Installation report: Ubuntu desktop 20080723 amd64

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:39:00PM +0200, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:27 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > MD5: 698b51c0076b6113e21e0bd0a8ea061d
> > 
> > I've been running 32-bit Ubuntu Desktop on my ThinkPad T61, and decided to
> > take advantage of the pre-Alpha-3 test candidates to upgrade it to 64-bit.
> > I decided the most expedient way to do this would be to reinstall over it,
> > preserving /home.  I took a backup of /etc, /var and /home before
> > proceeding.
> > 
> > The installation experience was pretty hairy.  I encountered a lot of
> > problems, and have ended up with a fairly messy system.  I don't recommend
> > trying it.
> > 
> > Notes and issues:
> > 
> >  * I didn't see usplash during boot (no bug filed)
> 
> That'd be :
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/249037
> 
> At least that's the one I used for my own testing results.

I think that is a different problem, as I'm able to login normally (and also
saw the text on the console).  Yours sounds like an xserver-xorg-video-intel
bug.

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 - mdz