Fwd: Re: Oh my god

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

This was intended for the list. But never mind, in the meanwhile I got 
it fixed.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Oh my god
Date: 	Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:39:52 +0200
From: 	matteo sisti sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>
To: 	Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com>



If I understand correctly, many people in this list are developers
working in ensuring Ubuntu quality, right? So, since this issue has been
reported a lot of times and there are a few bug reports about it in
Launchpad and a few questions in askubuntu (none of the answers to
which, is working for me), and since this is a huge issue that
completely breaks an ubuntu installation to an apparently unrecoverable
point, making it a tremendous threat tu Ubuntu quality, I must deduce
that a lot of people here must either have observed and thoroughly
investigated this issue, or be doing so. So, I think there must be
somebody here who has found out some workaround for this. I supplicate
some of people to please, please share any working workaround with me.


2013/10/13 matteo sisti sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com
<mailto:matteosistisette at gmail.com>>

     Oh, given how 13.04 got screwed up in two days, which was a
     supposed-to-be stable release, I don't dare to imagine how a "pretty
     much ready" version will work


     2013/10/13 Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com 
<mailto:noskcaj at ubuntu.com>>

         That was a bit strange, but welcome to the team.
         Maybe you could try installing 13.10 since it's pretty much ready.

         On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, matteo sisti sette
         <matteosistisette at gmail.com <mailto:matteosistisette at gmail.com>>
         wrote:
          > Hi,
          >
          > The Ubuntu QA team's website invites visitors to join the
         list and introduce
          > themselves, so here I am introducing myself to the list.
          >
          > I am an Ubuntu user and I have been more and more frustrated
         by the
          > exponentially growing unusability and unstability of Ubuntu
         throughout the
          > last years. But I will focus on unstability here.
          >
          > Now I am astonished to see the point it has reached.
          > I have installed a fresh new Ubuntu 13.04 on a brand new
         computer.
          > First, the Firefox browser stopped working after updating it
         (simply via
          > apt-get) and it turned out to be because ~/.cache/mozilla
         somehow got the
          > wrong owner (root) rendering it unaccessible and preventing
         Firefox from
          > reading the user profofiles and hence to work at all.
          >
          > But now, after a reboot, I find myself with an empty desktop
         with no Unity
          > launcher nor system bar. None of the workarounds described at
          >
 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears/
          > or
         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1212987 work.
          >
          > So after delirious usability killers (I won't mention them
         here as I want to
          > focus on UNSTABILITY), after the impossibility to hibernate,
         after the
          > impossibility to suspend on low battery, after random x.org
         <http://x.org> crashes started
          > to appear which would just suddenly log you out destroying
         all unsaved data
          > at the blinking of an eye, now we have reached the point
         where you may just
          > reboot and find yourself with a completely unusable system,
         roughly
          > equivalent to one that won't even boot. Which means you are
         forced to either
          > waste a couple of days googling for a fix, or reinstall the
         whole system
          > just until this happens again.
          >
          > End of rant.
          > Matteo
          >
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