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 it had "been modified". My apologies for not noting down each of these as they occurred, I'll do so next time. I clicked OK, because these are files that always get queried, that I have never touched (largely because I don't know what they are). Obviously Ubuntu believes these files to have been modified, so it must be using an incorrect test somewhere. It has no effect on operation anyway, so next time I really will note down the filenames...but I wondered if this is a common occurrence for others to have the installer query config files that had never been modified, claiming that they had? b) more serious, the installer got into a twisty loop claiming it couldn't install emacs24 and emacs-goodies-el because it couldn't configure xemacs21 and xemacs21-mule :-) I never use xemacs because it wrecks my head, my keybindings, and my scripts, but I suspect I *did* once install it many years ago in order to demonstrate what it was doing wrong...and then forgot to delete it. No problem as such: I deleted all xemacs* and emacs* packages and then reinstalled GNU Emacs once I had rebooted. BUT...the actual 16.04.01 install process treated this business with xemacs as so serious that it aborted the installation. Fortunately it seems to have been far enough down the road (very close to the end) that everything else appears to have worked, but I'm now using a LOT more disk space than before, and I suspect the cleanup of old 15.10 packages never occurred. How do I get that part of the install to run independently and finish up properly? ///Peter -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
