many problems after upgrade to Hardy

[Paul DeShaw]

> |
> | This is so frustrating.  Ubuntu peaked with Dapper, as far as smooth
> | upgrades are concerned.   I upgraded my old iMac G3 from Dapper to
> | Feisty, and it's even more messed up.  Wish I'd learned my lesson and
> | not upgraded my main desktop.
>
> I have exactly the opposite experience.  I have been upgrading (as
> opposed to reinstalling) my laptop since dapper and it is still working
> flawlessly.


I'm glad for you, but I have talked to others who have had similar, and
worse, experiences--merely seach this list's archives and you'll see what I
mean.  Gutsy was especially traumatic.


> I guess to start I would be interested in having a look at your
> /etc/apt/sources.list.


OK, to save space I'll leave out everything that's commented out:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Studio 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080701)]/
hardy main multiverse restricted universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe


deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse

This looks good to me.  Yesterday, when I tried to sudo aptitude update,
then sudo aptitude dist-upgrade, it didn't install or upgrade anything.
I'll try again now:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks libpoppler-glib2
  libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler2 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-common poppler-utils
8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed

I'll save this draft and report back after I run the upgrade and reboot.

later....

Ok, now it won't boot at all.  It says it's going to check the drive, then
it just hangs there.

"Ubuntu Studio has been mounted 22 times without being checked, check
forced.
Checking drive Ubuntustudio (/dev/sda3): 0% (stage  1/5, 1/737)
UbuntuStudio: 318790/12075008 files 95.2% noncontiguous), 6403122/24147703
blocks

[blinking cursor]"

It's been like that at least 10 minutes now, so I think that's all it's
going to do.

I'll try booting in recovery mode and send another e-mail with the results.

FWIW I ran upgrade instead of dist-upgrade by mistake...but that shouldn't
have hurt anything.

--Paul
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