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[LUG] Updates or no!

 

Can I share an experience regarding up-dates and Ubuntu Hardy 
My Daughter has an EEEPC and we have settled on Ubuntu Hardy as the
choice of OS.   It last week did some updates and has made it's self
"unable to mount" any usb device in normal user or using sudo

So after seeing the machine gathering dust on the shelf for a week I
asked if there was a problem and was told about the error. 

Looking at the Computer Section on the desktop each device gets listed
but when you want to use them you get the same message "unable to mount
wrong file type"!

So looking in the /etc/fstab I have two cd drives listed on /dev/sdc1
and /dev/sdc2 knowing that the EEEpc has no Cd drives commenting the
lines out gets me usb mounting back. Easy 

But what if I had not been around and asked the question?  My guess she
would have eventually gone and got another machine.


Why is it common for us to fall for the continual update regime?
I advise all Windoze users to Switch off updates for just this reason.
I don't update any in service system unless its to get something better
or something which wasn't achievable before.  mostly its done on a new
disk with the system copied overso when it all goes pare shaped I revert
to the origional and I 'am no worse off.

 Do we need a roll back button on Linux now?

Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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