UPDATE: For the source of the Internet connectivity problem, see this post.
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If you've followed my recent threads, you're well aware that I've had an extraordinary amount of problems with my new laptop, a beautiful System76 Gazelle 17.3". Kindly note that I am not condemning System76 in any way. I believe all the problems have been flukes, user [that would be me] error, and so on.
But they've left me really scratching my head! Things that I've done a million times have fuc... mucked up! I mean, right from the get-go, I received it, powered it up, saw its installation of Ubuntu 20.04, got to a command line, and installed Kubuntu. Bam! Dead laptop. I mean dead dead. I couldn't do anything, get anywhere, NOTHING. I didn't have a USB thumb drive, so I patiently waited after ordering one--that was supposed to arrive the next day...but ended up coming several days later.
(And for this I pay Amazon's Prime fee annually? They were very apologetic, but late is late, you know?, especially when you're in desperate need of what you're waiting for.) So it came, I burned 20.04 on it, used it to successfully resuscitate the brand-new laptop, and things were looking good, until they weren't. I've had a LITANY of problems, everything from being unable to mount USB drives to losing my Internet connection in a seemingly random manner.
Regarding that last point, it happened again yesterday. Things had been running really beautifully for several days. I'd tweaked and customized my desktop/menu/taskbar/environment almost as much as I wanted. Note that I've been saving my $HOME directory, with all its settings, periodically, always before making ANY changes. So yesterday, when this happened, I reinstalled the OS--again!--and then restored the last known working $HOME, and all was fine. So what caused this sudden mess? I don't know. I literally had done only two things right before it started: one, I installed and used Inkscape, and, two, I copied a few svgz icons to /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ -- which I assumed to be the new location of the default taskbar icons. Years ago, that location was the now-nonexistent /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/.
That was it.
Bam! No Internet connection. Once again I had the inexplicable "temporary failure in name resolution" [or however it's worded].
As usual, *NO* other devices were affected in any way. My other System76 laptop, sitting right next to it, had no problems. Nor did two Android phones--one of which was running a continuous ping/sleep test in Termux. No blips whatsoever--ONLY on the new laptop.
How on earth could installing Inkscape and/or copying a few icons to /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ screw up my Internet connectivity?! I'm really at a loss...
And it turns out /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ isn't where *my* taskbar icons are stored--the ones located there do not match what I see in my taskbar, but neither do any of the other icons I've seen while trying to figure out where they are! Where are they?! The ones from my plasma theme are not the ones I see in my taskbar.
Okay, /rant.
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If you've followed my recent threads, you're well aware that I've had an extraordinary amount of problems with my new laptop, a beautiful System76 Gazelle 17.3". Kindly note that I am not condemning System76 in any way. I believe all the problems have been flukes, user [that would be me] error, and so on.
But they've left me really scratching my head! Things that I've done a million times have fuc... mucked up! I mean, right from the get-go, I received it, powered it up, saw its installation of Ubuntu 20.04, got to a command line, and installed Kubuntu. Bam! Dead laptop. I mean dead dead. I couldn't do anything, get anywhere, NOTHING. I didn't have a USB thumb drive, so I patiently waited after ordering one--that was supposed to arrive the next day...but ended up coming several days later.
(And for this I pay Amazon's Prime fee annually? They were very apologetic, but late is late, you know?, especially when you're in desperate need of what you're waiting for.) So it came, I burned 20.04 on it, used it to successfully resuscitate the brand-new laptop, and things were looking good, until they weren't. I've had a LITANY of problems, everything from being unable to mount USB drives to losing my Internet connection in a seemingly random manner.
Regarding that last point, it happened again yesterday. Things had been running really beautifully for several days. I'd tweaked and customized my desktop/menu/taskbar/environment almost as much as I wanted. Note that I've been saving my $HOME directory, with all its settings, periodically, always before making ANY changes. So yesterday, when this happened, I reinstalled the OS--again!--and then restored the last known working $HOME, and all was fine. So what caused this sudden mess? I don't know. I literally had done only two things right before it started: one, I installed and used Inkscape, and, two, I copied a few svgz icons to /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ -- which I assumed to be the new location of the default taskbar icons. Years ago, that location was the now-nonexistent /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons/.
That was it.
Bam! No Internet connection. Once again I had the inexplicable "temporary failure in name resolution" [or however it's worded].
As usual, *NO* other devices were affected in any way. My other System76 laptop, sitting right next to it, had no problems. Nor did two Android phones--one of which was running a continuous ping/sleep test in Termux. No blips whatsoever--ONLY on the new laptop.
How on earth could installing Inkscape and/or copying a few icons to /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ screw up my Internet connectivity?! I'm really at a loss...
And it turns out /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/icons/ isn't where *my* taskbar icons are stored--the ones located there do not match what I see in my taskbar, but neither do any of the other icons I've seen while trying to figure out where they are! Where are they?! The ones from my plasma theme are not the ones I see in my taskbar.
Okay, /rant.
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