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Wow, I thought someone would at least give it a try. Is Canonical creating such a beast that no one has the ability to debug the problems anymore?

I search quite a bit on Google for an answer to this. The term is too generic to be useful for searching.

Within in the last week I have begun getting crashes of plasma-desktop. It happened just...

Have one hard drive that had 2 partitions.

1) small partition with ubuntu installed

2) larger partition with lots of data in it.

Reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10. The installer asked me if I...

One point of this story is that a single file (a data file at that) in your home folder can cause hundreds of applications to crash upon launch. This is a single point of failure that should not...

Just a bit of warning to anyone using samba. Kernel 3.8 is faulty. It's been this way for several revisions. It fails at is mounting remote shares via the /etc/fstab. If I use kernel 3.5 it works...

After a long and deliberate consideration I've concluded that most people today don't actually know the technology going into Ubuntu and that those that are trying are just guessing.

I've the...

We might mark this as solved. I'm posting it for posterity. It took some time to trace this down. I solved my problem so now I want to at least document it. Maybe someone else will benefit.
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I did a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit), then updated to 12.10 (64bit) over the web. I then added the kubuntu backports so that I could install KDE (kubuntu-desktop). Did an update of the...

My advise is to NEVER use anything but nVidia's proprietary drivers. They are full featured and more stable. In my 10+ years of using Linux clearly the proprietary drivers for nVidia (though not...

That's just ridiculous. LO is fine. The difference in a couple seconds here or there fine. To claim that a few seconds launching a productivity app matters is just plain <snip>.

My numbers show...

Gimp 2.8 would never install on my system.

Via Synaptic there are no unmet dependencies and no broken packages.

I fear the suggestions listed below will result in seriously disabling my...

It is mostly correct, except in one regard. This forces the contents of your home folder into the root of the second drive. It does not address putting your home folder into a folder itself, say...

This is not a resolved thread. The original poster never indicated his problem was solved. Though this is a 14 months old it was inappropriate to mark it solved, primarily due to the fact that...

Because the gnome-fallback isn't gnome. It is some awful crippled imitation masquerading as gnome developed by the gnome3 devs as a mechanism to fall back to in case gnome3 fails.

And how about...

that thread is not related to his complaint in any way, shape, or form.

Yeah, though you haven't said why. I do agree something is wrong and it is my opinion that Canonical hasn't tried to aid others nor have any fixes been forthcoming.

I'm having issues with KDE not prompting for passwords and as a result I can't do anything unless I force the prompt. Any clues anyone?

11.04 to 11.10 (after many years of running Ubuntu successfully). I'm at the point where I can't use Linux any longer. Not until this issue is resolved.

From my initial upgrade I had problems. ...

Try alt+ctl+f1 to see if you can get a terminal login prompt. Then try the commands recommended in the responses.

I hate to say this, but welcome to the party pal.

This release is especially poorly done. And Canonical hasn't made efforts from what I can see to redress them yet. One must wonder why they let...

Even though they won't admit it, probably to keep a smiling face on Ubuntu and Linux, but gnome and Canonical have been at war for some time now neither side giving in and both being uncooperative. ...

Though that does give him the choices of different desktop managers it does not necessarily solve his problems. For instance, the fallback gnome 2 is a crippled version meant to be so bad that no...

KDE doesn't appear to prompt for privilege elevation. Anyone know what could be the cause?

Please stop asking people about their graphics driver as the primary cause of their computer lag for problems in Ubuntu 11.10. It is not the problem. Using the fallback driver for Ubuntu would not...

You are using your own DNS server using bind9? Whatever you choose to modify the resolv.conf file for is your choice, but you might not know that that file is over written upon every reboot.
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