A Gutsy upgrade story

[Derek Broughton]

David Vincent wrote:

> Issues under Gutsy include not upgrading my Flash Player during the
> install (should it?  I installed it originally via the
> ubuntu-restricted-extras package and since that package has been
> upgraded and the version of Flash has incremented since then I feel
> Ubuntu should have upgraded this software along the way.  I may be wrong
> about that...) and also suddenly requiring a password when it resumes
> from suspend or hibernation.  Editing /etc/default/acpi-support and
> commenting out the LOCK_SCREEN=true line fixed this problem on the Dell
> but not the IBM - weird.

Perhaps that's actually configured in the power manager on the IBM.

> Also as long as I use the power management software to suspend/hibernate
> I'm ok, but if I use my Dell's Suspend button the machine locks and
> requires me to remove the batteries to get it back - this worked under
> Feisty.  :)

I always just edit /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn to
invoke /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh instead of whatever it is by default...
 
> Also NetworkManager now comes in Xubuntu but still has the same problem
> for me as it has since Edgy.  I can connect to a WPA network.  I can
> connect to a non-encrypted network.  I CANNOT connect to a WEP network.

Does the WEP network broadcast an SSID?  I haven't followed the NM list for
a while, but for a long time it had problems connecting to networks without
a broadcast SSID.
-- 
derek