Here are a few things that happened during my upgrade from Edgy to
Feisty. In general, there were some buggy/broken php.ini replacement
handling, buggy /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist handling, and a loss of X
after reboot for my NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go. I love Kubuntu, but the
upgrade to Feisty wasn't as smooth as I hoped. I understand it is still
in beta, so the details of my problems are mentioned here:
1. PHP
During Fetching and installing the upgrades, it was at about 63% and I received
the following prompt:
Configuring php5-cli:
A new version of configuration file /etc/php5/cli/php.ini is
available, but your version has been locally modified.
- install the package maintainer's version
- keep your currently-installed version
- show the differences between the versions
- show a side-by-side difference between the versions
- start a new shell to examine the situation
What would you like to do about php.ini?
When I picked option 4, there was a long delay (a minute?) before the
comparison started. I expected kompare or something that is more easily
followed than a standard diff. Once the MORE prompts started, I didn't
know how to stop the differences to pick another method out of fear of
killing the whole upgrade.
I then picked option 5 and received the following error:
/usr/bin/ucf: line 954: /dev/tty: No such device or address
Suggestions...
- Make the shell work.
- Have a way to exit the diff.
- Have a MORE prompt that allows more options such as quit. php.ini is a
large text file, so a diff is virtually useless for many people.
- Option 5 makes no sense if there is no way to look at the php.ini file that
is going to be installed (since the file name isn't given) to do any comparison
on my own.
- It'd be nice if there was a way to have some of these questions not halt the
whole process. Perhaps rename the old php.ini and install the new one, or
install the new one as php.ini.newversion and then ask this question at the end
of the upgrade.
- Have an option to rename existing and install one from package.
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2. busybox-initramfs
- At Fetching and installing the upgrades: 68%... Installed busybox-initramfs
and warning to keep or replace /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
- Noticed that in this case you have /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.dpkg-new, which
make more sense than how PHP was handled. It was easier for me to do a
kompare or something on my own at the command prompt.
- Noted that it was handled differently than php.ini because it wasn't a menu
of options in a text window. This was
an actual GUI screen with a diff already done for me.
- The "SHOW DIFFERENCE >>>" does nothing. The difference was already in a
visible textbox.
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3. libapaache2-mod-php5
- Got the following message:
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.2.1-0ubuntu1) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell
buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Modified configuration file
new version of configuration file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini is
available, but your version has been locally modified.
1. install the package maintainer's version
2. keep your currently-installed version
3. show the differences between the versions
4. show a side-by-side difference between the versions
5. start a new shell to examine the situation
What would you like to do about php.ini?
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4. X failed to start after upgrade
My laptop has a GeForce4 4200 Go. Even though I was using the proprietary
drivers, it would be nice if there was a warning that this upgrade may break
compatibility and ask if I want to revert to the free driver or some other
generic driver while backing up x.org.conf.
It was a pain to get the NVIDIA drivers working again, which I finally found a
helpful site that walks through the process.
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/nvidia.run
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SRU: updates necessary for Kubuntu Upgrade Tool in Edgy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84717
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