Ubuntu Upgrade

From 6.10 to 7.10

No major problems I can recall. I was a seamless upgrade as far as I can remember.

From 7.10 to 8.04

Done on August the 12th 2008.

I did the upgrade from GNOME desktop. Everything worked fine until it froze 5 minutes before the end of the process on the Generating locales... line. Fortunately solutions for that problem are described there. To sum up:

• Reboot your machine.
• Press ESC to enter the GRUB menu.
• Select the recovery mode for the kernel version xxx.14.
• Login as root and run dpkg --configure -a.
• Reboot your machine.
• Open a GNOME Failsafe session for the X login screen.
• Run dpkg --configure -a one more time.

After doing this the upgrade seems to be complete. Unfortunately for me I had some trouble with my mouse as I tried the describe on the Ubuntu Forum. It was like my mouse was doing double click instead of simple click. Turns out it was a misconfiguration of the X server. To fix it:

• Do X -configure from the recovery console to regenerate the X configuration in xorg.conf.new.
• Replace /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the newly generated file.
  • You may want to keep the mouse and keyboard section from your original xorg.conf to preserve keyboard layout and specific mouse configuration. Double check the Identifier for mouse and keyboard are the ones referred by the ServerLayout section.
  • I also put back into my new xorg.conf some of my original Screen section to preserve the Modes.