Archive for April, 2009

FIX: Thuderbird - Lightning ‘New Calendar’ menu item grayed out

The fix for this is to install libstdc++5and then reinstall Lightning. Close thunderbird and then in a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove lightning
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
sudo apt-get install lightning

FIX: Updating Ubuntu gives ‘Could not find postinst hook script [update-grub]’ error.

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Toshiba U100 which does not work too well with grub.  Having installed 8.10 and replaced Grub with Lilo I ran update manager for all updates.

This failed when updating the kernel with the error ‘Could not find postinst hook script [update-grub]’.

To fix after running the update manager simply open a terminal and run the following commands.

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