Hi Lane, Boy, am I ever the wrong guy to ask! :-) I just blew up my second machine of the day. This one was a Dell Mini-9 Netbook. I thought probably the update would work on that, since it's a newer machine and since it doesn't use the nvidia driver. Nope. Now, after the update, it's telling me that "An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu to see what is wrong." And so on. Your note came in before I did that, so I'm not sure yet how much collateral damage there is. :)
I just did "upgrade" as opposed to "dist-upgrade". It honestly never occurred to me to dist-upgrade, since I'm not changing distributions. I'll have to look into that. Maybe I don't understand it very well. Yes, right after cups and a couple of other things start is where everything else stops. In some cases, there is a slight pause and then a flicker and a login screen. In this case, there's a full stop. I'm at least able to ctrl-alt-del at that point to reboot. I decided to call today a maintenance day, and did a full install and customization of Lucid on another drive, and am not sure whether a reinstall of Lubuntu A3 is warranted. I have one instance that's working fine, but with only limited graphic capabilities because of the limited (at the moment) video driver. Isn't alpha testing fun? :-) Bob On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Lane Lester <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my > problem was nvidia-related. > > I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with > problems updating python packages. > > I rebooted normally, and it hung after starting cupsd. A repeat did the > same. > > I rebooted with recovery console and renamed xorg.conf. When I tried to > remove nvidia-current, I got all these python errors which couldn't be > fixed. I didn't see a message that indicated the removal worked. > > I tried to install nouveau, but got the message the most recent version was > already installed. > > Rebooting hangs at the same place as after the update. > > I'll try a console upgrade after there's a chance the video is all > compatible. Is "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" the right choice? > > Lane > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Bob Trevithick <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Lane, >> What I did, after a lot of messing around trying to get things to work, >> was this: >> - Log in to recovery console for root with networking >> - rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> - apt-get remove nvidia-current >> - apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau >> - reboot > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
