10.04 failures

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Ian Coetzee <ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net> wrote:
>> On 2010/05/12 02:27 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2010 10:01 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/11/2010 05:26 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>        This morning after some updates I discovered 10.04 would let me use
>>>>> the USB ports, use my memory stick device and look at movies.
>>>>>
>>>>>        Now I have 3 fully updated 10.04 partitions and all three will not
>>>>> do any of the three. Most serious is the USB port. I can no longer do
>>>>> anything with them. I can't even back up this computer since my backup
>>>>> system uses the USB port!
>>>>>
>>>>> This makes 10.04 a very poor version.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Give it up Karl. Start a blog. Do something, but *please* stop polluting
>>>> this list with your insistent ramblings about your issues with your
>>>> system. If you have a _valid_ problem post with the details like
>>>> everyone else.
>>>>
>>>> I'd recommend that you file a bug report but most of your past "reports"
>>>> tend to pollute launchpad as well.
>>>>
>>>> Look at what you've written in just the past few days... one moment you
>>>> praise 10.04, the next you blame 10.04. The same as you have done for
>>>> just about every other Ubuntu version since joining this list. I hate to
>>>> say it&   I'm pretty tolerant about most things, but if you keep this up
>>>> I'd vote to send you back to the moderators bin.
>>>>
>> Noop, your flogging a dead horse here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>           What is hard for you to understand? I put my backup hard drive
>>> with a USB port into my 10.04 system and look for it at /media. There is
>>> zero, nothing there. Should I file a bug on this? Perhaps but I boot
>>> into 8.04 and it works fine so nothing wrong with my hardware.
>>>
>>> Does this meet your requirement?
>>>
>> Karl, I can still use my USB ports and my 10.04 is fully updated!. Have
>> you tried creating a new user and testing it there?
>
> Boot from a 10.04 Live CD. If USB works there, then the mess that you
> have created by using half-a-dozen or so installs with a shared home
> directory and who knows what strange "modifications" is responsible
> for your USB problem(s).
>
> You should wipe your HD and install just one release and use it as a
> day-to-day OS and then either install and make a mess of things on
> another box or within Virtual Box.

Strongly agree.

Sharing a home filesystem between distros is fine, but /not/ if they
share core components like different versions of GNOME. If you want to
do that, use a different account for each distro. My /home FS has both
"lproven" and "liam" accounts for Ubuntu and Mint and it's absolutely
fine, no problems at all. I've done this in the past sharing one /home
and one swap partition between Ubuntu, Suse, Xandros, Red Hat,
Mandriva and more - no problems. I just had lots of user accounts. :¬)

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