Comment 12 for bug 797544

This "feature" makes no sense to me. I've been using Linux on servers since Slackware came on a stack of floppies. Any sysadmin worth their salary will tell you it's an extremely bad decision to let the server hang if it was improperly shut down. I want my servers to come back online after an issue, why are you keeping them offline?

One of my 12.04 servers is crashing regularly due to a 3.2 kernel bug. EVERY SINGLE TIME someone needs to walk all the way there and hit the reset button. Lost power once - same thing, Ubuntu won't come up; but Windows did; Red Hat did. This is revolting.

Please, please, please, remove this caricature of a "feature" from a distribution meant for servers. Please ask experienced sysadmins before making such changes. A server should come up ALL BY ITSELF whenever possible. Do not prevent it from doing so.

I will update the kernel to a non-buggy version and reconfigure grub to not hang anymore, but meanwhile this distribution is installed on numerous of servers around the world and causes unnecessary downtime because of a nonsensical decision in a package somewhere. :(

Ubuntu team, you have really let the ball drop on this one.