Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 8:28 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by mgedmin
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

Just be cautious and disable autologin before update. If it happens that Unity is not supported in your hardware (apparently some nvidia and older intel cards like mine) you will not be offered with such an option, and will get a frozen screen instead.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 29, 2011 13:44 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

Also, if you are upgrading from the "Netbook Edition" make sure you disable auto-login as well.

I did not and was presented with a blank desktop where it was impossible to do anything. Luckily, I was able to bring up a virtual console and disable auto-login.

The issue was that "Netbook Ubuntu" was selected instead of just "Ubuntu" in the login menu. I switch to "Ubuntu" and all was well. It booted up into the new Unity interface.

I guess the "Netbook" desktop was removed but it was still the default for my login account.