Some more poking around revealed that I needed /etc/default/locale to contain LANG=en_US, not just the locale name, because it's sourced as a shell script.
With this change, X now starts on bootup (bad syntax in /etc/default/locale was crashing /etc/init.d/gdm, among other things). Feel free to mark this bug as resolved or closed or whatever. I feel quite competent to tweak the few minor things I still want to change. I wonder, though, if a a sanity check at the beginning of the upgrade wouldn't be a good idea. It might be nice to know that the problems encountered were not caused by the update. Thanks to all ++ kevin -- dapper -> hardy upgrade breaks system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242703 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
