Doing the deed!

[geoaraujo]

Im getting the same thing. Id love to file a bug report about it, but I dont know which logs to look at to get helpful info.....

It appears that the blackened screen issue is no more.

[whatthefunk]

It appears that the blackened screen issue is no more.

I hope so. That was an extremely annoying issue.

[geoaraujo]

It seems that the update notification that used to appear at panel no longer shows up. Can anyone confirm this?

[Snowhog]

Verify that you (still) have these installed:

muon-updater
muon-notifier
update-notifier-common

[geoaraujo]

Verify that you (still) have these installed:

muon-updater
muon-notifier
update-notifier-common

Yep, those packages are installed. But update-notifier, update-manager-kde and update-notifier-kde are not installed. Those have to be installed too?

[Snowhog]

update-notifier:
Puts an icon in the user's notification area when package updates are available

update-manager-kde:
Support modules for Muon Notifier and Apper to check for new distro releases and download the dist-upgrade tool

update-notifier-kde:
This package contains a module to notify the user when there is a need for an upgrade or a security upgrade

Go ahead and install these; won't hurt. Likely update-notifier or update-notifier-kde is what you are looking for.

[geoaraujo]

I didn't install update-notifier because it's GNOME stuff and a lot of packages are needed. But even after installin update-manager-kde and update-notifier-kde I still don't get the panel icon.

Edit: I get only the "It is recommended to update your system" warning, but not the "wheel" at panel.

[Snowhog]

Read through https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...in-12-04/page2

It's on the 12.04 sub-forum, but it may shed light your your issue (the same) with 14.04.

[geoaraujo]

Thanks for the answer, Snowhog. However, I've read the thread and followed the suggestions there but the problem persists.

Edit: Running Muon Updater (GUI), I've set it to show available updates. Now I get the Muon Discovery icon at panel (besides the update notification) when there's an update, but still not the wheel icon...

[oshunluvr]

I took a few minutes this weekend to install the Tahr daily from last Wednesday. My short notes so far on install and usage:

Initial install:
Installed to my existing btrfs multi-drive filesystem. No issues. Booted right up and I was able to go right to work. *NOTE* I do not use a standard grub configuration so I can't comment on that.

Network/Internet:
Updated network configuration and bonded my two ethernet ports. After restart, Network Manager failed to connect. This is not a surprise as port aggregation has never been supported by any network manager I am aware of. I purged KNetworkManager and manually configured resolv.conf by creating the "tail" file with my nameserver and domain. Next launch, all was well.

Video:
Initial video support worked fine. Dual monitors detected and correctly set up. Ran the driver support tool, selected nVidia-331 and rebooted. Worked perfectly. I later added my custom xorg.conf file for my tweaks without issues.

I've started adding the software I like and removing unneeded stuff. So far, the results are better than I had expected.

At this point: Tahr is the closet Linux distro I've ever seen to just working right-out-of-the-box. I'm looking forward to a stable, functional and great working environment!

[Feathers McGraw]

Network/Internet:
Updated network configuration and bonded my two ethernet ports. After restart, Network Manager failed to connect. This is not a surprise as port aggregation has never been supported by any network manager I am aware of. I purged KNetworkManager and manually configured resolv.conf by creating the "tail" file with my nameserver and domain. Next launch, all was well.

This is interesting. Does "port aggregation" mean you use two Ethernet ports at once and it behaves a single connection?

[oshunluvr]

This is interesting. Does "port aggregation" mean you use two Ethernet ports at once and it behaves a single connection?

Precisely. It has limitations, but in certain setups has benefits. In my case, both my server and my desktop have dual ethernet ports and they connect to the same switch so I use bonding to increase the transfer speed between these two PC's. Unfortunately, no other devices here have dual ports. It also works as a failure backup - if one port fails the other takes the whole load. I really only started doing it because I had the extra NICs. I doubt it's worth the investment to upgrade just to have it available. I suppose you could bond a wifi connection with a wired connection, but I suspect there'd be little improvement in the connection.

stuart@office:~$ ifconfig
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:60:d5:ee:3b  
          inet addr:192.168.1.199  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:107054 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:63915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10000 
          RX bytes:124399336 (124.3 MB)  TX bytes:7214938 (7.2 MB)


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:60:d5:ee:3b  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:53200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:31964 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10000 
          RX bytes:61793436 (61.7 MB)  TX bytes:3629205 (3.6 MB)
          Interrupt:18 


eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:60:d5:ee:3b  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:53854 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:31951 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10000 
          RX bytes:62605900 (62.6 MB)  TX bytes:3585733 (3.5 MB)
          Interrupt:17 


lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:333 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:333 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:19929 (19.9 KB)  TX bytes:19929 (19.9 KB)

[GreyGeek]

I ran into a small problem on Trusty Tahr today. I installed my homestead app written in Qt and then installed qtcreator and qtsdk. My app compiled OK but wouldn't connect to the PostgreSQL database, claiming that "Bus:pen: Can not get ibus-daemon's address". Installing iBus didn't help. When I switched to using qt5's dev tools I found that the include mappings for it were different than that for qt4. Include statements like #include <QDialog>, which compiled fine under qt4 had to be changed to "#include <QtWidgets/QDialog>" for context help to work and for the compiler to see them because a whole bunch of classes had been shifted to a QtWidgets directory. BUT, using qt5's qmake failed to include the QtWidget group of classes in the Makefiles. Adding them after the fact didn't help. Qt4 ran the User Interface Compiler (UIC) just fine, creating ui_form.h files just fine, but qt5 did. I could get qt4 to successfully compile a working binary by working on the cli in a Konsole, but it ran into the ibus problem. Qt5 wouldn't allow me to compile either with qtcreator or manually because of qmake's parsing of the qt classes failed to include important form widgets.

[Feathers McGraw]

Thanks Oshunluvr!

What are the best transfer rates to you get between them?

[geoaraujo]

I do think that for now baloo is way worse than nepomuk. I had excluded my home folder from being searched as suggested here at forums, nevertheless, recently fan gone crazy and temperature was near 90ºC! I've checked what process were running and I had eight (!) baloo file extractor processes running. Something is definetely not right.