[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Philip Stubbs
I have been using Ubuntu quite happily for a few years. It has been great having a stable system. However, it seems that the good times are over. Look at the graph at [1]. That is if the machine has not crashed again. It can be seen how unreliable this machine is since the upgrade to 12.04. If

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Gibbs
On 24/05/12 09:01, Philip Stubbs wrote: I have been using Ubuntu quite happily for a few years. It has been great having a stable system. However, it seems that the good times are over. Look at the graph at [1]. That is if the machine has not crashed again. It can be seen how unreliable this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/05/12 09:25, Gibbs wrote: On 24/05/12 09:01, Philip Stubbs wrote: I have been using Ubuntu quite happily for a few years. It has been great having a stable system. However, it seems that the good times are over. Look at the graph at [1].

[ubuntu-uk] Swindon Hackspace at Museum of Computing

2012-05-24 Thread Dianne Reuby
Latest update on the proposed hackspace: = I'm Jamie, I've been working with Simon on the proposed hackspace at the Museum of Computing in Swindon. We are having a meeting at the museum on Wednesday 30th May at 7pm, to discuss the hackspace with anybody who is interested in coming along.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-24 09:25, Gibbs wrote: What did you upgrade from? From personal experience I always do a fresh install when upgrading from LTS to LTS as there are years worth of differences between them. Saying that I still haven't upgraded from 10.04 at work. I have upgraded servers from 10.04 to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 24 May 2012 14:00, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: I have upgraded servers from 10.04 to 12.04, AND one server from 10.10 through 11.04 and 11.10 to 12.04. All are fine. No crashes so far, everything is stable. This seems to be a problem specific to your setup. We can help further

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-24 15:43, Philip Stubbs wrote: I know that I should dig and get more details, but Ubuntu is supposed to be Linux for Humans. These days I just want to get on and use the machine, not spend hours just keeping them going. I think your problem is that it is Linux for Humans, not Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Barry Drake
On 24/05/12 16:12, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: I think your problem is that it is Linux for Humans, not Linux for Tinkerers. :) If you have heavily modified anything, beware of upgrades. I love customising, but I've learned to stay close to defaults for this reason. I think you have no choice BUT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Paul Tansom
** Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk [2012-05-24 11:24]: snip Are you actually experiencing crashes or is it that you get lots of there is a problem report it dialogs? The reason I ask is there is a new system in place that detects every error rather than crash and reports them to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Andres Muniz
This dilemma will probably result in me doing nothing until the 12.04.1 upgrade. as far as I knew this was the recomened option for going from LTS to LTS. Update manager does not even offer the option on the desktop. Seems it will be some time in july.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com