Vu Do Quynh a ?crit : > On one Laptop, Upgrading with Alternate went fine although I had to perform a > "dpkg-reconfigure --all" at the end of the upgrading as I had an information > that the upgrading went wrong and that the system might be unstable and > unusable and that I may have to run the dpkg command as above. > So the upgrade did *not* go fine but "upgrading went wrong" as you was informed. The procedure could not finish normally and your system surely lacks some final cleaning and may be some tuning too.
> Running the command was lenghty but in the end I had a perfectly working > system upgraded to hardy heron Apparently... But you may experience problems latter... > On two other laptops, upgrading with the Alternate CD was quite problematic > and has to be made through several passes. Success after several passes?? Mhhh, normally the upgrade process simply rollback everything on cancel... So the only difference would have been more successful downloads to finally have got everything needed? > In the end, upgrading was successful on one laptop, but is stucked on the > other one. > It could be interesting to check the logs in "/var/log/dist-upgrade/" to understand what the problem was (or may be still is)... > SCIM input method however was no more by default [...] I believe the problem > is to be solved elsewhere i.e. how to get the scim input method by default > instead of system or something else. If someone has clues on what to do... > SCIM is now better managed in Hardy: it is installed by default, as is m17n when you select the Vietnamese language support, and you just have to tick the "Complex script support" in the Language support menu to get scim-bridge activated by default for the language selected above. If you want it to be activated for every languages, you still have to run a command line which is: sudo im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim-bridge See this configuration page that I've just updated for Hardy: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM Please read it carefully: there is almost nothing to do for SCIM to work in Hardy, especially no more need to edit some file manually, unless you changed something yourself before, of course. On my side I did two major upgrades: one on my notebook, having a lot of applications installed, and the other on my personnal computer at home, beeing mostly a bare Ubuntu install with only a few applications added. My notebook had the same problem of uncomplete installation and it was because I refused to upgrade VirtualBox when I was asked if I wanted it or not (since I do have some virtual machines snapshots, but that's another story). Because of that, I also had to go through "dpkg --configure -a" and then to clean up packages myself using aptitude. Please remember that you should always check for upgrade problems because of *your* modifications. To do so, check for .dpkg* or .ucs* files, eg running this: sudo find /etc -name "*.dpkg*" -o -name "*.ucs*" Then use "diff -u" to check the differences between files having corresponding names, without the .dpkg* or .ucs* extension. I totally agree that non-technical end-users should not have to deal with such things. But hopefully this should not happen for people not having tuned any configuration file manually! I just tell you because technical people, especially in FOSS service companies, will need them to assist end-users in managing upgrade problems. -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 252 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080502/c1622c39/attachment.pgp
