Well, at home I decided to upgrade to 8.04 a week ago. Everything was working wonderfully, but
today turned up the computer and X didn't start.
It ended up being some change that made the nvidia drivers to fail to load, which it's not too
bad because I can spent enough time without 3D, but the sound card driver also refused to
start (old soundblaster audigy).
Breaking 2 essential things for a Linux desktop in an update 48 hours before shipping isn't
making me too happy about this release.
Posted Apr 23, 2008 7:37 UTC (Wed) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)
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Hmm. I'm assuming a lot to make this suggestion, but it sounds like you are using one of the
-386 kernels instead of the -generic kernels. I don't know what the difference between these
two is supposed to be, but the symptoms match what I got just last week when the update chose
to install a -386 kernel. (It keeps on doing this on one box and I have no idea why.)
So basically ensure you have linux-image-generic and linux-restricted-modules-generic
installed, and if it does install some new kernel then boot into that... And uninstall
everything -386 related afterwards.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releases
Posted Apr 23, 2008 14:26 UTC (Wed) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793)
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I believe so. I thought the two were the same on x86-32.
I will try this when I get home. Thanks for the tip.