8.04 release candidate delayed until Friday

[Sam Tygier]

Paul S wrote:
> Paul S said the following on 04/17/2008 11:50 AM:
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Alexandre Strube <surak at surak.eti.br> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you! I just dist-upgraded hardy and the machines doesn't boot anymore
>> - gotta figure out tomorrow what happened to file a bug...
>>
>> []
>> Alexandre Strube
>> surak at ubuntu.com
>> unnamed
>>
>> Same problem here .. something has the fsck failing and just cycling 
>> through the reboot endlessly.
> 
> Solved here.  I had to boot to recovery and do fsck manually and accept 
> all fixes, now I'm back in hardy.  Not sure why so many things got 
> borked on the ext3..
> 
> regards,
> 
> Paul
> 

sounds like https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209416

martin pitt uploaded has uploaded a fix that will go in after the RC. it can't be an easy task testing a bug that requires you corrupt a partition. he is a superhero.

sam tygier