Problem installing 19.10

[Bret Busby]

On 22/10/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 21:45, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 22/10/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:53, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> The one problem that I had, in the procedures, was in the cases of the
>> >> upgrades, where, when the process gets to the screen where it says x
>> >> number of packages will be installed, x number of packages are no
>> >> longer supported, and x number of packages will be removed, to view
>> >> the packages that are to be removed, the dialogue box expands, so that
>> >> the bottom, where the buttons to proceed or quit, are visible,
>> >> disappears off the bottom of the screen, never to be seen again, even
>> >> after the area where the packages are listed, is minimised, so, the
>> >> upgrade procedure has to be killed and restarted.
>> >
>> > On the standard Ubuntu system if you hold down the windows key and
>> > left mouse button you can drag a window without needing access to the
>> > title bar.  Thus it should be possible to move the window up to get to
>> > the disappearing buttons.
>> >
>>
>> I could access the title bar. When I dragged that, like also trying to
>> use the "resize window", it just dragged the title bar upward, and the
>> buttons and the bottom of the dialogue box, stayed anchored below the
>> bottom of the visible area.
>
> Perhaps you just couldn't pull it up far enough.  I have never seen a
> window stretch when moving the title bar.
> Worth trying dragging the whole window, pushing the title bar off the top.
>

Too late now (for this version number) - it's come and gone - the
installations are installed, and hopefully, it will be fixed for
20.04.

I don't feel inclined to do another upgrade to 19.10, especially while
16.04 is still supported, and is better than 19.10.


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Bret Busby
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