[Bug 281720] Re: Lack of terminals in ubuntu 8.10

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 129910 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129910

No, it's not.
In bug 129910, Loye Young wrote on 2008-01-10 that that bug is about Gutsy and Gutsy only, Saïvann Carignan wrote on 2008-04-03:  Fix released, This bug is fixed and similar issues should be posted as different bugs.

129910 was for 7.10, not for 8.10, and even then, the 7.10 fix wasn't
applied to that distro's version afaict. And even if it was somebody
should have the decency to reopen bug 129910, as saying this bug is a
duplicate of the other "closed" bug that affected an yesteryear distro
doesn't do much to fix the problem that's happening _now_. But it seems
this "class" of problem is appearing recurrently. Maybe some Ubuntu devs
devised that getting framebuffer consoles should be a good "rite of
passage", based on the constant ressurgence of this "feature that needs
a hack to work like everyone else's distro". Dev's response to bug
129910 was so bad (lack of priority, bug being marked as invalid)

2007-08-02 - Miguel Martinez reported the bug.
2007-09-09 - John Yates explains how to fix this bug. Various people confirm Yate's fix works.
2007-12-07 - Henrik Nilsen Omma said it wouldn't be fixed until 8.04.
2007-12-13 - Leann Ogasawara marked the bug as invalid.
2007-12-13 - Jonas Bygdén asked why they ignored us for so much time just to close the bug with such inane excuse,
2007-12-13 - Felix Miata said that everybody else's distro under the sun doesn't have this problem.
2007-12-13 - Miguel Martinez tried to convince us that bug was in fact a feature.
2008-01-10 - Loye Young said that this bug is about Gutsy and Gutsy only.
2008-01-11 - Andrea Corbellini said it was not critical.
2008-02-25 - Ben Collins closed the bug because "the report is so convoluted", infuriating some.
2008-03-11 - Colin Watson said the reason we don't use vesafb by default is that it breaks suspend/resume.
2008-03-11 - Launchpad Janitor informed This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.85eubuntu29 - after SEVEN MONTHS and nine days.
2008-03-12 - Launchpad Janitor adds another fix.
2008-03-17 - Felix Miata says the problem returns. Argh.
2008-04-03 - Saïvann Carignan said fix released, This bug is fixed and similar issues should be posted as different bugs.

So, please put 129910 to rest. There's an enormous DNR stick on it.
281720 is not a duplicate. And pretty please someone fix 281720 before
Intrepid is released. And don't let the this bug lag as 129910 did,
thank you very much.

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Lack of terminals in ubuntu 8.10
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