Comment 39 for bug 107188

I have a couple Kubuntu machines in our office to waiting to be upgraded, but I am putting that on hold for now. I can't risk it - apparently here some people's machines were hosed after the crash (shouldn't there be something on the main site, to warn people temporarily against upgrading). It is an unpleasant situation.

Is there any information available on what causes this, or workarounds ?

For example, won't it be better to use the "old" way of upgrading with "aptitude dist-upgrade" - that has never failed me before. I would be very surprised if it crashed.