kernel updates for k12.04

[Nils Kassube]

ray burke wrote:
> I cloned my k12.04 to vacant 160gb sata dive. Then this morning I
> booted up then connected
> thru my mobile broadband stick and ran the upgrade thru muon updater,
> it said after step 6 that there was 1365 packages to install and i
> have to download 874mb. and this would take about 10mins, so I then
> click the "start upgrade".
> It then took about 1.5 hrs to complete till it reached "restart the
> system to complete the upgrade",
> so I clicked restart now tab.
> it then rebooted,and brought up my logon screen, entered my password,
> then went away and brought up a Black screen, with cursor button, and
> nothing else except, my PopPeeper.exc (email notifier)and reminder.exc
> (birthday events notifier) which both run thru wine.

At least your system is partly working if those GUI programs are started 
automatically.

> Then a window
> pop up saying-
> "no system tray detected on this system"
> "unable to start exiting"

Searching for "no system tray detected", every result indicates that the 
problem is related to hplip. If your error message actually starts with 
"HPLIP Status Service: No system tray detected", then it would be 
confirmed and there seem to be several different solutions. In any case, 
you will need a command line. I'm not sure if you can start programs 
with ALT-F2 now, but if that is possible, you should start "konsole". 
Otherwise you should get a VT with CTRL-ALT-F2. Log in with your usual 
credentials and run the command

DISPLAY=:0 konsole &

then press CTRL-ALT-F7 to return to the GUI where you should have 
konsole running.

In both cases you can now enter commands. I would first try:

/usr/bin/hp-systray

If that doesn't help, you could remove your configuration directory for 
hplip:

rm -r ~/.hplip

and reboot.

And if that doesn't help, you could uninstall hplip (you can reinstall 
it later, if you need it):

sudo apt-get remove hplip

and reboot.


Nils