[ubuntu-uk] trying to upgrade

[Alan Pope]

Hi Caroline,

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 00:23 +0000, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> When I try to upgrade a box comes up telling me that it is going to
> take several hours- I click, then go to bed after all the fetching
> files is completed. However the computer switches itself off after a
> period of time, so the upgrade is never completed. Can someone help? 

It could be the power management settings causing the machine to power
down. If you go to System --> Preferences --> Power Management and under
the "On AC Power" tab see "Put computer to sleep when inactive for:" and
check it is set to "never".

Cheers,
Al.
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