[Discuss] Strange behaviour in recent new install of Ubuntu 15.10

[Murray Strome]

On 2016-01-30 07:24 PM, Murray Strome wrote:
> No, I let it create a new home directory (although I did back up all 
> my documents, etc. to another hard drive).
> Murray
> On 2016-01-30 05:24 PM, pw wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did you retain your old home directory?
>> Try creating an extra user on the same machine with a clean home 
>> directory. Log in as that user and try all those things with the new 
>> user.
>>
>> Maybe you have some inaccessible files in the hidden
>> settings directories in your user path.
>>
>> P
>>
>> On 01/30/2016 04:40 PM, Murray Strome wrote:
>>> Because I was unable to get the Settings to work, I reinstalled Ubuntu
>>> 15.10.
>>>
>>> I can no longer mount my FreeNAS LINUX share on this computer (it works
>>> on all others).  When I do:
>>>
>>> sudo mount {IP of my FreeNAS box}:/{location of my LINUX share} /{place
>>> where I want to mount it}
>>>
>>> nothing happens -- it just sits there.
>>> It works OK on all of my other computers.
>>>
>>> Most times, I have had to go to Advanced options and do Upstart to get
>>> it to load.
>>>
>>> When I first start, I get a message saying I cannot load the display
>>> profile.
>>>
>>> When I change from one Workspace to another (i.e. virtual desktop in
>>> some distributions) when running the KDE Plasma desktop interface,
>>> windows from the last workspace still persist, though clicking on them
>>> does nothing.
>>>
>>> The "Find Files" in Konqueror "Tools" no longer works, though it works
>>> on my other computers with the same version. It works OK in Dolphin.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions to fix these problems.
>>>
>>> Murray
>>>
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