Re: Bugs in gui/back

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Liam,

thanks for all your responses and tips:

If you are running a beta of 18.04, the forthcoming LTS version, then

again, it's GNOME 3 and Clutter under Wayland.

I - in the meanwhile - installed the newest version of VirtualBox on a Mac and into that as a guest OS the newest version of Ubuntu 18.04 TLS. I could do

apt install wmaker

but am not offerered window maker as an option on the login page!? :-(

They again changed everything. /etc/network/interfaces no longer works. They have invented just another theme to configure network interfaces.

pico /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml

"networkd" does not work for me

network:

  version: 2

  renderer: networkd

 ethernets:

   enp0s3:

     dhcp4: no

     dhcp6: no

     addresses: [192.168.2.198/24]

     gateway4: 192.168.2.1

     nameservers:

       addresses: [8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4]

root@RetinaUbuntu18:~# netplan apply

Invalid YAML at //etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml line 4 column 1: did not find expected key

I also tried

network:

  version: 2

  renderer: NetworkManager

but wasn't able to start NetworkManager to setup a static network interface and dns-severs.

sudo NetworkManager

No error message but it happens nothing. If I simply say

NetworkManager

in a terminal session I get "You must be root to run NetworkManager". I tried to login as root into a gui session (root passwd is set and working) but not even that works "Sorry, that didn't work. Please try again".

In the meanwhile I spent days on getting Ububntu 16 ... 18 to work under VirtualBox (and possibly Window Maker) to test out the gui/back issue but am failing badly. :-( I will probably try my luck with other Linux distros now  ...

I am still looking for (or trying to assemble) a step by step tutorial to setup a GNUstep system from scratch on current hardware and current Linux releases. No luck at all. I am at zereo. This should be easier in 2018!? 

Best wishes,

 Andreas