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Harry Totterbottom
Dec 19, 2008

Fallom posted:

Has anyone had a similar experience running Ubuntu 8.10 on their Toshiba laptop? I did a fresh install a week ago, and the first time I used it it crashed constantly, wouldn't connect to a wireless network 9 times out of 10, and then it crashed during a system update and started booting up to a kernel panic every time. This was beyond frustrating, and I ended up just putting Windows back on. Previous versions of Ubuntu have worked fine on this laptop.

I'm running 8.10 on my older Satellite. The only thing that needed to be tweaked was the display settings. Wireless works and I haven't run into any problems. I did upgrade from 8.4 though so I don't know if that really makes a difference or not.

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Harry Totterbottom
Dec 19, 2008

WHORENDOUS posted:

So I've just gotten ubuntu installed and I'm getting all my packages and basically getting it ready for use with a mysql project. One of the issues I've come across is that I can't set my primary user's password. When I log in, I'm only prompted for my username. When I attempt to change my password through the command line, i get this:

code:
me@machine:~$ passwd
passwd: password updated successfully
How do I get the password to update? I've tried typing in all kinds of crap, using sudo, etc. but I'm still never prompted for my password and I'm not even able to change it with this command. Is there some setting i'm missing?

Try using passwd <username>

If that doesn't work try passwd -f <username> then relog.

Harry Totterbottom fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Mar 18, 2009

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