(a year ago I wouldn’t even have had a clue what that headline could mean…)

Well, I’m a bit sad right now because Ubuntu let me down.

The kids computer is not always connected to the internet. So when I connected it the day before yesterday and saw the 300+ updates it wanted to install I decided to skip that on my asscrawling slow internet connection and upgrade to Hardy right away.

So the update manager starts and does his thing and then this appears on my screen:
Generating locales...
de_AT.UTF-8...


And the system hangs forever.
Damn.

Now there is a very extensive thread on the ubuntuforums about this and it mentions various workarounds. None of them worked for me when I found them, by that point I had already completely borked my system. So I popped in the xubuntu CD and reinstalled Gutsy.
Hail again for /home on it’s own partition, after recreating the users things came quickly back together. Always put /home on it’s own partition! It will save you one day! Trust me!

But, as I learned here, it looks like I could have avoided all that if I had only received the critical kernel patch that was released mid-August. Now I’m not much of a programmer but maybe the update manager should have a pre-upgrade check for level-three-critical-prevents-you-from-upgrading-if-you-don’t-have-them-kernel-patches to be installed before commencing the upgrade. Just a suggestion.

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