| Chat1607 | Allo | 02:55 |
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| Stevely2003 | Hi everyone | 04:12 |
| DarwinSurvivor | hi | 04:14 |
| Stevely2003 | Other than re-installing... how would I correct the following error while trying to use single-sign-on (Ubuntu 11.10)... Method "CreateItem" with signature "a{sv}(oayay)b" on interfact "org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection" doesn't exist. | 04:14 |
| Stevely2003 | (This is for connecting to Ubuntu One) | 04:15 |
| DarwinSurvivor | looks like an old bug | 04:17 |
| DarwinSurvivor | did this happen after a clean install, after trying Ubuntu-One for the first time, spontaneously, or after you changed something? | 04:17 |
| Stevely2003 | It's a fresh install, didn't get a chance to install anything else... was just trying to sign-on to Ubuntu One. | 04:18 |
| Stevely2003 | (anything else = nothing) | 04:18 |
| Stevely2003 | first time | 04:18 |
| DarwinSurvivor | Is there any particular reason why you installed 11.10 (which is not supported starting in April)? | 04:19 |
| Stevely2003 | Only version I had on CD. (Installing on an older PIII laptop with CD rom drive; 512MB ram) | 04:19 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ah | 04:20 |
| Stevely2003 | :-) | 04:20 |
| DarwinSurvivor | well, that version is going to no longer get any updates (for desktop edition) starting in april, so I'd recommend installing a newer release anyways | 04:20 |
| DarwinSurvivor | If you are worried about performance, xubuntu or lubuntu (xubuntu is a little easier) run much quicker than regular ubuntu | 04:21 |
| Stevely2003 | Yeah, that's what I want to do... but don't have a dvd rom. | 04:21 |
| Stevely2003 | yes, performance is awful right now... | 04:21 |
| Stevely2003 | xubuntu... I'll have to look it up and give it a try. | 04:22 |
| DarwinSurvivor | xubuntu is available on the ubuntu website. You can install from a usb drive if you don't have a burner. | 04:23 |
| DarwinSurvivor | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick | 04:23 |
| Stevely2003 | Not sure the laptop will boot from USB... I'll check the bios and see the boot order... | 04:24 |
| Stevely2003 | (Yeah, I saw xubuntu.org and lubuntu.net sites...) | 04:24 |
| DarwinSurvivor | oh, my bad, xubuntu is on its own website now | 04:24 |
| DarwinSurvivor | http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ | 04:24 |
| DarwinSurvivor | the usb instructions in the first link will still work for xubuntu :) | 04:25 |
| Stevely2003 | I've tried Knoppix 6.7 too... that one was very much faster than Ubuntu 11.10. | 04:25 |
| DarwinSurvivor | yes, standard ubuntu is no longer recommended for slow/old hardware as it uses compiz with 3d acceleration for the default desktop | 04:26 |
| DarwinSurvivor | If you don't want to do a full reinstall, you can install the xubuntu-desktop package (which installs the xfce part of xubuntu) and then upgrade to 12.04 | 04:26 |
| DarwinSurvivor | If you go that route, I recommend removing the ubuntu-desktop package before the upgrade so you don't have to download all the new gnome/unity stuff (will make the upgrade faster) | 04:27 |
| Stevely2003 | probably easier to just do the full install | 04:28 |
| DarwinSurvivor | Stevely2003: probably, unless you can't get it to boot off the usb | 04:28 |
| DarwinSurvivor | the xubuntu install is also fairly small, so it won't take as long as the ubuntu one did | 04:29 |
| DarwinSurvivor | do you know the difference between standard and LTS releases? | 04:29 |
| Stevely2003 | only that LTS is long term support? | 04:29 |
| DarwinSurvivor | that's part of it | 04:29 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I would recommend installing 12.04 (LTS) or 12.10 (current) | 04:30 |
| DarwinSurvivor | 12.10 is the newest version (came out in October) and is supported until April 2014 | 04:30 |
| DarwinSurvivor | 12.04 is an LTS (actually, it's a LONG long term support!) which is supported until April 2017 | 04:31 |
| Stevely2003 | why the much longer support for that version? | 04:31 |
| DarwinSurvivor | If you want fully updated software and usually upgrade every 6 or 12 months anyways, go with 12.10 (and 13.04 in April) | 04:31 |
| DarwinSurvivor | if you don't want to have to worry about upgrades for a long time and don't mind some of your software being older (you still get security updates), go with 12.0 | 04:32 |
| DarwinSurvivor | if you don't want to have to worry about upgrades for a long time and don't mind some of your software being older (you still get security updates), go with 12.04 | 04:32 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I'm not sure why that one got 5 years instead of the standard 3 year LTS support, it was something Canonical decided and there have been a few reasons given | 04:32 |
| Stevely2003 | ok... 12.04 it is... | 04:33 |
| Stevely2003 | Thanks for the info and suggestions. | 04:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | There's rumours of them switching to rolling release (no more explicit releases) in the next few years, so who knows what will be happening by the time that LTS runs out :P | 04:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | no problem | 04:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | if you come back for help and no-one answers, just stick around for a bit. it sometimes takes 20 minutes or so for someone to notice the activity. | 04:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | if you need something urgent the #ubuntu channel is usually well-staffed 24/7 | 04:34 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I tend to miss people's questions by like 5 minutes :( | 04:34 |
| Stevely2003 | No worries. I haven't been in IRC since 1993/1994... this brings back memories... like /me is gonna get some shut-eye soon. | 04:35 |
| DarwinSurvivor | lol | 04:35 |
| Stevely2003 | Ok. onto the booting usb dance. Thanks again. Talk to you some other time. | 04:36 |
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