Hi Barry,
You're not by any fortunate chance in London, are you?
Can you give us an idea of your filesystem layout? i.e.:
/dev/sda1 is /boot
/dev/sda2 is /home
/dev/sda3 is /
or whatever? I am willing to bet you're not getting all the filesystems
mounted properly/in their proper place. For
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:51 +, Glen Mehn wrote:
Please please please file against update-manager.
Rob: you can try this:
Boot from usb stick or live cd
Mount your filesystems in their correct places, so that your old / is at
/mounts/oldroot
Open a terminal
Type 'chroot
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window
which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified
version of GRUB2. This window was positioned behind the progress window,
and I could only
On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window
which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified
version of GRUB2. This window was positioned
I would always avoid GUI upgrades... use apt-get instead.
Sean
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On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window
which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified
version of GRUB2. This window was positioned
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes
On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:46:30
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes
On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10
On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window
which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified
On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote:
On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window
which appeared to be asking me
That wasn't an option for me - the whole program had hung and the mouse
wasn't responding properly. I actually connected via ssh from my laptop
to fix it, as I was working on that machine whilst the upgrade was
taking place on the desktop.
Both machines I upgraded did exactly this. A reboot
On 12 October 2010 14:16, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk wrote:
On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote:
On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The
install process failed just
On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote:
Um... I have to ask. You do know about how to switch between windows
with Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift-Tab, don't you? And that you can drag any
window from any point (not just the title bar) if you hold down the
Alt key as you drag, so you can reposition a
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:11 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
Um... I have to ask. You do know about how to switch between windows
with Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift-Tab, don't you? And that you can drag any
window from any point (not just the title bar) if you hold down the
Alt key as you drag, so you can
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