Yeah especially when developers done want to fix issues. I have recommended
a lot of people go to mint. It's stabler and dev's actually care about the
users. Hopefully, the comments/tone Stephen Webb used aren't reflective of
the whole attitude of the Ubuntu dev's. I have to believe they understand
doing what's best for the user.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:02 PM Ken <[email protected]> wrote:

> This one hurt.  I'm installing for a new, curious about linux user and
> the live USB was fine.  Installation crashed and I find no fixes after
> two days of searching.  We'll go with Mint Rosa which installed just
> fine.  This may be the last of Ubu for me.
>
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> Title:
>   Unity greeter depends on defunct upstart - Unable to login.
>
> Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Unity greeter depends on upstart, ubuntu-desktop depends on unity-
>   greeter, and unity depends on unity-greeter. Upstart causes all sorts
>   of issues in a modern system that is running systemd, search the bug
>   tracker for " Could not connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to
>   socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" Because of this
>   dependency when I try and purge upstart to make my system actually
>   login (.xsession-errors shows a call to upstart-udev-bridge which
>   fails) I have to switch to a completely different desktop environment.
>   Upstart is deprecated and should be removed from dependencies as fast
>   as humanly possible so we can all forget that chapter in linux
>   development.
>
>   .xsession-errors
>   openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
>   cannot connect to brltty at :0
>   upstart: Failed to spawn upstart-udev-bridge main process: unable to
> execute: No such file or directory
>   upstart: unity-gtk-module pre-start process (3892) terminated with
> status 127
>   upstart: dbus pre-start process (3900) terminated with status 127
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
>   Package: unity-greeter 15.10.1-0ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-25.30-generic 4.2.6
>   Uname: Linux 4.2.0-25-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Sun Jan 24 20:29:16 2016
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-10 (260 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64
> (20150422)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm-256color
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: unity-greeter
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-26 (90 days ago)
>
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Johnathan Falk

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