Upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid to Jaunty

[NoOp]

On 07/31/2009 05:19 PM, Ken T. wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:57:13 +0000, Ken T. wrote:
> 
>> Yesterday, I upgraded my laptop from Hardy to Jaunty.  It was the
>> smoothest update I've ever done under Linux, and two steps at that.
>> Everything that was working is working still.  I'm very impressed.  The
>> only change I needed to make after both sets of upgrades was to run
>> alsamixer to get my sound back.
>> 
>> This is great!
>> 
>> Thanks Ubuntu!
>> 
>> I should also note that the upgrade fixed a few annoying bugs that I
>> hadn't been able to work out in the past.
> 
> Just to follow up..  I spoke too soon.  The Jaunty install trashed my 
> root filesystem twice.  The second time required a reinstall.  I backed 
> the system back down to Intrepid until this bug is fixed.  It was 
> reported in May, and seems to be fixed in later kernel releases, but 
> these haven't made it to Ubuntu yet. 
> 
> So the upgrade wasn't quite as smooth as it seemed.  In fact, this bug 
> caused catastrophic data loss.  
> 
> 

And what 'bug' might that be?