Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

[Mike Marchywka]

Just one more comment though :) I was working on this email system for remote control to 
places without a static IP. All the data including media or environmental monitoring
( anything from camera to thermometer you can put on a USB ) is getting
chunked for email transfer. Some of the incoming messages that fetchmail handles
spawn demons such as monitoring a camera for motion and then sending back
a sequence of frames. On Ubuntu 11, things like ffmpeg did not work right
away and there were other things- libetpan is needed by my home brew mail/IMAP
handler and would not install. The killer though was that I was convinced fetchmail
had a bug not returning when I spawned with nohup. It turned out though,
that 
nohup xxx | tee -a yyy

kept the "tee" process active and prevented fetchmail from moving on.

nohup xxx 1>zzz | tee -a yyy

does work however. fwiw if you ever run into that :)
The "tee" does nothing at that point but everything to the left is sent in an email
and it is just easier to leave that in the script. 

With libetpan I can replace fetchmail if I ever get around to finishing my mail code...

Also, there seems to be a bug in uvccapture on first frame with built in camera
that was never fixed, it works ok on USB camera.







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From: Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 6:25 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 03:03:26PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 02:18, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > After all of that, it turned out the 300Gb laptop drive had 30Gb of free space.
> > I installed Beaver on that in minimal mode, after pounding on the stuck glide junk
> > to stop the cursor from drifting away, and it booted right up.  I still have my
> > 11 system and 'Dohs 7 .
> >
> > Thanks. It may have been exciting resizing the ntfs partition or installing
> > over 11 but it turned out not to be an issue.
>
> Glad it worked!
>
> Sounds like you have a cleanup job waiting, though...

The next time I get a system I will repartition it right away
and leave an "upgrade" partition.  I did pretty good with the
30gb partition up until recently and the new 500gb drive will
probably never miss a minimal install partition. Once a new
system is in, I can then eventually move everything over or
delete it and put the next upgrade on the earlier / partition.
That's the theory anyway.

I was suprised the Beaver ISO did not install g++ etc in minimal
mode. All the packages pre-built now? And yes I went and
got ifconfig too lol.

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