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It must be a day for computer upgrades to try their best to frustrate me... Ubuntu Feisty has had its try, now the new Vista laptop has a go as Jo tries to download photos from the old Canon Digital IXUS 300 — surprise, it seems that no matter what we do we simply cannot convince the laptop to read the photos from the camera. It can see the camera, but it can't read anything off them.

The ubuntu upgrade I started yesterday morning has completed on fafnir, or at least initially completed. Now all I have to do is find all the software that broke and fix it... Minor problems during the upgrade itself:

• gettext-el failed to install
• sawfish failed to install
• upgrade-manager failed to install

The first two seemed to be because they were looking for /usr/lib/X11/locale, and there isn't one anymore, things are in /usr/share/X11/locale. Created a symbolic link from the real one to where it was looking and re-ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade and it fixed those up.

After the install and reboot I've found:

• Beryl/Emerald won't work anymore, no window decorations unless I disable the "window effects"
• imgstamp now produces an error at commented out lines in ~/.imgstamprc

I can fix imgstamp by removing the commented out lines, although it looks to be a step backwards, since nearly everything else can handle a configuration file with lines that start with '#' being ignored.