On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Fred James wrote: > Someone else has responded with suggestion(s) to help ... my (OT) 2 cents > is to marvel at the number of people who (whether running MS, Linux, OSX, > UNIX, or what have you) will apply patches/updates/upgrades, untested, to > a critical machine/OS/application. We all (including me) do it, but it > still amazes me.
I don't know that's the problem in this case. Speaking only from my own experience with Slackware, patches are well tested before being set free in the wild. What might have happened to the originator of this thread bit me when upgrading a laptop running xubuntu from 10.04 to 11.10, with a stop at 11.04. The first distribution upgrade worked fine, but during the second upgrade the screensaver was activated as stuff chruned away in the background, and would not clear when requested to do so. Turns our there is some bug in one of the distribution versions that causes the screensaver to remain. The only solution was to shut down the machine. This meant a brand-new installation from the 11.10 disk. Serious PITA. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
