Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade has allowed me to spend more time with my family… By breaking – very badly… Now rather than do stuff on the computer, I spend quiet evenings arguing with my 5-yo about cleaning up her room, changing nappies for the 0.59 yo and discussing the situation in the middle-east with my wife…
Thank you Ubuntu!
*sheesh* what a mess.
I started with Ubuntu 6.04 and have used the upgrade path each time – either apt-get dist-upgrade or the upgrade tool. I’ve had to rebuild my machine atleast 4 times as a consequence. You’d think I’d've learned by now…
I’m rather frustrated. Each time I do a fresh install I have to re install and configure everything.
This time I was using the upgrade tool – which does not show you what it is doing – could not get the console to show anything – so when it hung downloading (on er… about day 2 of the download), I could not see why…
so I shut down the GUI and ran apt-get dist-upgrade instead
fine.
installed, rebooted… er. no dual screen. OK, check the nvidia drivers. Ah, need to activate the nvidia 180 driver… OK, reboot… no gdm. bummer. OK, reconfigure xorg – xorg not installed. install xorg… can’t – can’t remove nvidia driver. remove nvidia driver – does not exist. install then remove nvidia driver- no install candidate. insert several more hours of frustraction then *scream*
so I’ve burned the ISO to CD and installed on a fresh partition…
said it before… what a mess.
addendum – As an example – things that don’t work now – no pdf viewer from firefox, no youtube vids. Isn’t it about time they got over their culture war on closed source?
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