> Not just that the wiki would seem to be not quite right, but also that > some well-understood convention is needed, for use when one person > justifiably assigns a bug to another.
The convention is already well understood among Ubuntu developers... > So more than a month was wasted, when someone productive could have > stepped forward. That's not really anything that can be solved by policy or by technical means. And frankly, if this went unnoticed for a month, it's not likely that someone was going to step up to work on it during that period anyway. > PS: Great to see this Pentium-M stuff getting some love at last. I know > that many devs with screaming fast i7 kit think it's a non-issue, too > old to worry about, affects a tiny minority. Just to be clear, nothing we're doing here is going to change the compatibility of Ubuntu 14.04 with non-PAE systems; only to stop users from upgrading and accidentally winding up with a broken system post-upgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1160346 Title: do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 on Pentium-M fails, breaks system without any warning (This kernel does not support a non-PAE CPU) Status in Ubuntu Release Upgrader: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Attempting to upgrade from Precise with a non-PAE kernel will result in a failed upgrade. do-release-upgrade should check whether the user is using a non-PAE kernel and refuse to run, rather than upgrading to a broken system with no installed kernel. After downloading 1.5GB+ of data and over 1000 new packages, the upgrade will eventually report failure. Looking through the logs there is no kernel installed because of the error "This kernel does not support a non-PAE CPU.": Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic.^M Unpacking linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic (from .../linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic_3.5.0-26.42_i386.deb) ...^M This kernel does not support a non-PAE CPU.^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic_3.5.0-26.42_i386.deb (--unpack):^M subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1^M No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Related bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/897786 Kernel is dropping non-PAE flavour https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1068862 upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 on a sans-pae CPU leaves kernel broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1160346/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
