XCan,
You are correct that disabling compiz was my original suggestion.
However, as I mentioned before, I've narrowed the issue down to either
xorg or Nvidia, and the more I mess with it, it's seeming to be nvidia.
Compiz is fully installed on my system. After removing all nvidia
referencing
Has anyone tried using the previous 8.10 or 8.04 distros and then
manually updating Nvidia, Compiz, and other components that are suspect
one at a time? Seems to me that would be the logical place to start and
help identify what exactly isn't working; update an application, test
VNC, then
Forget my suggestion. I took a leap and just removed ALL Compiz
components from the package manager and rebooted. Works fine now. So
it appears that it's not some crazy kernel update like I suspected, or
anything with Nvidia. So the simple solution, the 'actual' workaround
until Compiz gets
Folks,
Sorry for the multiple posts, I've been posting as I go.
Seems I was slightly off course in blaming solely Compiz for this issue.
I installed some older versions of it and had the exact same issue with
two different versions (9.04 has 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu8, whereas a fresh
install of 8.10 has
I've also duplicated this issue on my own network. Ubuntu 9.04 32bit
running on a simple HP laptop and using Macbook Pro OSX 10.5 to remote
to the Linux machine. I can watch it from across the room and see it
responding as normal but if I watch the local VNC window it's a static
image, as if
Public bug reported:
Has a deb on website, fails to install. Also fails to install with
terminal install
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 4 11:50:49 2008
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man5/amanda.conf.5.gz',
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14199721/DpkgTerminalLog.txt
--
package amanda-common None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/amanda-common.list]
failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/man/man5/amanda.conf.5.gz', which is also in
I've been bouncing around to a few threads on this exact issue for two
days. I've only been using Ubuntu on my HP Pavillion dv2116wm laptop
for a few weeks now, but I was really trying to fix this issue. I'm not
really good at the coding and understanding some of the technical jargon
on the
