On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ritesh Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > It is possible that a post install trigger might wipe orphaned > packages from the system (packages that are not part of a repo). > However as Onkar pointed out, data files in /home are unaffected by an > upgrade. So in effect all you _might_ have to do is re-install picasa > etc. Also be sure to backup the entire system if you have a spare USB > HDD lying around. I recently upgraded and the new kernel (2.6.28-11) > refused to recognize my touchpad and causes the keyboard to stop > working after random intervals, I have reverted to the intrepid latest > kernel (2.6.27-11) filed a bug report.
Old kernels are not removed automatically. So you will still have a working kernel in the list of kernels in grub. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
