Installed Ubuntu Breezy with success

9th Aug 2005

…well it didn’t come working out of the box :-D

I installed Hoary from CD and upgraded Hoary packages from the internet (though I dont think upgrading was nessesary).
Logged into a console (Alt+F1) and shutting down X:
```
rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
```
Changed all Hoary soruces to Breezy sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
Then i dist-upgraded Hoary:
```
rivendell:~# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
```
I had to upgrade a few times before all packages was upgraded.
Now I tried to configure X with:
```
rivendell:~# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
```
Didn’t read what it was saying just pressing enter, enter, enter…

Now I tried to start X:

rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start

But got the following errors in the logfile in /var/log/gdm/:0.log:

sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Couldn't compile keymap file
(EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

And:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed';
the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
configured correctly.

Note: I had trouple using my keyboard at this point but I waas able to get through all the messages wit the ‘d’ key, and back into the console.

Surfing the Ubuntuforums.org got me to the following:
```
rivendell:~# apt-get install xkb-utils
rivendell:~# apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-base
```
xkbutils gives the needed binary xkbcomp. Actually I don’t think I had xfonts-base installed at all after upgrading to Breezy, so the option --reinstall might not be nessessary.
Now try restarting GDM and perhapes you are as lucky as me, and will now be greeted by the Ubuntu graphical login screen:
```
rivendell:~# /etc/init.d/gdm restart
```

My computer is equiped with a fairly old Nvidia graphic card, dunno if that makes any difference.