Upgrade surprises

Posted Aug 25, 2005 6:27 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #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.

Upgrade surprises

Posted Aug 29, 2005 17:36 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (guest, #14112) [Link]

- xserver-xorg, which is installed by default with Ubuntu 5.04/Hoary, does in fact depend on all of the packages into which it has been split in Breezy, and it has since the day it was split. I'd be interested to see a transcript of your upgrade.

- If you're having an issue with fonts, please report it to bugzilla.ubuntu.com (this has been working for others for some time now)