[ubuntu-uk] libpath-class-perl 0.15-1 - again. And again. And...

2007-05-18 Thread I C McNab
I may have asked about this before, as I've had the same problem with Feisty on a different box. There, it eventually just stopped, without any explanation. (So I never did get round to filing a bug report.) I'm getting repeated update notifications about a module called libpath-class-perl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Windows - why release all your fixes once a month, why not when Mostly because of all the pain windows updates create. You wouldn't want to be doing that every week! ;) Cheers, -- Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > fixes before rolling them out company wide, however frequently when I > produce a fix, I'm told that I'm not allowed to deploy it because it > hasn't been tested. Hacking at Windows that way massively increases the complexity of support. If you find such

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi christopher chatfield wrote: > Does anyone know how to edit init script so the correct timing for the > sendmail rc is set? That's pretty weird, sendmail should be running from /etc/rc2.d/ All of the scripts in there are run in order after the ones in /etc/rcS.d/ have finished. Your filesystem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Robin Hall wrote: >> Could you run http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh and > I did what you suggest and got a > long script What he meant was to download that script and run it. The following should do the trick: w3m -dump_source FOOBAR >/tmp/alsa-info.sh chmod +x /tmp/als

[ubuntu-uk] emails

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Pascoe
and I can too Well, it's almost the summer and time for repeats! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Rowson Sent: 08 May 2007 13:41 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] emails > >I can hear you loud and clear, can't

[ubuntu-uk] Branching Threads

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Guys 'n' Gals I've been off air for 10 days and been trying to keep up with all those posts now I'm bXK. A little plea - when you branch a thread can you change the subject line as well please? Over this short period the amount of digressions was unbelievable and I had to read through each ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

2007-05-18 Thread Terence Simpson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Quoting Leon Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> It then just sits there. Is there any way of doing a "chroot >>> /mnt/root /bin/bash" and then running an apt-get dist-upg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-18 Thread Toby Smithe
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:27 +0100, James Tait wrote: > Robin Hall wrote: > > Many thanks for your prompt response. I did what you suggest and got a > > long script but I simply don't know enough to understand what it > > represents. > > This is the information we need to be able to help out. Y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Leon Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> It then just sits there. Is there any way of doing a "chroot >> /mnt/root /bin/bash" and then running an apt-get dist-upgrade or >> update in order to resolve this? Obviously

Re: [ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

2007-05-18 Thread Leon Barker
On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > It then just sits there. Is there any way of doing a "chroot > /mnt/root /bin/bash" and then running an apt-get dist-upgrade or > update in order to resolve this? Obviously I'd need to boot from a > live CD, but I'm sure

[ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi all, Whilst upgrading a box from edgy to feisty last night I had the power trip out with about 10% to go. As a result, the system will now boot to a message stating: Booting... Starting Up (or similar, I'm not in front of the machine at the moment!) It then just sits there. Is there an