NetworkManager – Paul's Tech Talk

Linux can keep you sane!

I don’t say that lightly because today, I was going to use Linux and all of the sudden I couldn’t get past the Kubuntu splash screen. It would just hang their not doing anything else. I didn’t know what was going on, if you have seen the look on my face you would of know I was scratching my head. The obvious question though is what happened, that I was asking myself. This isn’t something that I am new at, but it was something I’ve never dealt with because when I was using Linux in the past it was always for leisure and not something that I used regularly. Now that being said, I have begun to use KDE and Ubuntu more and more. I find the open source community really intriguing and I am wanting to learn.

Keywords are the key!

When you have a problem with Linux, all you really need to put the right description of the problem into Google, and you’ll find the answer eventually. Now I won’t say this hasn’t been a learning experience, because recently I bought a book to better help me to learn more about Kubuntu and Ubuntu called “Beginning Ubuntu Linux“, So I will be reading up on how to handle the operating system more and more and being able in the future to help others with the same problem. If you haven’t gotten a book, I’d start there like I am. I will do a review of the book later on when I get done reading it from cover to cover but for right now it will be a handy tool.

Solution to my Problem!

This solution that I will be talking about might not work with you but at least it will point you in the right if doesn’t work. I first searched several different forums, the Ubuntu Forum and the Kubuntu Forums for the answer using Google I might say. After much searching I found a topic about updating and Graphics stop working and talking about the xorg not starting. Which in turns lead me into the other topic Just Updated, Graphics have stopped working and thus lead me it how to fix my problem without having to wait till I could get a Pendrive from my house to fix the problem. If you are looking for the solution here it is:

Go into Recover Mode

Go into the Terminal — I couldn’t even boot into the GUI safe mode
apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx

That wasn’t all I did, I also did

apt-get autoremove

This was just in case I missed something.

I was messing around with fixing the KDE4D bug where it would freeze up everytime I would disconnect from the VPN and so I edited the

sudo nano /usr/share/kde4/services/kded/networkstatus.desktop

I then changed the true to the false

X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false
X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false

I thought that might also be the problem so I changed that back to true. Any ways, after I did all that, I got my Kubuntu to come back to life. I don’t know necessary understand what happened but I did fix it. I did however find a good work around for that bug for the time being. Just install KNetworkManager and it will automatically remove the plasma-widget-networkmanagement. So Now I don’t have to worry about the system locking up and not being able to do anything. I do hope they fix the Plasma problem in the coming updates but I will just have to wait see.