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Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2021-12-17 03:30:28 +0800 CST
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Despite attempts to fiddle with some of the browser flags (like gpu blocklist) all Chromium based browsers (including Brave) seem to render no visible content. But the content is really there and I can even interact with it, knowing where to click...

It just appears all white or black depending on the dark or light Window theme chosen.

I've searched on the interwebz to find a solution but found only very few others that seem to have run into this. Only one Manjaro forum discussion mentions Chrome here https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nvidia-470-wayland-desktop-issues-with-specific-applications/73734 (the OP reports later that Chrome started working on Manjaro, but does not mention how/why) and a bug report on github at the Signal app repository but I'm not sure if that uses the same rendering engine as Chromium though...

Is anyone else seeing this issue on Ubuntu or am I really the only one?

  • Ubuntu 21.10
  • Nvidia driver 470.86
  • Gnome 40.4.0
  • Chrome browser 96.0.4664.110
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Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2018-05-08 02:27:40 +0800 CST
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It appears the gnome-search-tool is not available in Bionic. On https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/gnome-search-tool/3.6.0-2 it says status Deleted.

I've downloaded the deb from Wily Proposed repo and installed that on Bionic and it works just fine.

So why has it been removed? And what are good alternatives, specially if you want a GUI to search for strings (or regex?) inside file content not just file names?

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Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2015-11-08 14:51:26 +0800 CST
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It's been a while now (almost a year?) but even after upgrading to 15.10 GNOME, I still cannot reinstall previous purchases or sync software packages across computers any more like it used to be.

Choosing either of the two options in Software Center menu File, results in these messages in Syslog:

Nov  7 23:38:05 Aspire-V5 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[6011]: Activating service name='com.ubuntu.sso'
Nov  7 23:38:05 Aspire-V5 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[6011]: Successfully activated service 'com.ubuntu.sso'
Nov  7 23:38:05 Aspire-V5 ubuntu-software-center.desktop[3244]: 2015-11-07 23:38:05,534 - softwarecenter.backend.login_impl.login_sso - ERROR - _on_credentials_error for Ubuntu One: dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'errtype'): dbus.String(u'GUINotAvailableError'), dbus.String(u'message'): dbus.String(u'Can not find a GUI to present to the user (tried with "(\'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\', \'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\')"). Aborting.')}, signature=dbus.Signature('ss')) ()
Nov  7 23:38:05 Aspire-V5 ubuntu-software-center.desktop[3244]: 2015-11-07 23:38:05,535 - softwarecenter.backend.login_impl.login_sso - ERROR - _on_credentials_error for Ubuntu One: dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'errtype'): dbus.String(u'GUINotAvailableError'), dbus.String(u'message'): dbus.String(u'Can not find a GUI to present to the user (tried with "(\'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\', \'ubuntu-sso-login-qt\')"). Aborting.')}, signature=dbus.Signature('ss')) ()

I checked and ubuntu-sso-client is installed...

EDIT: this question is NOT about the discontinued Ubuntu One or similar/alternative sync services! It's about Software Center's Sync feature that allows a sync of installed software packages.

software-center
Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2015-11-08 04:28:51 +0800 CST
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What happened? Since the latest kernel upgrade from 4.2.0-16 to 4.2.0-17 my Aspire V5 Notebook with Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 does not recognize the external monitor nor my lan port anymore. When I boot with 4.2.0-16 there's no problem...

Both lan and vga are connected via the Acer LAN/VGA Combo Port which seems to be a proprietary version of a Mini DisplayPort. But to be fair, also wifi and bluetooth seem to be unavailable while those have nothing to do with that port.

Anyone have similar issues with 4.2.0-17? Or did something weird happen when the kernel was installed? If so, what can I do about that?

Thanks for any suggestions.

kernel
Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2012-03-14 17:14:00 +0800 CST
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After buying and installing a game via the Ubuntu Software Centre, I find the software does not work. But where do I turn to for support?

The game company says it does not support its game ported to Linux as they seemingly where not involved in that. Ubuntu does not seem to provide support unless I pay for it (again) and it seems totally unfair to bug the user community with this issue. I've paid for the software after all...

There is a serious flaw in how Canonical has integrated free and paid software into one app store type thing, without transparent support info (where to get it) for paid software.

Or am I missing something here??

software-center support purchase
Martin Hope
user17254
Asked: 2011-05-11 12:38:49 +0800 CST
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today U1 started to throw an error when trying to connect.

At first I got a rather cryptic message (something with AUTH_FAILURE maybe?) upon which I found the following instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhatToDoWhenAuthenticationFails

Because none of the 3 possible causes described there turned out to be the case, I decided to remove my computer from the list of authenticated computers. Login into the U1 account online and removing the computer was no problem but U1 still did nothing. Finally with the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/HowDoIAddMyComputer I finaly got U1 to re-initiate the login/auth process...

But it kept failing to connect this time showing me the message: "An exception representing an authentication failure"

So I decided to reset my password just to be sure.

Still, U1 does not connect, showing me the same message :(

What's up?

ubuntu-one