[ubuntu-za] Intrepid Heron - Hardy Ibex

David Robert Lewis ethnopunk at telkomsa.net
Sun Mar 15 19:52:47 GMT 2009


David Robert Lewis wrote:
> Hi lee, 
>
> thanks for being there, I've just found some good advice at
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/133620-stuck-between-hardy-intrepid.html
>
> and it seems to concur with what you say, so I've gone and changed the
> repos to intrepid and have started a dist-upgrade (sudo apt-get
> dist-upgrade) which is busy running. So holding thumbs that this will
> make sense to the system at some point and I will end up with a 100%
> Intrepid.:) will keep you posted.
>
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:44 -0500, Lee Sharp wrote:
>   
>> David Robert Lewis wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently did an online upgrade. The upgrade aborted leaving me
>>> stranded. The machine then proposed a partial upgrade which I did, and
>>> at least I have my desktop back. Now I have the following dilemma:
>>>       
>> <snip>
>>
>>     
>>> I am therefore seriously stuffed. Any ideas about solving this upgrade
>>> disaster?
>>>       
>> Two things come to mind...  First, you can do the early alpha testing 
>> method of just reseting your repos to Intrepid.  Or, you can get an 
>> Intrepid alt-install and run the upgrade script on the CD.
>>
>> Either way, tar up / to an external drive to revert back to partially 
>> broken.  As long as you don't reformat the partitions, you will not have 
>> any UUID problems to worry about.
>>
>> 			Lee
>>
>>     
>
>
>   
No luck, the xorg is now broken - my mouse and keyboard not registering. 
Did a dpkg and there are broken packages that need to be fixed and the 
only repos are canonical (international bandwidth). Is there some way to 
force dpkg to seek the local repos?





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