[PLUG] Dapper Drake upgrade

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

Hey Gang,

Since I didn't know any better until a different post this morning, I 
will continue to top post until I have a few minutes to figure out how 
to do it "properly".

I did reboot my machine to Dapper last night.  I remembered seeing a 
failure in the booting process about pcmcia.  Did a little research, it 
is a desktop, so I don't need that.  Renamed the files and *trumpets 
blare* we are running normally.

Did a few upgrades, installed Open Office, Thunderbird, allowed Firefox 
to upgrade...and all seems good.  I will go back and follow all the 
previous ideas to make sure all is well under the hood.

To answer a few of the questions earlier, it is a 933 dually with 1.5G 
of memory, one 15G hard drive with Breezy, a second 13G (I think) hard 
drive that now has Dapper.  I have swap files on both (I believe that to 
be unnecessary but am planning on using this machine for test driving 
different distros in the near future).

So, for now, thanks to all for the help.  I'll be back with more I am sure.

Bruce



alan wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Carla Schroder wrote:
>
>> On Monday 05 June 2006 10:17 pm, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>>> The interesting thing I noted was that my machine booted.  It is just
>>> running very slowly.  Could it be that Dapper is just too much for a 
>>> 933
>>> dually?
>>>
>>
>> It should run fine, even with gnome or KDE. How much RAM do you have? 
>> 512 is
>> great, 256 will work. Do you have a swapfile?
>>
>> KDE has the nice ksysguard for a graphical view of all your running 
>> processes.
>> If you don't have KDE, look for something similar. Or run 'ps -ejH' 
>> to get
>> the command-line view of what's going on. Something is bogging your 
>> system
>> down.
>
>
> Also look at the end of /var/log/messages for any error messages. 
> Drive seek errors will do bad things, as will misconfigured or bad 
> video cards, or hanging processes such as thumbnailers.
>
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