There have been quite a few reports on the ubuntu forums about problems with upgrading, all kinds of little things seem to go wrong. I think their official line now is that you should do a fresh install rather then an upgrade - bit of pain on a 6 monthly distro but there you go.
<br><br>I'd try other peoples suggestions first though<br><br>Dan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Groves</b> <<a href="mailto:kevin.groves@kentpharm.co.uk">kevin.groves@kentpharm.co.uk
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Peter Childs wrote:<br>> Ever since I upgraded my home PC from Ubuntu
5.10 to Ubuntu 6.06 using<br>> the upgrade system, (Rather than a reinstall) DBus causes my machine<br>> to freeze. ending up with the need to hit the reboot button.<br>><br>Are you *really* sure it's DBUS? I had a strange random lockup and it
<br>came down to the longhaul module in the powersave system. Some bug in it<br>for the BIOS in the machine. Double check dmesg and /var/log/messages to<br>make sure theres no strange error messages during the boot process
<br>especially during module loading.<br><br>Kev,<br><br>> Currently I've got DBus system switched off and the only thing that<br>> does not work is the shutdown option in Gnome. I think is the HAL that<br>> actually causes the freeze. It does not really cause the computer to
<br>> panic as such but stop being able to communicate with all the<br>> hardware, Keyboard, Mouse Network, Screen, Harddisk, etc I think Linux<br>> is still running, but you can't do much withit once you can't contact
<br>> the hardware.<br>><br>> DBus from what I've managed to find out sounds far to complicated and<br>> under documentated to do its job properly. Its probably that modern<br>> graphical OS are complicated full stop.
<br>><br>> Any ideas would be helpful.<br>><br>> I did have had other version of Linux on the machine freeze in the<br>> same way with DBus too including SUSE if I remember correctly......<br>> But I just re-installed that some time ago.
<br>><br>> Any help would be most wellcome. Some how I would prefer to be able to<br>> reboot my machine using somthing other that Ctrl-Alt-Delete.<br>><br>> Peter.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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