Hoary-to-Breezy report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> I dist-upgraded last night from Hoary to Breezy and noticed the following:
> 
> * The dist-upgraded got stuck at one point when trying to install
> python-wxversion. It wouldn't install
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxversion.py because it was
> overwriting the same file for wxpython 2.5.3. I couldn't apt-get
> remove the previous version either and finally had to dpkg
> --force-overwrite the new version of python-wxversion and the upgrade
> continued. I haven't put a bugzilla in on this yet because I had a
> very similar problem when dist-upgrading to Hoary (had to apt-get
> remove wxpython to unstick it), so I suspect this is something screwy
> with my own setup.

Please file in Bugzilla.

> * X didn't start for me the first time. Did a dpkg-reconfigure on it,
> accepted all the defaults, and it worked. Not sure what's going on
> there, but it's working now, so I didn't put a bugzilla in on it.

File in Bugzilla, with copies of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf* files (old and
new).
> 
> * I don't have usplash, or rather, I do (it's installed), but I see
> the normal boot messages rather than any kind of splash screen. Will
> dist-upgraders get this or do they have to do something else first? Is
> it a bug, and if so, what do you need from me to help track this down?

It's a known bug; the procedure for enabling it was in the Colony 3
announcement.

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 - mdz