Problems starting Ubuntu

[mstreus1]

Have a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows XP home. when starting Ubuntu after you put in your user name and password it says the following:-

THE PANEL HAS ENCOUNTERED A FATAL ERROR.
The panes could not register with the bonobo-activation server(error code.1) and will exit.
It may be automatically restarted.

Next notice:
Nautilus can't be used now. Running the command "bonobo-slay" from the console may fix sthe problem.
If not, you can try rebooting the computer or installing Nautilus again.

The system used to work fine before, had no problems. I am new at this and need some help---rreally bad!!!!

[D-cat]

First the obvious, if you open (or drop to) a terminal and run bonobo-slay , what happens?

Next, have you tried removing and re-installing Nautilus via synaptic (or aptitude if you can only get anywhere in text mode)?

[devils casper]

Try to re-install Nautilus. Press Alt+Ctrl+F1 or boot up in Command line mode and execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus

[mstreus1]

sorry to take so long to get back but i tried what u said but it says it cannot find a server or something to that effect. do i have to have access to the internet for this to work , if so how do i connect to the net when nothing works. How can i sstart firefox.

[D-cat]

As we have described, yes you need to be connected to the Internet. There is a way to get apt to take base packages off your CD. How do you normally connect to the Internet? We can usually help get hardware up in text mode (nothing to do with firefox).

To pull packages from the CD, Insert the CD and run:
sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update

Then resume form DC's post above. Note: any dependencies that are only found online will still return an error unless you are connected, but we can cross that bridge if need be. Please post back with your results.

[mstreus1]

As we have described, yes you need to be connected to the Internet. There is a way to get apt to take base packages off your CD. How do you normally connect to the Internet? We can usually help get hardware up in text mode (nothing to do with firefox).

To pull packages from the CD, Insert the CD and run:
sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update

Then resume form DC's post above. Note: any dependencies that are only found online will still return an error unless you are connected, but we can cross that bridge if need be. Please post back with your results.

Thanks for the reply. So this is what I did:
press Ctrl+Alt+F1 takes me to
Ubuntu 7.10 Name-desktop tty1
Name-desktop login
after login
name@name-desktop:~$
sudo apt-cdrom add
i get:
E: unable to stat the mount point /cdrom/ -stat(2 no such file or directory)
i get the above message two times and then
E: Failed to mount cdrom
I have two drives E: is my CD drive and D: is my DVD drive. Have tried in both drives . Still the same message.
What do you suggest I do next? Waiting for your reply.

[D-cat]

Okay, that's a little different. Note, drive letters don't exist in Linux, instead of D: the ROM would likely be /dev/sdc or something to that effect, and where you access it depends on how it mounts (auto-mounts are in /media, static mounts are defined in a config file). In this case, apt is looking for the CD to be mounted in /cdrom, which it clearly isn't.

Please show me the output of the following:

user@linux:~$> cd /

user@linux:/$> ls
  a.list    of.files  and       directories
  will      show      here

user@linux:/$> cat /etc/fstab
  (please post this output in code tags for easier reading)
     and with the CD inserted:

user@ linux:/$> mount
  (again with code tags please)

I'll try to debug if and where your CD is mounting and what to do to make your CD based install work. Also, all of this is easier if the network is working too; are you connecting dial-up, wifi, or broadband? We could try to debug that issue while we're at it.

[mstreus1]

okay so this is what i got from what you asked me to do. Am not sure what you meant by code tags, but i presume this is what you wanted. I have put a space between each command and its results. The last line --- /dev/hdd on.media/Ubuntu ---- came only once and when i retyped the commands did not appear again. If that means anything to you.

Code:
-------------------------------------------------------------------

user@user-desktop:/$ cd/
-bash: cd/: no such file or directory.

user@user-desktop:/$ ls
bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var
boot dev home initrd.img lost+found mnt proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz

user@user-desktop:/$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=7b996309-ca8c-46ff-9c7c-b44385cfd654 / ext3 defaults,error
s=remount-r0 0 1
#/dev/hdb5
UUID=a61fd9b4-6b44-4045-95f5-a40f6c2353b3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 use,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fdq /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

user@user-desktop:/$ mount
dev/hdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec, nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode-620)
/rm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/hdd on /media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386 type iso 9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid-1000,utf8
user@user-desktop:/$

[D-cat]

I was referring to BB code tag, "code" which outputs the enclosed text in a fixed font. That's okay, I think I canfigure this out.

The mount point "/cdrom" does exist, but it's not defined in the fstab, so any inserted media is in HAL's domain, it'll get mounted to /media/(Disc Label)

We need to somehow tell apt-cdrom about this. Looking at the apt-cdrom documentation, it looks like this is done with -d, but where this is not defined in the fstab, I don't know how it'll work... this may just get more complicated.

I guess just try it first (with the disc inserted),
sudo apt-cdrom -d "/media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386" add

[mstreus1]

I was referring to BB code tag, "code" which outputs the enclosed text in a fixed font. That's okay, I think I canfigure this out.

The mount point "/cdrom" does exist, but it's not defined in the fstab, so any inserted media is in HAL's domain, it'll get mounted to /media/(Disc Label)

We need to somehow tell apt-cdrom about this. Looking at the apt-cdrom documentation, it looks like this is done with -d, but where this is not defined in the fstab, I don't know how it'll work... this may just get more complicated.

I guess just try it first (with the disc inserted),
sudo apt-cdrom -d "/media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386" add

Hello D-cat,

I tried the command
sudo apt-cdrom -d "/media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386" add

Using CD-ROm mount point /media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386/
Unmountin CD-ROM...
Please insert a Disk into the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM...
E: Unable to stat the mount point /media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386 / -Stat (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to stat the mount point /media/Ubuntu 7.10 i386 / -Stat (2 No such file or directory)
E: Failed to mount the cdrom