[Gllug] Ubuntu Maverick upgrade

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:16 +0100, indigojo at blogistan.co.uk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Has anyone using Ubuntu Maverick and who did the routine upgrade in
> the last couple of days found that it's caused serious problems,
> including deleting or failing to detect GNOME settings, including
> their widget stylings and power daemon configurations? My laptop now
> hangs while "checking battery state", GDM doesn't display right (the
> user selector doesn't always appear at all), and I get an alert
> telling me the power configurations aren't installed correctly and to
> contact my administrator.
> 
> I also have a 64-bit Dell desktop machine which I haven't run the
> update on yet. I have filed a bug report on Launchpad but would like
> to know if anyone else is having similar problems.
> 
> Matt Smith
> 
> -- 
> 
> http://www.blogistan.co.UK/qt

Ubuntu still haven't quite got the update routine right.  Updating is
(at best) risky.  I did a complete reinstall, having backed /home up to
another drive first.  This is slightly more hassle, but is guaranteed to
work!

Chris


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