Comment 29 for bug 298483

Bryce Harrington a écrit ce qui suit, le 05/02/09 06:19 :
> Dominique, upstream would like you to test against the current (2.6.x)
> driver. The best way to test this is to download an ISO image of
> jaunty, which you can do at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/,
> burn to CD, boot, and reproduce the issue.
Bryce, you seem to overlook the fact that this bug is absolutely
unpredictable and I can not figure out how to "reproduce the issue". I
play Klondike about everyday day and it freezes only about once a month
(since a few month, this seems to be one more 8.10 regression, like
Bluetooth). I have no idea of something special I would be doing when it
freezes. The only thing I can say is that as far as I remember it
happens only while dragging a card, but I would not call dragging a card
"special" in a card game. To give you an order of magnitude: dragging a
card causes freezing once in nearly ten thousand dragged cards. I
strongly believe that things do not happen without a cause, but here the
cause is hard to figure. It must be a queer combination of particular
circumstances, dragging a card at a particular state of the whole system.

This being so, boot a Jaunty CD and "reproduce the issue" would mean
working all the time on a live Jaunty CD for weeks or months. (Mind the
fact that with an unpredictable bug of a monthly mean frequency, you
have to wait many months to conclude that the bug is corrected.) It
would be more realistic to install Jaunty for good.

Well, after all, this is not impossible. This is a home computer, not a
professional computer. I do a lot of things on this computer that I do
not want to loose but I rsync -u everything new every day on a USB stick
(to have it at work in my pocket just in case I need something there
too). My mail is in IMAP thus never lost. OK, when I think of it I could
consider installing Jaunty if you answer this question: how buggy is
Jaunty in the present state? is it really a pain working with it? is it
completely unusable at times? how would you compare it with Debian
testing (that some people do use)? is it just a matter of a minor bug
moderately annoying once in a while? I do not ask you to decide for me.
You give me your evaluation of the present buggyness or stability of
Jaunty. I understand that it is my responsibility to appreciate your
answer and to decide, or not, to test Jaunty (glad if this can help) and
I promise not to complain if I do.