It's a bit weird - I don't understand how "apt-get -f install" could have helped unless gdm was incompletely installed in the first place. Oh well, too late. Yes, the Ctrl+Alt+Fx works just the same in Ubuntu.
Yeah, because companies have stopped paying taxes. Nevertheless, a $20,000 pension per year is not considered obscene after a life of work, and rightly so.
We are talking about the Gnome Display Manager, right? AFAICT gdm3 is just a virtual package and has been for a while, it's probably just there to help with some upgrade scenarios.
aptitude show gdm3 No current or candidate version found for gdm3 Package: gdm3 State: not a real package
The proper package is gdm, and it's at 2.32 in Natty. Though I'm not sure how a gdm issue would prevent a boot in the proper sense of the word - gdm is started pretty much at the end of the boot process. Anyway, you should be able to choose recovery mode from the initial grub boot screen, after the BIOS, which puts you into a text mode boot that finishes with a nice menu were you can choose options like "try to free space" or "let me log in in text mode". Though I think that in Natty and Maverick before that the default is not to show the grub menu in order to be prettier and not to scare away noobs. You can press Shift to make the menu appear (see "Hidden" here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Boot%20Display%20Behavior), but yes, that's not very well advertised.
Like Red Hat will. You would have preferred that they not plan to use, when it's ready, the X replacement that was coded by X hackers to address the shortcomings of X, and which will have an X server built in for legacy apps anyway? Really?
Try the version in Natty, which was always the version Ubuntu said would be usable for large screens than netbooks (and the first version that will use it by default). It does not take up permanent space but hides very neatly, I think.
To cancel that out, my wife's sister (not a nerd) called me a week after purchasing a Sony Vaio with Windows 7 to ask about how to install Ubuntu from a USB stick because Windows was so annoying (she had used Ubuntu on another machine before). Told her to switch boot order in the BIOS and that's the only thing I had to tell her, everything else she did smoothly on her own. There you go for anecdotes.
If you had read the comments you would have found the links to a story on netzpolitik.org, which shows that is was a political decision by the conservative party. They even had a partially leaked McKinsey study from the project to prove it.
Actually they used the trick the GP mentioned in some situations, and those that you mentioned in others. And probably more tricks in still other situations.
There was a case in Germany where a case against a party accused of being nazist collapsed because there were so many government agents in the leadership that it was impossible to distinguish between what they had produced and what the accused have. One government agent wrote a detailed anti-semitic tract. Haven't heard a single peep about that.
If you didn't hear a single peep about that it must be because you read no German newspapers. I can assure you there were lots of loud peeps.
Great post, thanks. An older colleague of mine offered me this advice on the day of his retirement: "every job will become a hellhole if you have no alternative".
You must be younger than your UID indicates. Older versions of most of the popular package managers could wind up in a dependency deadlock that made it difficult to add or remove certain packages.
Bugs are not "restricting access", and even a hosed package manager database never prevented you from installing stuff from source.
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And I thought the US is largely into Christianity.
Yeah because that would NEVER happen in the US, Guantanamo is the pinnacle of the rule of law!
Here (Natty alpha):
/usr/sbin/gdm
/usr/bin/startx
/usr/bin/startkde
which gdm
which startx [note: no capitalization]
I don't have KDE installed, so using apt-file:
apt-file search startkde
kdebase-workspace-bin:
Again no capitalization as usual; I don't think I've ever seen a Unix command using caps.
It's a bit weird - I don't understand how "apt-get -f install" could have helped unless gdm was incompletely installed in the first place. Oh well, too late. Yes, the Ctrl+Alt+Fx works just the same in Ubuntu.
We should crowd source corruption!
Yeah, because companies have stopped paying taxes. Nevertheless, a $20,000 pension per year is not considered obscene after a life of work, and rightly so.
We are talking about the Gnome Display Manager, right? AFAICT gdm3 is just a virtual package and has been for a while, it's probably just there to help with some upgrade scenarios.
aptitude show gdm3
No current or candidate version found for gdm3
Package: gdm3
State: not a real package
The proper package is gdm, and it's at 2.32 in Natty. Though I'm not sure how a gdm issue would prevent a boot in the proper sense of the word - gdm is started pretty much at the end of the boot process. Anyway, you should be able to choose recovery mode from the initial grub boot screen, after the BIOS, which puts you into a text mode boot that finishes with a nice menu were you can choose options like "try to free space" or "let me log in in text mode". Though I think that in Natty and Maverick before that the default is not to show the grub menu in order to be prettier and not to scare away noobs. You can press Shift to make the menu appear (see "Hidden" here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Boot%20Display%20Behavior), but yes, that's not very well advertised.
What are you talking about?
Like Red Hat will. You would have preferred that they not plan to use, when it's ready, the X replacement that was coded by X hackers to address the shortcomings of X, and which will have an X server built in for legacy apps anyway? Really?
Try the version in Natty, which was always the version Ubuntu said would be usable for large screens than netbooks (and the first version that will use it by default). It does not take up permanent space but hides very neatly, I think.
In Natty you can simply choose "Classic Desktop" from gdm
To cancel that out, my wife's sister (not a nerd) called me a week after purchasing a Sony Vaio with Windows 7 to ask about how to install Ubuntu from a USB stick because Windows was so annoying (she had used Ubuntu on another machine before). Told her to switch boot order in the BIOS and that's the only thing I had to tell her, everything else she did smoothly on her own. There you go for anecdotes.
Change the theme.
If you had read the comments you would have found the links to a story on netzpolitik.org, which shows that is was a political decision by the conservative party. They even had a partially leaked McKinsey study from the project to prove it.
Certainly I know that after a recent install of Ubuntu Natty (late beta) my system wouldn't boot.
Natty is in alpha, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule
Uh, in case you're not joking: it's French. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/faits+accomplis
Not in Europe, where such pensions are still pretty much standard for the middle class. Ask Ron Reagan how he did it.
what advantage does this technology hold over trains?
What the sibling comments said, plus it does not impede other traffic, you can easily cross under it.
Actually they used the trick the GP mentioned in some situations, and those that you mentioned in others. And probably more tricks in still other situations.
Right, I was going to go on about the perceived cultural value for the future, etc., but somehow forgot. You did it better than I would have, anyway :)
I think all TV stations did this, I know for sure that Austrian ORF did. Tape *was* expensive.
A bit of background for what's so costly: http://doctormo.org/2011/01/24/bbc-to-shutter-h2g2/
There was a case in Germany where a case against a party accused of being nazist collapsed because there were so many government agents in the leadership that it was impossible to distinguish between what they had produced and what the accused have. One government agent wrote a detailed anti-semitic tract. Haven't heard a single peep about that.
If you didn't hear a single peep about that it must be because you read no German newspapers. I can assure you there were lots of loud peeps.
Great post, thanks. An older colleague of mine offered me this advice on the day of his retirement: "every job will become a hellhole if you have no alternative".
Sorry for the botched quote.
You must be younger than your UID indicates. Older versions of most of the popular package managers could wind up in a dependency deadlock that made it difficult to add or remove certain packages.
Bugs are not "restricting access", and even a hosed package manager database never prevented you from installing stuff from source.