Gutsy unstable

[Karl Larsen]

Preston Kutzner wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:14:26 +0000 (UTC)
> "Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy a few weeks ago and to be honest I've 
>> been a bit disappointed.  Feisty seems to have had pretty much everything 
>> that Gutsy does and it was more stable than Gutsy.  
>>
>> Gutsy dies for me every few days.  It seems to be related to network 
>> use.  If I have Azureus spinning around doing uploading and downloading 
>> then my system will probably only continue running for maybe 24 hours.  
>>
>> Eventually the wireless network connection is dropped and everything else 
>> quits working.  Most programs cannot be started, some cannot be killed.  
>> If you are lucky enough to have a terminal running and able to run "ps" 
>> you find that there are numerous zombie processes.  If you kill X that 
>> doesn't help.  Shutting down doesn't bring the system all the way down, 
>> and results in you having to do a hard reset...  all of this is assuming 
>> you can bring up the shutdown dialog. 
>>
>> I've been watching for messages on this issue and I haven't seen any.  
>> There don't seem to be any related updates coming across the wire.  Am I 
>> the only one experiencing these problems with Gutsy? 
>>
>> Thanks. 
>> -- 
>> Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>I
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>
> Hardy (8.04) is still Beta, meaning there are still known bugs that are
> slated to be fixed before final release (in 14 days, as of today).
> They do have a big disclaimer on their beta page before you download:
>
> "Note: This is still a beta release. Do not install it on production
> machines. The final stable version will be released in April 2008."
>
> Meaning there are known bugs and problems with the Beta, and you could
> experience problems with it.  Don't install it on any machine with
> data that you care about.  While it's unfortunate that you're having
> problems with Hardy currently, wait until it is officially released,
> then see if your problem has been fixed.
>   
    We are NOT talking about Hardy. It is all about Gutsy.

Karl


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