Solved Issue installing Korora
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What we (I) know....
- LTS has massive stability issues to the point of being useless.
- Canonical acknowledged the stability issues and that it made the product useless.
- Canonical acknowledged the support agreement.
- Canonical stated that the support agreement required that LTS be abandoned and the current release be used to continue support on an issue of that magnitude.
- No dissenting example has ever been produced in years of discussing this issue.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
What we have is very little evidence. What we have accumulated so far is....
One extremely powerful and important anecdote that if true (I was there, it's pretty reliable) is enormously significant to the point, to me, of being enough alone to either make the product garbage or the support issue qualify as "unsupported" regardless of support provided (it's the case paid for.)
And nothing but heresay to the contrary. Not a single example of contrary evidence, just assumption.
While one anecdotal case is just one case, it's also the ONLY case. Do you see the problem there?
And my point is, it's a giant case that someone else would have encountered at the time. You weren't the only company running Ubuntu. If this would have happened, everyone would know about it.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
You have no evidence either. It's just you saying something.
Right. Your entire case rests on calling me a liar. You won't even state that you have information that I'm lying, just that you won't accept what I say because you think it's a lie.
That's fine, but that's your entire case.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
You have no evidence either. It's just you saying something.
Right. Your entire case rests on calling me a liar. You won't even state that you have information that I'm lying, just that you won't accept what I say because you think it's a lie.
That's fine, but that's your entire case.
No one is calling you a liar. But I have seen you misread enough posts to know it's a viable possibility that the information was misunderstood somewhere.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
And my point is, it's a giant case that someone else would have encountered at the time. You weren't the only company running Ubuntu. If this would have happened, everyone would know about it.
They did. Canonical had already found the issue with other customers, and their fix was to have them all update. And they all did or else lived with the issue (not all companies were impacted to the same degree, obviously.)
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare. That's a false assumption. It was enough that they knew and had addressed it. It was affecting very few customers and only high performance ones. Most customers didn't pay for support so just had to update silently. Those that paid for support were all told, presumably, the same thing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
You have no evidence either. It's just you saying something.
Right. Your entire case rests on calling me a liar. You won't even state that you have information that I'm lying, just that you won't accept what I say because you think it's a lie.
That's fine, but that's your entire case.
No one is calling you a liar. But I have seen you misread enough posts to know it's a viable possibility that the information was misunderstood somewhere.
Of course, although I'm pretty shocked that the degree to which I've called this to Ubuntu's attention publicly and talked to companies about this that neither the vendor nor no IT pro nor no company has ever stated that this was questionable. I've never been presented with even the feeblest example of it not being true, not once. And you know how often I talk about it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Canonical stated that the support agreement required that LTS be abandoned and the current release be used to continue support on an issue of that magnitude.
See this is the issue. What terms did you sign that wouldn't allow this to be grounds for court?
Somehow you signed terms for support, but they are telling you to use a product that they don't even actually support?
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
Well, it would be...
- People who encountered the issue....
- Over and over again, some people only got it once in a while...
- Who had enough trained staff to identify the race condition...
- Who had paid Canonical support...
- Who ran Ubuntu in production....
- Who bothered to call Canonical about it....
- And then everyone put the pieces together.
Even when it happened, it took a bit to identify it. But Canonical knew about the issue. That was public. ANd it was addressed. But not addressed in LTS.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
You have no evidence either. It's just you saying something.
Right. Your entire case rests on calling me a liar. You won't even state that you have information that I'm lying, just that you won't accept what I say because you think it's a lie.
That's fine, but that's your entire case.
No one is calling you a liar. But I have seen you misread enough posts to know it's a viable possibility that the information was misunderstood somewhere.
Of course, although I'm pretty shocked that the degree to which I've called this to Ubuntu's attention publicly and talked to companies about this that neither the vendor nor no IT pro nor no company has ever stated that this was questionable. I've never been presented with even the feeblest example of it not being true, not once. And you know how often I talk about it.
I think they probably just didn't want to get into the discussion we are in. I have those moments.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
Well, it would be...
- People who encountered the issue....
- Over and over again, some people only got it once in a while...
- Who had enough trained staff to identify the race condition...
- Who had paid Canonical support...
- Who ran Ubuntu in production....
- Who bothered to call Canonical about it....
- And then everyone put the pieces together.
Even when it happened, it took a bit to identify it. But Canonical knew about the issue. That was public. ANd it was addressed. But not addressed in LTS.
Which release?
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Canonical stated that the support agreement required that LTS be abandoned and the current release be used to continue support on an issue of that magnitude.
See this is the issue. What terms did you sign that wouldn't allow this to be grounds for court?
Somehow you signed terms for support, but they are telling you to use a product that they don't even actually support?
This assumes a few things...
- That the terms actually stated that LTS would get the support and that updating was not necessary. Canonical claimed that this is not what the support agreement stated.
- That an investment bank would be willing to go to court and expose a race condition on their system which would cost them billions in client confidence.
You forget that banks can't go public with this stuff. Lots of companies cannot. So what seems obvious about a legal matter, is not really that obvious. Did Canonical play that card? Unlikely. But it worked out in their favour.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
Well, it would be...
- People who encountered the issue....
- Over and over again, some people only got it once in a while...
- Who had enough trained staff to identify the race condition...
- Who had paid Canonical support...
- Who ran Ubuntu in production....
- Who bothered to call Canonical about it....
- And then everyone put the pieces together.
Even when it happened, it took a bit to identify it. But Canonical knew about the issue. That was public. ANd it was addressed. But not addressed in LTS.
Which release?
10.04 LTS had the bug. I can't remember if the fix was in 10.10 or in 11.04. But it was fixed in a non-LTS release before 12.04.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
Well, it would be...
- People who encountered the issue....
- Over and over again, some people only got it once in a while...
- Who had enough trained staff to identify the race condition...
- Who had paid Canonical support...
- Who ran Ubuntu in production....
- Who bothered to call Canonical about it....
- And then everyone put the pieces together.
Even when it happened, it took a bit to identify it. But Canonical knew about the issue. That was public. ANd it was addressed. But not addressed in LTS.
Which release?
10.04 LTS had the bug. I can't remember if the fix was in 10.10 or in 11.04. But it was fixed in a non-LTS release before 12.04.
Right. So much has changed since then. That was in the weird Netbook edition days. After 12.04 things have really changed. I think saying a company continues to not support something that they claim to support even after they've changed most of their policies is ridiculous.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
I think they probably just didn't want to get into the discussion we are in. I have those moments.
That's not a reasonable excuse for them. The issue that I have is 100% valid, and Canonical themselves were open that the issue existed and the support issues. Given that the vendor agreed in private and has never claimed otherwise in public, we are purely have a discussion of "real world example" vs. "public impression." But the public impression is not being promoted by Canonical anywhere of which I am aware.
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@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
@stacksofplates said in Issue installing Korora:
@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Everyone would NOT know about it, race conditions were rare.
Obviously I meant everyone who encountered the issue. Not everyone everywhere.
Well, it would be...
- People who encountered the issue....
- Over and over again, some people only got it once in a while...
- Who had enough trained staff to identify the race condition...
- Who had paid Canonical support...
- Who ran Ubuntu in production....
- Who bothered to call Canonical about it....
- And then everyone put the pieces together.
Even when it happened, it took a bit to identify it. But Canonical knew about the issue. That was public. ANd it was addressed. But not addressed in LTS.
Which release?
10.04 LTS had the bug. I can't remember if the fix was in 10.10 or in 11.04. But it was fixed in a non-LTS release before 12.04.
Right. So much has changed since then. That was in the weird Netbook edition days. After 12.04 things have really changed. I think saying a company continues to not support something that they claim to support even after they've changed most of their policies is ridiculous.
Do they claim to support? That's where we disagree. I'm not calling Canonical a liar, I think that people make bad assumptions.
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Let me ask this a totally different way....
- What makes you believe that LTS receives "full" support, meaning the kind of support we expect from RHEL, for stability issues on Ubuntu LTS? Has Canonical ever promised you this support? AFAIK, they have never promised it to me.
- I have no reason to believe that the agreement that we had with Canonical was not honoured. The belief was that we had just assumed that LTS was going to get full support, but that was not what the agreement said. Bad assumptions.
- I've never been upset with Canonical about this. AFAIK this is just a mistake in the community with lots of customers and not even customers passing bad info around amongst themselves with Canonical not in the picture at all.
- Looking up the support options, I don't see anything from Canonical publicly to suggest that LTS gets special support.
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LTS is an abbreviation for “Long Term Support”.
We produce a new Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server release every six months. That means you'll always have the latest and greatest applications that the open source world has to offer. Ubuntu is designed with security in mind. You get free security updates for at least 9 months on the desktop and server.
A new LTS version is released every two years. In previous releases, a Long Term Support (LTS) version had three years support on Ubuntu (Desktop) and five years on Ubuntu Server. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, both versions received five years support. There is no extra fee for the LTS version; we make our very best work available to everyone on the same free terms. Upgrades to new versions of Ubuntu are and always will be free of charge.
The LTS designation applies only to specific subsets of the Ubuntu archive. The LTS may not apply to all flavours and remixes of Ubuntu. For example, for 8.04 LTS, Kubuntu chose to move to KDE 4.0 and didn't issue an LTS release. In 10.04, the Netbook Edition was not an LTS. The project will decide which flavours will be LTS and the support duration for each, early in the LTS development cycle.
To see the latest information on releases, please look at Ubuntu release end of life page on www.ubuntu.com
Release Plan Details
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We start stabilising the release early by significantly limiting the number of new features. We will choose which features we package into the LTS release, versus which ones we leave out and allow for users to optionally download and use from a separate archive.
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Avoid structural changes as far as possible, such as changing the default set of applications, lots of library transitions, or system layer changes (example: introducing KMS or hal → DeviceKit would not have been appropriate changes in a LTS).
Furthermore, we define the LTS to be:
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Enterprise Focused: We are targeting server and multiple desktop installations, where the average user is moderately risk averse.
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Compatible with New Hardware: We will make point releases throughout the development cycle to provide functional support for new server and desktop hardware.
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More Tested: We will shorten the development window and extend the Beta cycle to allow for more testing and bug fixing
and clearly state that it is not:
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A Feature-Based Release: We will focus on hardening functionality of existing features, versus introducing new ones1, except for in the areas of Online Services and Desktop Experience2.
- Exceptions for priority projects will be documented.
- Because these two areas of development are relatively new, they still require new features to satisfy the original reasons for their creation
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Cutting Edge: Starting with the 14.04 LTS development cycle, automatic full package import is performed from Debian unstable1
- This is due to deploying ProposedMigration in the Ubuntu archive.
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In years of looking at this and discussing this, no one has ever produced anything that suggests that Canonical claims that there is full support for LTS. I truly believe that this is just about educating the public about what LTS really means to Canonical. I think this is about mistaken public perception. Not about Canonical not doing what they are supposed to do.
If you look at the LTS release information, it is vague. Of course it is, because it's not a legal document and this is free. All they stand by is "support". That doesn't really mean anything. Yes, they continue security releases, that much we know. And they do that. But fixes breaks or race conditions? They make no statement that suggests that they do that for LTS (they don't say that they do it at all.) Likely they only fix those things "between" current releases.
My point has always been that this is not that support doesn't exist for LTS, but that the level of support that IT pros assume and mean when they say support is not what is meant, or even implied, by the vendor.
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@scottalanmiller said in Issue installing Korora:
Let me ask this a totally different way....
- What makes you believe that LTS receives "full" support, meaning the kind of support we expect from RHEL, for stability issues on Ubuntu LTS? Has Canonical ever promised you this support? AFAIK, they have never promised it to me.
- I have no reason to believe that the agreement that we had with Canonical was not honoured. The belief was that we had just assumed that LTS was going to get full support, but that was not what the agreement said. Bad assumptions.
- I've never been upset with Canonical about this. AFAIK this is just a mistake in the community with lots of customers and not even customers passing bad info around amongst themselves with Canonical not in the picture at all.
- Looking up the support options, I don't see anything from Canonical publicly to suggest that LTS gets special support.
