Fwd: Re: guided upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS.

[Nio Wiklund]

More progress ...

Emacs with GUI kicked me back to the login screen. This was similar to
the previous problems with screenlets, but worse, since it happened in
all desktop environments, also those based on gnome3.

Fortunately I found the following bug report,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/795373

where I added the following comment:

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Emacs and also some other programs caused exit back to the login screen.
I'm glad, that I found this bug report, because I can also fix the
problem uninstalling xfs :-)

Uninstalling xfs also fixed the problem with screenlets.

Best regards
Nio

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: guided upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS.
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:55:29 +0200
From: nio wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>
To: Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
CC: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com

2012/9/2 Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>:
> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:43:29 +0200
> Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [typing error: of course it should be ... compared to old 10.04 ... :
>>
>> 3. Unity as well as gnome-shell are much slower and need more memory
>> than before, so it makes the computer slow compared to old 10.04. I'm
>> talking about computers with (2 and 4) CPUs and (2 and 4 GB) RAM.]
>> -----
>> I can confirm that
>>
>> 1. I'm still making progress, but I'm not ready to make 12.04 LTS to my
>> main OS. 'The workhorse' is still 10.04 LTS.
>>
>> - I had some problems with screenlets, that I fixed with direct calling
>> of the python command lines (via a small shellscript).
>>
>> - VirtualBox in that fresh install was in 64-bit 12.04 Ubuntu. And it
>> was the version from the repos without USB.
>>
>> * Has anybody managed to get USB running in VirtualBox in 12.04? *
>> * or in 12.10? *
>
> Not being as smart as some people, I did not bother paying attention to
> Oracle's PUEL warning for this. I installed Xubuntu 12.04, then
> installed VirtualBox from the repositories. I got a warning that USB
> would not work without the extension pack, so I did the following:
>
> Go to virtualbox website and download the extensions pack, ignoring the
> wording about it being for PEUL only.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> VirtualBox 4.1.20 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack  All platforms
>
> Go to the download directory, double-click the extension pack you
> downloaded.
>
> Click on install, agree to the PUEL license. When the install screen
> comes back, USB is usable.
>
> Hopefully, this will work for you, too.
>
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Thank you Charlie,

It works for me now, I can run 64 bit code and I can use USB. After
downloading the extensions pack, I started VirtualBox and selected

File - Preferences - Plugins  # or something similar (translated from
Swedish)

and clicked to button to add the extension pack. I was prompted to add
myself to the vboxuser group in the host OS.

Best regards
Nio