Fanboy.
I tried to make a live usb.
Now I have a bricked usb-stick.
Thanks Ubuntu ! *sarcasm*
I needed to clone the hard drive in my computer. So I booted the Ubuntu live DVD, opened up a terminal, and launched a dd to clone the drive. I wouldn’t be needing the computer for several hours, so it was the perfect opportunity. I came back several hours later, and Ubuntu had PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. It saw that there was all this disk IO going on, so it just decided to PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. Ubuntu knows that sleep fails 99.9% of the time. I have no idea whether the clone had completed before the stupid idiot Ubuntu people PUT THE COMPUTER ASLEEP WHILE IT WAS BUSY DOING WORK. So I have to find another 3 hour period of time to do the clone again. You know, it’s not about whether Ubuntu is free or not. It about that the people who work on it are so cripplingly stupid. They could run down one of my family members, or blow up their neighborhood because they deliberately left the gas on. They are the single stupidest single congregation of people the earth has ever known.
So let’s say you tried, like a genius, to upgrade to 16.04, because you were having USB problems that may and may not be related to the upgrade to 14.04 that puked all over itself and that you went in and spent several hours fixing by hand. And that has of course failed even more spectacularly, leaving you with a machine that does boot, but has no networking and package dependency hell that nothing will fix and a bunch of corrupted packages and and and.
So now you’ve made a live DVD-ROM and started the “reinstall” operation from that, because hey, maybe that’ll work, and it’ll try to preserve your app configuration and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA <cries>
First thing it does: Scans your system partition to see what apps might be there that it should keep, then deletes all the OS files so it can do a clean reinstall. Cool.
Second thing it does: Unmounts your system partition.
Third thing it does: Tries to remount your system partition that it just unmounted. Assumes said system partition (which, I remind you, it had just had mounted and working) is ext2, rather than the ext4 it actually is, go “oh wow hey this isn’t ext2 fuck if I know” and crap out, leaving you with a now utterly unbootable, no-OS non-install, a need to hard-reboot the machine, and a need to rebuild the hard drive.
Who do I need to kill to get some killing around here?
Time to “upgrade” my server to 15.10.
Computer no longer boots.
Drives have different ids for no reason.
The usual.
Finally forced to “upgrade” to 14.04
- Upgrader tool crapped the bed because my internet connection went down for 1 minute.
- Upgrader tool halted repeatedly, asking me if I want to overwrite my customized config files with default maintainer ones. No dipshit, merge the changes together. If you can’t figure out how, show me a 3-way merge with a nice GUI so I can decide which changes I want to keep. And DON’T INTERRUPT THE INSTALLATION FOR THIS AND SIT THERE DOING NOTHING FOR HOURS. Ask at the end of the upgrade.
- Gnome panel no longer exists. Just windows with no desktop. Have to run gnome-panel by hand?
- VNC stopped working, none of the proposed solutions work.


