[ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Andres Muniz
Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they go. Is this something official or do I have myself a nice troyan? It does not offer me to see what I'm sending. Or maybe missed it?--

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote: I had a chat with a couple of the developers today. It seems one of the big issues they have is that java doesn't export any information about the application running through X. So it doesn't let on what pid the windows belong to, what application is running

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread James Morrissey
On 1 May 2012 22:23, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they go. Is this something official or do I have myself a nice troyan? It does not offer me to see

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread alan c
On 02/05/12 01:41, Joe wrote: Hey guys, Yet another poor person having trouble installing Ubuntu 12.04, unfortunately :(. Using the graphical installer on the LiveCD (clicking Install shortcut on desktop) when asked how to install partition-wise there's no option to overwrite Ubuntu 11.04 (not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing window decoration after failed upgrade to 12.04

2012-05-02 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tony, On 01/05/12 22:57, Tony Pursell wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:58, Tony Pursell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:32, Tony Pursell wrote: The first one to show up is a lack of window decoration. I have rebooted and the widow decoration has returned.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Barry Drake
On 02/05/12 01:41, Joe wrote: Hey guys, Yet another poor person having trouble installing Ubuntu 12.04, unfortunately :(. Using the graphical installer on the LiveCD (clicking Install shortcut on desktop) when asked how to install partition-wise there's no option to overwrite Ubuntu 11.04

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Anton Kanishchev
I experienced the same problem -- run chkdsk /f (or is it (-f) in windows. this is a ubuntu security feature because it has to resize a windows partition, it needs to ensure it wont move half the windows folder to ext4 or something like that. SOLUTION: boot into windows run chkdsk /f , restart

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Ivan Wright
Run Scan Disk in Windows and then try the Ubuntu installer again. If that doesn't make any difference then heres a tutorial video I made on using the Manual Partition Editor in Ubuntu Installer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCHsgry2RQ Regards, Ivan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Tansom
** J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com [2012-05-01 14:36]: On 1 May 2012 14:33, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@cornwall-it.co.uk wrote: Why should an application that isn't provided by Ubuntu, or even in the repositories, be required to create a .desktop file? It's not that it should - it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Andy Braben
On 2 May 2012 14:01, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com [2012-05-01 14:36]: On 1 May 2012 14:33, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@cornwall-it.co.uk wrote: Why should an application that isn't provided by Ubuntu, or even in the repositories, be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Alam
I ran chkdsk /f on all partitions on the drive that Windows understands, and still no luck with the Ubuntu installer detecting them. I checked in GParted and the entire drive shows as unallocated. I guess this means there's some serious error somewhere on my disk? I'll start backing up some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread James Morrissey
If it's not a silly question, what is Super-W supposed to do? It does nothing on my machine, although this may be because by running dual screens I seem to be forced into Unity 2D - some suggest you should be able to run 3D on 2 screens, but I've had no luck so far :( It doesn't work on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Barry Drake
On 02/05/12 14:40, Joe Alam wrote: I checked in GParted and the entire drive shows as unallocated. I guess this means there's some serious error somewhere on my disk? Is there any way you can view the SMART data? There are tools for Windows as well as Ubuntu that can do the SMART tests.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Alam
I gave TestDisk a go (as recommended by a message in GParted) and I got a message saying that space conflicts between two of my partitions. Could this be what the problem is? Does anybody know how to fix that? Here's the output from TestDisk on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/KVrPsgrN On 2 May 2012

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 May 2012 08:52, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2012 22:23, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they go. Is this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Keith Burnett
Hello both Super W won't work in Unity 2D unfortunately but Alt-Tab is functional. Super W comes from Compiz, 3d only. Super S has been duplicated in 2d I think. -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -Original Message- From: Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Barry Drake
On 02/05/12 15:53, Joe Alam wrote: I gave TestDisk a go (as recommended by a message in GParted) and I got a message saying that space conflicts between two of my partitions. Could this be what the problem is? Does anybody know how to fix that? If gparted sees only unallocated space, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/12 14:23, Andres Muniz wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they go. Is this something official or do I have myself a nice troyan?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 May 2012 17:21, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/12 14:23, Andres Muniz wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 May 2012 17:44, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On 2 May 2012 17:21, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/12 14:23, Andres Muniz wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know

[ubuntu-uk] Government Open Source Usage

2012-05-02 Thread Martin Houston
Firstly sorry if people are already aware of this but it is important and urgent. This is something that you all need be aware of urgently: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/26/open-standards-consultation- important-update/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Alam
Hmm, okay. I'll try and get hold of another disk to back everything up. I believe this was indeed Microsoft's fault, I recently re-installed Windows 7, before which I had no problems with the partition table. I don't think it was anything on the original installation, I partitioned and installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Tansom
** James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com [2012-05-02 15:09]: If it's not a silly question, what is Super-W supposed to do? It does nothing on my machine, although this may be because by running dual screens I seem to be forced into Unity 2D - some suggest you should be able to run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 May 2012 14:01, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I seem to be forced into Unity 2D - some suggest you should be able to run 3D on 2 screens, but I've had no luck so far :( It is likely that you have a chipset (intel 945 for example) where 3d is not supported by the chipset if the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 May 2012 21:59, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/12 09:44, Tony Pursell wrote: ... and this is the most stable version of Ubuntu ever produced? Has anyone asserted that? Apologies, that was a bit harsh. It's the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem installing

2012-05-02 Thread alan c
On 01/05/12 00:10, David Smith wrote: At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling to install Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu absolutely fine, and I am getting to grips it. My desktop however won't accept Ubuntu x86. I have tried with a CDROM and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-05-02 Thread alan c
On 30/04/12 19:55, James Morrissey wrote: I found U1 to be very good with smallish files and a bit burdened with large files - I experimented with zipped files of 2GB or more, which would be useful for me. From Ubuntu 11.10 it was not too bad but it was hard to keep track of what stage it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government Open Source Usage

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 18:21, Martin Houston wrote: Firstly sorry if people are already aware of this but it is important and urgent. This is something that you all need be aware of urgently: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/26/open-standards-consultation- important-update/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 08:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote: I had a chat with a couple of the developers today. It seems one of the big issues they have is that java doesn't export any information about the application running through X. So it doesn't let on what pid the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 19:57, Paul Tansom wrote: ** James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com [2012-05-02 15:09]: If it's not a silly question, what is Super-W supposed to do? It does nothing on my machine, although this may be because by running dual screens I seem to be forced into Unity 2D - some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - On 1 May 2012 22:23, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not know i had and asking me if i wanted to report them. I say yes and off they go. Is this something official or do I have myself a nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/12 09:44, Tony Pursell wrote: ... and this is the most stable version of Ubuntu ever produced? Has anyone asserted that? It's the best version we've ever put out IMO. I'd much rather we had a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 3 May 2012 00:36, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: ** - Mensaje original - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/12 09:44, Tony Pursell wrote: ... and this is the most stable version of Ubuntu ever produced? Has anyone asserted that? It's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Ivan Wright
Im not happy about the amount of CPU usage the Whoopsie tool is using in Ubuntu server, Im noticing it sit around at 20% of one CPU core (Im running an Atom equivalent dual core 1.6GHz) Thats quite an overhead for a crash reporting tool, and Im seriously considering removing it. Doubt its picked