Filesystem corruption

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 20:56, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>
> I'm installing ubuntu 19.04 with lvm+encryption right now. The
> slow-installer problem seemed to strike again. The download bandwidth
> is fluctuating very much.

Good luck.

Like I said before: you could just untick "download updates when
installing." You can always just update when you're done, and that
way, you can do other stuff at the same time.

> That's bad news.

Not really. Maybe it's just because I'm old but 2 years doesn't seem
like such a long time any more.

LTS to LTS updates seem to be slightly more reliable than
standard-to-standard ones. I suppose they get more testing, too.

But upgrading is hazardous, yes. Especially if you customise your
system, and I do.

I don't think I've ever had it totally fail, though. 18.04 was
troublesome; it failed half way through, so I just did the usual:

sudo -s
apt install -f
apt full-upgrade -y

... and it finished normally. Unity had been uninstalled, so I
manually reinstalled that. So had my Synaptics touchpad drivers, so
later, I reinstalled them too.

Now the machine works fine again, but I sort of wish I hadn't upgraded
-- there's no useful improvement over 16.04 for me, and it was faster
before.

> How do you keep Gnome3 up to date?

I don't. I run Unity on Ubuntu and XKFE on openSUSE.

I've tried GNOME 3 on both, and on Fedora. I don't like it.

> Are there Gnome-PPAs?

I think I answered this before.

I wouldn't. Serious bugs in the LTS version will be fixed, because
it's an LTS. If they can't, they will upgrade GNOME for you. It's
happened before with Firefox and LibreOffice.

> Actually, there were a lot of problems with KDE.

This I can believe. I don't like it much either.

I installed LXQt on my KDE laptop and I like it more.

> I guess you do a do-release-upgrade to upgrade to the next LTS
> release.

Yes.

> Does this cause problems?

It can.

> Thanks for your explaination. It means that I will probably stick with
> LTS versions.

You're welcome. LTS releases do make for a quieter life. :-)

You can always dual-boot the current release as a standby and if you
want to experiment.

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