Today i updated my Ubuntu to the new 11.10 Oneiric… And i spent 3 hours to get it work again.

The problem is, that the update is buggy. At least it was on my rig. But reading the forums, there were plenty of other people having the exactly same problem: You can’t go past the login screen. Or you can’t go past the startup screen.

The source of the problem is, that Ubuntu switched from gdm to lightdm, but somehow they forgot to completely get rid of gdm. And some other tiny problems.

After hours of struggle, i’ve found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/66482/cant-login-after-installing-11-10.

It solved my problem

For this post to have a meaning, you have to read the A method to repair a crippled Joomla! installation

A joomla! 1.5 installation does not differ much from a 1.0 installation (for a non-programmer’s eye, the programming model is totally different), but the configuration file has been changed. Instead of a list of standalone constants, everything is thrown into a class, and the mosConfig part from the variable names is missing.

Everything is working the same as in the Joomla! 1.0, except step 9., where you have to replace the following values:

a:)
var $log_path = ‘yoursitemaindir/jxcms/logs’;
to
var $log_path = ‘yoursitemaindir/logs’;
b:)
var $tmp_path = ‘yoursitemaindir/jxcms/tmp’;
to
var $tmp_path = ‘yoursitemaindir/tmp’;

Today, i encountered a problem with a Joomla! 1.0.15 installation: everything seemed to be OK, BUT! the wysiwyg editors’ (i installed more) plugins, and dialogs did not work at all, i could’nt work with them at all. That should’nt be a proble, but my client knows nuts about how to update a web page. The wysiwyg was for him.

Be careful, this is a quiet complicated procedure, always use it as a LAST RESORT. AND BACKUP YOUR DB AND SITE DIRECTORY FIRST!

So, let’s get into the middle of the thing

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