Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 14 18:33:51 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> > All you really need to know to keep Hoary going is that if a Synaptic
> > update breaks GNOME (as an update occasionally does), then you have to
> > switch to one of the other "terminals" (ctrl-alt-F1 through 6), login
> > as the main user, run sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get
> > upgrade, followed by sudo reboot and you should be fine (except that
> > every 30 restarts you have to wait for your disk to be checked in the
> > boot sequence ;). And, sometimes you can fix problems by just
> > restarting X11 with control-alt-delete in terminal F7.
> 
> Of course, you do have to wait for someone on the Ubuntu side of
> things to affect the fix before doing apt-get update & upgrade (since
> it's unlikely you're the only one impacted), and, if there are
> multiple instances of GNOME-panel the only solution appears to be that
> you have to do a full reboot.

It would be a great idea to document this process in the wiki so that the
adventurous who experiment with Hoary have some resources to fall back on.

-- 
 - mdz




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