[ale] Ubuntu upgrade

Mon Jul 5 18:13:38 EDT 2010

One of the things I learned the hard way about Ubuntu is that there are two
supported upgrade paths:  upgrade from LTS to LTS OR remain current.  If you
were on 8.04 Hardy Heron then you could upgrade straight to 10.04 Lucid
Lynx.  But if you were on 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and attempted to upgrade
straight to 10.04 without first going to 9.04 Karmic Koala then there were
likely some issues.  I think getting out of that mess required a
Nuke-N-Pave.

My first experience with Jaunty wasn't very positive because I decided to
try it first on a second partition.  Jaunty's move to GRUB2 lead to some
issues and a lot of learning about GRUB and GRUB2.  I ultimately
Nuke-N-Paved this system due to that and some issues of my own creation with
the old installation.

Good luck with it all.

Josh Kite

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM, scott <scott at sboss.net> wrote:

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> I just finished upgrading 20 (or so) Ubuntu 9.10 servers to 10.4 without
> Nuke-N-Pave method and I had no issues.  I dont think that is the best
> way (normally) to upgrade.  And majority of them with 9.04 before that.
>  Just upgrading in-place version after version after version.
>
> BUT since this server is toast, it is probably the fastest way to fix
> the issues.
>
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > It sounds to me like you have a mixture of old and new Grub config
> > files. This could have come from the way you upgraded Ubuntu. When I am
> > upgrading to a new version, as I did for Ubuntu 10.04, I back up my home
> > directory and do a "nuke and pave". That is, I completely reformat the
> > partition and install Linux anew. This was an especially good idea for
> > 10.04, because they moved to a new version of Grub. If I go to
> > /boot/grub, I don't even have a menu.lst file, since Grub doesn't rely
> > on that file for configuration in version 1.98. And version 1.98 is
> > standard for Ubuntu 10.04. The config file for that version is grub.cfg.
> > Open Synaptic (or other package manager) and see what version of Grub
> > you have installed. So, if you didn't do a nuke and pave when you
> > upgraded, I would recommend that. Yes, you will have to reinstall some
> > programs. But it's worth it.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:19 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org
> > <mailto:drifter at oppositelock.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Still fighting this and having problems as my Linux background
> >     (shallow as
> >     it is) is Red Hat, not Debian.
> >
> >     This netbook upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
> >     It starts up in runlevel 3 -- at least that's what I think it is.
> >     All I get is a (root) prompt. if I type "startx" [Ent] after logging
> in,
> >     the hard drive churns for a few seconds and my desktop appears.
> >     There is no /etc/inittab file.
> >
> >     Ubuntu is >supposed< to be the "easy to use" Linux distro that
> doesn't
> >     do STUPID things like this.  Anyone coming from Windoze would have no
> >     clue what was wrong or how to fix it.
> >
> >     I, at least, know that somewhere I have to add the command "startx."
> >     I just do not know what file I need to edit, or where it might be
> >     hidden.
> >     It doesn't seem to be in /boot or /boot/grub.
> >
> >     Sean
> >
> >     PS  The file /boot/grub/menu.lst has the following after the list
> >     of default options:
> >
> >     title       Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-23-generic
> >     uuid       1866e268-96e3-4aaf-b727-b66140d931a3
> >     kernel   /vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic root=UUID=99b3c22....ro
> >     quiet splash
> >     initrd     /initrd.img-2.6.32.23-generic
> >     quiet
> >
> >     This is followed by the same kernel (recovery mode) followed by four
> >     more
> >     pairs of kernel entries ending up with 2.6.28-15.
> >     Should the last line in the block above be "startx"?
> >
> >
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> >
> >     On Sunday 04 July 2010 19:53:38 Brian Pitts wrote:
> >     > On 07/04/2010 06:43 PM, drifter wrote:
> >     > > Okay; I upgraded the Ubuntu install on my netbook from 9.whatever
> >     > > to 10.whatever.
> >     > > Apparently I now need to edit the grub boot menu as the OS now
> boots
> >     > > into runlevel 3. On Fedora/RedHat the runlevel used to be set in
> >     > > /etc/inittab  but there doesn't seem to be any such file on this
> >     box.
> >     > >
> >     > > So how do I get to the grub boot file to edit it to start in
> >     Runlevel
> >     > > 5 and, if necessary, tell it to startX?
> >     >
> >     > Runlevels 2-5 are the same in Ubuntu and probably most other
> >     > Debian-derived distributions. I just checked a working Ubuntu 10.04
> >     > desktop and it is at runlevel 2.
> >     >
> >     > So, I don't think the runlevel is your problem.
> >     >
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