Dapper is LESS stable than Breezy.

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:23:23 +0100
Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:

> toylet wrote:
> > I think Dapper is stable, but if you upgrade from Breezy, there may be 
> > problems. A fresh install is always the best.
> 
> Part of the point of using Debian/Ubuntu is that you can upgrade and the 
> upgrade is supposed to work well. I don't see how upgrading could make 
> Thunderbird and Gnome less stable in a way that doesn't apply to a clean 
> install.

Daniel, as Adriano ( I think ) said, sometimes these issues are related to
left over personal config tweaks. I had a few of these that were causing
problems ( in .gnome* .gconf* .gtk* , that sort of thing.) I noticed that a
"test" user set up from scratch did not have the same issues.

One way to tackle this is to move all your .gnome* .gconf* and .gtk* stuff
out of the way

mkdir mygconfig
mv .gconf* .gnome* .gtk* mygconfig/

or something of the sort.

Then you are back to a clean default on next login from which you can
troubleshoot which parts are problematic. It's a bit of a pain,
admittedly, but I think new things in GNOME sometimes don't play nice with
old methods that worked fine before. Trivial example: for some reason my
default user's "Human" theme insisted on using a *blue* window border
until I moved my old .gtk* stuff out of the way.

Peter


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