Lots of Dapper Problems

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 11:03 -0400, Bill Atkins wrote:
> Thanks.  I moved /etc/fonts out of the way, ...

Glad you got one step further

> Still, these other issues are baffling.  

They are, but I'd have it easier if I got an answer to my other
question :) Did you follow the instructions in the DapperUpgrade notes,
especially regarding making sure that (k,x)ubuntu-desktop is installed
before upgrading?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DapperUpgrades

> Is there a better place to
> look for support on these kinds of problems?

I don't think really

>  Is it possible to talk
> to Canonical directly, or to talk to the people who make the
> installation CD's?

There are commercial support options on the Ubuntu homepage somewhere,
but I don't think that's what you're asking

I guess via bug reports, but before filing one you should make sure you
followed the instructions in the upgrade notes

> Even though
> the machines are very different (one is an IBM ThinkPad, the other a
> homebuilt AMD64 machine), they are having frustratingly similar
> problems.

To me, his might hint to erroneous upgrade procedures
(DapperUpgrades? :) or a bug in Dapper you trigger for some reason

> I followed the same procedure on both machines: change breezy to
> dapper in /etc/apt/sources.lst, sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get
> dist-upgrade.

Just to be sure: installed (k,x)ubuntu-desktop before doing that?

As another poster has noted, aptitude might be a better option than
apt-get, since it is much better at resolving dependencies.

Also, upgrading via System/Administration/Update Manager (as explained
in the upgrade notes) seems to be safer. Many people seem to have
problems doing it the CLI way. For me it went smooth though, but I
upgraded before the Flight CDs came out.

I don't know if there is a way to force Update Manager to retry now,
after the CLI approach has already failed.

> I considered doing a fresh install from a Dapper install CD, but even
> this caused problems for me. (...) I have a hunch this is a video card problem (ATi Radeon
> 9250SE), but I don't know what to do about it.

I'd think your hunch looked pretty good, had I not googled this:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/ATI/Radeon9xxx

Did you use the Desktop CD or the Alternate Install CD? If not the
second, it might be worth a try since it needs no X to install