Comment 67 for bug 1059872

"If it bothers you that much, run 15.10 or 16.04."

I tried both, Phillip, but the bug is still present. I couldn't conceive of such a basic malfunction affecting the previous LTS, so I switched back to 14.04, only to be shocked and horrified to discover that the bug has been around this long.

Imagine, a fundamental function broken for years is still tolerated in the NEXT LTS release. I don't know how to describe that level of lethargy.

(This makes at least two default apps in the current release of Ubuntu that manifest total failure to function, since Transmission just deletes torrents as soon as the downloads complete, probably due to some complex permissions clusterfrell casual users shouldn't be expected to understand or rectify.)

Anyone, I'll be trying out upgrading util-linux from Ivan's ppa to see if that works.