[Python-Dev] python.org OS (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Jan 5 02:51:32 CET 2009

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Aahz writes:

> all. Because I was lazy, last weekend I finally did a two-stage upgrade > from 7.10 to 8.04 and then 8.10, with zero noticeable problems. The scary one is two independent reports of fstab corruption in the 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade. It is claimed to be unfixable by booting from CD, mounting the partition, and editing fstab: the editor saves but the fstab returns to the original corrupt state upon reboot. Several reports of inability to use formerly working Japanese input methods. Several reports of formerly working xorg.conf suddenly reverting to VESA 1024x768x8 (or worse). You can add my name to those reporting inexplicable reversion of video settings. I'm getting tired of it seeing a 640 x 480 screen.

I don't use Ubuntu so this is all hearsay, but I do trust the ex-NetBSD dev to be reporting accurately. He's only having problems with his custom X11 keymap getting trashed, and something else relatively minor with Xorg.

And for that ML this is huge; I don't recall so many screams on a commercial vendor upgrade since Red Hat went from HJ Liu libc to glibc 2.

Ubuntu is a victim of its own success. They now have to deal with the same diversity of hardware environments as Windows. I hope that Canonical will find a way to stabilize things.

regards Steve

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