There maybe a bug in the process, did the "update-manager -d" method which d/l a distro installer. The problem was compounded by the fact that I had a separate /boot partition with "/" being it's own, but there was a boot directory there from the last update. I can't reproduce it, nor wright up a bug report that would be worth there time, so I moved on...
Should have Debian Sid up and running today, then will install Gnome3. Ubuntu desired to "roll there own" shinny new interface for 11.04 so from what I read there are compatibility issues. I have not seen any reported for Debian ( ... yet... ) On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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