upgrading from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 (Intrepid to Jaunty)

The upgrade
Please make sure you have the following sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list remove all other entries you have there).

## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted universe multiverse

Update the package list and upgrade all the installed packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Perform the release upgrade.

sudo do-release-upgrade

you will get an error

do-release-upgrade 
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Failed Upgrade tool signature
Failed Upgrade tool
Done downloading            
extracting 'jaunty.tar.gz'
Failed to extract
Extracting the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server. 

you can inspect the metadata for releases and you need to replace with release old-releases prefix (fixed by me)

to look like this for jaunty

Dist: jaunty
Name: Jaunty Jackalope
Version: 9.04
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:00:00 UTC
Supported: 1
Description: This is the 9.04 release
Release-File: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Release
ReleaseNotes: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement
UpgradeTool: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-proposed/main/dist-upgrader-all/0.111.8/jaunty.tar.gz
UpgradeToolSignature: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-proposed/main/dist-upgrader-all/0.111.8/jaunty.tar.gz.gpg

wget https://raw.github.com/gist/1170565/c6d5b3deece6f7451ec76419810d898eda0fadde/metarelease.rvg -O /etc/meta-release.rvg

Modified /etc/update-manager/meta-release so that it pointed to my local file rather than the incorrect URI on the ubuntu site - here is what it looked like after my change:

[METARELEASE]
URI = file:///etc/meta-release.rvg
URI_LTS = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
URI_UNSTABLE_POSTFIX = -development
URI_PROPOSED_POSTFIX = -proposed

I then ran do-release-upgrade and everything worked like a charm

pvm on ubuntu jaunty

sudo apt-get install pvm pvm-dev pvm-examples

get the source for examples

wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pvm/pvm_3.4.5.orig.tar.gz

tar -zxvf pvm_3.4.5.orig.tar.gz
in your home create
mkdir pvm3/bin/LINUX64

start pvmd

pvmd -f
see your host type
pvm
pvm> conf
conf
1 host, 1 data format
HOST DTID ARCH SPEED DSIG
borkstationx64 40000 LINUX64 1000 0x00408c41

you can see why i have created that pvm3/bin/LINUX64 dir (used by default for pvm user scripts )
copy all the files from the tar into the pvm3/bin/LINUX64 dir
cd ~/pvm3/bin/LINUX64
gcc hello.c -l pvm3 -o hello
gcc hello_other.c -l pvm3 -o hello_other
./hello
i'm t4000b
from t4000c: hello, world from borkstationx64

Ubuntu Release Jaunty Jack Party in Targu Mures

The ubuntu.ro page is here
http://ubuntu.ro/node/129

The lug page with more info is here
http://www.lug-mures.org/content/jaunty-jackalope-release-party-la-targu-mures

The announcement in Hungarian language is here
http://hup.hu/node/69899
And yes we are on front page on ubuntu.hu
http://ubuntu.hu/hirek/2009apr/jaunty-jackalope-release-party-marosvasarhelyen

Other notes:
There is a note on infoms website ,
Realitatea TV will post the news about the release maybe some ubuntu.ro team members will be there too , Adi Roiban confirmed

linux 2.6.30 rc3 on ubuntu jaunty for 32 bits and cloudbook

wow #linux #kernel 2.6.30 rc3 #rocks on my #cloudbook , wireless signal is at #100% at last
and 855.840 FPS in glxgears and i can play prboom on the plane/moxytaxy
there is an new repository blessed by the kernel team
you can download the deb files from there
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc3/

and download with wget or by browser
linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc3-generic_2.6.30-020630rc3_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc3_2.6.30-020630rc3_all.deb
linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc3-generic_2.6.30-020630rc3_i386.deb


the from the terminal
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
reboot and let's see the kernel bugs

linux 2.6.30 rc2 on ubuntu jaunty for 64 bits and nvidia issues

linux 2.6.30 rc2 on ubuntu jaunty for 64 bits

there is an new repository blessed by the kernel team
you can download the deb files from there
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc2/

../linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc2_2.6.30-020630rc2_all.deb
../linux-headers-2.6.30-020630rc2-generic_2.6.30-020630rc2_amd64.deb
../linux-image-2.6.30-020630rc2-generic_2.6.30-020630rc2_amd64.deb
and download with wget or by browser

the from the terminal
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
reboot and let's see the kernel bugs , if you are "lucky" to have an nvidia video card
then you need to patch the nvidia driver so it can compile

$sudo su
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2.run --extract-only
# cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44-pkg2/usr/src/nv/
# http://pavlinux.ru/nv/nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch
# patch -p0 < nvidia-x86_64-180.44-2.6.30-rc2.patch
# cd ../../../
# ./nvidia-installer

Fixing the gwibber and twitter issues in jaunty

For jaunty and twitter gwibber gives 'HTTP error 400: bad request' for twitter accounts

so i need to use daily ppa for gwibber

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 06d1ed00eb802a66640696c8d0aff96872d340a3
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibberdaily.list

add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but now i have another issue but fixable (re enter your accounts passwords)

HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

komodo edit install instructions on my ubuntu x64

Download Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz from this page http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/downloads/

$wget http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/5.1.1/Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz

$tar zxf Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz

cd Komodo-Edit-5.1.1-3355-linux-libcpp6-x86_64/

$ ./install.sh

[read and then Enter]

./Komodo-Edit-5/bin/komodo

or create an symlink to it (that is my home dir, use yours)

sudo ln -s "/home/mariuz/Komodo-Edit-5/bin/komodo" /usr/local/bin/komodo

$ komodo

Pulse + skype delay issues in jaunty

If i talked with someone on skype 2.0.x on linux with another skype on ubuntu it worked ok without dealy

if the target was using skype on windows (new version) then my skype introduced delays it seems

the only way to make it work ok for us was to remove pulse audio

killall pulseaudio
sudo aptitude remove pulseaudio
sudo aptitude install esound
sudo aptitude remove /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio



now the cpu is working ok at 80% on this dell vostro , also watching the video
before was 100% with large delay for the remote target

buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 4 than in buffer 0

that is an strange error , i had to remove my .ssh directory and now i can ssh to localhost

ubuntu jaunty issues on dell vostro

here is how you can make wireless work on dell vostro

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros

you need to reboot after the madwifi is disbled

here is how the Hardware Driver should look

System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
And Support for Atheros Should be Disabled

Grub voodoo error no 13/24 and how do i fixed it

It all started by an reboot then the error i saw was

24 : Attempt to access block outside partition

This error is returned if a linear block address is outside of the disk partition. This generally happens because of a corrupt filesystem on the disk or a bug in the code handling it in GRUB (it's a great debugging tool).

What i did next was to boot from an Jaunty jack live cd and i have checked the partition

with fsck -pf -v /dev/sda1

no errors

Next i chroot-ed and tried to reinstall the kernel 2.6.28 from ubuntu repository

$ sudo su

$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

$ mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

$ mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts

$ mount --bind /dev/shm /mnt/dev/shm

$ mount -t proc none /mnt/proc

$ mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys

and then dpkg -i

no result after booted i was greeted with error no 13

13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format

This error is returned if the kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or NetBSD).

So i did an grub recovery

$ grub

$ grub> root (hd0,0)

$ grub > setup (hd0)

$ grub > exit

rebooted and no change

so i have booted the livecd again and did the chroot from above

and then i did an grub install

$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/ --recheck

and seems that it changed the device.map

from hda to sda

cat /boot/grub/device.map

(fd0) /dev/fd0

(hd0) /dev/sda

rebooted and all was ok after that

nepomukservicestub error with new kde4.2 rc from jaunty

and seems that i can't submit the bug automatically

ext3 to ext4 migration on ubuntu jaunty jack ( upgrade from intrepid)

It might be possible to move the root and boot partition on intrepid
but there are many things that must be installed by hand (new kernel , new grub ...)
so the best way is to migrate to jaunty (kernel does have support and also the grub)
on my station i did in terminal (upgrade command to jaunty)

$ sudo update-manger -d

then i have downloaded an daily live cd for jaunty (an alpha 3 should work too)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

i booted the live cd and opened an console

$ sudo tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1

$ sudo fsck -pf /dev/sda1




mount it

$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ sudo pico /mnt/etc/fstab

and you see ext3 for the / partition , please change it to ext4



save it reboot and eject the cdrom and see if it works (boots)

the guide that i have used is located here
http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4#head-3891522e0601162aab24c73c1f148a1e28c6a9d4

Tips for using nvidia 180.x on ubuntu intrepid with 2.6.28 vanilla kernel

Download the driver from nvidia

remove nvidia drivers from ubuntu repository
in my case i removed restricted drivers

sudo apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-generic , also search whatever nvidia related
packages are already installed (see it in synaptic)

then run the install script

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.06-pkg1.run
after it is finished

add into /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "ignoreABI" "True"
EndSection

Seems to be an issue with the new xorg just imported in jaunty alpha

Another thing is the old driver seems to remove xorg if i remove nvidia-glx-177

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/TechnicalOverview
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011847&page=7


also i see there is an packaged 180 into ubuntu archive and that I will test later
with default ubuntu kernel

search for http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180

here are the results on my board after all was finished
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6100 nForce 405/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 180.06
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions: