Ubuntu upgrade

[Draciron]

Helping somebody who did the upgrade option and now some really odd stuff happening. Hoping to avoid having to go over with CD and reinstall completely.

After doing the upgrade some odd problems developed.

Screen saver password is locked on despite being unchecked.

The window decorations are on the Left like a Mac's would be and changing the theme does not fix the problem.

User is running Gnome.

Had to reinstall Java as well.

Any ideas what would cause these issues?

[dancingdog777]

I assume you mean they upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04?
"window decorations are on the Left like a Mac's" - that's the way Canonical have designed 10.04 which as you know is an LTS rather than just a distro.

[Bemk]

The problem with the icons is kind of funny, because cannonical has made it default.

(assuming you want to keep gnome)
To change them back open gconf-editor using the alt+f2 key
This takes you into some kind of Gnome-registry editor.

Go to Apps > Metacity > general
Put the value of buttonlayout to:

menu:minimize,maximize,close

This should change the layout back to how it used to be in earlier releases.

I must say I don't like the change either.
I don't like the new theme at all, but that's easy to change.
Hope this helps.

(assuming the user wants to go back)
What window manager was the user running before and is it still installed? If so the only thing that has to be done is to sign in with the other window manager selected and click the make this default button or something.

If you were used to another login manager, you might to say so, for then I suppose I have a different solution for you.

(general)
What command did you use to upgrade:
do-release-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade
or did you do it graphically?

To the java and screensaver problem I have no answer, but maybe google or someone else on the forums might help you out on that part.

[Draciron]

Yup LTS 10.4
Upgrading is a serious pain and this is a machine I'll lay hands on twice a year maybe. Want long term support. DIstro should last nearly as long as the machine.


Thanks on the help with the icons. That's a pain but not horrible. However the inability to choose a theme over the default is a serious bug in my opinion. Drastically reduces customization.

Upgraded from update app and it hosed the system hard. Can't see repositories aside from standard stuff. So can't install Java the way I normally do with apt-get, can't get flash installed either or any of the other element.

The screen saver deal is seriously botched.

I've dl'd the CD going to wipe and load for only the 2nd time in the 12 years I've been running Linux. The upgrade is THAT bothched. Other time I wiped and loaded was my own stupidit, a chown from / as root with recursive switch LOL..

[Bemk]

Yup LTS 10.4
Upgrading is a serious pain and this is a machine I'll lay hands on twice a year maybe. Want long term support. DIstro should last nearly as long as the machine.


Thanks on the help with the icons. That's a pain but not horrible. However the inability to choose a theme over the default is a serious bug in my opinion. Drastically reduces customization.

Upgraded from update app and it hosed the system hard. Can't see repositories aside from standard stuff. So can't install Java the way I normally do with apt-get, can't get flash installed either or any of the other element.

The screen saver deal is seriously botched.

I've dl'd the CD going to wipe and load for only the 2nd time in the 12 years I've been running Linux. The upgrade is THAT bothched. Other time I wiped and loaded was my own stupidit, a chown from / as root with recursive switch LOL..

Well, now we see why people call it convenient to split the filesystem into a home partition and a / partition.

Maybe you could also try to see which repositories are used. The flash package isn't in the general repository, because it's closed source.

Java is partially open source, but I don't know in which repository that comes.

Anyway, be sure to make back-ups.

[Draciron]

Well, now we see why people call it convenient to split the filesystem into a home partition and a / partition.

Maybe you could also try to see which repositories are used. The flash package isn't in the general repository, because it's closed source.

Java is partially open source, but I don't know in which repository that comes.

Anyway, be sure to make back-ups.

Ironically I'm an outspoken advocate of using dfferent partitions for / /home and /data as well in cases of high volume apps like MySQL who's logs can fill a partition in a hurry if you have detailed logging.

The repositiories are enabled. Checked it in Synaptics and 3 other sources but when I go out for java or anything in them no luck.