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Bug #79102
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Comment 1 for bug 79102

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote on 2007-01-14:

Which, if any, of these bugs are regressions from Edgy?

1) Graphics corruption is usually related to hardware. Could you please provide some information about your hardware?

2) There is currently a major bug in the partitioning, bug 76796, though I think that bug may be related to automatic partitioning, and therefore not relevant to you.

3) That seems to be a bug in gdm. Could you please check for another bug to add information to at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bugs The black line may be hardware again.

4) A screenshot would be very useful here. If you could please attach one, that would be great. That would also help out for #3 too.

5) I'm not sure where to point you on this one.

6) There is currently massive breakage in the feisty repos because of porting python 2.4->2.5 I wouldn't recommend upgrading until this becomes less of a problem. You can monitor the situation at irc.freenode.net #ubuntu+1 , specifically the channel message.

I'm sorry there hasn't been much improvement in this area for you. The transition from herd 1 to herd 2 is more about getting the new features into the repos than the bugfixing aspect of the release. Unfortunately, there are just not enough developers to do both! Bug reports such as yours ARE valued, so please continue filing them.

One thing that may get these fixed faster is to file each bug individually. It's rather difficult to work with multibug reports such as this one just because of the way bugtracking systems are set up. Each bug is assigned a package it affects, and importance/status information. But when there are multiple independent problems, it becomes difficult to make use of these fields for the bug.

I would recommend that you check each of these bugs individually and then file them separately. That would help the developers out immensely. Thanks!

PS-please make sure to follow up on bugs once you file them. Check bug 67274! I would recommend registering your email address with launchpad so you can be notified of updates to bugs.

Which, if any, of these bugs are regressions from Edgy?

1) Graphics corruption is usually related to hardware.  Could you please provide some information about your hardware?

2) There is currently a major bug in the partitioning, bug 76796, though I think that bug may be related to automatic partitioning, and therefore not relevant to you.

3) That seems to be a bug in gdm.  Could you please check for another bug to add information to at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bugs  The black line may be hardware again.

4) A screenshot would be very useful here.  If you could please attach one, that would be great.  That would also help out for #3 too.

5) I'm not sure where to point you on this one.

6) There is currently massive breakage in the feisty repos because of porting python 2.4->2.5  I wouldn't recommend upgrading until this becomes less of a problem.  You can monitor the situation at irc.freenode.net #ubuntu+1 , specifically the channel message.

I'm sorry there hasn't been much improvement in this area for you.  The transition from herd 1 to herd 2 is more about getting the new features into the repos than the bugfixing aspect of the release.  Unfortunately, there are just not enough developers to do both!  Bug reports such as yours ARE valued, so please continue filing them.

One thing that may get these fixed faster is to file each bug individually.  It's rather difficult to work with multibug reports such as this one just because of the way bugtracking systems are set up.  Each bug is assigned a package it affects, and importance/status information.  But when there are multiple independent problems, it becomes difficult to make use of these fields for the bug.

I would recommend that you check each of these bugs individually and then file them separately.  That would help the developers out immensely.  Thanks!

PS-please make sure to follow up on bugs once you file them.  Check bug 67274!  I would recommend registering your email address with launchpad so you can be notified of updates to bugs.