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On Ubuntu, I prefer dpkg-query, because I can use the exit status in a script:

if dpkg-query -W packagename; then ...; fi

Anyone had an occurrence of the (complete) freeze while not on WiFi? It seems to be related, but I haven't spent enough time offline to be 100% sure.



ciza: please visit the following link and...

If that guy (Thomas) can reproduce the freeze in 1 or 2 seconds, we should definitely start with that, because any potential fix will be quick to test... If his fix doesn't resolve our issue, then we...

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get the email notification. You can't run the php file directly from a file url, you need to put it in a local http server with php support. Here is a simple way to...

This might be a red herring, but I noticed one more weirdness while running on battery today: the battery indicator went empty (red icon with the popup warning) and came back to its real level. The...

Thanks for the trick, but it didn't work for this case.

This is definitely related to power saving. Any expert? If the OS is that much stuck, there must be something related to the hardware. We...

Same here, I use the laptop all day on power (no crash), then I go home and run on battery (plenty of crash, battery not low).

I never heard of ianmillington's soft reboot key sequence. I can give...

Nevermind the Google Chrome, it is not the cause (it just happened again without Chrome running). So my only possible lead is the power saving, but still can't reproduce on-demand...

Any logging...

It happened 3 times today on my Dell Vostro 1015. I tried:

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to text console (doesn't work)
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server (doesn't work)
Remote login with SSH...

I just resolved a similar issue with Lotus Notes: add a "TryExec=" line with the path to the same executable as your "Exec" line.

Any updates on this issue?

I think I have the same problem on my Dell Vostro 1015 running Ubuntu 10.04 (2.6.32-24-generic). The luvcview output is identical, but my webcam is different:


$...

I thought the purpose of the linux-headers package was to build drivers without the full kernel source. :confused: Is it broken? If so, can someone file a bug report?

I really enjoyed compiling my...

I was going crazy trying to use his "diff -r" file with the "patch" command. I gave up and used:


cd examples
for i in $(find .)
do
wget...

The weather applet doesn't seem to provide radar images for Canadian locations (from weather.com), so I wanted to use a custom URL for Environment Canada's radar images...

I thought I had the same symptoms this morning after I updated my Ubuntu (Jaunty).
I had performance problems, disabled the gedit filebrowser plugin, and things got much faster.

I jumped to the...

This symptom happened to me after:

Installed (and used) Qt SDK from Nokia's website
Installed qt-creator package
uninstalled Nokia's Qt SDK

The menu Tools->Options->Qt4->"Qt versions"...