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Wifi not connecting on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2 [FIXED]

2015-12-16 / / 0 Comments

After that partial upgrade and the annoying Docky issue finally fixed, I thought I was safe, but another annoying issue appeared,  and this time hitting closer to home!

One of the issues that occurred after the partial upgrade is that the wifi breaks after putting the computer to sleep. Bluetooth worked fine but the wifi won’t connect!
After a failed connection this message would appear:

Connection Activation Failed

(4) did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply time out expired
or the network connection was broken.

I tried fixing the issue, switching of the Wi-Fi did not work.

Looking on-line I found that the most suitable solution was to download Wicd. A graphical network manager that asked for the network’s name and password. And started the connection process until I had connection!

So there you have it! Install Wcid to fix the Wi-Fi breaking issue on Ubuntu 14.04.

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Partial Upgrades in Ubuntu + Docky issue [FIXED]

2015-11-27 / / 0 Comments
One day out of the blue Ubuntu said it needed a partial upgrade, I clicked OK and didn’t think twice about it, it did some work on many packages and for some reason Docky 3.0 (Experimental branch by Rictoz) was selected for “upgrade” and after the reboot it was gone!
The partial upgrade in general is nothing to worry about and it’s safe to click continue, especially I’m running Ubuntu  14.04 LTS which is supposedly supported until late 2019.

I was set back to Docky 2.0.2 which I don’t have a problem with, except it crashes.

(If you read my Docky post you know that I chose Docky 3.0 over 2.0.2 because it’s more stable and doesn’t crash randomly all the time. Despite Docky 2.0.2 having cool “Docklets” that added to it’s functionality.)

I couldn’t install Docky 3.0 due to package dependency issues, and therefore I was stuck with Docky 2.0.2 for a while, only then I realized how much I depended on it to get my things done!

The fix was super easy!

I went to the downloaded files I had which were three files: Docky, Libplank, and Libplank common.

Using Gdebi I installed Libplank common the first, then Libplank and finally Docky 3.0, it replaces the old one and no need to uninstall.

Thing is every time it looks for updates it wants to remove Docky, and that happens daily, I found a way to fix that by simply “locking” the version.

I went to Synaptic and searched for Docky, selected it and clicked lock version under package. Now even when it looks for updates it greys out Docky and doesn’t update it. I have a detailed tutorial on how to use Synaptic that you can find here.

That’s how I got Docky 3.0 back after it was ruined by the partial upgrade, I hope you found this useful, please let me hear your feedback and have a nice day.

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