Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

[Ric Moore]

On 02/09/2012 04:47 PM, 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.
>
> Colin

I would not overlook the possibility that they did that to spite you, 
after telling everyone how warm and nice the 12.04 water was? I mean, 
then everyone would want to install it. :) Ric