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Jun 27, 2004
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Longinus00 posted:

The Ctrl+Alt+Fx keyboard commands still work. If you crash and those stop working then try sysreq magic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

I'm not sure how ShadowHawk is going to help you fix that wine bug unless he's also a wine contributer.

He is.

Also, when you drop to terminal you can just stop/restart the display manager. # service gdm restart or whatever it is in ubuntu.

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Jun 27, 2004
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Lysidas posted:

Well, btrfs saved my rear end yesterday. I'm running Kubuntu Quantal -- I reinstalled on my Lenovo X61 when the KDE 4.9 beta was part of the daily builds. I've been aptitude full-upgrade'ing regularly, and it looks like some recent updates broke Xorg (most likely the Intel and/or Vesa drivers; these were showing up with (EE) lines in Xorg.0.log). Newer daily live images have the same behavior on my system, and this might be related to the lack of a current i686/x86_64 image at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/.

Luckily, I took a snapshot of my root filesystem a few days ago; all I had to do was
  1. boot from a working live image
  2. mount the root subvolume and cd to where I mounted it
  3. btrfs subvolume delete @
  4. btrfs subvolume snapshot snapshots/root@20120701-1221 @

At the moment I'm forcing the Xorg drivers to stay at their current version and attempting to install the other updates. Hopefully I'll have a working system after that, but if not it'll only take a few minutes to revert :)


EDIT: I have a usable system after keeping the old version of the Xorg drivers and upgrading everything else. It wouldn't be a development release if this kind of stuff didn't happen, and btrfs snapshots are tremendously useful as a safety net.

I like btrfs so that is cool, but could you not have just reversed the last apt upgrade?

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Jun 27, 2004
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angrytech posted:

Youtube flash on my 12.04 system has some weird color inversion going on: blues are red and reds are blue kinda deal. I'd try fixing it, but videos just look so drat cool with crazy trippy colors. :3:

You can do what Zom Aur suggested, but you might also want to try the solution here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue

It worked for me, surprisingly.

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Jun 27, 2004
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Has any one managed to install 12.10 with disk encryption? When I tick the disk encryption box in the installer, I can't get past the next screen titled "Choose a security key". There are no dialog boxes to enter a key, and the Next button is not accessible.

edit: I had to manually delete the existing LUKS partitions on the disk before the installer worked.

other people fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Sep 7, 2012

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Jun 27, 2004
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Ahhh. I have tried to install both 12.04 and 12.10 and they fail during the install with "grub-efi package failed to install into /target/" or something like that during the last leg of the installation. I have tried letting the installer use the entire disk and partition it as it likes and partitioning it myself.

It is a laptop, single 16gb sata ssd, using a usb stick as the install media.

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Jun 27, 2004
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Bob Morales posted:

They look really cool. If you don't have a 3D animated model or a Matrix-inspired screen saver, how are you going to look like real hacker?

Stop wasting energy :( :( :(

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Jun 27, 2004
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Anyone else having issues installing fedora 19 with EUFI?

Also I'll admit I'm a bit of a dumbass with GUI stuff in linux, any way to make thumbnails show up like in windows on Centos/Fedora?

Do you want http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2389159 ?

I am not sure how thunbnails look in Windows, but Nautilus (the gnome file browser) has an icon grid view and thumbnails should be on by default.

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