Herd 3/4/5 Testing Result (one show stopper bug)

[Matt Zimmerman]

That particular report hadn't seen a response yet, but it looks like a
duplicate of bug #78255, which is confirmed and is being investigated by a
developer.

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:46:46PM -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies if this seems forward, I simply want to ensure the
> developers are aware of a potential show stopper bug that has affected
> myself, one other person and very likely others.
> 
> I usually track the bleeding edge and always have the latest dev
> release on my desktop machine. A little over a month ago I was forced
> back onto edgy due to a bug that completely prevents GNOME (and
> seemingly KDE as well although it didn't investigate as thoroughly
> with Kubuntu) from starting. This results in a completely unusable
> desktop. The bug in question is:
> 
> feisty dbus/avahi crash... causes gnome to not start. -
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/88252
> 
> The issue has something to do dbus, hal and or avahi. I'm not entirely
> sure. This happens to me on both i386 and amd64. This issue appears to
> be limited to certain hardware in some way since feisty does work for
> most people.
> 
> Again, apologies for raising the issue here. I have only done so since
> the bug has not had any developer input since it was opened and since
> it is a show stopper for at least myself a one other person. I simply
> want to ensure that a critical issue is at least known. Please let me
> know if I can help in any way to resolve the issue.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matt
> 
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