If it isn't broken, you have not tweaked it hard enough, (signature of > http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=80744) these things happen.
200 lines of I will follow the warnings next time Regards, Phill. P.S. a seperate /home_testing partition (not your /home) is also suggested. I was lucky, others have not been. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Bob Trevithick <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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