Comments on: Dapper to Hardy fails me

By: chris

chris — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:44:32 +0000

I did an upgrade from dapper to hardy on a pent mmx, it was my first real foray into the world of linux so i had no clue what i was doing… i’d installed a dapper server, i wanted to try out a web browser called “netsurf” and to do this i summised i would add all the hardy repos to the source list and go the sudo update && upgrade . from memory i got lots of error codes (and work arounds i found on the net) the most memorable was ncurses and fdutils there was a reaccuring problem with those packages though oneday an update did something that seemingly fixed it. netsurf didn’t seem to work properly but the switch to hardy updated x window-system-core to xorg which seemed to fix a heap of things, still the end result was a pretty disfunctional and peculiar OS. i still have the hard drive in the drawer of my desk oneday i’ll revisit and see if i can fix it up.

By: My Hardy disappointment « Motho ke motho ka botho

My Hardy disappointment « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:45:52 +0000

[...] 8.04 fresh installations on three different machines, plus two Gutsy-to-Hardy upgrades (and one Dapper to Hardy upgrade, but I want to try that again). At least five of those 22+ were full Ubuntu desktop systems. Two or [...]

By: andrewsomething

andrewsomething — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:29:56 +0000

@johnraff

Only the LTSs get point releases. Hardy’s is already scheduled (I can’t recall the date) so as to pick up the Gnome point release and FF3 Final ect…

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:25:55 +0000

btw since when have releases had a number after the month?
(ie 6.06.something)

Is there a terminal command to show what sub-version you’re on?

By: Alan Swartz

Alan Swartz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:32:16 +0000

Just curious: Did you upgrade the packages in Dapper before upgrading?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:21 +0000

@andrewsomething: Nuts, I should have thought to keep the logs. I’ll try it again in the next couple of days, and if it fails again, I’ll definitely try to supply some information. I usually blame myself when things like this don’t go as suspected.

@oneperson: I’ll keep that in mind if I try to duplicate the same errors. I’ll also make sure I strictly follow any LTS-to-LTS upgrade instructions I find.

By: oneperson

oneperson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:50:09 +0000

Dapper isn’t meant to upgrade to Hardy quite yet – the upgrade is intended to be from 6.06.1 -> 8.04.1 (when it is released), I think.

By: andrewsomething

andrewsomething — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:26:58 +0000

It is supposed to work. I know there was testing done before release. If you haven’t uninstalled yet and can still get the logs, it worth filing a bug.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUpdateManager