Public bug reported:
Recently the Hardy 8.04 updates have been breaking PC's and Notebooks.
We've had employees calling during the Thanksgiving Holidays complaining
about their computers not working after downloading Ubuntu 8.04 updates.
We aren't alone. I've spoken with other business owners and have found
out that the 2.6.24.22 kernel updates seem to be the problem but I can't
confirm this except on one HP notebook in our engineering department.
The /boot/grub/menu.lst shows 2.6.24.22 as the new kernel.
The complaints run quite a wide gamut. Boot GRUB errors, splash screen
issues, boot up issues, applications locking up, broken plugins, shut-
down hangs, programs no longer responding, hddtemp daemons now halting
startup, mangled IDE/RAID settings, and many others than I don't care
nor have time to list. At this rate we're already losing money when the
Holidays are over and we hit the office on Monday to sort it all out. In
any event, it's too much for most users to tolerate. The 'grumblings
have begun.
This has to stop. From a business standpoint, no executive is going to
spend money with Canonical server support if they continue breaking PC's
with simple updates. The web is plagued with complaints about this. Why
spend money with a company for server support when that very company is
destabilizing the OS in lieu of improving it? It doesn't make sense.
Linux doesn't get many viruses, however, Canonical is re-defining that
term with their updates.
Sad to say, but it's a fair wager that our management will switch back
to Microsoft before the year is out. We've only been using Ubuntu for a
year and it's so butchered up now that it's become a worthless OS for
business. The frequency of these issues have increased significantly.
And we had such high hopes, nonetheless, we pay our employees to
work...not work on computers. Not to be snide, discordant, or crass;
nevertheless, that's the bare bones of it. Time is money. Someone should
tell Shuttleworth and Bacon to fix what they have before jaunting off on
a jack-a-lope chase. It's only common sense.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: 8.04 break computers updates
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Kernel update 2.6.24.22 breaks PC's-Notebooks... computertemp; hddtemp; halts
splash and boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303634
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