Upgrade surprises
Posted Aug 25, 2005 6:27 UTC (Thu) by
ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article:
Ubuntu Breezy Badger "Colony 3" now available
Fair warning: an Xorg upgrade from Hoary might turn out very time-consuming, at the moment. Major changes in font and input device driver packaging make it easy to break your configuration. In particular, keyboard and mouse input drivers have been split to separate packages not depended on by the base packages your system knows about. Furthermore, your server is likely to find itself trying to start without any standard fonts in place.
I had to apt-get install those input drivers and fonts, and then manually update the font cache and font alias files in those directories. I have no idea if there was an easier way. No doubt all this will be fixed up in short order.
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