[ale] Ubuntu Desktop 13.10

Fri Oct 25 08:36:58 EDT 2013

This was helpful. I have another similar issue that has bugged me for a
while. I do a sudo aptitude full-upgrade and sometimes, depending on the
packages getting upgraded a message something like this appears:

Get:1 Changelog for python-problem-report (
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/apport/apport_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6/changelog)
[326 kB]
apport (2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6) precise-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: incorrect permissions on setuid process core dumps
    (LP: #1242435)
    - use correct permissions when writing the core file in data/apport,
      added test to test/test_signal_crashes.py.
    - Thanks to Martin Pitt for the patch!
    - CVE-2013-1067

 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 23 Oct 2013
13:04:37 -0400

Get:1 Changelog for cloud-init (
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/c/cloud-init/cloud-init_0.6.3-0ubuntu1.8/changelog)
[43.7 kB]
cloud-init (0.6.3-0ubuntu1.8) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/lp-1233315-add-smartos-support.patch:
    Add SmartOS DataSource, including disk format support (LP: #1233315).
  * debian/patches/lp-1231490-azure-ephemeral-format.patch:
    Format Windows Azure ephemeral disks (LP: #1231490)
  * debian/patches/lp-1233315-1231490-ephmeralX.Y-support.patch:
    Add support for referencing ephemeral devices as 'ephemeralX.Y
    (LP: #1231490, LP: #1233315)

 -- Ben Howard <ben.howard at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:17:35 -0600

This message only qoes away when I hit quit, and then the upgrade
completes. Problem is I'm running updates via script on several boxes, so I
often end-up with incomplete updates after I've run my script. There are
all Ubuntu 12.04LTS boxes.

Any thoughts on how to get my script to include a "q" if necessary?

My command looks like this:

ssh -i /home/xxx/ec2-keys/xxx.pem user at xxx.com 'sudo aptitude -y
full-upgrade; exit'

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Shawn <taaj.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here ya go.
>
> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-configuration-file-managed-by-dpkg/
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised that doesn't work. Rpm distros recognize a config change
>> and create the new config file as foo.cfg.rpmnew.
>> Maybe there's a flag to add on upgrade to preserve all edited configs.
>> Not sure. Bombed the Debian section of LPI :-(
>> On Oct 20, 2013 6:40 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I updated Thursday night to Ubuntu to 13.10 with no problems on my
>>> 6-yr-old HP laptop, mostly while I was at Melton's.  It was not quite a
>>> lights-out install. I had to approve keeping my edited config files for 2
>>> services.  I wish the install script would just keep edited configs and
>>> roll on.
>>>
>>> Wolf Halton
>>> --
>>> http://wolfhalton.info
>>> Apache developer:
>>> wolfhalton at apache.org
>>> On Oct 19, 2013 9:37 AM, "Edward Holcroft" <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just upgraded my 3 home Ubuntu boxes to 13.10.
>>>>
>>>> Was a seamless upgrade on 2 machines (64 bit). On one 8 year-old
>>>> notebook that gets used heavily for Facebook etc every day (32 bit)
>>>> everything froze up half way through. It seemed like the CPU became
>>>> overheated during installation - was very hot to the touch. Could run a
>>>> command line and top did not reveal anything out of the ordinary like a CPU
>>>> spike. I was unable to get dpkg to release the sources.list file no matter
>>>> what kills I tried, so did a reboot followed by live-DVD repair. The repair
>>>> option is pretty impressive - found the broken 13.10 installation and fixed
>>>> it while keeping all data files intact as well as the Doze 7 on dual boot
>>>> left unharmed.
>>>>
>>>> Seems to be a minor upgrade, I'm not seeing any real visual
>>>> differences, other than a bunch of new lenses, which I don't really use
>>>> extensively. New kernel of course, and latest versions of various apps.
>>>> This leads me to think about 14.04, which I would guess, would be another
>>>> minor upgrade, given that it's LTS. If that's the case, and I cannot see
>>>> Canonical going ott on an LTS release, it'd make for two fairly boring
>>>> releases consecutively, which is interesting given the recent releases that
>>>> have been bleeding edge to the point of being sub-functional if not broken
>>>> in some areas. I'm kinda pleased they focused on just getting things stable
>>>> rather than going with the threatened move to Mir at this point. I recently
>>>> switched my work desktop to Wheezy stable (bit of an overreaction I guess,
>>>> I could've dropped back to 12.04 or so, but I've always wanted to try a
>>>> Debian desktop) 'cos Unity was just breaking on me way too often. It'll be
>>>> really interesting/surprising if they bring Mir in for 14.04.
>>>>
>>>> On the 32 bit version, Chrome still seems to be broken. This issue from
>>>> 13.04 is still there:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/359530/google-chrome-update-wont-install-due-to-unmet-dependencies
>>>>
>>>> Although you can make it work if you try, it'd be nice to see a fixed
>>>> version released.
>>>>
>>>> Another issue that came up on one of my 64 bit boxes (although I don't
>>>> think it's a specifically 64 bit issue) is too little disk space on /boot,
>>>> so the upgrade failed until that was addressed. I had too many kernels in
>>>> there and had to delete the old ones. I used this handy script that I've
>>>> used many times on my Amazon Ubuntu servers:
>>>>
>>>> dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut
>>>> -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
>>>>
>>>> from here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/10/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-with-one-command/
>>>>
>>>> I see this as an unacceptable error on a distro aimed at easy
>>>> installation, noob demographic. Most noobs I know would've run a mile at an
>>>> error like that. Of course, if this was fresh installation, I would not
>>>> have experienced this issue since there'd be no old kernels installed. But
>>>> why on earth would there be a limit (and apparently a relatively low one at
>>>> that) on /boot on a distro of this nature?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, that's my quick first experience with 13.10 ... it works, a bit
>>>> of a yawn, frankly. Nothing that jumps out at me to say don't touch this.
>>>> Still a great distro for first timers, and even experienced users as long
>>>> as Unity can hold it together under high user demands.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> ed
>>>>
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