Comment 189 for bug 445852

I'd rather not join in with hysterical finger-pointing, but it's been a month and a half, people. The workaround in #147 (modified in #160 for working systems) could easily have been implemented as a script, packaged up, and pushed out via the software updater by now, and the fix could have been rolled into the Karmic .iso's. You have to realize just how critical this is: the only reason I even became aware of this problem was that when the SSD hung up during boot (as a result of this bug) my gnome-applets failed to load. For every affected user who is on launchpad following this bug, I would guess there have been at least 3 others who have just ignored the occasional glitches, thinking that it's nothing major.

How many drives have been destroyed in the month and a half since the workaround was published? Replacing an SSD in a netbook is an expensive, time consuming, and (if you do it yourself) warranty voiding operation.