Re: Aborted an Ubuntu 12.04 Upgrade resulted in Booting into Blank Screen
On 14/05/12 12:19, djitnah@greenwareit.com.au wrote:
On 13/05/12 17:56, Roger wrote:
I should point out that no operating system is invulnerable from monkey attacks like this one. I have seen Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X installations b0rked due to upgrades where a monkey took control before it completed. Unfortunately that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and data recovery is probably the best long-term option. FWIW. Both Fedora and Ubuntu seem to recommend updating OS files regularly, I've seen this mentioned quite a lot over the years. I update both every few days. My daughter just yesterday updated her Ubuntu Oneiric laptop to Precise after updating to all the latest files, it took from about 4:30pm to 10:45pm to complete downloading, installing and checking the file system. Her system stopped for about 18 minutes - doing what ever it was doing, she just let it go and eventually it got going again. She googled some page or other every 5 minutes to make sure the bigpond inernet did not time out... we had that time out with the last ubuntu upgrade so she made sure it wouldn't happen again.
There seem to be an odd thing with Precise install. It takes a really long time when it gets to the language pack download/installation. I did a beta install a few weeks ago, and I thought it had frozen at this stage. I restarted and got the same thing. A few days ago it did it again with final release, but I realised that the percentage indicator had changed after a long time by 1% (which I had probably not notice before) - so I let it go and it eventually completed. I dont know how long it took, but well over 1hr, since I went away and came back a few hrs later. Previous ones would take about 20 mins to complete for me.
That's interesting.. I've found the upgrade to be quite straightforward.. think it took a little over half an hour. My main desktop is far from a straightforward setup, too -- it's been through multiple Ubuntu versions with a lot of customisation and a dozen PPAs enabled. Toby
On 14 May 2012 12:28, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
That's interesting.. I've found the upgrade to be quite straightforward.. think it took a little over half an hour.
Generally that is my experience too. If anything fails however, it can be somewhat messy to fix it up. Especially for novice users. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
If anything fails however, it can be somewhat messy to fix it up. Especially for novice users.
That's a good illustration of why it's important for users to acquire system administration skills, or to have reliable technical support available. The basic options never change: one either learns to do it independently, or arranges for someone else to help (and often the latter option involves paid support if one doesn't have a technical support department, friend, family member or user group willing to provide the assistance). I personally prefer to be independent in these matters - the time spent learning is fun and pays for itself.
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