There is not much to say about the new xubuntu 14.04 trusty tahr and this is a very very good thing. I had quite some work to do when installing 12.04 on my Tuxedo Laptop but with 14.04 I managed to setup almost everything in 2h on a friday night. Here is a list of just a few small hick-ups:

  • non blocking grub error while booting from my LVM root
Error: diskfilter writes are not supported.
Press any key to continue...

This is described and solved in this bug report (requires grub scripts modification)

  • very small trouble with Oracle XE 11
  • some problems with google-earth
len@tux:~$ google-earth 
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is related to the missing i386 libraries but is well described in this post.

Update 05.05.2014: Problems with eclipse:

./eclipse.sh
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fa9a426f2a1, pid=15491, tid=140369401485056
#
# JRE version: 6.0_27-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.2-b06 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libsoup-2.4.so.1+0x6c2a1] short+0x11
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /phantom/now/java/eclipse-3.7-classic-64/hs_err_pid15491.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: rpc_end_sync called when not in sync!

This is described here but the fix did not worked for me (I was in 3.7)