{"id":841,"date":"2011-10-20T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=841"},"modified":"2012-01-14T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:38:24","slug":"upgrading-to-ubuntu-oneiric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/upgrading-to-ubuntu-oneiric\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Ubuntu Oneiric"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post isn’t so much aimed at helping others (although maybe it will) as making my next upgrade easier. The intention is to add every tweak etc as I do them or remember them.<\/p>\n

Here is what it looks like:<\/p>\n

\"Unity<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Unity<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is the custom menu I made for the launcher:<\/p>\n

\"Unity<\/a><\/p>\n

See 15 Things I Did After Installing New Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot<\/a> for how to make those and lots, lots more.<\/p>\n

Initial video problems resolved<\/strong><\/p>\n

To begin with, I couldn’t even boot into Unity or anything. I had to boot into recovery mode and clear the path in various ways. I can’t remember exactly what I did but it involved wiping existing video drivers so I could even boot into Ubuntu 2D.<\/p>\n

Had to get into recovery mode and purge the existing drivers. IIRC the file system was treated as being read-only and I had to remount as step 1 (nice and quick) before I could successfully make the other changes from root.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia* fglrx*<\/code><\/p>\n

[SOLVED] Going back to 10.10, Oneiric is a bust for me<\/a><\/p>\n

I probably wiped \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf as well.<\/p>\n

Once into Ubuntu 2D I was able to add proprietary drivers for nVidia and some combination worked and I was able to get Unity 3D working.<\/p>\n

Booting into correct system<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Want grub (grub2) to load my main system, not the test version I put in a new partition:<\/p>\n

sudo grub-install \/dev\/sda<\/code><\/p>\n

To change other grub settings edit \/etc\/boot\/grub:<\/p>\n

sudo gedit \/etc\/boot\/grub<\/p>\n

then edit the line –
\nGRUB_DEFAULT=0
\nto
\nGRUB_DEFAULT=4<\/p>\n

save the file, then run
\n“sudo update-grub”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.linuxquestions.org\/questions\/linux-software-2\/changing-default-os-in-grub2-765011\/<\/p>\n

Re-ordering icons on launcher<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Unity 3D just drag them to the right then up or down and back in. In Unity 2D, hold for two seconds, then you can drag them around (http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1709136).<\/p>\n

Removing overlay scroll bars<\/strong><\/p>\n

sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0<\/code><\/p>\n

Things To Tweak \/ Fix After Installing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal<\/a><\/p>\n

Adding the system load indicator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Network, Memory And CPU Usage Indicator For Ubuntu: System Load Indicator<\/a><\/p>\n

Adding a memory load indicator (useful when running a virtual OS at same time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things To Tweak \/ Fix After Installing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal<\/a><\/p>\n

Restore debugging for Netbeans<\/code><\/p>\n

sudo gedit \/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php.ini<\/code><\/p>\n

Find php.ini using phpinfo() then edit it thus:<\/p>\n


\nxdebug.remote_enable=1
\nxdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
\nxdebug.remote_mode=req
\nxdebug.remote_host=localhost
\nxdebug.remote_port=9000<\/code><\/p>\n

Next<\/p>\n

sudo gedit \/etc\/apache2\/apache2.conf<\/code><\/p>\n

ServerRoot \"\/etc\/apache2\"
\nServerName localhost<\/code><\/p>\n

See Xdebug restored on Lucid for Netbeans<\/a> <\/p>\n

sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2 stop<\/p>\n

sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2 start<\/p>\n

sudo gedit \/etc\/php5\/conf.d\/xdebug.ini<\/code><\/p>\n

xdebug.ini was correct:<\/p>\n

zend_extension=\/usr\/lib\/php5\/20090626+lfs\/xdebug.so<\/code><\/p>\n

This folder did exist.<\/p>\n

SQLyog problems <\/strong><\/p>\n

Managed to get the automated synchronisation working by deleting ~\/.wine, reinstalling WINE, and reinstalling SQLyog (having saved<\/p>\n

but the main system was flaky and crashed when displaying the results of a connection (amongst other things). The following gave a clue that WINE was involved: Mouse offset problem when using a WINE application maximized <\/a>Downgraded from WINE 1.3 to 1.2 and the problems went away.<\/p>\n

Also had to handle this when upgraded SQLyog: wine: cannot find L”C:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\plugplay.exe”. Fixed by making a copy of system.reg and wiping section on plugplay.<\/p>\n

Adding an icon to the launcher involved the solution from How can I edit\/create new launcher items in Unity by hand?<\/a><\/p>\n