What happens if you use "aptitude --full-upgrade" instead of "apt-get --dist-upgrade" in the script?
On 10/25/07, BigPick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many thanks for the help you guys. > > I would also like to thank John and Christian Assig for their efforts so > far. > > FerranRius's comment is very prudent and correct however, this upgrade > should not be attempted whatsoever by anyone who uses their machine for > work, school, or other important operations. The patch I posted is > simply the fix I came up with for my situation when I attempted to > upgrade Feisty on the laptop I use around campus. I never thought I'd be > thankful for dual-booting windows, and to be honest, I resent the need > to rely on it. Luckily, I have two old towers I use as sandboxes for > messing around with networking and various Unix installations. One is an > Intel/nVidia, the other is AMD/ATI, both failed the upgrade and became > unbootable (so I'm 0 for 3), making them perfect candidates for trying > to fix this. > > Currently there are two memory leaks occurring as far as I can tell, > only one of which I have identified and addressed in the patch. The > second appears to be coming from the fetching of backport archives, > which occurs prior to the main upgrade. I am unable to replicate this > leak on my machines, so I have relied on the work of Christian Assig to > track this down. He deserves many thanks for bearing with my sophomoric > efforts. Although this patch does not fix the second leak, Christian did > report dist-upgrade faied gracefully instead of crashing by bringing up > an error window and attempting to recover and reset the system. > > I need to repeat that I am not an official developer. I am a user with > just enough information to make me dangerous. Nonetheless, I greatly > appreciate your efforts to assist me in solving this critical issue. > > -- > [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy > -> feisty) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107188 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas (956) 857-1172 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy -> feisty) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107188 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
