[Gllug] Ubuntu, Fedora pains

[Richard Huxton]

Matthew King wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev at archonet.com> writes:
> 
>> Foolishly, I upgraded my laptop+external monitor setup from the 
>> increasingly ancient Debian Etch which I had working reasonably well to 
>> Ubuntu 8.10
>>
>> OS woes snipped...
>>
>> You have to recompile glibc to fix this. For a bug reported four months 
>> ago. <sigh>
> 
> Sounds like time to roll back to your etch backup and dist-upgrade to lenny.

Indeed: Thou shall not stray from the path of debian stable*

I was too easily tempted by those other distributions' sweet words and 
shiny baubles. Always been a sucker for shiny things.

* Except for a couple of packages from backports, cpan and compiling 
PostgreSQL from source.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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