hardy to lucid pc hard lock ups

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 08:08 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:42:06 +1000
>         Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         > Thanks, I already tried a few of those with no success,
>         guess it's rollback,
>         > or maybe even Fedora time.
>         >
>         
>         Might be worth waiting for Maverick as the lock-ups appear to
>         have disappeared, for me anyway.
>         
> 
> Considering lucid is an LTS, I would hope they backport the fixes
> immediately they declare it stable
> The funny thing is if I use avidemux it bloody works!
> 
> But the mp4's that I have to review often, need to be good enough for
> a court, and although avidemux plays them, it is (as it warns) out of
> sync.
> 
>  Since I have to destroy this partition anyway, as it is unacceptable
> in its current form, I might as well try Fedora, if it works, they win
> and gain me.

I've read here that an upgrade from LTS to LTS is supposed to be
possible. Myself, I wouldn't trust that with a ten-foot pole. There is
no way for anyone to plan for all of the cruft that you may have
unknowingly introduced to your system, and have the huge leap in
versions actually work seamlessly. People are human and humans make
mistakes 15% of the time, statistically. 

Myself, I don't have the expectation that the devels possess the
God-like power to foresee ~everything~ I/you/they may have done in the
past to mung the install. So, I install fresh every release, figuring
the chances of success are higher, and happily have experienced zero
problems. None, not one at all. If I assume the stance that I have been
struck dumb with a pole-axe, and accept the suggested options during
install, it flat out works. Lucky me, every blooming time. 

For the record, don't expect Fedora to make any such claim that you can
jump 4 version levels painlessly. I can tell you, from a large amount of
personal experience there, that they'll laugh you off of the list.
Fedora is in a state of perpetual beta testing, and you get to keep the
broken pieces. That is the ~only~ assurance you'll get there. xvfb was
broken through 3 releases before they finally fixed it. It just wasn't
high enough on the list, so I installed Ubuntu, which worked, and never
looked back. 

Ric
 

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