[ubuntu-za] 18.04 releases

Sat Oct 27 16:54:09 UTC 2018

Hello Bill
I understand your frustration with 18.04 because I had a printer
problem until yesterday. Then Anton of ubuntu-za responded and fixed it
using TeamViewer and WhatsApp.
I hope they can fix all your issues too. You have many more machines to
fix. 
God bless. Chas*************************My problem was:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 13:26, Charles IRONS <irons.charles at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Ubuntu-za
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> I am a retired end user of Ubuntu since 2004 but at age 79 I need
> help and I expect to pay for it.
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> Does anyone live near me in Northcliff Johannesburg??
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> I live in 46 ELM PARK VILLAGE, 1 SUZANNE CRESCENT< NORTHCLIFF 
> Very near ElCorro shops where Weltevreden Road becomes 14th Avenue.
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> I hope there is an expert among Ubuntu-za members who can sort out my
> printer configuration.
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> My printer does not print since I upgraded Ubuntu to 18.04.1 about 10
> October 2018.
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> I have followed advice in over 30 emails from several guys using
> ubuntu-users list without success.
> I still do not know much about linux or cups or debian.
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> The error "Filter failed" keeps appearing.
> Launchpad bug #35248 looks similar so I finally read some of the
> advice in  
> https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem
> and started to do some diagnostic steps but got very lost.
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> The printer works well if I switch to Windows 7 but that is little
> use because that has very few apps in it.
> I only use Win 7 for SARS efiling .
> I am quite sure this problem can be solved but I only have the skills
> to do terminal commands that I can copy and paste.
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> I also tried the simple fix shown in launchpad bug #35248:
> sudo sed -i 's/HP (HPLIP)/HP/' /usr/share/ppd/hplip/*
> The result is:
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> sed: can't read /usr/share/ppd/hplip/*: No such file or directory
> Please help me get this printer to work again-- 
> 
> Thanks & kind regards . Chas

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> Rant: I have been a faithful Linux user and advocate for more
> nearly 15 years now. It was way back in 2004 that I first committed
> my major machine to running Linux. Never in this time have I
> experienced the problems that I have had with the various versions of
> Ubuntu 18.04. Nearly every time in the past Ubuntu has just worked
> after installation. This time I have had to spend days getting Ubuntu
> to work to my satisfaction – and even after a couple of months some
> stuff is still not right. (Ok so the conversion away from Unity is
> part of the problem.) 
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> Xubuntu, which I have run on my (12 year old) laptop for the past
> 6 years or so, was so slow under 18.04 that it was unworkable. OK ,
> after a couple of hours, I managed to improve that by making a minor
> fix. (If I could find a minor fix by searching the net, why can't the
> minor fix be incorporated in the standard version?) It is still slow
> though. So I decided to try Puppy Linux. That is a mess: the ubuntu
> startup disk creator does not work with Puppy. Use Unetbootin they
> said. So I install Unetbootin but it does not work on 18.04. OK – I
> eventually use  mkusb (finding out about that was not trivial
> either). Puppy eventually works but will not save the configuration
> from session to session. I waste some more time trying to find out
> what is wrong. Eventually I say what the hell and decide to give
> Lubuntu a try. (I don't like the fact that Puppy only runs in
> administrator mode; that it is still stuck with 14.04 repositories
> ...) So I download Lubuntu. The first thing I find is that Lubuntu
> does not give the option to run live from a USB so I have to install
> it. It takes longer to install than Ubuntu did and gives me far fewer
> options about how and what I want to install. Then the wireless
> connection does not work. Just flat does not work. I do some more
> research – Google likes me, I have spent more time with Google than
> my wife lately. There are a stack of suggested fixes. I am not sure
> that I have the interest to pursue them any more. At least Xubuntu
> worked even if it was very slowly.
> I am really beginning to doubt my commitment to Ubuntu and Linux.
> Torvaldes recently said that the big problem with desktop Linux is
> that people don't want to download and install operating systems
> themselves. I would agree but would add that if I do have to download
> an operating system, I would expect it to work. I think that all the
> 18.04 releases that I have seen have clumsy and incomplete and just
> not up to the standard that I have come to expect from past versions
> of Ubuntu. I am afraid that I have become very pessimistic about the
> future of desktop Linux.
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