Comment 7 for bug 1094990

i had the same problem on mint 17 and i don't know whether this is one of the old ways but there is a solution/workaround that works for me from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/profile.html via https://plus.google.com/+StevenRose-Main/posts/8r1PKGqEXcd hope it is of some use