[Lvlug] installed ubuntu 9.10

[Doug Nusbaum]

Michael Gossett wrote:
> Sounds like failing hardware
Possible on fail to boot.  Not on other thing.   And fail to boot 
problem has gone away.  (I rubbed Aloe Vera on the keyboard)
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> On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Doug Nusbaum <dpaladin at ix.netcom.com 
> <mailto:dpaladin at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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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