<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1586" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I downloaded and installed xubuntu 7.04 from the alt-cd and here is what I report (I don't have access to update the wiki)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First, I ran the disk checker</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    aside from the blue box jumping all over the screen, it went fine</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then I ran the text install</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>first item up: auto-detect keyboard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    maybe I just don't understand how it is supposed to work, or I cant tell the difference with the keys, but tried it 4 times, kept getting wrong keyboard layout. Manually set up the keyboard (English/English)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for the disk partitioning, I chose the guided resize & use free. Aside from me not seeing the progress bars move at all (partition 1 stated @ 0% until complete, partition 3 stated and stayed @ 33% until complete) all went well (so far as I could tell)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The install ran fine, progress bars worked, no hangs or errors</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Grub detected my 6.10 install, and configured properly</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>rebooted and launched into 7.04 automatically (but on second reboot, grub waited for me to pick--maybe I accidentally hit the <enter> key and didn't notice?)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The first application I launched was gxine to test audio and DVD playback (non-encrypted DVD)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    upon launch, gxine immediately displays error box "No Demuxer found"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    closed that box, gxine played music cd</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    chose DVD from the menu, got another error message saying it could not play the media and that xine-lib was broken (will have to get the exact error message later)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    opened synaptic and checked the repos. Universe was UNchecked but Multiverse WAS checked (?) changed location from USA to MAIN</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    installing gnomebaker went without issue</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    forgot to check for updates @ this time (more later)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    attempted to add a user, but the user admin tool said only that I did not have permissions to run the app</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    tested network-admin, this also would not load from the applications>settings>network-admin but it DID launch from command line</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    It looks like only synaptic will load from the menu list (and prompt for your password)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    At this time, I ran mark all upgrades, there were 9 to load and it ran without issue; but it removed gaim, open office, synaptic(!), xubuntu-desktop, and a bunch of other files. attempted to re-install synaptic with apt-get, but it requires liblaunchpad0 (I think I copied that right) which it found but could not install because it needed liblaunchpad (or something similar...same as the above, without the zero)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    in terminal, I ran grep -r <my password> /var and got a long list of permission denied and "file not found" errors, but no hits on my password were shown</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    reran that test as sudo, and terminal hung</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tested 12 Jan 2007</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert B. Lance Sr.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>