Gutsy upgrade borked

[Alex Janssen]

NoOp said the following on 10/20/2007 11:32 PM:
> On 10/20/2007 07:53 PM, Justin Gruenberg wrote:
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>> On 10/20/07, NoOp <myemailaddress> wrote:
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>>> Sorry to bitch (enter Mario, et al :-) but I've just about reached the
>>> end of my rope spending hours & hours & days & days screwing around with
>>> this distro. It works once you get it tuned and working, but then Ubuntu
>>> can't fix basic application issues (like OpenOffice etc) on the existing
>>> distro so you are forced to upgrade to the latest distro (fine stay on
>>> LTS and work with OOo 2.x out of date not working version etc).
>>>
>>> I'm off to reformat & reinstall Windows on the other system...
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>> There's some good tips for the T21 at thinkwiki:
>> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_T21
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> I already had everything installed on the A21, and just moved the A21
> hard drive to the T21. It's all working now (I'm using it to post this),
> but the problem was that I *still* had to go through an xorg reconfig to
> get things working again. The A21 was configured to boot with a default
> screen of 1024x and had been working as a blind setup without any
> monitor attached. When I moved the drive to the T21 with a working LCD
> Gutsy tried to guess the resolution, couldn't, and resorted to 800x. I
> tried the gui, didn't work, and finally ended up doing what I usually do
> with Ubuntu upgrades: reconfiguring xorg manually.
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>> Why remotely upgrade your kids computer?  Use a LTS version?  Or
>> upgrade it when they come home?  If they're not the kind of person to
>> fiddle with all the settings, they're probably not going to care if
>> their applications are a few versions behind.
>>
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> That's pretty silly statement isn't it? Have them drag the desktop home
> so dad can upgrade their computer. I maintain over 200 computers
> remotely worldwide (primarily Windows) and figure that I should have
> confidence in upgrading my kid's computer remotely as well. Given that
> statement, and the fact that I work with Ubuntu daily, have 4 local test
> systems, and generally support Ubutuntu, and contribute to this list as
> I can, I think that when I say that I'd hesitate to update my kid's
> Feisty remotely - make that '*wouldn't update my kid's Feisty
> remotely*', you can pretty well bet that I have little confidence in
> attempting to do so.
>
> BTW: Why the need to upgrade?
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> OOo 2.2 in Feisty doesn't work and is *seriously* broken, Evolution
> printing doesn't work in letter form (A4 only), and many, many things in
> Feisty don't work & won't be fixed in Feisty. The only way to move on is
> to upgrade to Gutsy. Or continue to remove Ubuntu bulk meta packages
> (OOo etc) and install individually - ever try to remove and reinstall
> Evolution from source in Ubuntu?
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I don't see all the broken things you report.  I guess I just don't use 
it as extensively.  I do some simple spreadsheets(budgets, cost 
analysis) and documents(product catalog, a 250 page book with index and 
toc), but I'm certainly no system guru.  I don't use evolution.  I got 
stuck on Thunderbird before I saw Evolution.  I think I'd use Evolution 
if it also ran on MS Windows.

I'm glad I got some errors and read all these messages before continuing 
with the upgrade.

Glad to hear you got 7.10 working Ok, now.  I might try in a few days.

Alex

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