Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

[Aere Greenway]

On 04/13/2013 12:26 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> Now, please, follow these steps:
>
> 1- Make sure your SWAP is 1GB at least.
> 2- From LXTerminal or whatever Terminal you are using, please run:
>
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> sudo apt-get autoclean
Ali, and all:

Knowing that apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade to a new level, I 
tried much of the procedure listed above on my UbuntuStudio 12.04 system.

When I installed Lubuntu 13.04 on that system, I increased the size of 
the swap partition to 992 megabytes, which is not quite the 1GB you 
indicated above.  But watching the panel indicators (and the "top" 
command-display) while updating/upgrading, it did not show any swap 
usage at all.

So anyway, I did the following terminal commands (not having a printed 
version of the above):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoclean

This time, it went all the way to the end, with me being able to observe 
what happened.

I think what threw me before, was that it (on the apt-get upgrade step) 
ended on the "update initramfs" step (not on mkinitramfs, as I was 
thinking).

So it works fine on UbuntuStudio 12.04 on that machine, a system which 
exhibited similar symptoms to what I reported for Lubuntu 12.10.

The next time updates become available for Lubuntu 12.10, I will try 
that procedure, and report the results.

That machine actually runs both Qsynth and the Java Sound Synthesizer 
quite well, so it will be good if this new upgrade procedure works out.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere