[Bug 550918] [NEW] Built-in floppy drive inoperative under Karmic

2010-03-29 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs Floppy Drive Inoperative under Karmic I have three machines with built-in floppy drives, and none of the drives work under Karmic. All three are perfectly OK under Hardy, as they were under various flavours of Windows previously. I tried ad

[Bug 429841] Re: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade)

2010-05-03 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
Hmmm ... This certainly freed up the system, BUT the reinstalled flash player (in Lucid with Firefox as installed during upgrade) DOESN'T WORK. Furthermore myspace (which seems to have gone berserk) is STILL saying I need to update flash, despite my having just installed the latest from the adobe w

[Bug 429841] Re: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade)

2010-05-04 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
OK I see what the problem is now. Somewhere along the way the previous version of Shockwave Flash (as it is still described in ADD-ONS - version 9.0 r152) got entombed in the installation. Can some kind person please post instructions about how to remove that? Otherwise the update simply sits in a

[Bug 429841] Re: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade)

2010-05-04 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
Yes I did all this and as stated it certainly freed things up with regard to error messages - but it DIDN't remove version 9 even after installing the update - and that appears to be causing havoc. -- broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: (bre

[Bug 429841] Re: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.22.87ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade)

2010-05-04 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
Finally got a temporary fix by using Chromium browser instead of Firefox. I lay most of the blame with Adobe. Note that: 1) I woke up one morning to find that myspace no longer worked with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and Flash 9 on my laptop. I attempted to install Flash 10 as suggested and it failed ev

[Bug 776548] [NEW] package usb-creator-gtk 0.2.22.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Was not aware I had it

2011-05-03 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: usb-creator Was just attempting to utilise a recommended upgrade for a package I didn't know I had (usb-creator-gtk) and it just hangs around incomplete, Instructions for removal say reinstall first, but reinstallation is greyed out in synaptic. ProblemT

[Bug 776548] Re: package usb-creator-gtk 0.2.22.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Was not aware I had it.

2011-05-03 Thread Trevor Robert Gilson
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776548 Title: package usb-creator-gtk 0.2.22.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before