Upgrading 12.10 to 13.04 Alpha 1

[Girard Henri]

Thanks for explanations
I desinstalled kernel 3.7xx and works with 3.5.xx
If it's too long they solve the problems I will put my hands in it !
Two years ago I had same problem with intel core 2 and ATI...

Le 11/12/2012 12:32, Mark Greenwood a écrit :
> 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 :
>>>
>>> Well you inspired me to try as well.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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 :
>>>
>>> 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  
>>>
>>> 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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