update from 12.10 to 13.10

[Boudi Luna]

best thing to do is to create a startup disc using either an optical disc
or a flash drive and installing it from there. sometimes those upgrades can
be fickle things. that would be my advice.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, arelem3 <arelem3 at bigpond.com> wrote:

> My daughter updated her Toshiba Satelite L750 laptop from 12.10 to 13.10
> yesterday and now has significant problems. Strange because I regularly
> update my machine with no issue.
>
> We noticed that during the download process the terminal displayed err:
> and something about translation but a we could not stop the process in
>  time so let the download continue. The download and install took 8 hours
> or so.
>
> She dare not shut down the computer because the shutdown dialog displays
> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and is inoperable.
>  Several Icons no longer appear in the sidebar.
>
> She is very worried that if she manually shuts it off she may not be able
> to start it again.
>
> She wants to update to 14.04LTS and I would like to ask what we should do
> to resolve the problems.
> I've not come across this problem before so am in the dark.
>
> Help much appreciated
> Roger
>
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