Re: 14->15 upgrade comments

2011-06-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 21:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > blue and white progress bars were making their way across the screen. > > I do not know howto capture the stacktrace. The machine freezes. > > Ctl-Alt-Del does not cause a reboot. The offswitch does not work. > > If the box goes castors up it

Re: 14->15 upgrade comments

2011-06-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Rich Emberson wrote: > Lastly, the fonts are, well, not what they were before the upgrade. > Others have mentioned this and I will live with them until some > future time. > You need to turn on autohinting[1]. Include 10-autohint.conf in your ~/.fonts.conf like thi

Re: 14->15 upgrade comments

2011-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
> blue and white progress bars were making their way across the screen. > I do not know howto capture the stacktrace. The machine freezes. > Ctl-Alt-Del does not cause a reboot. The offswitch does not work. If the box goes castors up it's fairly hard to capture it. You pretty much have to write it

14->15 upgrade comments

2011-06-01 Thread Rich Emberson
Last weekend I upgraded (using preupgrade) both my laptop and development box from 14 to 15. Both are x86_64 machines. On the laptop, twice now while rebooting the system has crashed with a stacktrace on the screen. Both times it occurred while the blue, light- blue and white progress bars were ma