[ubuntu-in] Upgrading to Ubuntu-9.04

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ritesh Sinha <sinha.k.ritesh at gmail.com> 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