Comment 25 for bug 30333

Why do developers prefer to close their eyes on a bug like this rather than face it? Everyone who has upgraded from Breezy to Dapper find a myriad of bugs to deal with, including me. Myself, I cannot login anymore as a normal user, but only if I login as root from kdm/gdm (modfied the config to be able to do so). The funny thing, is that with kernel 2.6.12 from breezy I can login fine most of the time, but then I do not have sound working, even though the modules are installed and before the upgrade it worked. As for the bug mentioned here, I have heard a lot of people claiming that initrds are broken, and myself can confirm this. I cannot boot with 2.6.15, unless I create a new initrd with yaird instead of mkinitrd.

Question: Do I need an initrd if my modules required for booting are included in the kernel?