9.04 beta upgrade

[reggler]

Hi There,

I updated my system yestwerday to 9.04beta. After the update when the system rebooted, it came back up but "hung" on the console, i tried to manually start gdm - doesn't work. the screen flickers a few times, trying to start X but eventually falls back on the console. startx also won't work when logged in. It says Couldn't bind memory for B0 front buffer - whatever this means. Does anyone have a clue what's going on here with my system? How can i get it back up?

Thanks!
Ron

[bapoumba]

Moved to Jaunty.

[cajunaggie]

Sounds like you have a similar situation to what I experienced. If you can get a console, run
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
until you don't get any new updates (it might hold back a g-streamer package). Afterwards, boot into the recovery kernel and use the repair broken packages option. Continue in normal mode. It's not ideal, but it's a useable work-around for now.

[alphacrucis2]

Sounds like you have a similar situation to what I experienced. If you can get a console, run
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
until you don't get any new updates (it might hold back a g-streamer package). Afterwards, boot into the recovery kernel and use the repair broken packages option. Continue in normal mode. It's not ideal, but it's a useable work-around for now.

I just downloaded and installed the latest Jaunty updates. Does this mean I now have the beta release? The kernel is 2.6.28-11 but I don't know how to tell if what I have is the beta release. For what it is worth X started up fine for me after the update so maybe the issue you had depends on the graphic card?

[reggler]

Sounds like you have a similar situation to what I experienced. If you can get a console, run
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
until you don't get any new updates (it might hold back a g-streamer package). Afterwards, boot into the recovery kernel and use the repair broken packages option. Continue in normal mode. It's not ideal, but it's a useable work-around for now.

I have done this but it didn't help and then i tried to install kubuntu-desktop (I thought KDM may work) but this didn't help either. So here I am now... not sure what I should do. how do i boot the recovery kernel? :o
Thanks,
Ron

[BGFG]

If your home folder is on a separate partition, I'd suggest a fresh install.

[reggler]

If your home folder is on a separate partition, I'd suggest a fresh install.

It is.... really reinstall? Crap...okay...

[philinux]

Takes 20 mins.

[reggler]

Takes 20 mins.

I first have to download the image and burn a CD... ;)