what's the best way to report problems with kubuntu 15.10?

[Clay Weber]

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 04:52:50 PM David Lang wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Xen wrote:
> > On 09/11/2015 12:11 AM, David Lang wrote:
> >> I decided to go ahead and give 15.10 a try to see if it solved the
> >> problems I've been having with 15.04 (multi-display), and I've run into
> >> a couple new issues.
> >> 
> >> First, the ethernet port has changed from eth0 to enx00249b0e398f
> >> 
> >>    I think this is a systemd thing where they think they are better
> >> 
> >> identifying the interface. Unfortunantly the ports are not labled like
> >> this on any system that I've ever used, so naming things this way just
> >> means I have no way of knowing (or remembering) the name of the
> >> interface.
> > 
> > I seriously suggest you just fix it by doing this:
> > 
> > # ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
> 
> thanks
> 
> > Thank you for pointing me to that. It annoyed the heck out of me as well.
> > For some reason Debian 8 seems not to do that. I have two default Debian
> > 8 systems currently and both don't sport this 'feature' even though they
> > have systemd.

This is from a more recent version of udev than what is in Debbian Stable, 
iirc.

> > 
> >> Second (compounding the first), network manager doesn't see anything to
> >> manage. I'm able to get the wired network working using dhclient (once I
> >> do ifconfig -a to find the interface name)
> 
> I just got an update to network manager, so I'll have to see if it fixes
> anything.
> 
> >> Third, the login time is insanely long, 10+ minutes from providing my
> >> password until the panel finally shows up. For the first 5 or so minutes
> >> the network interface doesn't show up in an ifconfig -a either
> > 
> > I hope you made sure to use a fresh user home directory, in case 15.04
> > things are messing with 15.10 at this point.
> 
> I had a very seriously messed up kde config, so I had to completly remove
> any kde related config directories to get it to let me login at all.
> 
> I just found another couple of nasties
> 
> In today's update, the 'suspend' option was removed from the power/session
> menu, so I have no way of suspending my laptop :-( What's going on here?
> This isn't Gnome where they remove user options with each release!
> 

Sometimes this disappears from the menu until a reboot after a kernel or some 
other base system update. Or at least I have seen it happen to me before. But 
that wasn't specific to plasma 5.

> Since I have it configured to NOT suspend when the lid is closed and it's
> plugged in to power, I tried unplugging the power and closing the lid. This
> caused plasma shell to crash, and then when I opened the lid I eventually
> got a second crash popup, and finally it restarted and I got the panel
> back.
> 
> I know this is on the early side, but given how some people dismissed 15.04
> complaints because nobody had spoken up or tested this stuff before the
> release, I figured I'd try to avoid that problem this time.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> >> Given the insanely long login time, I haven't tried testing to see how
> >> it handles interfaces going away during a suspend (I just do without
> >> this powerful machine and use my old T60)
> >> 
> >> David Lang

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Clay Weber