Re: [Bug 239458] Re: Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed

2009-03-06 Thread g-rob
It worked ok for me on a Sun V100 ...but I tried to upgrade a sparc clone and it didn't work at all - it upgraded...and then it wouldn't boot Luke J Militello wrote: > Hi, I have a Sun E420R running gutsy and as is it approaching EOL, I > would like to upgrade it to hardy so I can get LTS suppor

Re: [Bug 239458] Re: Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed

2009-01-30 Thread g-rob
Hi Martin, I removed xvnc-viewer, which triggered the removal of the ubuntu-desktop package. After that the upgrade was able to proceed BUT the server didn't come up after reboot - it freezes at "booting linux..." - looking around seems to be a problem with the swap partition - anyway that is a

Re: [Bug 239458] Re: Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed

2009-01-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello g-rob, g-rob [2009-01-30 13:12 -]: > Works; but only when the ubuntu-desktop metapackage is removed; > otherwise unresolvable dependency problems seem to occur Can you be more specific, please? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Develop

Re: [Bug 239458] Re: Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed

2009-01-30 Thread g-rob
Works; but only when the ubuntu-desktop metapackage is removed; otherwise unresolvable dependency problems seem to occur Chris Jones wrote: > testing with --proposed on a sparc64 dapper machine it is now able to > upgrade the machine. > > -- Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade fail

Re: [Bug 239458] Re: Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed

2009-01-29 Thread g-rob
Hi Martin, It seems to work going from gutsy --> hardy on sparc I'll let you know for dapper --> hardy Thanks!! Robert Martin Pitt wrote: > Accepted python-apt into hardy-proposed, please test and give feedback > here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for > documentatio