Re: possible repost gnome panel failing, new installation of ubuntu 6.06

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Hit the F5 key and whatever other keys you need to hit right after the 
computer does the post beep when it boots up.  The reason for this is that 
ubuntu uses an executable called startup.exe to do its startup and the 
only thing in autorun.inf is startup.exe so it's going to come up very 
fast.  Once you do that gnopernicus will talk if you hit the down arrow 
three times and then hit enter twice after you hit the F5.  The gnome 
sound theme will play and then you wait and gnopernicus comes up talking 
and you wait for the CD to stop spinning.  Then you go from there.



On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Dave wrote:

> Hello,
>    My apologies if this is a repost. I didn't see it go through. I had some
> sighted assistance today and did an install from the live CD,
> that's disk1 is that correct? Disk1 has the accessible install, i was not
> sure when to push f5, when the system booted off CD there was a choice run
> or install, i pressed f5 there and no go. I then with help hit install. The
> disk churned a while, loading, then i got a ubuntu startup sound, which i
> thought was a great way to let people know that things are well. Should i
> have hit f5 there? Anyway, i got another prompt, run or install or a
> variation of, again i chose install, and i talked my help through, the
> install itself was painless. The box rebooted, i logged in, x fired right
> up, and all is well. I believe i now have the desktop version of ubuntu
> installed with gnome 2.14 and gnopernicus. I'm going to jump ahead of myself
> and go beyound the event sequence, after i get the error i'm about to talk
> about i went alt+f2 then punched up gnome-terminal. I put in the source CD
> and did a sudo apt-get install ssh openssh-server, entered my password and
> was asked if i wanted to verify authenticity of packages. I answered yes and
> it was unable to verify and the install exited. I then up arrowed, ran the
> command again and this time answered no, got the openssh server installed. I
> am not sure why i am getting these authentication errors.
>    Ok, before that i logged in, went alt+f2 and typed in gnopernicus
> wanting speech. Now i did hear the startup sound when i logged in so i know
> sound was working. I got a popup box with no speech output. My sighted
> assistance told me that it was an error: "Gnome-panel has failed
> unexpectedly." And did i want to restart, inform developers, or cancel. I
> hit restart, and tried the command again, with the same results. I am not
> sure what to do now. I'd like to solve this problem with gnome-panel and
> hopefully that will solve why i do not have speech. This box has ssh so if
> anyone can help i can make an account.
> Thanks a lot.
> Dave.
>
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