Problems Upgrading Ubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 LTS

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:17:59AM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> So I first updated all packages in 7.10. This is something I have done 
> many times, and they were always uneventful.
> 
> I have found the Update Manager to be a pretty brainless tool to use.
> 
> The upgrade to 8.04 LTS did not go as well.
> 
> Now, I did get a lack of disk space error, and had to restart after 
> moving some files.
> I run both the server and desktop on the same machine.

Running out of disk space during an upgrade can cause some serious
problems.  Removing some stuff (not stuff belonging to packages of
course) and then running 'dpkg --configure -a' and 'apt-get -f install'
can usually recover from it and let you go back to doing the upgrade.

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Len Sorensen
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