So, one of my main gripes about Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and 18.04 is that I have horrible download speed whenever dealing with a USB drive. (20-100k!) I know my hardware is ok because Windows can send a 700M file in about 20 seconds. Ubuntu takes 8-10 hours!
I did find a partial reprieve in that grsync would copy 1G in about 30 minutes but I had to put it in a file folder.
So, in reading about 18.10, it sounded like someone FINALLY fixed this problem that so many people have. So I upgraded to 18.10 and everything looked fine and worked fine UNTIL I tried to put a file on a thumb drive. Then all H-E-double hockey sticks broke loose. Caja locked up the entire system. I couldnât do anything but move the mouse pointer. So I held the shutoff button for 5 seconds and re-booted.
I could not reboot. I kept getting to a screen that told me there were parsing errors and gave me an (intramfs) (sp?) prompt. If I typed âexitâ then it said I needed to fsck manually. I finally got that to work and came up with a couple of thousand errors, all of which I had to say 'Yâes to.
When I could finally get to my home screen, all of my settings were gone. All of my bookmarks in firefox and waterfox were gone. And now, everything keeps crashing. Kmail crashed, Plank crashed, Waterfox, Firefox, Caja, and on and on.
Ok. Iâm sorry for venting. I love ubuntu mate very much and want to thank everyone who donates their time to making something wonderful for others. Good luck and God bless.
So now it crashed AGAIN! Iâve got this little âdo not enterâ symbol on the taskbar so I clicked on it and gotâŚ
E: Problem parsing dependency 21
E: Error occurred while processing kmail (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
and now waterfox and firefox have lost all of their settings ⌠again.
I donât even use kmail. I tried to remove and/or purge it but get the same parsing 21 error.
Evidently, my mobo, (Gigabyte GA-990fxa ud3 Rev. 5) has an USB controller with known issues with Ubuntu. USB downloads are extremely slow. In 18.10, USB wouldnât work at all. At least in 18.04, I have some use of USB. Peripherals work fine, just file copy is horrible.
But, at the end of the day, I am SOOO pleased with Ubuntu and the Linux community, that I can deal with a slow thumb drive. Gives me an excuse to go mobo shopping. lol
Thank you all for your help and advice. In the end, I wiped the drive and re-installed 18.04. I may try the upgrade again in a couple of months, but for now, I just donât have the time to mess with it.
