Dapper upgrade fails

[Colin Brace]

On 4/25/06, Eversmann <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> Ok, got it working like it was before (still having some problems with
> the wifi, ndiswrapper and that stuff).
>
> The problem was with the kernel, i booted with 2.6.12, and reinstalled
> base package (cp, mv, etc..) because it was corrupted. (when i run cp i
> got: cannot execute binary file)
>
> Then uninstalled completly all the kernels but 2.6.12,and then install
> 2.6.15-21 again.
>
> After that, i had some problems with HAL, so reinstalled the packages
> again.
>
> then run update-manager -d and put the system in up-to-date state.

Hmmm, I am trying to visualize how to apply this to my situation.
Given that it currently boots 2.6.12, but freezes when starting X/gdm,
I would need to:

1.) reinstall Breezy from scratch
2.) install the new kernel
3.) than run "update-manager -d"

This seems like rather a kludge. I am not only interested in
installing Dapper, I am interested in helping debug the install/update
program, and I can't see how following the instructions above will do
this. Update-manager screwed things up in the first place. Why should
I hope that it doesn't do so again just because a different kernel is
installed?

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam