[newbie] Breezy =>DapperDrake upgrade fails with error 2?

[David Armour]

thank you for your reply.

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>> Failed to fetch 
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
>> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
>>
>> i'd greatly appreciate any ideas, or pointers for finding further info 
>> about the error. thank you for reading this.
>>     
> make sure you cdrom repo in /etc/apt/sources.list is commented out (with
>   
it was.
> a # infront of it) make sure you have your -desktop package installed
> (if using gnome it would be ubuntu-desktop kde would be kubuntu-desktop
>   
i figured it must've been installed (i thought that was what i was 
using!?) and went straight to your subsequent suggestion:
> and so on) comment all non-offical repos out put a # infront of them
> including backports than run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
> dist-upgrade   sit back and wait. the last few days alot of people that
>   
i had recently run...

gksudo "update-manager -d"

which had told me (several times!) that my system was up to date. i missed the 'dist-upgrade' bit though. EEK!

commenting out the backports line(s) generated more almost 2h of 
activity, and a number of 'failed to load image text-editor / file 
manager' [icon not found] info pop ups. but the wee box was clearly 
going through more than it had to that point. last significant / ominous 
message referred to nessusd: fatal IO error 9 Bad file descriptor on X 
server   :0.0.

i *think* i've up-graded to 6.06 dapper. i can see some changes to the 
applications listed in the drop down menus, and the 'about gnome' lists 
a 2.14.1 version. something worked. the panel bar has two red 'x's' 
where the file manager / gedit (text-editor) should be, but the programs 
work normally otherwise.

the bug # 40683 that C Hamel recommended checking seemed to refer to 
font sizing???

FYI, /etc/apt/sources.list now reads:

deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe main restricted 
multiverse
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main universe 
multiverse restricted


# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main universe 
multiverse restricted

....

i hope this is helpful to someone else.

thanks again for your help.