<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> JACK COGMAN <jack.cogman@btinternet.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Willis <phwillis@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Rustington LUG <rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk>; JohnCogman <jwcogman@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 28 April 2012, 11:33<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE<br> </font> </div> <br><div
id="yiv1387306855"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div>You are not alone, Paul. Yesterday we attempted to upgrade our 11.10 to 12.04 - that is, my son attempted the upgrade, as he happened to be staying with us for a short while. It didn't help that we were intially running on the battery, as it ran out of power and the upgrade aborted. However, with assistance from other users via google searches, he succeeded in completing the upgrade. When he attempted to run Ubuntu, however, it came up with a System V error. After a long process involving changing video drivers (something which I would be completely out of my depth attempting) he has managed to arrive at a semi-working 12.04. The basic functions work OK, such as running a browser, but it error messages appear saying that it is missing some files.</div><div><br></div><div>- Further work still to
be
done</div><div><br></div><div>Jack</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Willis <phwillis@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Stuart McFadyen <stuart.624mcfadyen@btinternet.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Rustington LUG <rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 28 April 2012, 2:01<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE<br> </font> </div> <br>I got the x64 desktop on thurs and quickly put it on a bootable stick<br>which I ran live on a u3a laptop at the sussex lug. All well. When I<br>got home I
started to upgrade this machine which had been happy on<br>11.10, and went to bed.... In the morning the machine was off so I<br>restarted it and as if from sleep it put me straight back to the<br>middle of the upgrade but with some problem that I cleared and it<br>continued. I went out for a few hours and returned to find it stuck<br>again waiting to tell me something needed replacing so I OKed and off<br>it went again. This repeated several times over the following hours<br>until it finally seemed happy and I let it reboot. On logging in I had<br>a blank screen - no menu, no launcher and no keyboard shortcuts I<br>could think of. A right click to change desktop background let me into<br>settings where eventually I set the usual control-alt-t to open the<br>gnome terminal. (cont-alt F1 etc had worked for the tty terms and I<br>had killed my way out of some sessions). I was able to run a 2D login<br>OK with the usual unity stuff and I have changed my
nvidia driver<br>twice to try and get 3D working without success so far. I can at least<br>raise a terminal and run firefox, but I have to say as an upgrade this<br>has been a total pain. I think I'm going to try a fresh install if I<br>cant frighten this system into behaving soon! As I said the live cd<br>version was fine on a laptop which I'll try upgrading later...<br><br><br>On 26 April 2012 17:50, Stuart McFadyen<br><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:stuart.624mcfadyen@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:stuart.624mcfadyen@btinternet.com">stuart.624mcfadyen@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> I have just loaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release and all seem to be fine, apart<br>> from the fact that my ageing PC ( I am not into games ! ), does not have<br>> graphics support for the HUD (head Up Display) function.<br>><br>> Maybe my "live" 12.04 DVD could be loaded onto a modern laptop next week
?<br>> (Please Derek
!)<br>><br>> I will bring a .ISO memorystick copy of 12.04 to the meeting, if anyone<br>> would like to copy the file for burning.<br>><br>> It must be burnt to a DVD due to the file size.<br>><br>> Stuart.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> %(Rustington LUG)s mailing list<br>> %(Rustington LUG)s@%(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rustington.lug.org.uk">http://www.rustington.lug.org.uk</a>)s<br>> %(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rustington">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rustington</a>)slistinfo/rustington<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>%(Rustington LUG)s mailing list<br>%(Rustington LUG)s@%(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rustington.lug.org.uk">http://www.rustington.lug.org.uk</a>)s<br>%(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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