Let down by Linux, episode 3246346
Aug. 25th, 2008 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today I decided to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10, and wondered what problem I'd hit this time. Answer: it runs into this lovely bug, where the installer crashes, apparently due to version mismatches between the C runtime libraries and the Perl language. The fact that these are 2 of the most commonly used and tested parts of the operating system has not stopped this problem from arising, nor has it meant anybody has been able to fix it in the year it's been known about. *sigh*
Now I have to try and work out how to get around it. A fun way to spend a day off.
EDIT: I managed to grab all the packages at the command line and install them as intended. Then I rebooted, and it now hangs at 'running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local). If I switch to another terminal, and try to run 'startx', it fails with the 'no screens' error that means it's trashed your drivers and/or settings. Disappointing but not at all surprising.
Now I have to try and work out how to get around it. A fun way to spend a day off.
EDIT: I managed to grab all the packages at the command line and install them as intended. Then I rebooted, and it now hangs at 'running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local). If I switch to another terminal, and try to run 'startx', it fails with the 'no screens' error that means it's trashed your drivers and/or settings. Disappointing but not at all surprising.
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Date: 2008-08-25 09:40 pm (UTC)Yet again it completely fails to cope with graphics card drivers. It's quite poor, really! There are loads of people with this on the Ubuntu forums, it seems.
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Date: 2008-08-27 04:56 pm (UTC)sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Will that help you at all?
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Date: 2008-08-27 05:00 pm (UTC)On reboot, I needed to reconfigure the X server manually, since Linux always, every single time, shits all over itself if you try and upgrade when you aren't using one of its standard graphics drivers (say, because you actually want to use proper ones from Nvidia). Once I did that, I managed to boot into KDE again, where it looks like everything might be working, though it's hard to tell for sure.