Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

[Liam Proven]

On 9 February 2012 21:47, 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.

For what little it's worth, I strongly agree.

I put 12.04 on my "spare" system on my desktop just 2 days ago, after
running it successfully on 2 or 3 testbed notebooks. On them, it was
fine. On the desktop, it's a bit of a mess & hangs all the time.

But yes, I do have nVidia graphics...

On another note: I don't know if folk have seen the comments from the
SABDFL on Popey's G+:

https://plus.google.com/108611501090787019364/posts/QMV7Uf4YS4k

The "dodge windows" option is being removed completely from the Launcher.

Also, on multihead desktops, you now get one Launcher per screen -
which I personally hate.

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