Thank you Bruce. We miss your input and hope you and yours are staying
safe.
Rex
On 2/12/21 9:31 PM, HateNo Hama wrote:
Hi Rex. Just want you to know that even though I can't be there in person, I still really appreciate all the work you guys do to educate the public on Linux. The group has really grown over the years, and I still read every update. Sincerely, thank you!
Bruce
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 1:19 PM Rex Bouwense <majb@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:majb@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
This news has caused me to re-download the four of the six Ubuntu
ISOs that use Ubiquity as the installer. Better safe than sorry
even though I checked each after the download and all six booted.
If any of you downloaded 20.04.2 for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu
Budgie, or Ubuntu Mate, I would recommend that you re-download the
ISO. Since Kubuntu and Lubuntu use Calamares, they should not be
affected.
Rex
On 2/12/21 12:09 PM, Devi Garcia wrote:
Canonical has re-released the Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS desktop images
today due to an installation bug that could render OEM
installations unbootable. A couple of days ago, the company
behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution informed users on
Twitter that the ISO images of the Desktop flavor of its recently
released Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) are affected by a bug
causing OEM installations via the Ubiquity installer to fail to
boot due to missing kernel. As a reminder, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
comes with updated kernel and graphics stacks backported from the
more recent Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system
series. As such, this Focal Fossa point release is powered by the
Linux 5.8 kernel and Mesa 20.3 graphics stack. According to the
Launchpad entry of this bug, only certain machines were affected
and it happened when networking was enabled, which means that if
you did an offline installation everything worked fine. “Shortly
after the release of Ubuntu 20.04.2, on Thursday February 4 2021,
a regression was discovered which means that on certain systems
and under certain specific conditions the Ubuntu installer can
fail to install a Linux kernel. This renders the system unable to
boot,” said Canonical. This is another example why Canonical
needs to revamp its Ubiquity installer on Ubuntu Desktop images.
read more:
https://9to5linux.com/canonical-re-releases-ubuntu-20-04-2-lts-desktop-images-due-to-oem-install-bug
