Ubuntu 9.10 - New ways to break things!

USEFUL SOLUTION IN THIS POST - REALLY EASY!! IT'S AFTER THE RANT!!!


Sorry I haven't had much to say of late.


Ubuntu 9.10 came out late last month and as the '.10' releases are usually a bit buggy I though it better to wait about , oh, a month for the nasties to be ironed out more or less so that the experience would be less painful than last time.

Last time it was like being ass-raped by a sexually frustrated silver-back gorilla with no lube. Not good, in other words.

This time it was like being gang raped by the same gorilla and his buddies who are into fisting.


Here's what broke:

• Video: Couldn't get past the text section of the boot sequence - screen was flickering enough to make an epileptic fit.
• NFS: All remote NFS mounts were rejected with an error
• Sound: No sound. No sound card detected.
• Video 2: Couldn't install the Nvidia specific drivers to use my super-dooper video card.
• Video 3: No playback of any video file.
• And I'm sure there is more that I didn't detect, but that lot was bad enough.

I spent a lot of time stuffing around with all kinds of interesting and complicated solutions, removing things, adding things, compiling from source.


And you know what fixed all of it?

sudo update-grub

THEN! choose "install package maintainer's version" and allow it to overwrite any customisations you have.

If you have customisations, back them up some how so you can reinsert them after the change.

Otherwise, taste sweet success. Install custom hardware drivers, listen to music, watch movies, enjoy your NFS mounts and be happy.

And go fist a gorilla.


Cheers!!