Dapper to Edy upgrade successful

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 21:06:08 UTC 2006


On 30/10/06, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> >
> > I went ahead with the install, and Konsole seems to be stuck for
> > several hours with this on the screen:
> >
> > ium(/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_3d11_CN546GH2NF_usbraw)
> >
> > media kioslave: HALBackend::hal_device_removed
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_3d11_CN546GH2NF
>
> What I did was a bit more cautious. I logged to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1
> e.g.) and did the upgrade from there (after logging out of the desktop
> environment).
>
> I think you should wait till the upgrade finishes. Depending on the
> speed of connection you get, this might take a few hours. However, if
> you have reason to believe that the computer has hanged and probably the
> upgrade has stopped happening, you could kill the upgrade process
> (CTRL+C or killing the actual apt-get process). Then try logging out,
> going to a console and killing gdm (or kdm if you use that) and try the
> upgrade again.
>
> BTW, make sure you have enough disk space to download new packages (this
> is independent of the method used for upgrading).
>
> ->HS
>

I most certainly have enough disk space, and I let the upgrade process
finish. After it finished all was fine, but when I reset the machine,
X would not start.

Dotan Cohen

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