Bugs Plague Ubuntu 9.10 Release
Early adopters of Ubuntu 9.10 are reporting problems with flickering or black screens, with over 20% of users reporting problems they can’t fix. Only 10% are reporting a smooth, trouble-free install. Not what I had hoped to see. More here
Maybe we’re just expecting too much from software. Bugs happen. They always have, and they always will, and clearly nobody is immune. Should we just stop whining about it, and be content with continual reboots and terribly flickering displays? Or is it time that software companies pushed their quality level up another notch?
On the same topic: Another Failure of Linux’s Karmic Koala
My 9.10 went smooth. Am Very Happy!
BAD KARMA: 9.10 BLACK-DEATH SYNDROME (XSYSTEM-XORG PROBLEM? AWN PROBLEM?)
I just did INSTALL NEW VERSION of Ubuntu (after many courses of UPDATEs), arriving at a non-functioning 9.10, “Grouchy Gaucho” ? Generally it dies a black-death (in which ctl-alt-del is a NO-OP, altho ctl-alt-F3 works)
AS SOON AS I-MYSELF do anything which requires changing the screen, and sometimes dies without my doing anything.
I was advised that this was a problem of xsystem, xorg. As an absolute “newby” I have no idea of my own. I had recently installed avant-window-navigator and thought that might account for the problem, so went to some trouble to remove all AWN materials, bit the system still dies quickly.