Well, the Online Upgrade which took overnight was a failure. So were the two cd's that I created via bit-torrent.
I just downloaded the full versions and tested each. Seems that everything is back. I should have md5 tested the cd's for faithful repreduction, but I did not. Even with full downloads, I know not if the CD is OK. I like the Fedora approach where the MD5 sum is built-in to the installation as an option. That way, there is no skipping a valuable step. Right now (Sat afternoon, I am going to reformat and install from scratch). I have a root password that I created, and I am delighted to again being able to log in from Gnome to Root, and make use of GUI drag and drop. Someone must have told the powers that be that GUI, in many cases, speeds up a maintainer's time. So back to format to EXT4, and a reinstallation. (I will still keep boot as ext3) as it is only used very rarely. Leslie ------------------ Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Peter Silva <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peter Silva <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Anyone with UBUNTU 9.10 yet To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:28 AM Ok.. my experience was in the 7.04 and 7.10 time frame, didn't see a reason to repeat the experiment (was fairly painful at the time, a dozen or so iterations of apt-get dist-upgrade, then an apt-get install of one or two specific packages that it was refusing to upgrade, then try again, it would get further, rinse, lather, repeat, it eventually worked.) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Jean-Francois Theroux <[email protected]> wrote: I dist-upgraded a couple days before the release and everything was as it was supposed to be after the post-upgrade reboot. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Peter Silva <[email protected]> wrote: you can't use dist-upgrade with ubuntu, no clue why,the way to do it is: sudo do-release-upgrade (add a '-d' when it isn't a stable release yet.) It does some under the covers stuff that works better. Whenever I used apt-get dist-upgrade, I always neededto iterate (doing it over and over, for it to work on ubuntu. on Debian, it used to work fine...) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:05 PM, JD <[email protected]> wrote: Lots of crashes here to with sound. I also am disappointed by the dist-upgrade, knowing what I know now, I would have kept 9.04 for a while longer. J.D. Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Did the online update and have run into all kinds of problems. Most of > it stuff that no longer works, such as sound, and very slow webb > response. My system dual core 4gigs with an E7300. > > I also lost most of the games I had setup for the kids. > > Is it worth saving home, and just doing a fresh install from CD? > > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > > * > Mr. Leslie > * > *Leslie Satenstein > * > > mailto:[email protected] > mailto [email protected] > www.itbms.biz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca -- :(){ :|:& };: _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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