Comment 16 for bug 257052

I've gotten sick and tired of Ibex being so crashy so I reverted back to 8.04 (when I say reverted, I mean I backed up my home dir, paved the partition, and installed a fresh 8.04).

Glipper is doing the exact same thing for my hardy install - occasionally crashing on startup. It's 100% reliable that it WILL crash on the first login when the computer is started up. Once the first login has been done, I can log out, then log back in and most of the time it won't crash (though sometimes it will still crash).

I don't think Gergely's theory holds water, since it's not a panel error, it's actually glipper crashing when it tries to start up. I think it's more likely that glipper has a dependency that isn't starting until after glipper itself. (Part of me wonders if this stems back to the libffi change, since I never had any glipper issues before 1.0-1ubuntu2 was rolled out to accommodate Ibex users)

Is there a way to force apt to install the previous version instead, and to prevent apt from removing the previous version next time update-manager runs?