In Gutsy 7.10, this also occurs. To see what happens. start Adept Manager. Find usbmgr and request install. At the top, click Preview Changes. You'll see some 45 packages that will be !!REMOVED!! upon installation of usbmgr package. This includes linux kernel images and Ubuntu supplied Linux modules.
After installing usbmgr, your machine will not boot as the kernel vmz has been removed. Grub reports a filenot found -15 error (my recollection). At that point, you must reinstall which I just finished doing. -- Installing "usbmgr" made Synaptic destroy my iinstallation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86139 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs