Edgy upgrade pains and fixes

Upgrading an operating system is always a chancy thing. An application can stop working, a modem can freeze up, and then, when upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft, you can lose your graphical user interface: windows, icon, mouse pointer, and all… Not good.

The Ubuntu Forums are currently full of plaintive cries for help, such as: “I had no problems upgrading from Breezy to Dapper but Dapper to Edgy has left me high and dry.” And: “I have big problems with X server. Ver 6.06 worked perfect, but after upgrade on my Dell Latitude D610, X server is not working at all.”

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