Okay it's done. Loaded up VMWare and did the duty of upgrading to Edgy Eft. Everything was looking great until I restarted the virtual machine. I haven't needed to restart the VM since I upgraded the kernel last time. Imagine my surprise when my screen shrinks down to a quarter of its normal self, and the colors look really horrible. That knocked the wind out of my sails.
So what have I gotten out of this upgrade? A useless VM for the time being. But I'm an intrepid geek so this problem is going to be licked one way or another. For once in my life I would like for a milestone release to just work. Seems the proper answer is to carpet bomb the drive and start a new installation at major point release. I don't think this is a practical solution. Especially for a developer who has installed tons of stuff in all the recesses of a running linux system. Only to have it come crashing down because part of the toolchain can't figure out how to compile a new X library.
Detecting X.org version 7.1.
Problem extracting version of X.org
Execution aborted.
Thank you, please play again.
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