Ubuntu 9.10 repeated dialogue: "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode"

Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 8 04:05:39 UTC 2009


Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 08.12.2009 00:53, Leonard Chatagnier:
>
>    
>> use safe-upgrade(recommended).  Dist-upgrade will upgrade to the next
>> release when one is available and you might not want that since Karmic
>> is the latest and greatest-:o)
>>      
> No, 'dist-upgrade' will not upgrade to a new Ubuntu version - unless you
> take additional measures (changing sources.list). And on Ubuntu it's
> neither the recommended nor a supported way to do a release upgrade.
> 'dist-upgrade' will upgrade/install packages that would otherwise be
> kept back due to changed dependencies. And that can easily happen
> without upgrading to a newer distribution release. In fact, today's
> update to bind is such a case.
>
>    
I agree you may have to change sources.list and I know it's not the 
recommended/approved
method.  I only disagree that safe-upgrade wont do the same regarding 
depends.  I just ran
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade with these results:


lchata at karmic-desktop:/etc/gdm$ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude 
safe-upgrade
[sudo] password for lchata:
Get:1 http://76.73.4.58 karmic Release.gpg [189B]
Snipped the update listing for the most part
Get:30 http://76.73.4.58 karmic-backports/universe Packages [2,236B]
Fetched 7,148kB in 24s (292kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Current status: 19 updates [+19], 90 new [+1].
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libdns53{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
   apport apport-gtk apport-kde bind9-host dnsutils gnome-screensaver 
libbind9-50 libdns50 libisc50 libisccc50 libisccfg50 liblwres50 
libpython2.6 libruby1.8
   python-apport python-problem-report python2.6 python2.6-minimal ruby1.8
19 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.4MB of archives. After unpacking 77.8kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

I haven't actually did the upgrade yet but do I not have what you say 
that today's update to bind is such a case? AAMOF, I rarely use 
dist-upgrade.  I don't know
all the facts about aptitude but are you implying that upgrade didn't 
get the hits for you on the bind upgrade and if so did you try 
safe-upgrade? Maybe safe-
upgrade does what dist-upgrade is said
to do.
Len




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