3 Problems (Ubuntu/GRUB)


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Well, first of all, my quit button to shut down doesn't work... When I click the button in the top corner, or "System>Quit...", all that happens is my top and bottom bars vanish. To get them back I have to restart X.

Also, nothing seems to update/download, not even my history saves... I'm sure I haven't ran out of space (my System Monitor says I have 0bytes free space) because the last time I looked I had over 4gb left, since then I've installed 3 updates lol.

Finally, I installed XP again (not because I hate vista, but some games aren't working, and I wanted to try XP), I still had Vista installed, and I got my GRUB loader back, (before it would only load XP), it has all the options that were there before (Vista, Ubuntu 8.04, Debug, Memtest). So I wanted to boot Vista, and XP starts up... (they are on different HDDs), so I decide to check my menu.lst, and it directs Vista to my first HDD (where Vista is installed), so I try so add an entry for XP, I save it, restart, my XP entry isn't there, and Vista still loads XP.

Any ideas?

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Edit: I managed to get Vista and XP working side by side! Had to do a repair install.

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Edit: I managed to get Vista and XP working side by side! Had to do a repair install.

All you had to do is boot the vistadisc and do a "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and "bootrec.exe /fixmbr", then add xp to your vista bootloader.

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Ok, your multi-boot is fixed.

That leaves a shutdown that doesn't shut down, and history & settings not saving and reporting 0 space free.

I am going to guess that if you really have run out of freespace, it might cause these other problems.

Can you open a terminal and post the output of a df command?

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