Ubuntu 12.10 fails too

As expected Ubuntu 12.10 also fails to load the screen. This is not surprising at all since  other ubuntu based distro like Xubuntu and Lubuntu also failed in similar fashion.

Opensuse and Fedora

Opensuse could not even boot and Fedora I have just started let's see how far I can go! Fedora gives me the same shit as Opensuse.

Horrific start with Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12.10

After installation, I do not get any GUI desktop at all. Stuck in the terminal.  Same with Xubuntu 12.10. I guess I will end up with the same in Ubuntu 12.10. 

Damn! Where Do I go?

One last ditch effort with R in Lubuntu 13.04

I just want to see whether it works or not. After all the updates  and upgrades, I am going to remove R and reinstall it to see whether it works or not. I am almost certain it won't make any difference but still.

sudo apt-get  --purge remove r-base
sudo apt-get autoremove

Well R still shows the same error! So good bye 13.04!

Lubuntu 13.04 Synaptic PM and results after updates through it

Synaptic PM needed  to be configured manually the proxy setting. It did not take it from the system. I did it and now I can download two image updates. Let's see whether  the problem with R goes away with this.

After all the updates and upgrades, I get the same old error in R. So I am officially closing this 13.04 distros as not working for me. Now time to move on to Lubuntu 12.10.

Results with Lubuntu 13.04 updates and upgrades

In the last post, I have detailed how to get apt-get work.  It required a system reboot which is surprising.
 Anyway, after all these updates and upgrades R is still showing  "buffer overflow" problem. This is mind boggling.

What I am going to do now is this:  Try to get updates from Synaptic Manager. If that does not work, then try Lubuntu 12.10 and see whether it works.

Brand new week, brand new morning but my woes with Linux installation continues. I tried all sorts of distros but failed to get a working OS.  Finally it seemed that in my machine, Ubuntu versions 13.04 gives "buffer overrun"  problem. I tried all the variants of 13.04.



First I try to update the Lubuntu 13.04. Yeah, back to it again:

I reinstall cntlm  and try to get it working following the instructions from here:

http://zipizap.wordpress.com/tag/cntlm/

9:28 am:  Done installing cntlm.

What I am doing now is just do this to see whether apt-get works:

sudo  nano /etc/apt/apt.conf  and add the following line:

Acquire::http::Proxy  "http://rushadf:0302@127.0.0.1:3128";

 Now I put the command:
sudo apt-get update

show 0% waiting for headers and just hangs up there
Does not work. So I close the terminal and try again.

It's still not working. Now let's try this:

sudo vi /etc/bash.bashr

Add your proxy server details in the following format

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxyhost:port/"

export ftp_proxy="http://username:password@proxyhost:port/"

It's still not working.

I close the terminal and try again to see what happens. NO! still not working!

Now I try this:

Some releases sudo is configured in such a way that all environment variables all cleared when running the command. To keep the value for your http_proxy and fix this, you need to edit /etc/sudoers, run:

visudo 

Then find a line that states:

Defaults env_reset

and add this after it: 

Defaults env_keep = "http_proxy ftp_proxy"

  Now try apt-get again. Nah still not working.
Let me have a system reboot and check. After system reboot it is working. So does it seems that it might have worked right after the first step? who knows!