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marco.buschini
October 16th, 2011, 12:12 AM
Hello,
my upgrade failed due to lack of space on disk on the /boot partition. Ok, my fault, but why didn't the installer check for space before upgrading?
Anyway, my system is now unusable, i.e. X starts (I can see the mouse pointer, but no Gnome login screen on it), and I cannot even reach the classic text boot log I used to have with fedora, and gentoo. How can I furher investigate the problem without reinstalling from scratch? I already have reinstalled all the packages by hand at the text promp, but this didn't help.

Thanks
Marco

marco.buschini
October 16th, 2011, 04:03 PM
OK, I solved this by myself. Than had to remove Unity: to hard to find software on that UI. Next upgrade will be on CentOS instead of Ubuntu: in this new edition it took the worst of Linux with the worst of Windows, and now it sucks!

angelus9
October 26th, 2011, 02:35 AM
you guys really screwed the pooch on 11.10. How could you release this? It is really screwed up!

Also, you should let the user pick his desktop theme, didn't you guys read the posts on Unity in 11.04?

Gentoo, here I come!
Don