[CoLoCo] 8.10 upgrade "oddity"

[Andrew]

I heard reports of symptoms like that on ubuntu forums. Try checking there.

-Andrew

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Kenneth D Weinert
<kenw at quarter-flash.com>wrote:

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> I did the dist-upgrade path and I thought at first that I was totally
> hosed.
>
> During boot ( 2.6.27-9-generic) it appears to hang and sets there for
> a *very* long time. Long enough, in fact, that I thought it was hung
> so I hit the power key.
>
> After holding the power key for a second or two, progress resumes. It
> does boot into that kernel and then, no surprise, X won't start as it
> can't parse the config file.  It doesn't like the RgbPath directive.
>
> I comment that out and get X started.  Mindful of all the discussion
> that had gone on about how much trouble X was to get sorted, I was a
> bit apprehensive.
>
> Turns out that it wasn't a big deal, mainly because I'm using the
> nvidia X server. Running through the config after restarting X to use
> that server got everything straightened out.
>
> I am curious, however, about that initial pause. Anyone else
> experienced anything like that? Any hints on what I might google for
> to find out more info or what I can set to see boot details instead of
> just an nice orange progress bar?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
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