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Spent some time upgrading my linux machines today. The Ubuntu network upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 went smooth on one of the machines. I had to do the intermediate 8.10 first though. On the other machine (Armada M700), it ran into a kernel bug (specific to 9.04) that caused the machine to hang during startup, so I kept it at xubuntu (XFCE desktop) 8.10. Here’s the bug reference:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/393262

Also, in order to get the nomachines nx client to work here are the settings:

• Select Desktop = Unix/Custom, and then
• under Settings, “Run the following command” = /usr/bin/startxfce4
• and also Options = New Virtual Desktop.

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