Comments on: Ubuntu Lucid upgrade – a catalogue of disaster and pain http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/ Four in the morning, still writing Free Software Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2064 Andy Balaam Mon, 24 May 2010 19:49:09 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2064 Thanks to a post by Will McGugan, I fixed the problems I was having with the flash plugin failing and losing sound: http://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/2010/5/2/no-audio-in-flash-on-ubuntu-1004/ (Summary: rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so) Thanks to a post by Will McGugan, I fixed the problems I was having with the flash plugin failing and losing sound: http://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/2010/5/2/no-audio-in-flash-on-ubuntu-1004/

(Summary: rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)

]]> By: Andy Balaam http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2009 Andy Balaam Mon, 17 May 2010 19:04:42 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2009 Hi Gerry, good luck with the recovery. I wonder whether some kind of dependency problem caused my crash. By the time I got back to it it was just frozen solid. Hi Gerry, good luck with the recovery. I wonder whether some kind of dependency problem caused my crash. By the time I got back to it it was just frozen solid.

]]> By: Gerry http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2010/05/14/ubuntu-lucid-upgrade-a-catalogue-of-disaster-and-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-2008 Gerry Mon, 17 May 2010 17:58:40 +0000 http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/?p=288#comment-2008 Wish I'd read this before, instead of later. My Karmic laptop upgrade went fine. But my desktop from Hardy to Lucid... enough dpkg dependency errors that the system crashed hard. Unless I find some shortcut, it'll have to be rebuilt. It's still ext3 and grub is intact and the old images, but it apparently changed enough that it's a mess. They supplied no clue on how to approach fixing this. The abort requested I report a but against upgrade-manager, but launchpad doesn't have that package. And this one's my work machine for app development, so it's pretty loaded. Looks like smash and burn's the only way, so I'm downloading lucid to a flash drive. At least the drives can still be mounted:-) Wish I’d read this before, instead of later. My Karmic laptop upgrade went fine. But my desktop from Hardy to Lucid… enough dpkg dependency errors that the system crashed hard. Unless I find some shortcut, it’ll have to be rebuilt. It’s still ext3 and grub is intact and the old images, but it apparently changed enough that it’s a mess. They supplied no clue on how to approach fixing this. The abort requested I report a but against upgrade-manager, but launchpad doesn’t have that package. And this one’s my work machine for app development, so it’s pretty loaded.

Looks like smash and burn’s the only way, so I’m downloading lucid to a flash drive. At least the drives can still be mounted:-)

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