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[hamish <1327014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

er, seriously? the kernel and firefox don't fall under things people
might possibly need LTS for?

The linux-image-2.6.32-61-server package appears to contain a serious
regression affecting many people. this should be fixed or the buggy
package withdrawn.

"'supported' but stay away from certain kernel modules or kernel
features because they aren't", does not make a hell of a lot of sense or
inspire much confidence. and not all servers are strictly going to be
headless. Staying with the old+working kernel package long term is no
solution either.

It is completely understandable that a random end-user X11 app with a
popcon ranking of 20000 would not be at the top of the list for getting
updates in a server edition, but if the core of the server edition is
not actually going to be supported our migration strategy is suddenly
out the window and there's simply no reason for our institution, or any
other for that matter, to trust ubuntu for real LTS in future. which
kinda sucks, since our users like ubuntu.

at least the (non-lucid) thin clients still seem to be working with the
broken app servers. without knowing the cause I don't know if an end
user could accidentally/trivially trigger a system-wide DoS for all the
other users though.

</rant>


regards,
Hamish

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Title:
  Linux kernel 2.6.32-61 hangs gnome desktop on ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just did a regular update and the latest kernel would boot, but when logging into my gnome desktop the mouse
  cursor shows a sandbox and is inaccessible. Had to go back to 2.6.32-60.

  Ubuntu 2.6.32-60.122-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26

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