| Kubuntu 7.10 Install: Dell Inspiron 1720 - Part 2 |
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| Tech Notes - Linux |
| Written by Rick |
| Thursday, 10 April 2008 07:57 |
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Installation went smooth enough. I left the laptop running last night upgrading packages. When I woke up, I had an error message indicating there was a problem reading a file during the upgrade. Ok, no problem. I'll just pack it up and rerun adept when I get to work. Not so lucky. Turns out the computer went into hibernation during the night and now the OS won't boot to KDE because it can't find a resume image. It says it's booted normally but I can't get X or KDM to start properly. I'm sure there is a solution available, I'll just have to research it. Followed these instructions found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/103148; ### man initramfs-tools : resume sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume add # in front of RESUME=XXXXx-XXX-XXXX-XXXX save sudo update-initramfs -u ### No luck. Got the error to go away, but still can't get X or KDM to run. After an hour of research to no avail, I opted to reinstall Kubuntu. After installation and reboot, I ran the system updates. That destroyed files and wouldn't let Kubuntu boot at all. Grub had missing files. Lesson learned. On this machine, you don't want to run an update spanning 6 months, at least not for Kubuntu 7.10. It's really hard to say which updated file broke the installation. So, OS installation #3 completed. Now I'm updating from 7.10 to Beta 8.04. We'll see how that goes.
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