Hmm, I tried the upgrade on my laptop too and was having similar problems.
After downloading upgrades for several hours, the upgrade abruptly stopped
with corrupt packages.  I had something like 25 broken packages and was
having trouble fixing them.  I eventually gave up and did a clean install.
However, this wasn't so bad, since I had already set up my partitions really
nicely.  I have a 10GB partition for / (this is actually a little too large
-- 6 or 7 would still be more than I would ever need), a 2GB partition for
swap, and the rest is for /home/adam/.  That way, when I do a clean install,
I keep home and swap, and just install to that first partition.  Then I can
keep all my files, as well as all the settings that are stored in my home
folder.  When I booted up after a clean install, ubuntu remembered by
desktop background and several other settings, such as keyboard shortcuts.
It was amazing.  The only disadvantage is that I had to reinstall some
applications.  However, Don Bindner has set up a local mirror for ubuntu
repositories.  I can get speeds of over 10 Mb/s.  I'm not sure whether it is
set up for feisty yet or not, but I know it will be soon.  So in short, if
you eventually decide on doing a clean install and haven't already
partitioned your hard drive like this, I highly recommend it.  Since you
still have a terminal, you would still be able to backup your files.  But as
far as an upgrade goes, I didn't have much luck.

Adam

On 4/21/07, Abigail Temple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

About the upgrade from Edgy to Feisty . . .

I was having trouble getting my computer to upgrade, and when I finally
coerced it into doing so, it messed up all the fonts on my desktop. The only
thing with legible text is my command line. I have an IBM thinkpad :-( Could
anyone help me out? It would be much appreciated.


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Abigail Temple
oren sin cesar - I Thes 5:17

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