Upgrade onereic

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 16/05/12 11:51, Roger wrote:

> On 05/16/2012 08:17 PM, Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On 16 May 2012 03:36, Roger<arelem at bigpond.com>  wrote:
>>
>> [issues with the installer going to sleep]
>>
>> Tried running it from the shell to see if it's spitting any error
>> messages out which aren't directed to a dialog box?
>>
>> Usually my first port of call when I'm faced with GUI software not
>> doing what I expect it to.
>>
> first thing I did was try installing from shell, I'm in the habit of
> updating via shell anyway.
> I think I've found a way.
> This page
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-1204-arrives-and-its-great/10836
> 
> shows:
> Paste this into /etc/apt/sources.list
> Fron th elist I selected,
> 
> SouthEast Asia (Singapore)
> deb
> http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/
> precise main restricted universe multiverse
> 
> I did this and in a terminal ran:
>  sudo su
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade again
> Went to Update Manager after it ran and pushed the Update to 12.04 - it
> is now putting 1074 files into the Dell laptop which I anticipate may be
> the 12.04 upgrade files.
> Here's hoping!
> But it still does not explain the failure of the automatic update


It's not an uncommon fault with GUI update managers. Fedora's Package
Kit is notorious for it. Quite often with that, you have to send a kill
- -9 because when it fails it locks up yum so you can't use the cli.

Haven't come across it yet with Ubuntu but Debian does it also but very,
very rarely (only once in my experience since I started using it back in
Sarge).

Glad you got it sorted :-)

Cheers,

  Phil...

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currently (ab)using
Debian Squeeze, Fedora Verne, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Oneiric
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