On 3 May 2010 12:06, John Matthews <jake...@sky.com> wrote: > On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > > >> Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You > >> can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so > >> much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! > >> > > One other thing I should say is that so far I've upgraded 2 desktop PCs > > and one laptop from Karmic to Lucid and the upgrade process worked fine. > > I haven't experienced any problems with grub or config files myself. > > > > My PCs generally have a separate /boot partition. Just out of habit I > > tend to use /dev/sda1 for /boot and then have a couple of 10-15G > > partitions for / and the rest of the drive (or another partition on a > > different disk) for a common /home with a /swap at the end of the disk. > > > > Al > > > > > > > I wish that would have happened to me. I lost my Windows partition on > the PC, when I installed Karmic, and the new grub, when it had that > fault where it did something to the Windows partition. Still cant get > that back. Windows loads so far, and that is it. So have to use a > partitioned laptop for video stuff, which had problems with updating to > Lucid, it works, just. The Netbook, well, I thought I had completely > lost that, but managed to work out a way to get it back, now it seems to > work ok, but havent done much on there, for fear of breaking it. > > Saying all that, I am getting there. > > John > > -- > Ubuntu User #30817 > > I suffered this problem some time ago when I had 9.10 installed as a dual boot laptop (also on a Sky router although I do not think that is connected to the issue). In the end I found that it was the gnome network applet that was causing the issue. I replaced it with "wicd" and everything worked fine thereafter.
"sudo apt-get install wicd" will take care of the installtion and gnome network applet removal in one go. Regards Stu
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