Bob Nielsen wrote:
I missed the beginning of the thread, but by any chance did you upgrade
to 6.10 from 6.06 using 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
Nope.
I tried that and ended
up with sort of a disaster. On the Ubuntu web pages I found some
mention of others having problems with apt-get for the upgrade, but
supposedly update-manager worked for them. I was a bit disappointed,
because upgrading has always worked for me with Debian-based
distributions
I have heard that there are issues with upgrading Ubuntu, and I have
also been told they are a thing of the past. I know some folks don't
even bother trying to upgrade, the just do a clean install, and restore
there stuff from backups.
(I switched to Debian after a similar disaster with Red
Hat 4.1 many years ago).
I feel your pain, my first attempt at Linux was with RH 5.2, and I never
got past the command line. My first successful Linux install, with X,
and all the eye candy, was with Mandrake 7.0.
I downloaded the 6.10 image, burned a CD and reinstalled from scratch,
keeping my original /home and /usr/local directories (which I long ago
learned to install on their own partitions for situations like this).
After that, Ubuntu 6.10 has been working fine for me.
Well, your reading my mind. For years I've been happy playing with new
distros, as long as I had copies of my address book, bookmarks and
various files on a flash drive. But times have changed, and now I want a
serious backup and restore plan in place.
So, I'm planning to query the two LUGs I'm subscribed to, about how they
handle their backups, I don't know whether that discussion would be
appropriate here or not?
Anyway, I re-installed this afternoon, and I'm playing with a clean
Ubuntu box, I think.
After the install, I told Synaptic to dl sbackup, with the intentions of
having sbackup restore my stuff. Synaptic told me it was going to dl 14
packages, but when I checked a half hour later, it wasn't dling
anything, and it was claiming it was dling 41 packages!
I don't know what the hell happened, but my guess is Ubuntu decided to
take advantage of the internet connection, and do it's upgrade, during
my dl?
I bailed out of the stalled dl, and then told Ubuntu to fetch the
upgrades it wanted. I'll get my stuff later.
Ubuntu's upgrade was interesting, it re-installed Thunderbird email, and
it installed libmagick. As far as I know, the only thing on this box
that wants libmagick, is Xastir (back on topic) and Xastir still isn't
working.
So, the box/system is playing tricks on me. My backup is telling Ubuntu
it needs some stuff, but not telling where all the stuff is, how to get
it, or...?
73
--
Darryl Gibson N2DIY
RLU X 182668/379552
“Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the
distinction of a free man from a slave.” -- Andrew Fletcher, A
Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698)
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