Ubuntu 9.10 Hangs Frequently

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-04-01, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:42 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ---SNIP---
>>> Here is the output
>>>
>>>
>>> blackhole:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>> [sudo] password for csverma:
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>>   bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-50 libdns50 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4
>>>   libisc50 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libk5crypto3 libkadm5srv6 libkrb5-3
>>>   libkrb5-dev libkrb5support0 liblwres50 linux-generic linux-headers-generic
>>>   linux-image-generic
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
>>> @blackhole:~$
>>
>> I am sure that this is not the "official" way, but when I have
>> problems due to packages being "held back", I just manually 'apt-get
>> install' those packages.
>>
>> So in this case, just type
>>
>> sudo apt-get install
>>
>> (ending in a space) then use the mouse to highlight the list of
>> packages being held back. Middle-click and the whole list will be
>> inserted after your apt-get command. Hit return, they'll be upgraded
>> and your system will be brought up to date.
>>
>
> The command 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will do it on one shot, and it will
> explain why the packages were held back before you confirm the action.

Well, I do not wish to argue, but in my experience, what I described
is my solution when a-g d-u /doesn't/ upgrade everything and holds a
bunch of stuff back.


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