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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If it isn't broken,

you have not tweaked it hard enough, (signature of
> http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=80744) these things happen.


 200 lines of

I will follow the warnings next time


Regards,

Phill.
P.S. a seperate /home_testing partition (not your /home) is also suggested.
I was lucky, others have not been.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Bob Trevithick
<bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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