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[Tom <question76099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76099 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/76099

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ubuntu doesn't seem to be behaving normally on your system.  If you had
an Ubuntu Cd then i would suggest re-installing it wiping out what's
currently there.

I would really recommend downloading and making your own Ubuntu Cd or maybe use a friends machine to download it, or a cyber-cafe, internet cafe, library, school/workplace.  It might be possible to get someone else to do this for you?
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
Alternatively you could buy an Ubuntu cd using this link
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/purchase
these get delivered within a week or so or if you have a lot more patience you could request a free cd although these can take about 3 months (or maybe a little less sometimes)
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

You would be best following the "Manual Partitioning" so that you could re-use the existing partitions for this although i would change the sizes around a bit.  Sda7 only needs to be 8Gb at most really and sda8 could do with a bit more space.  Sda8 is where all your data and settings are for ubuntu and there's only about 10Gb being used so all of it could be copied to sda6 while doing the re-install.  See just the 2nd paragraph in the introduction in this guide
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

openSUSE is in your system but we are having trouble getting at it.  Try
typing

sudo fdisk -l

and see all the early partitions; sda1, sda2 and sda3 all containing
your openSUSE stuff.  Sda3 doesn't have much in there but that's where
the useful information is for finding out how to boot into openSUSE on
sda1 & sda2.  Sda2 is where all your data and settings are for openSUSE

I don't have a clear plan today and think it's time to post all the
different questions as separate questions to try and get other people
contributing help and advice, this would also help avoid some of the
small mistakes i sometimes make, such as talking about nano a lot & then
typing in gedit, when gedit wont run in recovery mode (which was why we
needed to use nano in the first place).

For advice on fixing the "unresolved host" problem try posting a question using this link
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

The menu.lst is only missing lines about booting into openSUSE but i am having trouble trying to find out what the lines should be.  Adding the lines about Windows was easier but i don't know which kernel numbers to use for openSUSE and getting access to sda3 where we could look those thing up is difficult because of some weird problem about trying to read the reaiserfs partitions, the "unresolvable hosts" error seems to be getting in the way there.  For Ubuntu the main kernel number you are using is 2.6.24-24-generic.  Finding the menu.lst on sda3 would help fix this.  For the question about getting menu.lst tidied up ask a question using this link
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+addquestion

For trying to fix the the problem about seamonkey try asking a question using this link
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Your Ubuntu seems to have plenty of space so it should be mostly ok to use for quite a long time without really needing anything to be done to fix it in the short term.  Perhaps downloading the updates might help fix a few things but if yur downloading is limited then i would aim to download a new copy of ubuntu 8.04
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

I'm sorry that's not very helpful today!
We could carry on and try to fix some of the problems but i need a refresh really
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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