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

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/05/12 23:08, Bruno Girin wrote: On 02/05/12 08:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote: The fix apparently is to fix java to export that data. That is interesting. Thanks for looking into it. But it does beg the thought... in earlier versions of Gnome/Ubuntu

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

2012-05-03 Thread Colin Law
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Barry Drake
On 03/05/12 21:07, Gareth France wrote: A few minutes ago my system started accessing the hard drive frantically for about 5 minutes, then logged out while I was hald way through writing an email. Now every time try to log back in it says: Plymouth command failed mountall: Disconnected

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Gareth France
First thing I did but it's having none of it. I've seen a few reports of 11.10 doing the same if key files are corrupted but if I recall correctly guest login won't let me run nautilus as root so I can't browse the files in my profile. I'm also rather curious about why it just suddenly decided to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Praise for the Questions folk ....

2012-05-03 Thread Pete Smout
On 03/05/12 19:41, Barry Drake wrote: I've just got to say somewhere that I have nothing but praise for the guys who have been working tirelessly on : https://answers.launchpad.net/ I dipped into it three days ago to see what happened ther, and it was so overwhelmed by the new release that I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Barry Drake
On 03/05/12 21:37, Gareth France wrote: Agreed, but what exactly would I be looking for? Short of copying out my entire home directory and the deleting folders one by one until it works I'm not sure where to start. I'd rather narrow it down from the get go if I can. Where and what indeed. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Gareth France
But my profile has been working perfectly for about the last 2 months. Nothing has changed. So surely the issue is something that got modified this evening rather than an upgrade issue, right? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.comwrote: On 03/05/12 21:37, Gareth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 May 2012 21:07, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: A few minutes ago my system started accessing the hard drive frantically for about 5 minutes, then logged out while I was hald way through writing an email. Now every time try to log back in it says: Plymouth command failed    

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/12 13:35, Barry Drake wrote: The time I've been spending on the Ubuntu answers team has shown me that all kinds of nasties are occurring after an upgrade. In nearly every case, a clean install has been the best answer. I find this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/12 13:07, Gareth France wrote: A few minutes ago my system started accessing the hard drive frantically for about 5 minutes, then logged out while I was hald way through writing an email. Now every time try to log back in it says: Check

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Gareth France
On 03/05/12 13:35, Barry Drake wrote: The time I've been spending on the Ubuntu answers team has shown me that all kinds of nasties are occurring after an upgrade. In nearly every case, a clean install has been the best answer. I find this response very frustrating. It's not only

[ubuntu-uk] Updates interupt film

2012-05-03 Thread Andres Muniz
My wife claims this happened to her: she was watching a web video on full screen mode and the ubuntu updater took her out of full screen mode and set it's self on top of the web page. Has this happened to anybody else? Sadly this happened one day after i praised how little invasive updates on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updates interupt film

2012-05-03 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/12 16:47, Andres Muniz wrote: My wife claims this happened to her: she was watching a web video on full screen mode and the ubuntu updater took her out of full screen mode and set it's self on top of the web page. Sounds plausible. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
If there is a broken user account, it definitely is a config file issue with one of the hidden files in that user's directory. It's not a global config issue though. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 3, 2012 11:33 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com