Upgrading to Intrepid...
Saturday, November 1. 2008
Today I have upgraded my computer to Ubuntu Intrepid from Hardy Heron. Unlike the last time, when I upgraded Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron, things did not went well this time 
. Luckily I haven't done it while attending a conference this time.
. Luckily I haven't done it while attending a conference this time.As last time I wanted to perform a hot upgrade, so I launched adept_manager --dist-upgrade just like described on the Kubuntu pages and let my computer downloading and installing the updated packages during night (I just have a DSL 768k connection). This morning I wanted to see who far it got and as expected KDE 4 had locked the computer so I tried to logon. However the login screen hung up, when hitting enter.
My assumption is that the upgrade has replaced several KDE 4 files, which is the cause for being unable to unlock the screen.
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