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[Bob Trevithick <bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lane,

Boy, am I ever the wrong guy to ask! :-)  I just blew up my second
machine of the day.  This one was a Dell Mini-9 Netbook.  I thought
probably the update would work on that, since it's a newer machine and
since it doesn't use the nvidia driver.  Nope.  Now, after the update,
it's telling me that "An error occurred, please run Package Manager
from the right-click menu to see what is wrong."  And so on.  Your
note came in before I did that, so I'm not sure yet how much
collateral damage there is. :)

I just did "upgrade" as opposed to "dist-upgrade".  It honestly never
occurred to me to dist-upgrade, since I'm not changing distributions.
I'll have to look into that.  Maybe I don't understand it very well.

Yes, right after cups and a couple of other things start is where
everything else stops.  In some cases, there is a slight pause and
then a flicker and a login screen.  In this case, there's a full stop.
 I'm at least able to ctrl-alt-del at that point to reboot.

I decided to call today a maintenance day, and did a full install and
customization of Lucid on another drive, and am not sure whether a
reinstall of Lubuntu A3 is warranted.  I have one instance that's
working fine, but with only limited graphic capabilities because of
the limited (at the moment) video driver.

Isn't alpha testing fun? :-)

Bob

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Lane Lester <llester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my
> problem was nvidia-related.
>
> I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with
> problems updating python packages.
>
> I rebooted normally, and it hung after starting cupsd. A repeat did the
> same.
>
> I rebooted with recovery console and renamed xorg.conf. When I tried to
> remove nvidia-current, I got all these python errors which couldn't be
> fixed. I didn't see a message that indicated the removal worked.
>
> I tried to install nouveau, but got the message the most recent version was
> already installed.
>
> Rebooting hangs at the same place as after the update.
>
> I'll try a console upgrade after there's a chance the video is all
> compatible. Is "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" the right choice?
>
> Lane
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Bob Trevithick <bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lane,
>> What I did, after a lot of messing around trying to get things to work,
>> was this:
>> - Log in to recovery console for root with networking
>> - rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> - apt-get remove nvidia-current
>> - apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>> - reboot
>
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