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Asked by supportsage

Binary package hint: gconf-editor

I upgraded from 7 to 8 online. When finished I found that I couldnt get into the one that had loaded. I think that was caused by trying to load my nvidia video card. I tried twice and finally got it to work with EnvyNG.
 If I start up and choose the best one to run, I have to choose the oldest, it works. However none of the newer versions of 8 work.
When loaded up I cannot run the synaptic manager, or download updates it will not work. In fact the icon has ceased to show up.
I do not know how to correct this problem although the machine runs, I have a lot of data on here and do not want to lose it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 13 06:27:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gconf-editor
Package: gconf-editor 2.22.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gconf-editor
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic x86_64

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This question was originally filed as bug #229946.

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supportsage (larryweeks) said : 		#1
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nglnx (nglnx) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report and subsequently we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Amar Singh (amar-singh-2006) said : 		#3

Can you run any other administrative applications?

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Amar Singh (amar-singh-2006) said : 		#4

Can you run any other administrative applications?

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supportsage (larryweeks) said : 		#5

I have trouble getting any admin to work some does and some dont. Anything to do with downloading files or upgrading will not load. I thought it might be permissions but that seems to have no effect. I can get update manager to show but not operate.

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Amar Singh (amar-singh-2006) said : 		#6

open a terminal. do a su --login and give the root password. Then type:

usermod -a -G admin (yourusername)

Type that, but by replacing the yourusername bit with just YOUR username and without the brackets. Then restart the computer and hopefully everything should be fixed!

Hope this helps you!

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supportsage (larryweeks) said : 		#7

I tried to sign in on the terminal program...sudo login
which found my name
then asked for a password.. when i tried to enter it it did not type. It would not go.
This is so weird

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supportsage (larryweeks) said : 		#8

I solved it : here is the answer

this solved the problem
from forestpixie
If the name of you pc is not the same in these two files you need to change one. Open a terminal run these commands seperately -

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hostname

For example these are mine

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 kevin-desktop

cat /etc/hostname
kevin-desktop

If they are not the same you can try editing the file within ubuntu using gksudo instead of sudo with gedit

gksudo gedit /etc/hosts