On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 20:48 +0000, humufr wrote: > Scott I am sorry but my brother in law do have this problem and I did > the install when I gave him the laptop and I KNOW that I just did a > basic installation of hardy. After he did, before asking me or I would > have stop him, did the upgrade to intrepid (he doesn't know anything > about OS so he didn't touch anything) and after I did the last upgrade > and I didn't have this message but even if would have it I always ask to > install the maintener versions. So your two reasons which basically said > that the user is the only responsible of this problem and that ubuntu > doesn't have any responsabilities is a little bit exagerated for my > point of view. I cannot access through ssh to this computer anymore, > thanks to this bug, so my brother in law which live 3000 km away from me > will have a risky computer for months (no possibility to install any > upgrade). He is not able to do anything in the system and he is scared > to messed up things. > There is no evidence that this problem has *ever* been caused by anything other than modifying system files in /etc - combined with not responding to conffile upgrade issues.
The most common "modification" appears to be trying to enable /proc/bus/usb, assumedly for software the user wants - various forum posts on the Internet wrongly recommend this. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com -- update manager "Error failed to fork pty" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
