Comment 4 for bug 337246

If cases regularly 'fall into the cracks' then there must be a bigger inherent problem in the processes used, regardless of any minor technical issues like the "meta"-designation.

Anyway, no problem - 'you get what you pay for'! ;-P

The vanilla kernel package and matching e2fsprogs sounds great. Are there other low level utilities that should be matched up to the new kernel before I install, like for instance coreutils and the initramfs generator?

Is there a corresponding source .deb for the vanilla kernel, so I can apply Eric's depth-fix patch on top, before make and make install?

Will the updated e2fsprogs and e2fslibs .debs automatically be overwritten with packages from the mainline repository, once mainline catches up to Jaunty versions and beyond?

And, going to a slightly larger scope, is there an Ubuntu package for open-vm-tools, so I can install new kernels (and enable auto-update on servers for that matter!) without the network connection breaking, performance dropping etc due to missing net/block drivers?