Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic

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Upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic pre-release today on my Thinkpad X200s. Had two issues:
  1. machine wouldn't prompt for the key to unencrypt the hard disk so it didn't boot. This seems to be Launchpad bug 446591. I followed this fix.
  2. forgot that I had downgraded my Intel graphics driver to v2.4, causing my consoles to break, suspend to RAM to break and only support a broken version of EXA. apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel fixed this.
Things seem much better now than the mess I had this morning.
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Posted 20/10/09 20:10 — 3 comments

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From:[info]David Adam <zanchey> [typekey.com]
Date:2009-10-20 12:24 (UTC)
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Well, I won't be upgrading until that first issue gets fixed; thanks for the heads-up.

(Incidentally, I think your blog style is a bit broken? I don't see the "Post Comment" link on the entry page unless comments have already been posted.)
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2009-10-20 19:38 (UTC)
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You can fix it before you reboot easily enough. It seemed to exist for some people in Jaunty as well, so yeah (I don't like your chances). I've never seen it when upgrading kernels though.

Ahahaha! This explains why I haven't been getting any comments. Let me just fix that up.
From:[info]David Adam <zanchey> [typekey.com]
Date:2009-10-21 11:30 (UTC)
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I've been having a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/util-linux/+bug/428435 which has a Python program attached to fix up the partitions rather than repacking the initrd, and lots of arguments about how they're going to fix it before release. I think I'm just going to wait; reinstalling my laptop is not something I have any desire at all to do right now.

Fixed style is fixed.
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