Sorry for the delay, I had extreme priority items to deal with. I upgraded my
machine to 8.04. There were problems
with packages, but after futzing around I got it. (All the package error stuff
should not be done by me on the command line,
I would think it should be done in the background.)
Brian:
Actually they do have dates in the grey heading for the comment box is
says wrote X hours ago or wrote on 2007-12-04 if it is more than a
day old.
Yes, I saw that. At that point I didn't know that it would switch to
date format.
I find date format more useful. This is 'cutsie'.
Brian: Duh, I should have seen the date. It's pretty well hidden. But the
individual comments
don't have dates!
I started my box, hybernated and started again. The hybernation powered off
and then hung on powerup, as before. I held the power button down for a few
seconds
and then powered
Brian: You're welcome. I tried it now and as before it powered down nicely.
On reboot it did the bios thing and then there was a one line error across the
top of the screen.
I didn't catch all of it but it had:
... error creating sysfs ...
I'm not sure it was 'sysfs', but it was something
Brian:
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago
I noticed that there is no date on the bug page or any of the comments.
The actual date/time of the comments would help people to know how long
ago something was said.
Public bug reported:
I tried hybernation on Ubuntu. It shut down my system.
I then powered up. During reboot there were error messages flying
by -couldn't read them. Finally it froze at the Ubuntu splash page.
But there was a white strip across the page horizontally and the word
Ubuntu was
