Installation report: Ubuntu desktop 20080723 amd64

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:46:19PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Switching to vt #1, I could see this:

No usable theme found for 640x480
screen init failed

presumably from usplash.  Filed as:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/251227

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 - mdz