<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'URW Bookman L'; font-size:18pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> 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@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 </body></html>