Hoary commits hara-kiri

[ulrich steffens]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 18:46 -1000 schrieb dylan burns:
> Had few to no problems with Hoary since its release (sound problems &
> dvdrw DMA).
> Some of the recent security updates (assuming kernel fixes) have
> caused xorg lockups, which I thought I fixed/delayed by disabling my
> screensavers.
> Not so.
> 
> Was just updating from Hoary to Breezy today (while doing other work
> on the computer). Due to the insanely slow speeds the time to download
> updates was expanded from 45min. to over 7hrs!
> Went away from my computer for a few seconds & when I returned, xorg &
> all my apps were locked good & frozen. No ctrl-alt-backspace, no
> ctrl-alt-F*. Only thing that worked was my mouse.
> After a hard reset & filesystem check I get to the NVidia logo screen
> which exits back to this screen:
> <a href="http://img280.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img11cp.png"
> target="_blank"><img
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> <a href="http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img29jk.png"
> target="_blank"><img
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> 
> ctrl-alt-F* brings up a login screen which when used does nothing
> (hangs).
> 
> First, any help would be greatly appreciated as now I'm relegated to
> using the house Windows machine (not mine).
> 
> Second, well today I had my wisdom teeth removed so I'm a bit cranky,
> but if Breezy has any hopes of competeing with Vista (as they aspire
> to) they're going to have to improve the stability of the system above
> that of Windows 98!
> Ranting aside, I'm now using this box to download Breezy & as a last
> resort, will try a fresh install (hopefully) preserving my home & data
> partitions. (Think I'll also download Debian Sarge while I'm at it).

well, have you tried booting into 'recovery mode'? its boots you
directly in a root environment where you can check your/fix your
installation. boot into recovery mode and fire up
'apt-get dist-upgrade'
to first finnish youre upgrade to breezy. if this wont work, come back
again and THEN it's time to rant. not now.

and for the vista reference:
breezy does the stuff NOW what vista is supposed to do in 2006.


ulrich