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General Support / Ubermix 6.06 on Macbook Pro - Gnome not displaying properly
« Last post by jake on January 07, 2023, 09:03:01 AM »
Hi, I am trying ubermix 6.06 on macbook pro to give to my child. it all install fine, but when it starts up gnome desktop does not display correctly and is pretty much a white background apart from the side menu. as you open windows up you can see them but the images are fractured and as you move the mouse about it is rendered but then disappears.

ubermix 4 backed by Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS seems to be fine in this regard.

any idea on how to fix?

im going to try ubermix 5 now
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Good morning, All! 
This is my first post to the Ubermix forum, so please accept my gratitude for you help!

I have an Ubermix (16.04) install on my kid's laptop.   I notice the following error when trying to install or update: 
Quote
Setting up friendly-recovery (0.2.31ubuntu2.1) ...
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `aufs'.
dpkg: error processing package friendly-recovery (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 friendly-recovery
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm also experiencing an issue rebooting wherein the OS complains that gnome-keyring-daemon (Not responding) is still running.  Telling the system to Restart Anyway will yield no result.  Instead reboot must be completed by Terminal via sudo reboot

Not sure if these two issues are related, but they seemed to have started when I attempted a boot recovery from the USB installation media after the system would not boot following a power failure.

I'm new to Linux and certainly new to the way Ubermix sets its system up.  My goal is to get the "customizations" I've made saved to the default image as I believe is intended.

Any guidance is graciously appreciated!
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General Support / Re: Options for someone unable to boot from USB?
« Last post by /dave on April 08, 2020, 11:27:38 AM »
I know it's a stale thread, but I just went through the same issue with a VirtualBox install.

See the CD images here:
http://wiki.ubermix.org/page/CD_Install

Create the bootable CD, stick the Ubermix key in a slot and boot the CD.  It should all work.

/dave


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General Support / Re: Can't succesfully create a bootable USB from 4.40 IMG
« Last post by /dave on April 08, 2020, 11:15:13 AM »
I've been creating bootable Ubermix USB devices with rufus (http://rufus.ie) on Windows 10.  Rufus handles both .ISO and .IMG files so I use it for everything.

/dave
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General Support / Can't succesfully create a bootable USB from 4.40 IMG
« Last post by pitch_a on March 07, 2020, 12:58:34 AM »
Hi there,

I've desperately tried to create a bootable USB from ubermix-key4.40.img following instructions given for either MAC OS, Windows and even Linux in your download page (http://ubermix.org/download.html).

I've also tried to create the USB by using Etcher (https://www.balena.io/etcher/) without success.

The computer where I want to install Ubermix is a Lenovo Ideapad 130S, in which I managed to install without any hassle Ubuntu MATE 18.04.

It would be highly appreciated if someone could verify whether the official image file is ok, I'm missing something or if there is any other way I could get the system installed in the aforementioned laptop.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Ivan
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How-to / How to create a desktop shotcut?
« Last post by Germi on September 22, 2019, 09:14:41 AM »
Hello,
I'm brand new on linux. I installed Ubermix on an old PC for my kids.
Is there a way to add a desktop shortcut other than a folder? like create launcher on other distribution
Thx
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General Discussion / Ubermix with Windows?
« Last post by CodeReub on December 07, 2018, 12:26:05 PM »
I am setting up an old laptop for a young nephew and while the computer does have a fresh install of Windows 10 and sufficient RAM and secondary memory to support it, I would like to get him started learning computing in a Linux environment.

Ubermix looked like a promising tool. I checked it out in the virtual machine and it looks like it has a lot of nice tools and resources that would help younger children feel comfortable in a Linux environment. I would like to use it, but the only problem is that my nephew is going to need the Windows environment to run at least one piece of proprietary software that is not available for Linux, does not work in Wine and the manufacturers have no intention of releasing the source code or supporting a Linux version of their software.

My first inclination was a dual boot, which I discovered is not possible with Ubermix because of the unique way it uses three partitions to prevent children damaging the OS. That brings me to my current dilemma.

I have identified the product ID for my Windows 10 and have made a startup USB stick for Windows 10. I am trying to decide if I wipe Windows from the laptop, install Ubermix and then add Virtualbox, will I be able to install the Windows OS within the virtual environment using the old product key?

Windows would still be on the same physical machine, it would just be in within a Linux virtual environment. I didn't really want to ask this on a Microsoft forum because I suspect they will say that it is not an appropriate use of their software.

The easiest solution, of course, would be to install a lightweight version of Linux alongside the Windows install and just add the applications from Ubermix that are appealing, but I do like the Ubermix concept as well as the appeal of making Windows a virtual afterthought on the machine as opposed to a startup alternative.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks,
Reub

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General Support / Options for someone unable to boot from USB?
« Last post by twps on November 08, 2018, 09:23:38 AM »
I was hoping to use an older PC as a Linux desktop for my children, 4 & 7. I have been really impressed with what I have seen from Ubermix. However, my older PC cannot boot from USB. Are there alternatives for a boot from CD? I would like to install on the HDD in the desktop for long term use. Any experience or suggestions?
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General Support / Cannot Download ubermix-key4.03.img
« Last post by Sn3akyP3t3 on September 09, 2018, 06:02:33 PM »
This has been failing for me at least a week.  I can begin the download, but it always ends up being around 20MB and that's impossible.


If I try to allow it to download through Google Sync it also fails:


Is there another way to acquire this download or is it corrupt and can be overwritten with a new copy?  I've downloaded the previous version some months ago without any difficulty so not sure whats going on.
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General Support / Re: internet connection problems on ubuntu
« Last post by Sn3akyP3t3 on September 09, 2018, 05:53:44 PM »
I have this problem with my Internet Service Provider.  The cause of it is mostly because my ISP is terrible and blocking packets when a certain limit inbound or outbound is hit.  Usually, my issue is that my outbound ceiling of 300 kbps is hit and that slams the door shut on inbound traffic as well.  Sometimes the only way to resolve this is to cut down on your traffic by applying network usage reduction techniques such as:

You can verify if your ISP is indeed the problem by running a smoke ping service against your public IP address through http://www.dslreports.com/smokeping so long as your router is not blocking ping requests.  I think this may be free one or a few times, but costs a little money to have it run as a service throughout the day, but its worth it in order to get an idea of how long you're getting outages throughout the day.

If it's not your ISP then you likely have something misconfigured on your network or even a bad network cable involved.  It really looks to me though like your network is being dropped as communication is underway or waiting for a response.
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