I don't want this install issue to fall into limbo because even though the OS rev from which I upgraded is out of support the version I was trying to upgrade to IS still supported. In the current version U 11.04, the file manager is broken insofar as it will not produce new thumbnails and problems like that have been reported up to12.04. That is loss of function. I am not sure how much Unity is responsible for that.
Also, I ought to file a bug against KDE as well, for the process to convert a login session is very poorly designed. If I try to start as session using KDE my screen goes black and gives me no useful information for a long time about what it is doing to ready applications for use by KDE. At a minimum, every *nix system I've ever used, and that goes back to Version 7 AT&T UNIX (1979), gives some kind of stream of output about some lengthy process. What Ubuntu is doing is more like what Microsoft does, makes you wait forever with no information. The failure of the upgrade, with no recovery steps other than to look for unsupported packages through a list of about 6500 packages, the breakage of nautalis in 11.04, and the poor design of GNOME to KDE login, puts a bad taste in my mouth about Cononical's stewardship of Ubuntu and makes me think more seriously about moving to another Linux, and I will go public and vocal with my displeasure!! I worked at Su Microsystems for 7 years from1997 to 2004 supporting Solaris and Legacy Compilers and never saw as many screw ups as I have seen since U 9.04 to U 11.04.repeated breakage of the file manager, x,org problems and now the above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075235 Title: Upgrad-manager U 11.04 to 11.10 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1075235/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
