Adventures in Karmic
I rebooted my laptop today, to effect the latest updates to Karmic. Well, actually, that was a side effect. I had to reboot because my Intel i965 hung (again). I’ve written a watchdog script which detects this condition and attempts to gather debug information, but it hung trying to read some files in /proc/dri.
After the reboot, new problems so far include:
* My keymap is set to USA at the gdm greeter (rather than USA/dvorak as was correctly done before): bug 401047 (hey, we’ve passed bug 400000 recently)
* I found myself unable to launch any X applications from a terminal,
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