[Resolved] Re: 10.04 rc update problems

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 30 04:08:13 UTC 2010


On 04/29/2010 08:33 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 22:36, NoOp ...
>> Kjetil, for the
>> under update:  "could not resolve mirror.gnucv.cl"
>> change the /etc/apt/sources.list when you get dumped back into the
>> terminal from gdm (gnome displya manager - login screen) to
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
>> from
>> http://mirror.gnucv.cl/ubuntu
>> and try again. You can do this from the terminal, although it's a bit
>> tedious:
>>
>> $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>> Then:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get install -f
>> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>> $ sudo reboot
>>
> I did this (took an awfull lot of time!), and it worked.  Functions
> brillinnt now.
> I only detected one problem with this new Ubuntu so far:
> 
>   emacs is awful!
> 
> will make a separate letter about that.
> 
> Kjetil

Cool! Glad you got it working. Thanks for posting back.

Gary





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