Dapper upgrade hangs - what to do?

[Daniel Carrera]

jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com wrote:
> My main concern was whether cancelling the upgrade in the middle was 
> likely to cause a big problem. Your advice suggests that it won't.

I would phrase it differently. I think that the command-line upgrade can 
recover from most errors that could occur from canceling.

I hate making suggestions without knowing what the error is, if any. But 
a pretty safe advice is to run "sudo aptitude upgrade" until there are 
no more errors. Something a bit less safe is "sudo apt-get install -f", 
but still probably ok. There's more that one can do to correct errors, 
but it requires more knowledge of Debian.


> I have the upgrade CD and the instructions for using it (I downloaded 
> the ISO and created the CD last week) but I had wanted to try out the 
> new upgrade process to see how it worked. Heh! Guess I found out!

:-)

> Do you think it would be better for me to do "sudo aptitude upgrade" or 
> use the CD? I would prefer not to spend several hours downloading the 
> files again.

Which CDROM do you have? "Desktop" or "Alternate"? If you send me the 
sources.list file I can make the "aptitude" step grab the files from the 
CDROM instead of downloading them.

> I don't see that file. I'll hunt around to see if sources.list is 
> somewhere else.

My bad. /etc/apt/sources.list   (I typed too quickly and forgot the 
/apt/ part).

Cheers,
Daniel.
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