On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:19:48 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > Did the stupid thing last night and tried to update to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 > Natty Narwhal > The update failed and made swisscheese of the OS install ( data is all > intact ) > Seems to have failed to correctly install the new 2.6.38 kernel and some > other packages also failed to install correctly.
Did you do the upgrade via 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or use the 'dist-upgrade' option to the packager you were using? If not, then what you've described above makes sense. The fact that it failed to install the 2.6.38 kernel says that Grub2 failed to find operating systems via 'grub-probe', and thus couldn't update the grub.cfg configuration file. That happens when an upgrade is started on grub2 but not completed, and then an update on the linux-image-* package is attempted. That happens when the packages are upgraded in the wrong order, because the package manager doesn't know that you're upgrading between distribution branches. If you did use the 'dist-upgrade' option, then the package inter-dependencies haven't been set right in the distribution to allow upgrading, which I have seen occasionally. > Not saying this will happen to you, just a reminder that backups count! A > beta is a risk that you take or do not take. > > Thus I have decided to take a break from Ubuntu and try Debian for a while > ( kinda a geek-walk-about ).Need to get back in touch with my GNU side > again. Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with Debian, too. If after you install Debian you find things are not as new as you'd like, dist-upgrade to Testing. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011
