Yes, something went wrong with the upgrade process. At the end I could recover the system only after the following steps:


booting from the BT5 R2 DVD and chrooting to the encrypted hard disk...

It looks like the hashalot package is not installed during upgrade, I can't even find it as listed in the new sources repositories. Without that package, the logical volume contained within the...

Hi,
I've been using BackTrack 5 R1 flawlessy on a laptop with an encrypted hard disk.
I tried to upgrade to BackTrack 5 R2 by following this guide: upgrading-to-backtrack-5-r2, but after rebooting...

Hi,
I've been using BackTrack 5 R1 flawlessy on a laptop with an encrypted hard disk.
I tried to upgrade to BackTrack 5 R2 by following the guide at:...

Ok sorry, I searched a bit more and found a fix here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-5-fixes/40286-bt5-kde-64bit-startx-problem.html
That solves the issue to me.
Many thanks

Hello, I've just installed BT 5 on a laptop with a Nvidia GT 330M card.
I followed this guide to install the Nvidia drivers but it didn't work to me: after typing startx I see the "loading..."...

I actually came across that thread before opening this one, but it didn't seem relevant to installation issues, as the EDID patch has to be applied after a successful installation.

Furthermore, I...

@purehate: thank you for your offer of help! Unfortunately, on the corporate LAN where I am now it is not allowed to access any chat/messaging service like IRC...

In any case, the error section...

Do you mean the README on the Nvidia site? Of course, I read carefully through the Common Problems section, and the only relevant information I found is:

The --kernel-include-path option is now...

I did it, but the only effect was to generate the attached xorg.conf file, which did not fix it.

At the end I was forced to upgrade to R1 Development release, as I also had issues with both...

Hi,

I tried to install the Nvidia drivers on my Samsung R580 laptop: the video card is a GT330M.
I ran:

apt-get install nvidia-driver
then reboot (not sure if really needed) and typed:
...