Ubuntu 10.10

Aastii

Aastii

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I've just tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 again and again, on a different computer this time, the disc simply won't boot.

It goes to a black screen with ubuntu in the middle and 5dots below swapping from white to red and back in a lovely sequence, but it does nothing. I sat for ~20 mins on my computer waiting for it to do something, now I am sat about half an hour in on a laptop waiting for it to install, my legs are hot from having it on them, and it is still not booting.

Has anyone else had this issue? I'm considering borrowing another computer and USB booting, however people have apparently had issues with that too...

Am I alone with the CD issue, or has anyone else that has tried 10.10 experienced this, and also has anyone successfully installed 10.10 off a USB device?
 
Well. I'm of little use since I don't have 10.10. (I've got 10.04, which I'm using now!) Anyway. Have you considered a bad disk?

I don't know how much different the 2 are (10.04 and 10.10) but I installed 10.04 via usb and it was quite easy
 
Troncoso said:
Well. I'm of little use since I don't have 10.10. (I've got 10.04, which I'm using now!) Anyway. Have you considered a bad disk?

I don't know how much different the 2 are (10.04 and 10.10) but I installed 10.04 via usb and it was quite easy
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Well I had one of those really lucky, but stupid moments.

The design of the laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300) has media buttons at the bottom. I accidentally hit the mute button, and it brought up white text on black screen of what was going on, it carried on going through very quickly, then stopped, and everything just a crap load of Input/output error's

It installed 8.10 no problems at all, so it probably is just a bad disc, however, some have had it do the same and then work again afterwards, which seems really really strange...

I'll download it and give it a go, will only take a few minutes to download it, will see how that works then
 
Have you used 10.04? Is there anything particularly better about 10.10 that would be worth upgrading?
 
Troncoso said:
Have you used 10.04? Is there anything particularly better about 10.10 that would be worth upgrading?
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It is the latest.

The full story is, he laptop belongs to a client. Long story short (missing out testing/diagnosis), his system would not boot at all, so I put his drive into my system, backed up his pictures and formatted/reinstalled XP, we put the original key in and it wouldn't boot so as all he uses the computer for is Skype to friends in Canada/Spain, internet banking and checking train/flight times whenever he goes to visit them, I told him that Ubuntu would do it fine. I left my 8.10 disc with him, showed him how to use it without installing, and told him if he likes it, I will install it for him, so, today, I did.

Everything installed fine, except for Skype, which didn't have the right framework installed in order to install it, so it was less work to go to 10.10, which is the only other copy I have on disc, than to update.

I can download 10.4 in a few minutes no problem, but would be easier if it was a known issue with a known fix than to go downloading another copy, burning it and reinstalling
 
Aastii said:
It is the latest.
. . . he uses the computer for is Skype to friends in Canada/Spain, internet banking and checking train/flight times whenever he goes to visit them, I told him that Ubuntu would do it fine. . . .
Everything installed fine, except for Skype, which didn't have the right framework installed in order to install it, so it was less work to go to 10.10, which is the only other copy I have on disc, than to update. . . .
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Try SuperOS as I've had better experiences with it than stock ubuntu -- hope you do, too.
 
salvage-this said:
What video chip is the laptop using? Ubuntu seems to have trouble with Intel integrated graphics.
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ATi, so no worries there, I'm thinking it is a disc error rather than any hardware issue, I'm using it right now to type this up on 8.10, so everything works absolutely no problem, it is just when trying to use the 10.10 disc.

I'm downloading 10.4 now, will make a USB boot drive and give it a go and get back to you :)
 
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Just an update. I installed 10.10 via usb, and so far is working fine.
I made the boot usb using Universal-USB-Installer
 
Troncoso said:
Just an update. I installed 10.10 via usb, and so far is working fine.
I made the boot usb using Universal-USB-Installer
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I think it was just the disc.

Now though, I'm trying to get the cam to work in Skype, which it does if you type into the terminal:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
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but creating an executable file to automate this, so you can just click the icon and it do it straight away, I can't figure it out :(
 
I do not know if you can link the executable bit from skype to do it but you should be able to do it by creating a launcher and copying the code to be executed in the terminal.
 
salvage-this said:
I do not know if you can link the executable bit from skype to do it but you should be able to do it by creating a launcher and copying the code to be executed in the terminal.
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already tried it, it just comes up saying:

Failed to execute child process
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I also tried something that I found through google, to quote the post:

Thanks for the awesome workaround - but i found it a bit annoying to have a terminal open to run skype.

I made two executable scripts in ~/bin/skype.

ScreenSkype.sh

#!/bin/sh
screen -d -m ~/bin/skype/SkypeLauncher.sh

SkypeLauncher.sh

#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
exit 0

Then i changed the Skype Lancher in the Main Menu to point to ScreenSkype.sh.

Now I can run Skype with working web cam and without having to have a terminal open.
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When I do that, it says:

Failed to execute child process "/home/brian/Public/Skype/ScreenSkype.ch" (Permission denied)
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You tried Linux before Aastii?

I would not install it to your system for a first try,Try it in VirtualBox and just download the ISO from Ubuntu website its much easier.
 
I sent you a PM on the C library file which should fix your issue I think....at least that is what Google said.

as for the permissions issue....copy/paste the results from this command here:

Code: 
ls -alOe /home/brian/Public/Skype/ScreenSkype.ch
 
Nevakonaza said:
You tried Linux before Aastii?

I would not install it to your system for a first try,Try it in VirtualBox and just download the ISO from Ubuntu website its much easier.
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Yes I have, however I've not used Skype on it, nor had to do something similar to this before, so am a little lost

tlarkin said:
I sent you a PM on the C library file which should fix your issue I think....at least that is what Google said.

as for the permissions issue....copy/paste the results from this command here:

Code: 
ls -alOe /home/brian/Public/Skype/ScreenSkype.ch
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I managed to get it working by creating 2 files in the /usr/bin file. 1 was the executable file, the other retrieved and ran the file and then closed the shell terminal. I can't remember the exact code, I'm not on the system any more, else I would post it, but google will tell you :P

Thanks for all the help :)
 
you should rarely modify anything in the standard $PATH, but if it works and all you need is internet and skype then it works.
 
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