Booted up this morning to find that the desktop icons were missing and I couldn’t right-click on the desktop. Everything else worked and I could access the icons via Places/Desktop, but still the Desktop was bare and unclickable. Thanks to this Ubuntu Forums thread I got it back. In my case it was enough to [...]
I think I’ve solved my connection problem. In the last post I outlined how I needed to fire up Terminal and type in sudo dhclient. Well I finally got some mental space to think about it, and this was the solution in my case Administration/Networking [password] Under Network Settings choose Connections/ Wired Connections (in my [...]
At least I don’t have to do it every half an hour, which was the case before I got rid of IPv6, but I still have to use dhclient to log onto the internet every morning, which is a pain. I think this is the relevant information: mv: cannot move `/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new’ to `/etc/resolv.conf’: Operation not [...]
Well, the sudo dhclient (see previous post) is a great rescue tool, but it’s far from perfect. So long as I keep using Firefox, it works, but if I leave it for a while, I need sudo dhclient again. Needless to say this is far from satisfactory. The problem seems to be, as far as [...]