On 05/28/2015 05:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:50:43 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: >> Disabling the PPAs after completing an upgrade (which the user might >> have done succesfully, or might not have) could do just as much harm as >> good. Disabling them will not remove software from your system after >> doing a standard update. It will however stop you from updating any >> faulty packages that you got from the PPA last time. > The OP should disable PPAs before updating, so at least newer versions > of core components from the official repositories will replace outdated > core components from official and PPA repositories by the new versions > from the official repositories. If the OP already has got versions > installed from a PPA that are newer than those from of official > repositories, then the OP needs to reinstall core components while the > PPAs are disabled. In my first mail I mentioned that disabling PPAs has > to be done before running the apt commands. > > Since the OP already made an upgrade to a new release, PPAs already > might have caused issues, so to help the OP, we need to wait for posted > messages, the OP gets when trying to follow your and/or my advices. > However, disabling PPAs is needed, otherwise we might be unable to help > the OP. > > Assumed the OP already should have installed a broken kernel from a PPA > that is newer then the official kernel, then the OP needs to reinstall > the meta packages for the kernel the OP does use, e.g. > linux-lowlatency > linux-headers-lowlatency > or what ever the OP is using. There might be the need to care about > other core components too. If applications are broken is unimportant at > the moment, first we need to get rid of the kernel panic. > > The OP should consider to backup the broken install before tryinmg to > fix it! Hi All,
More than one way to pet a cat... I did a fresh install of 14.04 on a different hard drive... & then upgraded to 14.10... Works, so far. I was then able to access my bad install of 14.10 (the relevant data files), & copy them over. I think this is mostly a lazy person's way to solve problems... (i.e., didn't have risk learning how to fix problems using terminal, etc.) but being rather busy trying to do what I do (beside trying to be able to use the computer), I went for it. Oh well, as the poet said: "How can you learn less?" :)) Thanks for help & suggestions... Always encouraging to know there are those willing to lend a hand, in these regards. With appreciation, Henry -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
