Comment 58 for bug 136529

@Pär Lidén:
> What seems to be common for me and some other people here is that I have an Nvidia graphics card.

no nvidia-card here... using a thinkpad x40, intel-graphics (driver: i810/intel)

after 3 fresh gutsy-alternate-installations - corrupted after the first big update (~150 packages)
i tried the following - with success! same standard/default installation as before - just multiple
small updates - instead of the monster 150-packages-update - see my protocol:

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gutsy updates

installation: gutsy-alternate-release, no language-packs during installation, desktop-option

• 1. update: "openoffice.org"
• boot ok, login ok
• 2. update: "ubufox, tzdata, ttf-opensymbol, sound-juicer, oo-style-human, oo-common, oo-java-common"
• boot ok, login ok
• 3. update: "linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-generic, linux-restricted-modules-common"
• boot ok, login ok
• => "restricted drivers available" (HAL)
• boot ok, login ok
• 4. update: "compiz, compiz-plugins, compiz-gnome, compiz-core"
• boot ok, login ok
• 5. update: "cupsys, cupsys-client, cupsys-common, cupsys-bsd, efsprogs, e2fslibs, e2fsprogs, firefox, firefox-gnome-support, ghostscript, ghostscript-x"
• boot ok, login ok
• 6. update: "gedit, gedit-common, gnome-about, gnome-cards-data, gnome-controll-center, gnome-desktop-data, gnome-games, gnome-games-data, gnome-menus, gnome-panel, gnome-panel-data"
• boot ok, login ok
• 7. update: "linux-headers-2.6.22-14, linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic, linux-headers-2.6.22-14-common"
• boot ok, login ok
• 8. update: "gnome-session, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-system-tools"
• boot ok, login ok
• 9. update: "libmono*, mono*"
• boot ok, login ok
• 10. update: "libgtk*, libgnomui*, libgnome*"
• boot ok, login ok
• 11. update: "gnome-screensaver, evolution*, evince, eog, bittorrent, file-roller, gcalctool"
• boot ok, login ok
• 12. update: "libnm-util0, libnm-glib0network-manager, "
• boot ok, login ok
• 13. update: "libc6, libc6-i686"
• boot ok, login ok
• 14. update: "capplets-data, findutils, foo2zjs, hwdb-client-common, hwdb-client-gnome, language-pack-de, language-pack-en, libdataserverui1.2-8, libexchange-storage1.2-3, libpanel-applet2-0, libwnck-common, libwnck22"
• boot ok, login ok
• 15. update: "gtk2-engines, gtkhtml3.14"
• boot ok, login ok
• 16. update: "all the rest - 36 updates [perl, pcre, lib*, cairo - cupsys, cups, comerr2, poppler, video-plugins, gs8, openssl etc.]"
• boot ok, login ok!
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could it be the update-process itself which is buggy - not a specific package...?

chears,

falk