xubuntu upgrade/install

[Daniel Mons]

Sebastian Spiess wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better.
> 
> Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still.
> After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I
> let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time.
> 
> the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid
> beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here...
> 
> Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware detection/config file thing going on?

It sounds more like there's a mismatch between the driver Xorg is
selecting and your actual hardware.

You can get back to a terminal/tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, and
then logging in with your credentials from there.  Have a look at the
file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there are any notable error
messages, particularly towards the end.

If it makes no sense to you, post it to the list and I'll have a look
over it.

-Dan