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Upgraded the Jaunty and Hardy kernels on my multi boot tower yesterday.
The Jaunty upgrade offered the customary choice of grub menus. The Hardy
upgrade didn't. When I rebooted Jaunty it ran the latest kernel. Hardy
didn't show the 2.6.24-26 or 2.6.24-27 kernels in the boot menu. They
were present in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Looks like I've been
running the 2.6.24-25 kernel all this time without realizing it. Found a
couple of Google hits that talked about the problem but with no
resolution.

Never ran into this before. Anyone have any ideas, docs, pointers?

Running Hardy fully updated with adobe-flashplugin 10.0.42.34-2 from the
Ubuntu repos. I'm having trouble getting some sites ( hulu.com for one) to
function. They all tell me to d/l the latest Flash Player. Just for the
hell of it I clicked on the link they presented and it took me to the
Adobe site where I had the opportunity to obtain Adobe Flash Player
version 10.0.42.34 which, of course, was already installed. Now...what
am I not understanding here?

My version appears to be Ubuntu's free version. I assume the one from
the Adobe site is nonfree. Is that the problem?

Been trying to upgrade a Hardy installation all day with no luck. The
error message is:

Authenticating
/var/cache/apt/archives/xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support_1.9.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
...
debsig: Origin Signature check failed.

Can't connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com. Anyone know if it's down or is
it me? Can't ping it either.

I seem to recall a post that talked about specifying ext3 on a fresh
install of 9.10. Can't find the post in question. Can some one confirm
whether that option exists. If it does I'll probably install next month.

Searches failed to turn up the answer.

Posted this before but got no response. Did no one have any insight?
let's try again.

Had to reload Hardy and now the headphones can barely be heard. Speakers
plugged into the same socket have normal sound.
Alsamixer shows full volume for master but 0 for headphones. Furthermore
the headphone box is collapsed with no room to
increase volume. Selecting headphones and using the up arrow does
nothing, naturally.

Had to reload Hardy and now the headphones can barely be heard. Speakers
plugged into the same socket have normal sound. Alsamixer shows full
volume for master but 0 for headphones. Furthermore the headphone box is
collapsed with no room to increase volume. Selecting headphones and
using the up arrow does nothing, naturally.

Just had to reinstall Hardy and ran the updates. The 2.6.24-19 kernel
packages were held back. This had never happened before when running
apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Digging back in this list turned up
"apt-get dist-upgrade" as a fix. My question is why didn't apt-get
upgrade pull in the dependencies?

After creating an account for my step-daughter, I gave her (temporary)
admin privileges so she could install some software. When I had her
look in the System -> Administration menu synaptic package manager was
absent. I was able to install the s/w she wanted with apt-get so she
*did* have admin privileges. "Edit Menus" showed the package manager
was checked. Running "/usr/sbin/synaptic worked but I would like it in
the GUI menu for her.

Any ideas?

Tried posting this on the local LUG list with spotty results so I'll
try here.

Sorry for the length of this.

After a looooong losing fight trying to get wireless working on my Dell
Latitude laptop running Debian Lenny I gave up and hard wired the laptop
and the desktop to the Linksys WRT54GL router. Recently I replaced Lenny
with Ubuntu Hardy. When I fired it up the first thing I saw was that
Network Manager detected the wireless network, which was something Lenny
running Network Manager or wicd didn't. I could connect and access the
internet with no trouble.

Just switched from Debian Lenny to Hardy on my laptop. IIRC Lenny
provided an app that resided on the top panel and showed whether the
computer was on battery or AC, what the charge level was, the time
remaining to full charge and if on battery, the time remaining for the
charge life. I've been looking for something similar on Hardy with no
luck. The apps that have looked promising have required APM which my
laptop doesn't support.

Any pointers appreciated

Just installed Jaunty on my Dell Latitude (1.8 GB Pentium, 1 GB RAM) and
can't believe how slow it is. 3-5 second delay between clicking to
expand xterm and when it expands, 2 second delay when using the up or
down arrows to scroll, Mutt so slow responding to commands that at times
I think it's frozen and have to bail out, even Alpine has a noticeable
hesitation. Scrolling with the mouse wheel or the scroll bar is jerky
and skips with the previously mentioned delay. Has anyone else
experienced this or is the Holtzman Luck rearing it's head again?

"Locate sendmail" shows the program as being installed. Since I never
installed it I assume it was a default install by another program. Also,
since I have never installed a program except with synaptic or apt-get I
would expect send mail to show as installed. What am I missing?

I might as well show everyone here what an imbecile I can be before I do
the same on the mutt list.

First, I wasn't aware of these. Second, how does mutt utilize
/etc/Muttrc and /etc/Muttrc.d? I assume it's related to
/etc/Muttrc.d/gpg.rc but how is it invoked? Tried sourcing it in
~/.muttrc with no luck. Can you expand on it?

Thanks

Just installed rkhunter and exim4 automatically tagged along. A post
here some time ago informed me that Ubuntu doesn't use an MTA but I
think I'd like to try running everything thru exim4 so I can call
spamassassin from it. Now I'm running fetchmail and delivering to
procmail and it shows up in ~/mail. How that happens w/o an MTA is
beyond me (if anyone can point me to a lucid explanation of that I would
be grateful).

Running Hardy with the latest updates. I had the terminal launcher and a
number of documents on the desktop. When I booted just now the desktop
was blank. Just the wallpaper. The launcher and docs are still in the
~/Desktop directory. Also, right clicking on the desktop fails to bring
up the create doc popup. Rebooting doesn't help. The only change was to
run the update manager this morning. It showed some backport updates
that I went ahead and installed. I would try backing them off if I knew
how and could remember what they were.

Any help appreciated.

What is the difference between wpasupplicant and xsupplicant? Is either
one required to run a wireless lan? Wired?

I installed BitDefender a while back and just had occasion to look at
the user list. There sits BitDefender. Why? Anyone?X

Firestarter constantly shows 4 active connections on ports 60881, 9100,
56158, and 32841. Also every time I connect the Bit Torrent Transmission
client starts. Network activity up is 0.1 Kb/s max so I don't think
anything much is being broadcast, but it drives me nuts that Firestarter
always shows these connections. I have outbound traffic on all of these
ports blocked

Any ideas about what is going on? Also how can I stop the Bit Torrent
client from starting on connection?

I'm running a Linksys wireless router with wpa encryption for my
laptop and a desktop is hardwired into it. I'm wondering how
secure the wired connection is in as much as wireless isn't
involved. It seems as though the wired connection wouldn't be
secure if the router got cracked. The router has a 64 hex character
passphrase.

Anyone knowledgeable have any thoughts on this?

Sorry for the length of this but I figured too much is better than too
little.

This my my first foray into networking. After much searching in forums,
archives, google and more I'm down to posting this.

Running Hardy on an Athlon 5200+ on a desktop. Also a Dell Latitude
(used) laptop with Hardy, a Broadcom BCM5705 ethernet controller and an
IntelPRO/Wireless 2200BG network controller (so says lspci). The desktop
is hard wired to a Linksys WRT54GL router. I'm using *spit* Cox
broadband. When I first got the laptop it would detect a number of
networks.

I installed mondo 2.24-3ubuntu1 from the Ubuntu repo. Had a problem with
it so I climbed on the mondo-devel list and was told 2.24=2.2.4 and that
the latest was 2.2.7 which I went ahead and installed. Looks like the
ubuntu developers missed a decimal point. The problem is that the update
manager thinks 2.24-3 is later than 2.2.7 (2.24>2.2) and plants the
update symbol in the bottom panel.

Running 8.04. After adding another user I need to add her to the
/etc/sudoers file. The Ubuntu forum,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers talks about vi being the
default editor for visudo in 8.04. Does this provide the same safeguards
as visudo did?

If I read the docs right the entry to allow the new user to install
software would be "username ALL=(username) /usr/bin, /usr/sbin". Could
someone please confirm this or correct me? Assuming it's correct, is
that the only entry required? The docs I saw weren't that clear (or was
it me who was dense?).

Thanks.

I'm running 8.04 and am having a problem adding a software source,
namely ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04.

I tried entering this in the GUI third party s/w box and at first got a
hard freeze. Running"ps aux" showed nothing that looked right so I
rebooted. Subsequent attempts didn't freeze but the "add source" button
remained grayed out.

Tried a number of variations, i.e.
deb ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04,
ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04,
http://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/8.04, etc. No luck.

I have no idea how to proceed.

After automounting for months suddenly it refuses to mount when inserted.
The hard drive light flashes briefly as it always has but nothing further
happens. It doesn't appear to be a hardware problem because it automounts
in Fedora and Debian which I also have installed.

Is there a manual method to mount it? There is nothing in mtab about
it that the system can read so I'm at a loss.

Forums, list archives, and search engines have turned nothing useful. Any
help on how to proceed appreciated. Thanks.

Any problems running the Debian (not Ubuntu) package on Hardy?

TIA

I recently installed logwatch which in turn installed postfix. Later I
decided to uninstall them using "apt-get purge" and "apt-get autoremove".
Afterward I ran "locate logwatch" and "locate postfix" and a ton of files
showed up, mostly /usr/share/man/man8/ files, /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files,
with some /usr/lib/ files and some /etc/rc0.d....../etc/rc6.d files thrown
in. There was other misc. stuff which I won't bother to list.