[svlug] interrupted ubuntu update

[Chris Miller]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:44:21 -0800 Larry Colen wrote:
>
>  > Is there a simple way of telling it to continue the update from where
>  > it left off?
>  >
>  > Failing that, it turns out that the update was only to 7.04 rather
>  > than 7.10...
>
>  Assuming you're upgrading between actual Ubuntu versions and not just
>  doing a normal system update, you should just be able to check
>  in /etc/apt/sources.list to be sure that your package sources are for
>  the version you're upgrading to (presumably it already should be since
>  the update started).
>
>  After that, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
>  should be all you need.  I'd suggest running the GUI update tool again
>  after you're able to get X running, just to be sure it at least
>  believes it's done as well.

There's a good chance it won't.  There's an absolutely massive bug in
the GUI updater which causes it to fail to notice that the upgrade
took place if you don't use the GUI upgrader.

I made the mistake of adding my $0.02 to the Launchpad bug report, and
for about three months I got emails about every 4 hours as people
reported the same bug (it automatically mails you on any changes).

I do not know if they fixed the bug, I sorta stopped paying attention
to those emails two weeks into it.

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