[Lvlug] installed ubuntu 9.10

[Doug Nusbaum]

nstalled 9.10 the other day on my Aspire5100 laptop.  Did it as an upgrade

It is much improved over 8.10.  Faster in all ways.   A lot less memory 
leakage.  Swap memory stops at under 10% as opposed to 30% in 8.10  Also 
got wireless to work.   There was an issue with the screen  going into a 
flicker after combing back from sleep, but that hardly ever happens 
now.   Some combination of my using

sudo /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank

and the system just not going to sleep on its own.

I found the screenblank as a suggestion.   but not as a real solution
I sometimes still get a flicker

I do have a newly discovered problem with gedit.  The editor comes up 
but only after:
doug at doug-laptop:~$  gedit


GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible 
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you 
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See 
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Server 
ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

the above message is repeated exactly 33 times  (determined by doing a 
search on the string, counting, and finally doing a search and replace 
and then having the system number the replacement.)  I wanted certainty 
and did not want anyone needing to look through all 33 messages.


   1. zz
   2. zz
   3. zz
   4. zz
   5. zz
   6. zz
   7. zz
   8. zz
   9. zz
  10. zz
  11. zz
  12. zz
  13. zz
  14. zz
  15. zz
  16. zz
  17. zz
  18. zz
  19. zz
  20. zz
  21. zz
  22. zz
  23. zz
  24. zz
  25. zz
  26. zz
  27. zz
  28. zz
  29. zz
  30. zz
  31. zz
  32. zz

So, anybody got any ideas.    What does gedit have to do with any of the 
nouns listed in the error message?

thanks.

One more thing.   On occasion my system fails to boot.  I mean it does 
not even get to any script on the black screen.   I have then been able 
to boot by using a live disk.  Even that may take more than one try.
Has not happened in over a week, but still...

Thanks
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