[LinuxUsers] getting less happy w/ubuntu

[Jeff Lasman]

I'm getting less happy with ubuntu.

First of all: When the alternate CD install finally finished the network 
wouldn't start; the little icon kept coming up in the upper right 
corner of the screen, but it wouldn't start.  No route.  No ip# in 
ifconfig output.  I found the network config script (it's not where 
RedHat-style distributions put it <wry grin>), and edited it to remove 
the "#" mark the install had put in front of the line setting it up for 
DHCP.  Then I restarted the network and it still didn't work.

I tried a manual route command; it still didn't work <frown>.

Finally I rebooted and then it worked <frown, again>.  The 
broken-network icon doesn't show up anymore, which probably means 
everything's okay.  I was able to get out through the network.

So then I ran the updates the system was telling me I need to do.

After that it told me to reboot (shades of Microsoft), so I did.

Now the little broken network icon comes up again and when I hover the 
mouse over it, it tells me the network isn't managed. Whatever that 
means.

It works; I can reach sites on the 'net.  But I can't manage it?

Twice the system has locked X while logging in.  It still has the beige 
screen when it happens; it's before it loads the desktop wallpaper.

Ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work.  Ctrl-alt-1 doesn't shift me to a text 
window... the computer reset button doesn't work, but the soft-power 
off switch does.

More later.

Jeff
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