[SlugLUG] Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Released

[Rohan Sheth]

This is true, edgy does not have LTS and will only be supported for
something like 18 months.

This is the reason I kept my server on dapper, but I figured I could
risk my laptop..

Sorry that your upgrade didn't pan out...I've heard that a lot of people
have been having trouble.

--Rohan

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 23:40 -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> Ultimately, my X configuration was screwed up after an upgrade
> and reboot. I can't log in to Gnome. Other servers work ok - mysql, apache, etc.
> 
> I am going to re-install, and revert back to 6.06, a stable
> version, and just update from there. (I want to re-partition the
> drive anyway, keeping /home in its own partition).
> 
> Ubuntu will support 6.06 longer than 6.10, apparently.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think there was a hardware problem toward the end of the installation -
> > the system froze and had to be restarted. So the problems after that
> > are probably due to some missing files. It was possible to recover,
> > but basically it took another hour.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > Mine was as straightforward as possible.  Just ran update manager, let
> > > it hang out for an hour.  Came back to reboot and everything was just
> > > dandy.  They replaced the i686 kernel with a "-generic" kernel.
> > > Weird...
> > >
> > > --Rohan
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 20:22 -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> > > > My total installation time was about 2 1/2 hours, counting fixing problems.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Looks like this was recoverable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Among other things, I had to do
> > > > >
> > > > >   dpkg --recover -a
> > > > >
> > > > > and resolve some broken package dependencies, mainly involving
> > > > > removing acpid.
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Looks like trying to install 6.10 on that system was a disasterous
> > > > > > mistake. Dozens of errors - files lost, X doesn't run.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Good thing I tried the "upgrade" on a system that's not important!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Peter
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > I just started an upgrade to 6.10 on one of my systems. I noted
> > > > > > > the warning that 6.10 is not a long-time-support release, only
> > > > > > > 18 months. Also 3rd-party upgrades are initially turned off - you
> > > > > > > will have to go back and re-enable them and do an upgrade
> > > > > > > with apt-get or synaptic etc.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The upgrade reminds you that upgrading with a 56k modem will
> > > > > > > take about 25 hours. :) No worry for me though!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Peter
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > > > For anyone who isn't aware, that edgy eft thing came out and most people
> > > > > > > > are having fun with it.  just do a 'gksudo "update-manager -c"' and wait
> > > > > > > > an hour to upgrade.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Also, Fedora Core 6 is out.  Although I haven't used fedora in quite
> > > > > > > > some time, I hear this new release sports a number of new packages and
> > > > > > > > is quite stable.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --Rohan
> > > > > > > >
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