Update from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha-3 has serious problems on AMD K-6 system

[Peter Belew]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Yesterday I downloaded the Lucid alpha-3 ISO and started to upgrade the following system from 8.04 LTS, after updating the 8.04 system to the latest packages. The upgrade took about 11 hours, and resulted in a partially functional system. I had previously booted the system from an 10.04 alpha3 live CD, which seemed to work reasonably well (This system is identified as 'max' in bug #528767, regarding problems with the live CD). So I decided to try actually upgrading this computer to Lucid.

After the initial update (11 hours later), the system seemed to be running lucid, so I rebooted. The X server would not start, even in low-res mode. BTW I noticed that a special mysql server was running (two instances) during the upgrade, taking up typically about half of CPU time (observed with 'top').

So this morning I booted into recovery mode, and used apt-get to update some more. Over 200 packages were installed.

After rebooting again, the system started up and tried to auto-login, but kept failing to start Gnome, so a login screen kept flashing onto the screen.

At this point, I logged in from another system using ssh, and generated an xorg.conf file using `Xorg -configure`. Also, I had saved an old xorg.conf file in my home directory. I combined the 2 (updating the X driver name and using the Monitor config from the Xorg-generated file into my old xorg.conf).

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)"
Linux max 2.6.32-14-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Sat Feb 20 05:38:50 UTC 2010 i586 GNU/Linux
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
cpu MHz : 400.929

MemTotal: 509076 kB

model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 400.929

I have enclosed the final xorg.conf and the one generated by Xorg -cofigure, and all the Xorg.n.log* files on the system currently. Note that there was a change in display drivers between the two LTS releases.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 1 13:11:27 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.132.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i586

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

After the system was successfully updated, I noticed that some mysql and mysql-server packages were missing. I had to reinstall mysql-client and mysql-server metapackages.

On the other hand, the openssh-server settings were maintained through the upgrades, so that I didn't have to change the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file in other systems.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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