Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Aahz writes: > > > all. Because I was lazy, last weekend I finally did a two-stage upgrade > > from 7.10 to 8.04 and then 8.10, with zero noticeable problems. > > The scary one is two independent reports of fstab corruption in the > 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade. It is claimed to be unfixable by booting from > CD, mounting the partition, and editing fstab: the editor saves but > the fstab returns to the original corrupt state upon reboot. > > Several reports of inability to use formerly working Japanese input > methods. Several reports of formerly working xorg.conf suddenly > reverting to VESA 1024x768x8 (or worse). > You can add my name to those reporting inexplicable reversion of video settings. I'm getting tired of it seeing a 640 x 480 screen.
> I don't use Ubuntu so this is all hearsay, but I do trust the > ex-NetBSD dev to be reporting accurately. He's only having problems > with his custom X11 keymap getting trashed, and something else > relatively minor with Xorg. > > And for that ML this is huge; I don't recall so many screams on a > commercial vendor upgrade since Red Hat went from HJ Liu libc to glibc > 2. Ubuntu is a victim of its own success. They now have to deal with the same diversity of hardware environments as Windows. I hope that Canonical will find a way to stabilize things. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
