Ubuntu/Gnome stability

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I installed IceWM-experimental, it's _very_ fast and light

Just tried it (again, was in Synaptic ! :-).
I was impressed by the ability to change window manager literally 'on
the fly'. I was impressed, until I switched to metacity and lost the
bottom bar iwth no way to log-out to get back into Gnome....had to
reboot the machine !!
Then once back into Gnome, I felt 'at home'....like a safe, sweet
home... I guess I am way too in love with it to really use anything
else... Well, on my machine of course. The second Ubuntu box I will
build probably will have no DE at all, that should be fast and should be
enough to set up basic networking functionalities.


> Hmmm, I haven't run into that yet. Must be a YMMV case.
> Are you running warty or hoary? I have no stability issues here.

Do you mean that in 6 weeks of using Warty, yo never had any gnome
application or applet crash and disappear in thin air 'just like that',
without even using it ? If so, then please give details of your
hardware ! :-/

Yes, I am using Warty (downloaded ISO image as soon as it was available,
20th October IIRC ?). My PC bascially runs the following all day long :

1) E-mail (Evolution)
2) Web browser (Epiphany)
3) CD Albums (OGG, Rhythmbox)
4) MP3 songs (XMMS or Totem-xine)
5) Picture viewing (GQview)
6) Plus a few Nautilus windows and a couple Terminals

Plus TV and Bluefish and Gimp occasionnaly when needed.

I have 1, 2, 4 and 4 crashing all the time !
I usually get at least one or two crashed each and every day.
Today I had XMMS that 'disappeared' after several hours, for no reason.
Then I had Evolution crash when I tried to paste a couple lines of text
from a terminal into an e-mail I was writing to you earlier tday (the
result of the locate command for libxfcegui...). Evolution often does
this.
Sometimes it's Epiphany that also disappears in thin air at random, just
because it feels like it.
Same for Rhythmbox, it disappears every now and then.
Same for XMMS.

Never had problems with GQview or Gimp, as far as I can remember.

However the worse than happened to me, is GNOME doing the same ! Yep,
all of a sudden, whole screen would turn black and bring me back to
GDM !!! Really scary, happens about once a month.

If really Wart and Gnome 2.8 is stable, then this statement made my day,
my week, month...year ! This is truly fantastic news, this means Gnome
is not as bad as some buddies would like me to think...
Maybe it's due to hardware problem then ? Is there a way to trace a
program's activity so that we have debug informations when it
crashes/disappears ? Who knows, maybe we could fix the problem.


Regards,

Vince