Comment 36 for bug 321176

I had the same problem upgrading to 9.04. The system crashed during the upgrade (twice!), but was far enough with upgrading the system just started normal. And after a "dpkg --configure -a" in the rescue mode, I thought all was done. But now alarm-clock started this bug after login. Not knowing what was causing the hang (i could go back to the other virtual terminals of course with ctrl-alt-Fn), I figured that the failed upgrade itself was the cause and had messed up my system. Thus I went through a backup restore process and trying the upgrade again (which failed again btw). It then finally dawned me it was something that was crashing the system during the gnome startup of the panel (alarm-clock was autostarted). And finally, about 4 hours later i found about the alarm-clock and how I could remove the applet, hidden in the .gconf/apps/panel/applets/ directory. Now my system works great, but alarm-clock is gone from my system.

I don't know which idiot thought this could be released in 9.04, but it should have been disabled or have given a warning during the upgrade!! It irritates me that this was known for months and nobody did anything to alleviate this bug. That's what the whole unstable testing release cycle is for: to make sure these bugs are not affecting normal users.
Sorry for the bashing, but this really bugged me.