Which image to use for testing?

[Dave Hunt]

Hi, List,

I downloaded an image of Precise from 
ftp:cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/dialylive dated 25 March, and burned to a 
flash drive.  When I booted, no drums ever played, nor did I get the usual 
Ubuntu music for the startup.  I started orca manually, set the 
preferences, and tried to launch apps.  I think the system was in Unity 
3d.  Alt+tab did not seem to work.  Orca never spoke in the 'run' 
dialogue. When I hit alt+f1, the launcher never spoke, nor could I launch 
apps with super+0 through super+9.  The menu, accessible with a press of 
alt+f10, does work, with items spoken with their proper types (menus were 
indicated as such, items no longer named as 'checkbox not checked').  I 
noticed, also, that the menu of wifi points now shows signal strength and 
whether the points are secured, very nice!  To try fixing the desktop 
session for next time I use the flash drive, I opened a terminal, and 
edited the files:
/var/log/AccountsService/users/ubuntu and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, 
changing the user session to ubuntu-2d from ubuntu.  Now, I have an 
unusable system on this flash drive.  It boots, but I don't think it logs 
in as anyone, or there is no ubuntu-2d desktop on this particular image.


Cheers,


Dave