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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Firefox & Gmail problem

Gmail says "Upgrade to a modern browser, such as Google Chrome" but I am using Firefox 8.0.1!
First I was angry at Google, but finally I discovered the cause of this problem:
  1. Type in the address bar: about:config
  2. Filter the results with: general.useragent
  3. Reset all the entries which are bold: Right click and then choose reset.


Sunday, 18 December 2011

Upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10

I have done an upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) to 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) using the "Update Manager".

First I had to upgrade to 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). This worked fine and after reboot I launched directly the second upgrade to 11.10.

Here I report the problems and solutions I discovered after the upgrade:

  1. Booting did not work: "Failed to load the Nvidia kernel module"
    The reason for this was that the GRUB bootloader was loading the wrong kernel 2.6.35 instead of 3.0.0. Therefore I had to change manually the entry in the grub.conf file:
    kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.0-14 ro root=UUID=932dad41-f43a-4a60-9257-198f026da80e

    To find the UUID use:
    df -h
    sudo blkid
  2.  Replace the very annoying "Ubuntu One" standard desktop:
    Install gnome shell: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

    Logout and login to the Gnome (no effects) desktop.
  3. phpmyadmin did not work right away. This problem was discussed previously on this blogg.