- display a message that all applications should be closed for the dist-upgrade (and that strange things like a crashing panel can happen) - stop gnome-volume-manager before the hoary->breezy upgrade (it will crash otherwise) - DistUpgradeControler.sanityCheck: * fix borken caches * check for ubuntu desktop etc - check authentication and don't upgrade anything that is not authenticated (maybe just comment unauthenticated stuff out?)