Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

[Michael Hipp]

> From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
> 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

Yes. But I use the search engine to find the authentic M. Ubuntu has more forums, wikis, FAQs, community sites and other poop than I could possibly ever keep track of.

(Is M any relation to Q?)

Michael