walked right out of the machinery
May. 27th, 2008 12:56 pmManaged to get Wordpress upgraded to 2.5 on my server. Is much cleaner and functional than earlier version.
However, this was not assisted by Ubuntu 8.04. It seems in this release they've broken the Samba client software that used to work fine in earlier releases. Investigation shows it's actually a problem with Gnome shifting to gvfs. Dick-heads. Ubuntu is supposed to keep working and get better, not break previously working parts of itself!
In the end managed to mount the share I needed to access the server manually, but then every time it created a directory, it created it with the wrong permissions, so I had to use a shell on the server to chmod stuff. Made copying directory structures across difficult.
Once I finally had it installed, I was pleased with the WordPress upgrade, a definite cleanliness and usability improvement. But I couldn't get picture upload and gallery creation to work, even though the instructions said it should work simply, it just failed. Spent hours checking i was doing it right, and that the installation had been completed, worried because of previous directory permission issues I might have failed to copy something important. Finally traced the Firefox error log, it has a problem with XUL file permissions somewhere. Reboot into Windows, the interface works fine. Another Ubuntu problem (as same browser, only OS is different). Possibly fixable somewhere, but shouldn't be necessary to fix something just to select files for upload from a browser from a directory my current user has access permissions for.
Am annoyed now, because for a while it looked like I could dump Windows for everything except the occasional game play, because they'd fixed all the old show-stoppers, but now, until gvfs is fixed it's not feasible. The fact that there's still no fix for a major flaw like this, which should have been enough, IMO, to prevent the release of 8.04 until it was fixed, points out the main problems with OS OS's. No real quality control, and no ability to pressure them into applying any.
However, this was not assisted by Ubuntu 8.04. It seems in this release they've broken the Samba client software that used to work fine in earlier releases. Investigation shows it's actually a problem with Gnome shifting to gvfs. Dick-heads. Ubuntu is supposed to keep working and get better, not break previously working parts of itself!
In the end managed to mount the share I needed to access the server manually, but then every time it created a directory, it created it with the wrong permissions, so I had to use a shell on the server to chmod stuff. Made copying directory structures across difficult.
Once I finally had it installed, I was pleased with the WordPress upgrade, a definite cleanliness and usability improvement. But I couldn't get picture upload and gallery creation to work, even though the instructions said it should work simply, it just failed. Spent hours checking i was doing it right, and that the installation had been completed, worried because of previous directory permission issues I might have failed to copy something important. Finally traced the Firefox error log, it has a problem with XUL file permissions somewhere. Reboot into Windows, the interface works fine. Another Ubuntu problem (as same browser, only OS is different). Possibly fixable somewhere, but shouldn't be necessary to fix something just to select files for upload from a browser from a directory my current user has access permissions for.
Am annoyed now, because for a while it looked like I could dump Windows for everything except the occasional game play, because they'd fixed all the old show-stoppers, but now, until gvfs is fixed it's not feasible. The fact that there's still no fix for a major flaw like this, which should have been enough, IMO, to prevent the release of 8.04 until it was fixed, points out the main problems with OS OS's. No real quality control, and no ability to pressure them into applying any.