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Chapter 9: Troubleshooting

Here is where you can plan what common questions and solutions you will include in the troubleshooting chapter.

Go nuts! When you think you've got a good 10-20 questions, get one of the admins to have a look - either me (Benjamin Humphrey), Jamin Day, Josh Holland or Joe Burgess.

Topics for Consideration

• Why can't I double-boot after installing Windows? (how to reset grub) DONE
• How can I set file-permissions? (using gui)
• I forgot my password! (using recovery disk, or other sudo-privileged account) DONE
• The login screen doesn't load! (reconfiguring xorg) DONE
• How can I change the video resolution? (gui only) DONE
• Grabbing ttf (windows fonts) DONE
• recovering 'deleted' (i.e. trashed) documents DONE
• recovering some disk space (apt clean) DONE
• upgrading to 10.10
• fixing sound
  • this could get really messy.
• getting flash, mp3, etc. (ubuntu-restricted-extras) DONE
• getting java (icedtea6-plugin or gcj)