PLEASE use the official upgrade method! (if you decide to upgrade)

[PWill]

Please, people; if you plan on upgrading to Feisty Fawn 7.04, use the OFFICIAL upgrade method:

$ gksu "update-manager -c"

Modifying your sources.list is unofficial, hacky, and can cause problems, as many users have experienced.

(Admins, can this be posted as a sticky? People need to see it...)

[magicfab]

EXCEPT for Xubuntu...! Please read:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285951

There is a critical bug when upgrading with the standard method fro Xubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ger/+bug/68027

Modifying the sources, etc. when following the instructions to upgrade is OK, BTW. It causes problems when you have external repos, etc.

[kjbetz]

How can you say that modifying your source list is unofficial, etc... when it's right here in the documentation?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades

[PWill]

I could be wrong, but I was going by this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseN...0c683c77e56cd0

[ubuntu_demon]

I stickied this thread. If you decide to upgrade I recommend upgrading through :

$ gksu "update-manager -c"

[Bigglez]

Um ...
It seems that Kubuntu 6.06 does not have 'update-manager'. What to do?

[muxecoid]

The problem is that the official method is not working at all, it just did nothing for me. And repository-upgrade, I already learned, is breaking dependencies.

[Timothy Butwinick]

Originally Posted by ubuntu_demon I stickied this thread. If you decide to upgrade I recommend upgrading through : $ gksu "update-manager -c"

I, kind of, used the other method, and now my system is broken: X does not find the required graphics drivers and neither my wireless card nor my ethernet card can access to the network.

When I log in on a virtual terminal, it looks like this:

laptop login: me
configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
Password:

Is there any way to revert the upgrade, or do I have to make a fresh install?

Edit: Problem solved. To activate the ethernet card do
sudo ifup eth0
After this you can use apt-get to install the missing graphics drivers:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa
and then restart X:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

[Akoluth of Nandus]

Originally Posted by ubuntu_demon I stickied this thread. If you decide to upgrade I recommend upgrading through : $ gksu "update-manager -c"

What does the update-manager do besides automatically changing your sources.list and performing a dist-upgrade?

[linuxnoob40]

~$ gksu "update-manager -c"
this method starts to work but only gets to 39 of 40 files and just hangs