Why doesn't GUI upgrade 6.06 LTS to 7.04 work?

[Kipton Moravec]

It did not work.

It wanted to jump to 8.04 which is beta, and the install failed. I was
screwed. I could only get a recovered version to work enough to get me
to the command line. Gnome would  not start, and x-windows would not
repair.

Fortunately I was able to reinstall 6.06 LTS and get back up and
running, but it cost me a day. And all I lost was the printer driver.  

Moral of the story, do not upgrade unless you have to.

Kip

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:36 +0000, Mr. Obnibolongo wrote:
> You should be able to upgrade to a non-LTS version using
> gksu "update-manager -c -d"
> as I told in the previous e-mail...
> 
> -- 
> Mr. Obnibolongo
> 
> 
> Qui, 2008-03-27 às 17:28 -0500, Kipton Moravec escreveu:
> > Thanks, I think I finally figured it out.
> > 
> > I have 6.06 LTS not 6.10. (Definitely a Doh! moment)
> > 
> > So I can not upgrade 6.06 LTS until another LTS version appears. Is that
> > correct?
> > 
> > When is the next LTS version due? I thought it was 18 months which is
> > why I am looking around now. 6.06 LTS was released June 2006. This is
> > about 21 months.
> > 
> > Kip
> > 
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:59 +0000, Mr. Obnibolongo wrote:
> > > WTH?
> > > 
> > > Anyway, this might be of some help.
> > > 
> > > If for some (extremely) odd reason your system thinks it's a LTS
> > > release, it won't upgrade for a non-LTS version.
> > > 
> > > Be sure of having all packages updated first with
> > > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > 
> > > ONLY AFTER try:
> > > 
> > > gksu "update-manager -c -d"
> > > 
> > > For more info on update-manager options, try "update-manager --help".
> > > 
> > > WARNING: be sure to upgrade to the following version, in your case,
> > > 7.04; I do NOT know if using the -d will make update-manager do
> > > something stupid like "jumping" to 8.04, which is still a Beta...
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Mr. Obnibolongo
> > > 
> 
> 
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Kipton Moravec KE5NGX
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