Tue, Jan 10th if not upgradeable just install the operating systems side by side and manually move what you want to keep into 11.10 from 11.04 this could stop your problem or just use both operating systems running side by side until you can figure out if the distribution ISO is defected that you are trying from.. Sometimes you might think it is Ubuntu but I have never had a problem like this as I build my own computer exclusively made to run any operating system going even mac os. <a href="mailto:randy.sparks4@gmail.com">randy.sparks4@gmail.com</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Simón Ruiz <<a href="mailto:simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com">simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:30 PM, justin sullivan <<a href="mailto:j.p.sullivan@hotmail.com">j.p.sullivan@hotmail.com</a>> 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. </div>Right on. <div class="im"> > 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!!!! </div>That was a little more venting. :-) <div class="im"> > anyone else have any similar problems with > upgrading? </div>It's been my experience that the more things I change on a system, the less likely an upgrade is to go smoothly, especially as I like to muck around on the command-line and break things. I need to, sometimes, to get proprietary hardware working for example. Or I want to, sometimes, to get a different version of some software than what Ubuntu packages. But those are the things that tend to cause issues when I upgrade. I've noticed that on machines where I don't make many changes to the system—especially on systems where I've done everything, configuration-wise, through the GUI—and on machines where all the hardware uses open drivers, upgrades have gone quickly and smoothly for me. I tend to prefer a clean re-install when we're talking about my primary workstation. Something about the whole fresh install process makes things feel clean and new; maybe it's just a habit from years of keeping a Windows machine running. *shrug* I actually was able to make the jump from 11.04 to 11.10 smoothly on my primary system, a System76 desktop, when I tried on a lark; though I usually opt for a fresh install. Of course, the hard drive then died a sudden and irrecoverable death so I was forced to re-install from scratch anyways... :-) I've never lived in a rolling distro for very long, so I'm not sure what's life's like on the other side of that fence. Simón <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- Ubuntu-us-in mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-in@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-in</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>