My 1st October update: what to expect?

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:20 -0700, thomas wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:25 -0500, Doug Saylor wrote:
> > The only other thing to note is if the upgrade fails for some reason,
> > immediately seek help on the forums, or here to resolve the issue before
> > you try rebooting. Make sure to be descriptive as to exactly what failed
> > so you can get help ASAP. Otherwise, if you reboot first, you could be
> > left with a partially broken system, which can be hard to fix for
> > someone who isn't familiar with linux (never impossible, and usually
> > easy, but still more complicated than normal sometimes).
> >
> > hope that helps! 


> If there is a failure the computer won't work. How can one
> seek help?


Note that I said "before you try rebooting"... If the upgrade fails
(i.e. the upgrade process comes back with errors) and you don't reboot,
then your computer will still be fully usable. case-and-point, I ran my
computer for about a week w/o rebooting after I broke python on my
system doing something stupid, because I knew that if I rebooted, I
wouldn't get a GUI back.  Granted, this wasnt from an ubuntu
update...but it's the same principal. So, I just left my compy up for a
week while I researched how to fix it. It only ended up taking about an
hour to set right, and I learned some valuable linux lessons: aptitude
rocks, and don't use checkinstall to install new python versions.

He could also use a liveCD, but I completely forgot to mention that. My
bad.

-- 
Andrew
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