Ubuntu1910EE2019
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Ubuntu 19.10 Exceedingly Erroneous
upgrade from Doubtfully Debugged
on HPProBook645In2018
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So popped up notice from something like
upgrade-manager and decided to upgrade
while most common sense would be backup,
and install fresh from media
(DVD &/or USBStick)
but not feeling like it and didn't have materials
handy like a USBStick so punted and had some problems...
First, not enough space,
the error seemed like about a Gig needed
so going into ISOs directory
rm ISOs/*.zip
which was NOOBs Lite, KNOPPIX etc
in Zipped form
.ISOs and other formats not touched
got rid of enough space
The window moved around would
show Details,
with a > like expand action
and playing with the accessiblity font size
didn't help, the window was larger than my screen
size and could not get tie process started,
the left colump panel? right click gave more information
but started up a FireFox window for like ReleaseNotes
or something, but had been warned to close all apps/
window during the upgrade, so not good there either...
Not letting me login
thought it was a screen saver,
had to power down
something one would think destroys things
somewhere along the Halting Problem
c-a-F4 or so
F1 not helping for some reason
trying to upgrade
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
or dist-upgrade
suggested a couple things
locked like running elsewhere in the system
to
top
z
for highlighting
and
dpkg --configure -a
which configured packages
already partially installed
i went for installing some things
to try to make sure i had a
windowing system
gkrellm
as in
sudo apt install gkrellm
and it was already there
and didn't find any missing dependencies
games
kde-games
didn't exist?
gnome-games
might have installed but nothign i really cared about
gnome-mahjongg
kshisen
xsol
xbill
etc already there
so no luck, and might be OK
AutoRemove
sudo apt autoremove
got rid of old packages
and got maybe 800 MB back?
I did take some phtoos of the screen
not screenshots which would be a hot key
i don't happen to know off hand,
but camera pointed at screen,
so might have to remind myself
along the hours long process
download had stopped
one time
and partial install was one option
continue anohter
continuted first time
partiial another
thinking it had already started and it
knew that,
some warning about 3rd party applications
and enabling somewhere in the software package installer
program
So while i'm not a noob, i don't do it all day long,
and don't have many machines to do it on,
like a lab, desktop, servers, tablets, etc
so home user, maybe power useri,
anyone still not using windows might
be considered that given the blue screen of death,
and Insert Credit Card to continue (image of floppy drive
eating all your money, paid software and nightmare
of Halloween Letters, where B. Gate$ declared hobbyist
as somehow bad, back in the day...)
Anyways, got it going
xemacs21
xemacs21-supportel
and it compiled the emacs lisp additionals,
while my console based non graphical enahancements
like journal script calling python for some header stuff
still works, so might be able to use the other one,
but FireFox works,
using it now
and games tried, some of those worked
like
pysolFC or similar
pysolfc
given case sensitivity on some things
and Fan Club some places and not others...
Alternatives might be Fedora,
they had OLPC and Sugar built on top of,
so some good, but also a Fed and
SELinux plus other problems,
back and forth,
compile your own
_nameForgottenMayBeRememberLater?_
Alpine
for really small stuff like using a RPi for sound
Audacity and stuff like that...
Anyways, working well enough
and likely not very friendly install,
thought of reporting it to local lists,
but mostly Fedora and not that nice
EmailListRoadKill2018
so why bother...
Hate, politics, a mail manager host
rather strict, so not much support
though decade(s) of that,
and gone down hill, in a lot of ways,
IMNSHO
YMMV
LOLCatZ$
etc
Modified Text
What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Noob
Have an old machine and something to learn
on, another drive, external enclosure,
USBStick/ SDCard, etc
and willing to learn, and have to reinstall
if something goes
wrong...
UberGeek
Probably know it's not that big a deal,
but some gotchas to avoid,
like too big install screen...
General Public
There's an OS under there
and it's Linux?
Really?
WTF?
Assumptions
Linux is for you
Friends don't let friends do M$ WinDoze
OpenSource means you have the hope of
supporting your self, by looking at the code
but assumes you have the code reading skills,
and/or patience, high speed access,
heard of git, svn, mercurial, etc...
Time Limits
Six months, seemed late,
as not in last month, might have slipped,
and busy
Was going to do other things in the meantime,
but not installing easily and took most of the day,
not much hands on, by comparison,
but worrying about having hosed the machine
(again) on upgrade
Oh, and booted an older kernel
from the grub menu,
and escaping out of the boot screen to see
how it was booting
like dmesg output...
Book Data
DaBricked is more like it,
stamped by the fool who put his feet in clay...
ISBN
Bound
CopyRight
Some actually in here might be
CopyLeft
GPL
PerlArtisticLicense
etc
Pages
index
Links
Ubuntu1910EE2019
Ubuntu1904OnHP2019
(not a lot of naming conventions followed there,
but only a few data points...)
HPProBook645In2018
RPiTouchScreenDisplay2018
RPi3in2016
GeekingOutWithRaspberryPi2012
OneLaptopPerChildoplcorg
and likely a lot of others
but you have to do some leg/
mousing, searching,
aka FootWork, etc...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Its out, i'm running it now,
writing on it,
but some similar problems
installing window size not even close to debugged,
from
sudo update-manager
console options might have existed
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
but not for the timid, if it will even call it up/
start it up
and then what output, partitioning a disk,
no reminders for backing up,
even it unbootable, aka bricked/ wedged/ hosed/ etc
might have saved the data on the partitions
but special confirations for say
Sugar running on Ubuntu
and server stuff, etc
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Do you have a choice?
At work?
At School?
At Home?
elsewhere?
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Where does it hurt?
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Why?
Why Not?
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