Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu jaunty

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu jaunty
2009/2/24 Alan Pope <alan@???>:
> 2009/2/24 James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???>:
>> Those thinking of giving jaunty a try early, I would suggest not.
>> I tried and it results in a failure to boot due to endless udev loop.
>> I had to boot to a recovery CD and edit udev files just to get it to
>> boot. The edit lets the thing boot, but is very much "not the right
>> solution" sort of fix.
>>
>
> It is of course not released and not ready, indeed our friendly bot says:-
>
> "Jaunty Jackalope is the code for Ubuntu 9.04, due April 2009 - Lots
> of breakage between now and April - please join #ubuntu+1 (on
> freenode) for discussion and support".
>
> That said I have it running on my daily use laptop.
>
> Which CD did you try to install from? An alpha or a daily image? Or
> did you try an in place upgrade?
>


Further to this, it's probably this known bug:-

http://launchpad.net/bugs/332270

Cheers,
Al.