I had some time to take another stab at this upgrade as a newb. I went back to the instructions followed them to the letter, was successfully able to bring up the upgrade program interface with only one visible hiccup. I had a modified kdm login screen. When the initial fetch was made, Adept would not install the new version of kdm. I knew how to get around this with the terminal sudo apt-get -f install command--which of course caused me to lose my kdm settings: as they say, taking a small one for the team...no real big deal to me.
I am just wondering if other user windows/appearance modifications will also cause Adept to stall on the initial fetch--or if this is even a factor when the upgrade tool is fully implemented? Some users may have a small breakdown over the loss of certain appearance settings and tweaks. I noted that the tool informed me of a 3hr 49 min download time with 1Mbit DSL, and a 2 day + download time with a 56K modem. The lengthy download times present certain liabilities that I will now entertain as a newer user. Lets just say that I simulate a catastrophic loss of network connectivity in the middle of a download.......if I press my wireless on/off button will the download continue where it left off? Also, if I press the power button in the middle of this download 1) will my system still boot, and 2) will the upgrader tool continue after rebooting? During such events will the tool fail or my system become corrupted? These are questions that I think lurk in the back of some minds when such things run (I ask this to myself whenever MS Update runs) and may need to be addressed in the little info screen before the upgrade tool starts its processes so that they know what to do or not to do in case of a catastrophic event during the upgrade process. I stopped the tool via the cancel button just prior to the package download. My wife will be home soon and will need the bandwidth for college stuff. After stopping the tool, I went and checked the /etc/apt/sources.list file and all appears to be the way I left it prior to beginning the package download process. Tomorrow night I will restart the tool and let it go partway into the download process and see what happens when I lose network connectivity and turn the power off. By the end of the weekend I will run it all the way through if I can still boot my machine. For those of you who may misinterpret my above remarks and motives....I think this is an awesome tool and a lot of good work went into it and I respect the skills that produced it. -- SRU: updates necessary for Kubuntu Upgrade Tool in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/84717 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
