The day that Ubuntu died

My [tag]Ubuntu[/tag] died yesterday. I updated the system through the Ubuntu Update Manager, everything went smoothly, no error messages whatsoever. After a reboot, I logged and BAM, no aplication worked in [tag]Gnome[/tag]. Not a single one. All the launchers were dead. After a few log views and reboots I came across… nothing. There was no aparent reason for that behaviour…

I wanted to install [tag]Solaris[/tag] 10 for some time and this was a good time like any other. I did the default install, but had no time to play with it. Meanwhile, I came across this distribution based on [tag]OpenSolaris[/tag] and [tag]Debian[/tag] named [tag]Nexenta OS[/tag]. It uses the OpenSolaris Kernel, and Debian as the “glue”. It contains Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP, Firefox, Evolution, software update manager, Synaptic package manager, Gaim Instant Messenger, Abiword, administration and development utilities, editors, graphics, GNOME, interpreters, libraries and many others, the usual you can find in a [tag]Linux[/tag] distribution.

I downloaded the install cd but it only suports IDE HDs… my test box has 2 SCSI drives so, no Nexenta OS for me (though I’m downloading the live cd as we speak 😛 ).

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  • Rui Carmo says:

    Yep, that pretty much sums up what happens to most of my Ubuntu installs (except the VMs I use to test server configs, which have no graphical UI)…

  • Gothic says:

    I think a friend mine has the same problem.. the update change the owner and the group of file .ICEauthority in your home. Just ” chown user.user .ICEauthority ” and back to normal… I didn’t have any problem like that yet! I only use stable repositories…

    Ubuntu rulez! I’m just waiting for breezy backports working to update my k7 linux kernel, because 2.6.12 has a bug with last java (jre) version.. can’t kill it sometimes.

  • Odrakir says:

    Humm… I’ll try that next time I install Ubuntu 🙂 Thanks

  • Nightwhisper says:

    Hello!
    I had a similar problem today, sadly the updater tryed to change my kernel-something and it simply burned up half of my system. Gladly I had the direct link on the old on grub so, phew, everything is back to normality!

    I love ubuntu, sometimes the updater do something weird… but never had any other problem!

    *waves*

  • Marc says:

    My update from Breezy Badger to Dapper Drake went very smoothly. And my system runs noticeably faster now.

  • Rui Moura says:

    My updateted Ubuntu got fuc#$d up on the GDM … But some workaround and back to business