Thank you for asking. No I never found a solution.
Yes, there was no activity here, which was frustrating.
Thank you for suggesting Jaunty, but our hardware has since been left
behind by Ubuntu, and purchasing new equipment is not in the budget of
my family. Upgrading to the last few versions was
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
This is an Ubuntu 7.10 system with Synaptic version 0.60ubuntu5
I have a laptop with an internal CDrom drive. Because I have a dialup
connection, I purchased a set of repositories on disk. These were a DVD
set, so I purchased an external DVDrom
re:
The panel encountered a problem while loading
"OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet".
I had the problem return after occasionally fixing with /tmp/orbit-
username file deletes,
But much worse: there was a crippling slowdown of the machine -- booting
took forever, same error message returned, p
Reading the prior Bug Description message to mine, above, I also recall
that the problem workstation warned that two users were connected during
shutdown last night.
These would have been samba network users connected to shared folders on
the problem workstation.
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Gnome Login Error
https://bug
I'm adding information here in case it may help in determining the cause
of the problem:
This morning one of our Samba networked Ubuntu computers had the error
message:
[QUOTE]"Error: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:
Gnome_fastuserswitchapplet". Do you want to delete the app
This seems to be related to the preview function for music files.
If music file preview function is turned off in the view preferences,
the symptom can often be alleviated
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"The folder contents could not be displayed"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163095
You received this bug notification be
Frequent unexplained drops from connectivity may also be related to ACPI
and APM functions.
Disabling ACPI or APM seems to allow some users to remain connected.
This may be an issue related to this reported bug.
See Ubuntu Forum thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4004891
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Netwo
