On 12/01/2011 01:09 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> The xubuntu laptop here was running 10.10 and I just started a >> distribution upgrade on it. 11.04 was the only one on offer. When this >> upgrade is finished and I start the upgrade manager again will 11.11. be >> offered? > Well! As some point during file download the OS decided that there was > something wrong with the screensaver but did not offer options to fix it or > turn it off. Since I had no way to see the display and determine if the > upgrade was done, I switched to tty2, logged in as root, and killed > xscreensaver. That locked the system and took away the cursor. No way to > change console, move the cursor, or anything. > > I'm now downloading the xubuntu-11.10.iso and will re-install. > Fortunately, ~/ was backup on on a flash drive just a couple of days ago. > > Has anyone else experienced this? I've done package and distribution > upgrades before on that box and they always went smoothly. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Hi Rich,
11.10 has had some weird issues with xscreensaver especially in Ubuntu but I'm not sure about Xubuntu. I know there has been some changes to the upgrade tool. -- Benjamin Kerensa Team Lead, Ubuntu Oregon [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
