Re: [Bug 42149] Re: USB devices are not powered off at shutdown

2011-06-05 Thread Don Myers
Hi, Quite honestly I've been swamped at work and I also farm part-time. We are finally getting some good weather to be in the field, so I haven't given it a try yet. I also figured I couldn't mess anything up if I just waited for the Ubuntu patch. I did go to that link last week, but wasn't su

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-01 Thread Don Myers
I agree also. Most of you are much better than I when you are getting deep into the working of an operating system. I have not tried the "comment 83" fix for fear of breaking something and creating a royal mess. I was new to Ubuntu and Linux in February 2009. Since then I've installed Ubuntu on 20

Re: [Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-09 Thread Don Myers
e the ATI video driver he has installed before I do this. Thank you. Don On 03/07/2011 02:35 PM, Fabio Marconi wrote: > Hello Don Myers > On first, please go to system - Administration - Driver and disable propetary > drivers if installed. > Then click on the following links in

[Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-13 Thread Don Myers
We installed the 2.6.38-rc7 Linux kernel as per the instructions above. It did fix the shutdown problem. The computer reliably shuts down now without issue. On boot though, before the Ubuntu splash screen comes up saying for ata 1 and ata 2: softreset failed - driver not ready. Then it says unread

[Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-05 Thread Don Myers
I'm having the exact same problem too. How do you install the new Linux kernel mentnioned above? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654042 Title: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdo

Re: [Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-06 Thread Don Myers
Hi Fabio, Thank you for your quick response. The computer belongs to a co-worker of mine. I will get the information for you as soon as possible. Don On 03/06/2011 05:52 AM, Fabio Marconi wrote: > Hello Don Myers and Scott Macintire > Before i need to know the architecture of your machi

Re: [Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-07 Thread Don Myers
Here is the information from uname -a: fred@fred-NV52-Series:~$ uname -a Linux fred-NV52-Series 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux On 03/06/2011 05:52 AM, Fabio Marconi wrote: > Hello Don Myers and Scott Macintire > Before i need to kn

Re: [Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-07 Thread Don Myers
I recommended to the owner of the computer which would not shut down to do a BIOS update if one was available. He did, and it is shutting down normally now! Thank you for your assistance! On 03/06/2011 05:52 AM, Fabio Marconi wrote: > Hello Don Myers and Scott Macintire > Before i need t

Re: [Bug 654042] Re: Maverick reboots immediately after shutdown on travelmate 5530g

2011-03-08 Thread Don Myers
Thank you again for your assistance. I appreciate you having taken the time to help. On 03/08/2011 12:06 PM, Fabio Marconi wrote: > Ok Don Myers > Thanks for the reply > I close this report > Fabio > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status:

[Bug 765390] Re: (Regression) indicator-weather is not seeded; cannot be right-click added under Unity

2011-05-04 Thread Don Myers
Help please. I'm generally good with figuring out how to make things work in Ubuntu. I cannot make indicator-weather work in Ubuntu 11.04 Unity. It shows up in the list of apps if you tyupe weather. Clicking on it doesn't seem to do anything. Right clicking on it doesn't seem to do anything. Adding

[Bug 774799] Re: maximized Wine applications use wrong cursor coordinates

2011-05-06 Thread Don Myers
I'm having the exact same issues with Dreamweaver and with Quicken 2009 in Wine. I was extremely frustrated last night trying to use them. Based on the information above, the programs do seem to work if in a window and not full screen, but I haven't had time to really research this yet. -- You re

[Bug 686703] Re: USB mouse does not get detected on bootup 25% of the time (USB bus reset)

2011-05-15 Thread Don Myers
I've upgrade 8 computers from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. Two of them have the issue of the USB mouse being frozen on boot, one 20% of the time, one 50% of the time. The keyboard works on both, although at least one is not using a USB keyboard . A restart does not work. A complete shutdown is necessary,

[Bug 765464] Re: do not see indicator-weather on the panel

2011-05-16 Thread Don Myers
I have the indicator-weather installed on 2 other Ubuntu 11.04 boxes, and it displays fine. On my main box though, it will not display. I've tinkered with this ever since the release of 11.04 and can't make it work. It shows it is installed. I also checked that all of the files that installed when

[Bug 376267] Re: Under View, Sort Images, manual order is grayed out

2011-05-19 Thread Don Myers
I just installed GThumb from the software center in Natty. Since I didn't have a working GThumb that served my purposes, I have been using a windows program called Faststone Image Viewer in Wine relatively successfully (there are a few quirks). It is very important to me to be able to sort the par

[Bug 786272] Re: USB keyboard and mouse can't be used after shutdown and power on

2011-05-27 Thread Don Myers
I have a similar issue with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty). The computer has both a USB mouse and keyboard. Neither are powered down when the computer is shut down. On a fresh boot, the keyboard and mouse work work fine though. Also, the usb wireless adapter is not powered down either On two other computers

[Bug 784704] Re: Lights on USB keyboard and mouse remain lit after shutdown

2011-05-27 Thread Don Myers
I have the same issue on 1 computer out of 8 that I've upgraded. On two others, the USB mouse will freeze 20 to 50% of the time on boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784704 Title: L

[Bug 42149] Re: USB devices are not powered off at shutdown

2011-05-27 Thread Don Myers
I have the same issues on 1 machine out of 8 upgraded to Natty. No issues before with this computer with 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10 installed. 32 bit system, Mouse, keyboard, and usb wireless adapter all remain powered after shutdown. -- You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 42149] Re: USB devices are not powered off at shutdown

2011-05-29 Thread Don Myers
@madbiologist - I read that post the other day but had no idea how to apply it. I will be glad to give it a try with some instructions on what to do. On 05/29/2011 03:15 AM, madbiologist wrote: > @Don Myers - does the second patch in comment #33 fix the issue for you? > > > Fr

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-27 Thread Don Myers
I've done 20 installs if 10.04, mostly upgrades from 9.10, all 32 bit. Initially only 2 machines were problem machines. My computer at home and my co-workers computer at the office. None of the others had this issue for months. The upgrades were done shortly after 10.04 was released. On the two

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-18 Thread Don Myers
To Joel and others, My home computer decided not to have any printers tonight. The time was 23:39. Here is the information Joel requested: don 2133 0.5 0.3 48156 13340 ?Rl 23:38 0:00 gnome-terminal don 2134 0.0 0.0 1984 696 ?S23:38 0:00 gnome-pty-hel

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-06 Thread Don Myers
The cups update didn't change anything relative to this problem for me with the printers not being available after a startup. The machines that have had the problem continue to have the problem. The ones that don't have the issue haven't had a problem yet. But one thing I have noticed as compared t

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-06 Thread Don Myers
Hi, I did a clean install on a new computer about 3 weeks ago. It had never had an issue of the printers not being loaded. I booted this morning, and about 15 minutes ago went to print for the first time today, and no printers. Doing the 'sudo start rc-sysinit' and the 'ps aux' commands per respon

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-21 Thread Don Myers
I never had an issue with there being any difference whether the printers were on or not on boot. On 1 computer cups would not be started 80% of the time. On another about 30% of the time. The workaround in: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9480172&postcount=20 has worked flawlessly for me

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-21 Thread Don Myers
I found today that a third computer that I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 is also having this same issue. -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-14 Thread Don Myers
In response to Sepero, message 165 above, could you please clarify the instructions in the second link in your post. When I run sudo su -, it puts me in root. In the next step, I'm assuming the words done & exit are not to be included in what I enter into the terminal. When I run: sed -i 's/^con

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-16 Thread Don Myers
First, for Till and Post 170, thank you so much for your clarification. With that help I have done all of the items suggested by Sepero in post 165 above at this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9480172&postcount=20 on the machine that has given me the most problems. I've done 3 reboo

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-16 Thread Don Myers
I had no idea I was spamming this board. I'm sorry. The computer I put this work around on is a co-worker's computer who has been frustrated enough to tell me to put Windows back on his machine at least 3 times and forget Ubuntu and Linux. For 2 1/2 months now I've convinced him to hang in there. H

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-07-17 Thread Don Myers
I did things listed here in the link in Post 165: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9480172&postcount=20 My co-workers computer which would only load the printers at best 50% of the time has loaded has loaded them every time in 15 boots. -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boo

[Bug 554172] Re: cups not starting at boot

2010-06-15 Thread Don Myers
My appologizies to Garry! I see that Linux Mint 9 is based on Ubuntu 10.04. I am truly sorry. After using Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and now 10.04, I am somewhat disgruntled with 10.04. In theory, each version should be an improvement over the last. I've had a few relatively minor issues with past ve

[Bug 554172] Re: cups not starting at boot

2010-06-15 Thread Don Myers
Hi Joel, Thank you for your very well written comments. I've been using Ubuntu for about 15 months. I've migrated everything to Ubuntu except my video editing and a Windows forms program. I do a lot of picture editing and some websites, as well as sell real estate and farm. I've installed Ubuntu o

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-16 Thread Don Myers
Hi Jens, Some machines have not had issues. When I first noticed it, after doing an upgrade, I had no printers. The help in the printer dialog boxes indicated cups was not running and to start it. Almost all of the upgrade installs had this issue. Many of them after an initial restrt have not had

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-16 Thread Don Myers
Hi Joel, I hit the sack last night before you made your last post. Here is the strange thing. My machine at home was 50% of the time having the printers show up. The alst few days they were there. My co-workers machine at the office was 98% of the time the printers were missing. I made a document

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-16 Thread Don Myers
Hi Joel and Others, I just turned on my co-workers computer to test things again. From the cold boot everything was fine. On the reboot, no printers. When running 'sudo start rc-sysinit' at 3:15PM, this is what I got: d...@dale-desktop:~$ sudo start rc-sysinit [sudo] password for dale: rc-sysin

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-16 Thread Don Myers
I just did 3 more reboots, then 1 cold boot, and then 1 more reboot, and the printers were there each time. This is the exact opposite of the way this machine was performing last week and the week before. -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55417

[Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-06-17 Thread Don Myers
Garry, It makes no difference whether the printer is conected through a network or directly to the computer. I've had experience with both failing. -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554172 You received this bug notification because you are a m

Re: [Bug 554172] Re: CUPS and other system services not starting at boot

2010-08-04 Thread Don Myers
I've had the issue on both fresh installs and upgrades from 9.10. On 08/04/2010 04:38 PM, Phil Went wrote: > Fresh and upgrades of 32bit lucid confirmed >> I'm going to try and recreate this using a 32bit Ubuntu Server >> installation. Can those experiencing the problem confirm that this >> occu

Re: [Bug 554172] Re: system services not starting at boot

2010-08-05 Thread Don Myers
I've installed Ubuntu on 20 machines for individual desktop use. Most have been on AMD processors, and most of those have been on dual core and 1 quad core. The single core machines have rarely been used to print from. I've seen the issue on both dual core and quad core. I hope this helps. O

[Bug 515139] Re: Icons from gnome panel are missing at random on startup

2010-09-04 Thread Don Myers
I've installed Ubuntu on about 20 machines, and have never seen or heard about this until tonight. One person who I did an install for wrote me and said he couldn't find trash anywhere. I wrote back and sent him a screen shot of my desktop showing him where it was, and also told him how to find it

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