Impressions of -RC1 [LWN.net]

Impressions of -RC1

Posted Oct 26, 2006 15:54 UTC (Thu) by abatters (subscriber, #6932)
Parent article: Ubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") available

Tried -RC1 this weekend on my brand new Core 2 Duo PC. A few complaints:

1) The system time was incorrect after installation, even though I think I set it correctly in the installer. Not a big deal.
2) "pppoeconf" doesn't work. Had to hand-edit the pppoeconf script to get it working. Looks like this bug has been known for a few months but not fixed. Anyone trying to setup DSL after a new installation will hit this.
3) Upstart is nice, but by default it shows just a graphical progress bar with no messages about what it is doing. Nice for non-technical people, but I want more details. My new PC doesn't power itself off when I tell it to shutdown, and I don't (yet) know why; all I see is a graphical Ubuntu logo with no useful debug messages. There is probably a way to view the debug messages, but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Overall though, a nice OS. They backported some driver changes for the new Intel 965 chipset from kernel 2.6.18, so it has excellent Core 2 Duo support.

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Impressions of -RC1

Posted Oct 26, 2006 15:57 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

3) Upstart is nice, but by default it shows just a graphical progress bar with no messages about what it is doing.

That's not upstart, that's their new usplash. They decided that ordinary people get confused by the messages. If you want the messages, you can boot without the "splash" option, and if you want more messages, you can also remove the "quiet" option. But then you don't get the splash.

Impressions of -RC1

Posted Oct 26, 2006 22:10 UTC (Thu) by pphaneuf (subscriber, #23480) [Link]

I like the way SuSE (and some others I gather) have a simple progress bar, with a "press Escape for details" in small writing at the bottom. When you do, the bootsplash goes away, and you get the regular boot messages. Same for shutdown, it's quite simple and pretty.

Impressions of -RC1

Posted Oct 27, 2006 3:32 UTC (Fri) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link]

Likewise on ubuntu - press the Esc key for info. (Of course, Ubuntu fails to tell you about this!)

kernel parameters:
splash=none #Old style messages in text.
splash=verbose #Pretty, but with information.
splash=silent #Progress bar only.

Impressions of -RC1

Posted Nov 5, 2006 15:55 UTC (Sun) by johnnyspire (guest, #41500) [Link]

Well my install of Kubuntu 6.10 DOESNT respond to the ESC key during startup and shutdown.

It also hangs on reboot. (Not shutdown, just reboot)

I'm working on the ATI driver issues now.

Impressions of -RC1

Posted Oct 27, 2006 6:43 UTC (Fri) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]

2) "pppoeconf" doesn't work. Had to hand-edit the pppoeconf script to get it working. Looks like this bug has been known for a few months but not fixed. Anyone trying to setup DSL after a new installation will hit this.

Luckily, this (trivial) bug has been fixed just before Edgy was released. I was rather astonished at how long it took them to commit a fix which has been recorded in the bug report for over six weeks. As a recent Ubuntu-convert I hope that this is no indication of Ubuntu's usual responsiveness for critical bugs.

Impressions of -RC1 (does not power off at shutdown)

Posted Nov 16, 2006 5:32 UTC (Thu) by Holgi (guest, #41696) [Link]

> My new PC doesn't power itself off when I tell it to shutdown,
> and I don't (yet) know why
My old pc with Edgy Eft final does not either and I also don't know why, I can't find anything in any logs. Anything found out in the meantime?