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It's strange that some people get always crasch-problems with Mint-Install and other do never. 

It seems like it could be HW-dependent in some way.  

In my thoughts I can't stop thinking about some kind of time-competition between processes with different outcome on different HW..

I other words a software design that is missing som kind of syncronization locking between processes. 

Could it be something like that?? 

It's really bad crasches, ending up with segmentation faults 

About mintinstall, it looks like it's to do with dbus (aptdaemon in other words). I can't put my finger on it and we're probably looking at Mint 13 for a decision whether or not to ditch aptdaemon altogether and either rewrite it or depend on synaptic instead. Either way it's beyond the scope of this particular release.

It's strange, but when I should stop the computer for a little break it was not able to shut off.  I finally had to use the main-switch of the computer to kill it. Has anybody else heard of this no shut-off?

#039: Other OS  in Grub:  I think it's OK   everything, but it does not  show  any "32-bit". 

This is what shows up:  Linux Mint 12 KDE, 3.0.0-15-generic (/dev/sdc1)

#026: Open as root:  I works but doesn't look different for my eyes..

#009: No residual config files or auto-installed packages:  apt search ~c  is OK. but apt search ~M gives the following:

i A firefox-locale-sv               - Swedish language pack for Firefox         
i A gimp-help-common                - Data files for the GIMP documentation     
i A language-pack-gnome-en-base     - GNOME translations for language English   
i A language-pack-gnome-sv-base     - GNOME translations for language Swedish   
i A language-pack-kde-sv            - KDE translation updates for language Swedi
i A language-pack-kde-sv-base       - KDE translations for language Swedish     
i A language-pack-sv-base           - translations for language Swedish         
i A libreoffice-l10n-common         - common files for LibreOffice language and
i A libreoffice-l10n-en-gb          - office productivity suite -- English_briti
i A libreoffice-l10n-sv             - office productivity suite -- Swedish langu
i A linux-headers-3.0.0-12          - Header files related to Linux kernel versi
i A linux-headers-3.0.0-15          - Header files related to Linux kernel versi
i A linux-headers-3.0.0-15-generic  - Linux kernel headers for version 3.0.0 on
i A openoffice.org-common           - office productivity suite -- arch-independ
 

This time I did not install anything extra after the main install and an update.  (Swedish localization however)

I can also mension that "Nepomuk" also seems to have some kind of problems.  it shows up something about Nepomuk and indexing in the panel shortly after login. I don't know if it's an error.

#008: Terminal fortunes and colors:  Colors are all right but I don't see/know how to activate the fortunes. 

I tried to open MintInstall directly when I came back to the computer.  It crasched after a few seconds.

In the kernel-logg I could see:

2012-01-31 17.38.34    mintinstall[2375]    segfault at 4 ip 0662fc02 sp bfaf1328 error 6
2012-01-31 17.38.34    mintinstall[2420]    segfault at 9c ip 06630ec6 sp b477b260 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.7[6606000+47000]

What do you think Clem??
 

For mintinstall... I can't reproduce it anymore, whether it's in my host or the vbox... but I've seen it happen a lot before. I suspect it's to do with aptd, and I can't fix it until I know the exact cause.

Either way, it's not specific to the KDE edition and so I see no reason to delay its release. It impacts the main edition as well.

#043: mintInstall:  If you reed some of the responses to the Mint 12 KDE rc you can see:

# 36 Mike: Mike Says:

So far it looks great. For me though the Software Manager crashes immediately after loading. I thought the problem would go away after updates but the crash still happens........

# 38 Gerhardy Says:

..........

Issues so far:
Software manager shutting down after a few seconds......

# 47 Montee Says:

...also there’s a bug with software/package manager; it doesn’t work! I downloaded ubuntu software centre from synaptic but that doesn’t work either

#043: mintInstall:  Now today I made a new try, after restart of the system, but the windows shows up and crasches directly.  This is very very bad in my opinion.  Must be fixed before release.

#036: Localized installation:  Now it seems that every needed language-package is installed automatic.

In Firefox I had to activate Swedish to get it correct however.  (Easy operation anyway)

For information:  I installed the dist on an USB-stick formatted as ext4 and with Swedish localization selected.

Directly after the installation I made the suggested MintUpdate. (lots of packets!)

#043: mintInstall:   The first time MintInstall opend up fine, but it was impossible to select anything or to write anything in the search-field.   I closed it down an gave it another try.  Now it was more like in earlier test, it opend up and crasched down again after a few seconds.