Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

[Ric Moore]

On 02/09/2012 07:19 PM, David C. Curtis wrote:
> On 12-02-09 05:34 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:47, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 12.04 Alpha has (for me) been amazingly stable right since Alpha 1
>>> release. Till today.
>>> Has anyone else running 12.04 Alpha found that it has suddenly gone
>>> awry with a round of updates? It starts ok but then the GUI just
>>> seems to grind to a halt. The clock in the top panel stops and
>>> nothing much works. I have to resort dropping back to a terminal and
>>> restarting. Strangely I can't find anything in the logs to indicate
>>> what the problem is to see if there is a relevant bug report. I tried
>>> the previous kernel but no different.
>>> I am not complaining as it is an Alpha after all.
>>> Hopefully it will all start working again with some more updates.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>> 12.04 _is_ an Alpha. I think that you meant to post on the dev list!
>
> As long as I've been on this list (fall of '07) there's been no issue
> with discussing alpha. I for one welcome it. The OP could do better in
> #ubuntu+1 on Freenode though. As big show stopper bugs/goof-ups usually
> get reported within the hour, and is the best interface between devs and
> users that I know of.

Maybe that's why they want rid of us? <chuckles> Ric