crackers_altitude
March 18th, 2016, 05:53 PM
this is solved for me. I thought I'd inaccurately share what I did to get an Ubuntu 14 system up to 15.10. I saw some help from the top Google results, but - meh - didn't want to plow through all these wild commands willy-nilly.
I had Google Chrome and some other things that blocked an upgrade, so I had to eventually uninstall them - all using the synaptic gui.
when that seemed all set, I proceeded to do the big upgrade, again using GUI's - IOW all auto-magical, nothing to prove my skills, right?
the end result was a system with a plain-text login screen and command line environment - which has its charms, like the nice color scheme of ls, but - what you really want is that GUI/desktop thing, so you can use the mouse. At this point, Google results were coming up with some reasonable-sounding things like running startx, futzing with nvidia or nouveau drivers - which you might know is a large pile of fun - and then some results where the user had a "black screen". ugh - has Ubuntu finally lost it? so I looked around the running OS, saw that networking services were off or wouldn't start, I noticed some openConnection things - really starting to get lost - so the fix was when I finally got up the guts to start running apt-get, possibly purging things (here's the inaccurate part), and then apt-get itself told me to run `dpkg --configure -a` (I think!). this ran for a long time, did some obvious things, and voila - back to "normal".
it works now so I'm happy. why I lucked out with apt-get helping me I owe to intelligent software writers. I hope that helps anyone else out there who, for various reasons, might have been reluctant to do the big upgrade. why it had to be that way? I don't know. maybe because my disk is nearly full, maybe not - maybe because I read absolutely zero release notes or anything prudent like that, maybe not.
sorry if that's in the wrong user section but I had an opportunity to put this out there for the help I got so far, so - there. have a happy day.
I had Google Chrome and some other things that blocked an upgrade, so I had to eventually uninstall them - all using the synaptic gui.
when that seemed all set, I proceeded to do the big upgrade, again using GUI's - IOW all auto-magical, nothing to prove my skills, right?
the end result was a system with a plain-text login screen and command line environment - which has its charms, like the nice color scheme of ls, but - what you really want is that GUI/desktop thing, so you can use the mouse. At this point, Google results were coming up with some reasonable-sounding things like running startx, futzing with nvidia or nouveau drivers - which you might know is a large pile of fun - and then some results where the user had a "black screen". ugh - has Ubuntu finally lost it? so I looked around the running OS, saw that networking services were off or wouldn't start, I noticed some openConnection things - really starting to get lost - so the fix was when I finally got up the guts to start running apt-get, possibly purging things (here's the inaccurate part), and then apt-get itself told me to run `dpkg --configure -a` (I think!). this ran for a long time, did some obvious things, and voila - back to "normal".
it works now so I'm happy. why I lucked out with apt-get helping me I owe to intelligent software writers. I hope that helps anyone else out there who, for various reasons, might have been reluctant to do the big upgrade. why it had to be that way? I don't know. maybe because my disk is nearly full, maybe not - maybe because I read absolutely zero release notes or anything prudent like that, maybe not.
sorry if that's in the wrong user section but I had an opportunity to put this out there for the help I got so far, so - there. have a happy day.