Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone web browser broken

2016-08-31 Thread David King
/opt/click.ubuntu.com/ and /usr/share/click/preinstalled. How would I go about backing up these places? If I connect the phone to my Ubuntu PC, these places are not all visible to the PC. David K On 15/08/16 22:25, David King wrote: I have been using Ubuntu phone, BQ Aquarius E45

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone web browser broken

2016-08-15 Thread David King
I have been using Ubuntu phone, BQ Aquarius E45, for the past year. Until now the web browser has always worked. But today it stopped working. I went to use it, and wanted to access my History, as all tabs had disappeared that had previously been open. Then the web browser froze, and I had to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of OS in work

2016-03-18 Thread David King
Where I work, it is Windows 7 throughout, although running from remote servers. The actual computers we log on from mostly run Windows 7, but a few of the newer ones which have replaced older ones are running Ubuntu. So some people use Ubuntu to log into Windows. David King On 18/03/16

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone problems

2015-12-02 Thread David King
clicking a link to a website from a webapp and the kind of web browser lite window appears, it keeps reloading itself (problem since last two updates). Some apps seem less stable in general and more likely to crash, including web browser and Podbird. David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

2015-11-21 Thread David King
e £300 to £400 price range? Dell still do Ubuntu laptops but they are way more expensive than they used to be (the Inspiron only cost £300). David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-14 Thread David King
I wonder if the add-ons are interfering with each other in some way that blocks one inbox. Did you try it with no add-ons and with combinations of 2 of the 3 add-ons? David K On 03/09/15 09:07, Dianne wrote: On 01/09/15 11:41, Dianne wrote: I'm running Thunderbird 38.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

2015-09-12 Thread David King
Do you have the settings set to leave messages on the server or not? And where is the mailbox saved for the one that keeps losing emails? You should be certain they are set in a location that is always going to be writeable and not going to be unavailable at any time (e.g. USB drive). I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

2015-08-13 Thread David King
Thanks, Barry, although that does seem to suggest that Ubuntu is broken somewhere, where other Linuxes are not. So maybe we should be asking Canonical to fix this? David K On 13/08/15 17:45, Barry Titterton wrote: Hi David, I have also had a lot of problems trying to get Amazon Prime to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

2015-08-13 Thread David King
Thanks, that works. I installed hal and now Amazon Prime videos play in Firefox on Ubuntu. However, for the past couple of days I have noticed that playing a video in Youtube no longer works, whether I allow Flash or not. Yet if I go to other sites that have videos, e.g. Vimeo, the video

[ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

2015-08-12 Thread David King
I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. It's Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop. I have tried it in Firefox, Chromium, Qupzilla, Opera, Vivaldi and Midori -- it fails in all of them, including causing Midori to crash. However I got it to work perfectly on a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

2015-08-12 Thread David King
I installed Pipelight as well, but that did not work. I tried Chromium which has Flash 15 installed and that did not work. But Linux Mint 13 has only Flash 11 installed and it works. It is not a browser issue, I listed several I tried. It must be a configuration issue or similar I am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-27 Thread David King
I eventually managed to send emails from Dekko -- it is not configured all that well by default, i.e. the location of sent items was note specified. Once I had specified those, I could send emails. David King On 09/04/15 18:42, David King wrote: Then if I use Dekko, it will not send

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-17 Thread David King
. David King On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote: I fixed the USB to PC connection issue. I had tried it in Ubuntu 12.04 and Mint, both installed on the same PC, but still no luck with accessing the phone. Then I went back into Ubuntu 14.04, and put the phone onto a long USB cable

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-17 Thread David King
Well, I just found out there are lots of updates for Ubuntu Phone, so I installed those and now the Ubuntu PC recognises the phone when plugged in -- hooray David On 17/04/15 09:36, David King wrote: My Ubuntu Phone is not being recognised by my Ubuntu PC again -- even though it was last

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-17 Thread David King
The current updates are the second lot, released only this week. David K On 17/04/15 19:49, Gareth France wrote: Aah, I did my updates the day I got it so that explains why I had no issues. On 17/04/15 10:48, David King wrote: Well, I just found out there are lots of updates for Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-10 Thread David King
weak. I shall have to buy a new USB portable power supply -- I had one before but it stopped working. David K On 09/04/15 19:29, Gareth France wrote: Can you try it on another Ubuntu install? Live disc? On 09/04/15 19:28, David King wrote: Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-10 Thread David King
place. I assume we will see this aspect improve along with all the other issues in the near future. I'm finding mine is lasting the day just about, I tend to put it on charge if I'm in the car though. On 10/04/15 21:45, David King wrote: but today I was out and using the phone, went online

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-09 Thread David King
Yes, no problem now adding contacts from received calls. But still my Ubuntu PC cannot connect to the Ubuntu Phone when connected via USB. David King On 09/04/15 19:05, Gareth France wrote: I love the fact going to advanced setting in Dekko just brings up a message saying 'not implemented

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-09 Thread David King
an option to share via Facebook (using the Facebook app installed) or by gmail (using the gmail app). So what is the solution to this? How can I share a URL from my Ubuntu phone to send to my pc to view it on there later? David King On 08/04/15 18:28, Dan Chapman wrote: On 08/04/15 17:30

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
. David King On 08/04/15 15:16, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi All A few problems/observations from me: 1) For the second time I have been given a notification of '1819631974 voicemail messages'. When I touch the phone icon on it, it just goes away. First time I had it, I didn't even have voicemail set

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
readers. So why not the BQ Ubuntu Phone? On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote: I have noticed that the Dekko email client is quite unstable and keeps crashing -- surely the Ubuntu team should be developing this? We need a decent email client. One of the main reasons for having an Ubuntu phone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
I had already tried that, but touching the number does nothing. On 08/04/15 18:07, Gareth France wrote: When you click on the number in the received calls list it loads it into the dialer screen. On the left of the number is a + icon to add it. On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote: When I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
it was connected but no device info, so it is recognising that something is connected via USB but Ubuntu on the PC cannot recognise the Ubuntu Phone -- some sort of problem in Ubuntu on the PC it seems, as netbook can see it and access its files. David King On 08/04/15 18:11, Gareth France wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
of the number is an icon of a person with a + On 08/04/15 18:14, David King wrote: I had already tried that, but touching the number does nothing. On 08/04/15 18:07, Gareth France wrote: When you click on the number in the received calls list it loads it into the dialer screen. On the left

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread David King
and shoulders icon with + sign to the left appears and from there I could add the number to my contacts, but from what you wrote below I am guessing you found another way to do that? David On 08/04/15 18:29, Gareth France wrote: What red button? On 08/04/15 18:27, David King wrote: Okay

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-28 Thread David King
to micro size). David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-27 Thread David King
So has anyone yet managed to do a copy and paste on an Ubuntu Phone? I cannot find a way to do this. David King On 24/03/15 19:21, Gareth France wrote: Having spent my first whole day with the phone today I have to say it has been a real mixed experience. It feels like I could really get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

2015-03-27 Thread David King
it accidentally. David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

2015-03-27 Thread David King
for this and found nothing. David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-27 Thread David King
It seems to work now after the latest update, maybe that fixed it. On 27/03/15 23:08, David King wrote: So has anyone yet managed to do a copy and paste on an Ubuntu Phone? I cannot find a way to do this. David King On 24/03/15 19:21, Gareth France wrote: Having spent my first whole day

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread David King
but lacks a few features. I had also considered a Jolla phone but did not much like the look of the way the OS works. I realise Ubuntu Phone is different to Android but it is at least a known OS in regards to desktop use. David King On 06/03/15 09:11, Gareth France wrote: Ubuntu phone once

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2014-12-06 Thread David King
My main PC I built myself, so various bits are different ages, the most recent update of hardware being earlier this year. Case is less than 4 years old, running Ubuntu Studio 14.04 I also have a netbook which dates back to 2009 and still in good condition, although long ago I replaced

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread David King
need to install a new distro. It has a CPU speed of 1.6 GHz and 1 GB of RAM so similar specs to your Samsung. David King On 04/10/14 15:25, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there . I just got back after some time away using my netbook. It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

2014-07-03 Thread David King
The last entries from the error log are: [Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519873 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 20002] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4 configured -- resuming

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

2014-07-03 Thread David King
why it did not work. David K On 03/07/14 17:48, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 3 July 2014 17:28, David King linux...@avoura.com mailto:linux...@avoura.com wrote: The last entries from the error log are: [Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928] AH00169

[ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

2014-07-02 Thread David King
I have installed Drupal 7 into Ubuntu 14.04, following instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal I got as far as the bit that says Complete the Drupal Installation through a Browser and clicked on the links for install.php but in Firefox all I get is 404 not found. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

2014-07-02 Thread David King
I get 404 error for http://localhost/drupal/install.php so must be something wrong with LAMP, although I have no idea what. David K On 02/07/14 23:05, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 2 July 2014 22:24, David King linux...@avoura.com mailto:linux...@avoura.com wrote: I have installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PC slowing down and freezing after upgrade of hardware

2014-03-08 Thread David King
On 08/03/14 14:39, Liam Proven wrote: Is your new BIOS/firmware full updated? What kernel are you running? Have you tried the newer backport kernels? After searching online I found that others have the same problem with Firefox 27 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/986641

[ubuntu-uk] PC slowing down and freezing after upgrade of hardware

2014-03-07 Thread David King
and it handles it smoothly. So how do I fix this, and get rid of that USB device error and with the PC running normally without freezing? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using workspaces.

2013-12-11 Thread David King
On 08/12/13 00:06, Andres wrote: I seem to recall configureing atl+tab to cycle through all programs independantly of which workspace they are in. I can look it up if useful. It should be only useful if you run a small amount of programs at the samd time. Also, if I remember correctly, you

[ubuntu-uk] GLX problem

2013-12-07 Thread David King
Hi all, I am currently having a problem with all things GLX related, i.e. screensavers that use GLX are no longer working, also a game that uses GLX. E.g. when running foobillard in terminal I get the following error: main:rgstereo=0Video mode set failed: Couldn't find matching GLX

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GLX problem (solved)

2013-12-07 Thread David King
-lowlatency again. Could there be a bug in the later kernel? David K On 07/12/13 11:36, David King wrote: Hi all, I am currently having a problem with all things GLX related, i.e. screensavers that use GLX are no longer working, also a game that uses GLX. E.g. when running foobillard

[ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

2013-11-08 Thread David King
I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04 There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get an error: installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unable to open files list file for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

2013-11-08 Thread David King
Thanks, but I already tried that and still got the same errors. It downloaded the file again, but still the same problem persists. David K On 08/11/13 15:23, Colin Law wrote: On 8 November 2013 15:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I am having a problem with updating any software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

2013-11-08 Thread David King
2013 15:23, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 8 November 2013 15:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04 There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get an error: installArchives

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin broadband from 20 to 60 megas

2013-07-20 Thread David King
In part it will depend on the speed of your wifi, it is slower than 20 Mbit/s then upgrading your Virgin broadband will make no difference. Also consider the speed of the devices themselves, you wrote that HD does not always work well, so it might be that your devices cannot handle HD video

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

2013-06-01 Thread David King
: On 31 May 2013 22:12, David King linux...@avoura.com mailto:linux...@avoura.com wrote: /home is mounted on /sda7 it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to gparted) What's the content of /etc/fstab ? Your /home should be in there (but it's

[ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

2013-05-31 Thread David King
Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but goes straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder literally just disappeared. I can see other user folders in /home but not for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

2013-05-31 Thread David King
to mount your home using encfs for some reason. On 31 May 2013, at 17:19, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but goes straight back to the login screen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

2013-05-31 Thread David King
of these two commands? sudo mount sudo fdisk -l Thanks, Alan Jenkins On 31 May 2013, at 21:00, David King linux...@avoura.com mailto:linux...@avoura.com wrote: Nothing is encrypted. I should point out that /home is a separate partition to root, but on the same hard drive. Most of my data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu quickly ebook template

2013-01-18 Thread David King
On 18/01/13 00:44, Mike Hingley wrote: Just thought I'd drop you an update - I posted on the mailing list asking for recommendations for HTML WYSIWYG editors - I was working on a quickly template for ebooks - an I managed to get the code onto launchpad this evening.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with OpenGl and libGL

2012-12-21 Thread David King
It's okay now, I got OpenGL working again. On 15/12/12 19:55, David King wrote: I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 64-bit version. I have OpenGL and libGL stuff installed, but recently things that require it no longer run and I get an error message when trying to run from the command line

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber Facebook updates

2012-12-17 Thread David King
On 16/12/12 20:52, Alan Pope wrote: On 16/12/12 18:06, SuperEngineer wrote: All suggestions [apart from use a web browser and go the long way round] welcome. Delete the connection to facebook and re-create it? Kill gwibber and gwibber-service run them from a terminal and look for

[ubuntu-uk] Problems with OpenGl and libGL

2012-12-15 Thread David King
I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 64-bit version. I have OpenGL and libGL stuff installed, but recently things that require it no longer run and I get an error message when trying to run from the command line like this: cairo-dock: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds

2012-11-28 Thread David King, linux user
I have downloaded and used proprietory anti virus from well known AV companies, e.g. Avira. It was based on linux but was not customisable and intended to disinfect Windows PCs. David Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: paul sutton zl...@zleap.net To:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-22 Thread David King
I can now boot into Ubuntu Studio okay. The only thing I did was, when in Linux Mint, to update GRUB. Maybe it was trying to boot into an old kernel in Ubuntu Studio that was not there? I am not sure why it was not working. Or it could be something else was wrong. But it is booting okay. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-21 Thread David King
On 20/11/12 13:14, J Fernyhough wrote: On 20 November 2012 12:59, David King, linux user linux...@avoura.com wrote: I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new. How much free space do you have? e.g. what's the output of $ df -h ? It has 16 GB free space on that partition

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-20 Thread David King
On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King linux...@avoura.com mailto:linux...@avoura.com wrote: I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I can no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it does not get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-20 Thread David King, linux user
I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new. -Original Message- From: David King linux...@avoura.com To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:30 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 19

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

2012-11-19 Thread David King
I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I can no longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it does not get as far as letting me log in. First it was some messages about not being able to touch some files in my home directory due to read only file system.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Quantal Quetzal takes flight - the London release party for Ubuntu 12.10

2012-10-09 Thread David King
I just want to say that I was in a small museum recently, with lots of stuffed birds, and one of them was the Quetzal bird from Mexico, so now I know what a Quetzal is and what it looks like :-) On 03/10/12 15:55, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we have settled

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

2012-09-25 Thread David King
On 21/09/12 02:41, A wrote: Hi, David. I've had similar issues to you before and i'd suggest you install the proprietary drivers (fglrx) (it automatically blacklists the radeon driver to avoid conflicts) and then do the following command (sudo aticonfig --initial) before you restart, because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

2012-09-25 Thread David King
degrees, but it likes to accrue up to 71 ish if i'm watching a fullscreen video or playing minecraft whereas past fglrxs stick the temp happily around 58, even under pressure. For now, it's time to play the waiting game :( On 25/09/12 17:54, David King wrote: On 21/09/12 02:41, A wrote: Hi, David

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

2012-09-20 Thread David King
On 19/09/12 13:20, antonk20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there David, Could you please specify whether you have upgraded from another graphics card to this one or is this a new build. Could you please specify your other components to are using, especially the motherboard. I have linux 12. 04

[ubuntu-uk] problem with Radeon driver and screen resolution

2012-09-18 Thread David King
I am having some problems with drivers for my graphics card. It is a Sapphire Radeon HD 7750, and I am using a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 12.04, updated online after installing. When I install the proprietary drivers for it, and then reboot, I get a blank screen instead of the login screen.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice Writer landscape print failure ....

2012-09-01 Thread David King
On 30/08/12 21:17, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Guys . Anyone care to check this out? I reported a bug a while back, but it is as yet unconfirmed. I just burned a cd of today's 12.10 image to check it out. Boot from the latest image. Open LibreOffice Writer. Print a page in landscape

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook - update

2012-08-31 Thread David King
. On 15/06/12 14:34, David King wrote: I recently purchased a BlackBerry PlayBook. It's a great tablet, but it seems that RIM are not that Linux-friendly. Their OS is based on QNX, a Unix-type OS, so I thought they might at least have some Linux understanding. I can connect the PlayBook

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-15 Thread David King
already backed up a list of my installed packages, and my /home is on a separate partition. David K On 07/08/12 18:15, David King wrote: I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04. I therefore used the Update Manager

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-15 Thread David King
On 15/08/12 10:37, David King wrote: I have a new problem now: It no longer boots. It starts up with the splash screen (for Ubuntu Studio) and then that disappears, I get a CLI and various text outputs, and it gets as far as starting TIMidity++ but then freezes. I can still reboot and even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login background

2012-08-14 Thread David King
On 13/08/12 20:10, Andres Muniz wrote: So how can I get the login background changed to something else which works? David K hi david, sorry but this is out of my knowledge. Last time I wanted to change the image all I did was find the image that it was refering and changed the image

[ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

2012-08-10 Thread David King
For no apparent reason, I have suddenly lost all sound in my Ubuntu Studio 12.04. It worked okay this morning, and then when I tried to listen to something else, the sound was gone. I checked all the physical connections, the speakers are working (I also route TV sound through them), and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

2012-08-10 Thread David King
On 10/08/12 16:30, Liam Proven wrote: On 10 August 2012 16:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I just have the onboard sound, no other soundcard. Ah. Well, it's not that, then, I don't recall having any other problems with Linux sound in a decade or so. Sorry! I booted into Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost sound

2012-08-10 Thread David King
I seem to have now fixed this. I logged out, and at the login screen, I noticed that at the top right there was a sound icon. I clicked on it and it showed the sound as muted. So I unmuted and then logged in. I had not see this before because the login screen is basically dark purple with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-09 Thread David King
I have managed to upgrade to 12.04 from the command line, which I found online, using this command: sudo do-release-upgrade but I still have the Python problem I had before, which means I cannot run Ubuntu Software Centre or the Update Manager. David K -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-09 Thread David King
__init__.py - ../../../../../share/pyshared/gi/repository/__init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376 Aug 9 14:47 __init__.pyc On 09/08/12 16:33, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012, at 03:51 PM, David King wrote: I have managed to upgrade to 12.04 from the command line, which I found online

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-09 Thread David King
I still cannot run Update Manager or Software Center. Every now and then a crash report is generated and an icon appears, with an option to report the crash, but I cannot see the contents of the crash. I expect it is in a file somewhere, does anyone know where? I have also installed the MATE

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB 3 drive no longer automatically mounting

2012-08-07 Thread David King
This now seems to have fixed itself. On 06/08/12 22:09, David King wrote: I recently moved my Ubuntu installation (10.10) from one hard disk to another. I also installed Linux Mint on the new drive, which controls the boot menu (on the old hard disk the boot menu was installed by Ubuntu

[ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-07 Thread David King
I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04. I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10. But I cannot get any further. When I try to run the Update Manager, nothing happens. I tried from a terminal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-07 Thread David King
On 07/08/12 19:19, Liam Proven wrote: On 7 August 2012 18:15, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I was using Ubuntu Studio 10.10, and as I have the week off, finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 12.04. I therefore used the Update Manager, went to 11.04, then to 11.10. But I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-07 Thread David King
On 07/08/12 20:11, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi, It appears to be something wrong with python, and after searching online, lots of other users have had similar problems with python, running various programs that depend on it. Do any of them actually mention a bug number? [1] That is from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading Ubuntu

2012-08-07 Thread David King
On 07/08/12 22:33, David King wrote: On 07/08/12 20:11, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi, It appears to be something wrong with python, and after searching online, lots of other users have had similar problems with python, running various programs that depend on it. Do any of them actually

[ubuntu-uk] USB 3 drive no longer automatically mounting

2012-08-06 Thread David King
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation (10.10) from one hard disk to another. I also installed Linux Mint on the new drive, which controls the boot menu (on the old hard disk the boot menu was installed by Ubuntu 11.10). Previously when booting into Ubuntu an external hard drive on a USB 3

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

2012-07-06 Thread David King
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a fairly old PC, 64-bit version. It runs okay, but I am having a few problems with Ubuntu One and Dropbox. When trying to access Ubuntu One, it starts the installation process. Not sure why as I thought it should have been installed by default, in fact, when I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

2012-07-06 Thread David King
New problem: the new installation of Ubuntu has lost its internet access. This PC I am writing this on (running Ubuntu 10.10) still has internet access from the same router. So now why would Ubuntu just stop working with the internet? Is the software likely to be broken somewhere? David K

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

2012-07-06 Thread David King
I should add that the Ubuntu 12.04 can see the router without any problems, but nothing beyond that. From the same PC as well, which already had Windows Xp and Linux Mint installed, neither of them had these problems. On 06/07/12 20:02, David King wrote: New problem: the new installation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

2012-07-06 Thread David King
On 06/07/12 20:29, Colin Law wrote: Try power cycling the router. May not help but worth a try. Colin I often do that if internet access disappears or goes slow. But did not help with Ubuntu 12.04 though. David K -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu One and Dropbox problems

2012-07-06 Thread David King
On 06/07/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote: What happens if, in a terminal, you enter ping www.google.com and if that fails try google directly ping 173.194.67.105 Also if you go to the network icon in the top panel, click it and click Connection Information what do you see? Colin When it loses

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

2012-06-29 Thread David King
On 25/06/12 16:20, kpb wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:17:03 +0100 Alan Popealan.p...@canonical.com wrote: http://design.canonical.com/2011/11/ubuntu-phone-tablet-and-tv-discussion-opened/ Feel free to let us know what you think an Ubuntu tablet should look like, features and so on. We'd be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook and Windows in VirtualBox

2012-06-25 Thread David King
making drivers, even though they might be using something quite different on the tablet, whether Linux or Unix-based. David King On 24/06/12 19:28, LeeGroups wrote: David, Sorry, only just got around to catching up with the mailing list and your email. If you can get the old PC working

[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

2012-06-25 Thread David King
if it can run Android apps as well. (The Blackberry PlayBook can run some Android apps even though its OS is QNX-based.) David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook and Windows in VirtualBox

2012-06-15 Thread David King
that, but until then the only way I am running Windows is via VirtualBox. Anyone else had any experience with using the BlackBerry PlayBook? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] File sharing website

2012-06-15 Thread David King
Thanks for the tip. Looks pretty good, 50 GB cloud storage and they support Linux and Android. David K On 10/06/12 15:53, Mark Fraser wrote: Watched this week's Click and a website called http://minus.com/ was mentioned as a website for sharing files such as photos and videos. What made it

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Re: Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-17 Thread David King
On 03/04/12 12:34, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote: I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was actually "Semantic Disk St

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong

2012-04-11 Thread David King
On 10/04/12 18:12, Andres Muniz wrote: - Mensaje original - On 09/04/12 20:34, Andres Muniz wrote: hi, looks like you tube shows in shades of blue. Really wierd. i was able to see a bbc film alright though. I'm using firefox on ubuntu 11.10. ... There are a few fixes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-03 Thread David King
On 02/04/12 09:12, James Tait wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not Ubuntu One. The semantic part makes me think of something like Zeitgeist, perhaps? Which version of Ubuntu is this? JT I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was actually Semantic Disk Storage, but the

[ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

2012-03-31 Thread David King
be but found nothing. Any ideas what this means? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Problems printing PDFs from Adobe Reader

2012-03-30 Thread David King
and no graphics of any kind. Is there a PDF reader in Linux that can do booklet printing? I am using Ubuntu 10.10 (I know it is old now, I plan to move to a later version soon). David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System76 Lemur

2012-02-10 Thread David King
If you really need a UK keyboard, one option would be to plug in an external USB UK keyboard. It would also give you perhaps more keys and bigger keys, but you might also then need to plug in a USB mouse/trackpad. David K On 09/02/12 17:41, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 9 February 2012

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer?

2012-02-03 Thread David King
it is in Windows. I can certainly recommend this printer to anyone who is looking for something similar. It has the ability to print straight from a memory card which I tried and got good results. David King On 04/01/12 00:08, David King wrote: I also found the Epson Stylus Photo PX730WD

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer?

2012-01-24 Thread David King
On 22/01/12 19:45, alan c wrote: Kodak have recently filed for bankrupcy Maybe Kodak printers will now be selling very cheaply? David K -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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