7.10>8.04 upgrade

[Jay Stapleton]

To fix the locate problem, run `sudo updatedb`
Not sure about the other issues.

-Jay.

Tom Daly wrote:
> 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
>
>