[ubuntu-us-in] 11.10 upgrade FAIL

Fri Jan 6 19:54:19 UTC 2012

Upgrades have failed me a lot. Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 have never really
worked for me, I dunno, maybe it's my old computer. It seems like all "new"
distros just don't work for me, be it an upgrade or fresh install.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:30 PM, justin sullivan <j.p.sullivan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  I was bored this afternoon and thought I would try and upgrade my
> notebook to 11.10 from 11.04. Every attempt that I have in the past to
> upgrade to the latest and greatest versions have failed me. I'm not sure
> why that is exactly but it SUCKS. I am going to have to start from scratch
> again...I think I'm just going to go to *BSD for good, kinda over the
> broken BS that is linux.....venting complete.
> so basically the installer reached the last stage of installing the new
> software needed for 11.10, stopped, and gave a message saying that
> something had failed and your system is going to reboot into a possibly
> unusable system....yay for ubuntu!!!! anyone else have any similar problems
> with upgrading?
>
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> > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:34:28 -0600
> > From: Phil Buckler <buck2825 at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: [ubuntu-us-in] Local support
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> > Does anyone know of a local person or company than supports Ubuntu or
> linux
> > in or near Evansville, IN?
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> > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:53:45 -0500
> > From: Charles Wolf <charlespoetwolf at gmail.com>
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> > Only tech support I know that openly supports Ubuntu + distros is in
> > Martinsville, sorry.
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> > On 01/05/2012 07:34 AM, Phil Buckler wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a local person or company than supports Ubuntu or
> > > linux in or near Evansville, IN?
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> > From: "DJ Gregory" <darrell.e.gregory at gmail.com>
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> > What sort of support are you looking for? Desktop support or server
> > support? Is this for a business? I'm just curious cause I have some
> > friends in that area that may be of some use, but I need a few more
> details
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> > Only tech support I know that openly supports Ubuntu + distros is in
> > Martinsville, sorry.
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> > On 01/05/2012 07:34 AM, Phil Buckler wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a local person or company than supports Ubuntu or
> linux
> > in or near Evansville, IN?
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> > Thanks
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> > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:56:02 -0500
> > From: Charlie Luna <war.tribe.mc at gmail.com>
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> > what was happening was when my laptop finally got booted up, a window
> > popped up asking me for my password before i could even use anything on
> the
> > desktop or whatever. but it said "keyring access" on it and in the top
> left
> > hand area of my screen above the ubuntu button. but i think what it was,
> > was that when i had done a previous reinstall, i forgot to check mark the
> > option to have the OS log me in automatically. i made sure i check marked
> > that option when i reinstalled it again. but, something else has been
> > happening for quite some time now. my browser tends to resize itself to a
> > smaller window and back to full size on its on. or so it seems that way.
> i
> > don't know whether i'm hitting a certain combination of keys by accident
> to
> > make it do that or not. i have turned off the mousepad so that i wouldn't
> > make accidental inputs. i'm using chromium. so i don't know what's going
> on
> > with that. i'd like to find out why my browser window resizes itself and
> > back on its own like it does. any clues?
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> > > From: Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
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> > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Charlie Luna <war.tribe.mc at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > When my laptop finally gets booted and I'm looking at the desktop, I
> > > have to
> > > > click on the keyring box in order to pit my password in. Before all I
> > > had to
> > > > do was to start typing in my password and everything was fine. Is
> this a
> > > new
> > > > feature of 11.10 or have I changed something by accident? I may just
> > > > reinstall 11.10 to see if that fixes it.
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> > > Charlie,
> > >
> > > Sorry for the late reply on this.
> > >
> > > I haven't personally noticed the issue you're describing. I don't know
> > > that I actually use a keyring, though. I think my wife's laptop uses
> > > one to store wireless access point passwords and such, but I don't
> > > think she's noticed any issues either.
> > >
> > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Did you re-install? If so, did it
> help?
> > >
> > > Sim?n
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