I thought "Well, it was months since Gutsy came out. All the bugs should be gone now. Let's try an distro-upgrade." Boy, was I wrong.
- When starting the upgrade process through the update manager, everything downloaded correctly, but then during installing, suddenly it hang at updating TZData (still don't know why). I Ctrl+C'ed myself out of that, but I knew I was in trouble because I just screwed up my update. Now I had to it by hand, I had no idea how.
- Since Google is one of my best friends :P I found: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15384, giving me:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
It didn't work completely like described above, but it said thinks like "this command can't be run, try dpkg --configure -a first". And eventually it stopped giving errors. Then I rebooted.
- During booting I get like a billion times "device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed", this was easily Googled: it appears it is a known problem, where EVMS tries to lookup partitions that are not suitable for EVMS. The error in in there FAQ, under "Volume Activation". The solution mentions three options. For me the option to exclude my partitions worked perfectly. It just says: in /etc/evms.conf under "sysfs_devices" remove the * after "includes" and add a * after "excludes".
- My video settings (for dual-screen) were gone. After reinstalling my video-drivers, I looked at the backup of my xorg.conf. There were not so many differences, so I chose not to restore. Dual screen still didn't work. I then restored the backup of my xorg.conf and dual-screen works.
- I couldn't play my games! After some investigation I found that glxinfo gave direct-rendering: no. First, I thought it were my video card drivers again, but since I just installed those, that couldn't be it. Some googling gave that I could try to disable the xgl-server. To that end I ran apt-get remove xgl-server. Then my game worked.
- Now, directly after logging in, I get the message "The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard settings". I haven't solved it yet, but this seems to be a solution.
Now I hope it will just keep working. I've been really satisfied with Ubuntu before, and I hope they won't give me this kind of crap with the next distro-upgrade :(
It took me from 23:00 PM to 4:30 AM to fix this, and had to some stuff the next days too. by Martin @ 13:58 4 January 2008