Nice way to start the morning, eh? I hadn’t intended it to go this way, of course, but I shoulda known ... trying to update my system has never been straightforward.
I really like Kubuntu. It’s easy to use, and for me it’s been fairly easy to customize with software and/or settings that I prefer. But installing or upgrading the OS has never been a clean job. After being encouraged by several people to upgrade to the current version, I decided to stay up late last night in order to upgrade online. (We’re given a small window of unlimited download time that starts at midnight; if I didn’t take advantage of that, I’d FAP us.) Everything downloaded with no apparent error, and when the job reported itself as completed, I shut my machine down, hoping I’d be able to log in and start tweaking things today. Ha.
But it was a familiar-looking problem (my monitor blanks out before getting to the login screen), and I remembered the trick that fixed it last time—or so I thought. It isn’t working this time. So I am currently operating from the Live disk, and trying to find a solution to my problem. It’s extremely aggravating that this problem—which is not exclusive to me; there are lots of forum threads on this issue on every Linux/Ubuntu forum I’ve visited—has persisted through at least three versions of the OS.
No encrypted email from me until I solve the problem ... and no fun in the sun here today until I have a working machine back. So, yeah ... I’m tired from staying up very late, I’m enormously frustrated over a problem that in my view should have been resolved long ago, and I’m cranky over the strong likelihood of spending one of our dwindling nice days inside dealing with this mess. Oh, and I have heard from a couple of people that there are some issues with the Drupal upgrade ... our TechDeity is aware of them. My money is on him solving that problem before I solve mine.
Sigh. Okay, whine over ... back to troubleshooting. After some breakfast.
Cranky, Frustrated, AND Tired
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While I haven't tried
While I haven't tried running Drupal on Kubuntu, I am working away at learning the latest version of Drupal running on Mac OS X. When I upgraded two weeks ago I ran into a minor problem, but all solved by adding one record in two of the MySQL user tables. Hope it's as simple a solution in your case.
Anders
I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong ...
In my case, the problems were entirely separate. My understanding is that Drupal, as a CMS, runs independent of OS. It might render slightly differently depending upon what browser one uses (primarily because IE deliberately breaks standards-compliant code in some cases), but in the main Drupal’s functionality should be largely browser independent, too.
I just happened to be so lucky as to have two software issues come up at the same time. I am not a coder; my involvement in solving the problems here was limited to noting issues for our resident TechDeity to track down. I don’t know anything about MySQL, databases, and PHP—well, other than they exist, they are useful, and I can access them mostly successfully when I blog. I hope your experimentations with Drupal go well; I really do like it. I have a little WordPress experience (older versions), and prefer Drupal to it, with the possible exception of image handling (both have different issues for me there, though).
I have a little experience
I have a little experience with both Joomla and Drupal, both open source based CMS systems. I like the newer version of Joomla, which certainly is far more intuitive than the prior version, but still relatively complex. I've always thought Drupal to be much easier to get off the ground, though sometimes frustrating to newcomers. My latest version I am running on my computer and not yet on a host, so I can play around with features and custom modules without loss of critical data. Running a real web-site can be far scarier when it comes to upgrades.
I mucked around with Drupal a little over a year ago, but plans I had then did not work out. I'm now trying to learn more about Drupal as I have another project idea driven by this application. I like the fact that if I encounter a bug or problem I usually can enter a question in Google and find the answer relatively quickly on Drupal's forums.
I have a lot experience with MySQL, so when the upgrade faltered and a forum post mentioned some missing records (the guest user - user 0 ) in three tables, I could quickly check those tables via the Terminal, update two tables, and problem solved. I've tried searches across all the Drupal php pages to find where certain things exist, but I don't yet understand the majority of the way things are integrated, though I usually can make sense of the PHP code being used. Still, I enjoy the challenge of tracking down issues, and if this new project ever takes off I have a super-Drupal expert as partner to turn to for help.