Not ready for prime time or is just a case of pebkac?

[Uriah Heep]

Given all the difficulties attendant this roll out.(windows thought me to
never jump on the newest thing until the general population did the real
final beta test) I concluded I would stick with my older and solid version
till this iteration is debugged. Given all the problems, if you have an
image or recent backup of your old system you might consider going back and
waiting til this version is ready for prime time.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Luca Olivetti <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:

> Sorry if this sounds like a rant, it probably is.
> After my hard disk crashed, I decided to give kubuntu a try (after many
> years of using another distribution with kde).
> Unfortunately, despite the stunning looks of a modern plasma desktop
> (albeit with a dearth of available desktop widgets), after a week I can say
> that nothing seems to work as I was used to:
>
> 1) bluedevil
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluedevil/+bug/1466354
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluedevil/+bug/1466347
>
> (ok, ubuntu ships an outdated version of Bluez, but still it is annoying).
>
> 2) the korganizer daemon randomly stops reminding me of appointments.
> Today I cannot even open korganizer from the system tray (I could
> yesterday), only from the k menu.
>
> 3) the problem with the screen reported here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2015-June/009587.html
>
> only, this is a fresh install, it happens not only when plugging/removing
> an external monitor but also when resuming. I have been using nvidia with
> kde (not kubuntu) for the past 2 years, and I never saw this problem
> before. Btw, turning the compositing off (ctrl+shift-f12) fixes it.
>
> 4) recently, after an upgrade to the kubuntu-ppa/backports, after a resume
> I'm greeted with a black screen. I have to turn to another tty an kill
> kscreenlocker_greet
>
> 5) just now, trying point 4 above, kinit crashed, luckily thunderbird
> saved the draft
>
> 6) new today, I click on a text file in dolphin (which, btw, seems to be
> forgetting the places I add), and it tells me it cannot open /usr/bin/kate.
> I can launch kate from the k menu. Maybe a reboot will help, I don't know,
> closing and reopening the session didn't.
>
> 7) also new today, it forgot the wifi network I've been using at home
> during the last week.
>
> 8) not new the problem with networkmanager and VLANs: I have to turn them
> on manually since networkmanager refuses to bring them up itself (with a
> less than helpful error message). Not to speak about the problems caused by
> the vboxnet0 (virtual box host only networking), which today networkmanager
> decided to use as a default route instead of the wired ethernet.
>
> 9) various notifications of "system processes" crashing (e.g, plasma)
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Bye
> --
> Luca
>
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