How do you prevent an application from grinding the whole system to a halt?

Fri Jun 2 11:31:06 UTC 2006

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:50 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> 0. Modify sources.list for new version (Dapper)
> 1. sudo init 1
> 2. apt-get update
> 3. apt-get -u dist-upgrade 

The officially recommended method is to run Update Manager from
System/Administration menu. It will edit sources.list for you,
dist-upgrade, AND perform tasks that can not be expressed as package
dependencies. Read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades