xubuntu 6.06 to xubuntu 6.10 what happend!
Foxy
foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Thu Nov 9 00:35:45 UTC 2006
Jelle de Jong wrote:
> I agree with you. But will updates like firefox 2 and a lot of other
> program's be available as update for dapper?
>
> Cody Somerville wrote:
>> I'm going to mark Edgy as unstable. That is:
>>
>> 6.10, codename Edgy Eft (stable release)
>> <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/6.10/release/>
>>
>>
>> to
>>
>> 6.10, codename Edgy Eft (unstable release)
>> <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/6.10/release/>
>>
>>
>>
>> I think we can all agree Edgy is... Edgy (aka unstable). If anyone
>> objects, please feel free to change it back.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cody A.W. Somerville
>>
>> On 11/8/06, *Vincent* <imnotb at gmail.com <mailto:imnotb at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh wait.. It's probably not a general bug.
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/06, *Vincent* < imnotb at gmail.com <mailto:imnotb at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> So if you're familiar with it, how come you got problems :P
>>
>> Anyway, I'll remove it to prevent it from happening again.
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/06, *Jelle de Jong* < jelledejong at powercraft.nl
>> <mailto:jelledejong at powercraft.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> quote from website: The method of apt-get dist-upgrade is
>> still safe for
>> those who are familiar with it, the issue is only with the
>> update-manager.
>>
>> So I used apt-get dist-upgrade, and I am familiar with it
>> :-D gives me
>> the impression that it is save to do a upgrade.
>>
>> PS you are right with the k instead of t there are some
>> spell mistakes.
>>
>> Vincent wrote:
>> > I take it you mean apt-get dist-upgrade, as you multiple
>> times said
>> > disk-upgrade (k instead of t).
>> >
>> > Also, as for the website:
>> >
>> > *
>> > *NOTICE:* There have been some issues with upgrading
>> >
>> <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/68027
>> <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/68027>>
>> > to Xubuntu 6.10 from Xubuntu 6.06.
>> > Please review available documentation below before
>> attempting an
>> > upgrade.
>> >
>> > And
>> >
>> > Click here for instructions.
>> > <
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades#head-11721ced054eda7fabc2bb5bce3bbd447d170dac>
>> > /At the moment, it is not recommend to use this method, as
>> there seem to
>> > be problems
>> > <
>> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/68027>
>> > with it./
>> >
>> > /The method of apt-get dist-upgrade
>> > <
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades#head-0ee455b2d02f220b043c084f09dffb86c1c6bd79>
>> > is still safe for those who are familiar with it, the
>> issue is only with
>> > the update-manager. Please note that you do not need
>> *ubuntu-desktop*,
>> > but *xubuntu-desktop*./
>> >
>> > That does not look like saying it is safe to upgrade to me.
>> >
>> > On 11/8/06, *Jelle de Jong * < jelledejong at powercraft.nl
>> <mailto:jelledejong at powercraft.nl>
>> > <mailto:jelledejong at powercraft.nl
>> <mailto:jelledejong at powercraft.nl>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I thought to day was a good day to migrate form dapper
>> to edgy, because
>> > the nice updates in edgy are not available for dapper.
>> And I wanted to
>> > do some debugging for edgy.
>> >
>> > I am a pretty advanced user of linux and have a lot of
>> program's and
>> > scripts installed.
>> >
>> > I first tried edgy on my vmware system and it did work.
>> so i give it a
>> > try. I made a dd image for backup if things went wrong.
>> >
>> > I want to command line mode so i killed gdm en x
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get update
>> > sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
>> > sudo apt-get disk-upgrade
>> >
>> > Then I configured the apt-get sources for edgy.
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get update
>> > sudo apt-get disk-upgrade
>> >
>> > Here we went. Downloaded a lot of stuff > 1GB and
>> started installing
>> >
>> > I noticed that I recieved a lot of errors of these:
>> > "perl: warning please check local settings"
>> > I think this had to do with the fact that te program
>> that sets the local
>> > settings was not run yet. later when the this program
>> was run the
>> > warnings disappear. So someone could fix this "bug" by
>> first setting
>> > local language settings for upgrading.
>> >
>> > Then it happens the apt-get gives a error and quits
>> >
>> > the error was in this package:
>> > anjunta-2.0.2-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
>> >
>> > when I retried sudo apt-get disk-upgrade it advised me
>> to run apt-get -f
>> > install so I did and it when on. after that i did a
>> apt-get disk-upgrade
>> > again and it when further.
>> >
>> > I got a warnings that there is something wrong with
>> font gs.defoma line
>> > 108. someone could check that.
>> >
>> >
>> > When apt-get tried to restart mysql after upgrading
>> something it hangs i
>> > waited 15 minutes and tryied some key combinations but
>> the pc was dead.
>> >
>> > I restarted the pc and the default kernel was broken
>> and did not start.
>> >
>> > I tried another kernel and got it to run single mode
>> with lot of errors.
>> > I restarted the apt-get disk-upgrade command
>> >
>> > I got a error again and apt-get exits it was a error in the
>> > gtk-engines-eazel.
>> >
>> > I concluded that this was not working. and wanted to
>> restore my backup
>> >
>> > so i tried a dd to restore my image (dd image is stored
>> on another
>> > partion) but after a while the system was hanging again
>> and I had to
>> > restart.
>> >
>> > Now grub was totally down it gives me a error 16 code
>> and does nothing.
>> >
>> > I had not get burned a xubuntu 6.10 cd for a total
>> clean install so i
>> > had to go to another pc and burn a alternate disk.
>> >
>> > When I tried to load the kernel on the 6.10 alternate
>> cd I got error:
>> > apci kernel panic - not syncing.
>> >
>> > I can remember this is the same error I got when I
>> tried the a self
>> > compiled kernel, the newest from kernel.org
>> <http://kernel.org> <http://kernel.org>.
>> > There is a bug somewhere
>> > with the new kernels and the via epia en12000 hardware.
>> >
>> > I did not get tried to start the kernel with options
>> like pci=noacpi and
>> > acpi=off. I will do that another time.
>> >
>> > So far edgy experiences are very bad. Could some one
>> please remove the
>> > fact from the xubuntu.org <http://xubuntu.org> <
>> http://xubuntu.org> website that a dapper
>> > to edgy upgrade will go
>> > fine and give only advice for fresh installs.
>> >
>> > I have spend a half a day for this and don't feel for
>> making bug reports
>> > other than this somebody other than me has to do that.
>> >
>> > Hope edgy will improve in the future or do I have to
>> wait 6 months for
>> > the next release? Keep up the good work btw.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Jelle
>> >
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Vincent
>> >
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>> you can trust
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>
I am using FF2 from Mozilla site on Dapper without any problem. There
are a number of howtos on ubuntuforums.org how to install it as a
default browser.
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