CLI Giving Me A Raised Middle Finger

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 9 July 2012 21:28, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Doesn't <do-release-upgrade -d> require sudo?
> > try <sudo do-release-upgrade -d>
>
> It may well require sudo rights to actually perform an upgrade but it
> doesn't need them to check if an upgrade is being served. In this
> case, it spits a socket exception out, which is a bug if nothing else.
>
> Even so, a 'do-upgrade-release' on my machine, su'd or not doesn't
> throw an exception - just tells me that there's no upgrade available
> from my 12.04 installation.
>
> As of typing, I've not searched to see if there are any known bugs in
> the script released with 11.10... I'd have thought that if this were a
> regular occurrence then it would be patched out by now.




I've tried the commands; "sudo apt-get update -d" is now running and "sudo
do-release-upgrade -d" stopped running because of a conflict with apt-get
update -d.  Will report back when I have results.
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