Upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid to Jaunty

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:21 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

perhaps the one that : 
> > trashed my root filesystem twice.
:)

To the OP: perhaps you could provide a bug report number/link to a bug 
report where this was reported, so that others maybe could also know whats
going on?

-- 
Andrew
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