-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Bill I got bit by this too, going from 9.10 to 10.04. In a nutshell, I've found that sometimes ubuntu-desktop and some of its associated packages get removed, though I've not found out why. The solution is, immediately after doing the dist-upgrade and before you reboot, to sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. That will put everything back into place, things like gnome-session-bin and nautilus will be put back in as well after dist-upgrade somehow autoremoved them. I suspect this is something update-manager would normally take care of, but I've had my own set of problems with that approach. I don't know for certain, but I suspect this also applies to the other ubuntu meta packages such as ubuntu-netbook. I don't use them though, so can't say. I also had a rather hacked system, so who knows if this will happen to most people. Before now I thought I was the only one who got bit by it since I didn't see anything like this when searching the Ubuntu forums. Just to be safe though, always sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (or whatever other meta package you use) after a dist-upgrade. It won't hurt anything anyway.
On 04/29/2010 08:17 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > I always ran > > $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > But I've had trouble most times with this. More often than not, I > have not been able to boot my machine into Gnome after a dist-upgrade > from a full release back. However, I hack my system pretty heavily, > so my experience is probably not the norm. If you're running a recent > Lucid Beta or release candidate, it will probably work. Be sure to do > a full backup before the upgrade, and be prepared to do a full > reinstall if things don't work out. > > Bill > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> greetings, >> I did some more research on how to update ubuntu distributions from the >> command line. The two options appear to be: >> >> (1) sudo update-manager >> >> (2) sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop >> >> method 1 would just launch the graphical application from the command line >> (gnome-terminal) and in general is the recommended distribution upgrade >> method from the ubuntu wiki. I can't find much doccumentation on >> do-release-upgrade, are there any drastic differences btween what these two >> programs do? >> >> Does anyone have any advice on which is the better (faster? more >> accessible?) method for updateing my Ubuntu system to lucid? >> >> Thanks:-) >> >> >> ________________________________ >> The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. >> Get started. >> -- >> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvZgsIACgkQybLrVJs+Wi5tRACeIYzlK3ezg0ZY2sRTo2nIYH/z lZ4AniNhvvrkqCqMT7Bl9sy2rUIq8Hls =fYs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
