One more update:
Turns out rolling back to 9.04 doesn't help. Same problem with external
HD. Attempted fix led to same corruption, had to reinstall yet again.
Seriously considering abandoning Ubuntu since it seems to have someone
dropping some seriously screwed updates.
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WD Passport External
More developments:
I don't know what was in the latest sets of updates, but not only did I
lose the ability to make use of my external HD, but after discovering
that problem, I restarted my computer and I was not able to get my
desktop up. Instead I got the message "Could not update ICEauthority
Public bug reported:
I have a 300 GB WD Passport External HD, which always worked correctly
until I upgraded to 10.04. Now I cannot save or edit documents from my
HD and I cannot change the permissions. Please help. Nothing I have
looked at online has helped thus far.
** Affects: ubuntu
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** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35853372/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35853374/ExtensionSummary.txt
** Attachment added: "profiles.ini.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35853375/profiles
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
please see attached info gathered from my computer
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
