Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience

[wwarner]

I didn't have such a painless upgrade.  In fact if I was a newbie I
would have most likely ended up format and restore.  This is what
happened to me:

Ran through the nice little gui front end to apt that they have and did
the update.  It ran for about 30 minutes then hung on PCMCIA restart.  I
waited it out and finally CTRL^C'ed it and it continued until it got to
the ACPI modules then the entire system froze.

I rebooted and it wouldn't come back up.  so I booted with
init=/bin/bash and my keyboard didn't work (no usb).  I plugged in a ps2
keyboard and was able to take out the PCMCIA scripts in /etc/init.d/
After a reboot X wouldn't start but I could log in from the command line
and run dpkg --configure -a a few times got most everything going.

I then tried to start X.  /etc/init.d/gdm restart crapped out.  It turns
out that the downloaded Nvidia driver that I was just use to useing
doesn't work very well with this version.  Luckly the one that comes in
Dapper is the latest so I installed that and got everything working.

Now I've started on trying to get glx working.  Anyone have a good
tutorial on that yet?

-Bill



On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:06 -0700, Jeff Garland wrote: 
> Small contribution for those Ubuntu users thinking of upgrading to 6.06.
> 
> Short story -- I went thru the process today.  It was completely 
> painless -- it worked perfectly.  The upgrade has some really nice 
> software upgrades including an upgrade to Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 
> 3.5. Do it!
> 
> Longer story -- I was mostly a Mandrake user for several years (I still 
> have a Mandrake machine), but recently I built a new AMD64 machine and 
> installed the 5.10 -- 64 bit version of Ubuntu (thx for the prize at the 
> dev meeting!).  I was a little disappointed since 5.10 had a very old 
> version of Firefox.  Of course, compared to Mandrake the combination of 
> apt and the graphical counterparts, Ubuntu is so, so, so nice to keep 
> updated with the latest software.  After several nightmares with 
> Mandrake upgrades, I was apprehensive, but the major upgrade from 5.10 
> to 6.06 didn't disappoint.  I can honestly say that this was the easiest 
> major upgrade of an OS/Applications ever in my life -- just kicked it 
> off, kept working away for about 30 minutes while the downloads were 
> going, and then one reboot, and back to business.  Sweet.
> 
> In case no one noticed, this is a place where Linux has a major lead on 
> MS right now -- yes, you can get 64bit Windows, but try to find device 
> drivers and applications -- it's tough.  On top of that, the idea of 
> installing a major OS upgrade and having it automatically upgrade all 
> the apps -- well, that just can't happen on Windows. Anyway, many thanks 
> to all the folks that made this one fleeting moment of software euphoria 
> possible :)
> 
> Jeff
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