Upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid to Jaunty

[Ken T.]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:21:35 -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?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/371191



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Ken T. <ktectropy at gmail.com>