That particular report hadn't seen a response yet, but it looks like a duplicate of bug #78255, which is confirmed and is being investigated by a developer.
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:46:46PM -0500, Matt Galvin wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies if this seems forward, I simply want to ensure the > developers are aware of a potential show stopper bug that has affected > myself, one other person and very likely others. > > I usually track the bleeding edge and always have the latest dev > release on my desktop machine. A little over a month ago I was forced > back onto edgy due to a bug that completely prevents GNOME (and > seemingly KDE as well although it didn't investigate as thoroughly > with Kubuntu) from starting. This results in a completely unusable > desktop. The bug in question is: > > feisty dbus/avahi crash... causes gnome to not start. - > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/88252 > > The issue has something to do dbus, hal and or avahi. I'm not entirely > sure. This happens to me on both i386 and amd64. This issue appears to > be limited to certain hardware in some way since feisty does work for > most people. > > Again, apologies for raising the issue here. I have only done so since > the bug has not had any developer input since it was opened and since > it is a show stopper for at least myself a one other person. I simply > want to ensure that a critical issue is at least known. Please let me > know if I can help in any way to resolve the issue. > > Best, > > Matt > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss