[PLUG] Upgrading to Dapper

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:22:19 -0700
Bruce Kilpatrick <bakilpatrick at verizon.net> dijo:

> Later that evening, I tried to boot into Dappper again and the system 
> hung trying to put the last splash screen up showing the last modules(?) 
> loading.  I had set it to auto login earlier.  So now I am looking at a 
> brown screen with a usable mouse curser.  What a shame there is nothing 
> to click on.
> 
> Is the auto login causing problems?
> 
> I looked at the /var/log/messages and saw lots of scary stuff I don't 
> have a clue about.  

There are lots of problems with the upgrade that are discussed on the
Ubuntu Dapper forums. From your description it sounds like the problem
may be in xorg.conf. One of the big problems is with ia32-libs, which
seems to get stuck in an unrepairable loop of unmet dependencies, and
xorg seems to be one of the problems. So is OpenOffice.org. I never
could get the dependency issue resolved and ended up wiping out Breezy
and installing Dapper fresh. While trying, one thing that seemed to
resolve a lot of problems was "sudo dpkg --configure -a." (I think I
remembered that right.) You'd have to run it by booting in safe mode,
since there is something wrong with your GUI.

There is also a problem with autologin -- again. look at the forums.
Evidently it doesn't work. Bug reports have been filed. Meantime, as
far as I remember from reading the forums, users just have to login
manually until the bug is fixed. I don't recall anyone not being able
to log in at all, but it's been a while since I read that thread.

I love my new Dapper-64. Everything that I needed that didn't work on
Breezy-64 is now working, and without chroot -- Flash, Java,
RealPlayer, Adobe Reader, plus I can finally use the latest versions of
things like OpenOffice.org. The support for running 32-bit apps in
64-bit Ubuntu is vastly improved. And stuff like ndiswrapper, that used
to take half an hour of painstakingly trying to remember how I did it
last time, now installs via Synaptic with a couple mouse clicks. Dapper
comes with Broadcom wireless drivers, so lots of people don't even need
ndiswrapper any more. Dapper totally rocks!