On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:34 +1200, Bnonn wrote:
Raymond Burgess wrote:
What is the process of upgrading from one release to another, as it is I don't have anything important on my workstation so just doing a reinstall of the newer release is a simple option, but I would be interested to hear of anyone experiences of doing an upgrade. <snip> Reboot into your new system.
If only :) I followed the procedure above and things went anything but smoothly. GNOME started dying in weird and spectacular ways as dpkg did it's thing behind the scenes (not entirely unexpected, but interesting none the less). Finally dpkg told me everything was upgraded and to restart GDM to get all the fancy new goodness. So I logged out, ctrl-alt-bspace etc. Gnome session died immediately after logging in and left me with a high session. Reboot. X doesn't work *at all*. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Press enter many times Kill X and GDM via ssh session because consoles are locked up (Alt-F1, etc don't work). Start GDM, login, seems to be working ok now. I've yet to have the chance to actually sit down and find out what went wrong, but there are obviously still some rough edges to knock off yet. But that is what we have preview releases for isn't it :) Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz