The beta for Ubuntu 7.04 'Feisty Fawn' went live yesterday, so I did a force upgrade to test out the upgrade process and see how feisty this fawn really was.
My answer: damn feisty
First things first, when the computer reboots, I get dumped to a command line because the kernel update broke the nvidia-glx driver. Now, I can handle the command line. I mess around with some config files and logs (thank Eris for Linux's system logs; I mean, I can actually DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM with them), and I find that the driver version was different from the kernel, so I needed to update my drivers. I decide to install the latest drivers from nvidia's website, then restart GDM, which launches X. Back in business.
Mostly. Turns out Ubuntu has a new restricted drivers program which gives you information about drivers they can't support. I use it to enable 3D on my video card, but it won't let me. So, I decide to reinstall the nvidia-glx driver, and bork X again. After I fix X, I find that, essentially, glx is not enable, and cannot be loaded.
Long story short, I did a clean install of Feisty and everything works now. I'll be reinstalling software for a few more days, as I need it, but everything works now, and the beta testing can continue. Well, restarting X, resuming from hibernate and shutting down are all broked, but that's a problem in the release itself, so I just have to wait for the patch to correct it.
Spring break is now, basically, over, so it's back to class this week. I haven't made as much progress on my Hobbes paper, but I have the topic better defined, so I can start work on it this week. It's not due until the end of the semester, anyway.
Nothing more to really go into now.
My answer: damn feisty
First things first, when the computer reboots, I get dumped to a command line because the kernel update broke the nvidia-glx driver. Now, I can handle the command line. I mess around with some config files and logs (thank Eris for Linux's system logs; I mean, I can actually DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM with them), and I find that the driver version was different from the kernel, so I needed to update my drivers. I decide to install the latest drivers from nvidia's website, then restart GDM, which launches X. Back in business.
Mostly. Turns out Ubuntu has a new restricted drivers program which gives you information about drivers they can't support. I use it to enable 3D on my video card, but it won't let me. So, I decide to reinstall the nvidia-glx driver, and bork X again. After I fix X, I find that, essentially, glx is not enable, and cannot be loaded.
Long story short, I did a clean install of Feisty and everything works now. I'll be reinstalling software for a few more days, as I need it, but everything works now, and the beta testing can continue. Well, restarting X, resuming from hibernate and shutting down are all broked, but that's a problem in the release itself, so I just have to wait for the patch to correct it.
Spring break is now, basically, over, so it's back to class this week. I haven't made as much progress on my Hobbes paper, but I have the topic better defined, so I can start work on it this week. It's not due until the end of the semester, anyway.
Nothing more to really go into now.
marvel:
That made my head spin.
marvel:
Clearly, you need more candy, sugary cereal & cartoons in your life 