@Steve: I did work with 8.04 before upgrading to 8.10, I didn't break the
official upgrade path!
I just did not reboot after the last (about 6-7) packages-updates in 8.04
before upgrading to 8.10.
I have another notebook with 8.04, I'll test the upgrade to 8.10 also
with that one (but with that
Afterwards I had an error with the update-manager and cancelled then the
upgrade.
I guess my errors were caused by myself: I installed updates from 8.04
including a new kernel if I remember correctly. Afterwards I did not
reboot, but changed the setting to be able to install non-LTS-
distribution-