i started a dist-upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 on my work laptop last night. it wasn’t finished when i woke up cause i was prompted to replace a couple of system files i had modified. for the most part the upgrade was uneventful, although i did have to play the nvidia module swap game when the system booted.

nvidia module swap game
1. ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to a different virtual console
2. sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop to kill off X
3. sudo sh ./NVIDIA*.run hopefully you downloaded this before the upgrade. heh #
4. copy a working xorg.conf into place, remove any xorg.conf.failsafe
5. sudo /etc/intit.d/gdm start

i did a quick test to see if hibernate works, nope… i’ll have to poke around to see what i’m missing. no biggie since i haven’t had hibernate work for awhile anyhow. i’m still not too sure about firefox 3 beta 5 though…. i have a ton of extensions that don’t work now. boo.

installing/updating wordpress with subversion

hrm. that’s kinda anti-climatic. at the very least someone could have created a widget or a plugin that will automatically download the latest wordpress tarball, svn commit/switch/update between various versions ( including the trunk ). actually it might be nice to be able to change wordpress versions on the fly. not sure how useful it’d be other than in a sandox environment, but honestly if i could just cron this to keep me at the latest stable version, i’d be fairly happy… well assuming the plugins kept upgrading this smoothly.

the wordpress upgrades keep getting easier and easier. upgrading to wordpress 2.3 was a breeze, and the plugins manager even notifies you of newer plugin versions now. sweet.

luckily none of my plugins seem to be borked with the upgrade. i was actually able to activate the wordpress.com stats plugin that i’ve had installed for awhile but never ran a recent enough version of wordpress to pass the dependencies that plugin needed.

[ preparing to upgrade to 2.3 ][ wordpress download ]