Well, I give up. Apparently no one on the Ubuntu team views an upgrade process which scrambles users' computers to be a serious problem so I scrubbed the machine and did a fresh installation. Don't bother to post the normal "are you still having the problem you reported six months ago? can we close this bug?" questions.
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