Hi Al, I have to confess that I didn't document what happened and what steps I tried in any detail. I needed the system back working quickly, so once I realised that it was seriously broken I ran a PartImage restore to get me up and running again.
I did try a few passive checks on the Ubuntu forums and found quite a lot of people struggling with failed upgrades. However, at the time there were very few answers available - apart from, 'do a clean install'. There are quite a lot of serious Ubuntu experts out there that would never dream of trying an upgrade. They ALWAYS do fresh installations and claim it's the only way to get a trouble free migration to a new version. I have to say that I agree with them. A clean install is quicker, more reliable and less likely to leave any nasty surprises lurking in the basement. Dave > > Hi Dave, > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:28:19PM +0000, Dave Sones wrote: > >> My only serious problem occurred when I tried (for the first time ever) >> to do an on-line upgrade from 9.04, rather than a clean install. It was >> a disaster. It took hours to complete and once done, the system wouldn't >> even boot correctly. I tried to fix it, but in the end gave up and just >> did a clean install, which worked perfectly. PartImage, which I highly >> recommend (on the SystemRescueCD - www.sysresccd.org/Download) got me >> out of trouble initially, by restoring my original 9.04 set-up. >> >> >> I'm very interested to know exactly what happened in between:- > "the system wouldn't even boot correctly" > > and > > "gave up and just did a clean install" > > Because I see a _lot_ of people complaining that the upgrade breaks, and > they then do a clean install, but I never get to hear what steps they took > to _attempt_ to fix it inbetween those two things happening. > > Did you attempt to fix it alone? > What kinds of things did you try to do to fix it (if you can recall)? > What support networks did you try? > * Google? > * Ubuntu Forurms (http://ubuntuforums.org/ > * IRC (#ubuntu / #ubuntu-uk) > * Launchpad Answers (http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu) > * LUG ? > Of those that you tried, did you use them passively (search for an answer) > or actively (post the problem and request help)? > > All the best, > Al. > > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
