Comment 67 for bug 428619

This bug is listed as a duplicate of a different bug report that more accurately described the symptoms that I am seeing. In my machines. What I see is total sound failure (apart from a few intermittent clicks at boot time) on machines that worked fine with 9.04. That includes three machines from two different makers, Lenovo and Sharp. Actually, it might be three makers, since one of the machines is old enough that it is probably an IBM. I've tried upgrades, clean installs, running live from the CD, and also from VMware Player. Most of the machines are fairly new.

Excuse me, but this is a massive failure. Ubuntu needs to do much better regression testing. I like Ubuntu, but it is no longer an OS that I can recommend to anyone. Off topic, but I think the main problem with Ubuntu is now the broken economic model that is driving the adoption of features without adequate testing, while at the same time leaving old bugs open, sometimes for years... (I've already suggested an alternative funding mechanism, but never detected any interest at the Ubuntu end...) Unless these massive show-stopping problems are fixed, Ubuntu is going to fail.