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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. During the upgrade, it asked me if I wanted to replace or merge my menu.lst. I decided to try out the "experimental" merge, not ...
  1. 04-27-2009 #1
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    9.04 Upgrade Kernel Install Error

    I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. During the upgrade, it asked me if I wanted to replace or merge my menu.lst. I decided to try out the "experimental" merge, not knowing full well of what it would do (I have a backup of menu.lst), because for some reason it always seems to set menu.lst with the wrong partitions and I have to go back and change it whenever I upgrade. At the end of upgrading to 9.04 I received this error:
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    Could not install 'linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic'

The upgrade will continue but the 'linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic' package may be in a not working state. Please consider submitting a bug report about it.

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
    What exactly does this merge do?

    It seems to boot fine on that kernel version, although my sound no longer works. I'm using proprietary drivers, should I try reinstalling them?

    Edit: Sound works on 2.6.27-11. Firefox crashes when a flash video starts.
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  2. 04-28-2009 #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by EdSquareCat
    What exactly does this merge do?
    It adds an entry for new kernel in existing menu.lst file instead of generating new. UUID and device IDs are not working fine in this method.
    Have you submitted Bug Report at LaunchPad?
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    It seems to boot fine on that kernel version, although my sound no longer works. I'm using proprietary drivers, should I try reinstalling them?
    You have to re-install all Proprietary Drivers after every kernel upgrade.
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    Edit: Sound works on 2.6.27-11. Firefox crashes when a flash video starts.
    Graphics Card driver problem. Re-install Driver.
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  3. 04-30-2009 #3
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    Reinstalling the sound driver fixed my sound, but reinstalling the graphics card driver did not solve the crashing Firefox problem. I've also tried an older driver, to no avail. I've submitted a bug report on the kernel install at LaunchPad.
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    Check if its a Firefox problem. Execute this
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    cd
mv .mozilla .mozilla.bak
    Launch Firefox now.
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    Firefox launches, but of course all of my settings are gone and I have no flash player to test.
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    You can import Bookmarks from bookmarks.html file. Look for bookmarks.html file in .mozilla.bak folder.
    For Flash, try to re-install it :
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    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
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  7. 05-04-2009 #7
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    Uninstalling and reinstalling flash has no effect.
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  8. 05-05-2009 #8
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    Strange... it seems it was a sound related problem. Uninstalling pulse audio fixed this problem, as well as another sound issue I had.
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