[Bug 35140] Re: Hard Crash During pcmcia-cs Installation

[Xande]

I got bitten by this bug too, and I agree that it's way more than
Priority: Normal. I'm on a Dell Precision Workstation 220 - which is a
desktop.

I have an Ubuntu system that started out in 2004 as a 4.10 install, and
has been upgraded without problems through every release since then.  I
used the Update Manager to upgrade to 6.06, and the install caused the
machine to hang totally while configuring pcmcia-cs. (More specifically,
I couldn't switch to the terminal window I already had open, ctrl-alt-
backspace did nothing, and ctrl-alt-delete did nothing.  The computer
was sufficiently hung that pressing caps lock would no longer toggle the
indicator light for that key.)

After giving it 30 minutes, to ensure it wasn't just a slow response, I
power cycled the machine, and again it hung on the Starting PCMCIA
Services step.  Rebooting in Recovery Mode has the same problem.  So now
my box is non-bootable, I have an OS upgrade that got interrupted in
medias res, and I have no pre-update backup.  (I know, shame on me, but
the 4.10->5.04->5.10 upgrades all went so smoothly, I stopped
bothering.)

I will post further information as I deal with troubleshooting this, but
meanwhile, I have the following suggestion: Make the pcmcia-cs package
optional (i.e., don't make ubuntu-desktop depend on it) until this bug
is ironed out.  At least that will keep the upgrade process from turning
people's boxes into doorstops.

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Hard Crash During pcmcia-cs Installation
https://launchpad.net/bugs/35140