Hardy = Gutsy + Broken

Is it just me, or is Ubuntu Hardy sucking so far?

So far I’ve got:

  • Pidgin: randomly segfaults, glibc double free etc.
  • Rhythmbox: randomly segfaults, no stack trace?
  • F-Spot: randomly dies, it always did, but it’s more common now.
  • Epiphany: dies sometimes loading flash – that’s probably flash player’s fault though.
  • Metacity: vertical maximisation is broken, very annoying.
  • Kernel: fails to resume more often than previously, sometimes locks up completely when undocking.

The killer is when you try to file a bug report you’re supposed to attach the info from /var/crash, but I have nothing in /var/crash!

Can I have my money back? 😉

Posted by mike on Friday May 23rd, 2008, tagged with , ,

2 responses to “Hardy = Gutsy + Broken”

  1. Andy says:

    Hi,

    I had the pidgin problem since Gutsy – the thing that solved it (after many googling) is to change your theme, it’s probably something with gtk themes (re: glibc double free)

    I also want a place to whine about file sharing from nautilus 🙁

  2. Matt says:

    Agree on the Pidgin solution that Andy has posted… change your theme.
    Likewise with Rhythmbox. ( I dont use F-Spot – so can’t comment).

    Flash is broken — search the ‘net for answers… it’s due to the move to Pulseaudio. 🙁

    Kernel resuming – The whole process is broken, and whilst it worked in Gutsy it was more fluke than skill. Take a look at the following LCA speech “Suspend to disk – why does it hurt so? – by Matthew Garrett (Slides: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/139-suspendtodisk.odp and the OGG video : http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-139.ogg )

    The good news is that Hardy is at least LTS – so they have time to fix ’em all. 😉