{"id":10,"date":"2006-10-20T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-10-20T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T01:39:19","slug":"efty-edge-rc1-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meta.net.nz\/~daniel\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/efty-edge-rc1-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgy Eft RC1 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seeing this<\/a> announcement for the Edgy Eft RC1 release, I decided to upgrade my Dapper laptop to Edgy. Thanks to the NZ mirror already being up to date, it didn’t take long to download the 700MB of packages that I needed.<\/p>\n

I’d like to say the upgrade went smoothly, but it didn’t. Part of that is my own fault – I accidentally used apt-get instead of aptitude to handle the upgrade, and so a lot of packages were missed, and some dependency resolution was fumbled which meant the upgrade process broke hard along the way.<\/p>\n

After manually removing a bunch of packages then getting the upgrade to restart, then repeating “aptitude dist-upgrade” about 6 times after it thought it’d finished, each time installing a couple of new packages, and then finally rebooting one more time because I couldn’t get X to start again, it all looked good.<\/p>\n

Except that when I logged in, GNOME didn’t appear to start. I killed X and added a new user, then logged in as them – worked fine. Tried my user – no go. I spent a long time trying to move various GNOME configs out of the way, and eventually resorted to creating a new blank homedir for myself – still wouldn’t work. So I rebooted one more time and it started working after that. Very<\/em> strange.<\/p>\n

I’d suggest waiting for the final release to upgrade, but if you do go ahead, make absolutely sure you use aptitude and not apt-get. It may also work better if you use the CD and boot into an upgrade mode, I can’t comment.<\/p>\n

I would file a bug, but I’m not sure it’ll help. I can’t pin down what was wrong because I used the wrong tool to upgrade. I have a Dapper install on my desktop at home, and I’ll try upgrading that next week when I get some free time, however it’ll probably “just work” by then anyway.<\/p>\n

New things noticed in Edgy Eft so far:<\/p>\n