Hardy Heron problems (Repost. Hoping for reply)

[ghorse]

Noobie here. I did an upgrade to Hardy and now have serious issues that I don't know how to fix. No clue even where to start. I am running compiz fusion and have proper nVidia drivers (as far as I know).

problems:
1) No audio. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Video is unaffected.
2) Taskbar has disappeared. Can't access the "K".

How can I do a clean install if I can't even burn the image unto cd? I don't know how to access any programs from run command. Remember that I no longer have access to the menu.

Please advise.

[cantab]

Re: Hardy Heron problems (Repost. Hoping for reply)

Both seem strange. It's possible your graphics issues are related to not having upgraded the nvidia drivers properly.

If you want to do a clean install, the following at the command line should work:

wget [url]http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso[/url]
wget [url]http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.04/MD5SUMS[/url]
md5sum kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso

check the calculated md5sum matches the one in the md5sums file (if not, delete and redownload)

cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom driveropts=burnfree -v -data kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso

If you have more than one drive, you'll need to find which is which. Simple way is:

eject /dev/cdrom
eject /dev/cdrom1

and suchlike. See which ones pop out the tray.

[ghorse]

Re: Hardy Heron problems (Repost. Hoping for reply)

Thank you very much cantab. I will try this when I've figured out how to back up my files. I'm going to learn this Linux stuff if it kills me....

[flying_icarus]

Re: Hardy Heron problems (Repost. Hoping for reply)

If you can still get the run command window by pressing alt+f2, then you should be able to fix this...

1) you can try temporarily turning off compiz to see if it brings back the menu bar
press alt+f2, type in konosole to get a terminal window, and in it type

kwin --replace &

That will hopefully replace compiz with the regular kwin window manager, to go back to compiz you would type something like

compiz --replace &

(I think
2) you can try re-running the kde taskbar, if I'm not mistaken it should be called kicker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicker_(KDE) , so try running it

kicker &

and at least in the konsole you will see an output, and if it crashes maybe there will be a hint in it where the error came from

Regarding audio... when you get the menu bar back, report back and we'll see about that