On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:33:30 +0200, Aur?lien Naldi > <aurelien.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you want to keep installed packages, you can upgrade instead of >> installing from scratch (if you don't skip a version or if you go from >> LTS to LTS, otherwise it may be painful). > > I'd like to just raise a paw here: the only reason I got to see the new > (and very slick!) installer is because my upgrade went pear-shaped. As > far as I can figure, one of the packages that was being upgraded was > asking a question about replacing a conf file (or something similar) > so the upgrade dialog just hung until I killed it and all the apt/dpkg > processes I could find and started again manually. I'm assuming this > created some bad juju on my machine because after the upgrade, I would > get hard hangs after a few idle hours on the machine. A clean install > doesn't exhibit the problem. > Unfortunately, this kind of thing has happened to me in the past (the > upgrade dialog stalling and when I manage to force things to start > again in a console, I see that the first package to be upgraded is > asking a question about overwriting a modified conf file). This is > just the first time (9.04->9.10->10.04->10.10) where the end result > was unusable. > If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd like to log a > bug report -- I honestly don't know what package to choose as the > victim though.
I'm not 100% sure, but I would imagine you'd file this against update-manager-core. When a package prompts for a conf-file, the gui is supposed to bring up a nice dialog prompt as well, not hang. If it is just hanging, the bug is in the gui, not apt or any actual package-related programs. Of course the window placement for these dialogs has been kind of weird in my experience - it's possible that the dialog was raised, but minimized on some other workspace instead of where you'd expect to see it. Still a bug imho, but I'm not sure which package in that case. Metacity/Compiz? > I would also add a "me too" to the OP. I keep my /home on another > partition for all the same common reasons and it would be neat > if that were offered as an easier option for newer users -- which would > make re-installs when they break the system due to learning > slightly less painful, for example. Again, being able to reinstall to a single-partition Ubuntu and keep your /home intact should cover the majority of use cases here. Using a separate home to maintain settings between multiple OSes is very much a power-user thing, and not recommended as it is very dangerous (eg if the version of rhythmbox in Natty upgrades your rhythmdb.xml to a new format, then booting into Maverick after will make rhythmbox unusable). I will add my own +1 to the idea of the automatic partitioner offering to reinstall/upgrade an existing Ubuntu install though. I don't know how easy this would be (or if it already exists in the new Maverick installer?) but it would make using the CD as a recovery disk much simpler for the less technically inclined. Cheers, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
