May

21

Restore Missing Panels in Ubuntu

May 21, 2010 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Q & A - Ubuntu

Tess from the USA asks: “…I am having trouble viewing my menu bar that usually appears across the top of my screen. The volume control used to be here and now I don’t get volume at all. How do I get the menu bar to reappear?…” 1) Try this command in Terminal: metacity –replace 2) [...]

Dec

15

CIFS VFS Shutdown Error When Using SMBFS

December 15, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in Linux Fixes

I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and set up access to (DNS-321) my network shares using smbfs; as in the post “Sharing the Same Files Between Two PC’s”. Shortly afterwards, when rebooting, shutting down, etc. I received this error message: ACPID: Exiting NM_SYSTEM_SETTING: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: Devices removed (UDI: /org/freedesktop/hal/devices/net_00_30_1B_BE_38_3D) [601.136038] CIFS VFS: [...]

Dec

14

Leave the Num Lock On!

December 14, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in Linux Fixes

I recently (finally) upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 (I’ve always had issues with x.10 releases for some reason). Until the upgrade I wanted to remain with the LTS track, but (it seems) less developers are supporting it, hence the move. I’ve performed excessive numbers of installs of Ubuntu and various applications on test boxes, but they [...]

Mar

17

Quick Fix for the ‘Size Mismatch’ When Updating Ubuntu Linux

March 17, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Linux Fixes

This is just a short “quick fix” post. For those who need it, here’s a quick fix when you get an error message like this: “W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc1d_0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.2_amd64.deb Size mismatch” It’s an error I received when the auto update feature was working in Ubuntu Linux. I double checked my sources.list file, but it [...]

Mar

13

Quick Fix: Black Desktop Background and Lost Icons

March 13, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 24 Comments
Posted in How to..., Linux Fixes

Just a short post for any of you that encounter the same issue I just did. I booted up this morning (Ubuntu Linux 8.04 – Hardy) and logged in, no problem. But my desktop background image (the wallpaper) had disappeared, along with my desktop icons. Also, the desktop background was all black. Rebooting did not [...]

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