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 linux, nerd, plau
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 🙁
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. 😉