16.04 update/dist-upgrade

[Liam Proven]

I'm sorry but I for one am having a very hard time trying to
understand what you're posting. May I suggest you try putting it
through a spellchecker or something?

On 14 March 2018 at 08:33, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> After having hugep[1] problems following an attempt to get my old stable 16.04
> system to hwe,

You mean, upgrade to the hardware enablement stack?

> I made a complete (Duel boot with Win7) fresh install from a
> 16.04.3 USB, the tried to run
>
> ~$ sudo update -y && sudo dist-upgrade

*apt* update then *apt* full-upgrade?

> all went smoothly, but once I re-booted I was back to the previous unuseable
> situation [1]

So it was broken _before_ you tried to update? But you said it was stable?

> so I had to do a fresh install again (just Ubuntu side this time) again from my
> 16.04.3 media, I decided that untill I had more info I would not
> update / dist-upgrade, thinking that I may be at end of road, if cant
> update/dist-upgrade?
>
> meanwhile I downloaded the later 16.04.4 iso to test "if" "live usb" would run
> on same netbook, it did
>
> Back on installed sys I tested with
>
> ~$ sudo lsb_release -a && sudo uname -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
> Release:        16.04
> Codename:       xenial
> Linux Dawn 4.10.0-28-generic #32~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 20 10:19:13 UTC
> 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

So it's on -03. OK.

> all was much as I expected, so I then made same test from live usb
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo lsb_release -a && uname -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
> Release:        16.04
> Codename:       xenial
> Linux ubuntu 4.13.0-36-generic #40~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 23:26:51 UTC
> 2018 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> now I am was confused by the result from "uame -a" (16.04.1 ?)

Well either it's -01 or it's -04, but not both.

And either way, you said at the top of your message it's a 16.04-03
medium. You are contradicting yourself.

When did it go wrong? What happened? That would seem to me to be what
to troubleshoot.

And if you are going to start over, I suggest you start over with
16.04-0, no updates.

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