Upgrading 12.10 to 13.04 Alpha 1

[Mark Greenwood]

On 11/12/12 08:13, Girard Henri wrote:
> Would be good to overpass this 3.7 problem if one knows how too !
OK it's a problem with the building of the initramfs when you do a 
kernel upgrade. It's not a bug with the nvidia drivers, but having them 
installed shows it up.

When I upgraded I got errors at the end. I forget the exact wording but 
it was something to do with _BUILTIN_, I recall.

The simplest solution would be to uninstall the nvidia drivers before 
upgrading and then reinstall them afterwards. However what I did was:

In /etc/modprobe.d there are two files that begin with nvidia- (one is 
nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf, the other name depends on which version of 
the drivers you have installed). Rename both of these so the extension 
is not '.conf' (I changed them to .notconf).
Run 'sudo update-initramfs -u -k all'
Rename the two files back again.
Reboot.
You'll probably now find that you are running with the nouveau driver, 
even though it has been explicitly blacklisted in those two files. Odd 
one that. Removing and reinstalling the nvidia driver cured that for me.

The problem, from what I read, seems to be that those two files contain 
'alias nouveau off', and this seems to make upgrade-initramfs fail.

Note that you'll probably have to go through this routine every time you 
upgrade the kernel, until the bug is fixed.

Mark



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> Le 11/12/2012 01:38, Mark Greenwood a écrit :
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>> Well you inspired me to try as well.
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>> My advice is - if you use nvidia drivers, don't upgrade yet. It took 
>> me some time and a lot of Googlefu to sort out the mess the upgrade 
>> made. But it is a known bug, and it's definitely to do with the 
>> nvidia drivers. I can explain what I had to do, but it's late and 
>> it's far too dull to recount in detail unless somebody needs me to :)
>>
>> Now I've sorted it out, my system appears to be running like 
>> lightning. First impressions, very good :)
>>
>> Mark
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>> On Sunday 09 Dec 2012 08:15:03 Girard Henri wrote:
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>> Le 09/12/2012 03:59, Lindsay Mathieson a écrit :
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>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 09:25:32 PM Bruce Marshall wrote:  
>>   I would be able to move the old mail into the folders
>> without a problem.  And if not, just a bit of wasted time and I give up
>> moving  to a new user.  
>> Good luck  
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>> Be carefull : kernel 3.7.xx doesn't work , apparently on AMD core 3  
>> and more. I have tw0 pc with 3 core sempr0n and AMD64, the first 
>> doesn't boot and the second works fine... a bug ?
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