Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[chris]

On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 17:41 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 22 May 2010 at 17:23, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Tony Pursell
> > <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > > Since I upgraded my desktop from Karmic to Lucid I cannot boot into Ubuntu.
> 
> /snip
> 
> > Is this not a repost?
> 
> Not really. Original post was to the ubuntu-uk list.  Tony Travis 
> suggested I also try this list as well.
> 
> 
> > 
> > My suggestion would be:
> > 
> > [1] Do a clean install, alongside if necessary. See if that works. If
> > it does, just bring across your /home directory.

What went wrong is the Ubuntu Culture.  Mark Shuttleworth insists that
they produce a "new" version every 6 months.
As a result, they don't triage fully, and there a a series of bugs
unfixed that go back to Warty.

such is the issue, that I have reverted to Debian stable.
Ubuntu is becoming a "uber geeks only" distribution

Cheers the kiwi