ubuntu upgrade .. phew ... nearly.

ubuntu reinstall okay now, lots of stuff reconfigured/moved over.

User accounts/passwords and groups set.
Home areas linked in.
Loats of software to install. And some to configure.
Happily the gnome logins seem nicer and user switching behaves better.
Sound when multiple users are on is better.

Ouch. Running childsplay kills the display. Can't recover session.

Thunderbird need to install enigmail add-on (gnupg) from ubuntu package as I have thunderbird from a package.
Firefox get stuff in ubuntu packages where possible ...
TODO:
digikam (new version => digikam database ownership)
kids edu games and menus to find them
photo and video areas need moving (and tidy)

Notes for digikam (in ubuntu 9.1):
User can run it using digikam db they don't have write access to.
But creating new album silently fails (could create new dir but not write to db).
Try upload to flikr. Message so something in browser. Click ok when blah.
1. no okay (it is yes or no). 2. No browser appears. 3. click yes and get seg fault.
Upload to picasa same okay/yes/no dialog.
Uploading doesn't start ... ?
In bigview mode when rating photos rated photos as 4 and photo selection would go back to start. annoying.

Unfortunately I don't have time to go and look for digikam bugs, see if these issues are already logged and write a good description of problem :( :( It could be faster to download source + fix it!!
Maybe.
But then making a beautifully nice and coherent fix and submitting it could take time too!

OHhhhhh noooooos! Here we go again :( ubuntu upgrade *KABOOM*

So.
Ubuntu version upgrade.
AND entries to boot new kernel written incorrectly to /boot/grub/menu.lst (because of long time previously described disk detection error) so restart after upgrade booted into old kernel.
After reboot the package manager assumed it was okay to continue the upgrade.
Suggestion to upgrade scripting people: sanity check kernel version before continuing with upgrade.

Adept seemed to be quite unstable and failed.
Ended up with a system which would boot but had no network, or graphics.
When I fixed graphics (X) we had no mouse or keyboard. AGH! B0rked.

Oh dear.

Right.

Download .iso for ubuntu 9.1 jaunty.
Make various backups.
Repartition.
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