Likely noob failing?
There's something screwy in my system, and I haven't been able to figure it out. Updating from 14.04 hasn't solved it, and it seems to be worsening.
It began back then with aMule becoming fragile, randomly crashing with manual operations but no particular one. Left alone it was stable.
Then it began crashing with completion of a transfer - again randomly.
It is now crashing with closure of multiple inactive transfers (no sources found).
Upgrade from 16.10 to 18.10 has not cured other flaws: firstly random swap to another desktop style. Usual Panel at the bottom disappears and all apps on all desktops (I customarily run 4) appear as scattered mini-'panes'. Selecting one restores normal ops, so it was tolerable.
Now I'm getting complete disappearance of desktop (except for active apps!). It will sometimes reappear after a random time, but sane restart hangs. Only solution is brute force power-off and hope re-powering works.
Along with this I have encountered inability to open a USB stick in Dolphin. KIO Client reports:
KDEInit could not launch 'kdesudo':
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_kdesudo'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_kdesudo: (libkdeinit5_kdesudo: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
From an open Dolphin instance I can open the drive, but only then. It's my only usable USB stick - is it set with wrong permissions somehow? Partition Editor doesn't tell me anything, and re-format doesn't cure this.
Now I'm thinking of a complete rebuild. I didn't like 16.04's insistence on UEFI anyway - my hp desktop (p6-2175a) doesn't like it. I have to boot by SuperGrub on a smaller USB stick - a right pain!
I have a second SATA drive now, with a spare 100GB - can I use my downloaded 18.04 ISO direct for install, or do I have to use my usable USB stick? Another PITA ... and will that also insist on UEFI?
I've been using Kubuntu from day dot, and before that Mandriva/Mandrake, but this has me stumped. I'm a user, not a sysadmin.
-FBt
It began back then with aMule becoming fragile, randomly crashing with manual operations but no particular one. Left alone it was stable.
Then it began crashing with completion of a transfer - again randomly.
It is now crashing with closure of multiple inactive transfers (no sources found).
Upgrade from 16.10 to 18.10 has not cured other flaws: firstly random swap to another desktop style. Usual Panel at the bottom disappears and all apps on all desktops (I customarily run 4) appear as scattered mini-'panes'. Selecting one restores normal ops, so it was tolerable.
Now I'm getting complete disappearance of desktop (except for active apps!). It will sometimes reappear after a random time, but sane restart hangs. Only solution is brute force power-off and hope re-powering works.
Along with this I have encountered inability to open a USB stick in Dolphin. KIO Client reports:
KDEInit could not launch 'kdesudo':
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_kdesudo'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_kdesudo: (libkdeinit5_kdesudo: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
From an open Dolphin instance I can open the drive, but only then. It's my only usable USB stick - is it set with wrong permissions somehow? Partition Editor doesn't tell me anything, and re-format doesn't cure this.
Now I'm thinking of a complete rebuild. I didn't like 16.04's insistence on UEFI anyway - my hp desktop (p6-2175a) doesn't like it. I have to boot by SuperGrub on a smaller USB stick - a right pain!
I have a second SATA drive now, with a spare 100GB - can I use my downloaded 18.04 ISO direct for install, or do I have to use my usable USB stick? Another PITA ... and will that also insist on UEFI?
I've been using Kubuntu from day dot, and before that Mandriva/Mandrake, but this has me stumped. I'm a user, not a sysadmin.
-FBt
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