ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 4, Issue 82

[Petri Pennanen]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:11 -0500, Matt Philmon wrote:
> Upon logging out and in
> I once again had my desktop, right-click, menus, etc. but there was no
> longer access to my "home" folder at all and the menus had moved around
> a good bit... I don't like these changes at all and there are still
> dependencies (several) that won't resolve... I can't install
> gnome-cd-burner at all (as of last night) and several other packages.

The menu issues are temporary. Gnome has changed the way it's menus are
created. What you are seeing in hoary is the default Gnome menus. These
will be changed once a clean way to implement the Ubuntu menu structure
is agreed upon [1]. 

> So... I'm a bit unsure how to proceed. Since there really isn't any
> valuable data on the machine should I just wipe it and reinstall from
> the Warty installation CD and wait on Hoary, should I attempt to
> downgrade Gnome, or should I just be patient and hope things get cleaned
> up over the next several days as new/updates Hoary packages are
> released?

That probably depends on how much patience you have. Menu changes and
other fixes will probably get in in time. Squashing bugs is what a test
release is for after all.

If you decide to go back to Warty a reinstall probably is the cleanest
way to do so. Before you reinstall you could test downgrading via apt.
The process is not supported, stable or garanteed to work. However I'm
sure the author of the downgrading howto in the wiki [2] would like some
feedback. In either case: Remember to back-up your data.

[1]
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-December/002057.html

[2] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DowngradingFromHoaryHowTo

- Petri