Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

[Collins Richey]

On 6/2/06, Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
>
>
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 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, and I've had no problems since then other
> > than CUPS[YS} which is the biggest POS on the planet.
>
> Which is why I always rip out CUPS on my Slack install and
> compile in LPRng ....
>

A wise man.

I no longer have the equipment to check it out, but there was a period
in time about 6+ months back when CUPS[YS} refused to setup my
plain-ole slow LJ100 which had worked just fine earlier. After a few
CUPS[YS} cycles, I was able to get the printer to work using Epson HP
emulation!!!!

Now (4-5 months ago) I've got a copy-scan-print ALL-IN-ONE jobber from
Epson (alas, also slow) that configured just fine, but soon after
configuring it, the CUPS[YS} gurus killed the admin tool totally!!!
CUPS[YS} has gone through serveral SH**POTS of dot releases in the
runup to Dapper 6.06 final, but I'm afraid to tinker with anything, so
I don't know whether the problems are fixed or not.

It's almost as good as the time several years back when the geniuses
in CUPS land decided that the plain ole ghostprint driver (worked
since forever) wasn't good enough and began to cobble their own
bastardization of gs. I couldn't get anything to print for months, and
yes, Virginia, LPRng to the rescue.

Ah, doncha feel great after a little rant!

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.