[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718737] Re: Firefox: all tabs loose page display and internet access but new tabs work normally

2017-09-21 Thread Michael F Winthrop
The following kern.log is a record of the kernel events. Please note that I used the widget to close the Ethernet connection, and note subsequent issues. Also note that the WiFi connection has a lease time for a nailed up connection IP address (??) dad@dad314159:/var/log$ tail kern.log -n 100 Sep

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718737] [NEW] Firefox: all tabs loose page display and internet access but new tabs work normally

2017-09-21 Thread Michael F Winthrop
Public bug reported: Significant problems with KUBUNTU 16.04.3 WiFi. I had been an early adopter of KUBUNTU 16.04, before the warnings about on-line upgrade from KUBUNTU 14.04 came out. To solve those problems, I re-installed KUBUNTU 16.04.3 from disk over the system partition of my PC while reta

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1568560] Re: nm_device_get_device_type: assertion 'NM_IS_DEVICE (self)' failed

2017-08-16 Thread Michael F Winthrop
I am receiving numerous NM errors on startup, that I captured from /var/log for one boot on Aug 16 18:10: I ask if the preserved ".files in the home/user/ directories could be responsible for these errors? In the captured "fail" list, NM is the main event per this thread (nm_device_get_device_typ