7.04 to Gutsy Gibbon

[Matthew Flaschen]

Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinkerton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 5/24/07, Brad Johnson <brad at bkjohnson.com> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:51 +0200, Jimmy Frydkær Jensen wrote:
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>> > > I haven't had one single issue up until now. My
>> > > computer runs smoothly and without any problems.
>> > >
>> > > The only "issue", or minor problem I have is getting
>> > > used to another type of fonts in my Firefox browser. But
>> > > other than that I have no complaints what so ever.
>> > >
>> > > Looking at the result of the upgrade I really do look
>> > > forward to the next edition of Ubuntu.
>> >
>> > Essentially what you have now (due to upgrading this early) is Feisty
>> > with the addition of a few changes. Once they start dropping in major
>> > changes for the next release things will break. Please keep us
>> posted on
>> >
>> > your demise ... I mean progress. Good luck :)
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
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>> OK error so far gutsy
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>> apt-get dist-upgrade
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>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.19ubuntu1_amd64.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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>> UNAME = 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
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>> lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu gutsy (development branch)
>> Release:        7.10
>> Codename:       gutsy
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>> working on a solution - taking suggestions
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>> phil
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> Finally BROKE GUTSY ( you can chuckle now Matt )

Seriously, it's cool that you're ahead of the curve.

> After re-booting no login screen, my standard Kubuntu spash screen does
> come up during system boot, then the terminal output goes to text, finally
> resting with the text login prompt.

So you ran startx ?

> KDM is running by default but I get a gtk cannot open DISPLAY ( even though
> I manually set the DISPLAY parameters. I tried switching to GDM but then I
> get xserver errors.

How did you switch to GDM?

One way is:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

> I kept an output log ( via script command ) but it is too large to post
> here.

Can you upload it somewhere and link?

Matt Flaschen