<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Kody, I was in a car traveling south from LinuxFest NW most of yesterday. <div><br></div><div>`ubuntu-bug kubuntu website` (or maybe kubuntu-website) or `ubuntu-bug installer` or whatever package you think might be the problem is the way to begin your bug report (BR) in konsole/yakuake. You will be given a series of choices and will end up on Launchpad where your comments (keep them short and to the point please) can be entered. If a log file is needed it will be uploaded; no need to zip, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>It is important to do this from the broken system if possible; sometimes it must be done directly from the terminal, which can seem a bit scary, but beyond being not-very-friendly, it's fine. </div><div><br></div><div>If you can't reach the internet from the broken system, I believe you have a choice to use "pastebinit" which is a tiny application from another, running system. More about that here: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pastebinit">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pastebinit</a>. It's been awhile since I had to resort to using that so my advice might have cobwebs on this paragraph. </div><div><br></div><div>Developers need bug reports, and short, accurate descriptions of the issues in order to solve them. Long emails full of lots of issues are not helpful to them. Your fellow users can help you answer questions, do some problem-solving, etc. but if you have a bug, unless you have the skill to fix packaging or software issues, you need devels to fix those things, and devels need bug reports. </div><div><br></div><div>Even writing to to the devel ML or in the devel IRC/Matrix channels, they will want the BR#, such as Bug12345. Many devel-chans have a bug-bot that will give them the URL to that BR in launchpad so that can read it directly, see what similar reports have to say, what if any changes have been recently made, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Bug reports are one of the most important ways that users contribute directly to the quality of our free software. </div><div><br></div><div>Please file bug reports, not complaints on reddit/facebook/twitter/etc. If all those complaints were BRs, our software would be better, faster!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 6:48 AM Cody Smith <<a href="mailto:cody.smith@ubuntu.com">cody.smith@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">ML means "Mailing List" in this context, essentially what you're sending your emails to (the Kubuntu Users Technical Support mailing list).<div><br></div><div>Figured I'd clear that up for ya.</div><div><br></div><div>At any rate a lot of what your sending would be best put in a bug report on Launchpad. There's some good info that you can put into a bug report.</div><div><br></div><div>--c_smith</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 3:53 AM Sorin Srbu <<a href="mailto:sorin.srbu@ki.se" target="_blank">sorin.srbu@ki.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On lör, 2024-04-27 at 10:50 +0200, Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs wrote:<br>
> More about this....<br>
> >I have tried to download the ISO in the regular way. However, the .iso<br>
> file I got this morning does not pass the SHA256 checksum test. <br>
> <br>
> > Now, I am downloading it again in the same way, for lack of a BitTorrent<br>
> > link that is functional. I really want to make today a fresh install - I<br>
> > cannot wait for the hardware upgrade, <br>
> A second attempt to download the ISO file of the latest LTS succeeded in 9<br>
> minutes instead of a few hours. However, it failed again the checsum<br>
> test.....<br>
> bas@Camino:~/Downloads$ sha256sum kubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso<br>
> ec3db0c5179556a9f5ff0895c57935ed1789612459e42558c24387b3b0b19b0c kubuntu-<br>
> 24.04-desktop-amd64.iso<br>
> This does not coincide with the figures at this page:<br>
> <a href="https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/</a><br>
> Yours,<br>
> Bas. <br>
<br>
Hello, <br>
<br>
I'm getting the below. I downloaded the ISO via torrent from the Kubuntu<br>
website. Does this help anything? <br>
Looks like I'm getting the same checksum as you do.<br>
<br>
root@seedbox:/home/seedbox/Downloads# sha256sum kubuntu-24.04-desktop-<br>
amd64.iso<br>
ec3db0c5179556a9f5ff0895c57935ed1789612459e42558c24387b3b0b19b0c kubuntu-<br>
24.04-desktop-amd64.iso<br>
<br>
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