[DC LoCo] Sources, or, "The last time I try to learn something"

[Marti Martinson]

Good morning.

My system is 10.04.4 LTS.

I tried to learn a new command today, thinking that it would just tell
me "Upgrade not yet available", or something like that. It was:
do-release-upgrade -d.

So, I got "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" messages(*) about
partial failures and 413 items to be changed. In panic, I immediately
made a DVD of the directories Documents and Pictures; the highest level
directories where I have ALL personal files. (I guess the dot files did
NOT get copied: .evolution, .mozilla, etc.)

1) Went to /etc/apt/sources.
2) More of sources.list showed precise entries.
3) More of sources.list.saved (file I never heard of) showed lucid
entries.
4) Rename sources.list to sources.list.screwed -- well, OK, actually
something else, but I don't want to offend.
5) Rename sources.list.saved to sources.list.
6) Run apt-get update and upgrade. Nothing found to change.
7) Run Synaptic and reload, then mark for upgrade. Nothing found to
change.
8) Run Update Manager. Settings/Updates tab again indicate lucid.
10) Go to Settings/Other Software tab and UNCHECK precise entries.
11) Close Update Manager. Nothing found to change.
12) Reboot.
13. Run lsb_release -a:

marti at anubis:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release:	10.04
Codename:	lucid

Booted, login and password taken, have video and monitor, apps start,
DSL works, no warnings or errors, blah blah.

Synaptic states no broken packages. Does anyone see anything glaringly
missing from the recovery? I hope that is not too nebulous of a
question.

Thank you, and have a great weekend.

Petrified in Petworth,

Marti


(*)Google the phrase and recall childhood books. :)