7.10>8.04 upgrade

[Tom Daly]

I followed
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades/Kubuntu
and all went +-as it suggests

two anomalies:
it warned me of two config changes: one to cups, one to smb.conf- both 
of which I refused.  That said, my printer seems to be intact thus far

tom at fawn:~$ locate smb.conf
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or 
directory
what am I missing here?

However:
when I tried apt-get in a console I got this:

tom at fawn:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: unable to resolve host fawn

I dug around in forum a bit, and found that /etc/hosts had been 
modified, with 'fawn' removed from localhost. Sudo doesn't work at all 
(returns the 'unable to resolve' message, and right-click>edit as root 
doesn't work in Dolphin either.  I had to reboot in recovery mode to get 
root access, did the edit to /etc/hosts, and now it works fine.

Why this modification?  No idea- I did nothing to antagonize the update 
faeries that I'm aware of

Second anomaly:
the Reboot Required box came up before the Cleanup was finished, and 
then it rebooted entirely on its own (ie I touched nothing)

Is there something I should do now to force the cleanup to complete itself?


other than those, it all seems to be working just fine