David Andrew davidandr at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 09:58:10 CDT 2005


As I said I had to go back to Hoary - but now I cannot access the
repositories to update the packages on Hoary - does anyone know if
there is a problem with the server - or is it s set up problem

On 24/10/05, Robert Schumann <robert at cantab.net> wrote:
> I've upgraded twice, and both times have required xorg-xserver
> reconfiguration as well as fiddling around with some packages which
> didn't install (forcing me to fix the install using dpkg).  I thought I
> was a minority, because I have somewhat tweaked the setup on the one
> computer and the other could have been bad luck.
>
> Robert.
>
> David Andrew wrote:
>
> >I've given up having spent considerable time trying the different ways
> >to upgrade and runnning into different problems each time and have
> >gone back to Hoary.
> >
> >On 24/10/05, Wiehe, Simon <simon.wiehe at csfb.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Hoary box to Breezy. I followed the
> >>instructions but it didn't go very smoothly. I lost X despite making sure I
> >>had the required desktop packages etc., I got a load of errors with the
> >>xorg-common package.
> >>
> >>I eventually got it back by doing a command-line install of the ubuntu-desktop
> >>package, but it was painful. Unlike my move from Warty to Hoary which was
> >>completely painless.
> >>
> >>Simon
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