I had a similar experience upgrading. I'm not entirely sure if the bug is the same, so this comment might warrant its own bug identifier. Here's the whole story.
I've never done a successful upgrade from either CD or online, so I completely copied my root and home partitions to a spare disk before doing anything. I've safely reverted to Feisty thanks to the GPartEd Live CD. I issued "sudo update-manager -d". (BTW I intended to do this before the official release, but the partition copying took too long). I chose to upgrade. Estimated time of several hours — stupid time to do it, really. Closed all of my desktop apps as advised. Went to sleep. Next morning my screensaver was on, but I only received the unlock dialogue for less than a second before it disappeared. Logged into a terminal, looking for a process to kill. Unable to kill gnome-screensaver, and couldn't find any other processes which looked right. I restarted X with ctrl-alt- backspace. This is where I have to admit that my recollection is less clear. I certainly wasn't able to load my complete desktop. On one try, I remember getting everything except the GNOME panels. I didn't think to try another WM. I gave up and restored because I needed to use the machine. I did capture some details but absent-mindedly blew them away when I restored my home partition! Kernel is 2.6.20-16-generic, Athlon 2000 processor, Nvidia card without proprietary driver, Metaballs screensaver. Can provide any further system details you think might be relevant. I think if this is reproducible in the upgrade context then it is a serious bug. At the very least, the upgrade might offer to disable the screensaver if this avoids the problem, and if it can't be readily solved by other means. I can imagine that a relatively new user going through his/her first upgrade would be considerably less impressed with Ubuntu after b0rking their machine like this in an upgrade. Apologies for longwindedness, hope it helps, and happy to provide further diagnostic info. -- gnome-screensaver-dialog never shows up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146412 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
