[DC LoCo] Likely an embarassing personal problem...

[Ken Stailey]

--- On Fri, 6/3/11, flint at flint.com <flint at flint.com> wrote:

> From: flint at flint.com <flint at flint.com>
> Subject: [DC LoCo] Likely an embarassing personal problem...
> To: Linux_adult_swim at docbox.flint.com
> Cc: "Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts" <VAGUE at LIST.UVM.EDU>, ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 12:12 PM
> Greetings List Lurkers,
> 
> Has anyone else besides me suddenly had to jump through
> hoops to get Ubuntu upgrades to work?
> 
> I am just polling the community to try to figure this one
> out.

I can answer "yes" and "no" on the grounds that even with, say, 10.10 -> 11.04 I have have mixed results.

1. Did you mean Desktop or Server "flavour"?

2. Did you mean 32-bit or 64-bit and which architecture?

3. Did you install a lot of PPAs?  Seems if a PPA upgrades a package version to one not maintained by Canonical things can go wrong due to unexpected package versions.

4. Did you use fancy disk configuration options?  While this is not a necessarily a mistake my experience is that they do not receive the same level of Q&A as disk configuration options listed as default options.