Yesterday I upgraded Dapper (64bit) to Edgy. At the end, it worked, but there were some weirdnesses along the way. I will write a step-by-step of the procedures, including the issue I am having with KDE after the upgrade completed.
- Changed all occurances of "dapper" to "edgy" in souces.list;
- Opened Adept to update the repositories and do the available changes;
- In the list of what was to be done, Adept was going to be removed (!!!!!), so I asked to update instead of remove;
- Downloaded all packages, but there was one marked as ERROR: libxfixes3. I have no idea on its use;
- When applying the updates, Adept had to quit because some dependencies would break. Adept itself would be removed, even though I asked to update and not remove. This was not smelling good... after all these months, the Dapper=>Edgy update was still bugged, damned, doomed;
- Opened Synaptic. Looked for updates and commit it. Everything went fine this time. Closed the program, backed data up and saved in a FAT32 partition. At this time, no media was being automatically mounted. Rebooted the PC;
- Loaded the new kernel (generic, and not the AMD-K8, not available at this time), the progress bar is not continuous blue, it has some vertical stripes now. And what I was already expecting: KDE didn't load. Of course, needed to download the modules-restricted for the kernel. Download via aptitude, installed and rebooted;
- Loaded the new kernel, and KDE didn't fire up again, so I reinstalled xserver-xorg-core, as suggested in the update guide. And there was a mess with some packages which had their names changed, mainly Python. It wasn't Python2.4 anymore, just plain Python. Many KDE packages seem to have new names, so they were removed, re-downloaded and installed. Had to run many "aptitude dist-upgrade" to fix all the dependencies. After that, nothing else was available to update, "apt-get -f install" showed no broken dependencies, everything seemed fine now;
- Rebooted, loaded new kernel and KDE started. Everything was there, the way I left before, but wallpapers had some weird colors, and videos too, like a gamma problem, which of course was ok because I didn't mess with it. Reinstalled "nvidia-glx", restarted KDM and everything was fine again;
- I had no time to mess with the interface because I was late for work, so I just finished the installation, and here comes the issue: after clicking K menu and asking to either logoff, reboot computer or shutdown, it is taking an unusual amount of time to do it. In Dapper, it used to take 2 or 3 seconds to do what I selected, but now it takes something between 15 and 20 seconds.
Anyone else experiencing it? Any ideas on what could be going on?
Thanks in advance.
- Changed all occurances of "dapper" to "edgy" in souces.list;
- Opened Adept to update the repositories and do the available changes;
- In the list of what was to be done, Adept was going to be removed (!!!!!), so I asked to update instead of remove;
- Downloaded all packages, but there was one marked as ERROR: libxfixes3. I have no idea on its use;
- When applying the updates, Adept had to quit because some dependencies would break. Adept itself would be removed, even though I asked to update and not remove. This was not smelling good... after all these months, the Dapper=>Edgy update was still bugged, damned, doomed;
- Opened Synaptic. Looked for updates and commit it. Everything went fine this time. Closed the program, backed data up and saved in a FAT32 partition. At this time, no media was being automatically mounted. Rebooted the PC;
- Loaded the new kernel (generic, and not the AMD-K8, not available at this time), the progress bar is not continuous blue, it has some vertical stripes now. And what I was already expecting: KDE didn't load. Of course, needed to download the modules-restricted for the kernel. Download via aptitude, installed and rebooted;
- Loaded the new kernel, and KDE didn't fire up again, so I reinstalled xserver-xorg-core, as suggested in the update guide. And there was a mess with some packages which had their names changed, mainly Python. It wasn't Python2.4 anymore, just plain Python. Many KDE packages seem to have new names, so they were removed, re-downloaded and installed. Had to run many "aptitude dist-upgrade" to fix all the dependencies. After that, nothing else was available to update, "apt-get -f install" showed no broken dependencies, everything seemed fine now;
- Rebooted, loaded new kernel and KDE started. Everything was there, the way I left before, but wallpapers had some weird colors, and videos too, like a gamma problem, which of course was ok because I didn't mess with it. Reinstalled "nvidia-glx", restarted KDM and everything was fine again;
- I had no time to mess with the interface because I was late for work, so I just finished the installation, and here comes the issue: after clicking K menu and asking to either logoff, reboot computer or shutdown, it is taking an unusual amount of time to do it. In Dapper, it used to take 2 or 3 seconds to do what I selected, but now it takes something between 15 and 20 seconds.
Anyone else experiencing it? Any ideas on what could be going on?
Thanks in advance.
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