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Community Discussion => Chit Chat => Topic started by: EHM-2097 Andrei on May 25, 2012, 06:31:13 am
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A couple of weeks ago, having bought a new PC (but no Windows yet), I tried to give a try to Ubuntu installation (after some 10 years of not messing up with Linux). The first results were encouraging, but since a few days I discovered that Ubuntu has "borrowed" from Windows a very annoying feature: system updates.
This eventually turned a fully operational system into an unusable wreck. I used that PC mostly for communication = mail and forums. But since 2 days (and very likely due to a system update) I am unable to post in any forums, and to send mail (except for the simplest test mails, which the sustem probably detects as useless so these are actually sent).
I don't expect a replay about how to fix this problem, I realize thare may be ~569 causes for these features to fail, but I am looking for a starting point, for instance a place where someone having the same problems may have complained and hopefully got a solution.Any ideas?
Thanks
Andrei
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I tend to use Ubuntu from the command line these days, but my dad is a big Ubuntu desktop user so I may ask him.
What version of ubuntu are you using? Auromatic updates should not be enabled by default and have to be turned on: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/01/turn-on-automatic-update-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/ (http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/01/turn-on-automatic-update-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/)
Normal updating should not break stuff though. Maybe something went wrong?
Try opening a terminal and updating
Aptitude update
Aptitude safe-upgrade
And see what the results are.
That said I don't fully understand what is actually broken - networking? DNS? You appear to have some Internet connectivity?
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Thanks for your reply Alexander.
Fortunately my cousin and (by pure chance) co-worker was more network-savvy than I am, and he pointed me to the MTU problematic (which I now scientifically understand as "little and unknown thingy that's able to cause big mess").
I am still struggling a bit trying to make the MTU setting permanent, for some reason the general procedure recommended on the Internet doesn't apply to my PC :) but the worst has been avoided by now.
Andrei
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I am still struggling a bit trying to make the MTU setting permanent, for some reason the general procedure recommended on the Internet doesn't apply to my PC :)
Fixed that too (and this is the post to prove it :) )
Andrei
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For those interested, there was an episode #2 to this story.
At some point after starting to use the PC with dual boot (Windows + Ubuntu), networking under Ubuntu began to periodically fail (some 30sec up, then 5 mins down). Interestingly enough, networking using same hardware under Windows worked without a glitch!
I have been unable to use e-mail for almost a month, until today I could finally fix this - by reinstalling a new driver for the LAN adapter. It remains a huge mystery how did dual boot-ing or Windows trigger this problem in the first place (although this was confirmed by several similar scenarios reported on the web).
Andrei
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Oh dear Andrei - that sounds like a real pain!! Well beyond my level of expertise so I can't even offer an educated opinion on this one :)