On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:50:37PM -0000, dj_palindrome wrote: > Excuse me if it is inappropriate to say this here, but a seemingly > related series of breaking changes still persists. First, X lost all > input devices.
This was a bug in initramfs-tools. > Then, there was a hang on boot. The Plymouth logo stopped spinning and > the system just croaked; the login screen never appeared. This may have been another bug in initramfs-tools (one which was fixed today). > Really, this is getting to be too much. I'm not talking about an ugly > screen or a few missing icons. We are approaching total unusability. Oneiric is a development release which is currently in the alpha stage of its development cycle. Total unusability is a very real and ordinary risk of running the software at this stage. > More often than not, dpkg receives a segfault during routine upgrades. Sorry, that's unrelated to any of the above changes and no one else is reporting such a problem. The more likely culprit here would be some kind of disk corruption or hardware failure. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807974 Title: debootstrap fails to install libc6 installing oneiric from natty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/807974/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
