[ubuntu-za] Karmic online upgrade

[Quintin Beukes]

It could also be upgrade problems related to some existing package. Like
conflicts. Very easy to miss during testing due to the many combinations of
packages possible.

I for instance had some nasty failures installing from the Ubuntu
repositories because I installed a google-chrome-unstable.

These will get sorted quickly as people report the problems, as it's usually
a small list of packages. I also had failures on one machine where 8.04 was
released, where other machines worked fine - they were literally standing
next to each other. A week it was working again.

Quintin Beukes


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM, David Rubin <davidrub at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo
> <biocura at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > Whatever you do, do not try doing an on-line upgrade, because it jst
> > keeps failing with a variety of error messages. 9.04 did not give one
> > bit of trouble, but it seems an on-line upgrade with 9.10 is not going
> > to work. A great big pity though, because previous upgrades used to work
> > perfectly fine and it made life so much easier.
>
> I am pretty sure this was due to the one server  had to be rebooted or
> possibly because of the high high number of users doing online
> upgrades it might be failing. I am pretty sure this isn't a "online
> upgrade is broken in 9.10" and rather some or other situation is
> affecting it ie one of the mirrors is having issues or your Internet
> connection is being over loaded or XYZ
>
> This is something that happens quite often on the day of release
> because every one is trying to upgrade at the same time.
>
> I suggest trying it again before bed or trying again in the morning.
>
> David
>
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