Dapper upgrade fails

C Hamel yogich at sc2000.net
Sat Apr 29 17:26:35 UTC 2006


On Friday 28 April 2006 21:13, mike4ubuntu wrote:
> I tried to upgrade to Dapper from Breezy two different ways and neither
> worked.  The first way:
>
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> gksudo "update-manager -d"
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> The update manager just poped up and indicated everything was up to
> date.  So I then tried the second way:
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> set sources.list to dapper and
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> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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> This upgraded something, but it didn't boot well.  It couldn't mount
> some of the NTFS partitions I have setup.  Hitting Ctrl-C seemed to get
> past the errors, but then the X server wouldn't startup.  It looked like
> some directories that X needs weren't defined, like font directories and
> some others.  Not sure why; Breezy ran fine.
>
>
> --
> mike4ubuntu

From all appearances, you left out one very important step: apt-get update.  
So... it'd look like this:
1. change sources.list to reflect dapper in all instances where breezy appears
2. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

That should work.  That's how I did it. :-)

FWIW...
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	...CH
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