Re: [xubuntu-users] Upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 got aborted

2017-01-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/03/2017 09:17 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: [snip] > so I'm asking the same here: what do the 'rc' flags really mean (ie on > what criteria are they based) and can they be trusted? The actual list > is below... Belay that question. Turns out that these are obsolete *config* files only, not the actu

Re: [xubuntu-users] Upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 got aborted

2017-01-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/02/2017 03:20 PM, Dave Dodge wrote: > I recently upgraded a machine directly from 14.04.5 to 16.10 and ran > into a lot of trouble along the way, ranging from dependency conflicts > to pre-script failures to a cat stepping on the reset button while I > was trying to fix things. cat(1) needs

Re: [xubuntu-users] Upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 got aborted

2017-01-02 Thread Dave Dodge
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:56:57PM +, Peter Flynn wrote: > I just upgraded my Dell Latitude D810 from 15.10 to 16.04_01 using > update-manager (the last of my machines to update this cycle). All went > well except for two things: I recently upgraded a machine directly from 14.04.5 to 16.10 an

[xubuntu-users] Upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 got aborted

2017-01-02 Thread Peter Flynn
I just upgraded my Dell Latitude D810 from 15.10 to 16.04_01 using update-manager (the last of my machines to update this cycle). All went well except for two things: a) as usual, it halted several times to ask if I wanted to keep the config file in etc/somewhere/or/other/something.rc, claiming i