Comments | diva_urd: Thanks for spoiling my day, automatic Ubuntu update!

diva_urd

Thanks for spoiling my day, automatic Ubuntu update!

Sep 29, 2008 17:42

Yeah, lately, the updates coming through the manager have broken more than they fixed, and today, they outdid themselves - they managed to completely break my wicd (which is my network manager). I couldn't uninstall the broken remnants, I couldn't reinstall the package... it was fucked up and I was ready to throw my laptop against the wall. However ( Read more... )

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frazzled_niya September 30 2008, 06:35:45 UTC

erg~......not cool

anonymous October 4 2008, 15:58:48 UTC

I agree - I have had similar problems with an only intermittently-working wicd 1.5.3, and it also makes me so angry that Ubuntu's automatic updates sometimes cause at least as many problems as they fix. For me, for now, the problem has been fixed by removing and reinstalling wicd, but we'll see how long that lasts...

anonymous October 7 2008, 00:06:08 UTC

Ubuntu was not the only distro affected by this. It looks as any debian base could be affected. However, your concern with the ubuntu updates is exactly why I dropped Ubuntu. When I found out how crippled and broken feisty was after it's release and remembering the same with previous releases that was it. I'm now in a NO *BUNTU ZONE.

diva_urd October 8 2008, 04:32:06 UTC

May I ask whether you have moved on to a more userfriendly Linux, then? I'm thinking of trying out other distros, but I've had very bad experiences with RedHat and SuSE. However, if there is a distro out there that is decently supported like Ubuntu (since I'm still a relative n00b - I've only been working with Linux for a year and am still learning stuff on a daily basis, so I still regularly have to look up stuff), but doesn't commit regular update idiocies, I'd love to know about it.