Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

[Collins Richey]

On 6/2/06, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>

FYI, my preference to the general RTFM approach is RTF the actual M.

The required reaqding for this particular RTFM exercise is

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186672

Enjoy,

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