My initial attempt to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 9.10 systems to the latest release succeeded, but after a reboot it turned out that it kept kicking me out as quickly as I would log in. This become very frustrating, since the machine was pretty much a deadweight in terms of use. Not wanting to loose any of the information, or having to retrieve it from my backups, I booted into the terminal and copied over my files and then did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on the machine.
Lo and behold, following a reboot, I had the same problem! Knowing that a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 (from the same CD) works ok on a separate machine, I went through the process of installing the packages and add-ons that don't come with Ubuntu one by one and rebooting after each to find the culprit. Turns out it was cairo-dock that was at fault. I have since removed it, and would love to get it back (I hate that windows style tool bar at the bottom), but I haven't found one that won't lock me out again! Hehe
Other than that, I love Lucid Lynx, it has a nice user interface, nice colour schemes, it came built-in with dual monitor support which was a must! Just to give you an idea, I am currently running this on a Compaq Presario R3000 series, with a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor with a 2.4GHz CPU, and a 40GB HDD. The graphics card in this is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP. Yeah, I know ... nowhere near the kind of laptops you see now, but this is my very first laptop from like 2003, and yup its still alive and kicking!
