Oneiric forum

[GreyGeek]

Re: Oneiric forum

They must have. I installed about two weeks ago, IIRC.

I played around with
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a
and they didn't do anything for me.

So, I did
sudo apt-get rebuild-deb <packagename>
where packagename is the name of the package that was breaking the update.
That broke the dam and the updates came through.
I then repeated
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
and
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
just for good measure.

The reboot flag was set so I rebooted. When the login screen came up I entered my password, was greeted
momentarily with a black screen and was thrown right back to the login screen. I chose the console
login and from there I did
sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop
After another 40 or 50 programs it asked me to reboot. I did, and when I logged in I got the KDE4 desktop.
The only problem I see is that the Internet system tray icon is a red box with a white "X" in it. But, I still
have access to the Internet. I checked the /etc/network/interfaces and it was missing the eth0 line, but my
Mrs and I have to go meet our daughter and grandson for dinner, so I have to leave.

All in all, it was a lot of fun digging out of that hole!

[kubicle]

Re: Oneiric forum

Bluetooth runs in VB.

The bug doesn't seem to affect all BT chipsets, which is probably why it hasn't been fixed yet (my BT works with 38 kernels, but fails on 39)

Speaking of kernels, the first 3.0 kernel image packages are available for oneiric (sort of a historical event, even though it's not that big of a change codewise)

[dibl]

Re: Oneiric forum

The only problem I see is that the Internet system tray icon is a red box with a white "X" in it.

That appears to be a wrong icon for network-mangler. Click it and see.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Oneiric forum

The only problem I see is that the Internet system tray icon is a red box with a white "X" in it.

That appears to be a wrong icon for network-mangler. Click it and see.

I did. The network-mangler interface pops up but wired is disabled. The

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

stanza was missing.

[dibl]

Re: Oneiric forum

A colleague reports that the sis900 driver is not included on the 11.10 Live CD/DVD, resulting in no ethernet for SIS controllers. Hopefully an inadvertency ....

[GreyGeek]

Re: Oneiric forum

I installed wicd and it, too, makes a wired connection, but it does the right thing in showing the eth0 device
as accessible, active and configurable. KNetworkManager did not. (This is as a guest OS under VBox).

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Oneiric forum

HEADSUP: Today's update to kernel 3.0-0-generic breaks nvidia drivers. This applies to xswat and to the driver from the website.
I suspect it has to do with nvidia's installer choking on the "3.0", when it only recorgnizes "2.4" and "2.6".
So this will have to wait for a fix from nvidia, most likely.
Haven't tried nouveau yet, but vesa does work.


Edit: Update 17 Jun -- todays update to kernel 3.0.1 and nvidia-current 275.09.07 fixed the problem. Working great.

[kubicle]

Re: Oneiric forum

Any news on creating the oneiric forum?

Also, The Karmic koala (9.10) forum should probably be moved to "Previous releases", it's not supported anymore (end-of-life was in April 2011).

[claydoh]

Re: Oneiric forum

I'll probably get on it soon, usually wait for alpha2

[woodsmoke]

Re: Oneiric forum

After quite a while testing both Unity and Gnome3 I find both of them to be irritating and Unity to be turgid.

I hope that the wonderful Kubuntu team can tame the choleric caterwal to be a purring putty tat and if a forum will help, i'll be glad to participate as needed.



woodsmoke

[ScottyK]

Re: Oneiric forum

What's the difference between the Alpha 1 release and the daily builds? Are the daily builds the absolute latest thing, with all current updates already installed?

[claydoh]

Re: Oneiric forum

yes, daily builds are up-to date, but with the development process, it is only up to date as of the time of the build. Often there can be multiple updates to any given package in a single day.

Also, as there is a merge with Debian early on, Oneiric is still at KDE 4.6.3, not 4.6.4. It will jump to 4.7 betas as that is scheduled for release near the end july, with some 4.7.x version in 11.10.