Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 10 08:59:15 UTC 2012


On 10 February 2012 00:19, David C. Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12-02-09 05:34 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>> 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!
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> 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.

OK, thanks for that.

Colin

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