Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

[Michael Hipp]

> From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
> On 6/2/06, Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> > What should I do? It's lucky that I haven't rebooted the PC, so the old
> > system is till working.
> >
> > I am trying 'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' now. IS it the right way?
> >
> 
> That's a good frirst try.
> 
> Why did it crash?
> 
> FYI, I did a dist-upgrade from Breezy to Dapper many months ago, and
> there was fairly substantial breakage that I was able to recover after
> perusing the forum. However, a few things were never right, so I
> reinstalled 6 months ago,

This is what search engines are for.

A quick search will turn up the *correct* instructions for upgrading rather than just blindly typing in commands that may or may not work. In every upgrade so far Warty->Hoary->Breezy there are always a few certain things that need to be done just so either pre or post upgrade. I've not done Breezy->Dapper yet (and I won't for a while as I'd prefer to let the expendable people work out the bugs first), but I'm sure it's similar.

A few minutes worth of research will save a lot of grief.

Michael