Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter > my login details every time I login. I'd have thought it would just > remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager > remembers my wireless network key). > You shouldn't need to enter your details every boot. If you do then it's either a bug or there is a problem at the server side. I know that they have had issues with the server side in the past which resulted in people being asked to sign in again. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/27 John Levin : > What tools are these? And are they available for Jaunty, if not > installed by default? OS X has something similar (the name escapes me > atm) which has saved my proverbial bacon before. > gnome-disk-utility. I don't believe it's in Jaunty, only karmic onwards. It was developed by Red Hat. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/27 Daniel Drummond : > This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They > weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you > installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it > is pretty much brand new, and hasn't been used much. Looking at the > report it gave me makes me think it isn't on it's last legs, but the > values being reported by the hard drive are not very accurate. > It now no longer nags you about disk failure in the way it used to. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On 27/10/2009 12:31, Daniel Drummond wrote: >> > This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They > weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you > installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it > is pretty much brand new, and hasn't been used much. Looking at the > report it gave me makes me think it isn't on it's last legs, but the > values being reported by the hard drive are not very accurate. > What tools are these? And are they available for Jaunty, if not installed by default? OS X has something similar (the name escapes me atm) which has saved my proverbial bacon before. Best John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On 27/10/2009 10:20, etali wrote: > John Levin wrote: >> On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: >> >>> >> >> I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu >> version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. >> >> John >> >> >> > I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you download > your Karmic install? I've been testing Karmic on a spare box and had > tons of problems getting online with the previous betas, but yesterday I > downloaded Karmic Final (testing), and it seems to have fixed all my > problems. > > I was using the release candidate, both for my Lenovo laptop and as a vm image. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >> 2009/10/27 Rob Beard : >> >>> One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an >>> Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this >>> popping up every time? >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >> >> You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or >> remove ubuntu-one completely from the system (using Synaptic or >> whatever). Otherwise you could sign up for an Ubuntu One account and >> take advantage of the free 2GB backup/sync space! >> >> > I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter > my login details every time I login. I'd have thought it would just > remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager > remembers my wireless network key). > > Ahh well, I'll look at disabling it at start up. > > Rob > Actually this sounds like a bug I remember from a while back. I've had a quick search on Launchpad but I haven't found the bug I remember (which is a little annoying) but IIRC it was fixable. It was either the Launchpad cookie not being set correctly for the OpenID login (so you need to delete the cookies for launchpad and ubuntuone from Firefox) or the keyring entry not being updated, so delete the UbuntuOne token from Accessories, Password and Encryption Keys. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > >> One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an >> Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this >> popping up every time? >> >> Rob >> >> > > You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or > remove ubuntu-one completely from the system (using Synaptic or > whatever). Otherwise you could sign up for an Ubuntu One account and > take advantage of the free 2GB backup/sync space! > > I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter my login details every time I login. I'd have thought it would just remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager remembers my wireless network key). Ahh well, I'll look at disabling it at start up. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Rob Beard wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: > >> I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my >> hard drive is dying. >> >> Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. >> >> Sean >> >> >> > Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you have up to date > backups. I've just had a 1TB hard drive fail on me, luckily I've > managed to get it running again to get the important stuff off of it, > but I didn't have any pre-warnings, and I can't afford the cost of > professional data recovery so if the drive dies, I'm stuffed unless I > have a recent backup. > > Rob > > > > This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it is pretty much brand new, and hasn't been used much. Looking at the report it gave me makes me think it isn't on it's last legs, but the values being reported by the hard drive are not very accurate. On the other hand I *may* have been sold a drive that has been used before, in which case I'm a little annoyed. :-S Either way just because Jaunty doesn't report the problem, doesn't mean it isn't there. You can disable it if you want to in Karmic. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an > Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this > popping up every time? > > Rob > > You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or remove ubuntu-one completely from the system (using Synaptic or whatever). Otherwise you could sign up for an Ubuntu One account and take advantage of the free 2GB backup/sync space! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Sean Miller wrote: > I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my > hard drive is dying. > > Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. > > Sean > > Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you have up to date backups. I've just had a 1TB hard drive fail on me, luckily I've managed to get it running again to get the important stuff off of it, but I didn't have any pre-warnings, and I can't afford the cost of professional data recovery so if the drive dies, I'm stuffed unless I have a recent backup. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Matt Daubney wrote: > I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The > RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The > performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on > my laptop. > > If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next > release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. > > -Matt Daubney > Same here. Only big problem I had was with Flash but after a bit of Googling I found a fix for that. I'd say since the Alphas (I think I used Alpha 4 or 5 first) it is getting progressively quicker and prettier. When the full version is released I'm going to give my laptop a complete reinstall and probably go completely over to ext4 too. One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this popping up every time? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson > wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my > >>> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow > >>> Leopard. > >>> > >>> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get > >>> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test > >>> claims to be able to touch the net. > >>> > >>> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? > >>> > >>> TIA > >>> > >>> John > > > > I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that > > this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted > before > > Thursday. > > > > Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both > machines > > I > > tested it on. :-( > > > > Chris > > I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The > RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The > performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on > my laptop. > > If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next > release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. > > -Matt Daubney I notice that the DNS / potential IPv6 bug has been reported and has loads of activity against it. Nothing seems to be happening though. For one laptop after the network / graphics / CPU power management all went wrong I kinda got a bit fed up lol! I might sit this release out... Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
etali wrote: > John Levin wrote: >> On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: >> >> I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu >> version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. >> >> John >> >> >> > I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you download > your Karmic install? I've been testing Karmic on a spare box and had > tons of problems getting online with the previous betas, but yesterday I > downloaded Karmic Final (testing), and it seems to have fixed all my > problems. > For some reason, I've been having trouble with DNS resolution since rebooting onto the RC. I'm having to run "sudo dhclient" manually, to force my computer to get an IP address, and load the nameservers. Might be worth a shot... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
John Levin wrote: > On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: > >> > > I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu > version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. > > John > > > I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you download your Karmic install? I've been testing Karmic on a spare box and had tons of problems getting online with the previous betas, but yesterday I downloaded Karmic Final (testing), and it seems to have fixed all my problems. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:29 +, Matt Daubney wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson > wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my > >>> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow > >>> Leopard. > >>> > >>> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get > >>> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test > >>> claims to be able to touch the net. > >>> > >>> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? > >>> > >>> TIA > >>> > >>> John > > > > I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that > > this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted > before > > Thursday. > > > > Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both > machines > > I > > tested it on. :-( > > > > Chris > > I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The > RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The > performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on > my laptop. > > If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next > release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. > > -Matt Daubney > > + 1 Nick Parkinson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: > > > >> >> I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad >> that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is >> sorted before Thursday. >> >> Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both >> machines I tested it on. :-( > On the other hand, I've installed Karmic on one laptop, a Dell Latitude > D351, a couple of years old I think. > It installed without any issues, found the wireless card, had a little > moan about lack of open source drivers and installed a closed source one. > Everything works, 64bit too. The only thing I had to do manually was > download 64bit Flash and unzip it to the right directory. > Superb. > > My only gripe, is that the top toolbar icons look a bit, err, dated... > > > I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:49 +, Sean Miller wrote: > I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my > hard drive is dying. > > Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. > > Sean That's one thing I'd definatley want to know! Make sure your backups are upto date, and use smartmon to find out what exactley is wrong with it. Just because something doesn't say there's a problem, doesn't mean it'll go away! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my >>> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow >>> Leopard. >>> >>> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get >>> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test >>> claims to be able to touch the net. >>> >>> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> John > > I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that > this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted before > Thursday. > > Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both machines > I > tested it on. :-( > > Chris I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on my laptop. If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
> > I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad > that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is > sorted before Thursday. > > Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both > machines I tested it on. :-( On the other hand, I've installed Karmic on one laptop, a Dell Latitude D351, a couple of years old I think. It installed without any issues, found the wireless card, had a little moan about lack of open source drivers and installed a closed source one. Everything works, 64bit too. The only thing I had to do manually was download 64bit Flash and unzip it to the right directory. Superb. My only gripe, is that the top toolbar icons look a bit, err, dated... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
>> Hi, >> >> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my >> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow >> Leopard. >> >> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get >> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test >> claims to be able to touch the net. >> >> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? >> >> TIA >> >> John I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted before Thursday. Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both machines I tested it on. :-( Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
On 26/10/2009 20:54, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/26 John Levin: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my >> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow >> Leopard. >> >> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get >> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test >> claims to be able to touch the net. >> >> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? >> >> TIA >> >> John >> > > Reboot, press ESC to bring up the GRUB menu, press "e" to edit the > kernel line, add "ipv6.disable=1" (no quotes) to the end of the line > that ends "quiet splash". Press Ctrl-X to boot. > > Congrats, you've just disabled IPV6 globally - is that any better? > Many thanks for that. I can now get on the web with firefox, but synaptic is still not finding any repositories. Do I have to disable ipv6 somewhere else as well? TIA John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
2009/10/26 John Levin : > Hi, > > I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my > Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow > Leopard. > > It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get > anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test > claims to be able to touch the net. > > Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? > > TIA > > John > Reboot, press ESC to bring up the GRUB menu, press "e" to edit the kernel line, add "ipv6.disable=1" (no quotes) to the end of the line that ends "quiet splash". Press Ctrl-X to boot. Congrats, you've just disabled IPV6 globally - is that any better? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Have you installed the Guest Additions correctly? Proxy/Static IP? James John Levin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my > Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow > Leopard. > > It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get > anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test > claims to be able to touch the net. > > Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? > > TIA > > John > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken
Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test claims to be able to touch the net. Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? TIA John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
