DVD and encryption error, a new look at why.

[Knapp]

> Now the question is, what is your assumption?
>
> 1) Update-manager was faulty when the link /dev/dvd -> /dev/hda
> became /dev/dvd1 ->/dev/scd0.
>
> 2) Some people have used the unsupported upgrade path with another package
> manager and that didn't take care of the problem.
>
> I think both are possible. When Hardy was released, a neighbour upgraded
> several machines always using update-manager. IIRC he had the problem of
> the broken link /dev/dvd1 -> /dev/scd0 on those machines. And people
> using the unsupported path sure didn't know about the problem.
>
>
> Nils

My assumption was number 2. And that might be why it got some but not
all the people. It could be that it did get all the people with just
that sort of drive. I don't have data one way or the other to prove
it.
I think I upgraded using apt-get dist-upgrade.

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Douglas E Knapp

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