installed) and the CPUs get busier 
(8-core 4 GHz).

The first time it happened I had to do a hard reboot.
The second time it happened the PC was still responding, but only just. 
I pressed CTRL ALT F1 to get into a console, but that was showing the 
hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 message again 
repeatedly, making it impossible to log in.
Going back to the GUI via CTRL ALT F7 I then managed to close each 
window and reboot.


So is the USB device error something that could be causing it to go 
slow? Or is it more likely to be a problem with Firefox or one of its 
extensions? Or a problem with Ubuntu Studio? I plan to upgrade the new 
LTS when it comes out in April or whenever.


When everything works it works well, with the faster CPU than before it 
never goes slow, normally. I can have various programs open and lots of 
tabs open in Firefox and it handles it smoothly.


So how do I fix this, and get rid of that USB device error and with the 
PC running normally without freezing?



David King





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] using workspaces.

[David King]

On 08/12/13 00:06, Andres wrote:
I seem to recall configureing atl+tab to cycle through all programs 
independantly of which workspace they are in. I can look it up if 
useful. It should be only useful if you run a small amount of programs 
at the samd time. Also, if I remember correctly, you can 'tear' out a 
tab from a web browser and drag it to a new workspace as a new window. 
I think, though I have not used it, that kde (kubuntu) had the 
multiple desktops organized in activites which should do (if not, by 
tweaking) what you mentioned of 'as if it was an individual computer'.


Then there is the virtual machine stuff that I know even less about. 



For virtual machines, I recommend using Virtual Box, although you have 
to do stuff to compile the Virtual Box extensions into the kernel -- it 
comes with the commands you need to enter and is quite easy to do.


But with that comes the option, if you have enough RAM, to have a 
different virtual machine on each workspace maybe 2 or 3, and your host 
on another. Then you switch between virtual machines by switching the 
workspaces.


The great thing about virtual machines is being able to try out 
different versions of Linux without rebooting the PC, or even running 
Windows so you can run a Windows program that will not otherwise run. 
And you can save the state of the virtual machine when closing, so you 
do not even have to shut down that OS, and when you restart it, it 
carries on from where you left off.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] GLX problem (solved)

[David King]

I just tried booting an older kernel and all my GLX 
screensavers/programs are working again.



I was using Kernel Linux 3.2.0-56-lowlatency and then it was updated 
yesterday to Kernel Linux 3.2.0-57-lowlatency and then the GLX problems 
started, so I have now booted into Kernel Linux 3.2.0-56-lowlatency again.


Could there be a bug in the later kernel?


David K



On 07/12/13 11:36, David King wrote:

Hi all,

I am currently having a problem with all things GLX related, i.e. 
screensavers that use GLX are no longer working, also a game that uses 
GLX. E.g. when running foobillard in terminal I get the following error:


main:rgstereo=0Video mode set failed: Couldn't find matching GLX 
visual


It used to work fine, running from the main menu. But now it's failing 
to find the right GLX visual. I get the same thing for screensavers,


   Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0"

This line is displayed several times on the screen instead of the 
screensaver, and the last bit says it exited abnormally (code 1)



I wonder if this is Flash/Gnash related? I recently found that Firefox 
was running extremely slowly on any site with Flash elements, so I 
removed Flash (I have heard it is very troublesome at times to some 
Linux users) and installed Gnash instead. Firefox works much better, 
and also with Flash-blocking add ons so that I only allow certain 
sites to use Flash.


I am not sure if the GLX problem occurred before or after this.

My Desktop is XFCE on Ubuntu 12.04

Of course it might also have been a recent update that might have 
knocked out GLX.


In using Synaptic I see that the GLX stuff is still installed. I tried 
reinstalling some of it, but it made no difference.


I am using the Linux open source graphics driver for my graphics card, 
nothing proprietary. It is an AMD card.



So how do I get GLX working again?


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[ubuntu-uk] GLX problem

[David King]

Hi all,

I am currently having a problem with all things GLX related, i.e. 
screensavers that use GLX are no longer working, also a game that uses 
GLX. E.g. when running foobillard in terminal I get the following error:


main:rgstereo=0Video mode set failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

It used to work fine, running from the main menu. But now it's failing 
to find the right GLX visual. I get the same thing for screensavers,


   Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0"

This line is displayed several times on the screen instead of the 
screensaver, and the last bit says it exited abnormally (code 1)



I wonder if this is Flash/Gnash related? I recently found that Firefox 
was running extremely slowly on any site with Flash elements, so I 
removed Flash (I have heard it is very troublesome at times to some 
Linux users) and installed Gnash instead. Firefox works much better, and 
also with Flash-blocking add ons so that I only allow certain sites to 
use Flash.


I am not sure if the GLX problem occurred before or after this.

My Desktop is XFCE on Ubuntu 12.04

Of course it might also have been a recent update that might have 
knocked out GLX.


In using Synaptic I see that the GLX stuff is still installed. I tried 
reinstalling some of it, but it made no difference.


I am using the Linux open source graphics driver for my graphics card, 
nothing proprietary. It is an AMD card.



So how do I get GLX working again?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

[David King]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did this, and when it rebooted, it did disk 
checks, but then failed to mount anything, so I rebooted into Linux Mint 
(also installed on this PC) and did a disk check of Ubuntu from gparted, 
which did not find any errors.


The good news is that when I rebooted again and booted into Ubuntu, it 
booted okay, and it offered the libgmp10 file in the Update Manager, so 
I installed it that way. I also did a sudo apt-get autoremove in a CLI 
and that worked too, so no more problems with dpkg it seems.



David K



On 08/11/13 15:26, Colin Law wrote:

On 8 November 2013 15:23, Colin Law  wrote:

On 8 November 2013 15:18, David King  wrote:


I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04

There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get an
error:

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal
error, aborting:
  unable to open files list file for package `libgmp10': Input/output error
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

That file is corrupted.  It is just the downloaded deb file so you can
safely delete it and it will be re-downloaded.
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

It might also be worth while forcing a disk check.
sudo touch /forcefsck
and re-boot.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

[David King]

Thanks, but I already tried that and still got the same errors. It 
downloaded the file again, but still the same problem persists.



David K



On 08/11/13 15:23, Colin Law wrote:

On 8 November 2013 15:18, David King  wrote:

I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04

There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get an
error:

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal
error, aborting:
  unable to open files list file for package `libgmp10': Input/output error
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

That file is corrupted.  It is just the downloaded deb file so you can
safely delete it and it will be re-downloaded.
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

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[ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

[David King]

I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04

There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get 
an error:


installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable 
fatal error, aborting:
 unable to open files list file for package `libgmp10': Input/output 
error /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


/var/lib/dpkg/status contains the following entry:

Package: libgmp10
Status: install ok installed
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 486
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 
Architecture: amd64
Source: gmp
Version: 2:5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Description: Multiprecision arithmetic library
 GNU MP is a programmer's library for arbitrary precision
 arithmetic (ie, a bignum package).  It can operate on signed
 integer, rational, and floating point numeric types.
 .
 It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular
 interface.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Team 


Homepage: http://gmplib.org/



I removed this from the status file and ran

sudo apt-get -f install

I am still getting errors, and libgmp10 is installed, and is the latest 
version, but Synaptic cannot list its installed files, and dpkg is 
getting an error reading its files



I have tried just reinstalling libgmp10 but it fails, I have tried 
updating the list of updates, I have tried updates via Update Manager, 
Synaptic and apt-get on the CLI.



Whatever I try to do I get an error with dpkg, and it is something to do 
with libgmp10. I am loathe to remove it as so much else depends on this 
vital software.



If I try
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgmp10

The following output is shown:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 calligra-l10n-engb libhsqldb-java gjs 
kde-l10n-engb

  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 libubuntuoneui-3.0-1 libcmis-0.2-0
  gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 libgjs0c
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libgmp10
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 238 kB of archives.
After this operation, 498 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libgmp10 amd64 
2:5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 [238 kB]

Fetched 238 kB in 1s (160 kB/s)
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libgmp10' missing, assuming 
package has no files currently installed.

(Reading database ... 751863 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libgmp10 2:5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 (using 
.../libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libgmp10 ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
 failed to install updated files list file for package libgmp10: 
Input/output error

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



When trying to remove unneeded packages with apt-get autoremove
I still get the same errors



What can I do to fix this?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin broadband from 20 to 60 megas

[David King]

In part it will depend on the speed of your wifi, it is slower than 20 
Mbit/s then upgrading your Virgin broadband will make no difference.


Also consider the speed of the devices themselves, you wrote that HD 
does not always work well, so it might be that your devices cannot 
handle HD video well.


Increasing the speed of your connection is unlikely to make much 
difference to the videos you download/stream. I have about 4 Mbit/s on 
my broadband and can stream videos online okay, although HD videos not 
always so smooth. Looking at the actual download speed for the video it 
shows something less than the 4 Mbit/s.


I think that a faster internet connection will only allow you to do more 
at once rather than making videos play better.


20 Mbit/s is already 5 times what I have and should be good enough for 
streaming video. Even to more than one device at once.


I would suggest you only upgrade to 60 Mbit/s if it costs the same, 
otherwise you are wasting your money, in my opinion.



David



On 20/07/13 20:52, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:


Hello all,
The heaviest use of internet I do is for some video streaming at home. 
At the moment youtube on mobile and tablet and lovefilm on the wii 
(still no joy with ubuntu). Also video chat.


They take less then a minute to load and only ocasionally do they 
break midway (normally removing hd mode makes things better).


Do you think I would notice a significant improvement from going from 
20 megs to 60 megs?


Bonus question: the upgrade will come with virgins wireless router 
that will be replacing my 7 year old router from netgear. Would that 
show a significant improvement as well? Most of my gadgets are wireless.






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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[David King]

I had not included the  /home by mistake, but mentioned it further down.

The sudo mount did include

/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw)



David K



On 01/06/13 00:52, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:


On 1 June 2013 00:33, J Fernyhough <mailto:j.fernyho...@gmail.com>> wrote:


On 31 May 2013 22:12, David King mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:
> /home is mounted on /sda7
> it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to
gparted)
>

What's the content of /etc/fstab ? Your /home should be in there (but
it's not showing with 'mount'... interesting...).


it might be, though he did state that he edited the output before 
posting. I've long since been trained not to do this because the 
people trying to help cannot know what was deleted and therefore 
whether it was important or not. In this case we have no way of 
determining whether the /home mount was mistakenly deleted or whehter 
it truly is not mounted.


(see the numerous rants on qmail-pa...@jms1.net 
<mailto:qmail-pa...@jms1.net> mailing list from the experts about 
people who read the now-defunct qmailrocks.org <http://qmailrocks.org> 
guide and believed they understood how qmail worked only to be bitten 
on the bottom and seeking help from the experts with piecemeal and 
doctored information. Note: I still don't understand qmail well enough 
to help others.)


I learned this lesson the hard way, and I try to teach others the same 
lesson when I see it done by them.


re-reading the above sounds harsh, it's not meant to, but it is a 
valid point that a lot of people forget or don't realise or ignore.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[David King]

I have not specifically run a file system check on the home partition, 
but I assume that Ubuntu has done so when booting up when it says it is 
checking the drives. It must do each partition after so many mounts, right?


sudo mount (edited to remove irrelevant partitions, i.e. some things not 
related to system or home, i.e. we're only interested in sda):


   davoura@avourastudio12:/media$ sudo mount
   [sudo] password for davoura:
   /dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
   proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
   none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
   none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
   udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
   devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
   tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
   none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
   none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
   /dev/sda1 on /media/mint13 type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
   binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
   (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
   gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/davoura/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
   (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=davoura)
   gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
   (rw,nosuid,nodev)


sudo fdisk -l


   davoura@avourastudio12:/media$ sudo fdisk -l

   Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
   Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disk identifier: 0x000773a6

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/sda1   *2048614420473072   83  Linux
   /dev/sda261442048   976773119   4576655365  Extended
   /dev/sda561444096   1228840953072   83  Linux
   /dev/sda6   122886144   1843261433072   83  Linux
   /dev/sda7   184328192   33383219174752000   83  Linux
   /dev/sda8   333834240   49153023978848000   83  Linux
   /dev/sda9   491532288   51610828712288000   83  Linux
   /dev/sda10  516110336   54068633512288000   83  Linux
   /dev/sda11  540688384   968499199   213905408   83  Linux
   /dev/sda12  968501248   976773119 4135936   82  Linux swap /
   Solaris




/home is mounted on /sda7
it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to gparted)

(I have not included output for other drives)

I should also add that a lot of things in /home/davoura are symlinks to 
stuff in another user folder, as I also have an older Ubuntu 
installation which I no longer use (10.10 on sda6), and use some of the 
settings from that for Ubuntu Studio 12.04 through symlinks, and the 
same thing for my Linux Mint installation (on sda1). I have never had 
this problem in Linux Mint nor the older Ubuntu.


I have backups of various files, I had a backup of /home from a few 
months ago, but have now made a new backup of the latest files.


There is nothing in /home/lost+found (checked with sudo ls lost+found)


David K



On 31/05/13 21:05, Alan Jenkins wrote:
So all of /home is on a partition but just your home folder is gone? 
Have you ran a file system check on that partition? Do you have 
backups? Have you checked lost+found on that partition for files?


Also just so we have a better idea of the environment could you please 
give us the output of these two commands?


sudo mount

sudo fdisk -l

Thanks,

Alan Jenkins

On 31 May 2013, at 21:00, David King <mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:


Nothing is encrypted. I should point out that /home is a separate 
partition to root, but on the same hard drive. Most of my data is on 
other hard drives.


David


On 31/05/13 17:42, Alan Jenkins wrote:

Hey David,

Do you have encrypted home folders enabled? If so it could just be
failing to mount your home using encfs for some reason.


On 31 May 2013, at 17:19, David King  wrote:


Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login 
screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but goes 
straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder literally just 
disappeared. I can see other user folders in  /home but not for my current 
user, although I am still logged in.

I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 XFCE and it is up to date, the last updates were 
applied this morning, although the problem has persisted for a while now. 
Although today is the first time I have lost my home partition while logged in.

This is a real nuisance. I can see home folders in the same partition for other 
users (from other distros I have installed on the same PC) but not my own.

Any ideas why it keeps getting hidden and how to prevent it getting hidden?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[David King]

Nothing is encrypted. I should point out that /home is a separate 
partition to root, but on the same hard drive. Most of my data is on 
other hard drives.


David


On 31/05/13 17:42, Alan Jenkins wrote:

Hey David,

Do you have encrypted home folders enabled? If so it could just be
failing to mount your home using encfs for some reason.


On 31 May 2013, at 17:19, David King  wrote:


Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login 
screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but goes 
straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder literally just 
disappeared. I can see other user folders in  /home but not for my current 
user, although I am still logged in.

I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 XFCE and it is up to date, the last updates were 
applied this morning, although the problem has persisted for a while now. 
Although today is the first time I have lost my home partition while logged in.

This is a real nuisance. I can see home folders in the same partition for other 
users (from other distros I have installed on the same PC) but not my own.

Any ideas why it keeps getting hidden and how to prevent it getting hidden?


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[ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[David King]

Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login 
screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, 
but goes straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder 
literally just disappeared. I can see other user folders in  /home but 
not for my current user, although I am still logged in.


I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 XFCE and it is up to date, the last 
updates were applied this morning, although the problem has persisted 
for a while now. Although today is the first time I have lost my home 
partition while logged in.


This is a real nuisance. I can see home folders in the same partition 
for other users (from other distros I have installed on the same PC) but 
not my own.


Any ideas why it keeps getting hidden and how to prevent it getting hidden?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu quickly ebook template

[David King]

On 18/01/13 00:44, Mike Hingley wrote:
Just thought I'd drop you an update - I posted on the mailing list 
asking for recommendations for HTML WYSIWYG editors - I was working on 
a quickly template for ebooks - an I managed to get the code onto 
launchpad this evening.


https://launchpad.net/quickly-ubuntu-ebook

There's still some work to do with it - mainly to do with sharing 
source, but it has been a great experience so far. Getting it into 
launchpad was more complicated but I'm happy it's there.


My hope is that people will be able to use this template to create 
ebooks and that we will benefit from the benefits of the ubuntu and 
linux packaging system.  Content Packaging is something I feel 
passionately about - and I gave a talk about content packaging at 
oggcamp11 about packaging Linux Reality back catalogue in a PPA.


Anyway - it's getting late here ...  Thanks everyone.





You have a typo in the title on that page

"Manage your ebook using quickly, publish your novell to launchpad."

it should be novel not novell.



David K



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu operating system comes to Android smartphones

[David King]

On 03/01/13 10:49, Andy Braben wrote:


There is a 20 minute video by SABDFL here: 
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone which is well worth making time to 
watch. He says that any phone which runs the Android kernel will run 
the Ubuntu kernel.


I also have a Samsung Galazy S3 Android phone and will be very 
reluctant to upgrade it to Ubuntu as it is a top of the range item 
unless there is a thoroughly tried, tested and proven upgrade path to 
take.


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Andy


I have an HTC Desire-Z running Android 2.3, and saw something the 
Android Market to run Ubuntu on my phone, although it requires the phone 
to be rooted and the specs to be high enough. I am not sure if mine 
would work or not.


However, it does seem that it would be a good idea to have an 
alternative to Android with more flexibility, power and compatibility 
with my desktop OS, which does not require me to use Microsoft or Apple 
products.


The real success will be when Ubuntu phones become mainstream and 
desired by the general public as a valid alternative to Android, 
although I suspect that a lot of users will want something that will 
still run their Android apps as well as running Linux software that runs 
on Ubuntu.


I am also looking forward to see tablets with Ubuntu, same as for 
phones, but obviously with bigger screen, far more suited to the usual 
Linux desktop programs we might be used to running.


Has anyone here actually managed to get Ubuntu working on any smartphone 
or tablet?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with OpenGl and libGL

[David King]

It's okay now, I got OpenGL working again.


On 15/12/12 19:55, David King wrote:

I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 64-bit version.

I have OpenGL and libGL stuff installed, but recently things that 
require it no longer run and I get an error message when trying to run 
from the command line like this:


cairo-dock: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory



I have libgl1-mesa-glx installed, which provides libGL.so.1

I have Codeweavers Crossover 12.0 installed as well, and this has a 
diagnostics program cxdiag which gives the following output:


~$ /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag
[MissingLibGlu]
"Level"="Recommend"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libGLU.so.1 library"
"Description"="This may be needed by some games or CAD applications."

[MissingLibGsm]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libgsm.so.1 library"
"Description"="Lets Windows applications use the GSM codec for
audio compression and decompression."

[MissingLibNss_mdns]
"Level"="Require"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libnss_mdns.so.2 library"
"Description"="This library is needed for network and Internet
access. Installing it is strongly recommended."

[Properties]
"display.depth"="24"

[MissingLibGL]
"Level"="Recommend"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libGL.so.1 library"
"Description"="Provides hardware-accelerated Direct3D and OpenGL
support. This is used for games, but also for CAD applications."

[OpenglNotWorking]
"Level"="Recommend"
"Title"="OpenGL does not work"
"Description"="OpenGL did not work in our simple tests. This means
OpenGL and DirectX applications, including most games, will likely
not work. Other applications should be unaffected."




I already installed the 32-bit libraries required by Crossover. 
Although if it still needs the ones listed above, then how can I 
install those? i.e. instead of the 64-bit versions, what command do 
use to install a 32-bit version? I tried sudo apt-get install 
libgl1-mesa-glx:386 and similar but nothing got installed as it could 
not find the package.


Things like Cairo Dock which was the first thing I noticed had failed 
to run yesterday needs OpenGL libraries and so will not run, although 
I do not know if it is 32- or 64-bit.


Before that everything worked fine. So I do not know what happened to 
break the system and OpenGL.


The only thing I can think of is I had a small problem with Crossover 
running Photoshop, and I had to install the libjpeg (or similar) 
library, 32-bit, to get that working. And I updated Crossover from 
11.3 to 12.0.



Any ideas on how to get OpenGL working again?


David K








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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber Facebook updates

[David King]

On 16/12/12 20:52, Alan Pope wrote:

On 16/12/12 18:06, SuperEngineer wrote:

All suggestions [apart from "use a web browser and go the long way
round"] welcome.



Delete the connection to facebook and re-create it?
Kill gwibber and gwibber-service run them from a terminal and look for 
interesting messages?




I used to use Gwibber, and then a few months ago it seemed to stop 
working properly, so I uninstalled it.


You might find one of the apps at 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/omg-5-five-facebook-apps-for-the-linux-desktop 
helpful if Gwibber still gives problems. I have not tried them (other 
than Gwibber). ALthough it could be a problem with the Facebook API 
meaning that Gwibber is not receiving Facebook updates because of 
Facebook, maybe even Facebook changed something in the way their feeds 
go out to software through their API.



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[ubuntu-uk] Problems with OpenGl and libGL

[David King]

I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 64-bit version.

I have OpenGL and libGL stuff installed, but recently things that 
require it no longer run and I get an error message when trying to run 
from the command line like this:


   cairo-dock: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot
   open shared object file: No such file or directory



I have libgl1-mesa-glx installed, which provides libGL.so.1

I have Codeweavers Crossover 12.0 installed as well, and this has a 
diagnostics program cxdiag which gives the following output:


   ~$ /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag
   [MissingLibGlu]
   "Level"="Recommend"
   "Title"="Missing 32bit libGLU.so.1 library"
   "Description"="This may be needed by some games or CAD applications."

   [MissingLibGsm]
   "Level"="Suggest"
   "Title"="Missing 32bit libgsm.so.1 library"
   "Description"="Lets Windows applications use the GSM codec for audio
   compression and decompression."

   [MissingLibNss_mdns]
   "Level"="Require"
   "Title"="Missing 32bit libnss_mdns.so.2 library"
   "Description"="This library is needed for network and Internet
   access. Installing it is strongly recommended."

   [Properties]
   "display.depth"="24"

   [MissingLibGL]
   "Level"="Recommend"
   "Title"="Missing 32bit libGL.so.1 library"
   "Description"="Provides hardware-accelerated Direct3D and OpenGL
   support. This is used for games, but also for CAD applications."

   [OpenglNotWorking]
   "Level"="Recommend"
   "Title"="OpenGL does not work"
   "Description"="OpenGL did not work in our simple tests. This means
   OpenGL and DirectX applications, including most games, will likely
   not work. Other applications should be unaffected."




I already installed the 32-bit libraries required by Crossover. Although 
if it still needs the ones listed above, then how can I install those? 
i.e. instead of the 64-bit versions, what command do use to install a 
32-bit version? I tried sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:386 and 
similar but nothing got installed as it could not find the package.


Things like Cairo Dock which was the first thing I noticed had failed to 
run yesterday needs OpenGL libraries and so will not run, although I do 
not know if it is 32- or 64-bit.


Before that everything worked fine. So I do not know what happened to 
break the system and OpenGL.


The only thing I can think of is I had a small problem with Crossover 
running Photoshop, and I had to install the libjpeg (or similar) 
library, 32-bit, to get that working. And I updated Crossover from 11.3 
to 12.0.



Any ideas on how to get OpenGL working again?


David K




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds

[David King, linux user]

I have downloaded and used proprietory anti virus from well known AV companies, 
e.g. Avira. It was based on linux but was not customisable and intended to 
disinfect Windows PCs.

David


Sent from my android device.



-Original Message-
From: paul sutton 
To: l...@dcglug.org.uk, British Ubuntu Talk 
Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:54
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds

Hi
I am looking into LInux based anti virus cd's  and found the following site

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-av-cd.html

just wondered if anyone had an experience in this area and perhaps some
suggestions.

I would assume cd's being read only makes them more immune from the type
of virius that may try and infect a flash drive type device that are
generally read / write.

Basically looking for something like the system rescue cd, but for anti
virus.

This may benefit others here too,   esp those with friends who use
Windows but also complain of getting viruses.

Paul

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King]

I can now boot into Ubuntu Studio okay.

The only thing I did was, when in Linux Mint, to update GRUB. Maybe it 
was trying to boot into an old kernel in Ubuntu Studio that was not 
there? I am not sure why it was not working. Or it could be something 
else was wrong.


But it is booting okay. I even updated the kernel and rebooted and it is 
still okay.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King]

On 20/11/12 13:14, J Fernyhough wrote:

On 20 November 2012 12:59, David King, linux user  wrote:

I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new.


How much free space do you have? e.g. what's the output of

$ df -h

?


It has 16 GB free space on that partition.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King, linux user]

I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new.

-Original Message-
From: David King 
To: UK Ubuntu Talk 
Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:30
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up


On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King  <mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:
>
> I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I
> can no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it
> does not get as far as letting me log in.
>
> First it was some messages about not being able to touch some
> files in my home directory due to read only file system. I did a
> hard reboot (keyboard was unresponsive) and then next time I tried
> to boot there were various other messages. I had to hard reboot
> again and boot into a different distro.
>
> What could be wrong with it?
>
>
> The first issue suggests that you might have a problem with your disk 
> but we need more information Is the other distro working? Can you see 
> the Ubuntu Studio partition from the other distro? How is your machine 
> configured?
>
> s/
> -- 
> Twitter: @sfgreenwood
> "TBA are particularly glib"
>
>
>



I can boot into Linux Mint from the same hard disk (using it now). I can 
see the Ubuntu Studio partition okay, it is not corrupted. I also did a 
filesystem check and that did not turn up any errors.


David


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King]

On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote:



On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King <mailto:linux...@avoura.com>> wrote:


I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I
can no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it
does not get as far as letting me log in.

First it was some messages about not being able to touch some
files in my home directory due to read only file system. I did a
hard reboot (keyboard was unresponsive) and then next time I tried
to boot there were various other messages. I had to hard reboot
again and boot into a different distro.

What could be wrong with it?


The first issue suggests that you might have a problem with your disk 
but we need more information Is the other distro working? Can you see 
the Ubuntu Studio partition from the other distro? How is your machine 
configured?


s/
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"TBA are particularly glib"







I can boot into Linux Mint from the same hard disk (using it now). I can 
see the Ubuntu Studio partition okay, it is not corrupted. I also did a 
filesystem check and that did not turn up any errors.



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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

[David King]

I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I can 
no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it does not 
get as far as letting me log in.


First it was some messages about not being able to touch some files in 
my home directory due to read only file system. I did a hard reboot 
(keyboard was unresponsive) and then next time I tried to boot there 
were various other messages. I had to hard reboot again and boot into a 
different distro.


What could be wrong with it?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Quantal Quetzal takes flight - the London release party for Ubuntu 12.10

[David King]

I just want to say that I was in a small museum recently, with lots of 
stuffed birds, and one of them was the Quetzal bird from Mexico, so now 
I know what a Quetzal is and what it looks like :-)




On 03/10/12 15:55, Alan Bell wrote:

Hi all,

after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we have settled on a venue for the 
London release party for 12.10, it will be at the George Inn, London's 
last galleried coaching in, as visited by Charles Dickens (dunno how 
exclusive that is, anyone know if he was into pub crawls?)


The date will be the 18th of October, which is just over a couple of 
weeks away and as usual we will be joined by the team from Canonical 
who will no doubt be rather gasping for some refreshment after the 
last minute stress of the release.


details and sign up sheet here (not that you have to sign up or 
anything, you can just turn up)

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2006/detail/

I will try and sort out name badges somehow, that would appear to be a 
good thing to do. In fact yes, lets do that. For anyone who clicks the 
register button on the sign up page there will be a badge with your 
name on it waiting for you - I might include IRC nicks if they are on 
your launchpad page.


see you there o/

Alan.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

[David King]

Thanks, it worked for me. So much better without that logo ruining the 
experience.


David K


On 25/09/12 19:10, A wrote:
Glad it worked out, but i can do one better - how to get rid of that 
watermark. The solution's plastered all over the internet, but this 
looks less intimidating than some of the other sites:

http://www.ubunturoot.com/2012/07/remove-amdati-drivers-testing-only.html

As for me, I'm on ubuntu 12.10 waiting for the next fglrx legacy 
release compatible with X 1.13 (i could downgrade but 1.13 feels 
deliciously fluid.) The current fglrx in the repos can't be installed 
because there's a dependency error on xserver-input-api 11, 12 or 13 
(IIRC). The opensource radeon driver's not terrible for my Mobility 
4200 HD card (it looks great actually), but the power options do next 
to nothing compared to the proprietary driver when my laptop's not 
idle. Idle i get 52 degrees, but it likes to accrue up to 71 ish if 
i'm watching a fullscreen video or playing minecraft whereas past 
fglrxs stick the temp happily around 58, even under pressure.


For now, it's time to play the waiting game :(

On 25/09/12 17:54, David King wrote:


On 21/09/12 02:41, A wrote:
Hi, David. I've had similar issues to you before and i'd suggest you 
install the proprietary drivers (fglrx) (it automatically blacklists 
the radeon driver to avoid conflicts) and then do the following 
command (sudo aticonfig --initial) before you restart, because this 
command will generate a fresh xorg.conf file which will make the 
fglrx module responsible for the screen. If that works, you can then 
edit the xorg.conf and change the resolution to something higher etc 
At any rate, it should list available resolutions.

I hope this works for you if you haven't solved your problem already :)

4. Install the driver with

sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

5. Generate a fresh xorg.conf BEFORE REBOOTING!

sudo aticonfig --initial


Thanks for the info, A. I tried what you suggested and it worked. 
Although I now have a logo on the bottom right of the screen which 
says "AMD Unsupported hardware" which I would like to get rid of.


On the plus side, I can attach my HD TV and use that at its full 
resolution and have my smaller monitor at a suitable resolution for it.


I also found that I could not run the AMD Catalyst Control Center as 
root from the menu, I had to do it from CLI:


sudo amdcccle

At least it all works now and when I upgrade my monitor to the same 
size as my TV I will use both at 1920 x 1080.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

[David King]

On 21/09/12 02:41, A wrote:
Hi, David. I've had similar issues to you before and i'd suggest you 
install the proprietary drivers (fglrx) (it automatically blacklists 
the radeon driver to avoid conflicts) and then do the following 
command (sudo aticonfig --initial) before you restart, because this 
command will generate a fresh xorg.conf file which will make the fglrx 
module responsible for the screen. If that works, you can then edit 
the xorg.conf and change the resolution to something higher etc At any 
rate, it should list available resolutions.

I hope this works for you if you haven't solved your problem already :)

4. Install the driver with

sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

5. Generate a fresh xorg.conf BEFORE REBOOTING!

sudo aticonfig --initial


Thanks for the info, A. I tried what you suggested and it worked. 
Although I now have a logo on the bottom right of the screen which says 
"AMD Unsupported hardware" which I would like to get rid of.


On the plus side, I can attach my HD TV and use that at its full 
resolution and have my smaller monitor at a suitable resolution for it.


I also found that I could not run the AMD Catalyst Control Center as 
root from the menu, I had to do it from CLI:


sudo amdcccle

At least it all works now and when I upgrade my monitor to the same size 
as my TV I will use both at 1920 x 1080.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

[David King]

On 19/09/12 13:20, antonk20...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there David,
Could you please specify whether you have upgraded from another 
graphics card to this one or is this a new build. Could you please 
specify your other components to are using, especially the 
motherboard. I have linux 12. 04 running on an ati 6670.
I have also found that at first it refused to install the drivers for 
the gpu. I ended up reinstalling 12.04 with an alternative cd ( needed 
to use lvm).
Could you try a live cd of normal 12. 04 ( with persistency) and see 
whether the driver installs.

AK





Thanks for the suggestion re the live CD, how would I get the 
persistency? I suppose a USB drive involved?


It is a totally fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. Motherboard is Gigabyte 
MA790FX-DS5, AMD Athlon  64 X2 4800+ CPU.


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[ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

[David King]

I am having some problems with drivers for my graphics card. It is a 
Sapphire Radeon HD 7750, and I am using a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 
12.04, updated online after installing.
When I install the proprietary drivers for it, and then reboot, I get a 
blank screen instead of the login screen.


I tried the following from the CLI:

apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* 
xorg-driver-fglrx

apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri 
xserver-xorg-core

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup


This seems to get back to a basic graphics driver with limited resolutions.

Is there a way to get a driver installed that will give me a higher 
resolution, specifically 1900 x 1080?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice Writer landscape print failure ....

[David King]

On 30/08/12 21:17, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi Guys .  Anyone care to check this out?  I reported a bug a 
while back, but it is as yet unconfirmed.  I just burned a cd of 
today's 12.10 image to check it out.  Boot from the latest image. Open 
LibreOffice Writer.  Print a page in landscape format.  I simple wrote 
one long line of text.  For me, it prints in portrait format.  Please 
confirm.


Regards,Barry.



Your other option is to print to PDF using the PDF button in Writer (or 
print to PDF via Print option if you prefer) and then, if the PDF came 
out okay, print that to the printer. But if the PDF file comes out bad 
as well, then it is a bug in LibreOffice.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook - update

[David King]

I just wanted to update my experience with my Blackberry Playbook.

Since installing and using Linux Mint 13 (after my upgrade from Ubuntu 
10.10 to 12.04 failed and would no longer boot), I have found that 
networking in general works a lot better and now other PCs on the 
network can see my main PC (now running Mint) in a file manager, 
something which would not work at all with Ubuntu.


And I can now connect my Playbook to my Mint PC via a USB cable and it 
just works for accessing the files, i.e. I can enter something like 
smb://169.254.69.181 and Mint can see the Playbook's files and add to 
them or delete them, etc.


I am surprised that if it works in Mint that these things never ever 
worked for me in Ubuntu. Now I am glad that Ubuntu messed up so that I 
could use Mint and find it better. And it is based on Ubuntu, so I am 
getting the best of Ubuntu and the best of Mint.






On 15/06/12 14:34, David King wrote:
I recently purchased a BlackBerry PlayBook. It's a great tablet, but 
it seems that RIM are not that Linux-friendly. Their OS is based on 
QNX, a Unix-type OS, so I thought they might at least have some Linux 
understanding.


I can connect the PlayBook to Ubuntu via wifi, no problem, I can just 
enter smb://192.168.1.11 (i.e. the PlayBook's IP address) and I can 
see all the files on there in Nautilus. I had enquired about this with 
RIM support and they could only tell me how to do it in Windows and 
Mac on their website, and suggested the Mac way for Linux. I suggested 
they add that it works for Linux too on their website, which they are 
considering.


But to do much more with the PlayBook, I have to connect it to a PC 
(or Mac) via the USB cable.


There does not seem to be any way to get this to work in Ubuntu, but 
if anyone knows how, let me know. The USB connection is necessary to 
do a system backup and for installing .bar files onto the PlayBook 
(apps converted from Android apk files).


I need to do it in Windows. So I used Windows in VirtualBox, connected 
the PlayBook via USB and Windows could see the PlayBook, but would not 
install the drivers. I contacted RIM tech support and they said the 
drivers are on the PlayBook and the Windows PC should automatically 
install the drivers. But in VirtualBox this is not working.


Any ideas how to overcome this problem? I have an old Windows XP disc 
somewhere. If I can find it, I can install it onto an old PC and try 
that, but until then the only way I am running Windows is via VirtualBox.


Anyone else had any experience with using the BlackBerry PlayBook?


David King






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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

On 15/08/12 10:37, David King wrote:

I have a new problem now: It no longer boots.

It starts up with the splash screen (for Ubuntu Studio) and then that 
disappears, I get a CLI and various text outputs, and it gets as far 
as starting TIMidity++ but then freezes. I can still reboot and even 
press CTRL-ALT-F1 for a terminal, but the booting will not go any 
further to the login screen or anything.



I can boot into Linux Mint (which I am using now) on the PC so I know 
that the hardware is still functioning.



Any ideas what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Otherwise it looks like I will have to do a fresh install. I already 
backed up a list of my installed packages, and my /home is on a 
separate partition.



David K


I should add that the last time I used my Ubuntu Studio 12.04, it had 
crashed, due to just pressing ALT-TAB which made it completely freeze. 
So I had used ALT-SysRq-R E I S U B to shut down and reboot. Maybe that 
has broken something?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

I have a new problem now: It no longer boots.

It starts up with the splash screen (for Ubuntu Studio) and then that 
disappears, I get a CLI and various text outputs, and it gets as far as 
starting TIMidity++ but then freezes. I can still reboot and even press 
CTRL-ALT-F1 for a terminal, but the booting will not go any further to 
the login screen or anything.



I can boot into Linux Mint (which I am using now) on the PC so I know 
that the hardware is still functioning.



Any ideas what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Otherwise it looks like I will have to do a fresh install. I already 
backed up a list of my installed packages, and my /home is on a separate 
partition.



David K


On 07/08/12 18:15, David King wrote:
I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally 
decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04.


I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10.

But I cannot get any further. When I try to run the Update Manager, 
nothing happens. I tried from a terminal and got the following:


~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in 
from gi.repository import Gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in 


from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi.so: undefined 
symbol: g_callable_info_skip_return



Is this a known bug, or is it just something simple that can be fixed 
easily?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login background

[David King]

On 13/08/12 20:10, Andres Muniz wrote:



>
> So how can I get the login background changed to something else which
> works?
>
> David K
>

hi david,
sorry but this is out of my knowledge. Last time I wanted to change 
the image all I did was find the image that it was refering and 
changed the image for mine keeping the same name (not the path in 
config file). Not as elegant but the same thing. I tried to keep the 
same size and resolution so it wouldn't get confused.


But your comments seems that it is a bit more in depth: could doing an 
apt-get install/update on the package that handles that work?






Thanks for your suggestion. I copied the file to the original filepath 
in the conf file, i.e. to 
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png


Now it works okay and I get the image I want for the login screen.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login background

[David King]

On 11/08/12 01:26, Andres Muniz wrote:


>
> I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark
> purple with black text, with only the login box really standing out.
>
> I tried to change the login background but so far failed to get it to
> see a new image.
>
>
might be very basic answer but i have found that for 12.04 (not 
studio) the login background is linked to the desktop background. 
Unless you choose a picture outside of the default images offered. In 
which case I seem to recall it defaults to a particular background 
different from your desktop background.


Last i checked I still had the small font problem and the unable to 
shutdown if other user is logged in problem (and gives no feedback as 
to why or how).






I entered this in the terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf

and in the section under [greeter] changed the filepath after background=

It had another file referenced there which was from an earlier version 
of Ubuntu.


Changing the image filepath to an existing image I wanted to use did 
nothing, I still have the dark background at login.


My username, the Samba user and Guest login names are all in white and 
visible. The icons top right are hard to see, and when I click the 
button next to the login box to set the desktop environment I want, the 
text is black against the dark background and only visible when one is 
highlighted with a white background.



So how can I get the login background changed to something else which works?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

[David King]

I seem to have now fixed this.

I logged out, and at the login screen, I noticed that at the top right 
there was a sound icon. I clicked on it and it showed the sound as 
muted. So I unmuted and then logged in.


I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark 
purple with black text, with only the login box really standing out.


I tried to change the login background but so far failed to get it to 
see a new image.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

[David King]

On 10/08/12 16:30, Liam Proven wrote:

On 10 August 2012 16:18, David King  wrote:

I just have the onboard sound, no other soundcard.

Ah. Well, it's not that, then, & I don't recall having any other
problems with Linux sound in a decade or so. Sorry!




I booted into Linux Mint and the sound works fine in that, so it is not 
a hardware issue.


I recently upgraded from 10.10 to 12.04 and although the sound was 
working okay this morning, it just stopped of its own accord without me 
changing anything.


There are other errors/bugs, so maybe it is connected with that, such as 
with gobject and programs that rely on that (Update Manager, Software 
Center, Ubuntu-bug)



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

[David King]

On 10/08/12 15:20, Liam Proven wrote:

On 10 August 2012 12:52, David King  wrote:

For no apparent reason, I have suddenly lost all sound in my Ubuntu Studio
12.04.

It worked okay this morning, and then when I tried to listen to something
else, the sound was gone. I checked all the physical connections, the
speakers are working (I also route TV sound through them), and then I was
offered some updates to the Linux kernel, which I installed. I rebooted, but
still no sound working from the PC. I have checked the obvious sound
settings and the volumes are on maximum.

Any ideas on how to get the sound back?

Do you have >1 sound card in the system?

I do & have occasionally found that after a power-cycle, my default
sound output has gone from my soundcard back to the onboard sound.


I just have the onboard sound, no other soundcard.


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[ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

[David King]

For no apparent reason, I have suddenly lost all sound in my Ubuntu 
Studio 12.04.


It worked okay this morning, and then when I tried to listen to 
something else, the sound was gone. I checked all the physical 
connections, the speakers are working (I also route TV sound through 
them), and then I was offered some updates to the Linux kernel, which I 
installed. I rebooted, but still no sound working from the PC. I have 
checked the obvious sound settings and the volumes are on maximum.


Any ideas on how to get the sound back?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

I still cannot run Update Manager or Software Center.

Every now and then a crash report is generated and an icon appears, with 
an option to report the crash, but I cannot see the contents of the 
crash. I expect it is in a file somewhere, does anyone know where?


I have also installed the MATE desktop environment to give me back 
something that looks like my old Gnome 2 desktop, so I am happy with 
that. But the bugs I have experienced mean that things are not quite as 
good as before. Also some things look a bit different, e.g. buttons and 
panels in Rhythmbox look a lot bigger and the whole things looks less 
good than before.


I also tried copying the _gi.so file from my Linux Mint installation to 
my Ubuntu 12.04 but that made no difference to the programs that will 
not run, still have the Python problem complaining about gi.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

Here are the files listed there (using ls -lpR):

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/:
total 228
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10184 May 17 08:06 _gi_cairo.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143512 May 17 08:06 _gi.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  9 14:47 _glib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  9 14:47 _gobject/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 May 17 08:06 importer.py -> 
../../../../share/pyshared/gi/importer.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1841 Aug  9 14:47 importer.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 May 17 08:06 __init__.py -> 
../../../../share/pyshared/gi/__init__.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1433 Aug  9 14:10 __init__.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 May 17 08:06 module.py -> 
../../../../share/pyshared/gi/module.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10132 Aug  9 14:47 module.pyc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  9 14:54 overrides/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 May 17 08:06 pygtkcompat.py -> 
../../../../share/pyshared/gi/pygtkcompat.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18496 Aug  9 14:47 pygtkcompat.pyc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  9 14:47 repository/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 17 08:06 types.py -> 
../../../../share/pyshared/gi/types.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9014 Aug  9 14:47 types.pyc

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_glib:
total 100
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77392 May 17 08:06 _glib.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root50 May 17 08:06 __init__.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/_glib/__init__.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   208 Aug  9 14:47 __init__.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root48 May 17 08:06 option.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/_glib/option.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12698 Aug  9 14:47 option.pyc

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gobject:
total 172
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 May 17 08:06 constants.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/_gobject/constants.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1978 Aug  9 14:47 constants.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144864 May 17 08:06 _gobject.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 May 17 08:06 __init__.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/_gobject/__init__.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5457 Aug  9 14:47 __init__.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 May 17 08:06 propertyhelper.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/_gobject/propertyhelper.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10720 Aug  9 14:47 propertyhelper.pyc

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides:
total 184
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root49 Apr 12 11:09 Dee.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Dee.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5880 Aug  7 17:41 Dee.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root49 May 17 08:06 Gdk.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Gdk.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12320 Aug  9 14:47 Gdk.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root51 Apr 16 21:17 Gedit.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Gedit.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2908 Aug  9 14:54 Gedit.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root64 May 17 08:06 GIMarshallingTests.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/GIMarshallingTests.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2354 Aug  9 14:47 GIMarshallingTests.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root49 May 17 08:06 Gio.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Gio.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7456 Aug  9 14:47 Gio.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root50 May 17 08:06 GLib.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/GLib.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11722 Aug  9 14:47 GLib.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root49 May 17 08:06 Gtk.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Gtk.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66316 Aug  9 14:47 Gtk.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root54 May 17 08:06 __init__.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/__init__.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3365 Aug  9 14:47 __init__.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root53 May 17 08:06 keysyms.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/keysyms.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41538 Aug  9 14:47 keysyms.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root51 May 17 08:06 Pango.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Pango.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2135 Aug  9 14:47 Pango.pyc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root51 Jun 28 16:53 Unity.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/overrides/Unity.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   388 Aug  9 14:53 Unity.pyc

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/repository:
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  55 May 17 08:06 __init__.py -> 
../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/repository/__init__.py

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376 Aug  9 14:47 __init__.pyc




On 09/08/12 16:33, Robert McWilliam wrote:

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012, at 03:51 PM, David King wrote:

I have managed to upgrade to 12.04 from the command line, which I found
online, using this command:

sudo do-release-upgrade

but I still have the Python problem I had before, which means I cannot
run Ubuntu Software Centre or the Update Manager.

If an upgrade between releases didn't help then I think there is
probably a file gotten left from an older version that's masking the
right one.

What's in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/ ?

Robert
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

I have managed to upgrade to 12.04 from the command line, which I found 
online, using this command:


sudo do-release-upgrade



but I still have the Python problem I had before, which means I cannot 
run Ubuntu Software Centre or the Update Manager.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

On 07/08/12 22:33, David King wrote:


On 07/08/12 20:11, Phill Whiteside wrote:

Hi,

" It appears to be something wrong with python, and after searching 
online, lots of other users have had similar problems with python, 
running various programs that depend on it. "


Do any of them actually mention a bug number? [1] That is from the 
lubuntu-qa area, but it does apply to everything when it comes down 
to bugs :)


Regards,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing#Reporting_Bugs




I found this page with the same problem,
http://askubuntu.com/questions/80448/what-would-cause-the-gi-module-to-be-missing-from-python

but no solution


This seems to be the same bug, with fixes, but I have not got the 
software versions that were fixed it seems


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-control-panel/+bug/829186





Also in Synaptic, the option for Repositories (listing, adding) etc., 
does not work.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

On 07/08/12 20:11, Phill Whiteside wrote:

Hi,

" It appears to be something wrong with python, and after searching 
online, lots of other users have had similar problems with python, 
running various programs that depend on it. "


Do any of them actually mention a bug number? [1] That is from the 
lubuntu-qa area, but it does apply to everything when it comes down to 
bugs :)


Regards,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing#Reporting_Bugs




I found this page with the same problem,
http://askubuntu.com/questions/80448/what-would-cause-the-gi-module-to-be-missing-from-python

but no solution


This seems to be the same bug, with fixes, but I have not got the 
software versions that were fixed it seems


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-control-panel/+bug/829186



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

On 07/08/12 19:19, Liam Proven wrote:

On 7 August 2012 18:15, David King  wrote:

I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally decided
to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04.

I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10.

But I cannot get any further. When I try to run the Update Manager, nothing
happens. I tried from a terminal and got the following:

~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in 
 from gi.repository import Gtk
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in

 from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi.so: undefined symbol:
g_callable_info_skip_return


Is this a known bug, or is it just something simple that can be fixed
easily?

Is the install fully up-to-date?

If not, do:

sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Reboot, then try again.




I did as you suggested, everything was up to date, 0 packages installed, 
etc.


I rebooted, but I still have the same problem.

It appears to be something wrong with python, and after searching 
online, lots of other users have had similar problems with python, 
running various programs that depend on it.


But so far no obvious solution.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

On 07/08/12 18:15, David King wrote:
I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally 
decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04.


I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10.

But I cannot get any further. When I try to run the Update Manager, 
nothing happens. I tried from a terminal and got the following:


~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in 
from gi.repository import Gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in 


from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi.so: undefined 
symbol: g_callable_info_skip_return



Is this a known bug, or is it just something simple that can be fixed 
easily?



David K



I also tried running the Software Center, and got the same error message.


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[ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

[David King]

I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally 
decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04.


I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10.

But I cannot get any further. When I try to run the Update Manager, 
nothing happens. I tried from a terminal and got the following:


~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in 
from gi.repository import Gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in 


from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/_gi.so: undefined 
symbol: g_callable_info_skip_return



Is this a known bug, or is it just something simple that can be fixed 
easily?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB 3 drive no longer automatically mounting

[David King]

This now seems to have fixed itself.


On 06/08/12 22:09, David King wrote:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation (10.10) from one hard disk to 
another. I also installed Linux Mint on the new drive, which controls 
the boot menu (on the old hard disk the boot menu was installed by 
Ubuntu 11.10).


Previously when booting into Ubuntu an external hard drive on a USB 3 
port automatically mounted, using its entry in fstab.


Now, when booting from the new hard disk (the partition was copied 
using dd so it should be identical to the old one), it fails to mount 
the USB 3 disk.


Once Ubuntu has booted, I have to switch off the USB 3 drive, switch 
it back on, and then run sudo mount -a to get it mounted. Before I do 
this there is no way to mount it, it is not even listed in gparted.


So how can I get the USB 3 drive automatically recognised and mounted 
at bootup as before?



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[ubuntu-uk] USB 3 drive no longer automatically mounting

[David King]

I recently moved my Ubuntu installation (10.10) from one hard disk to 
another. I also installed Linux Mint on the new drive, which controls 
the boot menu (on the old hard disk the boot menu was installed by 
Ubuntu 11.10).


Previously when booting into Ubuntu an external hard drive on a USB 3 
port automatically mounted, using its entry in fstab.


Now, when booting from the new hard disk (the partition was copied using 
dd so it should be identical to the old one), it fails to mount the USB 
3 disk.


Once Ubuntu has booted, I have to switch off the USB 3 drive, switch it 
back on, and then run sudo mount -a to get it mounted. Before I do this 
there is no way to mount it, it is not even listed in gparted.


So how can I get the USB 3 drive automatically recognised and mounted at 
bootup as before?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

[David King]

On 06/07/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote:


What happens if, in a terminal, you enter
ping www.google.com

and if that fails try google directly
ping 173.194.67.105

Also if you go to the network icon in the top panel, click it and
click Connection Information what do you see?

Colin

When it loses the connection, I did try the ping google.com but it did 
not get any reply. I could ping the router okay. Also the Network 
information showed an IP address and proper connection.
But I am thinking something in a firewall is blocking internet access? I 
tried entering


   ufw status

in the CLI and it said it was not running, so is there another firewall 
that gets installed in 12.04?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

[David King]

On 06/07/12 20:29, Colin Law wrote:


Try power cycling the router.  May not help but worth a try.

Colin



I often do that if internet access disappears or goes slow. But did not 
help with Ubuntu 12.04 though.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

[David King]

I should add that the Ubuntu 12.04 can see the router without any 
problems, but nothing beyond that. From the same PC as well, which 
already had Windows Xp and Linux Mint installed, neither of them had 
these problems.



On 06/07/12 20:02, David King wrote:
New problem: the new installation of Ubuntu has lost its internet 
access. This PC I am writing this on (running Ubuntu 10.10) still has 
internet access from the same router.


So now why would Ubuntu just stop working with the internet? Is the 
software likely to be broken somewhere?




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

[David King]

New problem: the new installation of Ubuntu has lost its internet 
access. This PC I am writing this on (running Ubuntu 10.10) still has 
internet access from the same router.


So now why would Ubuntu just stop working with the internet? Is the 
software likely to be broken somewhere?




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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

[David King]

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a fairly old PC, 64-bit version. It runs 
okay, but I am having a few problems with Ubuntu One and Dropbox.


When trying to access Ubuntu One, it starts the installation process. 
Not sure why as I thought it should have been installed by default, in 
fact, when I looked in the Ubuntu Software Centre it says it is 
installed. It gets to the end of the installation process and then 
crashes and asks to submit an error report and to either relaunch or 
close the program. It then restarts and goes through the process again. 
It has created an Ubuntu One folder in my Home directory, but I cannot 
access any Ubuntu One settings to log in with my existing account. Also 
the Ubuntu One installation window seems to get stuck on "Ubuntu One is 
installing..." for a long time.


I also tried installing Dropbox from the Software Centre, and after at 
least an hour it was still not fully installed, it seemed to stall at 
almost being fully installed on the progress bar (no percentage was 
shown). I also tried running that, after it seemed to be installed, and 
it said it was not installed properly and I had to download the 
installation file from their website, which I did. I tried to install 
that but that did not complete the installation due to a conflict.


So currently I can use neither Ubuntu One nor Dropbox on this PC. I am 
thinking of going to Linux Mint instead as Ubuntu 12.04 seems to be broken.


Any ideas on how to fix these problems or should I just abandon Ubuntu?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

[David King]

On 25/06/12 16:20, kpb wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:17:03 +0100
Alan Pope  wrote:


http://design.canonical.com/2011/11/ubuntu-phone-tablet-and-tv-discussion-opened/

Feel free to let us know what you think an Ubuntu tablet should look
like, features and so on. We'd be interested to know.


Education market (secondary/college):

1) vga socket and ability to retain touch calibration while mirroring to old 
projectors 1024/768 and even 800 by 600 that refuse to die. You just saved us a 
fortune on proprietary interactive whiteboards. I'd buy one alone for that.

2) Stylus friendly. By stylus friendly I mean ability to get fine control with 
a stylus for drawing and painting but with a finger touch based UI.

3) Flash (yes, I know old tech, but that is education) and Java JVM available. 
BBC iPlayer solution that is guaranteed to work in the future whatever the Beeb 
perpetrate.

4) USB sockets aplenty for attaching keyboards&c

5) a Canonical branded note taking app with handwriting recognition that could 
recognise mathematical notation and shell out to LaTeX. Oh, and the Moon.

I would imagine it will have to be widescreen (have you noticed how most iPad 
users use them portrait?)

Well, you asked. Best of luck with it, that would be an ace thing to see.

cheers



Great ideas. I would add the following:

A way to add external storage through a USB socket, so a few USB sockets 
would be good.


It seems that the Unity interface is designed for tablet use, so maybe 
Canonical does have putting Ubuntu onto tablets as a long-term goal?


It would need to be powerful enough and have a large enough screen to be 
usable with existing Linux apps. There is a KDE-based tablet coming out 
soon, but it looks too limited to be of use, underpowered, and just a 
800x600 screen (not much better than a smartphone).


I have a stylus for touchscreens which works okay on my smartphone and 
BlackBerry PlayBook, but not always with enough precision, e.g. for 
drawing. So an Ubuntu tablet would have to have good precision, as 
stated above.


I guess that such a device would cost quite a bit considering the 
hardware choices. But if it were marketed properly, as a quality device, 
running a quality OS that has the lowest probability of getting viruses, 
and able to run desktop apps, it might be quite successful. I wonder if 
Mark Shuttleworth would be willing to subsidize the cost so it could 
still be cheaper than an iPad?



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[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

[David King]

Now that Microsoft have announced they will release a new tablet running 
Windows 8, this would be a good time for Canonical to put together a 
tablet running Ubuntu.


Does Canonical have any plans to do this? So long as it was 
competitively priced, it could do really well, and especially if it can 
run Android apps as well. (The Blackberry PlayBook can run some Android 
apps even though its OS is QNX-based.)



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook and Windows in VirtualBox

[David King]

Thanks for your suggestion, I will give it a try when I can. I have 
already installed Windows XP onto an old PC and used that to connect my 
PlayBook, which worked, although it took a few attempts.


It is unfortunate that all the tablet makers really only consider 
Windows and Mac OS X when making drivers, even though they might be 
using something quite different on the tablet, whether Linux or Unix-based.



David King



On 24/06/12 19:28, LeeGroups wrote:

David,

Sorry, only just got around to catching up with the mailing list and 
your email.


If you can get the old PC working with windows, or just use another 
windows PC for a few mins, plug in your Playbook and let it install 
the drivers. Then install something like DriverMax or Driver Magician 
(both free downloads). These are windows driver backup programs. Run 
one of them and extract the drivers onto a USB stick. You can then 
uninstall the program and the drivers.
Back in VBox, install the drivers from the USB stick. I've not tried 
it but it may well work!


Lee



On 15/06/12 14:34, David King wrote:
I recently purchased a BlackBerry PlayBook. It's a great tablet, but 
it seems that RIM are not that Linux-friendly. Their OS is based on 
QNX, a Unix-type OS, so I thought they might at least have some Linux 
understanding.


I can connect the PlayBook to Ubuntu via wifi, no problem, I can just 
enter smb://192.168.1.11 (i.e. the PlayBook's IP address) and I can 
see all the files on there in Nautilus. I had enquired about this 
with RIM support and they could only tell me how to do it in Windows 
and Mac on their website, and suggested the Mac way for Linux. I 
suggested they add that it works for Linux too on their website, 
which they are considering.


But to do much more with the PlayBook, I have to connect it to a PC 
(or Mac) via the USB cable.


There does not seem to be any way to get this to work in Ubuntu, but 
if anyone knows how, let me know. The USB connection is necessary to 
do a system backup and for installing .bar files onto the PlayBook 
(apps converted from Android apk files).


I need to do it in Windows. So I used Windows in VirtualBox, 
connected the PlayBook via USB and Windows could see the PlayBook, 
but would not install the drivers. I contacted RIM tech support and 
they said the drivers are on the PlayBook and the Windows PC should 
automatically install the drivers. But in VirtualBox this is not working.


Any ideas how to overcome this problem? I have an old Windows XP disc 
somewhere. If I can find it, I can install it onto an old PC and try 
that, but until then the only way I am running Windows is via VirtualBox.


Anyone else had any experience with using the BlackBerry PlayBook?


David King




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] File sharing website

[David King]

Thanks for the tip. Looks pretty good, 50 GB cloud storage and they 
support Linux and Android.


David K


On 10/06/12 15:53, Mark Fraser wrote:

Watched this week's Click and a website called http://minus.com/ was mentioned
as a website for sharing files such as photos and videos. What made it stand
out was that a desktop app for Ubuntu was mentioned.

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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook and Windows in VirtualBox

[David King]

I recently purchased a BlackBerry PlayBook. It's a great tablet, but it 
seems that RIM are not that Linux-friendly. Their OS is based on QNX, a 
Unix-type OS, so I thought they might at least have some Linux 
understanding.


I can connect the PlayBook to Ubuntu via wifi, no problem, I can just 
enter smb://192.168.1.11 (i.e. the PlayBook's IP address) and I can see 
all the files on there in Nautilus. I had enquired about this with RIM 
support and they could only tell me how to do it in Windows and Mac on 
their website, and suggested the Mac way for Linux. I suggested they add 
that it works for Linux too on their website, which they are considering.


But to do much more with the PlayBook, I have to connect it to a PC (or 
Mac) via the USB cable.


There does not seem to be any way to get this to work in Ubuntu, but if 
anyone knows how, let me know. The USB connection is necessary to do a 
system backup and for installing .bar files onto the PlayBook (apps 
converted from Android apk files).


I need to do it in Windows. So I used Windows in VirtualBox, connected 
the PlayBook via USB and Windows could see the PlayBook, but would not 
install the drivers. I contacted RIM tech support and they said the 
drivers are on the PlayBook and the Windows PC should automatically 
install the drivers. But in VirtualBox this is not working.


Any ideas how to overcome this problem? I have an old Windows XP disc 
somewhere. If I can find it, I can install it onto an old PC and try 
that, but until then the only way I am running Windows is via VirtualBox.


Anyone else had any experience with using the BlackBerry PlayBook?


David King


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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Re: Strange notification message on desktop

[David King]

  
  





On 03/04/12 12:34, Alan Pope wrote:

  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote:

  
I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was 
actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but the message gives me no clue
as to whether it is an error or a notification, or what it is
trying to tell me.

  
  Can you take a screenshot of it next time it appears? Just press the
"Print Screen" or "PrtSc" key on your keyboard and save the picture.
Then we can take a look and maybe get a clue what's generating it.


  

The message had not appeared for some time, but today it made an
appearance again.

Here is what it looks like:



And of course it says "Semantic Data Storage" rather than what I
wrote before, having not remembered it correctly.



I looked at the syslog and this is what was there from booting to
getting into the desktop (just the last few entries):

(Someone mentioned Ubuntu One, and there is a warning about that
near the end, with the client not being found, although I have had
no problems uploading files to Ubuntu One lately)




Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.519639] EXT4-fs (sdh1):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.666919] EXT4-fs (sdj9):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.737145] EXT4-fs (sdj10):
re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.741772] EXT4-fs (sda1):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.746239] EXT4-fs (sdb5):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  133.002874] EXT4-fs (sdj14):
re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:18 avourastudio init: plymouth-stop pre-start process
(2706) terminated with status 1
Apr 16 09:36:14 avourastudio kernel: [  191.520028] Clocksource tsc
unstable (delta = -27580 ns)
Apr 16 09:38:14 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: synchronized to
130.88.202.49, stratum 2
Apr 16 09:38:14 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: kernel time sync status
change 2001
Apr 16 09:39:26 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: synchronized to
134.226.81.3, stratum 1
Apr 16 09:40:01 avourastudio CRON[2894]: (root) CMD
(/usr/share/prey/prey.sh > /var/log/prey.log)
Apr 16 09:40:02 avourastudio CRON[2893]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#2894 failed with exit status 1)
Apr 16 09:40:08 avourastudio anacron[1727]: Job `cron.daily' started
Apr 16 09:40:08 avourastudio anacron[2921]: Updated timestamp for
job `cron.daily' to 2012-04-16
Apr 16 09:41:29 avourastudio gdm-session-worker[2057]:
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion
`G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Apr 16 09:41:37 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Successfully made
thread 3164 of process 3164 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at
nice level -11.
Apr 16 09:41:37 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Supervising 4
threads of 2 processes of 2 users.
Apr 16 09:41:38 avourastudio gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not
launch application 'alarm-clock.desktop': Unable to start
application: Failed to execute child process "alarm-clock" (No such
file or directory)
Apr 16 09:41:38 avourastudio gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not
launch application 'ubuntuone-client-applet.desktop': Unable to
start application: Failed to execute child process
"ubuntuone-client-applet" (No such file or directory)
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Successfully made
thread 3194 of process 3194 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at
nice level -11.
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Supervising 5
threads of 3 processes of 2 users.
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio pulseaudio[3194]: pid.c: Daemon already
running.
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio kernel: [  569.283878] UDF-fs:
Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio kernel: [  569.314022] UDF-fs INFO UDF:
Mounting volume 'DEEP_POLITICS', timestamp 2010/12/04 00:29 (103c)
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio init: ureadahead-other main process
(3645) terminated with status 4
Apr 16 09:42:44 avourastudio acpid: client connected from
3754[106:113]
Apr 16 09:42:44 avourastudio acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 16 09:44:59 avourastudio kernel: [  716.201726] usb 1-7: reset
high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
  

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong

[David King]

On 10/04/12 18:12, Andres Muniz wrote:


- Mensaje original -
> On 09/04/12 20:34, Andres Muniz wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > looks like you tube shows in shades of blue. Really wierd. i was able
> > to see a bbc film alright though. I'm using firefox on ubuntu 11.10.
> >
> > ...
>
> >
> There are a few fixes kicking about.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11824089&postcount=1 


>
> Kev

thanks! Smurf effect finally know how to call it.




It has been happening to me lately, but not all videos, and from various 
video sites. Happened since I updated Flash, both in Firefox and Chrome.


I already had Flash Aid installed in Firefox so I used that to revert 
back to the latest stable version instead of the beta version that was 
installed.


However, people are still blue when I try to watch the videos (after 
closing and restarting Firefox).


So then I disabled the hardware acceleration -- that worked and now 
videos play in the proper colours with no more smurf-like faces.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

[David King]

On 02/04/12 09:12, James Tait wrote:


I'm pretty sure it's not Ubuntu One.  The semantic part makes me think 
of something like Zeitgeist, perhaps?  Which version of Ubuntu is this?


JT



I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was 
actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but the message gives me no clue as to 
whether it is an error or a notification, or what it is trying to tell 
me. Completely mysterious and something that Canonical maybe needs to fix.


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