[wellylug] Flash for Firefox
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Sep 11 20:43:33 NZST 2007
Persian wrote:
> Hi Jim
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 07:50:21 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>>> all the old-releases back to nz.archive?
>> Probably best to get the old sources.list back, then try running
>> upgrade manager again. It should once more ask you if you want to
>> change from breezy to dapper - and the answer is yes. This time it
>> should make the change to dist name, and also have the right server
>> names :-)
>
> Yes it went ahead with the upgrade when I had nz.archive and dapper.
>
>
>> you to ignore this error - hopefully it will. If it doesn't, we have
>> another option, which is to manually edit sources.list, and manually
>> upgrade, as per Jonathan's email earlier.
>>
>> Let us know how you get on :-)
>
>
> I am writing this from my removeable back up hard drive as the upgrade completely
> destroyed my system. I have heaps of error msgs on paper that I need to type
> out tomorrow. The X server fails to start, there is no core keyboard, fatal
> server error, failed to initiate core devices.
> All I have on the upgrade drive is the console and it still even says breezy badger,
> Ubuntu's log in screen appears then goes again and just leaves me with a whole
> list of errors and at the end says X server is disabled, go and cofigure
> it correctly, or words to that effect.
>
> I dont have a snowballs chance in hell of doing that and I do not even wonder
> why people have windoze really.
>
> I just dont understand why it isn't possible to upgrade Ubuntu from one ver
> to the next using the upgrade button. Must be a damn good reason I guess!
>
Well, you can't always upgrade between Windows versions. And while I've
had some problems upgrade a version of Ubuntu, it most often just works.
I suspect that if you manage to get X working most of the other stuff
will work too.
Cheers,
Cliff
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