[xubuntu-users] Cleaning Up Residual Upgrade Issues

[David Collins]

Hello, Rich.

This is might not be the answer you after, but have you thought about biting
the bullet and doing a fresh install?  I find that it is so quick with
ubuntu do to an install, that this is often quicker than trouble-shooting
problems with an upgrade.  The Jaunty upgrade on my eeePC went wrong, so I
did a fresh install, choosing EXT4 for the filesystem, and it is beautiful -
30 seconds to bring up the login screen.  The nicest ubuntu version yet.

Steps:
1. Download and create Jaunty Live CD
2. Booting from the Live CD, shrink your existing system partition using
GParted, create a new partition and do fresh install into that.
3. Copy data files from old home directory to new home directory.  (Don't
copy old config files - better to start fresh, but might need to copy
Firefox bookmarks - also look at the Xmarks FF add-on, so you don't have to
do this in future)
4. Install enough apps to keep wife happy.  Finish later.

Regards,
David

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   The upgrade to 9.04 was completed, but there are a couple of residual
> issues I need to resolve. Since the ubuntus boot behind a GUI display (a la
> M$), I cannot watch what's happening.
>
>   The minor issue is that the wireless drivers (orinoco and orinoco_cs) are
> not automatically loaded into the kernel during the boot process despite my
> having loaded them with modprobe during a running session. Do I need to
> specify those two modules in /etc/modprobe.conf or equivalent?
>
>   The major issue is that the laptop now takes 4-5 minutes to boot. Yup, up
> from about 40 seconds with previous versions of xubuntu (from 7.04 through
> 8.10). I've no idea where to start looking for the cause.
>
>   I'd really like to resolve these issues this weekend so I can stop
> futzing
> with my wife's machine and focus on work I need to accomplish.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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