Testing karmic currently impossible?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:14:52 +0200 Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
>Is it just me or is testing karmic currently impossible? Here it  
>started with $HOME/.xsession(rc) being ignored, after some wrestling  
>and updates the GUI was gone completely.
>
>Then I did a reinstall of alpha5 on a fresh partition. Right after  
>installation the OS worked, but automatic updates reported a lot of  
>trouble, removed packages as essential(?) as "hostnames" or "acpi- 
>support" and now the system won't even boot: the Grub menu contains  
>not a single kernel.
>
>It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop- 
>amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track?
>
>
Wait until tomorrow and try again.  The breakage is known and being fixed.

Scott K