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extra plasma-discover SRU verification required ASAP

By Rik Mills at 05/28/2018 - 06:13

We would be grateful if testers could tests the plasma-discover 5.12.5.1
bugfix update currently in -proposed for bionic.

As this fixing user facing crashes we know are happening from the error
tracker, I would like to push to get this update out ASAP.

SRU tracking bug is at:

<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/+bug/1773292" title="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/+bug/1773292">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/+bug/1773292</a>

Thank you all

Rik
Kubuntu Devel

GRUB-Installation failure?

By Fizzlifax at 05/24/2018 - 14:36

Hi,

I am using Kubuntu 14.04 - 64 LTS with a Raid-Controler and Raid 5 and LVM.

Now I installed a new Samsung SSD and wanted install Kubuntu 18.04 - 64 LTS

The installation proceedes but there are big issues with the LVM-Management!

Nevertheless - I tried all kinds auf installations but it fails always,
after the installation, when - i suppose - the boot-record and Grub ist
written.

The bugtracker-Window ist not active so I cant put there any message!

To be shure that it is not my system - I tried the same with Ubuntu and
miracle there were no problems except the same LVM troubbles - but

Please remove Kubuntu i386 iso image builds for 18.10

By Rik Mills at 05/22/2018 - 11:25

I think the intent of the email here:

<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2018-May/011657.html" title="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2018-May/011657.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2018-May/011657.html</a>

had this as an implicit request, but may have become held up in
moderation queue for being copied to ubuntu-devel

Regardless, I will now make the request directly and formally to this list.

On behalf of Kubuntu Council (and active developers) I request that i386
iso image builds are discontinued for 18.10.

Thank you

Rik Mills
Kubuntu Council
Kubuntu Developer

Please help test Plasma 5.12.5 stable release update for 18.04

By Rik Mills at 05/21/2018 - 11:45

Details can be found at:

<a href="https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-5-bugfix-update-for-kubuntu-18-04-lts-testing-help-required/" title="https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-5-bugfix-update-for-kubuntu-18-04-lts-testing-help-required/">https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-5-bugfix-update-for-kubuntu-18-04-l...</a>

However, in short, testing and verification is required so that these
updates can be shipped to the Ubuntu archive and so included in 18.04
point release ISOs.

Thank You

Rik Mills
Kubuntu Council
Kubuntu Developer

Backports PPA policy for 18.04 LTS

By Rik Mills at 05/21/2018 - 04:12

Our default PPA policy for LTS releases states that [1]

"Monthly KDE software release backports are made available through the
Kubuntu PPA for as long as supported by the native LTS software stack
but no longer than 2 years."

For 16.04 LTS we allowed an upgrade of Qt in the backports PPA [2] from
5.5 to 5.6.x, however this was not altogether a radical decision as the
Qt 5.6 release was a LTS one, and already being built and maintained by
the Ubuntu phone/Qt team in their overlay PPA.

For 18.04 LTS, we are already on Qt 5.9 LTS, with more point releases to
come, hopefully as SRU updates to t

Kubuntu Automation 2.2 first beta released

By =?utf-8?q?Jos=C... at 05/20/2018 - 16:48

Hi,

the first beta of Kubuntu Automation 2.2 is now available in the testing PPA:
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/" title="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/">https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/</a>

The most important change compaed with the previous 2.2 alphas is the debian
merging script rework; that doesn't mean we are ready to merge from debian
right now, but we will be very soon. The merging script still has a couple of
glitches which I would like to solve in next releases, but it's already good
enough to be tested and try to find unknown issues with it,

Cheers.

forecastfox fix version changing form mm/dd/yyy(American) to dd/mm/yy(Australian)

By ray burke at 05/17/2018 - 02:25

Hi can anyone help,

On my laptop with just Win 7/Firefox 56.0 32 bit it shows with
forecastfox fix version when I hover over the 5 day forecast icon it
shows the dates
in American, but I am in Victoria,Australia, but don't know how to
change back to dd/mm/yyyy,
has any been faced with same, and how do I fix it?

Ray

feature

By Charlie at 05/10/2018 - 11:19

hey guys, i wanted to put this out there to see if there's a way for it
to be done. you know how in ubuntu gnome (of which is now the standard
ubuntu desktop), you've got dots/dashes over an active icon, say you've
got firefox open and above it's icon there's a dot to show there's an
open window for it. and any subsequent windows for it, it displays more
dots above that icon. is there a way to have that feature in kubuntu?

Kate Default Page Size to A4

By Brian Brodsky at 05/07/2018 - 12:41

Kate is defaulting the Print Page Size to A4 even though I have my
printer setup to Letter. How do I change this for Kate?

Brian

Kubuntu 18.04 ISO live USB: BIOS does not "see" it, laptop does not boot it.

By Bas Roufs at 05/07/2018 - 11:43

Hello everybody.

At present, I am working at a correctly functioning Lenovo X220 running at
Kubuntu 18.04 LTS amd 64. The laptop has now one SSD of 128 GB at which the
system is running. There is also a HD of 320 GB. Soon, I will replace that
HD and buy this SSD:
KingSpec P3-1TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD

When I will acquire this one, I'll need a bootable usb stick with Kubuntu
18.04. Have tried several times to create it at a "Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0"
with a view to running from there a "live" system, in order to test it.
Have been using mkusb-dus OR startup-disk-creator to put the ISO at the
stick.

Do not manage to start Aptik in Kubuntu 18.04 LTS.

By Bas Roufs at 05/05/2018 - 06:05

Hello Everybody.

Have added the Aptik repo and installed Aptik along the instructions of
this page:

<a href="http://www.teejeetech.in/p/aptik.html" title="http://www.teejeetech.in/p/aptik.html">http://www.teejeetech.in/p/aptik.html</a>

However, I do not manage to even START Aptik - not via the K-Menu, also not
via ALT-F2, even not from the command line.

Have installed Kubuntu 18.04 LTS at "Eee PC seashell series" together with
Intel ATOM N570 Dual Core CPU.

Yours.
Bas G. Roufs.

Kubuntu 18.04 LTS does not start after fresh installation from "mSATA TO USB3.0."

By Bas Roufs at 05/05/2018 - 05:25

Hello everybody.

Several attempts I have done to install Kubuntu 18.04 LTS at a Lenovo X220.
The pendrive i am using is a mSATA TO USB3.0." with a small SSD of 60 GB
and a speed of 6gb/s. I have been using mkusb-dus to format the drive to
fat32, after which I used another option of the same package to clone the
iso to the pendrive. mkUSB-dus seemingly works well.

Kubuntu on a usb drive

By Valorie Zimmerman at 05/04/2018 - 04:03

John, got your email:

Subiect: kubuntu
Dată: miercuri, 25 aprilie 2018, 03:14:55 EEST
De la: john johnson < ... at gmail dot com>

I have very slow internet because I live in the foothills of California and
was wondering if there was a way I could buy a usb thumb drive with kubuntu
17.10 lts 64 bitfrom kubuntu site if not wat site? I have an old version of
kumbutu based on Ubuntu 17.04 thank you for your help

This is Valorie replying; I'm in the US so I would be happy to send
you a USB drive with 18.04, the new LTS on it.

Fwd: kubuntu

By Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan at 05/03/2018 - 15:57

---------- Mesaj înaintat ----------

Subiect: kubuntu
Dată: miercuri, 25 aprilie 2018, 03:14:55 EEST
De la: john johnson < ... at gmail dot com>

I have very slow internet because I live in the foothills of California and
was wondering if there was a way I could buy a usb thumb drive with kubuntu
17.10 lts 64 bitfrom kubuntu site if not wat site? I have an old version of
kumbutu based on Ubuntu 17.04 thank you for your help

Installation Problem

By Bill Vance at 04/28/2018 - 02:27

On Kubuntu 16.04

Not one of the following will insatall without all the rest, but
all of them interfere with all the rest. No install, no configure,
dependency problems, can't find an un-named directory, etc.

nginx
nginx-core
nginx-full
nginx-light
nginx-extras

What gives?

Bill

18.04 Upgrade not showing available

By Brian Brodsky at 04/27/2018 - 08:46

I am not able to upgrade to the latest release 18.04 of Kubuntu:

brian@brian-HP-EliteBook-8770w:~$ date
Fri Apr 27 08:43:00 EDT 2018
brian@brian-HP-EliteBook-8770w:~$ cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=artful
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 17.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 17.10"
VERSION_ID="17.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/pr

It wasn't the last Final Bionic -- new spin needs brief testing if at all possible

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/26/2018 - 14:58

Hi folks there were a couple of last minute bugs found and fixed,
which required one more respin.

<a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds</a>

Please rsync and check: the live session and the slideshow at least.

Thanks, one more time!

Valorie

i386 tests remain to be done; amd64 tests done

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/26/2018 - 00:14

I talked a friend of mine into testing i386, however her Broadcom wifi
card is not working in Bionic.

Please folks, we need to have these tests done if we are going to have
a release tomorrow.

Valorie

Final final FINAL Bionic RC images are available for testing

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/25/2018 - 19:30

Final -- we hope! Test the heck out of this, folks.

<a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds</a> <--- only
test results reported on the tracker count! And please file bugs if
necessary. There probably isn't time to fix anything but critical
bugs, but we can definitely make the installer better by. 18.04.1, so
bug reports are still really valuable.

Thanks again,

Valorie

PS: the sooner we finish our testing and report the images ready, the
sooner the 18.04 release can happen tomorrow. So test, test, test!

Last Bionic Final testing -- we hope!

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/24/2018 - 23:56

Hi folks, new ISOs are again available. Zsync really saves time if you
already have a Bionic Final image saved. Just remember to cd to that
folder first. :-)

One more time, please! Especially you lovely i386 users.

All the best,

Valorie

Second RC spin available to test

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/23/2018 - 23:09

Hello folks, some bugs are fixed although more are still in train, so
we could (and probably will) see Yet Another Spin.

But this is what we have right now, so if you have a bit of time, please test!

<a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/389/builds</a>

And of course a special call-out to those who have actual i386
computers to test on. Please note somewhere in your test description
that you are testing on hardware, what sort, or only in VMs.

Thanks!

Valorie

Wow, you testers overwhelm with awesomeness!

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/22/2018 - 04:35

I just looked at the qatracker, and we have done ALL our RC tests and
some more than once! Some bugs reported have already been fixed, and
it is possible that the ISOs will be respun tomorrow or Monday.

If so, we may need some more testing, but for now, we are sitting pretty!

Feel free to help out other flavors if you have some extra time, and
see how they make their installers look!

Thank you again, you wonderful people!

Valorie

Bionic Release Candidate milestone approaching

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/14/2018 - 23:47

Hi folks, we had such a good Beta 2 testing, I'm hoping for testing
awesomeness for the RC. The schedule says

* April 19th: FinalFreeze,  ReleaseCandidate,  LanguagePackTranslationDeadline

* April 26th: FinalRelease,  Ubuntu 18.04

We'll see the images (as usual) at
<a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384</a>

Naturally, testing the daily ISOs is always welcome, as long as bug
reports are reported as you progress. `ubuntu-bug packagename` is your
friend.

As usual we especially need i386 testing on i386 machines. So get ready!

Valorie

Problems with screen management

By Bruce Marshall at 04/14/2018 - 21:29

I've been running Kubuntu/xfce on 3 Amd64 machines and have run into
serious problems with screen management in editors.  Moving the cursor
into the screen display will often cause the data on that display to
move around on its own or to become corrupted.

I have seen this in the THE editor, as well as nano and vi.   It makes
the editors unusable because once data moves around, you cannot treat
the data as being correct.

This is while running Kubuntu Beta 2 on an AMD64 machine.   Will try to
test it on an i386 machine as well.

A very serious problem for me.

xrandr question

By Bill Vance at 04/12/2018 - 23:08

Running Kubuntu 16.04 here.

I'm told that if you want xrandr to do a particular resolution
on boot up, you have to put the command in a file named,
".xprofile". That's nice as far as it goes, but where do I put
the file? Does it need any special treatment like:

chmod a+rwx ~/.xprofile

or whatever?

Bill

libdebconf-kde 1.0.3

By Harald Sitter at 04/12/2018 - 04:26

New maintenance release for libdebconf-kde, a Debian configuration
system UI frontend library.

<a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-1.0.3.tar.xz.mirrorlist" title="https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-1.0.3.tar.xz.mirrorlist">https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-...</a>
<a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-1.0.3.tar.xz.sig.mirrorlist" title="https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-1.0.3.tar.xz.sig.mirrorlist">https://download.kde.org/stable/libdebconf-kde/1.0.3/src/libdebconf-kde-...</a>

* Translations update
* Fixed a crash on signal QUIT (sent by packagekit to quit the helper)

Congratulations on a great Beta 2 milestone! Next up: BANNER

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/11/2018 - 17:44

Hi folks,

We had a lot of help testing Beta 2 candidates, thank you so much! It
was Hell week for me and the extra testing -- especially the i386
testing helped sooo much.

Our next testing push will be the Release Candidate scheduled for 19
April, so put that on your testing calendar. Of course, testing of the
dailies is always useful as well.

KDE Plasma is working fine on Manjaro, but not on Kubuntu 18.04 Beta2

By Apurv Jyotirmay at 04/10/2018 - 10:15

Hi,

I've been trying to move to KDE for a long time, but the only Plasma
release for me that worked on Kubuntu was with Kubuntu 15.10. And after
that, none of the releases are working on my hardware. So, what happens is,
if I use Plasma and KWin (OpenGL 2, OpenGL 3, or Xrendr), I get this weird
flickering when resizing application windows. It's easily observable if I
open up a Dolphin window and start to resize it by the corner rapidly in
every direction. At times, there will be a white patch covering the entire
window for a few milliseconds (or so).

Libreoffice 6 irritating view

By O. Sinclair at 04/09/2018 - 10:36

Since some upgrade Libreoffice insist on showing documents 2 pages side
by side. I don't like it one bit. Does anyone know how to get back to 1
page portrait mode?

kind regards, Sinclair

Re: Releasing kdeconnect-kde 1.3

By Rik Mills at 04/05/2018 - 03:04

On 04/04/18 20:55, Albert Vaca wrote:

amd64 Beta 2 candidate testing going well; i386 testing -- none?

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/04/2018 - 19:35

I didn't write to the list yesterday about the candidate ISOs
dropping, because of computer problems here. I lost a SSD (I think)
but created a Bionic upgrade on another disk. So that was a success,
but it takes time to provision a new install, as you know.

Anyway, i386 users, now or never! I mean literally if we don't get
testing on this LTS on i386 hardware, we will NOT be offering it from
here forward.

Kubuntu Automation 2.2 first alpha released

By =?utf-8?q?Jos=C... at 04/04/2018 - 13:23

Hi,

the first alpha of Kubuntu Automation 2.2 is now available in the testing PPA:
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/" title="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/">https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/</a>

For technical details, feel free to read the latest changelog entry; while the
list of changes is a bit long, it doesn't change very much of or current
workflow, many changes are either minor bugfixes or part of:
<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/black-operations/kraken/" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/black-operations/kraken/">https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/black-operations/kraken/</a>

Most important changes from the user point of view, affecting our current
workflow, are:
* git-clone-all: print excess files/directories
* Add 'do-all git push' m

Kubuntu Bionic Beta 2 candidate images spinning soon

By Valorie Zimmerman at 04/02/2018 - 04:11

Hi folks, just a bit of advance notice for everyone who would like to
help us test the heck out of this, to make Kubuntu 18.04 the best ever
LTS!

To get a jump on this, create a login on the quatracker if you don't
have one: <a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds</a>

Download a daily image to save some time, and then zsync when the Beta
2 candidate drops (you will be able to see it on the qatracker.

Need to resize a cloned hard drive

By Billie Erin Walsh at 03/29/2018 - 09:36

I upgraded my SSD to a larger one with an external cloner. The thing
made the larger hard drive one partition the same size as the old drive.
In Windows when this happens we just go into Disk Management and make
the whole drive the partition.

telegram

By Charlie at 03/28/2018 - 12:24

hey guys. i was just wondering if there's a telegram group for us kubuntu members. i installed 18.04 lts last night and i was having an issue remembering how to report a bug because i noticed one right away. there's no icon for thunderbird in the discover center nor on the desktop or the internet section of the main menu. i'll try it again tonight and then try to remember how to report it.

charlie

hey

By Charlie at 03/27/2018 - 05:52

hello my wonderful friends! i'm a recent convert to kubuntu and oh...my! i was missing the awesomeness if this OS! i love it! i just installed the beta 1 of kubuntu and i'm chasing down bugs!

crash with installing 18.04 on enabeling format

By =?UTF-8?Q?Andr=... at 03/27/2018 - 01:42

crash with installing 18.04 on enabeling partition "format" flag...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py",
line 66, in setData
item.partman_column_format_toggled(value.toBool())
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'toBool'

.

Getting a bluetooth speaker to connect

By jerry Lapham at 03/26/2018 - 18:30

I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 on an HP Notebook with a Cambridge Silicon Radio,
Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)-- in a USB port. I'm able to pair it with an
iWorld bluetooth speaker but it won't connect.

I can connect if I'm running Windows 10 and the same hardware combination or
with my Chromebook.

Any ideas?

-Jerry
=============================================
Jerry Lapham
Monroe, OH 45050
<a href="mailto: ... at gmail dot com"> ... at gmail dot com</a>
=============================================
Walk to Emmaus: Fueling station for a spirit-filled church

webaccounts missing google account?

By Luca Olivetti at 03/26/2018 - 03:09

Hello,

I just compiled and installed the gdrive kio on kubuntu 17.10

<a href="https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive" title="https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive">https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive</a>

When I click on google drive, it prompts me to create an account but
there's no way to create a google account. The only options are AIM,
Bonjour/Salut, Gadu-Gadu, IMB-Sametime, ICQ (really?), Jabber, KDE Talk,
Office 365/Lynx, Office 365/Linc (via libpurple), Skype, Telegram,
Yahoo!

single vs double click dolphin

By buzzmandt at 03/21/2018 - 19:16

I have 18.04 running on two computers. On both, Dolphin main window is no
longer single click, it's double click to open. Is this intentional? If so,
I cannot find a way to set it back to single click.

also, wifi no longer reconnects automatically upon restart.

Cutelyst 2

By Daniel Nicoletti at 03/21/2018 - 09:47

Hi,

yesterday I did a major release update do Cutelyst now v2,
I'd like to have it in 18.04 I tried to do this earlier but failed :(
I have done some initial packaging which is probably useless
as I'm not very skilled with packaging, can it still go to 18.04?
If so can someone give me a hand with it?

<a href="https://dantti.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/cutelyst-2-released-with-http-2-support/" title="https://dantti.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/cutelyst-2-released-with-http-2-support/">https://dantti.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/cutelyst-2-released-with-http-2-...</a>

Thanks,

question

By Charlie at 03/20/2018 - 17:53

i can't remember if i'm a member of this list or not but i wanted to ask a question.

is it possible to have dot/dash running indicators to show which programs are running like gnome does instead of having the window list in the task bar?

i really like kubuntu and i'm just wondering if this is an option that can be turned on somehow.

Kubuntu Dev Meeting 3/24/18

By Aaron Honeycutt at 03/19/2018 - 21:51

I'm going to choose March 24 this saturday at 2pm for this meeting to clear
out our phab board and some more tasks.

Meet us on IRC on #kubuntu-devel !!!

Kubuntu 18.04: Screen contents flicker on resize

By Apurv Jyotirmay at 03/12/2018 - 05:52

I was trying out the Beta build of Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and I faced the same
issue I faced earlier with 17.10. When resizing any window, there are times
when it will flicker. It's random, and switching compositing backend to
openGL 3 didn't help either.
Using Xrender helped in removing the flicker, but then everything started
to tear. Even when I forced full screen repaints, the tearing wouldn't stop.

I don't know if it's a Xorg issue or something with KDE.

Amarok

By Mark Fraser at 03/09/2018 - 10:52

Now that Amarok 2.9 has finally been released
<a href="https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/888" title="https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/888">https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/888</a> is it worth sticking with this rather
than moving over to Cantata for the LTS release?

i386 ISO tests

By Valorie Zimmerman at 03/09/2018 - 02:15

Hi all, I completed the i386 tests I could complete, and filed bugs
about the problems I encountered.

Please test the beta candidate -- especially i386 users

By Valorie Zimmerman at 03/07/2018 - 21:50

Hello folks, half the required tests have been done for amd64, and
NONE have been done for i386.

This is simply not acceptable nor sustainable. Please test as the
previous emails have instructed, and report your results:

<a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/387/builds" title="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/387/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/387/builds</a>

Thanks.

Valorie
Kubuntu release manager

Time to test! Kubuntu beta 1 Bionic images available on the qa tracker

By Valorie Zimmerman at 03/06/2018 - 21:58

Please see <a href="https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-beta-1-testing/" title="https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-beta-1-testing/">https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-beta-1-testing/</a>
for details.

Remember: we need people to test on so-called bare metal - real
computers rather than VMs - if possible. This is crucial for the i386
images. The Xenial dot release situation was terrible for i386 with
none of the people begging us to do the work to release for this
platform actually stepping up to test.

Remember to login to the qatracker and *report your bugs* and link the
bug reports (if any) with your test results.

Thanks!

Valorie

18.04 i386 testing

By Bruce Marshall at 03/05/2018 - 17:13

Just did an install of 18.04  i386 and it went very well.  The only
glitch I have seen so far:

I usually do a manual config of disk partitions.  So I selected home,
root, and boot partitions and all of that went well with one exception. 
I first decided not to format the /home partition and didn't flag it to
format in the manual partition selection.  But when I came out of that,
I clicked on the 'format' box for /home and the installer crashed.

Not a biggie in my view because I RARELY get through an install without
at least one installer crash...  I think that is a big weakpoint of
*b

wifi doesn't reconnect

By buzzmandt at 03/04/2018 - 20:46

Using kubuntu development version 18.04 on two computers, and with recent
updates (and now fully updated current) the wifi doesn't reconnect on
either machine. I have tried several GUI things. Unchecking and rechecking
both the "automatically connect" and "All users may connect". No matter
what I do it doesn't reconnect after restarting the computer.

Kubuntu Automation 2.1 released

By =?utf-8?q?Jos=C... at 03/03/2018 - 17:41

Hi,

Kubuntu Automation 2.1 was released. This new version provides new features,
bug fixes and some code refactoring. Feel free to inspect the changelog to see
the technical details.

Packages for Bionic, Artful and Xenial are now available in our dev-tools PPA:
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools" title="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools">https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools</a>

We have been using the 2.1 series for quite a while to do our uploads to PPA's
and the official Ubuntu archive so it's about time to make this version the
"official" one.

OEM installer, amd64 16.04.4

By Valorie Zimmerman at 03/01/2018 - 03:57

Anyone better able than I am to provide feedback on this bug I experienced?

<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752478" title="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752478">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752478</a>

It was sad to get all the way to the end, have reported success, and
not only have to report a failure, but be unable to provide the needed
logfiles.

Thanks to whoever can help with this.

For i386, the installer was freezing so often i never got far enough
to try oem -- or anything else. And again, no useful logfiles.

:(

Valorie

Kubuntu 18.x - nvidia-390 broken...

By =?UTF-8?Q?Andr=... at 02/27/2018 - 04:23

with Kubuntu 18.x nvidia-390 drivers do not work.... please fix...

thanks

Remove flash from kubuntu-restricted-addons?

By Rik Mills at 02/26/2018 - 05:48

Ubuntu and other favours did this a while back

<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/+bug/1709166" title="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/+bug/1709166">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/+bug/...</a>

<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/25" title="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/25">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons/25</a>

* Drop Adobe Flash as it will be EOL before end of next LTS

I believe we did have some discussion of this at the time, and either
said leave it, or did not make a firm decision.

I think it is appropriate to re-visit this discussion before be go to beta.

Please comment on <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T8088" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/T8088">https://phabricator.kde.org/T8088</a> if you have an
account, or are willing to get a KDE identity account.

Unable to open files in LibreOffice

By Richard S. Crawford at 02/22/2018 - 12:01

Ever since yesterday's Plasma updates, I am unable to open any documents in
LibreOffice; it seems to run fine until I try to open a document in any LO
program (Writer, Calc, etc.).

Looking forward to Bionic Beta 1

By Valorie Zimmerman at 02/21/2018 - 21:08

Hi folks, for various reasons there was no Alpha 1 or 2 this cycle, but now
we're on the march to Beta 1, which will be on March 8 [1].

Now is the time to get your VMs ready, or dust off that old 32 bit machine
in preparation. Rik has got Plasma 5.12.2 uploaded to the Archive, so this
is gonna be exciting! (New plasma is available for Artful users too:
<a href="https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-2-bugfix-updates-available/" title="https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-2-bugfix-updates-available/">https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-12-2-bugfix-updates-available/</a>)

Remember: we cannot release this LTS for i386 if we don't get testers. And
we need some of that testing to be on actual 32-bit machines.

Kubuntu Dev Meeting

By Aaron Honeycutt at 02/21/2018 - 00:31

Hello all!

We're very close to the Kubuntu 18.04 LTS release and I would like for us
to go though the Phab board [1] to see what needs doing to polish our next
LTS release.

(solved) KDE root programs' fonts very small

By Volker Wysk at 02/20/2018 - 13:04

Hi!

I've had the problem, that graphical programs (or program parts), which run as root, had a very small font size - such as systemsettings5 or muon's settings->configure software sources window.

I've investigated it, and I found that the following has to be added to /etc/environment:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE

That is, the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable needs to be set to "KDE". But this doesn't work when set in ~/.bashrc, ~/.proile or /etc/profile. Looks like these scripts aren't called by kdesudo.

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