[PLUG] Ubuntu Upgrade Question

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Fri Dec 2 19:30:50 UTC 2011


On 12/01/2011 01:09 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>   The xubuntu laptop here was running 10.10 and I just started a
>> distribution upgrade on it. 11.04 was the only one on offer. When this
>> upgrade is finished and I start the upgrade manager again will 11.11. be
>> offered?
>     Well! As some point during file download the OS decided that there was
> something wrong with the screensaver but did not offer options to fix it or
> turn it off. Since I had no way to see the display and determine if the
> upgrade was done, I switched to tty2, logged in as root, and killed
> xscreensaver. That locked the system and took away the cursor. No way to
> change console, move the cursor, or anything.
>
>     I'm now downloading the xubuntu-11.10.iso and will re-install.
> Fortunately, ~/ was backup on on a flash drive just a couple of days ago.
>
>     Has anyone else experienced this? I've done package and distribution
> upgrades before on that box and they always went smoothly.
>
> Rich
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Hi Rich,

11.10 has had some weird issues with xscreensaver especially in Ubuntu 
but I'm not sure
about Xubuntu. I know there has been some changes to the upgrade tool.

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Benjamin Kerensa
Team Lead, Ubuntu Oregon
bkerensa at ubuntu.com




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