Hi,

The last Digest I received is dated 4/21/08, I reckon everybody is busy
upgrading to 8.04. I'll try my luck, hoping for some feedback
Four hours ago, I was running Gutsy 7.10, and upgraded to Hardy Heron
8.04 through 'update manager -d'. Downloading the required packages went
fairly well.

After installation system Monitor indicates now:
Ubuntu 7
Ubuntu
Release 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-16-generic
Gnome 2.22.1

But, during installation, I had a few warnings (about openoffice.org
writer2latex), but the critical warning was:
"upgrade aborts now, system could be in unusable state, recovery will
run now (dpkg --configure -a).

I have *not* run 'dpkg --configure -a' because I "assume" the
installation process already did it.
Question: should I do it, and why?

I have forced grub to start in recovery mode, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic,
and here I am.
Question: in spite of the critical warning "upgrade aborts now...", and
in spite of the indications of System Monitor, am I really running 8.04?

The new desktop now sports a beautiful of a heron...

Thanks in advance.

Charly
MacOS X 10.5.2 - Ubuntu 8.04 (under virtual ware) - GnuPG 1.4.9 - gpg2
2.0.9 -
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.12 (20080227) - Enigmail 0.95.6





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Charly Avital wrote:
> The last Digest I received is dated 4/21/08, I reckon everybody is busy
> upgrading to 8.04. I'll try my luck, hoping for some feedback

The list is quite busy - maybe your subscription was canceled due to
bounces?

> But, during installation, I had a few warnings (about openoffice.org
> writer2latex), but the critical warning was:
> "upgrade aborts now, system could be in unusable state, recovery will
> run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Actually the command should be

sudo dpkg --configure -a

> I have *not* run 'dpkg --configure -a' because I "assume" the
> installation process already did it.
> Question: should I do it, and why?

Yes, because the upgrade isn't really finished yet. If you don't run the
command, you may have trouble with future upgrades and / or installation
of new packages.

> I have forced grub to start in recovery mode, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic,
> and here I am.
> Question: in spite of the critical warning "upgrade aborts now...", and
> in spite of the indications of System Monitor, am I really running
> 8.04?

At least some packages are already from 8.04, but it isn't finished yet
(see above).


Nils

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