[Eug-lug] Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy not ready for prime time

[Allen Brown]

I regret that I have unnecessarily tarnished the reputation of Kubuntu.
I found the problem that was causing the crashes.  There was a problem
in how I customized /etc/profile and other shell startup files.
After a rather painful debug session I was able to narrow the problem
down to those files.  Now that the problem is fixed Kubuntu seems
quite stable.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --- Napoleon Bonaparte


Allen Brown wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 7.10 Gutsy.  There are problems.
> Under KDE all three terminal programs listed in the menus crash 
> immediately.
> (konsole, xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal)  I didn't try xterm because
> I couldn't find it on the menus.
> 
> Also under KDE thunderbird crashes immediately.  These problems make
> KDE unusable for me.
> 
> Under gnome xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal crash immediately.
> konsole functions.
> 
> I haven't tried xfce4 yet.  In the past I have discounted it because
> of the challenge of watching DVDs on it.  I never figured out how.
> Whereas under KDE and gnome it was straightforward.