[aklug] Re: Upgrading Xubuntu 10.04 to 12.04

William,

Can you share the tail end of dmesg after you plug in a usb device? =20
Preferrably a memory stick.

Mike B.

Quoting William Attwood <wattwood@gmail.com>:

> My workstation lost USB support. Can't access anything.
> On Apr 29, 2012 11:03 PM, "barsalou" <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Thought folks might be interested in how upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04
>> went.
>>
>> The official release happened on the 26th.
>>
>> The plan includes using the update-manager gui tool. Since most folks
>> I would talk to about upgrading would likely use that tool, having
>> first hand knowledge of issues seemed appropriate.
>>
>> Here are the links for documents that were followed:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PreciseUpgrades
>>
>> Other reading indicating that removing "third-party" repositories may
>> be helpful for a successful upgrade.
>>
>>
>> Somewhere there was a reference to needing 5G, since the system is set
>> up with LVM it occurred to me that this 5G would be spread over
>> several of the mount points. On this system they are:
>>
>> /
>> /boot
>> /home
>> /tmp
>> /usr
>> /var
>>
>> /var was initially used to store the packages that were being and
>> needed approximately 1Gig up until the point it needed a reboot to =3D20
>> complete the install.
>>
>> The install was started at 11am and finished about 3 hours later =3D20
>> including downloading and answering questions about the install, which =
=3D20
>> config files to keep or change, etc.
>>
>> After the reboot and subsequent issues it took the following:
>>
>> /var - 1Gig
>> /usr - 300Mb
>> /tmp, /boot and / actually reduced in size
>>
>> The only thing that makes sense to me is that the 5Gig was referring =3D2=
0
>> to a Desktop upgrade and not for the Xubuntu version that is being =3D20
>> used on this box.
>>
>>
>>
>> Errors that I ran into:
>>
>> Warning: Mirror file cannot be read
>>
>> This seems like an issue with one of the repositories that are in the
>> sources file. It doesn't say which one. Didn't seem to affect =3D20
>> anything in an obvious way.
>>
>> At one point there was a prompt to reboot to complete the install, =3D20
>> however, this resulted in getting dumped into the Grub prompt....bummer.
>>
>> For whatever reason, it didn't like the fact that I had a separate lvm =
=3D20
>> for root and boot so I needed to issue the following commands to =3D20
>> initially get the system up and running:
>>
>> set root=3D3D(rootvg-lvboot) # this is where the kernel and initrd images
>> were
>> linux /vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=3D3D/dev/mapper/rootvg-lvroot # this=
 =3D20
>> is / part
>> initrd /initrd-3.2.0-24-generic
>>
>> Keep note that the / was required in front of the vmlinuz and initrd =3D2=
0
>> file names
>>
>> After the system came up, I re-installed grub using the proper =3D20
>> grub-install command.
>>
>> It seems to be working and the VirtualBox setup upgraded without any
>> hassle.
>>
>> If any other issues pop up, I'll post more info.
>>
>> Good luck if you are thinking of doing this.
>>
>> Mike B.
>>
>>
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Received on Mon Apr 30 22:11:21 2012