Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

Matthew Carpenter matt
Tue Jun 13 19:11:52 PDT 2006


On Friday 02 June 2006 20:11, 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.

I waited until Dapper was released... then I did a dist-upgrade on one system.
No problems.  OOo was removed, however.  hmmmmm..

Other than that, I've been very happy with the changes
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