impossible upgrade: kubuntu 11.10

FarSight Data Systems msh at farsight-data.com
Thu Oct 27 11:24:46 UTC 2011


On Thursday, October 27, 2011 03:45:10 AM Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> I would suggest to do updates on laptops with cable plugged-in rather then
> using the wifi.  In my case on two laptops the wifi stops operations
> somehow during the installation process and makes it difficult to
> continue. gk
> 
> On Thursday 27 October 2011 09:39:53 Arnaud bourree wrote:
> > That looks more connection error that issue with your graphic card.
> > Myself when I moved from 11.04 to 11.10 from my laptop and 10.10 to
> > 11.04 to 11.10 on my home desktop, I've got similar issue and I retry
> > many time up that run.
> > So I suggest you to retry and retry.
> > 
> > Arnaud.
> > 
> > 2011/10/27 Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il>:
> > > I have tried to upgrade or install a fresh version of Kubuntu 11.10 on
> > > two different computers. I've tried 3 different ways of moving to
> > > 11.10, each one failing for reasons unclear to me. I'll list the
> > > different computers and the problems I have upgrading and hopefully
> > > some answers can be found here. I have upgraded and installed Kubuntu
> > > in the past (tens of times) and never had the problems I have now.
> > > 
> > > Enough of the rant and now I'll try to explain the problems. Both
> > > computers have an AMD athlone 3500 64bit processor. The computer at
> > > work has a Nvidia on board screen card and at home the computer has a
> > > PCI screen card.
> > > 
> > > At home I downloaded the 64 bit Oneiric and the 32 bit. Both
> > > installations and ended up with an error which seems to me to be
> > > something to do with the screen card. I also tried an upgrade from the
> > > internet and got a similar problem. I am not at home so I cannot give
> > > more details but I think I will replace my screen card and try again at
> > > home.
> > > 
> > > At work I get the following message when trying to upgrade. I haven't
> > > tried to install from scratch at work but did try this upgrade a few
> > > times.
> > > 
> > > Failed to fetch
> > > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdegraphics-strigi-analyze
> > > r /kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer_4.7.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb Got a single
> > > header line over 360 chars [IP: 91.189.92.176 80]
> > > 
> > > What can be done to correct this?
> > > 
> > > TIA
> > > 
> > > Errol
What I've done in the past when such situations occur is download the iso 
image, burn to a CD/DVD and do the upgrade from that.  You'll still need your 
connection to update some parts, but it should be better.

Mark

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