broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/25/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>
> NoOp spake thusly on:
>
> > Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. For
> > some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include:
> >
> > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe
> > multiverse
>
> IMO, archive.ubuntu.com is about the worst place to point your
> sources.list files. There are dozens of mirrors. The main one is almost
> always slower.  And with everyone upgrading at around the same time,
> that only made the problem worse I'm sure.
>
> Oh and I don't upgrade. I do clean installs. Upgrading is against my
> religion, :)
>
>
>
> --
>             Scott
> http://angrykeyboarder.com
> I've never used an OS I didn't (dis)like.
> (c)2007 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved
>
>
> Hi Scott



been using the main server myself and went through the dist upgrade to
7.04on same pc without much bother. This is the first dist upgrade
that has
given any probs and still have 2 pcs to go. will sort out the first before
contemplating the others

James
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