I went back to Edgy.
Sorry for the misleading title. I just couldn’t get anywhere with Feisty, and I’d had enough.
Down-grading was an issue-and-a-half too; a week full of frustration.
I went for my Ubuntu Edgy CD, but after installing was unable to log into a GNOME session, the screen froze before anything had loaded. I tried the same thing with my Xubuntu Edgy CD and was able to log into a XFCE session, but not a GNOME one.
After squeezing my home folder into some backup space, I re-installed this time starting with the /home folder fresh. This time there was no problem getting into GNOME so I assumed there was some configuration issue.
After copying back most of my /home folder, save any .gnome, .gnome2, etc folders, I proceeded to re-install all the programs I need, only to find the same freeze on starting a GNOME session.
Rather than re-installing (I was getting pretty hot around the collar), I worked my way through each configuration file; finally resting on my ALSA sound configuration file; .asoundrc.
I don’t know what’s wrong with it, as it hasn’t changed since I got my sound card working a while back. I do miss surround sound, but for now I’m just happy to have a working, non-freezing PC.
I am coming to the same conclusion!
I will be fine on Feisty for a long time, then something happens and things go pear-shaped. I can reinstall the / partition, but the problem remains. BUT, if I reinstall the whole machine, i.e. also my /home parition, then the machine is fine for a while.
I suspected something like this and I’ll have a look at the .asoundrc file as well. Thanks for going through all the pain to identify this.
Regards
Warren
Guess I’ll have to do the same, because my Feisty freezes every one minute. Newest Fedora Core and Edgy worked fine, so - blame Ubuntu team.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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