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Ubuntu 10.04 Upgrade is causing any scrollbar or tab to glitch out scroll down or right when you mouseover it.

Asked by TheWoodenMan

I upgraded from Karmic 9.10 to 10.04 through synaptic. There have been no hardware changes to my system.

I have had a variety of errors and glitches, (unable to alt-tab, unable to resize or move windows) but the main one is stopping me from changing any of the settings in preferences/admin.

Any time I move my mouse over a scroll bar or set of tabs, the scrollbar autoscrolls down (and cannot be moved up without returning) or in the case of tabs the rightmost tab is selected and re-selects when any other tab is clicked. (e.g. sound slider scrolls right etc)

Can anyone help? I have used Ubuntu since 8.10 upgrading through synaptic each time and this is the first time I have effectively been stuck with an unusable system.
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I do have similar set problems.
unable to alt-tab, unable to resize or move windows.
Any time I move my mouse over a set of tabs, the left most tab is selected automatically.
Whenever i click on any application on the taskbar only the first application(leftmost) gets maximized.
I made a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 through wubi. I followed the above steps but it didn't help. Any alternate solutions? Thanks.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try running:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub; sudo update-grub

find this line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Change it to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.reset"

Save the new file and close gedit, when grub has updated, reboot

Any better?

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TheWoodenMan (andynwood) said : 		#2

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Did this and it opened a blank sheet!!

I looked up grub (had heard of it but never used it before)
and it turns out I only had "grub" installed, not grub-pc or grub2

I installed grub2 through synaptic which generated the file,

then ran your commands, rebooted and it is now fixed!!

Thanks so much :)

Now off to try and tweak compiz so it works.

You would think grub2 would install automatically during upgrade if it's so important??

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TheWoodenMan (andynwood) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

The kernel is very generic and the option can help troublesome touchpads. If you have grub then an upgrade will not upgrade you to grub2. It is a separate app. Obviously the option was needed but grub was installed rather than grub2.

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rajkiranpro (rajkiranpro) said : 		#5

I do have similar set problems.

unable to alt-tab, unable to resize or move windows.
Any time I move my mouse over a set of tabs, the left most tab is selected automatically.
Whenever i click on any application on the taskbar only the first application(leftmost) gets maximized.

I made a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 through wubi. I followed the above steps but it didn't help. Any alternate solutions? Thanks.