Upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 will not boot

[tomdean]

When I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04, several errors flashed by too fast to read. The system initially rebooted. All settings, suchg as colors, xterm setup, etc., were strange. evolution had a white-washed-out appearance. Xterm were fuscia background with white letters, should have been white background with black letters.

Rebooted.

Two errors like /dev/null no such device appeared on the screen.

Rebooted - got fuscia background screen with no foreground - hung for 20 minutes.

Any suggestions?

[tomdean (tomdean)]

When the system hung, no response to the keyboard and no mouse pointer. Ctrl-Alt-F1 was ignored.

Used the hardware reset button after 20 minutes to reboot the system.

[tomdean (tomdean)]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:21 +0000, Stenten wrote:
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => update-manager (Ubuntu)
>
I booted into failsafe mode. Worked.

Booted again. ^-right click produced a twm menu. Selected xterm.
Opened an xterm.

Rebooted. At the login prompt, clicked along the bottom of the screen
and located the display menu. Selected gnome. Worked.

The display driver was not providing enough contrast to allow the menu
selection to be visible.

Installed the ATI closed-source driver - see the washed out display
question.

Rebooted. The system came up normally.

> sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
       resources: irq:29 memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
memory:feaf0000-feafffff ioport:c000(size=256)
memory:feac0000-feadffff(prefetchable)

Everything seems to work.

The problem was replacing the ATI driver with the open source driver and
making the default window manager twm.

If there are no other complaints of this problem, please close the bug
report.

Thank you,