Warty to Hoary upgrade

[Joao Inacio]

heh, happened to me today :/

somehow, after repeating the 'apt-get -f instal'l & dist-upgrade, a
few times it all seemed to work and now it's working just fine.

Problem is... i was mostly asleep when that happened so i don't
remember anything else ...


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:11:03 +0000, Keith Powell
<keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> I have tried upgrading from Warty to Hoary by replacing "warty" with
> "hoary" in the apt sources list (as it says in the Unofficial Starter
> Guide). I then did a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and it downloaded and
> installed about 500Mb. (I can't remember the exact amount).
> 
> It will boot into GDM normally. I enter my name and password as usual,
> and a small box appears with a light bulb and an OK button. I select
> the OK button and it takes me just to a terminal in the corner of the
> screen. The rest of the screen is black. I exit the terminal and it
> takes me straight back again to GDM! Even if I enter something like
> startx, or gnome in the terminal, I still just go back to GDM!
> 
> One other thing, selecting Gnome failsafe takes me to a black screen
> with a panel at the top, but there is nothing at all in the
> Applications menu - it's empty!
> 
> Please, what is the cause of this and how on earth do I get to the Gnome
> desktop? Warty works splendidly.
> 
> Many thanks to anyone who can sort this problem out. It's got me
> completely baffled!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Keith
> 
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