<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Paul Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@mad-scientist.us">paul@mad-scientist.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:37 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote:<br>> I'll try keep it short, because this mail doesn't contain anything<br>> particularly constructive<br><br></div>Hi Davyd. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. I've done one fresh<br>
install and two upgrades from 9.04 to 9.10, and I've not had any<br>problems with any of them so far (and these are not simple systems: my<br>two upgrade systems both use nVidia cards with proprietary drivers and<br>
dual monitor support, I have a lot of *-dev etc. packages installed on<br>
both of them, some PPA packages, etc. etc.) There are also another 5-6<br>people at my office who did upgrades and I didn't hear any problems<br>there either (and I would definitely hear about it).<br><br>One thing I was sure to do was make sure all my packages on 9.04 were up<br>
to date and I had performed any system reboots required before I started<br>the upgrade.<br></blockquote>
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<div>IMHO, if this IS a cause of problems, then it sounds like a good thing to be covered by</div>
<div>sanity checking code in dist-upgrade. </div>
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<div>Naturally I don't know all the details, so take my comment with a grain of salt.</div>
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