jhaefner
February 18th, 2009, 12:50 AM
Hello,
As usual for me upgrading ubuntu was a nightmare: I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 with errors, but a bootable system. So I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 hoping the errors would go away. They didn't. Here are 3 that I need fixing soonest. If you know where to look for the problem, please let me know:
1. Texlive upgrade failed with lots of errors, most seem to come from texlive-base-bin. Removing and reinstalling does no good.
This failure at the very end of the upgrade to 8.10 caused upgrade-manager to fail in the last steps, which may account for the next 2 errors.
2. "Can not open display :0.0": many others have seen this. What is the fix?
3. Now I can not mount removeable devices. E.g., when I attempt to mount a firewire external harddrive, I get:
mount point cannot contain the following characters: newline,G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)
what is this all about?
Is it possible to force upgrade-manager to retry the entire upgrade?
thanks in advance.
Jim
As usual for me upgrading ubuntu was a nightmare: I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 with errors, but a bootable system. So I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 hoping the errors would go away. They didn't. Here are 3 that I need fixing soonest. If you know where to look for the problem, please let me know:
1. Texlive upgrade failed with lots of errors, most seem to come from texlive-base-bin. Removing and reinstalling does no good.
This failure at the very end of the upgrade to 8.10 caused upgrade-manager to fail in the last steps, which may account for the next 2 errors.
2. "Can not open display :0.0": many others have seen this. What is the fix?
3. Now I can not mount removeable devices. E.g., when I attempt to mount a firewire external harddrive, I get:
mount point cannot contain the following characters: newline,G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)
what is this all about?
Is it possible to force upgrade-manager to retry the entire upgrade?
thanks in advance.
Jim