Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

[Colin Law]

On 9 February 2012 21:56, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 21:47 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> 12.04 Alpha has (for me) been amazingly stable right since Alpha 1
>> release.  Till today.
>> Has anyone else running 12.04 Alpha found that it has suddenly gone
>> awry with a round of updates?  It starts ok but then the GUI just
>> seems to grind to a halt.  The clock in the top panel stops and
>> nothing much works.  I have to resort dropping back to a terminal and
>> restarting.  Strangely I can't find anything in the logs to indicate
>> what the problem is to see if there is a relevant bug report.  I tried
>> the previous kernel but no different.
>> I am not complaining as it is an Alpha after all.
>> Hopefully it will all start working again with some more updates.
>
> Using nVidia hardware/drivers?  If so, you're cautioned today not to do
> any upgrades.  See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/929384

No, Intel graphics.

Colin