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Y^2om&#7sgP
November 11th, 2012, 03:53 PM
Hi

I have been trying to upgrade/install Xubuntu 12.10 on my Dell Latitude D430 latop.

Has been running 12.04 sice back in April just fine.

I've installed 12.10 from scratch, and also tried to install as an upgrade over 12.04, but get the same issues.

Main one is that Cairo-dock crashes if hovering over one of the shortcuts, then re-starts, but crashes again if hovering or trying to select.

Anyone else have this issue and if so, have you found a fix.

I've googled off and on for the past week and found nothing so far.

Thanks for any help

ibjsb4
November 11th, 2012, 05:28 PM
Is this a possibility?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1033190

Y^2om&#7sgP
November 11th, 2012, 05:55 PM
Thanks for the link ibjsb4, it confirms a little what I already suspected. The problem is not with Cairo, but with *Ubuntu 12.10

I've been playing around a little since the last time of trying the upgrade, and have come to the conclusion that *Buntu has become more and more unstable.

Maybe time to switch distros I guess. :(

ibjsb4
November 12th, 2012, 02:44 AM
I see a cycle in this. 8.10; 11.04; 12.10 and I have just three things to say.

LTS, LTS, LTS :)

mastablasta
November 12th, 2012, 10:41 AM
if it was working fine then why did you need to upgrade? 12.04 is LTS.

cwsnyder
November 12th, 2012, 11:50 AM
I have been using wbar in Xubuntu 12.04 and 12.10, Linux Mint Debian Edition Xfce and Debian Wheezy Xfce with many fewer problems than trying to get either Cairo Dock or AWN Dock working, and I don't want the mono of Docky.

Y^2om&#7sgP
November 13th, 2012, 11:26 AM
All comments are good, thanks to all.

I've just re-installed 12.04 onto my laptop, and it's working well again.

I hadn't realised until recently, that most of the 6 monthly updates are based on Debian unstable, explains a lot.

As 12.04 works, and is based on testing branch, I'll stick with that and wait (patiently) until the next LTS is released before upgrading.

*buntu is generally a teriffic OS, don't like Unity which is why I switched to Xubuntu a while back. Apart from the issues with 12.10, it does everything I need...

Thanks again (btw will take a look at wbar)