When i first installed Ubuntu 12.04, I was surprised to find that every so often a little window appeared informing me about a failure of the system or of a certain program that I was using.
This seemed strange to me for an LTS version, but I still decided not to give it much thought. But in no time, it went from being a minor annoyance to becoming really annoying, so I started to investigate what this was all about.
Bring
It was then that I found out about the existence of Bring, a utility used in Ubuntu 12.04 to report system or application crashes. The problem is that this tool should only be working for trial versions, and not for final versions.
But for some reason it does it in several installations, which can cause us constant annoyance in daily use, since pop-up windows appear constantly pointing out bugs, which in most cases do not really affect our work.
How to disable Apport?
The good news is that this tool can be easily disabled. For this we open terminal and write:
sudo gedit /etc/default/apport
In the file we find the line that says enabled = 1, so we will change the 1 to 0 to disable it, it should look like this:
enabled=0
Once the modification is made, we save the changes and restart the system.
Source: Article taken verbatim from humanOS and written by Manuel Alejandro Sánchez.
Until when canonical people are going to keep us entertained with these glaring failures, how is it possible that users have to waste time solving these things? it will be free but we are not stupid.
or you could use another distro.
HA… it's good… no comment.
The more I know and learn about linux, the more I fall in love with windows, especially the latest windows 8. Linuxeros keep playing and fooling around with linux.
And you have all your rights .. each one uses what he wants ..
Ernesto, with all due respect, to defend Windows do not use 8 as an example, I think it is still in its infancy… if you tell me 7 I fell, honestly.
I wanted to write, I keep quiet, sorry for the mistake.
How about community.
Yesterday in another post (related to the use of webkit opera) I commented that this is the great and constant problem of the LINUX world in particular with desktop operating systems (not workstations and servers). A reader told me that you have to evolve and innovate constantly, but although this reasoning is valid, it is also worth mentioning that the simple fact of evolving in itself does not lead to anything and in the long run experience shows that this strategy culminates in disappearance or oblivion .
There are many efforts to do many things, this is very clear, but there comes a time when there is so much that you want to cover, that you end up with mediocre solutions and with a lot of "little details". This has made Linux as an operating system constantly fail in the practical and real world.
In the academy it is another matter, since here you have the freedom to experiment, find faults and improve, but in the practical world this is not acceptable, that is why the lords of Redmond and Cupertino are still the ones who dictate the rules of the game. game.
There are clear exceptions, such as Novell, IBM, Red Hat, Turbo Linux, etc. They are not free but their price is minimal and laughable if you compare it with Windows or MacOS.
A very clear example is that of GNOME (of which I am a user to die), where because there were changes and some did not like it and others yes, Clement, Ikey, The Elementary team for example have focused their efforts and resources (if they recur $ or $ because nothing is free) to do your own development. From my personal point of view, if we were in college, I would not comment on anything, but as an IT professional I consider that this strategy is debilitating, exhausting and that it contributes absolutely nothing to the Strength of the Open Source world.
I consider, from my personal and professional perspective, that it is much more productive to work so that the solutions (mainly operating systems) are more solid, stable and reliable and if someone wants to give it a touch of customization, go ahead, but always focused on what is done and planned for future releases.
I repeat, how my grandmother always told me (according to the saying): "he who covers a lot, little squeezes" and what happens with Cannonical and Ubuntu (and other distros as well) is a very clear and precise example of what she loved me make out.
Interesting reflection, what happens that as long as everything is OpenSource or is covered by a license that allows its disclosure and modification, fragmentation will continue. Simply because human beings have different tastes and if I don't like something and I can change it, why not?
Suppose Ikey or Clement himself wanted to develop "extensions" for the Gnome Shell, to get the look and feel that they wanted. They are going to find a very simple problem: Whether or not the Gnome developers want to include these proposals, and to that we add that they have to wait for the various versions to be released to perhaps implement these changes.
As I see it, this instead of helping, which would further delay development and evolution. GNOME should be a kind of Framework, which allows us to create what we are seeing: Unity, Cinnamon, Consort, because in the end everything is the same, but with a slightly different interface. Also keep in mind that the Gnome developers took it for granted that the proposed interface and the way of working with this environment is the best they have invented, to the point of not wanting to "officially" include a tool to modify the interface. Bad, very bad, because as I said at the beginning, we do not all have the same tastes.
Anyway. Maybe the obstacles we put ourselves ...
Without words, your reflection is accurate, so I agree with you.
"As I see it, this instead of helping, which would delay development and evolution more", moving forward with unresolved failures is not evolving, at least that's how I see it 🙂
Yes, but that's something else 😀
Exactly, elav. You have given an obvious example.
Elav, don't you think that what was said by "jorgemanjarrezlerma" has to do with a topic that is under debate in "humans" regarding "NOVA"?
Any coincidence is pure chance hahaha
HAHAHA ... SO IT IS ... INVITE THE "DEVELOPERS" TO READ THIS COMMENT "
I do not agree. Open Source is managed, like nature, by simple, straightforward and logical: NATURAL SELECTION. The strongest prevails, the weakest disappears, period. You do not have to limit ANYTHING. NOTHING should be prohibited. Let "nature" be in charge of deciding which project lasts and which does not. Let everyone's creativity and efforts go where they want to go. That wear is not such when we apply our energy in our own sleep.
I would like to point out that natural selection has nothing to do with the law of the fittest. It is the law of the fittest which is very different. If it were the law of the strongest, all animals would seem vigorous.
Unless that bug report is too annoying, it never hurts to help the distribution by reporting the bugs ...
Well, it is annoying. Also, for a Beta or an Alpha it is fine, but not for a "stable" version .. 😉
Completely agree Elav, and let me take advantage and thank you for the contribution that you have given us here, I was already very "annoyed" by "the little poster" ... not to say a stronger Cuban vulgarism ... ..hehehe
Thanks for your observation but this is a sample only in the case of Ubuntu, this is something that happens in all distro, something always fails and you always have to be reaching out, I am not complaining about the mere fact of being a user who I claim guarantees on the program, I claim more than anything for the guarantee of my data, today there is talk of a simple warning, but the network is cluttered with errors in the graphics, or incompatibility of components, and it always ends up formatting and reinstalling linux, maybe we can deal with a bug, but linux should have other strengths that do not need to be formatted, and it is necessary to recover the system without formatting, I recently found out that ubuntu 12.10 can be reinstalled, I was even surprised because windows xp it has that function, and worst of all is that xp is better suited to a re-installation than ubuntu 12.10, and in ubuntu I did it because I really need it, damage the network manager installation (if not I'm wrong, that's the name). Do to make an ad-hoc network that I could never build, I like Linux because you can navigate quickly and safely, but sometimes it gives the impression that it works behind windows, technology is not vital but if we talk about data and information Personal is important, and I really regret the information and the time spent putting Linux up and running, not for an OS, I read that the creator of the kernel no longer reads the code, his work offered it to the world, why neglect it after so much effort? It is not about innovating because innovation in programming is tied to the advancement of devices or hardware, it is really about maintaining well what has always worked well, this pc with which I am writing turns black the screen every 40 seconds and I have turned it over to solve it, I already have to keep up with it and one of these days I reformat it, the network thing was on a laptop owned by my son and I have 2 PCs and I all have a problem with linux the list is somethinglong but that's the way it is, on the one hand the manufacturers do not respect the investment of the consumers by not developing the drivers for Linux and on the other the neglect in the development of what is called free.
No system is free of bugs and you may be surprised to know the amount of errors that different Windows and even MacOS have, a real headache for many.
The big difference between Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu-GNU / Linux-BSD is that in these systems, if the user has the necessary knowledge, they can solve any problem they encounter.
Personally I prefer basic distros that allow a minimal installation and from which I build the system and have absolute control over it.
Arch Linux, Gentoo and Debian are such distros that allow the user to take over their system instead of having to do the whole distro for them.
Slackware is another excellent option since although it is not minimalist in the sense of the distros that I name above, it is still THE ONLY GNU / Linux distribution more Unix-like that exists, so its administration, although sometimes cumbersome, is totally transparent and allows solve any problem you find.
If you have so many problems with 'linux' buy a Windows 8 and be happy but do not talk so lightly about something that obviously you do not know.
Well, don't tell me about knowledge, since the truth is I'm not a programmer and even if I was, I don't agree that they have so many bugs.
"Bugs", "insects"? Canonical is only more transparent than Apple or Microsoft. While Canonical immediately allows Ubuntu to disclose its flaws, those do not. But still, both Windows and MacOS are full of bugs, just not obvious.
It is true and the truth that they are annoying, but a bug in windows in 70% of the time lets you work, but in Ubuntu you almost always end up reinstalling everything again even in the newest versions. I am not saying that it does not work, they should improve, I prefer to browse with linux than with windows.
I think that the answer to Frank's criteria should not be taken so strongly, he is only a consumer of the product and would like, like everyone else, that it was better finished and without errors, and what he says, he is not a programmer, I think these errors they are what make many people hesitate to migrate to Linux.
Well, I agree that bug reports are sent, but do you read them? Do you understand what we send with our words and the code that is supposed to arrive with the failures? Do they read them in English only or also in all languages?
Sending the bug is fine, but make it optional, and for its mother that there is no bug in the bug report, hahaha, these ubuntu do not change.
This has been around for a long time, in version 12.10 we also have the same error, even in Xubuntu 12.10.
Do you need to restart the system? With restarting the service I think it is enough:
# service port restart
Well yes, you are right ..
In fact with your post I realized that there is an option to disable error reports, what I always did was directly
# apt-get remove app
xD
I would like (typical of those daydreams and imaginary conversations that one develops) to meet the -or the- person in charge of Canonical who approved that version of Ubuntu be published and who thought it was just perfect that the average user would appear a error poster every:
1. 2'30 »minutes if your machine is on idle.
2. 9 mouse clicks on screen.
3. every time you close an application or on the contrary, you want to start it! (any of them)
4. others.
Ubuntu is the quintessential trolling distro xD
xDDD
MMMMM ……. I would like to know more about that command line that, as I see, must be used as a super user. I've been looking but I didn't find anything.
Well, I don't agree that the little bug report window in the system is so constant, I used 12.04 and they only came out on the 1st day because I was installing a lot of apps at once, now I'm with 12.10 and the same, even I feel it more stable than the LTS, maybe it is that you crush the system a lot and your PC's suffer, and at least they do not come out and in the HP laptop already old and that also had 12.04 did not come out even once Happy little window, blame the hardware and take better care of the system
For years Ubuntu has been one of the worst Linux distro.
Why its success ??
- Because of its marketing, because it is backed by a billionaire who can support an advertising campaign and spread Ubuntu through the Internet and negotiate with other companies.
The truth is that from version 9.04 onwards all that followed were a disaster, full of bugs, unstable, incompatible hardware, etc.
On the other hand Canonical was dispatched with a lot of ridiculous speculations in order to make a little noise to attract attention ... someone remembers the startup in less than 10 seconds, of the 200 million users in 4 years, of the revolution graph on the desktop. etc etc..
The truth is that Ubuntu is only used by those who come from Windows xp, surprised because they have not had to install an antivirus, also they have never tried another distro that is not "user friendly" because they do not know how to install programs and the only thing they know to do is open the web browser to enter social networks ..
Ah yes, but they have the courage to go out and defend Ubuntu as if they were hackers.
Sorry guys: «UBUNTU ……. DAS ASCO »
What you say is nothing but the truth. But the problem of bugs plagues all distro and what bothers me and I don't understand is that if they already have the fixes to those problems, they are not corrected before publishing the versions.
sorry but personally if I install programs and if I have tried more complicated distros, the only thing that sucks is the closure of the fundamentalists
Again another idiocy of article and once again made in «elav», when not.
And is that this article does not show a minimum of research, an article taken from the liver (or to know where) more than with the brain, which seems and only serves to revile Ubuntu and worse, linking an article from practically the middle of the Last year, when since then 2 revisions (as you read) of the LTS have come out in case you don't already know (Ubuntu 12.04.2 came out yesterday) and for centuries, said problem with apport WAS ALREADY DOCUMENTED AND SOLVED.
I'm sorry, but better luck for the next one in your campaign to just revile Ubuntu, although now that I think about it, some success has had because more than one troll has been uncovered here and although surely the troll will laugh at this, but they would like any of those frequently named distros around here (especially the one so acclaimed around here that it's not even worth mentioning), offer even half the stability that Ubuntu 12.04.2 offers.
Well, dear anonymous, you talk about trolls and yet in your own words there is an ironic contradiction: if you yourself have mentioned that version 12.04.2 came out yesterday, how can you say so emphatically that it is more than twice as stable as those other distros, if you can't have had time to test the thousands of packages in the repository, or the different ways to combine and configure them? In other words, that you criticize elav and your own comment seems to be taken from somewhere a little below the liver, hehehe.
Pst, pst, don't feed him 😛
@msx, With you I am going to apply what you say well, so no "preoccupation" (I write it like that in English so that you feel more agringed and raise your ego more).
Why the quotation marks, it bothers you to use English - the official language of the internet for several reasons, including that it was a development in an English-speaking country and on the other hand that it is the 'universal' language if you want and in which it is find more information?
Do you have a complex that you want to tell us about (because of agringado)?
Oh wait… FUCK, I'm already mixing English with Spanish again and feeding an idiot 😛
I'm not going to tell you anything else, I'm going to leave you with your e-penism and with your universal cheap English made in Google Translator, maybe you think that writing that way you will get some blonde hair out there, if you have something of light hair is.
I base my dear Windowser on that Ubuntu 12.04.2, it is nothing more than Ubuntu 12.04.1 with all the updates a day, something that obviously anyone who has used Ubuntu for more than 5 minutes knows perfectly, which is not your case because you have already highlighted what you wear.
And yes, with 12.04.1 there was more stability with respect to the distros here deified, you can imagine how it will be with Ubuntu 12.04.2 (although of course, I do not pretend that the anti-ubuntu haters that are so abundant recognize it, it is something that they will never do), which for a long time you could already taste many of its improvements in quality of updates.
So no, there is no contradiction on my part, I only see ignorance on your part.
If you meant to bother me by telling me ignorant, you should try another strategy, hehe. Perhaps recognizing ignorance is a problem for you, but in that sense I look a bit like Socrates, at least I admit that I ignore much more than I know (and in this particular world, something new is learned every day).
If making emphatic claims about stability based on imagination doesn't seem like a contradiction to you ... well, be happy with Ubuntu, hehehe.
No, more seriously: not only Ubuntu but most of the distributions in general have increased in stability, but obviously a distribution that releases more frequently will have less time to test the stability of the packages, and this is why for servers many prefer
Debian or Centos, etc. There may always be radical people who hate Ubuntu, but not necessarily everyone who disagrees with Ubuntu's direction hates it. It is relatively indifferent to me personally, but for servers I usually choose Debian because of its greater stability and better social contract, and for workstations I have been using LMDE for a while, first with Gnome and now with KDE. Well, at home I currently use Windows 8 as you undoubtedly noticed, which does not mean that I like it (rather the opposite), but until I finish playing Skyrim I do not intend to uninstall it, and by the way I become familiar with it. enough to be able to function decently as a computer if I come across a PC ocn that diabolical monstrosity, lol.
Relax, old man, Ubuntu is not the navel of the world
On your comment «Anonymous», not all of us are lucky enough to download the 12.04.2 / I would like all the problems of UBUNTU to be solved before going out to its end users and I see correct that they take longer to release a new version and not every 6 months, I mean, if the comment is true, then they have more time to correct the errors, which does not justify that an LTS goes on the market with them.
The truth is, I prefer to modify one or another configuration file to resolve any detail of my debian than to install antivirus, antispywers, firewalls, defragmenters in winbugs xp, 7, 8 or any version number that comes out later. My humble opinion.
Ah! and when I installed Ubuntu 12.04 just released to test it if I threw this error every so often but later when I tried 12.04.1 it no longer happened to me and it felt more stable and fluid but in the end going through several distros I got stuck with debian kde 😀
Thanks Elav for the recommendation.
Please put in the "gksudo gksudo" commands before programs like gedit.
regards
EXACT.
Thanks for the claim - fucking n00bs.