I've some major pains with my Debian 5.0.4 ("lenny") installation and as "squeeze" is delayed I consider switching to "lucid".
Has anybody done this before? I'm not sure if should upgrade directly to "lucid" or do an intermediate step via "karmic".
When will an updated version of Empathy be available for Lucid? Or is there an easy way to install the Meerkat version?
I intend to continue using Lucid for a couple years, but the version of Empathy available in Lucid has some issues with logging chats -- there's no way to disable chats from being logged and there's no easy way to delete chat logs. The current version allows one to disable logging but it's not available in Lucid, only Meerkat.
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My Windows Vista installation won't start after upgrading from Karmic to Lucid. If I select it on GRUB2, it leaves a blinking cursor on screen. And I tried doing the whole test disk thing and the boot info script. This is what my Results.txt file says
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how many MBs need to be downloaded when I upgrade to 10.04 from an up-to-date 9.10?
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Yeah...that's what I get every time I try to upgrade to lucid lynx.
NOTE: I haven't updated for quite some time. I may have gotten one or two updates for karmic but that was it. Just thought it might be important....
NOTE: Also not sure if this is important, but karmic installed and did some funny stuff to itself. My desktop no longer exists. It just isn't there. Also, when I try to turn of my computer it gets all kinds of errors and eventually I have to just pull the plug....something about a dev loop0 right after is says its deactivating swap...
I am going to upgrade from Lucid 32-bit to Lucid 64-bit, and I have some questions as to what I need to do. My system is a dual boot of XP and Lucid, but I only use XP rarely nowadays. I know I have to do a clean install, so here goes. Do I have to blow away my current install of Lucid? If the answer to (1) is yes, what about Grub? How do I get a list of my currently installed applications?
Currently Lucid is on one partition. I have a Clonezilla copy of the file system. Can I restore the /home directory from that copy once I have installed the 64-bit system? If I decide to make /home a separate partition, are there any good rules of thumb about how much space to allocate to the various partitions? Are there any other directories or files I should consider copying from the Clonezilla copy?
How to upgrade to lucid beta2 from the command line. When I try 'sudo do-release-upgrade' I get this:
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Done Upgrade tool signature
Done Upgrade tool
[100%] 86.3kB/s 0s
Reading cache
Checking package manager
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Done downloading
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Updating repository information
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
Third party sources disabled
Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool or your package manager.
Done downloading
Checking package manager
Reading package lists: Doneucid/main Packages: 90 ed Packages: 77
Reading state information: Done
Calculating the changes
Calculating the changes
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the
'update-manager' package and include the files in
/var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists: Donem lucid-updates/restricted Packages: 94
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
The first 2 don't apply as I'm on 9.10. I can't really remember if I have installed any unofficial software packages.
I just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid and my system will no longer boot. The upgrade completed without any error messages, but upon reboot, it hangs at the loading screen. I cannot start the system in recovery mode either. Same issue happens. To get to the command line, I've appended:
init=/bin/bash
to the kernel line in grub. I then remount so I have r/w access.
It appears to be an issue with udev. While the loading screen is "loading," udevd_work scrolls a bunch of stuff that's too fast for me to read (nor can I copy and paste it).
/var/log/udev isn't showing any recent errors, only messages from before the upgrade.
I had a nicely working karmic 64bit/windows XP install, but the "upgrade" button to 10.04 has finally got the better of me. Now, when the PC boots up, the following failure occurs:Memory CheckPCI device listingVerifying DMI Pool Data ......error: no such device:e9eb88c2-67f2-47a7-bf9d-50b77b2d3480grub rescue>_Some more information.linux is on sdb1when I type "ls" I get: "(hd0) (hd1) (fd0)"however, I've not managed to get "ls (hd1,1)" or similar to do anything, the best I get is "error: no such partition".the command "find /boot/grub/grub.conf" results in the error "Unknown command 'find'"I've tried swapping the boot order in the bios from hd0 to hd1 but that has made no difference.There is no grub loader, no linux, no windows, no operating system of anykind, just the "grub rescue>" prompt.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am planning to move to Lucid from Karmic now that I am out of university for the summer and have time. I have heard that there is a way to copy your home folder over to the next release and all of the data and program settings will remain intact. I have tried some research on the subject but everything I have found has been extremely confusing. I want to do a fresh install (as my updater has been failing time and time again and asking for partial upgrades etc). Instead of creating a new partition for the home folder, would it be possible to move it to an external drive and copy it back over (I have tried to copy it to the external but I get some errors even in sudo)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI tried to upgrade my kubuntu 8.04 LTS to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as given here. Actually I wanted to upgrade to kubuntu. The download completed successfully. However,while upgrading the power went off and left the computer in bad state. Now I see multiple two entries for both
kubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, Kernel 2.6.24-28-generic
kubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, Kernel 2.6.24-28-generic (recovery mode)
in grub. Since I am not that familiar with ubuntu(in general linux), I would like
When I tried to boot in first two of these I get the following error message and it remains in command-line mode.
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libudev: udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid argument
[ 20.839013] wait-for-root[946]: segfault at 00000030 eip b774bf2b esp bfb33340 error 4
Segmentation fault
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However, the mount points are not having anything. It is like nothing got mounted. I would suspect there should be some way where I should be able to locate the downloaded upgrade stuff and apply it afresh again from start. Is this something possible?
When this happens you have to open a terminal, get the process id for mysql-server-5 then kill that process. Like this:
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ps -A
then from the list of processes that it spits out look at the process id (the number at the beginning of the line) for mysql-server-5.
Now type
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sudo kill -9 XXXXX
where XXXXX is the process id for mysql-server, and enter your password. The upgrade process should now resume.
after upgrading to lucid lynx ubuntu doesn't boot with the new kernels 2.6.32-22-generic and 2.6.32-23-generic (also in recovery mode). But it's does boot with the previous 2.6.31-21-generic kernel. At the time i was hoping to wait it out, but a new kernel has come and the problem persisted. I've been trying to find a solution for this but somehow, amid lots of failed boot blank black screen threads, i didn't relate to any solution. The boot seems to go well until a pixelated logo appears (before the login screen), then goes to a blank black screen and there it stays stuck with no remedy. Looking into dmesg logs - albeit some differences between 2.6.31-21 and the newer 2.6.32-23 - the failed boot seems proper in both logs. In Xorg logs the differences are bigger but i cannot pinpoint a source for this problem.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI got an error during the upgrade but chose to let the upgrade complete. Now my Firefox won't lauch. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it from the Terminal and got the following:Quote:
rick@Desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
[sudo] password for rick:
Reading package lists... Done
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I just did a distribution upgrade on my laptop from 9.1 to 10.04, and it went fine for the most part except this issue. After it boots up, I don't see any window titles/scrollbars/borders and on clicking the icon for "Show desktop" on the bottom left, I see the following error message:
"Your window manager does not support the show desktop button, or you are not running a window manager."
After googling a bit, I realized that gnome-wm is not starting automatically and so I have to manually start each time to see the windows working properly. Can somebody tell me if there is a way to make sure that gnome-wm starts automatically? I know I can put it in my .bashrc but I want to do it the correct way if possible. If not, I will have to go with that workaround.
I just did a distribution upgrade on my laptop from 9.1 to 10.04, and it went fine for the most part except this issue. After it boots up, I don't see any window titles/scrollbars/borders and on clicking the icon for "Show desktop" on the bottom left I see the following error message: "Your window manager does not support the show desktop button, or you are not running a window manager."
After googling a bit, I realized that gnome-wm is not starting automatically and so I have to manually start each time to see the windows working properly. Can somebody tell me if there is a way to make sure that gnome-wm starts automatically? I know I can put it in my .bashrc but I want to do it the correct way if possible. If not, I will have to go with that workaround
im using deb squeeze after upgrading from lenny since upgrading, my pc hangs when trying to save any file with any program like gedit and firefox it hangs for about 2 minutes with a blank save as screen before finally showing the folders screen.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my sumvision external hard drive which I cannot mount after upgrading from lenny to squeeze.
For some reason lsusb can see it but I'm unable to use it since a month.
I'm looking to upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze and would like to check if there's anything special I need to do. Software-wise there's nothing out of the ordinary on the system but, while looking into upgrading, I've read some horror stories regarding encrypted systems. I've only previously installed from fresh.
Here is how my current partitions/filesystems are set out:
. sda1/sdb1 > raid > ext2: boot
. sda2/sdb2 > raid > luks > lvm > ext3: root
. sda2/sdb2 > raid > luks > lvm > ext3: swap
. sda2/sdb2 > raid > luks > lvm > xfs: data
. sdc1/sdd1 > raid > luks > lvm > freespace: vms
Would this just be a standard upgrade, as per these? [URL]. I will be backing up important data before I attempt to upgrade.
I'm in need of a bit of assistance from you Debian users. I have two servers that I thought were identical installations, both running Debian Lenny. Tonight I started the upgrade to Squeeze on both servers and one of them went smooth. The other one started out good but fails on the postconfiguration of openssh-server. I'm getting the following message:
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Setting up openssh-server (1:5.5p1-4) ...
Auto configuration failed
2524:error:0E079065:configuration file routines:DEF_LOAD_BIO:missing equal sign:conf_def.c:366:line 67
invoke-rc.d: initscript ssh, action "restart" failed.
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It looks like there's an error in one of the files in openssh-server that prohibits it from installing correctly. However on the other server it all went well.
Made sure kernel was 2.6.26+ Changed sources. apt-get update Then it all goes to hell at util-linux... When attempting to
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[root@WdoACnbF01:pts/0][18:42][28.331mb][~]
[===>uname -a
Linux WdoACnbF01 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 19:35:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[root@WdoACnbF01:pts/0][18:44][28.331mb][~]
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update-alternatives: error: readlink(/etc/alternatives/automake) failed: Invalid argument
I am curious about other's opinions on their experience using the official OpenOffice from their main website, not the one Ubuntu ships with their distro. I was curious about upgrading OpenOffice 3.2.0, which is the latest that comes with Lucid, and found that if you do the following, you can have 3.2.1 on your system, which apparently is a bug fixed release:
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To install OpenOffice 3.2.1 in Ubuntu Lucid:
- Download latest version ('OOo_3.2.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz') from [URL]
- Extract and you'll see a folder called 'OOO320_m18_native_packed-1_en-US.9502'
- Remove the existing version of OpenOffice (3.2.0):
- sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*
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So, again, I am wondering about other's experiences doing this, as looking at it, it does look a little different, at least with how it puts itself in the Applications menu, and it seems to run much, much faster. In addition, when removing 'openoffice', it frees up 263mb, whereas the official OpenOffice installation adds barely 200mb. Might there be more the Ubuntu one installs?
Also, another way I've noticed that it might be possible to upgrade would be to install the Maverick repos temporarily and install Ubuntu's OpenOffice 3.2.1 in Lucid that way. Is that a wise alternative?
I'd like to install the 2.6.35 kernel while keeping Lucid (just not in the mood right now to get used to a new release). Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to go about this?
View 3 Replies View Relatedis it good to just upgrade Ubuntu 10.09 to 10.10 but not clean install?I've installed so many applications so far in Lucid and if I clean install it, I've been thinking of reinstall all the applications back is a tiring process.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAfter I upgrading from Karmic to Lucid, I haven't been able to update my version further and also running apt-get shows error... Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
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after upgrading to lucid very often a shutdown is impossible if I try to nothing happens. I have to open a terminal and enter "sudo halt". If you just enter "halt" you get "need to be root".
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am experiencing very high memory usage since upgrading, and it has gotten worse over the months since release. I noticed with all users logged out, I can go to terminal 1 and htop puts memory usage at 600MB for an idling, non logged in desktop. This wasn't the case on karmic, and my usage has not really changed. Upon logging in, it goes up to 800MB-1GB, on the desktop and idling. This has also been referenced at these places:
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Also, nautilus takes at minimum ~200MB and upwards of ~600MB sometimes, and Ive purged thumbnails already. That is utterly ridiculous for a window manager. why Lucid has gotten so bloated, and how to trim it up? Will Maverick address these issues?
I have problem upgrading my ubuntu 10.04 lucid to a newer release of Ubuntu. I have done updates regularly but nothing prompt regarding upgrading Ubuntu. as mentioned in Ubuntu website, updating must result in a notification of upgrading. I want to know if there is any way to do this manually?
View 4 Replies View RelatedRan 'do-release-upgrade -d'on my server running Hardy.No problems during the upgrade.Rebooted after the upgrade completed, and I was presented with the new plymouth screen. This sucks for servers.It sat there displaying the logo for ~5 minutes.Hit CTRL+ALT+F1 through F8 and didn't see anything on the virtual consoles.Finally figured out that I had to hit ESC on the plymouth screen to actually see what was going on.It said /dev/sdi1 had problems along with /dev/md0.It sat there forever with no fsck status and no HDD lights blinking.
SysRq+REISUB and tweaked the boot parameter to remove 'quiet splash' and appended 'S' for single-user mode.Got the attached screenshot.The box has been sitting like this for ~15 minutes.Not entirely sure what to report a bug against at the moment. Plus the somewhat-new requirement of running 'ubuntu-bug' is pretty retarded in this situation. (Yeah, I know I can add some string to the URL to get around it.Why is it such a pain in the *** to report a bug?)I'm going to do some more digging to try and find out what is dying during boot.The new boot process is a bit of a mystery to me still, so if anyone has pointers or any devs want more detailed information,
I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 a few days ago. My internet then stopped working.I changed the security for my network to WEP (instead of WPA)Is there another way around this problem or can I just download another driver? I do not intend to stick with a WEP secured network.
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