Colony 3 problems--my report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:56:00PM -0400, Zach wrote:

> Just upgraded my machine, which was running [approximately] colony2. 
> Here are some problems I ran into:
> 
> After the upgrade, there were lots of complaints & perl warnings from
> apt/dpkg about not being able to set the locale properly.  I'm using
> English US.  See next for resolution on this.
> 
> Open Office 2 apps crashes continuously and will not run.  I did a
> complete removal of all Open Office 2 packages including localization
> packages and reinstalled.  This seems to have made the perl warnings
> about not being able to set locale (see previous) go away.  However
> Open Office 2 still crashes and won't run.
> 
> After the upgrade there were continuously errors from apt/dpkg about
> not being able to configure console-data, base-config, ubuntu-minimal
> & unbuntu base, even when other packages were being added or removed. 
> This caused Synpatic to report that the action was not completed
> successfully, and to check the output for errors.  I finally did a
> complete removal of console-data, base-config, ubuntu-minimal &
> unbuntu base, and reinstalled them.  This seems to have solved that
> problem.

Your upgrade failed, leaving your system in an inconsistent state.  Probably
all of your other problems were fallout from this.  A transcript of the
upgrade would help us to diagnose this.

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 - mdz