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oh my fucking lord @Bella Figura i lost all of Monday at work cos a linux upgrade broke my wifi and graphics drivers. i'd blacklisted the default graphics driver to make the nvidia one work, and while trying to fix the graphics driver i deleted the old one, ended up with no graphics driver and therefore a bricked machine. it wouldn't take me to the GRUB menu to allow me to log in in recovery mode. i had to put out a plea on facebook for someone with sysadmin knowledge to come and bring a bootable usb and fix it. thank fuck someone did.

anyway i feel better reading this cos its not just me that got fucked over by the latest ubuntu upgrade. never upgrading again!!
 
my (well my employers) computer is a bespoke bioinformatics rig and i'm pretty sure windows wouldn't allow me to do what i need to for my job. not even now they tagged on a bash terminal.
 
Hey!

Well my problem wasn't really Ubuntu after all, I think I added something pertaining to a different OS in the repository whilst fucking around, and the updates were for that. Hence the ensuing mess. Thankfully had a recent backup and USB key with Ubuntu on it, so all is well now.

I've been keeping Ubuntu itself up to date since, and no problems for me :)
 
ah ok, well i am going to leave my machine permanently unupdated now... even though a friend told me how to prevent future updates breaking thins in the same way i am too scared to trust his advice. i really need to get a bootable USB, i could actually make one now come to think of it. though last time my mate did a fuckton of deep sysadmin stuff that i have no interest in learning to get it working again.
 
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