Gnome CD/DVD Creator

H.S. hs.samix at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 14:48:01 UTC 2009


Al Black wrote:
> Hey Karl,
> 
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:56 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>> 	If you just open a Terminal and type locate nautilus you will see how 
>> big it really is. I have somehow screwed it up on Jaunty and I need to 
>> reload it. Instead I will load Brasero and make sure it works and forget 
>> all the other.
> 
> Over the past few months I've been reading about the various problems
> you've been having loading apps and generally getting things to run with
> both Jaunty and Hardy.  Typically you've have attempted a several
> different fixes which don't work, but finally you get something patched
> together.  Taken together its a pretty heady list of things of things
> that are "sort of" working.  I'm beginning to think that with some of
> your fixes, or something with your initial Ubuntu install has gone bad,
> and subsequently screwing up everything else. 
> 
> It might be worth doing a clean install from scratch; my guess is that
> you'll be having fewer problems and saving time in the future.

Plus, in another thread it was discovered this /etc/hosts file had
changed (not in "virus/spyware infected way", but changed nonetheless),
messing up GUI sudo and who knows what else. He wasn't aware how it
happened ... a very bad sign.

Yes, his machine is screwed up good. Easiest way might be just to
reinstall and save all the headaches.



-- 

Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding
newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just
filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without
ever having been read.





More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list