Comment 13 for bug 807974

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.

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