As I have posted earlier, Ubuntu upgrade broke my installation and I had to reinstall everything from scratch. And guess what, it happened again! This time, I’ve some important files in the filesystem. And since it happened the second time, it can no longer be said as an accident. Something breaks during the upgrade and it must solved or at least mitigated the next time. And apparently, I’m not the only one affected and there are at least three bugs reported already.

Here’s the list of bugs.
610898
Bug 13288
653134

Meanwhile, a solution/workaround has been posted at ubuntu forum. Click here to view the thread. If you are too lazy to open yet another window/tab, here’s what fixed my Ubuntu install.

Problem #2:

You have Wubi installed and are able to boot Windows normally.

However, attempting to boot Ubuntu leads to a number of possible failures including, but not limited to, the following:

computer reboots without user interaction, a black screen with or without any error messages, loadfont errors, file not found errors, and the like.

These issues affect the following versions: 10.04, 10.04.1, and 10.10

The solutions for each version are somewhat different and will be noted next to the relevant solution.

Solution #1 (10.04):

If it is a 10.04 install, the fix is to boot an Ubuntu LiveCD/USB, loop mount the wubi root.disk and manually edit the grub.cfg file.

Here’s the steps

sudo mkdir /media/win
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/win
sudo mount -o loop /media/win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /mnt
sudo cp /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg.copy
sudo chmod +w /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
gksu gedit /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg


Note, this is only applicable for WUBI.

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Here’s a short post about installing fonts in Ubuntu.


sudo cd /usr/share/fonts/
sudo cp ~/Downloads/fonts/* ./
sudo fc-cache -f -v


Take note that ~/Downloads/fonts/ is the directory where my fonts are saved. I just copied it to /usr/share/fonts/ and then refresh the font cache. I hope this helps you as much it helped me.

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When I was trying to install build-essential (for gcc compiler), I keep getting a weird error that says “The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header”. I’ve tried many times as I suspected it’s because of the spotty wifi connection and even tried installing via LAN to no avail. Numerous websites just say retry or use synaptics package manager but all failed. One even suggested that maybe I’m accessing the repository from a Muslim country or from China which of course, is not true and does not have anything to do with my problem. That’s the case until I found this post.

To be clear, here’s the actual problem when I invoke sudo apt-get install build-essential.

After this operation, 14.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu7
The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.20.1-3ubuntu7_i386.deb The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header [IP: 91.189.92.170 80]

The solution is to remove the files in the following folder.

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*


After that, I just reinstalled build-essential and everything went fine. I hope this will help you because it did to me. Man, it took me several days. Thanks to Raz.

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UNE 10.10 is sooo slow on my Asus eeePC 1002HA! On its current form, 10.10 is just not usable for me. It’s so slow and I need to tinker on settings to make things work. That’s something that put me away from migrating to linux earlier. One example is mounting of my hard disk partition which I don’t need to do in the previous versions.

The Solution?

Stay away from UNE 10.10 and you’ll be fine. Basically, Mark Shuttleworth advises that netbook users stick to Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 LTS for the mean time. That means no Unity Desktop for you, at least for the time being. Fixes are scheduled (I assume) for the Natty Narwhal release — 11.04 which is said to merge Ubuntu Netbook to the desktop edition.

Here’s the relevant Bug Report in launchpad. By the way Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Canonical, the company maintaining Ubuntu linux distro. I mentioned that because I was surprised that Mark involved in the discussion of this bug.

If you already installed 10.10 (like me!), I suggest you revert it back to 10.04. I have since reinstalled it on my Asus 1002HA and spent a couple of hours more for the updates and software installations. It’s such a shame that I did not check on this issue earlier before upgrading. The bug report has been there since October.

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This is a bit of a rant rather than a tech note.

As I’ve writtern on my previous post, I initially installed Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 on my ASUS eeePC 1002HA and upgraded it everytime a new version comes out via Ubuntu Software Center(easy and intuitive). So when the last update came out the other week, I just updated the OS. However, I delayed the required restart as I was still doing some important things that time. Everything went fine until I restarted.
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