The upgrade went well, sort of. It needs some smoothing out. 1 First At first it appeared to hang for over an hour on the glibc update. It did not help that the Synaptic terminal was completely unreadable even when opened. By highlighting it to reverse the video, I was able to see that it was asking me a question about restarting all services. a) This should not happen in an upgrade b) This should not be buried in the terminal, which is not open by default. c) The terminal should not be stringy gray fonts on a black background. 2 Second There were a couple more interactions required. I forget the purpose. At least they were separate dialog windows, so I could tell interaction was needed. I think these should be suppressed too. 3 Third For some reason, the new system is quite unhappy with my partitions, and complains I have to say what type of partition it is in /etc/fstab. I wonder what happened to auto-detection. 4) Fourth After having trouble with mounting, it drops into asking for the root password. Of course there isn't one, and my user password is *not* what it needs. Somebody needs to tweak the startup scripts for the peculiarities of Ubuntu. Question: who do I tell? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD