[ubuntu-us-in] 11.10 upgrade FAIL

[Jeremy L. Gaddis]

* 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

Those of us who run FreeBSD would be happy to have you.  =)

> 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?

Nope, but I've never used any non-LTS versions for more than a few days. At
my previous employer, we had several Ubuntu servers (LTS) that we ran, but
after five years a clean install to a newer version isn't such a bad idea.

That said, in the ~15 years I've been using Debian I can't recall a single
issue upgrading between versions. Perhaps Debian would suit you better,
without all of Shuttleworth's bastardizations?

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Jeremy L. Gaddis