[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

[John Stewart]

Michael,

I hear you, but I read your reply as reproductive of the head-in-the-
sand mentality that won't examine cases such as these as opportunities
for improvement.  I've been a regular user of Ubuntu for many years, and
I've always felt the releases are rushed, whenever a "Final" comes out,
several weeks, sometimes months, go by before it reaches the stability
of the previous one.  That my be fun for geeks, but it's not 'Linux for
Humans'.  So if this keeps happening over and over again, there's a real
problem to be solved.

Saying that this affects some small subset, that it's happened before,
see there's a Debian thread from two years ago ... is so not the point.
Here we have a case of an error that occurs across, it seems, many
hardware configurations -- I'm using a stock netbook that (after a few
months of updates) works more-or-less fine under 10.04, I'm not on some
exotic motherboard etc.  I suspect that many, many users are seeing
this.  And an error that hits you immediately upon the first boot with
FATAL really doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, whatever the impact
later.  And a link to an old discussion that ends with another link to a
thread on how to recompile the kernel is hardly an effective argument
for why this shouldn't be a release blocker.

The broader point here is: what needs to happen to harden these
releases?  Maybe the 6-month thing should be rethought, or at least the
non-LTS releases should be tagged as geek-oriented, unstable experiments
(I wish the LTS releases would be more stable on the release date).
Instead Canonical makes a big deal that this is the latest and greatest
OS for the masses.  There is such a gap between the rhetoric and the
reality that people naturally just walk off to buy a Mac.

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Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642421
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