Ubuntu 12.04 ruined my life

robert neuron · 05-18-2012, 02:53 AM

I responded to the same question in the Desktop Forum:

Try using the 12.04 Alternative Download. As far as I know, it doesn't come on a Cd, unforunately.

Since about version 7, my computer will not install the desk top CD, only the Alternative download(download it's iso and burn it to a CD, then run a check on it from the opening window before installing). Now I am at version 11.10. I did install alternative 12.04, but it would not connect to internet so I reinstalled 11.10 and it went back to working fine.

tjscool914 · 05-18-2012, 10:35 AM

So I downloaded the 12.04 ISO and made a bootable flash drive. I reloaded my system and most things seem to work alright. I have the following two issues that are bothering me right now...

1. I keep receiving the below message after logging into my PC. I looked online and there doesn't appear to be a fix for the error messages I keep receiving for /usr/share/apport/-gpu-error-intel.py

2. Secondly, images on Firefox take ungodly amounts of time to load. If I were to do a search in Google images it is basically impossible to scroll through the results and forget about clicking on a picture in the search results. I have to walk away for an hour and come back to hopefully view the page the image is on.

Any ideas?

adityavpratap · 05-19-2012, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjscool914

So I downloaded the 12.04 ISO and made a bootable flash drive. I reloaded my system and most things seem to work alright. I have the following two issues that are bothering me right now...

1. I keep receiving the below message after logging into my PC. I looked online and there doesn't appear to be a fix for the error messages I keep receiving for /usr/share/apport/-gpu-error-intel.py

2. Secondly, images on Firefox take ungodly amounts of time to load. If I were to do a search in Google images it is basically impossible to scroll through the results and forget about clicking on a picture in the search results. I have to walk away for an hour and come back to hopefully view the page the image is on.

Any ideas?

As for the second issue, I am assuming you are running Firefox 12.0! Have you tried loading the same pages in Firefox safe mode, by issuing -

Code:

$firefox -safe-mode

tjscool914 · 05-21-2012, 08:40 AM

Hey adityavpratap,

I'm back after a long weekend away... Yes I am running Firefox 12. I just tried running firefox in Safe mode, but the problem persists. This time the images in the search results loaded faster, but I was unable to scroll through the image results. Firefox was hosed up pretty good.

adityavpratap · 05-21-2012, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjscool914

Hey adityavpratap,

I'm back after a long weekend away... Yes I am running Firefox 12. I just tried running firefox in Safe mode, but the problem persists. This time the images in the search results loaded faster, but I was unable to scroll through the image results. Firefox was hosed up pretty good.

Sorry at not being able to help you on this. Maybe you should try the firefox forums!

Hope your problem gets resolved soon!

catkin · 05-21-2012, 09:36 AM

You could try moving your old Firefox profile aside and let Firefox create a new one.

Troubleshoot and diagnose Firefox problems.

In the illustration below, ejtkflbi is a random string generated by Firefox; yours will be different. This must be done when Firefox is not running.

Code:

c@CW8:~$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox
c@CW8:~/.mozilla/firefox$ ls -l
total 92K
drwx------ 2 c users   8 Apr 29 16:11 Crash Reports
drwx------ 9 c users 80K May 21 19:59 ejtkflbi.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 c users  94 Apr 29 16:11 profiles.ini
c@CW8:~/.mozilla/firefox$ mv ejtkflbi.default ejtkflbi.default.aside

If that helps you can progressively copy back files from the old profile to the new one (when Firefox is not running). Mozilla list these files here.

jefro · 05-21-2012, 11:02 AM

My question would be is it really firefox or some network or video issue or drive or ram issue causing the delay?

That other deal suggest some fail on some file related to how x uses video. http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package...=268216&page=2

tjscool914 · 05-24-2012, 09:40 AM

I tried moving my current profile and allowing firefox to create a new one. This didn't fix the issue either.

resetreset · 05-24-2012, 10:26 AM

To try to answer the original question, can you edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and set Driver to "nvidia" under "Device", and see if it works?