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Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions
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by Admin @ 8:47 am. Filed under Other Linux
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We have already discussed how to upgrade ubuntu dapper to edgyeft
<http://www.debianadmin.com/upgrade-ubuntu-dapper-to-ubuntu-edgy-eft.html>
and some people are complaing after upgrade they had problems related to
x server and update problems.I have collected some of the common
problems and their solutions from ubuntu forums
<http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=140.I>.
I hope this collection will help for some users to fix their upgrade
problems.
*After upgrading if you see the following error*
Booting ubuntu, kernel 2.5.17-10-386?
root(hd0,0)
Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0×7
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386 root=/dev/evmu/sda3 ro quiet splash
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
*Solution*
To fix that, press e to enter Edit mode at the time of booting your
grub bootloader, and then press e on the first line
(the (hd0,0) one) to edit that. Change the last 0 to a 2, so it reads:
(hd0,2). Then, press b to boot.Its assuming that
Ubuntu is installed on the very first partition, and sets the root to
that
(hd0,0) means the first partition of the first
drive, and (hd0,2) means the third partition.
*
X Server Error for Nvidia and ATI errors*
x.org log file, typically found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, may turn up
error messages such as:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI: Candidate Device section ATI Technologies, Inc. R480
[Radeon X850$]
(WW) ATI: PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected!
(WW) ATI: PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:1 could not be detected!
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
*Solution*
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
*Xserver-xorg not installed after Dapper to Edgy upgrade *
After upgrading when you restart the computer your X server not coming
back up after reboot
*Solution*
Run the following command to reinstall xserver
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
or
sudo apt-get install reinstall xserver-xorg
and then restart your machine using the following command
sudo shutdown -r now
*Reboot the system, after which only a command prompt appears, and X
does not load after typing startx or startkde at the commandline, or
rebooting*
*Solution*
From command prompt, run the command
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
*perl locale warnings upgrading to Edgy *
the upgrade process is throwing up an awful lot of the errors below:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = en_GB:en,
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = en_GB.UTF-8?
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).
*Solution*
Most of the people found that they was no effect with this error. Perl
warnings didnt seem to trigger a reaction.
*text and splash doesnt after upgrade to edgy*
*Solution*
Open your GRUB configuration file using the following command
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
and try to change the values recommended here
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USplashCustomizationHowto#head-3f1a5b3bcea03e357b466d0f04f41bfe01d1f8bc>
*no text status messages in ubuntu edgy 6.10 splash screen *
After upgrading from ubuntu 6.06 to ubuntu 6.10, usplash stopped
working, Ubuntu started displaying a blank screen during startup and
shutdown.
*Solution*
Edgy disabled the status messages in Usplash, but you can get them back
easily using the following commands. First, open your menu.lst
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Now you remove any mention of quiet from the file. You should get the
messages again next time you boot.
*upgrade from dapper to edgy broken 3d acceleration *
When you run glxgears you get under 300 (It used to average about 1500
before) fps proceeded by the message
Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0?.
*Solution*
Open your xorg.conf file add the following lines and save the file
Section Extensions
Option Composite Disable
EndSection
*Generic kernel dont boot *
generic kernel failed to boot by booting my i386 kernel and type
*Solution*
Run the following commands
sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic 2.6.17-10-generic
sudo update-grub
sudo aptitude reinstall linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic
*Flash plugin causes firefox crash*
Flash caused Firefox to crash on new Edgy install
*Solution*
Open the /etc/firefox/firefoxrc file
sudo /etc/firefox/firefoxrc
add the following line and save the file
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
or
Comment out the composite section in x.org
or
Change your color depth to 24 bit, if you havent already
*ATI Driver didnt upgrade Dapper to Edgy*
If you are getting following error
(EE) module ABI major version (0) doesnt match servers version (1)
*Solution*
First you need to remove the ATI drivers using the following command
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-driver-ati
Install ATI Drivers using the following command
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
*Upgrade Dapper to Edgy nvidia GLX problem *
After the upgrade OpenGL apps stopped working, nvidia-settings says The
OpenGL extension GLX is not supported by the X server or there was a
problem retrieving GLX information from the X server.
*Solution*
sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
go to the end of the file and add this
Section Extensions
Option Composite Disable EndSection
then save the file and exit
Now you need to reboot using the following command
sudo reboot
*Ubuntu Dapper to edgy update error*
If you try to run the update manager if you receive following error
gksudo update-manager
warnings.warn(apt API not stable yet, FutureWarning)
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py:171:
DeprecationWarning: Class MetaRelease is already
GObject-registered; Please note that classes containing any of the
attributes __gtype_name__, __gproperties__, or __gsignals__ are now
automatically registered.
gobject.type_register(MetaRelease) extracting /tmp/tmpw5fQ_q/dapper.tar.gz
authenticate /tmp/tmpw5fQ_q/dapper.tar.gz against
/tmp/tmpw5fQ_q/dapper.tar.gz.gpg
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt
API not stable yet warnings.warn(apt API not stable yet,
FutureWarning) cant find DistUpgrade ViewGtk
*Solution*
Install this python component
apt-get install python-vte
*Update Kubuntu Dapper to Edgy: Touchpad stopped working properly *
Dapper to Edgy, but after login Im not able to use my touchpad properly
anymore.
Sometimes the mouse moves right and sometimes it doesnt move at all.
*Solution*
Install ati drivers
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
*Gnomesword libsword5c2a dependency error*
gnomesword Depends: libsword5c2a (>=1.5.8-7) but it is not installable
*Solution*
Install libsword5c2a version 1.5.8-8+bg2 from here
<http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fs%2Fsword%2Flibsword5c2a_1.5.8-8%2Bb1_i386.deb&md5sum=f5d3d7aa584860d23ed69055af815236&arch=i386&type=main>
If You came across any other problems when you upgrade ubuntu edgy you
can post here with your error messages and their solutions.
--
Jeronimo Zucco
LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certified
Núcleo de Processamento de Dados
Universidade de Caxias do Sul
http://jczucco.blogspot.com
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