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Ubuntu-PH Release Party for 6.10 (Edgy Eft), originally uploaded by zakame.

Last night I called Ubunteros nearby Manila for the Edgy Eft (belated) release party at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Greenbelt 3. Little did I know that there will be a lot of folks coming from the just-concluded FOSS@work workshop joining in the fun, thanks to Yolynne Medina and Eric Pareja.

Diane Gonzales and I got to the venue first, then followed by the FOSS@Work folks. Dominique Cimafranca, Migs Paraz, Ranulf Goss, Jopes Gallardo, and Joel Bryan Juliano were there too, and all in all we were easily the noisiest group in the coffee shop, seemingly occupying the entirety of the place. I originally planned to move the group to have dinner somewhere, but along the way everybody seemed to forgot dinner and we quite engaged in talking to everyone else. It was terrific.

The 2 boxes of Edgy {,K,Ed}Ubuntu CDs I brought were easily given away to everyone; we even had them exchanged and autographed (naks!) reminiscent of what Ealden and I did last February when Mark came here. As a finale, we had a group photo of everyone with their CDs; Dominique remarks that in his `informal’ study, more and more women prefer Ubuntu (and I sure do think he’ll be blogging more about this soon.

Needless to say, the above photo doesn’t do great justice to what happened last night; it came from my elric which I didn’t get use much as a camera since I too was happily chatting away. That said, I expect RJ Ian will be posting his photos from his brand-spanking-new Kodak camera to the Ubuntu-PH site once he gets back to Mindanao with Yolynne and company. I also think the FOSS@Work folks also have their own photosite or wiki to post more photos, which we’ll be seeing sooner.

Jerome Gotangco and Ealden Escañan, the guys whom we all owe Ubuntu-PH to, were unfortunately unable to attend last night, as Jerome was off to Cebu to participate in the ICT congress there, while Ealden was quite busy at work. Hopefully they (as well as last night’s attendees!) can attend the next Release Party for 7.04 (aka Feisty Fawn,) and hopefully it will be just as fun, and be more meaningful if more Ubuntu-PH folks get involved in its development!

Update: Yolynne and RJ just posted pics fresh from their arrival to home. Expect more pics later, nicely tagged too…

Following up, I have found a solution in a related bugreport against initramfs-tools that needed a one-line edit and the above spell for 610 GET.

My reward: Gomen Cat. Its a Caturday.

… to Mountain View, California, for the Ubuntu Developer Summit, thanks to Gobby! =) I’ve yet to set up VoIP though…

…is yes, rather Edgy.

Yesterday:

apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade    # grab pkgs at work
apt-get dist-upgrade                    # go home and do the dist-upgrade
apt-get dselect-upgrade                 # WTF?!? I had a lot of held-back pkgs?!?
                                        # Seems dselect-upgrade is more aggressive...
apt-get install xserver-xorg            # Funny apt-get tried to sneak away
                                        # my xserver-xorg (I lost it after dist-upgrade)
aptitude dist-upgrade                   # Hmmm, perhaps even better than
                                        # dselect-upgrade...

Today: (I ran out of Smart 3G prepaid credits last night :/)

apt-get update                  # Hmmm, apt's rather verbose lately
                                # with locales and stuff
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop # Heh, somehow I figured that was missing...

After all this, I seem to have a completely-upgraded Kubuntu system now (verified by doing {dist-,dselect-,}upgrade again,) despite the lack of a proper updating tool for Kubuntu (Ubuntu has its own Update Manager.) Still, FWIW I had to go through some hoops along the way (like all those multiple dist-upgrade invocations; I’ve done that before (twice) on the Breezy -> Dapper path, but thrice on Dapper -> Edgy? Just, wow…) but I got to learn some new stuff too (like pairing perlis and elric (my new 3G phone) via Bluetooth on the console.

However, if I was in a hurry, I would have just e2mkfs‘d my partitions and started over. But then again, would I have had to move from Dapper to Edgy if I wanted to do that install dance all over again?

Granted, the upgrade process needs some improvement: either elevate `dist-upgrade’ capabilities to an even higher, godlike status, or make use of a different upgrader (dselect and aptitude does seem to have the upper `edge’ compared to apt-get…)

I guess there’s still some advantage of me not following the Edgy development process too closely (SoC, getting a new job, and school makes such a busy mix but I’d love to jump back again in Feisty, now that I do have the means to follow development more closely.

Update: Looks like the dist-upgrades corrupted my swap partition, preventing me to do hibernates. A mkswap, followed by the subsequent edit in /etc/fstab and a reboot, fixed that.

Update 2: Seems hibernate still doesn’t work (although suspend to RAM works absolutely fine.) A look of the resume process seems to show similarities between this bug, but I’ve yet to confirm.

Update 3: I have found a workaround to this hibernate issue by rebooting with the `ro’ flag removed from the kernel command line, then adding a `resume=/dev/hdaX’ or `resume=UUID=XXXXXX’. Upon further investigation, it also appears that my swap partition doesn’t get corrupted at all; what seems to happen is that the kernel or `swapon’ doesn’t recognize it on the next boot, thus failing with an `Invalid argument.’