Comments on: Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta

By: Michael Skotiniotis

Michael Skotiniotis — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:10:57 +0000

I have the same problem as Alexander Rodriguez. Granted i sort of left the mahine to update on its own. When i came back it hadnt prompted me to restart, and nothing was working. Shutting it down and restarting ended up in me watching the ubuntu logo and nothing happening. When in recovery mode i spotted a bunch of errors which the machine fixed, but the alarming thing is that it still doesnt load. It says that the kernel cannot sinc and that there is a probelm with init! ( i am not quite sure of the exact statement)

I have no ubuntu distro now, and i really need it.

Can anyone help?

By: Allen Riddell

Allen Riddell — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:24:33 +0000

Hey Todd, I’ve got an Averatec as well. There’s a bug that affects Averatec (and Philips) laptops in Feisty. Check out: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/90271

There’s a short-term fix: add acpi=noirq to your grub kernel boot options.

By: Eric B

Eric B — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:34:02 +0000

So far so good. This helped me out a lot. I was getting the error mentioned above before running gpg and the control C option. What is that exactly. I hate to have a solution, but no idea as to what it did.

By: tom gilchrist

tom gilchrist — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:30:44 +0000

I tried repeatedly to upgrade my Edgy install to Feisty on my Averatec 3200 notebook (has 512 MB RAM, Mobile Athlon XP-M 2200+ chip & 802.11g wireless)- no joy. Also tried using a live CD of Feisty to do a completely clean install- same end result. I do get the login screen, but the mouse stops/starts intermittently for no apparent reason. I once got through the login process, but after 20 minutes, it never made it to the desktop. Has anyone else had this prob? Edgy screams on this computer (and I’ve since reloaded it), but I’m tremendously envious of *everyone* else running 7.04. Help!

By: DrM

DrM — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:46:09 +0000

There is a blank too much in the sed command.
Should read
sudo sed -e ’s/\edgy/feisty/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list

Otherwise it worked perfectly,

Thanks!

By: Alexander Rodriguez

Alexander Rodriguez — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:24:58 +0000

Hello, its a great manual so i have a problem. I use the GUI upgrade version and later than reboot the machine this no boot, I try with recovery mode and this give me a error message referent to modules loading… great eh???
Now I write this message using System Rescue CD, my real frend, and I dont know how solve my problem, simply my machine dont boot…
thanks for any sugerence…

By: Anders Berggreen

Anders Berggreen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:07:40 +0000

Is it possible to perform the upgrade to Feisty from Edgy where the later isn’t an english version but a danish?

By now I really don’t care if my Ubuntu is in english or danish.. now I know my way around in it.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:22:51 +0000

fyi, I fixed my ‘fonts = squares’ problem, by semi-blindly navigating to synaptic, and hit the buttons successfully to that all would update. I tried various ‘aptitude’ commands to no avail. but that was yesterday and I see Daniel Clark’s command seems to achieve an identical fix. At any rate, once the update finished and I restarted, everything has been groovy.

By: Daniel Clark

Daniel Clark — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:11:48 +0000

I found I had to do:
gksu -- update-manager -c -d
to avoid getting errors.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:58:03 +0000

edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file using the following command

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

look for medibuntu put # on starting of the lines save and exit the file

now you need to update the source list using the following command

sudo apt-get update

By: Leander Conferido

Leander Conferido — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:14:23 +0000

How do I comment out the medibuntu source list? What are the exact commands that I should type? Thanks.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:54:42 +0000

you need to comment out medibuntu source list from /etc/apt/sources.list file

By: Leander Conferido

Leander Conferido — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:27:41 +0000

I followed your guide but the thing is this error message appeared:

W: GPG error: http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com edgy Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783

What should I do to remedy this error? Thanks.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:47:38 +0000

I can report the same font issue, totally identical description. I’ve no idea, nor time spent as to what may be the problem, so far. But this is just a test machine, really.

By: Litos

Litos — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:43:30 +0000

Oh, boy… Everything went fine and dandy, except for one little detail:

My fonts are dead!!! Instead of letters, I get tiny squares all over the menus and system stuff (I can read the terminal and the contents of non-system stuff, like Firefox and Amarok, though…)

Any idea how to mend this thing? Any help would be very appreciated

Bye!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:50:06 +0000

jason thanks for your feedback i have updated the tutorial now

By: Jason Watkins

Jason Watkins — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:30:57 +0000

Great tutorial! The c/l option worked for me.

GUI upgrade went well, but it could not find two upgrade repositories.

Some of the explanation could be a bit more concise…

gksu “update-manager -c -d” --This command fails, as “ud**” is not listed as an allowed parameter.

Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as root. Change every occurrence of dapper to edgy. --Don’t you mean from edgy to feisty?

sudo sed -e ’s/\edgy/ feisty/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list --Missing parameter, line 1

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:51:48 +0000

Testing your upgrade: You can also click System -> About Ubuntu the first or second paragraph will tell you which version of Ubuntu you have installed. I knew there had to be command. Great site keep up the good work!