On 9/16/09, Jim March <
1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some auto-updates broke x bigtime. Updates that repair the situation
> are in the pipeline now and there's pages and pages of screaming going
> on in ubuntuforums.org.
>
> So I wrote an "unborking guide" with some humor thrown in:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1267657
Ah, thanks Jim!
Happened to me also!
> To the tune of "American Pie":
>
> ---
>
> A long, long time ago
> Just last night in fact,
> How my compiz desktop made me smile
> And I knew if I had my way
> That I could make Steve Balmer pray
> And, maybe, he'd go FOSS, for just a while.
> But today's update made me freak
> As X would die with a horrid shriek
> Bad news on the desktop;
> My computer was a doorstop
> I couldn't figure out what died
> Or why my graphics card felt fried,
> As if the update process lied,
> The day Ubuuuuuuuuntu died.
> So bye, bye to my work for the day,
> Tried some hashes and some thrashes
> but the boot was just nay
> And ubuntuforum was all choked up and gray
> singing "this has gotta be the day Karmic died"
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