Comment 132 for bug 445852

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 445852] Re: devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:44 +0000, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> UNFORTUNATELY the workaround is not a good idea for a NEW installation
> on my netbook. I was able to edit /lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-
> disks.rules before the installer rebooted into the new system, but as
> soon as the system installed the first set of critical and recommended
> updates, the filesystem was thoroughly trashed before update-manager had
> even finished.
>
Then re-apply the change before rebooting after those updates.

You can use dpkg-divert as described above in the bug comments to ensure
that updates do not affect this file - but then you won't get the proper
fix later and may indeed cause yourself future bugs down the line.

Scott
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