Ubuntu 10.04 Minor Issues

[The Mad Rapper]

I've been using 10.04 for 4 - 5 days now. It was a fresh install on a zeroed 1TB HDD, it should therefore be as perfect and optimum as possible. However, I've noticed a few issues:

1. When the PC isn't used for 10 mins and locks, switching to a blank screen, when the password is entered and the O/S returns to the desktop, the sound stops working (USB Microsoft headphones with mic), forcing a reboot.

2. Occasionally I get corruption of the icons in the system tray, for example, this morning the 'shut down' icon just disappeared, and I had half of the 'social networking' icon where it should have been, meaning I had to power down using the power button on the case.

Anyone else had issues?

I must admit, it's not filling me with confidence that this iteration of the O/S is as stable as previous ones.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I haven't had the issues you speak of, but so far I have only run 10.04 in a virtual machine. However, the sound issue could be the old issue between Pulseaudio and the alsamixer setting the main output to mute. You could try typing 'alsamixer' at the command prompt and checking the master volume mute status, should be green with [00] if it's working ...or the number could be different if it's previously been set to a higher gain.

Thanks,

I thought they had patched that issue? I have sort of gotten around it by disabling the password prompt and not having the screen saver activate for 2 hours. It's not a fix at all, but it's the best I can do. I'll restore the settings and try the process you suggested, and will post the results here.

The icon issue is weird. I am wondering if it's a graphics issue - perhaps driver related. I've used that card before without problems though on previous versions of Ubuntu.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I've never tried Mint, but that's only because, until this version at least, Ubuntu has been flawless for me. I might try it in a VM later.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Ive noticed a couple of issues on UNR 10.04... but nothing soul destroying. Empathy is permanently glitched showing 3 people online who either are, or are not.. but it never changes. I'm also having problems with the Suspend function, which didnt happen in 9.10. Finally, the Temperature/Weather docket doesn't work. Which is kinda annoying.

Elsewise it seems little improvement over 9.10... although my sound is marginally improved. I'd have stuck with 9.10 longer, but it self destructed anyway.

I see no improvement in any area aside from shut down. Boot still seems to take as long as it ever did.

If it's any consolation, my 9.10 install exploded as well when I applied the last round of updates.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

i've had the icon one on 10.04.

I must say that i loved 9.10 and thought that 10.04 LTS would be the dogs nuts... but i'm starting the think it's a bit buggy, could get the server edition to boot from a install on a software raid that it created, ended up going back to 9.10 server then upgrading, after that it won't mount half my raids...

Just install 9.10 and don't upgrade then, or be selective about which downloads you accept.