Comment 5 for bug 550905

Marking this bug invalid is to treat the symptom while disregarding the cause. That solves nothing. There is a problem here; I have no idea how many users are affected, but if it strikes a reviewer after Lucid is released, there is certain to be negative comment on Lucid. It is that risk which I am eager to avoid.

It is roughly three weeks ago that I did a first install of Lucid on this particular machine. Because the hard disc with the /home partition had had to be replaced (and the data later restored from backups), this was, in effect, a "first-time" install of Kubuntu.

Because of the length of time, I no longer recall how or when I manually installed linux-headers-2.6.32-nn-generic the first time. But I recall that jockey failed to install necessary packages and therefore failed to activate the proprietary video driver. To the best of my memory, this was at the time of initial install. However, it is unimportant whether it was at the time of initial install or after a minor kernel version upgrade.

At the time, I was also hit by a jockey-kde failure, which I reported and which was marked as a duplicate of Bug 451105 (on which you have also commented).

After running jockey, a user should not have to install manually neither linux-headers-generic nor linux-headers-2.6.nn-nn-generic. It is a bug that I had to do so. The bug needs to be fixed.

Perhaps this bug needs to be redirected to another package or perhaps another, rephrased, bug should be submitted. Please advise.