Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Fred James wrote: > > >> Someone else has responded with suggestion(s) to help ... my (OT) 2 cents >> is to marvel at the number of people who (whether running MS, Linux, OSX, >> UNIX, or what have you) will apply patches/updates/upgrades, untested, to >> a critical machine/OS/application. We all (including me) do it, but it >> still amazes me. >> > > I don't know that's the problem in this case. Speaking only from my own > experience with Slackware, patches are well tested before being set free in > the wild. > > What might have happened to the originator of this thread bit me when > upgrading a laptop running xubuntu from 10.04 to 11.10, with a stop at > 11.04. The first distribution upgrade worked fine, but during the second > upgrade the screensaver was activated as stuff chruned away in the > background, and would not clear when requested to do so. Turns our there is > some bug in one of the distribution versions that causes the screensaver to > remain. The only solution was to shut down the machine. This meant a > brand-new installation from the 11.10 disk. Serious PITA. > > Rich > And with that, I rest my case Regards Fred James
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