One thing I should have mentioned re. the blurry font problem. I'm
using an NVidia card (GE 1030). It's probably obsolete by now. In
chimaera, I was using the proprietary NVidia driver (and it was fine
with that). In daedalus, I decided to try the apt-based install ("apt
install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree"). This may have some
bearing on the font problem.

If the best fix might be to get a new graphics card, I'm open to
suggestions and recommendations.

On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 15:01 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded my main box to daedalus last night. Main reasons why I
> waited so long before doing it were: chimaera seemed to be a
> "vintage"
> release - really stable; also, 37 years as a sysadmin left me with a
> phobia about upgrades (more weekends than I care to remember spent
> trying to fix and/or back out failed upgrades).
>
> The upgrade to daedalus took about 7 hours (so I got to bed at about
> 05:00 this morning, and thinking is proving a challenge at the
> moment).
>
> One thing which I've dreaded from first using linux is the way that
> desktop packagers don't seem to be able to resist the temptation to
> fool about with the default fonts for every new release. I use xfce,
> and evolution as my mail client, and at the moment, I can hardly read
> what I'm typing, even though I've increased the default font size.)
> If
> anyone else has encountered this and found a quick fix, I'd be
> grateful
> to know. (I've already played around with the antialiasing stuff in
> settings -> appearance, without any noticeable improvement. I suspect
> that at least temporarily, I'm going to have to switch to a bold
> font.
>
> One thing that's broken is slapd (the openLDAP server). I've found
> the
> underlying reason: apparently bookworm moved to openLDAP 2.5, in
> which
> the old bdb backend was removed. My own LDAP directory is in bdb
> format. The 2.5 upgrade backs up the settings and directories to LDIF
> files, and then tries to re-import them after the upgrade. However,
> if
> there's a bdb format directory, the reload fails because slapd can't
> find the bdb module and won't start. Presumably, there should be a
> stage where the config files are changed to remove the requirement
> for
> the bdb module, but this has been missed. Again - if anyone's hit
> this
> and found a fix, I'd be really grateful to hear about it. (It's not a
> big deal, as the actual directory isn't really needed any more. I
> think
> I can probably fix it by playing around with it manually - it'll just
> take time: if I do manage to fix it, I'll report back.)  
>
>
>
>
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