Thanks Peter, On 26/10/11 09:51, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi Bob,
Quoting Bob<enquiries@lorneholidays.com.au>:
Hello all, I have a laptop running Kubuntu 11.04. In attempting to upgrade to 11.10 via the internet the upgrade fails citing unable to get Kubuntu -wallpaper, so I downloaded the alternate cd, disconnected from the internet and attempted to upgrade from the cd using 'sh cdromupgrade'. Normally I would use my own logon but in a last desperate attempt I changed to root. Results are shown below:
root@Toshiba:/media/cdrom0# sh cdromupgrade No protocol specified /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk (No module named vte) can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Gtk not available for version 3.0) No protocol specified update-manager: cannot connect to X server :0
Is there something wrong with the command I have used? Not the command itself - you just have an access problem running it as root.
The Xserver providing your desktop is owned by you, and nobody else can draw windows on it (not even root)
Use "sudo sh cdromupgrade" instead, that should work. I had already tried that and it failed too - hence the attempt to use root :-(
Alternatively you can allow access via "xhost +".
I am running KDE since Monday, I just had my disk filled with a 240GB .xsession-errors. Great!
The console output goes to all virtual text consoles so in that case I cannot use them either (your commands are drowning in a flood of "No space left on device" errors). Another plus for Ubuntu 11;-)
Do you really want to upgrade? ;-) That is a question I am now asking myself. I have upgraded another machine running an i5 processor and HD 5700 series card. and now have no sound - and no solution at this stage. It seems there are a few bugs in the latest version. Perhaps I'll wait a while before any further upgrades.
Bob