anon mouse-cow-aard's Journal: Updated Kubuntu Dapper - Edgy...

How I upgraded...
changed kubuntu from dapper to edgy in /etc/apt/sources.list... It was pretty straight forward, not following the recipe, but needed common sense to get through.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade (to check that it went OK, but it reports whole bunch of things held back)
apt-get install (copy paste a line of the stuff which is missing)
apt-get install (another line...
                                                .
                                                .
apt-get dist-upgrade (see that nothing is held back.)

Sometimes there were still problems then look at it, identify a package that is
in the way, and remove it...
                or apt-get remove
sometimes the state is so confused that that doesnt work, so then do it with dpkg...
                dpkg --remove

apt-get dist-upgrade

of some stuff, then... can apt-get install to put the stuff you removed back.
usually will get a later version...

things that were needed:

apt-get install xserver-xorg-driver-all
apt-get install kde-guidance # got removed somehow & not replaced.

-- best not to reboot until dist-upgrade reports a clean state, you will be in a mixture of versions, and things like the graphical display, or networking might be broken.

After reboot I had a virtual 1400x1200 in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which on my TV screen (1280x768) was kind of a pain (it scrolls the screen to provide a virtual resolution of 1400x1200)
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf /virtual # search for virtual
I#Esc # comment the virtual desktop directive out..
ZZ # write & quit...

On logout screen in Edgy, there is a hibernate option. Tried it, and it said not enough swap space
looked at my swap with swapon... holy cow! what are these UUID= things? anyways... I noticed I had
74 MB swap, and a 4G swap. The laptop has 1 G of RAM, so should have two to three gigs of swap for things
to work.

so I turned of the little partition (swapoff /dev/disk/s2323524 or whatever the UUID was...)
and did a mke2fs of it, and removed it from /etc/fstab, so that there was no confusion about which swap to use. Then tried it... Hibernate works (ie. it would write to disk for a long time, then turn itself off completely), but the reboot would reboot the system normally without any swap, instead of restoring the state from the swap partition. It would refuse to use the partition where the state was saved...

A lot of searching later...

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/13814

> I am sorry for the odd bug, I think the bug still exists because it was
> there when you had Dapper installed and it didn't go away because you
> did a dist-upgrade and didn't use the edgy graphical installer.
> Now to fix your problem, follow the next few of steps --
> 1. Create a file called `resume' inside /etc/mkinitramfs/conf.d/
> 2. Write the line `RESUME=/dev/hda6' into it, save+exit
> 3. Then issue the command --
> sudo update-initramfs -c -k `uname -r`
>
> Note that the above is a back tick (`) and not a apostrophe (').
> This should fix the problem for you. And remember to remove the resume=
> line from your grub/menu.lst, that line will be added automatically by
> intramfs-tools the next time you hibernate.
> I hope that helps,
>
> Regards,
> BG
>
> Baishampayan Ghose
> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings
> http://www.ubuntu.com/

I actually had the file existing, but it said resume= in it...
Setting it to my swap partition (/dev/hda9) fixed it...

Similar experience on my Multimedia Server...
used module-assistant to make ivtv drivers...

The best part was at the end... apt-get install mythtv on the server and my laptop, and now I can watch tv/pvr recorded flawlessly on my laptop (over a copper LAN to a 11g wireless base station.) It has never worked this well (last time it was close was a year ago using 0.18 hand compiled on Debian Sarge, but still had jitter issues over the WLAN.) It is MUCH better.