I got bitten by this bug too, and I agree that it's way more than Priority: Normal. I'm on a Dell Precision Workstation 220 - which is a desktop.
I have an Ubuntu system that started out in 2004 as a 4.10 install, and has been upgraded without problems through every release since then. I used the Update Manager to upgrade to 6.06, and the install caused the machine to hang totally while configuring pcmcia-cs. (More specifically, I couldn't switch to the terminal window I already had open, ctrl-alt- backspace did nothing, and ctrl-alt-delete did nothing. The computer was sufficiently hung that pressing caps lock would no longer toggle the indicator light for that key.) After giving it 30 minutes, to ensure it wasn't just a slow response, I power cycled the machine, and again it hung on the Starting PCMCIA Services step. Rebooting in Recovery Mode has the same problem. So now my box is non-bootable, I have an OS upgrade that got interrupted in medias res, and I have no pre-update backup. (I know, shame on me, but the 4.10->5.04->5.10 upgrades all went so smoothly, I stopped bothering.) I will post further information as I deal with troubleshooting this, but meanwhile, I have the following suggestion: Make the pcmcia-cs package optional (i.e., don't make ubuntu-desktop depend on it) until this bug is ironed out. At least that will keep the upgrade process from turning people's boxes into doorstops. -- Hard Crash During pcmcia-cs Installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/35140 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
