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**Fintan** · May 03, 2010, 06:00 AM

Re: Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Hi,
Upgrades can be "difficult"

Have a look at /etc/apt/sources.list

do you have lucid?
like:

deb http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse

If so open a terminal and then do:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will update your system to the latest version / state.

bytw I always use that for updating/upgrading.

Let us know how it goes.

Hope this helps.

**anup** · May 03, 2010, 06:48 AM

Re: Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Hi,

Thanks for such a speedy response! Yeah, the sources.list looks correct from what I can tell.

I ran the update and dist-update and it downloaded these two:

Code:

The following packages will be upgraded:
 update-manager-core update-manager-kde
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Didn't notice anything happen after than (ran kpackagekit and sudo apt-get update again just to be sure).

I do think a distribution upgrade was done when I first did it, because it did report 10.04 on my system (but just that it was showing ubuntu on the splash screens and in the uname output, not kubuntu, though I am running KDE.)

Any thoughts on why the kernel was not added to the grub boot menu?

**Fintan** · May 03, 2010, 07:05 AM

Re: Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

fintan@fintanws2:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for fintan:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: ethais.tga
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-20-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-20-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-19-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sda8
Found Ubuntu 9.10 (9.10) on /dev/sdb6
done
fintan@fintanws2:~$

Hmm....grub issue?

have a look in /lib/plymouth/themes
do you have a kubuntu-logo folder?

I don't use kpakage, I use synaptic (much more stable)

Code:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

and you will find it in K->system

Open it up and do a search for plymouth.
if plymouth-kubuntu-logo is not installed do it from there.

You might have to edit with

Code:

kdesudo-kate

(from alt+f2):
/lib/plymouth/themes/plymouth.default to point to kubuntu-logo.

It should look like this:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Kubuntu Logo
Description=A theme that features a blank background with a logo.
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/blanco/kubuntu-logo.script

Report back and let us know.

**anup** · May 03, 2010, 07:47 AM

Re: Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Thanks for your speedy response again!

Yeah, I just did another grub-update and got this (same as when I tried before)

Code:

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-14-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

So it finds the .32 kernel, but menu.lst never seems to get updated with it... (Doing grep 32 /boot/grub/menu.lst finds nothing). Maybe a Grub issue as you say...

Regarding Plymouth:

I already seem to have it:

Code:

user@machine:/lib/plymouth/themes$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-05-02 17:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-05-02 17:12 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  34 2010-05-02 17:22 default.plymouth -> /etc/alternatives/default.plymouth
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-02 16:48 details
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-02 17:12 kubuntu-logo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 2010-05-02 17:16 text.plymouth -> /etc/alternatives/text.plymouth
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-02 17:05 ubuntu-text

user@machine:/lib/plymouth/themes$ more /etc/alternatives/default.plymouth 
[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Kubuntu Logo
Description=A theme that features a blank background with a logo.
ModuleName=script

[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo/kubuntu-logo.script

user@machine:/lib/plymouth/themes$ more /etc/alternatives/text.plymouth 
[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Ubuntu Text
Description=Text mode theme based on ubuntu-logo theme
ModuleName=ubuntu-text

It looks to me that kubuntu is default (and the images in the ImageDir are indeed Kubuntu), yet I don't see that as the boot splash. I don't know if text.plymouth is being used in preference to default.plymouth

**anup** · May 03, 2010, 10:44 AM

[SOLVED] Re: Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Found the solution. Your hint that it may be a grub issue led me to google that specifically (I kept googling ubuntu related stuff prior to that with little luck).

I found this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lu...ub/+bug/470490

One of the commenters in there noted that if the grub menu list had been manually modified in the past then it doesn't get updated during a distribution upgrade. I must have updated it manually in the past, but can't remember.

So, I did what it said: removed the menu.lst (after backing up) and ran sudo upgrade-grub so it created a brand new one, and this time it had the .32 kernel in it.

I rebooted and not only did it boot the latest kernel now, but the splash screen was now correctly Kubuntu, not Ubuntu! (Haven't shut down yet, but assuming that should also show kubuntu instead of ubuntu). Not sure how that is related, but I am happy enough. The kubuntu splash resolution is probably a bit low or stretched for my 1900x1200 screen size, but I will live with that. It is cleaner than earlier versions!

So far so good (hopefully I won't regret typing that

)

**pablo173** · May 03, 2010, 06:32 PM

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

I had same problem. I think the developers put out a Kubuntu update notice that really gets you Ubuntu, which, I think, looks for the Gnome desktop instead of KDE. Here's what worked for me:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Then reboot.

**oshunluvr** · May 04, 2010, 05:25 PM

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

There seems to be some confusion in this thread on several topics:

1) Grub
If you installed Kubuntu Karmic as a fresh install, then upgraded it to Lucid - You're using GRUB2 aka GRUB-PC. If you installed Jaunty, then upgraded to Karmic you MAY be using the old grub aka grub-legacy OR grub-pc depending on if you upgraded it or not. If your using the command line "update-grub" (not "grub-update") then your updating grub-pc version 1.97 or 1.98.

There is no menu.lst file for grub-pc, it doesn't exist. The config file the boot menu loads from is /boot/grub/grub.cfg and is not intended to be edited by users. There are many posts and web-pages on how to edit grub-pc.

If you've kept grub-legacy and still boot with it, that's OK - but update-grub won't do anything for you.

When they began offering grub-pc for testing - you could install it and chainload to it from grub-legacy. I wouldn't recommend this for a beginner user or even a moderately experienced one. I never tried this technique so I can't speak to it.

If your using "grub-update" then it appears you're using a early release version of grub-pc. You probably should upgrade to the latest version as there have been a lot of bug fixes. You can tell which version by typing "grub-probe --version" in a terminal.

2) Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu
All versions of Kubuntu (and Xubuntu, Edubuntu et. al. ad nausium) ARE Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the under lying distribution we are all using. The difference is by installing kubuntu-desktop you are installing the kde desktop and the kde set of tools and utilities, rather than the gnome desktop and tools which is the ubuntu default. Think of it like layers - Ubuntu is the base and gnome, kde, xfce or which ever desktop manager you choose is the pretty top layer. I think there were some issues with doing the upgrade rather than a clean install with the splash screens, especially if you used a beta release.

As far as the plymouth splash screens there are lots of issues with it - it's rather new for public use.

**anup** · May 05, 2010, 04:15 PM

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Hi. Thanks for those clarifications. I owe a clarification myself:

Earlier I mentioned the steps I took and said I ran sudo upgrade-grub. That should have read sudo update-grub.

When I ran that it created a new menu.lst file (because I moved the original to a backup).

From that launchpad link I gave it implied that upgrading to 10.04 from 9.10 which itself was an upgrade from an earlier version would mean the menu.lst file would not get updated and I'd have to recreate it. So running update-grub did the trick. Looking at my package list I see I have grub-pc 1.98, but it did create that new menu.lst file which then contained the .32 version of the kernel which I now do boot with. I don't see /boot/grub/grub.cfg that you mentioned...

**oshunluvr** · May 05, 2010, 04:45 PM

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

I suspect the menu.lst configuration is due to the upgrade path rather than a clean install. Open a terminal and type

cat /usr/sbin/update-grub

I suspect you'll see

Code:

#!/bin/sh -e
exec grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/menu.lst "$@"

rather than

Code:

#!/bin/sh -e
exec grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg "$@"

which is what mine says - just for interest - post what you find.

**anup** · May 05, 2010, 05:38 PM

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrading from Kubuntu 9.10 installs Ubuntu 10.04

Hi,

I don't have a 2-line file like yours -- mine is some 40K in size...

Doing grep grub-mkconfig /usr/sbin/update-grub didn't find anything...

Yes, I did an upgrade rather than full install. Apparently that means the menu.lst file doesn't get updated automatically, even though the new kernel gets added on to the system.

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