Problem with Ubuntu Natty

Donald Talbert donaldtalbert at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 22:58:13 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 17:59 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 15:57 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >>
> >> Your anger and blame are misdirected. Unless you've hit some BIG bug,
> >> there's no way that 10.04 would prompt you to upgrade to 11.04 because
> >> (1) there's no direct upgrade path through update-manager (GUI or CLI)
> >> to skip a release and (2) an LTS release won't prompt you to upgrade
> >> to a non-LTS release by default (you'd have to change the
> >> update-manager settings). I suspect that you've forgotten that you'd
> >> upgraded to 10.10 at some point!
> >
> > Same here I was upgrading my girl's laptop from 10.04 to 10.10 and it
> > wouldn't update the distro unless you changed a few settings. Now my
> > 10.10 server keeps asking me if I want to update to 11.04 but, thats not
> > a LTS release, like you said.
> 
> If you'd rather not be prompted to upgrade, you can either edit
> "/etc/update-manager" and set "Prompt=never" or launch the Update
> Manager GUI, click on settings, click on the "Updates" tab, and choose
> "Never" as the "Release upgrade" option.
> 

Hey thanks for the tip. I'm going to do that tonight. We want to wait a
bit before upgrading to 11.04 server. Thanks again Tom.

Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com>
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