[ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu 14.04 ---> 14.10

[Henry W. Peters]

On 05/28/2015 05:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:50:43 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>> Disabling the PPAs after completing an upgrade (which the user might
>> have done succesfully, or might not have) could do just as much harm as
>> good. Disabling them will not remove software from your system after
>> doing a standard update. It will however stop you from updating any
>> faulty packages that you got from the PPA last time.
> The OP should disable PPAs before updating, so at least newer versions
> of core components from the official repositories will replace outdated
> core components from official and PPA repositories by the new versions
> from the official repositories. If the OP already has got versions
> installed from a PPA that are newer than those from of official
> repositories, then the OP needs to reinstall core components while the
> PPAs are disabled. In my first mail I mentioned that disabling PPAs has
> to be done before running the apt commands.
>
> Since the OP already made an upgrade to a new release, PPAs already
> might have caused issues, so to help the OP, we need to wait for posted
> messages, the OP gets when trying to follow your and/or my advices.
> However, disabling PPAs is needed, otherwise we might be unable to help
> the OP.
>
> Assumed the OP already should have installed a broken kernel from a PPA
> that is newer then the official kernel, then the OP needs to reinstall
> the meta packages for the kernel the OP does use, e.g.
> linux-lowlatency
> linux-headers-lowlatency
> or what ever the OP is using. There might be the need to care about
> other core components too. If applications are broken is unimportant at
> the moment, first we need to get rid of the kernel panic.
>
> The OP should consider to backup the broken install before tryinmg to
> fix it!
Hi All,

More than one way to pet a cat...

I did a fresh install of 14.04 on a different hard drive... & then
upgraded to 14.10... Works, so far. I was then able to access my bad
install of 14.10 (the relevant data files), & copy them over.

I think this is mostly a lazy person's way to solve problems... (i.e.,
didn't have risk learning how to fix problems using terminal, etc.) but
being rather busy trying to do what I do (beside trying to be able to
use the computer), I went for it.

Oh well, as the poet said: "How can you learn less?" :))

Thanks for help & suggestions... Always encouraging to know there are
those willing to lend a hand, in these regards.

With appreciation,
Henry