Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

I guess I’m not the only one who hit some snags upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy. Some notes in case they help someone else.

• My window manager was unable to load any fonts. I got error messages saying, “Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset” when trying to open X apps. It turns out my fonts were in /usr/share/fonts/X11/* but my /etc/X11/xorg.conf were pointing to /usr/share/X11/fonts/*. Not sure if the fonts moved or if my xorg.conf changed.
• I tried to hibernate and when I restarted, it didn’t resume from hibernation and my swap partition was trashed. Adding resume=UUID=45acf887-ce9e-4e4e-819c-bff75afd523c to my /boot/grub/menu.lst (and using qtparted to fix my swap partition) fixed hibernation.
• The various ACPI related keys on my laptop no longer worked (e.g., brightness controls and the hibernate button). Apparently this is an issue with the panasonic laptop acpi module. I ended up downloading the source, changing one line from acpi_os_free(buffer.pointer); to kfree(buffer.pointer);, recompiling and modprobing the the module to fix the problem.

On a side note, I wish they hadn’t changed the OS_TARGET flag in the version of Firefox in the apt repository.