[ale] Ubuntu help

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:42:55 -0500
Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a machine that had Ubuntu Feisty on it.  I needed to add some
> packages when I realized the shortcomings of not keeping a distro
> current; the Feisty packages have been archived because it is no
> longer supported. Long story short, I ultimately ended up changing
> the sources.list file to point to Hardy and managed to mostly get the
> box upgraded.  However, I continually had issues apt installing
> linux-generic and other kernel-related packages.  I had run in to
> dependency hell.

The problem here is that you skipped from Feisty to Hardy.  Probably
the best bet would have been to upgrade from Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy
(7.10), and then to Hardy (8.04).

Officially speaking, Ubuntu's upgrading infrastructure only supports
upgrading from one release to the next immediate release; the only
exception for that is from LTS to LTS.  For example, users of Dapper
did not have to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy to Feisty to Gutsy to
Hardy.  They were able to skip Edgy, Feisty, and Gutsy altogether and
just upgrade directly to Hardy.  When the next LTS comes out, Hardy
will be able to upgrade directly to it, as well.

I don't suppose that there is probably a way to revert the packages to
the state that they were in before you started with this.  Given that,
I would wipe the drive and install Intrepid.  :-P

You mentioned 2.2 kernels.  I don't know what you're referring to,
there; Ubuntu uses the 2.6 series and has all the way back to Ubuntu
4.10, the very first release (which used Linux 2.6.8 for its kernel).

Could you provide some extra data?  If you could pastebin the following
files:

  /boot/grub/menu.lst
  /var/log/apt/term.log [Only starting from the upgrade]

Also, the output of the following commands will be useful:

  ls -ld /boot/*
  dpkg -l

I mentioned pastebin because some of these are going to be quite
lengthy and shouldn't be on-list.  I'd recommend pasting them there and
then providing links here.

	--- Mike

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