Comment 2 for bug 83629

I was also bitten by this bug when the Gutsy screen manager caused fglrx to hard-lock my PC upon trying to change the refresh rate, *when mkinitramfs was generating the initramfs*, leaving me with an unbootable system. No Joe Sixpack user could ever recover from such an arcane problem. The update of the in-place initramfs should be an *atomic operation*, i.e. move completed file into place, not wiping the existing one and creating a window of huge vulnerability (e.g. power cut during that time would nuke the system).