I installed the 8.5 beta this AM onto Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron. This is a development environment, so I “merely” uninstalled 8.0.1 and installed 8.5 over the same data directory.
The beta code works well, and appears to be somewhat quicker than the 8.0.1 code.
I did see one problem - when I attempted to paste a 60 KB .PNG image into an email - Notes popped up a “NSD is running” dialogue box which appeared to do nothing.
When I attempted to kill Notes using the NSD.SH script, the script appeared to loop with the following message being displayed: -
…
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/nsd.sh: line 169: s;[()]; ;g: command not found
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/nsd.sh: line 169: {print substr($2,1,32);}: command not found
…
ad infinitum.
I was running this as “root”, having used sudo bash before running nsd.sh.
It’s not 100% clear why the NSD.SH fails to run. Here’s the offending line 75: -
$Whereis -b -B $path -f $1 | $Awk ‘{print $2}’
Am I missing something obvious ?
PS I couldn’t reproduce the original symptom e.g. pasting a .PNG file 
Regards
Dave Hay