Scott
Upgrade from hardy (sigh) I meant Intrepid - my servers are hardy.
anyway - no probs,  glad that is fixed up.

Will see what happens with Karmic Koala.
Mind you I am really liking Jaunty at present.

cheers
Mark


On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:11:12 -0000
Scott James Remnant <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:58 +0000, Mark Richardson wrote:
> 
> > Probably - possibly - For me it was from when I did the Jaunty
> > alpha / beta upgrade process from Hardy when the kernel was updated.
> > 
> Ah!  You shouldn't do that.  You should upgrade via Intrepid first ;-)
> 
> > i.e. the upgrade failed when applying the kernel upgrade.  a new
> > apt-get update / upgrade would produce the same error.  Would have
> > to choose the old kernel for x to work / or use the correct
> > resolution display. (Using a Sun Ultra 24 with Nvidia card so I use
> > the nvidia binary driver).
> > 
> > Looking back I would assume it was an issue applying the nvidia
> > biinary driver into the new kernel (?)
> > 
> Almost certainly.
> 
> > This went on for several minor kernel revisions - eventually  - it
> > came right and upgraded correctly.  It was fine just using the older
> > kernel during that time.
> > 
> > Any more info required let me know.
> > 
> I think we've fixed this in a way that it can't happen again,
> obviously if it does, please do file a new report.
> 
> Scott

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